Sometimes we see these small translucent shapes moving by when the eyes are open. When the eyes are moved they seem to follow that movement, but with a certain delay, as if they are floating in a thick viscous liquid. What is this phenomenon called?
I have noticed that if you look directly at tubelight (I have only white ones in my home) and close your eyes little, you see little random shaped colourless things sometimes with slow speed and sometimes with falling down.   They are shaped like circles with something in between and in chains of random length.   My father has also seen them. So, I am sure I am not imagining things. What the hell are they?
Display data from geoserver on click map with openlayers I tried to display data with popup from Geoserver or Postgres to my map, but it dosen't work at all. Can anyone please help me? I used this code:      function Info(e)          {                 if (e.features &amp;&amp; e.features.length)                  {                      //console.log(e.features[0].attributes);                     var popupId = e.xy.x + "," + e.xy.y;                     var popup = popups[popupId];                     if (!popup || !popup.map) {                     popup = new OpenLayers.Popup.FramedCloud(                     popupId,                      map.getLonLatFromPixel(e.xy),                     null,                     " ",                     null,                     true,                     function(e) {                         delete popups[this.id];                         this.hide();                         OpenLayers.Event.stop(e);                     }                 );                 popups[popupId] = popup;                 map.addPopup(popup, true);                 }                popup.setContentHTML(popup.contentHTML + "nom_user:" +e.features[0].attributes.nomservice +" region_user :"+ e.features[0].attributes.region);             popup.show();                                    }       selectcltr = {         click: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({             url: 'http://localhost/geoserver/wms',              title: 'Identify features by clicking',             layers: [ser],             queryVisible: true         }),         hover: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({             url: 'http://localhost/geoserver/wms',              title: 'Identify features by clicking',             layers: [ser],             hover: true,             // defining a custom format options here             formatOptions: {                 typeName: 'projet',                  featureNS: 'http://www.openplans.org/topp'             },             queryVisible: true         })     } What is a word for "cannot-be-wrong" attitude? When speaking with someone recently I was continuously taken aback by how he could not concede even the slightest detail in my argument (which was not unreasonable), and it happened another time previously. Both times had to do with me pointing out 'error' in his action.  He very much exhibits that 'I cannot be wrong' attitude.  I first thought to call this arrogance or pride but he is not overbearing like arrogance demands and he does not show excessive self esteem that pride demands.  What is a word that can accurately describe this attitude? Why is the Apps flash storage so high and how can it be reduced? This is the disk storage info:    This is the Applications folder info:    Why is the storage usage so high and how can it be reduced? This is on a MacBook Pro Retina 13" with OSX 10.9.5.  Edit: I had tried all the suggestions made by @user3439894 in his answer but didn't mention it before posting. Why is it that many of the most important physical equations don't have ugly numbers (i.e., "arbitrary" irrational factors) to line up both sides?   Why can so many equations be expressed so neatly with small natural numbers while recycling a relatively small set of physical and mathematical constants?  For example, why is mass–energy equivalence describable by the equation $E = mc^2$ and not something like $E \approx 27.642 \times mc^2$?  Why is time dilation describable by something as neat as $t' = \sqrt{\frac{t}{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}}$ and not something ugly like $t' \approx 672.097 \times 10^{-4} \times \sqrt{\frac{t}{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}}$.  ... and so forth.    I'm not well educated on matters of physics and so I feel a bit sheepish asking this.   Likewise I'm not sure if this is a more philosophical question or one that permits a concrete answer ... or perhaps even the premise of the question itself is flawed ... so I would gratefully consider anything that sheds light on the nature of the question itself as an answer.    EDIT: I just wished to give a little more context as to where I was coming from with this question based on some of the responses:  @Jerry Schirmer comments:      You do have an ugly factor of $2.997458 \times 10^8 m/s$ in front of everything. You just hide the ugliness by calling this number c.   These are not the types of "ugly constants" I'm talking about in that this number is the speed of light. It is not just some constant needed to balance two side of an equation.  @Carl Witthoft answers:      It's all in how you define the units ...   Of course this is true, we could in theory hide all sorts of ugly constants by using different units on the right and the left. But as in the case of $E=mc^2$, I am talking about equations where the units on the left are consistent with the units on the right, irrespective of the units used. As I mentioned on a comment there:     $E=mc^2$  could be defined using units like $m$ in imperial stones ($\textsf{S}$), $c$ in cubits/fortnight ($\textsf{CF}^{−1}$) and $E$ in ... umm ... $\textsf{SC}^2\textsf{F}^{−2}$ ... so long as the units are in the same system, we still don't need a fudge factor.   When the units are consistent in this manner, there's no room for hiding fudge constants. proof that on a compact manifold a vector field is complete I would like to know if my proof of the following statement is correct     If $M$ is a compact manifold, then every vector field $X$ over $M$ is complete.   Proof:  I take $p\in M$ and $(\gamma_p,I_p)$ a maximal integral curve through $p$. $I_p$ is open and non empty so if $I_p$ is closed, it is equal to $\mathbb{R}$.  So take $s\in \text{Adh}(I_p)$. There exists $t_i\rightarrow s, t_i\in I_p$. Define $q$ as $\text{lim}(\gamma_p(t_i))$ and take a maximal integral curve passing by $q$ as $(\gamma_q,I_q)$. Then since the vector fields are $C^\infty$, $\gamma_q(I_q)\cap\gamma_p(I_p)$ is nonempty (intuitively, this is clear but don't really know how to show it).  On the intersection, $\gamma_p$ and $\gamma_q$ coincide. So we can extend the maximal curve $\gamma_p$ to include $\gamma_q$. This implies that $q\in\gamma_p(I_p)$ and is actually equal to $\gamma_p(s)$  I think the main idea is there even though it probably lacks a bit of rigour. For $G$ a group and $H\unlhd G$, then $G$ is solvable iff $H$ and $G/H$ are solvable? I recently read the well known theorem that for a group $G$ and $H$ a normal subgroup of $G$, then $G$ is solvable if and only if $H$ and $G/H$ are solvable. In my book, only the fact that $G$ is solvable implies $H$ is solvable was proven. I was able to show that if $H$ and $G/H$ are solvable, then so is $G$, but I can't quite show that $G$ is solvable implies $G/H$ is solvable.   My idea was this. Since $G$ is solvable, there exists a normal abelian tower $$ G=G_0\supset G_1\supset\cdots\supset G_r=\{e\}. $$ I let $K_i=G_i/(H\cap G_i)$, in hopes of getting a sequence $$ G/H\supset K_1\supset\cdots\supset K_r=\{e\}. $$ My hunch is that the above is also a normal abelian tower. However, I'm having trouble verifying that $K_{i+1}\unlhd K_i$ and that $K_i/K_{i+1}$ is abelian.  Writing $H_i=H\cap G_i$, I take $gH_{i+1}\in K_{i+1}$ for some $g\in G_{i+1}$. If $g&#39;H_i\in K_i$, then I want to show $g&#39;H_igH_{i+1}g&#39;^{-1}H_i$ is still in $K_{i+1}$, but manipulating the cosets threw me off. I also tried to use either the second or third isomorphism theorems to show that $K_i/K_{i+1}$ is abelian, but I'm not clear on how to apply it exactly. I'd be grateful to see how this result comes through. Thank you. Remember window locations when docked and undocked I find this beyond frustrating.  I have two extra screens on my laptop at work. I take my laptop and go home, with no extra screens connected. I come back, dock the laptop, and the windows need to be rearranged again.  Is there a way to get windows (or a utility) to keep track of the overall screen configuration (#, size, resolution), and remember where windows were placed, so when the screen configuration matches again, it puts applications BACK where they were? Does the sign of $\Delta x$ matter in this time dilation calculation? pgfplots: correct rounding problems I had a problem with disappearing marker as the data sum up to more than 100 while xmax was set to 100. See .  As written in the answer to the cited question I tried to avoid the problem by normalizing the value to 100. But this lead to (much smaller) rounding errors in previously correct rows and now the marker disappear there. See the following example. Before the normalisation the column F ist affected, after the column B.   How can I in a reliable way avoid this rounding problem? Or at least get a clear error message. I have quite a number of this plots and I don't want to have to check them all the time for missing markers.    \documentclass{scrreprt} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.13} \usepackage{pgfplotstable} \pgfplotsset{  my stackbar plot/.style={              xbar stacked,              xmin=0,xmax=100,              symbolic y coords={A,B,C,D,E,F,G},              ytick=data,              nodes near coords={xxx},}}  \begin{document}  \pgfplotstableread[col sep=space]{  text   --  -    +       ++  A      0.0 1.7 13.8    84.5  B      0.0 0.6 20.1    79.3  C      0.0 1.9 13.2    84.9  D      0.0 1.6 27.9    70.5  E      1.3 3.9 19.5    75.3  F      0.0 1.4 15.0    83.7  G      0.3 1.7 24.8    73.2  }\data   \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={\thisrow{--}+\thisrow{-}+\thisrow{+}+\thisrow{++}}]{sum}\data %  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=--]{--o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=-]{-o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=+]{+o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/copy=++]{++o}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{--o}}]{--}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{-o}}]{-}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{+o}}]{+}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={100/\thisrow{sum}*\thisrow{++o}}]{++}\data  \pgfplotstablecreatecol[create col/expr={\thisrow{--}+\thisrow{-}+\thisrow{+}+\thisrow{++}}]{sumnew}\data  \pgfplotstabletypeset[columns={text,sum}   ,precision=10,columns/text/.style={string type}]\data \quad \pgfplotstabletypeset[columns={text,sumnew},precision=10,columns/text/.style={string type}]\data   %\pgfplotstablesave{\data}{pgfplotstempout.dat} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[my stackbar plot]  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{--o},y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{-o}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{+o}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{++o}, y=text] {\data}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \quad \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[my stackbar plot]  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{--},y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{-}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{+}, y=text] {\data};  \addplot table [x expr = \thisrow{++}, y=text] {\data}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document} Usage and example of the word “litotes” I've come across the word litotes, which means a rhetorical understatement. However, I’m having trouble understanding how to use it in colloquial English. Could someone please give an example? Consider a particle in a potential well. Let’s assume it’s a simple harmonic oscillator potential and the particle is in its ground state with energy E0 = (1/2) &#8463;&omega;0. We measure its position (measurement-1) with a high degree of accuracy which localises the particle, corresponding to a superposition of momentum (and therefore energy) states.  Now we measure the particle’s energy (measurement-2) and happen to find that it’s E10 = (21/2) &#8463;&omega;0. Where did the extra energy come from?  In the textbooks it’s claimed that the extra energy comes from the act of observation but I wonder how that could work. Measurement-1 which probed the position of the particle can’t have delivered to it a precise amount of energy, while measurement-2 might just have been passive. No doubt there is entanglement here between the particle state and the measuring device but where, and which measurement? How do I delete/remove a shell function? I have done this:  $ z() { echo 'hello world'; }   How do I get rid of it? When you add a new object into the blender scene, normally on the tool shelf a window will become available where you can put in the objects size or number of vertices etc.  These options:   For what-ever reason, when I now add an object I am no longer seeing that area where I can alter the measurements. Currently I want to use the Spin function but I need to alter it but I have no way of effecting how the spin operates. Does anyone know what I have done or how to fix it? Safety of installing Ubuntu alongside Windows Is it really safe to choose the "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows" option from the Ubuntu installation program?  I never used that option, instead I used other tools such as partition magic or windows 7's disk tool to resize my partitions.  Since I'm going to install Ubuntu across a lot windows (XP, Vista and 7) machines. It would not be nice to damage those Windows partitions.  What is your experience? Can I use this feature without concerns? Solution to German Tank Problem Is there a formal mathematical proof that the solution to the  is a function of only the parameters k (number of observed samples) and m (maximum value among observed samples)? In other words, can one prove that the solution is independent of the other sample values besides the maximum value? Capturing URL parameters in request.GET I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object. I'd like to learn how to do this without a library, so I can get to know Django better. Login as other user setting for other profile except System Adminsitrator If a user is setup as System Administrator profile, the user can login as other user. However, is there any option that I can enable this function for other profile except System Administrator because I don't want to give them other System Administrator permission access?  In the past as I remember in summer 12, there's an option called "managing user permission" which allow me to disable or enable the profile to login as other user. But I don't see this anymore. PostgreSQL CPU 100% after configure Wal log shipping hot standby I have configured Hight Avaliabily WAL Log Shipping Hot Standby (SSL) with one node. But after I configure, both hosts (primary and secondary) take 100% CPU usage. The most strange is because I have only one database called &quot;TESTE&quot; with one table called &quot;EXAMPLE&quot; to check if replication was OK. The replication worked perfectly but I don't understand why my CPU takes 100% usage because I don't have any application connect on my cluster. I ran HTOP command and get this results: Image 1 - Primary Server HTOP Info  Image 2 - Secondary Server HTOP info  S.O. version: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release:        10 Codename:       buster  PostgreSQL version: postgres (PostgreSQL) 12.3 (Debian 12.3-1.pgdg100+1)  Primary server postgres.conf file: max_connections = 100 SSL = on shared_buffers = 2GB work_mem = 10485kb maintenance_work_mem = 512MB dynamic_shared_memory_type = posix effective_io_concurrency = 200 max_worker_processes = 4 max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2 max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 2 max_parallel_workers = 4 wal_level = replica wal_buffers = 16MB max_wal_size = 200MB min_wal_size = 80MB checkpoint_completion_target = 0.7 archive_mode = on max_wal_senders = 3 wal_keep_segments = 8 hot_standby = on hot_standby_feedback = on random_page_cost = 1.1 effective_cache_size = 6GB default_statistics_target = 100  pg_stat_activity info:  pg_stat_archiver info:  pg_stat_replication info:  If I stop postgres service in both servers the CPU still has 100% usage. Anyone can help me? Web designer's link back to own website (rel="designer" / rel="nofollow") I note that the installation of qgis completed successfully. However, the log procedure returns this message:     "...... Estrazione: wvhpgn.gsb Estrazione: wyhpgn.gsb Cartella di   destinazione: C:\Programmi\Quantum GIS Lisboa Creato il programma di   disinstallazione: C:\Programmi\Quantum GIS Lisboa\Uninstall-QGIS.exe   Crea cartella: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Menu   Avvio\Programmi\Quantum GIS Lisboa   Impossibile accedere al file. Il file Š utilizzato da un altro processo. Running postinstall grass64.bat... Running postinstall   msvcrt.bat... ......"      System parameters: Quantum GIS Lisboa 1.8.0  Microsoft Windows   Professional, Versione 2002, Service Pack 3   The message:      Impossibile accedere al file. Il file Š utilizzato da un altro   processo   translates as      Unable to access the file. The file used by another process   I then get the following error:     "Impossibile trovare il punto di ingresso locale_charset della   procedura nella libreria di collegamento dinamico iconv.dll"   which translates as:     Can not find the entry point of locale_charset procedure in the   dynamic link library iconv.dll