If I went to the shop and they did not have food, What would you eat? Does &quot;did not have food &quot; refers to &quot;did not have food in past&quot; as well as &quot;does have food in present&quot;? Or should I say &quot;does not have food&quot; to refer to present?
Consider the examples:    "My name is Ricky."   He said his name is Ricky.    The tense is not backshifted in #2 because his name is and will always be Ricky. Also consider:    Ricky says: "I live in Paris."   Ricky said that he lives in Paris.    The tense is not backshifted in #4 because he still lives in Paris.  For examples #2 and #4, it is possible to not backshift the tense because the reporting words are still true at the time of reporting, but what will you say about the following examples:        I asked what his name is.   I asked where he lives.      Here, is it correct for #5 and #6 to not backshift the tense?  If #5 and #6 are correct, then under what conditions is it correct to not backshift the verb like that?
XTerm only display part of some unicodes and Urxvt displays nothing In my case, (U)XTerm does display some unicodes, but only partially. For exmaple: for letters are: 𝒫φϕ𝒟. Here is a screenshot of UXTerm and Urxvt respectively   It seems that the problem is related to the letter space or letter length. By the way, everything is fine with gnome-terminal.  My current .Xresources file is: Xft.dpi:       120 Xft.antialias: true Xft.hinting:   true Xft.rgba:      rgb Xft.autohint:  false Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault  XTerm*faceName:          Fixed XTerm*faceSize:          14 XTerm*reverseVideo:      false XTerm*selectToClipboard: true  UXTerm.vt100*faceName:          Fixed UXTerm.vt100*faceSize:          14 UXTerm.vt100*reverseVideo:      false UXTerm*selectToClipboard: true  URxvt.font:            xft:Fixed:pixelsize=18  URxvt.depth:                      32 URxvt.background:                 #222D31 URxvt*scrollBar:                  false URxvt*mouseWheelScrollPage:       false URxvt*cursorBlink:                true URxvt*background:                 black URxvt*foreground:                 grey URxvt*saveLines:                  5000  How to make XTerm and Urxvt to display those characters correctly? Is it possible? Why can't I have a non-integral static const member in a class? I noticed C++ will not compile the following:  class No_Good {   static double const d = 1.0; };   However it will happily allow a variation where the double is changed to an int, unsigned, or any integral type:  class Happy_Times {   static unsigned const u = 1; };   My solution was to alter it to read:  class Now_Good {   static double d() { return 1.0; } };   and figure that the compiler will be smart enough to inline where necessary... but it left me curious.  Why would the C++ designer(s) allow me to static const an int or unsigned, but not a double?  Edit: I am using visual studio 7.1 (.net 2003) on Windows XP.  Edit2:  Question has been answered, but for completion, the error I was seeing:  error C2864: 'd' : only const static integral data members can be initialized inside a class or struct Shell script to send an alert mail if disk usage exceeds 90% How is consensus determined on Meta sites? On our main sites &quot;the best answer&quot; is  as the superposition of the highest voted answer and the accepted answer.  Truth be told, the system is rather insistent on allowing multiple &quot;right answers&quot; and that's one of its strengths: you can be the judge of who you believe. But that doesn't always translate well on the per-site metas, which serve as a sort of policy-creation body.  People who are active on meta help decide how policies are enforced on the main site.  Moderators who have ♦-powers tend to take mandates on meta very seriously.  , accepted answers to meta-questions are no different than any other answer.  Does that leave just votes to determine consensus? Closely related: Not everyone participates on meta-sites.  It can be hard to tell if enough people have looked and voted on questions for real consensus to be declared.  Size of the site determines how many people could be voting on questions.  What counts as a quorum? Finally, sometimes people change their minds about a meta-question, but, , it's not really possible to change one's mind without a pointless edit to someone else's answer.  When should meta-questions be revisited?  On graduated sites, ♦ moderators are elected, which makes them representatives of the active participants, but on beta sites, we are appointed.  It's doubly pressing for beta sites to determine &quot;the will of the people&quot; since part of the point of a beta is to get a working policy framework in place before electing permanent moderators. I'm interested in figuring out how sites already answer these questions and what might be done network-wide to make discovering consensus a little bit easier.  N.B.: Obviously this assumes that consensus matters.  It does to me when I'm making my decisions and I suspect it matters to others.  But that isn't to say that it always makes a difference.  I'm really not interested in answers that hope to use this question as a grindstone for all the axes stored up against certain people who have made unpopular decisions and have the power to make those decisions stick.  Feel free to ask your own question(s).  (Thank you.) Schengen Visa Application: what are some helpful tips for preparing? When to use Stateful session bean over Stateless session bean? Complex number operations: telling Mathematica variables are real If  $\mathbb R^*$ and $\mathbb C^*$ be respectively multiplicative groups of non-zero real and complex number then whether $\operatorname{Hom}(\mathbb Z_6,R^*\oplus C^*)$  is  isomorphic to $\mathbb Z_{12}$? or $\mathbb Z_6$? or $\mathbb Z_6\oplus \mathbb Z_2$? Obi-Wan left Anakin for dead, and one movie later (in A New Hope) he was saying Anakin had been killed by Darth Vader.  What exactly did Obi-Wan know about Anakin and Darth Vader before A New Hope started? Pass a PHP string to a JavaScript variable (and escape newlines) Could someone please tell me what the symbol ringed in red represents?     I know it has ON Switch pointing to it, but the symbol has other lables in different parts of the document. How to fix "Notification access is not available" on Android Go? Proof of conservation of energy? How is it proved to be always true? It's a fundamental principle in Physics based on all of our currents observations of multiple systems in the universe. Is it always true to all systems? Because we haven't tested or observed them all. Would it be possible to discover/create a system that could lead to a different result? How are we 100% sure that energy is always conserved? Finally, why did we conclude it's always conserved? What if a system keeps doing work over and over and over with time? How do I unlock all the other ships in the hangar? How to prove that limit doesn't exist using epsilon-delta definition? It is easy to prove the limit exists, all we have to show is there exists a relationship between $\delta$ and $\epsilon$. But how are we supposed to prove limit doesn't exists? The problem is when we are proving for a limit we already know what the limit is and with that, algebra is all that's needed.   Please show through an example (you may show that $\lim_{x\rightarrow0} \frac{1}{x}$ doesn't exist)  If possible please use the explanation scheme that is used by this answer Complex roots of $z^3 + \bar{z} = 0$ Pie Chart without labels in beamer using pgf-pie EDIT The accepted answer completely solves my immediate problem, but for more detailed analysis of the underlying issue please refer to answer by cfr. Basically, pstricks and pdfTex don't mix well.  I have a beamer presentation with a lot of pie charts. I use pgf-pie package because it is easy and (mostly) does what I need. I have one particular pie-chart that should have no labels at all. I have tried adding  /tikz/nodes={text opacity=0,overlay}   to the code following advice found here.    \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgf-pie} \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture} \pie [explode=0.1, color={blue!70, green!80, red, yellow} ,/tikz /nodes={text opacity=0,overlay}]{10/, 20/, 30/, 40/} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   Now, the strange thing is, the code works well in the example above (standalone class). However, it doesn't seem to do anything inside a beamer presentation, i.e. the labels still show. It seems that there is some sort of package conflict. How could I enable this to work in the beamer presentation? I know there are other ways to produce this but pgf-pie is quite handy otherwise.  \documentclass[12pt,compress]{beamer} \usetheme{Warsaw}  \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}%remove navigation symbols \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=magenta}  %\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{xcolor} %\usepackage{iwona} \usepackage{wrapfig} \input{FactorTree} \usepackage{pstricks} \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \usepackage{tkz-euclide} \usetkzobj[all] \usepackage{xlop} \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{pgf-pie} \usepackage[makeroom]{cancel} \input{longdiv} I am using 301 redirects for all URLs.  Should I change sitemap URLs now?  The sitemap currently contains the following URLs:   example.com/cat/1.html example.com/cat/2.html example.com/cat/3.html   Should I change the sitemap's URLs to a new destination?   example.com/cat/year/1.html example.com/cat/year/2.html example.com/cat/year/3.html update-alternatives --install says it needs link name path priority? I typed:  sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/ jdk1.8.0/bin/java" 1   It's says alternatives --install needs link name path priority Mapping half-plane to unit disk? Say you have the half-plane $\{z\in\mathbb{C}:\Re(z)&gt;0\}$. Is there a rigorous explanation why the transformation $w=\dfrac{z-1}{z+1}$ maps the half plane onto $|w|&lt;1$?