I just want to know! Please help!
I am not asking for a solution to speed it up, i simply want to know how long it should take!  I would also like a way to speed it up but not something technical, im new to Blender!
I understand that the word “precious” in the following quote of Maureen Dowd’s article “Heart of Darkness” (NYT, March 20) literally means “2. valuable or important and not to be wasted” as defined in OALD:     Congressman Jones read an e-mail from a former boss of General   Allen’s, giving the congressman this unvarnished assessment:   “Attempting to find a true military and political answer to the   problems in Afghanistan would take decades. Would drain our nation of   precious resources, with the most precious being our sons and daughters. Simply put, the United States cannot solve the Afghan   problem, no matter how brave and determined our troops are.   But I didn’t know “precious” has another meaning as defined in OALD: 5. (disapproving, people and their behavior) very formal, exaggerated and not natural, and Readers English Dictionary: 2.(colloquial) terrible, almost worthless, until I was told by my respected forum mate a few days ago.   Being encouraged by his suggestion for me to “ask another question if I’m not sure of what he means by describing his input as “precious” is actually rather “precious” phrasing, I would like to ask:   What is an example of “precious” being used as “disapproving” or sarcastic way (as neither OALD nor CALD provides examples)? Is there an easy way to discern the instance “precious” being used as “disapproving” from the case being used in the sense of genuine “great value” as used in the above quote other than judging from the context? Inverse of Strictly Monotone Function Some speculation here:   Is there a possibility it would pass 'undetected' through your hand, or is it certain death?  Can you conclude it to be vital, or only loose your hand?  Would it simply make a small cylindrical hole through your hand, or is there some sort of explosion-effect?  Assume your hand has a cross section of 50cm², and a thickness of 2cm, how much of the beam's energy would be transferred to your hand? 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I can basically grasp this, but then I come across charts saying things like "family living room: 50 lux". Wait, hold on! Does that really mean that the typical lights in a house are that bright, or is it just confused and wrong, or am I confused and wrong?  If you're not taking pictures of light sources directly, why would an incident light meter reading ever be useful in photography? Reflected light recorded on film or by a sensor is usually what makes a photograph. So, if I have an incident light meter, how does that reading relate meaningfully to my camera settings?  Since incident light meters are sold and used, this implies that there must be some useful conversion. But this is where my brain explodes. Google tells me that 1 lumen equals 1 candela, so therefore 1 lumen/m² (i.e. 1 lux) must equal 1 candela/m2 (i.e. 1 nit). But clearly something is missing from this. There's something called a "steradian". Cones are involved. I'd never heard of this before; how does it fit in? I can see how it might be determined when calculating the usefulness of LED home lighting, but for a photo, I'm at a loss.  Some part of my (exploded, from the last paragraph) brain is trying to relate this to the difference between flash metering with TTL and with an incident meter. But how can the incident meter work without knowing the reflectance properties of the objects in the scene? Is this what the "C" in the  is all about? Is it just an average-this-probably-will-work value, or is there more to it than that? And if it is just an average, what knowledge is necessary for compensating for off-averages scenes? (As with the , where the photographer simply judges if the scene should be rendered brighter or darker than the average given by the meter.)  So yeah, so much confusion. In short:   What's the difference? Can one meaningfully convert between the two? When and how are illuminance / incident light measurements useful for photography?     Update: I appreciate Stan's answer, which covers the third point of when and how pretty well. And I think I've basically got the first point figured out, as described above. But I'd appreciate some answers covering the issue of conversion as well, both in the mathematical abstract and as the practical for photography. And I wouldn't mind more why and how, either. How do I see all foreign keys to a table or column? In MySQL, how do I get a list of all foreign key constraints pointing to a particular table? a particular column? This is the same thing as , but for MySQL. Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"? Is this sentence grammatically correct?  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in their bookcase.  or should it be:  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in his or her bookcase. 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We're running Name Based Virtual Hosts and the Apache 2 user is www-data.  We've got two regular users &amp; root. So when messing with files in /var/www, rather than having to...  chown -R www-data:www-data   ...all the time, what's a good way of handling this?  Supplementary question: How hardcore do you then go on permissions?  This one has always been a problem in collaborative development environments. I am just starting out learning mathematical induction and I got this homework question to prove with induction but I am not managing.  $$\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}\ge\sqrt{n}}$$  Perhaps someone can help me out I don't understand how to move forward from here: $$\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n+1}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{n+1}}\ge \sqrt{n+1}}$$ proof and explanation would greatly be appreciated :) Thanks :)  EDIT sorry meant GE not = fixed :) Install Win7 theme on Ubuntu 16.04 I'm totally new to Ubuntu. 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Or is my approach incorrect? Prove by induction: $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{n+1}{2}x)sin\frac{nx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$ $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{n+1}{2}x)sin\frac{nx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Base case: For $n=1$  $sinx=\frac{sinx\cdot sin\frac{x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}=sinx$  Induction hypothesis: For $n=m$  $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{m}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Induction step: $n=m+1$  $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{m+1}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{m+2}{2}x)sin\frac{(m+1)x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Prove: $\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}+sin(m+1)x=\frac{sin(\frac{m+2}{2}x)sin\frac{(m+1)x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Left side: $\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}+sin\frac{x}{2}sin(m+1)x} {sin\frac{x}{2}}$  How to prove this equality? I used $sin(u)sin(v)$ identity but that didn't help. 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