I can't  book an appointment for Schengen visa for France. I get a message      We are currently at full capacity. Please try again later.     Is there any other way to book the appointment?
I'm trying to get a Schengen Visa from my first port of entry, France. I am trying to book an appointment with the French Consulate in SF, and the URL I am using is the following:   I've been checking this page periodically for the past few weeks, and I always see a dialog that that says "We are currently at full capacity. Please try again later." Their calendar provides no direct option for going to the next month. (Using the in-browser developer tools, I noticed that the button for next month is hidden. Un-hiding it and clicking on the Next Month button displays no available appointments either. I checked all the way until September 2016).  My guess is that there are absolutely no appointments for the next 6 months. Or, more likely, their page isn't functioning properly. I'll be traveling in July. Does anybody have any alternate suggestions to book an appointment?
Solution of limit $\lim\limits_{x\to 0} \frac {e^{-1/x^2}}{x} $ Small question, I'm trying to solve this limit but I just can't wrap my head around this problem.  $$\lim_{x\to 0} \frac {e^{-1/x^2}}{x} $$  L'Hopital just seems to make it messier.   It's probably pretty simple - I'd like to hear what I'm missing. Calculate first difference by group in R Why did the first Linux developers choose to implement a non-preemptive kernel? Is it to save synchronization?  As far as I know, Linux was developed in the early '90s, when PCs had a single processor. What advantage does a non-preemptive kernel give in such PCs? Why, however, the advantage is reduced by multi-core processors? How to write a unit-test / test class for trigger? How do I write a unit-test / test class for a trigger?  What are my options?   Inline with the trigger?  New Class? Why do physicists think that the electron is an elementary particle? 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Robot:      The protagonist runs around in the beginning of the film with a female robot/android whose face is melted off after it has acid touch its face.(This scene happens next to the protagonist's rover)  Love interest:      Somehow protagonist comes across female protagonist in desert. She smells really bad and is hungry. They sleep outside, and he tells her to sleep away from him. He uses a thermal blanket(the first I ever saw in my life). She wakes up next to him, smelling horrible. He bathes her in some water hole they find(as if water were not scarce and they could just waste water.)   Pupa monsters:      Scene where they are in a building and they are trying to get out. They come across a room that is white, in which multiple giant, white, snot, pupa are hanging securely from the ceiling. Through curiosity, they disturb them, and now they have to get out of that room fast.  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There are two people A and B in space with a taut rope (no tension currently) in between them. If only A is pulling and B is not, then I agree that the tension is equal to the force A exerts. This situation (in my opinion) becomes analogous to the above if B is also pulling. So, say both of them pull from either side with a force of 100 N. Then the rope at the end of B will pull B with a force of 100 N (this pull is caused by A). By Newton's third law, the rope will experience a pull of 100 N. But B is also pulling his end of the rope with 100 N. Therefore, the tension should be 200 N. Similarly, the end of the rope at A must pull A with 100 N of force (because B is pulling from the other side) and hence experience a force of 100 N itself by Newton's third law plus another 100 N because A is pulling on the rope.  Apparently, the answer is not this (according to my searching on the web). So, could anyone tell me why this reasoning is wrong? Thanks.  EDIT : So apparently people don't agree with my first example, leave alone the second. This is to the downvoters and the upvoters of the highest-rated answer: You all agree that if only A pushes B with a force of 100 N, then A and B both will get pushed by a force of 100 N in opposite directions, right? Then, in the case where B is also pushing with a force of 100 N, it doesn't make sense that the answer would be exactly the same. It doesn't seem right that no matter what B does, B and A will always experience the same force as they would have if B hadn't applied any force.  EDIT 2 : I'm going to provide here a link to a question that I posted:  According to the answer and the comments there, the reason as to why my first example is incorrect is different to the one provided here. So maybe you should all read the answer and the comments provided by the person and reconsider what you think. When is unbalanced data really a problem in Machine Learning? 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I always see a huge variation of answers such as $8, 9, 16, 17, 24, 28, 30, 40, 41, 52,$ etc., yet I've never seen a definitive answer on any website.    I counted $16$ whole squares ($4$ going down on left side, $4$ going down on right side, $8$ small squares in the centre). With this method the answer could also be $17$ if you want to count the entire shape as one big square.  I can also see the answer being $24$ if you count the smaller squares separately, as if they were floating above the main grid instead of intersecting with it.  Is there a right answer, or is it possible that there is no 'right' answer and it just depends on your counting method? Specify a field in attribute table with raster calculator If every real-valued continuous function is bounded on $X$ (metric space), then $X$ is compact. Let $X$ be a metric space. Prove that if every continuous function $f: X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is bounded, then $X$ is compact.  This has been asked before, but all the answers I have seen prove the contrapositive. Realistically, this may be the way to go, but is there way to exhibit an unbounded continuous function (under the assumption $X$ is not compact) without appealing to results beyond introductory real analysis (e.g., the solution I've seen involves the Tietze Extension theorem)?  Because we're working with metric spaces, it's clear that the assumption that $X$ is noncompact (towards proving contrapositive) will lead us to extract a sequence of points in the space with no convergent subsequences. But how can we infer the existence of an unbounded continuous on the space knowing only about some sequence of points in this space (without using anything too advanced)? How can I easily switch audio output in Ubuntu 17.10 and later with GNOME? I am starting to learn using blender, and at some point I managed to do something to the 3D view camera.  Usually the camera orbits around an object, but now the rotation seems to happen (atleast very close to) around the "camera's origin". Neither the input setting in "User Preferences", the pivot point selection nor Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C (as suggested on some forum) do anything to the issue. How to deserialize a JSON String to Apex What are the convergent sequences in the cofinite topology I consider the co-finite topology on $\mathbb{R}$ that is $$\{G\subset \mathbb{R}, card(\mathbb{R}\setminus G)&lt;+\infty\}\cup \{\emptyset\}$$  What are the convergent sequences in this space .  thank you Android - Read Only File System IOException Cannot see Samba configuration tool in the Dash in ubuntu 14.04 After a fresh installation of ubuntu 14.04 (my previous installation has seen to be broken somewhere reading .wmv file with VLC), I've installed Samba GUI tool from the software center.  It briefly appears in the launchpad then disappears. From this time I cannot the see in in the dash.  I've found this in askUbuntu   but the command sudo apt-get install samba samba-common gives me nothing to install.  Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances        Lecture des informations d'état... Fait samba est déjà la plus récente version disponible. samba passé en « installé manuellement ». samba-common est déjà la plus récente version disponible. Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires :   kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-fr Veuillez utiliser « apt-get autoremove » pour les supprimer. 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 8 non mis à jour.   The following guide  has no result either.  Any idea ?  Laurent06000