Can you install a 2x4 wall that is 13' long on top of a travertine tile floor? Or do I need to cut the tile and mount the bottom stud right to the cement? This will not be a load bearing wall.
Looking at moving my laundry upstairs, and the right answer is to combine two adjacent closets to get the width and move one of their walls a foot or two into the kitchen to get the depth.  The kitchen floor is 10-inch-square tiles. It would be sort of nice if that continued on into the laundry closet. I do have a full bundle of spare tiles in the basement.   Question: Could/should I plan on the new wall coming in on top of the existing tiles (presumably having to drill to secure the footer without shattering them), or should I plan on removing the ones under the footer and fitting cut pieces back in afterward?
How to change password complexity requirements in Ubuntu 14.04LTS Characterizing non-constant entire functions with modulus $1$ on the unit circle Let $A$ and $B$ be $m \times n$ and $n \times m$ real matrices.  I proved that if $\lambda$ is a nonzero eigenvalue of the $m \times m$ matrix $AB$ then it is also an eigenvalue of the $n \times n$ matrix $BA$. But I am having trouble finding an example showing that this need not be true if $\lambda=0$  Thank you in advance How can I tell which cards or sets are currently legal in various formats? I haven't played Magic: the Gathering since the days of Onslaught and Mirrodin, and I would like to try to catch back up. Since all my cards are quite dated now, I may be more interested in formats other than the most up-to-date one.  Rather than ask what is currently legal in various formats (since that is likely too localized), I would rather pose the question of how can I tell which sets/cards are legal in each format. 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I have Windows 8.1 Update, if I update to Windows 10 when it becomes available what is going to happen to my data and apps?  Of course I have to do a backup, but I wonder if the data will be overwritten or not. We let a>0 and b>0 and  we have $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b^n-a^n$. We have to find all values a,b>0 where $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b^n-a^n$ is convergent. I think I can use that $$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} b_n &lt; \infty , \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n &lt; \infty \implies \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (b_n-a_n) &lt; \infty. $$. And I think $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b^n$ and $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a^n$ is convergent if a&lt;1 and b&lt;1? It will make sense. But how can I show it? Rounded caps on a Bezier Curve pipe This may be a simple question.  Essentially I am procedurally generating random 3D figures using a bezier curve and bezier circle bevel object, however, one of the only things I can't figure out how to do is how to round the end caps of the object.   I have tried using a taper object like suggested  but have had only limited success.  This is about as close as I've gotten:   I should note that all of this is done through Python and I'm not modeling any of this by hand. So any suggestions for how I can make the rounded caps programmatically would be greatly appreciated. Why can a 1 element set be a member of another set but not a subset of it? Related questions with over 99 score display incorrectly I know classical physics, quantum mechanics, special relativity, and basic nuclear physics. I would like to get into some particle physics.   Where can I find a good introduction? It might be useful to segment books by whether they require quantum field theory or not. How to print without newline or space? I'd like to do it in Python. What I'd like to do in this example in C: #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;  int main() {     int i;     for (i=0; i&lt;10; i++) printf(&quot;.&quot;);     return 0; }  Output: ..........  In Python: &gt;&gt;&gt; for i in range(10): print('.') . . . . . . . . . . &gt;&gt;&gt; print('.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.') . . . . . . . . . .  In Python print will add a \n or space, how can I avoid that? Now, it's just an example, don't tell me I can first build a string then print it. I'd like to know how to &quot;append&quot; strings to stdout. Can I use I2C over 2m cables? Why don't I get $e$ when I solve $\lim_{n\to \infty}(1 + \frac{1}{n})^n$? Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf? I have been using this command successfully, which changes a variable in a config file and then executes a Python script within a loop: for((i=114;i&lt;=255;i+=1)); do echo $i &gt; numbers.txt; python DoMyScript.py; done  As each DoMyScript.py instance takes about 30 seconds to run before terminating, I'd like to relegate them to the background while the next one can be spawned. I have tried what I am familiar with, by adding in an ampersand as below: for((i=114;i&lt;=255;i+=1)); do echo $i &gt; numbers.txt; python DoMyScript.py &amp;; done  However, this results in the below error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' Difference between "per" and "a" I'm looking to generate a set of 5 random variables and enforce a dependence structure between them and onto a dependent variable $Y$.  I understand how to generate correlated random variables for multivariate normal, but not when mixing different types.  Below is a little more than I need, but I'm hoping someone can give me a general way of solving this problem...   $X_1$ and $X_2$ need to be highly correlated Bernoulli variables.  $X_3$ needs to take one of 5 categorical values, call them "A"..."E".  $X_4$ needs to be normal, and negatively correlated with $X_1$, $X_2$.  $X_5$ needs to approximate test scores from $0$ to $100$ with a high skew, so gamma probably.  $X_5$ needs to be positively correlated with $X_1$, $X_2$, $X_4$.   Each of these variables must impact a "success/occurrence" Bernoulli distributed variable $Y$.  How would I begin?  I would like to enforce correlation both between the values of $X$, and also between each $X$ and $Y$.  (The categorical correlations seem particularly confusing to me.)