Who's really stronger Dumbledore or Voldemort? I never really could figure this out myself since the only battle they've had in the actual books is in the fifth one at the Ministry of Magic. If you could make your answers detailed and use evidence from the books in them.
Was Voldemort a Better Wizard Than Dumbledore? Pursuant to , I have a somewhat related question. The majority of Harry Potter readers automatically assume that Dumbledore must be a better wizard than Voldemort, because Dumbledore is &quot;good&quot; and Voldemort is &quot;evil.&quot; However, would Tom Riddle's prematurely developed skills demonstrate that Voldemort was inherently a better wizard than Dumbledore? In chapter 17, The Heir of Slytherin, Harry challenges Tom Riddle when he claims to be the greatest sorcerer in the world, retorting that Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world. Harry reminds Tom Riddle that Voldemort is frightened of Dumbledore. Conversely, in Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore himself states that Voldemort knows perhaps more magic than any other wizard alive. Yet, as Harry is J.K. Rowling's most direct voice, do we conclude that Dumbledore was, in fact, the superior wizard? Who was the better¹ wizard: Voldemort or Dumbledore? ¹Better meaning on a technically skilled level.
I am trying to run Notepad as admin so I can edit my hosts file from the command line.  I have tried runas /user:(myusername)\administrator "notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" I then input my password and I get     RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - notepad   c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 1327: Account restrictions are   preventing this user from signing in. For example: blank pa sswords   aren't allowed, sign-in times are limited, or a policy restriction has   been enforc ed.   PS: I know if I give permission to my user account I can edit it without running as admin. But I'd like to know how to do this without having to change permissions on the hosts file. One of the new features in SQL Server 2012 codenamed Denali is the   I know a good bit about regular old row-store indexes, like the b-tree structure, differences in storage between the leaf level and b-tree pages, affects of included fields, optimizing to use them, order of keys, etc.  I'm having difficulty getting any good info on the internals of a columnstore index.     How is it structured? Is there a b-tree?  Some other structure in place? How is data organized? What sorts of specific operators are best suited to use it? Any other anti-patterns to be avoided when using them?   A lot of what I can find out about them are basically the exact opposite of a "normal" index, i.e. no ordering of keys, no included fields, nonclustered ONLY.  Any insights are appreciated. What is the geometric interpretation of the transpose? This is in Windows, but answers for other operating systems can be handy to others.  Most guides say something to the effect of "hold down the Alt key and type in the code on the keypad".  This works fine for decimal codes (like 65 for 'A'), but not for  codes (like  for 'A').  Some applicatons provide other facilities that will allow hexadecimal Unicode character codes to be typed and then transformed.  Word allows you to type the code (such as 200f) and then convert it to Unicode by typing Alt-X.  I'm looking for a general method of doing this that will work with the standard input. How to generate a simple cartesian plane system? I need to make a cartesian plane for plotting the straight line joining the points (-3,1) and (6,-2). This is a very simple cartesian plane plotting. When I looked at the manual for tikz the graphics for cartesian planes are for more advance plotting, and what I need is very simple.  Something like this: 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? : So how many named special cases of each modal verb are there, in toto? There's   1. subjunctive should, and   2. mandative should, and   3. , at least;   and I s[up]pose 4. Should we? is suggestive should, and   5. Shouldn't we? is tag **should**, and I can think of a lot more.    I ask about only operative uses of this modal verb including literary and formal usage,  but please omit anything obsolete. I'm trying to classify them and learn the formal terms describing each. Are there any apt others in addition to the ones above? (I added the enumeration below)  1. What's 'subjunctive should'?  Whenever should is conjugated in the subjunctive mood? 5. What's a tag **should** ? 6. Where does  should/would  feature? What's it called? This should is detailed in   or  or . iOS 9.2 double touch fingerprint sensor I was messing around this morning and found that if I quickly double touch (NOT double-click) the fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 6S+ (iOS 9.2), the current app (or the home screen) slides down to the bottom half-screen, showing a blurred home screen background on the top half.  It doesn't matter if I use a finger that the sensor recognizes.  It goes back to normal after about 8 seconds or if you double-touch again, but I can't figure out what this mode is for??  Is this a bug or some hidden feature I haven't heard about yet? I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file.  Here's what the command line looks like:  test.cmd admin P@55w0rd &gt; test-log.txt In an Integral Domain is it true that $\gcd(ac,ab) = a\gcd(c,b)$? In my algebra class I was given as homework assignment to prove that:     Given an integral domain $A$ and $a,b,c,d,e \in A$. Then if $d = \gcd(b,c)$ and $e = \gcd(ac, ab)$ then $e = ad$.   It is easy to see that $ad \mid ab$ and $ad \mid ac$, so this implies that $\exists q \in A; e = q(ad)$. Now I'm having problems showing that $q = 1_A$. Working through some equalities, I proved that $\forall n\in \mathbb{N}, q^n \mid d$ so this gives me the light suspicion that I might be going the right way, but I'm pretty positive that this does not imply $q = 1_A$.  Does anyone want to give me a hint?  Thanks in advance :) Find the number of ways in distributing $8$ distinct balls into $6$ distinct boxes such that there is at least $1$ ball in each box.  We are well acquainted with the traditional Inclusion-Exclusion principle in solving this and it will come up as $191520$ ways.  I tried in this way:  When we distribute $8$ balls into $6$ boxes we have two possible cases  Case $1.$ There are exactly $2$ boxes with $2$ balls each  Case $2.$ There is exactly $1$ Box with $3$ balls in it.  For Case $1$, the distribution is done by choosing $2$ boxes from $6$ boxes and $2$ balls from $8$ balls and those two balls can be arranged in $2!$ ways. But I require another two balls from remaining $6$ balls to be placed in each of these two boxes which can be done in $\binom{6}{2} \times 2!$ ways. Finally remaining $4$ balls can be distributed in remaining $4$ boxes in $4!$ ways. So total number of ways for Case $1.$ is  $$\binom{6}{2} \times \binom{8}{2} \times 2! \times \binom{6}{2} \times 2! \times 4!=604800$$  For Case $2$, the number of ways is  $$\binom{6}{1} \times \binom{8}{3} \times 5!=40320$$  I am pretty sure the value obtained for Case $2.$ is correct. but I could not find where I went wrong in Case $1.$ Are vacuum fluctuations really happening all the time? In popular physics articles and even some physics classes I've been to, the vacuum of space is described as being constantly full of quantum fluctuations.  Supposedly, all sorts of particle-antiparticle pairs at all scales are constantly appearing and disappearing.  We end up with a mental image of the vacuum as a roiling, choppy sea with all sorts of things going on, rather than a calm, placid background.  However, the vacuum, being the lowest-energy state of a theory, should be an energy eigenstate—which means it is time-invariant (except for a physically-irrelevant phase factor).  So it seems the vacuum really should not be seen as a dynamic entity with all kinds of stuff happening in it, as we're led to believe.   that     A “vacuum fluctuation” is when the ground state of a system is measured in a basis that does not include the ground state; it’s merely a special case of a quantum fluctuation.   So it sounds as if the existence of vacuum fluctuations is contingent on measuring the vacuum—in particular, measuring something that doesn't commute with energy (such as, I guess, the value of a field at a point).  How much truth is there to the idea that vacuum fluctuations are constantly happening everywhere, all the time?  Is that really a useful way to think about it, or just a myth that has been propagated by popularizations of physics? Close vote review audit flawed - fails without casting vote Suppose I have something like the following:      \begin{eqnarray*} \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 6x^2 + 5x + 5, x^3 + 13x^2 + 6x + 3) &amp;=&amp; 102x^2 + 108x + 2 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 109 \\ \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 2x^2 + 9x + 4, x^3 + 3x^2 + 7x + 9) &amp;=&amp; 1 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 131 \\ \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 3x^2 + 9x + 12, x^3 + 6x^2 + 12x + 4) &amp;=&amp; 6x + 122 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 157 \end{eqnarray*}   How do I align the statements at the end of each line (i.e. the "with p = ..." bit) to the right? Using have gone to / been to / been in I understand the difference between these constructions: "has gone to", "has been to", "has been in":   "has gone to" &mdash; there or on his way to; "has been to" &mdash; someone has been there but he is on his way back; "has been in" &mdash; someone is still there;   But now I am puzzled by next statements:   Have you ever been to / in Greece? &mdash; Yes, it's a very beautiful country; When did you last go to Canada? &mdash; I've never been to Canada.   If I use "has you ever gone to Greece" construction in the first case or "I have never gone to Canada" in the second statement will it be uncorrect? Or just will sound odd? May I say "I have never been in Canada" in the second sentence. Or in these case all of the variants are possible, the problem is in how people usually say it (in what how it perfectly sounds)? Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another?  A couple of friends of mine use Ubuntu and have kids (7 to 10 years old) who use the family computer. They'd like to have some blocking of adult sites. They're not going to supervise all the time, which I know might be ideal, but there we go. And they're not particularly technical, so they don't want to have to run scripts to turn the parental controls on and off regularly, but they can cope with having different accounts for different people. I haven't found a great way of doing this. I am pretty technical, so I'm happy to spend some time at the command line to set it up, but then it needs to just work.  Please don't just link to DansGuardian. If your answer doesn't address the different user account aspect, I will vote it down. If you want to talk about general parental controls that apply to all users then please start a new question - I'm sure that plenty of people would be interested in it, and I'll link to it from this question. Can't update because the word prox* is blocked Recommendation for mobile prepaid SIM card for smartphone + home calls in Germany What SIM card would you recommend for a smartphone user for travel in Germany?  It would be probably the only or the most important connection to the Internet, so large amounts of data and relatively fast transfer is an issue.  I need to stay in touch with friends and family, so the calls to other EU countries should be as cheap as possible.   For to the first criteria, I found the T-Mobile offer interesting. The internet costs 10 Euros/month and after reaching the transfer limit it stays relatively fast. According to tests (Galileo from Pro7, AFAIR) it has also the best coverage. However, calls to other countries are very expensive.  For to second criteria, Lebara and Mobilka are interesting. The calls are very cheap, but there are problems with signal strength in many locations, where T-Mobile has no problem. The voice quality, at least in Lebara, is also limited. They both have mobile internet with unlimited transfer, but after reaching the high speed limit, the transfer is reduced to 64 kbps, which is too slow.  I've found out that O2 has foreign calls at moderate prices, but I haven't yet checked for details. There are so many other options, making it is hard to compare them all without spending the whole weekend on it. So, if someone has found a better option than having 2 SIM cards and constantly switching them, this answer would be greatly appreciated. I happen, time and again, to read and hear people – among which people working in cinema – regretting the fact that film (in the sense of actual reels of plastic strip) is nowadays very rarely used when shooting movies. Is there some ground to such nostalgia?  Of course I am not looking for opinions for or against film vs. digital media, but sourced, objective reasons. Is there anything that could be done with film but not with digital supports? Are there measurable differences in effects on viewers? How do I install an R package from source?