On July 2, I am going from Dubai, UAE, to Chennai, India, with a connecting flight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The flight is on Saudia Airline and the layover is nearly 2.30 hours. I would not leave the airport.
My fiancée and I are looking for a good Caribbean cruise in October and were wondering which islands are best to see and which Cruise line to take?  It seems like a lot of the cruises don't run in this month due to Hurricane season so I'm looking for other good options.  EDIT We'll be travelling in 2012.
The Ball From A Pass How to escape  inside  tags I'm trying to write a blog post which includes a code segment inside a &lt;pre&gt; tag. The code segment includes a generic type and uses &lt;&gt; to define that type. This is what the segment looks like:  &lt;pre&gt;     PrimeCalc calc = new PrimeCalc();     Func&lt;int, int&gt; del = calc.GetNextPrime; &lt;/pre&gt;   The resulting HTML removes the &lt;&gt; and ends up like this:  PrimeCalc calc = new PrimeCalc(); Func del = calc.GetNextPrime;   How do I escape the &lt;&gt; so they show up in the HTML? Prove that $\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \frac{x^n}{n!} = 0$, $x \in \Bbb R$. I just learned that some Lenovo laptops include a utility that offers to limit battery charging capacity to within 0–80% in order to slow the attenuation of the battery lifespan:    How can I do this in Ubuntu? density of $X^2$ when $X$ has uniform $[-1, 2]$ distribution This is a  about Fighting Spam.   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And if we cut out a measure zero set of a projective space, it can be embedded into the Euclidean space of the same dimension. So I wonder if all manifolds can be embedded into a same dimensional Euclidean space when we cut out a measure zero set? Can anyone prove it or disprove it by giving me some counterexamples? Can I install pantheon terminal in Ubuntu 14.04 or newer? Is it possible to install Pantheon terminal from elementary OS on my Ubuntu 14.04 or newer LTS releases? If yes, how can I? Application-priority based automatic bandwidth distribution in Windows? Whenever my browser wants to download data, I want it to be granted as much of the bandwidth as it wants, while other applications must do with the leftover bandwidth; and when the browser is not transferring any data, other applications could be given the bandwidth. Something like the process priority in Windows task manager. Any method/software to accomplish this automatically? How to delete a keyboard layout in Windows 10 I installed Windows 10 on a physically German keyboard, then installed a Window English software keyboard and bought some little stickers to make my keyboard look OK.  However, Windows shows 2 keyboards installed &amp; occasionally toggles back to German.  Note that I am not talking about removing a language (which is all that I can find when I Google).  How do I remove the German keyboard layout? Expectation of a function of a random variable from CDF Is it possible to calculate the expectation of a function of a random variable with only the the r.v.'s CDF? Say I have a function $g(x)$ that has the property $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}g(x)dx \leq \infty $ and the only information I have about the random variable is the CDF.  For example, I have a scenario where there are three timers that can be modeled as exponential random variables $X_1,X_2,X_3$ with rate parameters $\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\lambda_3$ respectively. For each moment in time I earn a reward according to some reward function $g(x)$. That is, my reward for waiting until time $t$ can be written as $\int_0^tg(x)dx$. However, $g(x)$ experiences diminishing returns so the the marginal reward received from waiting one second at $t=0$ is greater than one second at say $t=27$. This 'game' ends when one of two things happens. Either both timers $X_1$ or $X_2$ must ring or timers $X_1$ or $X_3$ must ring. I'm trying to find the expected reward of playing this game.  Currently I can calculate the the CDF of the random variable modeling the time until the game ends, but I dont know how to use this information to when what I really need is reward associated with this time.  So far I have the additional random variables: $$ W_{12}=\max(X_1,X_2) \quad W_{13}=\max(X_1,X_3) \quad Z=\min(W_{12},W_{13})$$ Also let $F_i(x), i\in \{1,2,3\}$ denote the CDF of $X_i$ The CDF of $Z$, can be written as: $$F_Z(t) = F_1(t)F_2(t) + F_1(t)F_3(t) - F_1(t)F_2(t)F_3(t)$$  I know when a random variable takes on non-negative values, you can use a shortcut to calculate the expectation using the CDF. That is, $E[X] = \int_0^\infty F(X\geq x)dx$. Is there something similar I could use for a function of a random variable, or is it necessary to compute the pdf of $Z$ first to compute $\int_0^\infty g(t)f_z(t)dx$ Does Earth's Rotation Affect Its Shape? The question I am working on is, &quot;Consider the following. (a) Find the angular speed of Earth's rotation about its axis. rad/s (b) How does this rotation affect the shape of Earth?&quot;  I am fully capable of solving part (a); however, I am not sure how to describe the effect earth's rotation on its shape. I tried to search my textbook for the answer, but could not find anything. Is there an actual effect on the shape? Can I extend a class using more than 1 class in PHP? If I have several classes with functions that I need but want to store separately for organisation, can I extend a class to have both?  i.e. class a extends b extends c  edit: I know how to extend classes one at a time, but I'm looking for a method to instantly extend a class using multiple base classes - AFAIK you can't do this in PHP but there should be ways around it without resorting to class c extends b, class b extends a I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:     cannot write MBR   It gave me an option to put an MBR somewhere else or to boot without MBR. None of these options worked and it became a useless install. After this failed dual boot attempt, Windows would give a BSOD wit Code 007 ending - translated to inaccessible boot device. That is a huge NTFS partition and I don't think I have any other media to back it up before formatting it.  My only option is somehow rebuilding the old MBR. Hence I started creating a whole bunch of live USB boot environments  including Super GRUB Disk and MiniTool Partition Editor Live CD, but none of this could ever help me recover my lost MBR.  Win PE 4.0 reported the partition as bad disc and the latest version did not even have an option for MBR. I managed to create a live USB with Testdisk Running on Ubuntu. Whatever partition was seen as HPFS on quick  search was written in the MBR and after this the disc is totally unreadable. Earlier I could see my data through Linux and now I can see nothing.  Here are my questions:   When some data could be read (but Windows would not boot) the MBR was shown as dynamic MBR. As far as I know dynamic MBR is a Windows concept and my Linux attempt would not have converted it. While installing Linux I tried to delete 2 primary partitions which I found to be not really useful (I backed up their data first). So I am not sure what created the dynamic MBR.  Did my dual install convert those basic MBR to dynamic MBR? How did that happen? Here is a screenshot of my deep search attempt with TestDisk which is still in progress. I can see 4 NTFS partitions and one of these two system partitions should be the original MBR. When I tried to write both these system partitions (after stopping the deep search momentarily) I got an error like "partition not found". The file system utility showed me that there is no backup sector and that may be the reason why it cannot be read.  What other Resorts do I have, other than doing a plain format and then using some recovery tool to recover all my lost data? I am not even sure I will recover the folder names.  What other options should I be trying to restore my old MBR so Windows can boot?      Update  as of last I managed to create a live USB w/ W7  I used AOMEI Partition assistant 6.0 and on deeper  search I can see the 909 gb partition - it wont let me select it for recovery. I am sorry if my earlier Q was not clear. I referred to restoring an MBR from a partition . What happened earlier  - superficial search revealed all old partitions but NOT this one   and the later partitions showed up on Deep search &amp; I can select Other partitions for recovery but for this one. It wont let me select the partition I want  Here are some more screen shots    So in summary all that happened is   4 primary windows 7 partition -->  wanted to install Linux so I deleted 2 non bootable partitions after backing them up  ended up with BSOD ( inaccessible boot device ) and noticed that some windows partitions showed up as Dynamic MBR  (using Live USB Linux,gparted )  Use standard testdisk procedure to write MBR from the superficial NTFS-HDFS partition.  this is where I screwed up . Hindsight I should have really done a deep search and caught the 901gb partition to write MBR. I am not sure if I can undo this action  after this - life gets worse. I am  on a ventilator ! Now C is unreadable by windows and linux both and testdisk cannot list file ( see screenshots ) and I have been using a series of live USB's with some recovery s/w but no luck. 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