Trade-off between image quality and compactness
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php/mysql with multiple queries Why are all the textures in my file pink? I am a final year PhD in UK in a scientific discipline and I am writing my thesis. I have already published 2 journal papers and I have submitted 2 more papers for publications. My department does not allow a "publications-based" thesis so I need to write a thesis in the context of a book etc.   As I write my thesis in a couple of places, especially in the literature review, I tend to reuse sentences from my publications. I try to restate them a bit, maybe change some words for their synonyms etc. but it is practically me writing about what I wrote before. It goes without saying that I cite/quote me at the end of a passage if I say something non-obvious (I found that slightly funny. :) ). The problem is that occasionally I am just explaining for instance how a certain estimation technique works; in that case I cite the original authors and not myself. The syntax in those occasions though is practically the same as the original passage I used in my publication; as I have explained it once and was consider good, I find no reason to reinvent myself (I do a mild rewording as I mentioned but that is quite insignificant). Same things goes for listings. I do cite my paper in the beginning of a big list as the list's source but the list itself is almost identical as the one in "my" paper; in those cases I don't use quotations, just attribution "[]".  Is there an obvious guideline? The basic definition of plagiarism "reproducing the work of another person's as your own" is not (directly) applicable to me because I am the other person (almost *); if I am using other people's work I do cite them but I don't cite myself, citing them, in quotation marks!  I am a bit "fuzzy" about how not to plagiarize myself in my thesis (I have had no problem regarding my journal publications).  (* In all publications mentioned I am the first -but not sole- author.) Will running a large query on a secondary database in an availability group affect transaction performance in the primary database? I need to provide real-time, or almost real-time, data for SSRS and Tableau reporting. I don't want the production OLTP system to be negatively impacted by long running queries. Will running a large query on a secondary database in an availability group affect transaction performance in the primary database? Can domain masking be used to move content from a subdomain to a subdirectory? example.com is hosted on IP address c.c.c.c at host1, no access any windows server admin at all blog.example.com is  on IP a.a.a.a at host2, full access to Linux server admin, using WordPress   So basically, I can fiddle with subdomain all I want.  I can't 301 redirect because the content on host 1 is an eCommerce site that I have no server control over. Can't put WordPress on it, can't run scripts, can't do anything on the server period.  Is there a method to "mask" all the URLs on root blog.example.com so they appear as example.com/blog/ folder?  They can't actually be sent to example.com/blog/ as that doesn't exist. It just needs to look to the surfer as if they are there.  Can this be done with some kind of masking or something?  Will this be better for SEO as hopefully search engines will see the blog in a directory on the main domain? Does Java have buffer overflows? Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"? Is this sentence grammatically correct?  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in their bookcase.  or should it be:  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in his or her bookcase. Windows 8 opens notepad on boot- no startup entry found I just upgraded from windows 7 to windows 8 and everything is working fine except notepad keeps opening on boot with a "access denied" window that comes up as well. I've ran MBAM and removed some junk, I've disabled every "file not found" item in autoruns as well as something that had a text/xml title in it and I've ran CCleaner a few times. Nothing is working, any help is much appreciated! I am getting really confused now. I installed Tex Live 2012 on my Xubuntu 12.04 with a backport and I installed TexMaker.  I could user PdfLatex right away and it generated everything I needed except my bibliography. I read that Tex Live 2012 comes with biblatex so I just changed the bibtex command in TexMaker from "bibtex" to "biblatex". However, that does not exist. So I did  sudo apt-get remove biblatex sudo apt-get install biblatex   The package is installed but I don't find the binary. Using bibtex the whole thing crashes. Which does not surprise me since I want to userbiber:  \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}   Btw does biber come with biblatex? So far I couldn't get any clear explanation what biber and biblatex are to each other.  EDIT: I had to remove texlive completely and install it with the install script form . Apparently the newest version of biber does not work with the older version of biblatex I had. "How it works?" vs. "How does it work?" What is the difference between:        "How it works?"      and        "How does it work?" What is a session 0? What is a "Session 0"?   When is it done? What does it contain? Is it recommended, if not mandatory? What is each person's role (DM/GM, players, etc.)? What topics are best discussed there?   Usually with my groups, we go directly to the meat of the game right after the character creation, but I see a lot of answers that basically say "you should have a session 0", but it's never explained what it is made of, so it's kind of an enigma for me. Respawning the Ender Dragon It's known that when you're connecting to a wrong server via ssh and send your password  to it, your password comes in a plain text and a server saves it by default. Probably. I wonder, where I can retrieve it? I don't see it in /var/log/auth.log, although I do see all the attempts to authenticate. How to create SQL like composite key I have an object in which there are two fields i.e Phone no. &amp; email. The combination of these fields should be unique Right now I can create just one unique field But I want their composite to work like a unique field.   I know that I can create composite key in SQL but I dont know how to achieve this in salesforce. How to make a file (e.g. a .sh script) executable, so it can be run from a terminal I have a script.sh file and type of this file is shellscript file. I want to make this file as application/x-executable file. How can I make it? I uploaded a pre-print of an article on arXiv 1 year ago. The article was accepted in SCI journal and currently available online. However, I found a typo mistake in one equation and want to add more discussion related one figure (On researchgate I am receiving a lot of queries regarding that figure). Should i upload a new version of pre-print on arXiv? (How citations will work in this case? as arxiv version is more advanced compare to Journal version) OrI may upload a short document on arXiv as an errata/correction with extra discussion?Or I may address errata and discussion in online page of journal? Actually this journal allows the registered users to comment and start discussion related to published article. Why don't sandwich toasters have an on/off switch? The absolute majority of electrical appliances have an On/Off switch. However, the absolute majority of sandwich toasters do not - you just plug them into the socket and unplug them when you're done. At least, that's the case for all household sandwich toasters I've ever seen. I'm referring to this device, not the vertical toaster (where the lever doubles as a switch):    It looks like some models do have a switch, but apparently these are just the larger/industrial types, not the common variety.  Why is that? Is this correct?     That is a real cool answer.   I learned that that was incorrect, since "real" is an adjective which can describe a noun, e.g. "real answer" but it is not an adverb which can describe an adjective, "real cool". Instead you would have to say:     That is a really cool answer.   Since "really" is an adverb. Whenever adding a new wireless network, android seems to forget the network after disabling then re-enabling wifi. I am forced to manually connect to the network and enter the password each time. This also happens with open networks. The problem occurs on any wireless network, at home, work, public networks, etc.  Further inspection on the /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file shows "disabled=1" added to the end of each network.    click image for larger version  This has been going on for weeks. Any help would be much appreciated.  Phone: Nexus 4 Version: 4.4.4 When is a CDATA section necessary within a script tag? Are CDATA tags ever necessary in script tags and if so when?  In other words, when and where is this:  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; //&lt;![CDATA[ ...code... //]]&gt; &lt;/script&gt;   preferable to this:  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; ...code... &lt;/script&gt;