dear texperts:  does beamer have a "hook" that stops it from creating .snm, .out, and possibly .nav files?  I don't use the first two [they are all 0 bytes].  I know texshop can delete them and I can delete them by hand, but since I now have about 200 of these littered around, it would be nice to stick a "don't create" command into my beamer template.  /iaw
If I create just a basic hello.tex file an compile it using   pdflatex hello.tex   The pdflatex program is creating a plethora of file which is a little annoying. Currently it writes all those files about which I really don't care:  hello.aux, hello.log, hello.nav, hello.out, hello.snm, hello.toc   Is there a way to tell pdflatex to only write hello.pdf if the build is successful ? If not, can I specify the output directory of those files ? Maybe I could just write them in /tmp.
I have a table and I am always getting the data by ordering a column. In my case, I  order by datenum. However, the selection is so slow because of the ordering.  Is it possible to order the table after datenum. This column is defined as unique. If  defined as an index, would the selection will be faster? How can I explain to a non-native why the plural of a noun isn't used adjectivally? How can I explain to a non-native speaker that while this is correct:     The felling of trees.    And this is also correct:     tree felling   This is not:     *trees felling   To a non-native it seems very reasonable that since many trees are being felled and given that the felling of trees uses the plural, the inverse form would also use the plural and become trees felling.  To a native speaker such as myself, the latter is very obviously wrong, but I couldn't figure out how to formalize this into a rule that a non-native can understand. Bats and rats are mammals. 1 and 2 are positive integers. Oaks and maples are trees. Carrots and cake are food.   I seek a word to describe this, the process of finding a concept that encompasses several given concepts. Is there such a word? In  (the original movie), Marty comes back from 1955 10 mins early to prevent Doc from being shot (which he fails at). He then rolls up to the Lone Pine Mall and sees himself hit 88 mph and shoot back to 1955 (again). Marty then carries on with this life as usual. What happens to the Marty that goes back to 1955 at the end of the film?  This obviously is a recursive problem where it would create another timeline and Marty would keep coming back 10 mins early to view another Marty zip back to 1955? Is there Ubuntu's analogue of snapshot.debian.org? calculating mean of a random variable raised to a power I can understand the choice of material, silicon 28, but why is it a sphere rather than (say) a cube? Article   I would have thought that a sphere would have been the hardest shape to machine accurately. Is there a public API for Stack Overflow? The lines wrap so much on v1.0.85 that only a few items can be displayed.  Edit: This is on the world's most low end tablet, Azpen A727.  Screenshots of the old:    and new, showing loss of quality What's the best way to communicate between view controllers? Being new to objective-c, cocoa, and iPhone dev in general, I have a strong desire to get the most out of the language and the frameworks.  One of the resources I'm using is Stanford's CS193P class notes that they have left on the web.  It includes lecture notes, assignments and sample code, and since the course was given by Apple dev's, I definitely consider it to be "from the horse's mouth".  Class Website:   Lecture 08 is related to an assignment to build a UINavigationController based app that has multiple UIViewControllers pushed onto the UINavigationController stack.  That's how the UINavigationController works.  That's logical.  However, there are some stern warnings in the slide about communicating between your UIViewControllers.  I'm going to quote from this serious of slides:   Page 16/51:     How Not To Share Data         Global Variables or singletons         This includes your application delegate      Direct dependencies make your code less reusable         And more difficult to debug &amp; test         Ok.  I'm down with that.  Don't blindly toss all your methods that will be used for communicating between the viewcontroller into your app delegate and reference the viewcontroller instances in the app delegate methods.  Fair 'nuff.  A bit further on, we get this slide telling us what we should do.  Page 18/51:     Best Practices for Data Flow         Figure out exactly what needs to be communicated   Define input parameters for your view controller   For communicating back up the hierarchy, use loose coupling         Define a generic interface for observers (like delegation)         This slide is then followed by what appears to be a place holder slide where the lecturer then apparently demonstrates the best practices using an example with the UIImagePickerController.  I wish the videos were available! :(  Ok, so... I'm afraid my objc-fu is not so strong.  I'm also a bit confused by the final line in the above quote.  I've been doing my fair share of googling about this and I found what appears to be a decent article talking about the various methods of Observing/Notification techniques:   Method #5 even indicates delegates as an method!  Except.... objects can only set one delegate at a time.  So when I have multiple viewcontroller communication, what am I to do?  Ok, that's the set up gang.  I know I can easily do my communication methods in the app delegate by reference's the multiple viewcontroller instances in my appdelegate but I want to do this sort of thing the right way.  Please help me "do the right thing" by answering the following questions:   When I am trying to push a new viewcontroller on the UINavigationController stack, who should be doing this push.  Which class/file in my code is the correct place? When I want to affect some piece of data (value of an iVar) in one of my UIViewControllers when I am in a different UIViewController, what is the "right" way to do this? Give that we can only have one delegate set at a time in an object, what would the implementation look like for when the lecturer says "Define a generic interface for observers (like delegation)".  A pseudocode example would be awfully helpful here if possible. probability that there is at least one defective part How do I choose between "as to", "on", "of", and "about"? Dividing an equilateral triangle into N equal (possibly non-connected) parts It’s easy to divide an equilateral triangle into $n^2$, $2n^2$, $3n^2$ or $6n^2$ equal triangles. But can you divide an equilateral triangle into 5 congruent parts? Recently M. Patrakeev  an awesome way to do it — see the picture below (note that the parts are non-connected — but indeed are congruent, not merely having the same area). So an equilateral triangle can also be divided into $5n^2$ and $10n^2$ congruent parts.  Question. Are there any other ways to divide an equilateral triangle into congruent parts? (For example, can it be divided into 7 congruent parts?) Or in the opposite direction: can you prove that an equilateral triangle can’t be divided into $N$ congruent parts for some $N$?                                               (Naturally, I’ve tried to find something in the spirit of the example above for some time — but to no avail. Maybe someone can find an example using computer search?..) I’d prefer to use finite unions of polygons as ‘parts’ and different parts are allowed to have common boundary points. But if you have an example with more general ‘parts’ — that also would be interesting. Is there a word for someone who has others do all their work for them? In a way like a slave master. More though like say someone who had robots do all their work and they were never themselves productive and had no drive. If you've read R.U.R. you'll understand the question better. I'm looking for a word with more definition than just lazy.  Update 1: It think I may actually go with drone if anything. I think that definition fits what I'm looking for the best. I also liked the definition of the British term layabout that one person mentioned, but I will probably use drone. Thanks for all the help and sorry if I was confusing or unclear.  Update 2: I needed this word for use in an essay I was writing which I have now handed in. Thanks for the help guys. No more suggestions needed. XIV pages in page counts? Is it possible to make biblatex output page counts for both the regular pages and the roman-numbered pages, for example:     Cook, Theodore Andrea. The Curves of Life : Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art; with Special Reference to the Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci. — London : Constable and Company, 1914. — xxx + 479 p.   Here there are "30 pages + 478 pages" in total. Thanks! I have a canon 760D. It has a EF-S lens mount. Am I able to use a EF lens with my camera? Why is the sky not purple? I realise the question of why this sky is blue is considered reasonably often here, one way or another.  You can take that knowledge as given.  What I'm wondering is, given that the spectrum of Rayleigh scattering goes like $\omega^4$, why is the sky not purple, rather than blue?    I think this is a reasonable question because  (or, strictly, violet or indigo) in rainbows, so why not across the whole sky if that's the strongest part of the spectrum?  There are two possible lines of argument I've  and I'm not sure which (if not both) is correct.  Firstly, the Sun's thermal emission peaks in the visible range, so we do actually receive less purple than blue. Secondly, the receptor's in our eye are balanced so that we are most sensitive to (roughly) .  Our eyes are simply less sensitive to the purple light than to the blue. If $\gcd(a,b)=1$, then there exists integers $x$ and $y$ such that $xa + yb = 1$ Did not find this from this website...  If $$ \gcd(a,b)=1,$$ then there exists integers $x$ and $y$ such that $$xa+yb=1.$$  Now, the tip is to use particular corollary, that states:  The class $[m]_{n}$ generates $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\Leftrightarrow \gcd(m,n)=1.$  I am totally lost with the corollary.  Let's assume that $\gcd(m,n)=1$. Then, $[m]_{n}$ generates $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$.  OK! Then what?  There is also follow up, where I have to prove the converse. I am familiar with Bezout's lemma. Will reseting my device to factory setting unroot and remove superuser? I am a bit lost how one has deduced the formula for electric field with electric dipole because of some inconsistency between different sources. The  contains a delta function in the formula, but  gives only the formula without the delta function,  $$\bar{E} = -\nabla \phi = \frac{-p}{4\pi \epsilon_{0} r^{3}} ( \hat{e}_{z}-3\hat{u}_{r}(\hat{u}_{r} \cdot \hat{u}_{z}) ) $$  Is it intentionally left out?  My notes mention that the dipole is with a circular thing $P=Q d$ where $d$ is distance and $Q$ is charge.