Someone has contacted me on the phone. After I hang up I call someone else and says:  They/They've just contacted me.  Should it be &quot;They just...&quot; or &quot;They've just...&quot;? What is correct? What is natural?
I have just finished my homework.   I just finished my homework.      I think there must be a difference in meaning. Could anyone tell me the difference in meaning sentence 1 and sentence 2?
Attributing contributions to academic work that occur in Stack Exchange Sometimes we may ask questions on stack exchange or online forums wherein the response is helpful or even essential to a piece of work that gets published in an academic journal. If this occurs, how should credit be given to those involved in the exchange? Should they all be included as authors? Should a link to the forum be included as a reference in the paper?  Once something is in a stack exchange or forum, it's "published". Perhaps in the future, the current peer review model will transform into people writing blogs and posting in forums and databases. But for now, how might this issue be dealt with while forums, blogs, etc coexist with journals? How to find the frequency and type of my current RAM? How shall I find out the frequency and type of my current RAM? My OS is Ubuntu 12.04. I've just received my new SSD since the old one died. This Intel 320 SSD supports TRIM. For testing purposes, my dealer put Windows on it, but I want to get rid of this and install Kubuntu on it.  It does not have to be a "secure wipe", I just need the empty the disk in the most healthy way. I believe that dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda just fills the blocks with zeroes and thereby taking another write (correct me if I'm wrong).  I've seen the answer , but it looks like it's suited for clearing empty blocks, not wiping the disk.  hdparm seems to be the program to do it, but I'm not sure if it clears the disk OR cleans empty blocks. From its manual page:     --trim-sector-ranges           For  Solid State Drives (SSDs).  EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT           USE THIS OPTION!!  Tells the drive firmware to discard  unneeded           data  sectors,  destroying  any  data that may have been present           within them.  This makes those sectors available  for  immediate           use  by  the firmware's garbage collection mechanism, to improve           scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash  media.   This  option           expects  one  or  more  sector range pairs immediately after the           option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and  a  sector  count,           with no intervening spaces.  EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE           THIS OPTION!!              E.g.  hdparm --trim-sector-ranges 1000:4 7894:16 /dev/sdz   How can I make all blocks appear as empty using TRIM? Nearby objects won't move independently? Why using IN(...) when selecting on indexed fields, will kill the performance of SELECT query? Advanced statistics books recommendation There are several threads on this site for book recommendations on  and  but I am looking for a text on advanced statistics including, in order of priority: maximum likelihood, generalized linear models, principal component analysis, non-linear models. I've tried  by A.C. Davison but frankly I had to put it down after 2 chapters. The text is encyclopedic in its coverage and mathematical treats but, as a practitioner, I like to approach subjects by understanding the intuition first, and then delve into the mathematical background.   These are some texts that I consider outstanding for their pedagogical value. I would like to find an equivalent for the more advanced subjects I mentioned.   , D. Freedman, R. Pisani, R. Purves. , R. Hyndman et al. , T. Z. Keith , Rand R. Wilcox , Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani , Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2009) How to map stock ticker symbols to ISIN (International Securities Identification Number)? How can I can convert ticker symbols (which include information on the exchange) to an International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) (which contains no information on the exchange)? Also I am interested in the other way round — given an ISIN and a market identification code (MIC) how can I determine the ticker symbol? Any databases around? For positive invertible operators $C\leq T$ on a Hilbert space, does it follow that $T^{-1}\leq C^{-1}$? How to deal with downvotes without any explanation Increasing spacing between section number and title in the table of contents I'm using the simple ordinary \tableofcontents command to produce a table of contents, and I find that the resulting spacing between the section number and the section title is too small:    Can someone tell me how to fix this, please. My documentclass is memoir, if that matters. Is there a way to choose a beginning and ending edge and auto select all the edges in between? I have been using Blender for quite a long time and I just want to make sure that there isn't a better way of selecting edges, that I might not be aware of. It is so cumbersome to have to click every single edge when I don't want to select an entire edge loop but a portion of one instead. I was wondering if there is some way in to specify a start edge and an end edge and then be able to auto select every edge in between? What's the term when you ask a question which implies a lie? SEO safe way to run beta of new site on seperate domain Is an automorphism of the field of real numbers the identity map? Is an automorphism of the field of real numbers $\mathbb{R}$ the identity map? If yes, how can we prove it?  Remark An automorphism of $\mathbb{R}$ may not be continuous. how to disable system apps without root? How to disable system apps without root?  My phone model is vivo x5 max+ and android 4.4.4  I have tried Debloater but it failed to connect (I am sure I've allowed USB debugging). Why is the gap between the translation and the last line of the gloss so wide in my interlinear gloss? I notice if I take away some letters, the translation line goes to where it should be, but this big block of white space is pretty untenable. Ideas?    \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}  \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4} \usepackage{gb4e} \usepackage{tipa} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} \begin{exe} \ex \glll Jichax    Qamaqix lij parki,  aynacha,    amsta,  parki, q'awanaks,   khuyt'asis  sarawjchix. \\ \{jicha-x(a)    Qamaqi-x(a) lij(u)  parki   aynacha amsta   parki q'awa-nak(a)-_{c}$\oslash$-s(a)   khuy(u)-t'a-s(i)-s(a)   sara-wj(a)-ch(i)-i-x(a)\}    \\ now-\textsc{top}    Fox-\textsc{top}    all acclivity   declivity   ascent  acclivity ravine-\textsc{pl-acc-ad} whistle-\textsc{m}-\textsc{refl}-\textsc{subr} go-\textsc{bfr-cnj-3sim-top}\\ \glt `And so, Fox must've gone whistling on all the ascents, slopes, ascents, mountainsides, and even in the ravines.' \end{exe} \end{document} Minimum reputation for answering your own question should be higher than what is needed to ask If we're implementing , why don't we also require that users have at least 1.5 times the amount of reputation needed to ask their current question in order to answer their current question?  I believe this would really reduce the amount of non-answers that should have been edits to the original question, or perhaps a comment under another answer.  Edit  Inspired by marcog's excellent suggestion , perhaps it would make more sense to set a minimum amount of time that must pass before you can answer your own question. New users would need to wait in the neighborhood of six hours, while users with more reputation could answer their own question within minutes if they discovered the solution on their own.  This would get in the way of the behavior that we don't want, which is people posting answers that should have been edits while not annoying most. Fundamental group of a torus with points removed Question 5.33 from "Topology and its Applications"  by Baesner is to compute the fundamental group of the torus ($T^2$) with $n$ points removed. I can "see" in my mind that if we remove one point we get a bouquet of two circles. Less clear is what happens when we remove two (or more) points. Any hints? Lines too long due to text inside custom command not being hyphenated I'm having some problems with lines that turn out to be too long. There are correct hyphenation rules for the word but they aren't being applied.  Let me first give the sentence that is too long:  An isomorphism that maps a graph to itself is called an \concept{automorphism}.   The command concept is defined as follows  \newcommand{\concept}[1]{\index{#1}\marginpar{\raggedright\textbf{#1}}\textbf{#1}}   The problem seems to be that words inside \concept aren't being hyphenated. How can I fix this? If I type   An isomorphism that maps a graph to itself is called an \textbf{automorphism}.   then the word is hyphenated perfectly. So I would now like to have the command \concept behave the same way, i.e. allow concepts to be hyphenated according to the standard rules. When drag force ($bV$) equals to object's weight (mg) then upward and downward force becomes equal. As a result the object comes to rest. If this is true, how is a body moving with constant velocity?