If I were to buy a Japanese Xbox 360 game and have it shipped, would I be able to play it on an US console out of the box?  If not, how would I go about doing so, if it's possible all?
I just bought a  game (Forza 4) for my Xbox 360 (bought in the US). When I tried to play the game, it wouldn't load because of region issue. Is there a legal way to solve this (no crack)?
MWE:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} $\wedge{\small\wedge}{\tiny\wedge}$ \end{document}   All the \wedges have the same size... What security systems and processes are in place to prevent malicious third parties from hacking/compromising the security of code in the Debian mirrors, or to verify that the packages we get are in fact the ones the maintainers think they are? What happens to global variables declared in a DLL? Let's say I write a DLL in C++, and declare a global object of a class with a non-trivial destructor.  Will the destructor be called when the DLL is unloaded? Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:     Reward existing answer      One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.   Why not enable one to reward excellent questions in a similar manner? So,  Each of my polygons is a separate object. Their default normals point like this:   But their orientation or local axes are like so:   How can I make their local axes to be like so, but automatically?   I guess particles might be one solution for this exact case (if you emit new objects on top of the existing ones) but let's say the original objects are triangles and I wouldn't want to change their shape and pointing direction at all, only their local orientation axes, would that be possible?  Cheers! The title pretty much says it all: how can I type Unicode characters - specifically the em-dash —? One of the biggest issue with cluster analysis is that we may happen to have to derive different conclusion when base on different clustering methods used  (including different linkage methods in hierarchical clustering).  I would like to know your opinion on this - which method will you select, and how. One might say "the best method of clustering is which gives you the right answer"; but I may question in response that cluster analysis is supposed to be an unsupervised technique - so how do I know which method or linkage is the right answer?  In general: is a clustering alone robust enough to rely on? Or we need a second method and get a shared result to be based on both?  My question is not only about possible ways to validate / evaluate clustering performance, but is broader - on what basis do we select/prefer one clustering method/algorithm over another one. Also, is there common warnings that we should look around when we are selecting a method to cluster our data?  I know that it is very general question and very difficult to answer. I only would like to know if you have any comment or any advise or any suggestion for me to learn more about this. Let G be a finitely generated abelian group and M a compact manifold,  I want to prove that $H_r(M,G)$ is finitely generated for $r\ge 0 $.  First I was thinking if  I could do induction over $r$ because for $r=0$, $H_0(M,G) \cong \bigoplus_{i=1}^nG$ where $n$ denotes the number of connected components of M.But for $r&gt;0$ I can't see a way to relate $H_r(M,G$) and $H_{r+1}(M,G)$.  Then I tried to use the fact that for every compact surface there exists a finite cover $\{A_i\}_{i=1}^m$ such that the finite intersections of $A_i$'s are contractile.Let $\{A_i\}_{i=1}^m$ such cover for $M$.Then,using induction on $m$, we have :  -For $m=0$, $M$ is contractile and $G$ finitely generated then $H_r(M,G) $is finitely generated.  -For $m=r$ it's true by induction hypothesis.  -For $m=r+1$ now putting $A_{r+1}=B$ and $\cup_{i=1}^r A_i=A$, and using Mayer Vietoris we get:  $$ ...\rightarrow H_{r+1}(A\cap B,G)\rightarrow  H_{r+1}(A,G) \oplus H_{r+1}(B,G) \rightarrow H_{r+1}(M,G)\rightarrow H_{r}(A\cap B,G) \rightarrow...$$   Here I don't know what to do, maybe I'm missing some algebraic argument It's easy to see that $H_{r+1}(A\cap B,G)$ and $H_{r+1}(A,G) \oplus H_{r+1}(B,G)$ are finitely generated.But how can I argue that $H_{r+1}(M,G)$ is finitely generated? Any idea would be aprecciated. Is it possible to create image data and save to a file from a script I'm currently trying to extract textures from a binary file, and ideally I'd like to save each texture to a file or embed in the .blend file. However, before saving an image, I need to be able to create an image in memory from an array of pixel data.  The PIL library contains the kinds of functions I need to use, but it is not included with Blender. Is there anything similar to PIL in Blender? bpy.ops.image seems to be close to what I need, but lacks necessary pixel set/manipulation functions. Tag scores are not updated and the issue is getting worse Does a conducting wire give off measurable radiation? I have a Canon XTI which I've been using for a few years now. Most of the time I'm been shooting in one of the "semi-manual" modes like aperture priority or shutter priority, but now I'd like to try using full manual mode. I should have a new EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 delivered when I get home today. Before I was using a variable aperture Sigma 17-70 which made manual mode more difficult with the aperture changing arbitrarily.  I understand the effect of changing aperture and shutter speed, but right now I'm accustomed  to only controlling one at a time. The camera is usually setting the other to get the right exposure automatically for me. So if I'm controlling both how do I know I have the correct exposure? I understand I need to use the metering in my camera but I'm not sure exactly how do do that.   First when should I be using each of the metering modes (Evaluative, Partial, Center weighted, or Spot)? These just change the area of the scene which is metered correct?  How do I know what the meter should read off a specific object? Obviously if I just happen to be shooting a 18% gray wall then it should be at zero, but that can't apply to everything? If I'm shooting a black cat and take a spot meter reading off of the cat then the meter should read less then zero right? But how do I know how much less then zero? Are there rules of thumb I can follow? I've ordered a couple gray cards with my new lens. So experimenting with those should help.  How often should I be changing these settings? Say I'm at a party indoors which is consistently lit. I should be able to set the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and just forget about it unless the lighting changes correct? Does the same apply to outdoor scenes? I've been hesitant to use manual mode in the past because I felt like I was spending a lot of times messing with settings before each shot. But not I'm realizing that this is really only the case when the lighting changes, or I want a different style of photo such as a different depth of field.  Finally, does exposure change with distance to the subject? For example say I want to take a picture of a statue with correct exposure using a gray card. I'd place the card on the statue, and while being careful not the block the light on the card find the correct exposure by spot metering the card. If I were then to step back 20' to get the whole statue in frame would I still have the correct exposure? Script access to tangent and bitangent, per face: how? Suppose you have a mesh; you go into Edit mode,  set Transform Orientation to Normal,  show 3D manipulator widget, Pivot Point = Active Element, face select mode, and then you select any one face: immediately you will see a blue arrow representing the face normal, and also a red and a green arrow representing the face's tangent and bitangent.  What is the most straightforward way to refer  to said tangent and bitangent vectors from a Python script? The API documentation confuses me with loops and uv's, yet, clearly, Blender assigns a tangent and bitangent to each face without hesitation! Let the ring of fractions be denoted as $S^{-1}R$.       Proposition (from Robert Ash's textbook "Basic Abstract Algebra")      Define $f: R \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ by $f(a) = a/1$. Then f is a ring homomorphism. If S has no zero divisors then f is a monomorphism, and we say that R can be embedded in $S^{-1}R$. In particular:      (i) A commutative ring R cna be embedded in its complete (or *full) ring of fractions ($S^{-1}R$, where S consists of all non-divisors of zero in R).       (ii) An integral domain can be embedded in its quotient field.    Why does the proposition say "If S has no zero divisors..."? If S really had zero divisors, then this wouldn't even be properly defined, right? Because we would have a/0 for some a in R. why is my screen black after rdp connection? After connecting from my home via remote desktop, both my screens are black when I arrive at work. The only thing I can see is a mouse pointer on one of the screens. I then seem to have only two choices: rebooting or working from a remote desktop connection, which works fine.  It did happen every time I tried last week.  However, I did the same from my laptop in a meeting room today, and I didn't have any problem. Monitoring contents of files/directories? Difference between "irascible", "fractious", "irritable" and "atrabilious"? Fly and Two Trains Riddle How do I suppress the "New release '12.10' available" message? When I ssh into my  box, I get this message:  Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64)   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/  New release '12.10' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.  Last login: &lt;redacted&gt; $   But I don't intend to upgrade to 12.10, because Mythbuntu recommends using LTS releases only.  How do I suppress the "New release '12.10' available" message?  I don't want to be notified until the next LTS release is available.  I've already gone to Update Manager > Settings > Updates and selected "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version: For long-term support versions", but that didn't get rid of this message. Why have a letter in a word when it’s silent in pronunciation, like the b in debt?  Can anyone please clarify my uncertainty here?