Do you know of some font which has an ant as a character?  (I need it in a document I'm preparing in plain tex that is to be processed by pdftex.)
I used the OzTeX implementation of TeX, also I used to typeset my docs in plain TeX, not LaTeX for me, so I had no problem to insert an image using the OzTeX, now I'm back to TeX docs, am using the TeXWorks frontend, but I can't insert an .eps image file, it seems the \includegraphics macro its only for LaTeX, so I can't use it, any idea on how to insert an image when using plain TeX?
How does chain fishing work? Linear transformation $T:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that $T^{2}=\lambda T.$ Let $T$ be a linear transformation $T:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that $T^{2}=\lambda T$ for some $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}.$ Then which of the following is/are true?  $1.\|T(x)\|=|\lambda|\|x\|$ for all $x\in\mathbb{R}^n.$  $2.$ If $\|T(x)\|=\|x\|$ for some non-zero $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, then $\lambda=\pm 1.$  $3.T=\lambda I$ where $I$ is the identity transformation on $\mathbb{R}^{n}.$  $4.$ If $\|T(x)\|&gt;\|x\|$ for a nonzero vector $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n},$ then $T$ is singular.  According to me since $T^{2}=\lambda T$ we have $T$ satisfies the polynomial $x^{2}-\lambda x.$ So choices for its minimal polynomial are $x,x-\lambda,x(x-\lambda).$ So $3$rd option is clearly incorrect and $4$th option is not satisfied if $T=I$ and hence correct one. I am confused in first two options . Please help me. Thanks in advance. Touchpad not recognized on Asus N550JK - TP500L (FocalTech) I'm installing a new laptop and the touchpad is not fully recognized. Specifically, two finger scrolling does not work.  extract from /proc/bus/input/devices  I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000 N: Name="PS/2 FocalTech FocalTech Touchpad in mouse emulation mode" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event4 B: PROP=1 B: EV=7 B: KEY=30000 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3   Also, xinput list gives me:  ⎡ Virtual core pointer  id=2    [master pointer  (3)] ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4   [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎜   ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=10    [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎜   ↳ PS/2 FocalTech FocalTech Touchpad in mouse emulation mode id=14   [slave pointer  (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam                      id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                          id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]   And finally, synclient tells me there is no synaptics driver active:     Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?   So, it seems the touchpad is not recognized as a synaptics touchpad. It works, but not the synaptics specific parts.  It's in mouse emulation mode (no idea what it means). And it works together with other pointing devices, especially the touchscreen (I can confirm this works).  I have tried adding i8042.nomux=1 to the kernel parameters, but it didn't change anything... Any hint ? A sum of series problem: $\frac{3}{1!+2!+3!} + \frac{4}{2!+3!+4!} + \cdots + \frac{2008}{2006!+2007!+2008!}$ I have a question regarding the sum of this series: $$\frac{3}{1!+2!+3!} + \frac{4}{2!+3!+4!} + \cdots + \frac{2008}{2006!+2007!+2008!}$$ My approach: I found that this sum is equal to: $$\sum_{n=3}^{2008}\frac{n}{(n-2)!+(n-1)!+(n)!}$$  I reduced it to : $$\sum_{n=3}^{2008}\frac{1}{n(n-2)!}$$  Please suggest how to proceed further. Minecraft LAN "java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information:" I am trying to play a map on LAN. But every time I try to log on, I get:     java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information:   This used to work, but for some reason has stopped all of a sudden. I looked it up online, and everything I found said the firewall just wasn't allowing Java through. I followed tutorials to allow Java through the firewall, but even then it won't work. I know for a fact that I'm putting the IP in correctly, and everything seems to be correct, but yet I still get the same error message.  If it helps any, I'm using MC version 1.8.9 (the map requires it), and I don't have any mods. Create an instance of an object from a String in Dart? How to create an Event Notification that runs a Job/procedure when mirroring state changes Let $E$ be a finite dimensional vector space over field $\mathbb R$ with $E^*$ as the dual space of $E$.($\dim E=n$)   $\Omega^P(E):=\{ \alpha\colon \overbrace{E\times\cdots\times E}^{p- times}\rightarrow \mathbb R\  \ , \alpha \text{ is alternating multilinear map}\}$ $\Omega^P(E^*):=\{ u\colon \overbrace{E^*\times\cdots\times E^*}^{p- times}\rightarrow \mathbb R\  \ , u \text{ is alternating multilinear map}\}$  I wish to prove that there exist an $\textbf{unique}$ bilinear form $B\colon \Omega^p(E^*)\times\Omega^p(E)\rightarrow\mathbb R$   such that for all $ f_i\in E^* \ , u_j\in E^{**}\simeq E \qquad  i,j=1,\cdots,p$, it has the following rule:  $B(u_1\wedge\cdots\wedge u_p,f_1\wedge\cdots\wedge f_p)=\det[f_i(u_j)]$.  $\wedge$ is wedge product between alternating maps i.e. $\alpha\wedge\beta(v_1,\cdots,v_{p+p})=\dfrac{1}{p! p!}\displaystyle\sum_{\sigma\in S_{p+p}}sign(\sigma)\alpha(v_{\sigma(1)},\cdots,v_{\sigma(p)})\beta(v_{\sigma(p+1)},\cdots,v_{\sigma(p+p)})$  How can I do this? What's the best way to communicate between view controllers? How to prove that $E[Y]=E[E[E[Y|X_1, X_2]]]$ ?  PS. I don't see how $E[E(Y|X_{1},X_{2})|X_{1}]=Y[Y|X_{1}]$ and $E[Y]=E[E(Y|X_{1})]$ can be used here. But it feels close. Please help, I'm stuck PPS. Thanks @Deep North. Let's consider the case when X1 is independent of X2 I would like to travel in the USA for a period of 3 - 6 months. But I want to spend some time working for my employer (remote work) and getting paid by the employer. Is this possible under a tourist visa (B1/B2)?  I hope this is OK since I will not be getting paid by a US employer. I am in the IT trade so all that I will be needing is my own laptop and a connection to the internet. The money I earn would actually help me pay for the expenses I get during the holiday. Consider the closed interval $[0,1]$, there is $\frac{2}{3} \in [0,1]$ where $p=2$ and $q=3$. Similarly consider $[2,3]$, one can have $\frac{5}{2} \in [2,3]$ where $p=5$ and $q=2$. Does every interval of the form $[a,b]$, where $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ contain a rational of this kind. If yes, how can we prove it? Is there any way of modifying the preamble, so instead of typing   $\mathtt{x}$ ... \begin{eqnarray}     \mathtt{y} &amp; \mathtt{=} &amp; \mathtt{z^\pi} \end{eqnarray}   I can omit the \mathtt{...} commands? I consistently have more than one terminal open. Anywhere from two to ten, doing various bits and bobs. Now let's say I restart and open up another set of terminals. Some remember certain things, some forget.  I want a history that:   Remembers everything from every terminal Is instantly accessible from every terminal (eg if I ls in one, switch to another already-running terminal and then press up, ls shows up) Doesn't forget command if there are spaces at the front of the command.   Anything I can do to make bash work more like that? It confuses/blows my mind that the Binomial has variance proportional to $p(1-p)$. Equivalently, the Fisher information is proportional to $\frac{1}{p(1-p)}$. What is the reason for this? Why is the Fisher Information minimized at $p=0.5$? That is, why is inference most difficult at $p=0.5$?  Context:  I'm working on a sample size calculator, and the formula for $N$, the sample size needed, is an increasing factor of $p(1-p)$, the result of a variance estimation in the derivation. dollar-terminated strings In my assembly language class, our first assignment was to write a program to print out a simple dollar-terminated string in DOS.  It looked something like this:  BITS 32     global _main  section .data     msg db "Hello, world!", 13, 10, ’$’  section .text _main: mov ah, 9 mov edx, msg int 21h ret   As I understand it, the $ sign serves to terminate the sting like null does in C.  But what do I do if I want to put a dollar sign in the string (like I want to print out "it costs $30")?  This seems like a simple question, but my professor didn't know the answer and I don't seem to find it using a google search. Why did Dumbledore 'put on' the Resurrection Stone (Ring)? Determining statistical probability related to a string event of dates I have a material assigned to a few test objects with an image sequence as a texture. If I view the scene in render preview, and scrub the timeline, (or render a sequence,) the texture behaves as expected.  However, with the viewport set to 'texture' or 'material' I only see the first frame of the sequence, wherever I am on the timeline. 'Auto Refresh' is set in the cycles texture node. Is this the expected behaviour? Is there a way to recover files from a storage device partially overwritten with dd? I'm an idiot, I was writing an image to a USB drive using dd when instead of typing /dev/sdb I typed /dev/sdd and wrote the 135mb image to my 750gb External Hardrive full of files. Is there ANY possibility of recovering the files or did dd completely zero out the drive? Please help, as this is one of the lowest points of my life EVER.  dd finished writing the 135mb image in 5 seconds, so I didn't have a chance to stop it. By the time I knew what happened to was too late. The command was as follows:   sudo dd if=generic.img of=/dev/sdd bs=1M   EDIT2: The External Harddrive's filesystem was FAT32(I've had the drive for awhile and FAT32 was the most Universal FS at the time). I also have a 2TB drive I just got which I was planning on moving most of the files to from the 750gb, If needed I can use it to transfer the Recovered files to.