As the question tells everything, why does keyboard have 2 Ctrl, Alt, Shift keys.  As their function is same then why these keys are multiple on keyboard? Is there any specific reason or they are just for making typing easy?
Why are there two sets of the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift modifier keys when only one of each is necessary?
Assuming there are 5 items in the settings file (MySetting1 to MySetting5), why does PropertyValues have 0 items while Properties has the correct number?   Console.WriteLine( Properties.Settings.Default.PropertyValues.Count); // Displays 0 Console.WriteLine( Properties.Settings.Default.Properties.Count);     // Displays 5 How to test for an hold item name in Minecraft? I'm trying to make a command block that spawns an item in front of you if you are holding an item with a specific name. I've got these two working scripts;  /testfor @p[r=10] {Inventory:[{tag:{display:{Name:"Item Name"}}}]}  /testfor @p[r=10] {SelectedItemSlot:0,Inventory:[{Slot:0b,­id:"minecraft:diamond_sword"}]­}   but I can't get them together. The block should only look for an item in the active slot. Why can't variables be declared in a switch statement? Create line heatmap with QGIS I have loaded my bike tours as .gpx files into QGIS.    It already looks quite nice but I was wondering if it might be possible to create something similar to the strava heatmap with tools of QGIS.     I have tried to generate points along the lines and use kernel density but it just does not look nice as a raster layer.  Any suggestions? Declare a const array If a $\{a_n\}$ diverges, so $a_n \rightarrow + \infty$, how to find sequence $\{b_n\}$ such that $\sum |b_n|<\infty$ but $\sum |a_n||b_n|$ diverges? If we are given any sequence of real numbers $\{a_n\}$ diverges, so $a_n \rightarrow + \infty$, how can we find a sequence $\{b_n\}$ such that $\sum |b_n|$ converges but $\sum |a_n||b_n|$ diverges?  I want to use this fact in another problem but don't immediately see how to prove it. Creating geodatabase feature class using geodatabase table schema with ArcPy? Is there a way in ArcPy to create an empty polygon geodatabase feature class that will acquire the schema of a geodatabase table?  I know that it's possible in ArcCatalog (New -> Feature Class and then import all the fields from a table) but I wonder if it can be written in a Python script.  The CreateFeatureclass_management tool allows only Feature Layers as schema templates. What are underfull hboxes and vboxes and how can I get rid of them? Often, TeX outputs underfull hbox and vbox warnings when running and in the generated log file. What are these and how can I get rid of them? I have a problem with the interpretation of a test result in which the p-value is 8.6e-28. How should it be interpreted? What is the e for?  Specifically, I used White's Test for the homoscedasticity assumption of a linear regression:  White's general test statistic :  150.0535  Chi-sq( 9)  P-value =  8.6e-28 Do airlines have to check the visa status before selling a ticket? gnome-terminal instantly closes after messing with the profile settings I am using Gnome Terminal in Ubuntu 14.04 and I modified the profile preferences, setting it to start with a custom command instead of the default. I can't remember what that custom command was, but now when I launch the terminal, it instantly closes.   Is there any way to change the profile preferences in terminal without having it open? Update: (Originally this was a comment, but I thought it was worth sharing here at the top.)   In the original question, I asked if there was a polite, socially-acceptable way to ask an Indian co-worker not to use the phrase "do the needful", as I didn't care for it.   In the years since I asked this question I've asked many people about the phrase. To the Indians I've asked in-person, it's not rude in any way. To Americans I've asked it varies anywhere from "I don't like it, but I don't mind it" to "It's very rude and makes me angry when I see it".   Through a long series of edits the question morphed and I wasn’t able to delete it because it had upvoted answers. The question, as it stands now, has no other answer.  I guess, though, if you're non-Indian and you find it rude, or if you're Indian and you've never realized someone might find it rude, this post may still have merit. Hopefully it does. It certainly has gotten a lot of views. Best wishes, folks.  End Update. See below for what's left of the actual question.    "Do the needful."   It's a phrase that I've only seen used in email, and I find it . . . presumptuous (maybe even rude). Regardless of prefacing with "please", one is commanding rather than asking for assistance.  I've only seen it used by those of Indian origin, so I've simply not mentioned it at all rather than worry about any cross-cultural offense that may come of bringing it up.  But still, I don't understand why it's used. Why not request rather than make two statements, one factual, one imperative?  For example, why would one use:        I'm told you have Jane's email address. Please do the needful.      instead of,        Would you send me Jane's email address? I'm not very knowledgeable about physics generally, but know that nothing can escape a black hole's gravitational pull, not even light (making them nearly invisible?).   My question is: What has been obtained from direct observation of a black hole to prove their existence? Please note that I'm not questioning the existence of black holes, but am just curious as to how we have come to realize it. Is there an official list of Disney Princesses? Area of a weird ellipse shape. A propeller has the shape shown below. The boundary of the internal hole is given by $r = a + b\cos(4α)$ where $a &gt; b &gt;0$. The external boundary of the propeller is given by $r = c + d\cos(3α)$ where $c - d &gt; a + b$ and $d &gt; 0$.  Calculate the total area of the propeller as shown by the shaded region and calculate the average temperature of the propeller, given by $T (r, α) = C/r$, where $C$ is a constant.     Have absolutely no idea how to solve this. How to handle fragmentation of auto_increment ID column in MySQL Why aren't my turtles breeding? datetime.parse and making it work with a specific format For example:  me$ FOO="BAR * BAR" me$ echo $FOO BAR file1 file2 file3 file4 BAR   and using the \ escape character:  me$ FOO="BAR \* BAR" me$ echo $FOO BAR \* BAR   I'm obviously doing something stupid.  How do I get the output BAR * BAR? Is there always an equilibrium point in space for gravity? For instance, for a two-body system, there will always be a point in-between the two in which the forces of gravity completely cancel, and if I were there then I would experience no net force. I believe there is also a point, or a region, for three body systems as well. Assuming we treat the stars or planets as simply point-masses, will there always be, for any number of objects, a point, or a region, of equilibrium? Or no?