After the second world war, the city of Berlin was divided ________ the USSR, the USA and the UK. Options  by  with  between  among    My Approach: I am not able to solve this question what will be the best suited one and why? Though I think &quot;between&quot; is the best suited one. What do I need to know in these types of questions?
Today I was cut off in the middle of the following sentence:     Between Cook, Strauss, and Pietersen—   My friend said I was wrong. He said that for more than two entities, among/amongst are used, and that between is only for two entities.   I vaguely remember some rule like this, but I asked him to hear the whole sentence, which was:     Between Cook, Strauss, and Pietersen, they’ve notched up 56 centuries in Test cricket.   Should I have used among here? Seems correct to me to use between, but my friend was certain.   Another friend pointed out the following sentence:     I’m still choosing between Harvard, Yale, and MIT.    Certainly among doesn’t seem to fit here, and she, to me, was correct in using between.
Calling 32bit Code from 64bit Process I have an application that we're trying to migrate to 64bit from 32bit.  It's .NET, compiled using the x64 flags.  However, we have a large number of DLLs written in FORTRAN 90 compiled for 32bit.  The functions in the FORTRAN DLLs are fairly simple:  you put data in, you pull data out; no state of any sort.  We also don't spend a lot of time there, a total of maybe 3%, but the calculation logic it performs is invaluable.  Can I somehow call the 32bit DLLs from 64bit code?  MSDN suggests that I can't, period.  I've done some simple hacking and verified this.  Everything throws an invalid entry point exception.  The only possible solution i've found so far is to create COM+ wrappers for all of the 32bit DLL functions and invoke COM from the 64bit process.  This seems like quite a headache.  We can also run the process in WoW emulation, but then the memory ceiling wouldn't be increased, capping at around 1.6gb.  Is there any other way to call the 32bit DLLs from a 64bit CLR process? SQL Server compatibility with New TLS Standards The major browsers are moving beyond SSL3.0 and TLS1.0 . The PCI Security Council has declared an end-of-life date for these protocols to be considered sufficiently strong encryption.   We need to move away from these protocols, to use newer and stronger ones. On Windows servers, you can very easily disable these old protocols, and instead offer only TLS1.1 or greater.  However, as noted , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 (Standard, at least) both will not start if those lower protocols are disabled.  However, there are a growing number of versions of MS SQL Server.  There are SQL Server Standard, Business Intelligence, Enterprise, Express, Web, and Compact editions.  And of course there is SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014, and (in pre-release) 2016.  Which of these editions support or will support the use of only TLS1.1 or greater protocols? The Fourier transform of a "comb function" is a comb function? Let $f(x) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} \delta(x - n)$, where $\delta$ is the Dirac delta function. This function $f$ (a "comb function") is important in signal processing because evenly sampling a function $g$ can be viewed as multiplying $g$ pointwise with $f$. This idea is the first step towards understanding how to approximate the Fourier transform of $g$, given evenly spaced samples of $g$. The next step is to note that $\hat{gf} = \hat{g}*\hat{f}$, where $\hat{f}$ is the Fourier transform of $f$ and $*$ denotes convolution.  Is it true that $\hat f$ is also a comb function? If that statement isn't quite right, what is the correct statement?  I would like to see: 1) an informal, intuitive, nonrigorous but easy derivation of the Fourier transform of $f$ . 2) A rigorous version of the same calculation.  (How would you even define $f$ rigorously, is it a distribution?)  (I'd also be interested in recommendations of math textbooks that cover this topic, including the Nyquist sampling theorem, even if it's only an exercise or series of exercises in an analysis textbook.) Evaluate the following limit of finite sum Show that $R/I\otimes_R R/J\cong R/(I+J)$ Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $I$ and $J$ be ideals in $R$.     Show that $R/I\otimes_R R/J\cong R/(I+J)$ as $R$-modules.   This is what I tried.  Define a map $f:R/I\times R/J\to R/(I+J)$ as $f(\bar r, \bar s)=rs+(I+J)$. This is a well-defined bilinear map.  By the universal property of tensor products, we get an $R$-linear map $F:R/I\otimes_R R/J\to R/(I+J)$ which sends $\bar r\otimes \bar s$ to $rs+(I+J)$.  This map is surjective.  So all we need to show is that the kernel of $F$ is $0$.  But I am unable to do this. What do LRESULT, WPARAM and LPARAM mean? Does the concept of infinity have any practical applications? I know what you're thinking: "of course it has, for example, it can be used to tell you how many times you can go around a circle". But that isn't really true, now is it? You'd be dead or the world would go under long before an infinite amount of loops had been reached.  Are there any practical applications for the concept of infinity? Is it a useful concept in maths at all?  I know that Donald E. Knuth has argued that for all practical purposes, a very, very large number has the same effect as infinity, in his book "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (can't remember the exact quote, nor find it online, unfortunately).  Examples are appreciated. What's the best way to take a picture of an LCD or CRT screen? I have seen many bad pictures of LCD and CRT screens. How do I get a good picture of an LCD or CRT screen? Issue with QGIS 2.10.1 Clip and Intersect Tools Why do rain waves form and what is their connection to the texture of the surface they're on? When it rains and water flows down an inclined street, ripples may form that are carried along with the current. Here's a picture with an example of what I'm talking about    I'd like to know what the fluid mechanical mechanism is for the formation of these waves. A quick google search reveals that they've been identified in some scientific literature as "rain waves" (if you have a jstor subscription you can see ) but I've only been able to find phenomenological descriptions of their properties without any details of the physics giving rise to them. In particular, I'm curious if people think that the surface on which the water is flowing must have a particular texture in order to give rise to the waves. I searched it a while and found some articles regarding Xperia Mini X10 also on XDA but I couldn't understand them easily. So I want help from you geeks who can give me the lighted way with simple steps to root my phone.    I want a step by step guide about to root this model. I'm a not much familiar with this technology so please guide me through some detailed answer. Is this noun used as an adjective? I read this recently in :     At the end of the summit, the French and European officials had   claimed a points victory over the Germans by getting them to agree   more firmly to a target date of January 1st next year to entrust the   European Central Bank (ECB) with the ultimate authority to supervise   the euro zone’s 6,000-odd banks.   "Points" is a plural, and I suppose it doesn't function as a noun in this sentence since it's following the article "a", so is it an adjective adorning "victory"? I'm starting to write a book on . Since I've been contributing on this tag for a long time, I had the opportunity to read &amp; answer several interesting threads on Stackoverflow related to this technology.  I would like to discuss some of the interesting cases published on Stackoverflow in my book, and I wonder if I could use the images and code shared on those threads in it.  I'm hoping somebody from StackExchange could clarify about the copyright status of the material shared on Stackoverflow questions/answers. Why does a helium filled balloon move forward in a car when the car is accelerating? Removing unnecessary vertices? How do you find all subclasses of a given class in Java? How does one go about and try to find all subclasses of a given class (or all implementors of a given interface) in Java? As of now, I have a method to do this, but I find it quite inefficient (to say the least). The method is:    Get a list of all class names that exist on the class path Load each class and test to see if it is a subclass or implementor of the desired class or interface   In Eclipse, there is a nice feature called the Type Hierarchy that manages to show this quite efficiently. How does one go about and do it programmatically? Which Marvel TV episodes are related to the MCU movies? I've kept up to date with the movies from the MCU, but I am grossly out of date with the TV series, of which I think there is only Agent Carter (not as relevant for the movies I think, besides that scene in Captain America 2), and S.H.I.E.L.D. (which from what I've seen seems more relevant, with  coming in phase 3).   I've gained what I can from . But I can't tell which of the episodes listed are relevant to the movies (clearly, it seems that none are essential), and which movies are relevant to the episodes.  So which episodes are related? Selecting features with NULL attributes in QGIS How do I identify which features have NULL attributes in the attribute table of a shapefile?  When i try [field]= 'NULL' it selects the features with value = 0 (see picture) Fast, accurate 2d collision I'm working on a 2d topdown shooter, and now need to go beyond my basic rectangle bounding box collision system.  I have large levels with many different sprites, all of which are different shapes and sizes. The textures for the sprites are all square png files with transparent backgrounds, so I also need a way to only have a collision when the player walks into the coloured part of the texture, and not the transparent background.  I plan to handle collision as follows:   Check if any sprites are in range of the player Do a rect bounding box collision test Do an accurate collision (Where I need help)   I don't mind advanced techniques, as I want to get this right with all my requirements in mind, but I'm not sure how to approach this. What techniques or even libraries to try. I know that I will probably need to create and store some kind of shape that accurately represents each sprite minus the transparent background.  I've read that per pixel is slow, so given my large levels and number of objects I  don't think that would be suitable. I've also looked at Box2d, but haven't been able to find much documentation, or any examples of how to get it up and running with SFML. Does Gentle Repose work on a Circle of Spore Druid's Fungal Infestation Ability? The Circle of Spores Druid feature Fungal Infestation states:  If a beast or humanoid that is Small or Medium dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to animate it, causing it to stand up immediately with 1 hit point. The creature uses the zombie statistics. It remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies.  Circle of Spore druids also gain access to the  spell, which states:  You touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can’t become undead. The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead.  There seem to be some good arguments that they cannot work together:  First, Gentle Repose states the target cannot become undead, which would seem to preclude Gentle Repose working on a fungally infested creature that appears to be in some sense raised from the dead. Second, gentle repose states you touch a corpse or other remains - one could argue that using the zombie statistics, the fungally infested entity is neither a corpse or remains, but an undead zombie.  However, there are also some reasonable arguments that they could work together:  First, the Fungal Infestation does not say that the creature is undead or a zombie, but that it uses the statistics of a zombie, which might leave room for a RAW interpretation that the features could work together (for example, it could be considered a fungally infested corpse or fungally raised remains). Second, Gentle Repose says that it extends the time limit of raising the target from the dead and makes reference to spells like Raise Dead, which in flavour are similar to what happens with Fungal Infestation.  RAW, can a player cast gentle repose on a zombie created by Fungal Infestation?