Buoyant force of tides and conservation of energy
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Zero visitors? What happened to site analytics about a week ago? Is there a way I can see a list of all my YouTube comments over time? I posted something the other day and wish I could find the video again. Is there a way I can see all of my comments? I've just updated to 11.10 and now my embedded terminal in gedit does not match my default terminal. I hate looking at a white and black terminal. Does anyone know how to make the embedded terminal match the default terminal?  This is a screenshot:    I want my embedded terminal in gedit to match my default terminal. How to run updmap-sys after installing cm-super? My original question was:   The answer that seems suitable to my cause is to install cm-super. I did that (using package manager [winxp 32 bit, MikTex installation 2.9 recently updated]). But still the command  \usepackage{cm-super}    yields an error.  User H Cavendish suggested to run updmap-sys, but I am not sure about how to do that on WinXP.   2011 November 04 edit: I made it sure that I have installed 'cm-super' - but still get the same error:   I have also tried updating the file name databases - but no avail. Let $a$, $b$ and $c$ be the three sides of a triangle. Show that $\frac{a}{b+c-a}+\frac{b}{c+a-b} + \frac{c}{a+b-c}\geqslant3$. Is there an easy way to delete an element from an array using PHP, such that foreach ($array) no longer includes that element?  I thought that setting it to null would do it, but apparently it does not work. Practical uses for the "internal" keyword in C# Could you please explain what the practical usage is for the internal keyword in C#?  I know that the internal modifier limits access to the current assembly, but when and in which circumstance should I use it? Why does ice form on bridges even if the temperature is above freezing? So with this "arctic blast" continuing, I've noticed that for my area, the temperature drops below freezing just long enough to cause freezing rain, but then the sun comes out and the temperature rises immediately. However, on bridges, ice continues to form.   How can ice form even if the temperature is above freezing? "Neither Michael nor Albert is correct" or "Neither Michael nor Albert are correct"? What is the correct sentence?  Neither Michael nor Albert is correct.   Neither Michael nor Albert are correct. Can I visit other Schengen countries on a long-term Schengen visa or residency permit? I have requested for a French long term (Type D) student visa from a consulate in India. It's a national Type D visa and not a Schengen visa. My question is that can we still go to other Schengen countries on this visa? If not then can we get a Schengen visa from a consulate in France? Loading a .X model in DirectX 9 How does Python evaluate the expression 1+++2?  How many ever + I put in between, it is printing 3 as the answer. Please can anyone explain this behavior  And for 1--2 it is printing 3 and for 1---2 it is printing -1 What to do when witches appear early in the game? A long time ago I played an older version of Minecraft. Back then witches didn't spawn naturally, so you couldn't find them unless you found a hut. Now I'm playing again, but sometimes when I go down a cave I find one or two witches, and it's really hard to find them back.   So, what is the best you can do to kill witches, specially when two spawn at the same time and you don't have milk? biblatex: Cite commands with the same author prints authors name twice I'm using biblatex 1.4b, and Biber 0.9. However, I think the problem is with my settings, not with the versions of those programs.  I'm trying to cite a single author, and produce their name, followed by the dates of two papers, using the authoryear-ibid style, and natbib compatability. Here's my biblatex preamble:  \usepackage[style=authoryear-ibid,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}   What I want is for the following command: The works by \citet{Blau81, Blau88} ... to produce: The works by Blau (1981; 1988) ... however, what I'm getting is: The works by Blau (1981); Blau (1988)...  I know that biblatex knows they're the same author, since in the bibliography they fall under the same name (i.e. after the first instance of the name, there's just a dash instead of the name)  What am I doing wrong here? I've also tried it with the commands \cite and \cites, and neither produces what I want.   (crossposted with comp.text.tex) Consider the sentence &quot;I can run faster than 15 miles per hour.&quot; Its meaning is clear and to my eyes obviously grammatically correct. Now let me present some variations that have given me trouble for a long time.  I am faster than 15 miles per hour. – To me this is clearly incorrect. Directly comparing me to a speed doesn't seem right. We need to compare my speed to a speed, or me to another person.  I can run faster than him. – Compared to the base sentence, there is a distinct shift in meaning of the comparison. While before I named a speed faster than which I can run, now I am naming a person. It doesn't seem quite right. I realize the parts of speech can change, but my initial objection is that &quot;him&quot; is not a speed.  I can run faster than he. – This seems most correct to me, but still somehow feels objectionable. Is this in fact the correct way to say it? And if so, is it proper as is or need I say &quot;... faster than he can&quot; or even &quot;... faster than he can run?&quot;  I am faster than him. – With &quot;am&quot; instead of &quot;can run&quot; it now seems slightly more correct. But is it?  I am faster than he. – I'm in doubt here. It doesn't seem wrong to me to say, &quot;I am faster than he is&quot; or even &quot;I am faster than he is fast.&quot; (Though I suppose that is a given since I could hardly properly compare to some other category as in &quot;I am faster than he is smart.&quot;)  My speed is faster than his. – Hmm. This seems more proper as &quot;my speed is greater than his.&quot;   So which of these constructions is correct and which is incorrect? Is there a general rule that I can follow? UPDATE The scholarly article  may be of great interest to some readers!  Once we accept that the elided constituent and its antecedent can differ in form, it becomes reasonable to ask how large this difference can be. The answer in Rooth (1992), Fiengo and May (1994), Chung et al. (1995) and subsequent work is that the wiggle room is actually quite small: the elided constituent and its antecedent are allowed to differ only in the realization of inﬂectional morphology. Other than that, both constituents have to be syntactically and lexically isomorphic. Is there a graceful way to handle passing a list of ids as a parameter to a stored procedure?   For instance, I want departments 1, 2, 5, 7, 20 returned by my stored procedure. In the past, I have passed in a comma delimited list of ids, like the below code, but feel really dirty doing it.   SQL Server 2005 is my only applicable limitation I think.  create procedure getDepartments   @DepartmentIds varchar(max) as   declare @Sql varchar(max)        select @Sql = 'select [Name] from Department where DepartmentId in (' + @DepartmentIds + ')'   exec(@Sql) I'd like some suggestions for good reading materials on the Keldysh formalism in the condensed matter physics community. I'm familiar with the imaginary time, coherent state, and path integral formalisms, but lately, I've been seeing Keldysh more and more in papers. My understanding is that it is superior to the imaginary time formalism at least in that one can evaluate non-equilibrium expectations. I had a Minecraft world on Minefold.  I archived my Minecraft world just before Minefold closed about a year ago.  I'm trying now to open the world in my local Minecraft installation on OS X, but it doesn't show up in the worlds list.  To import it, I simply unzipped the archive from Minefold into my ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves folder.  I'm running Minecraft 1.8, and I don't have any mods installed.  There's no error; the world just doesn't show up in my list of worlds after I click [Singleplayer] (or [Multiplayer]).  Now, the big clue is that the directory structures are different between my locally-created worlds and the world created on Minefold, but I can't figure out how to adapt the files to make them match:  This is a screenshot of my saves folder. I've circled in blue "local" and "minefold", which contain data files for the local and Minefold worlds, respectively.    I bracketed similar filenames in both worlds, but I'm flummoxed in that the Minefold version has three (3) sets of data files, whereas the local world has only one (1) set of files (even though I have visited Nether in the local world).  How do I load my old Minefold world locally? "Have you seen her?" or "Did you see her?" I already knew that we use the present perfect for an action in the past with a result now. Consider the following questions:   "I'm looking for Paula. Have you seen her?" "I'm looking for Paula. Did you see her?"   Is there any difference between these two questions for this specific action (verb)? What is the result of "seeing" action which can't be represented by simple past? ASP.NET MVC How to pass JSON object from View to Controller as Parameter I have a complex JSON object which is sent to the View without any issues (as shown below) but I cannot work out how Serialize this data back to a .NET object when it is passed back to the controller through an AJAX call. Details of the various parts are below.     var ObjectA = {         "Name": 1,         "Starting": new Date(1221644506800),          "Timeline": [             {                 "StartTime": new Date(1221644506800),                 "GoesFor": 200              }             ,             {                 "StartTime": new Date(1221644506800),                 "GoesFor": 100              }          ]     };   I am not sure how this object can be passed to a Controller Method, I have this method below where the Timelines object mirrors the above JS object using Properties.  public JsonResult Save(Timelines person)   The jQuery I am using is:          var encoded = $.toJSON(SessionSchedule);          $.ajax({             url: "/Timeline/Save",             type: "POST",             dataType: 'json',             data: encoded,             contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",             beforeSend: function() { $("#saveStatus").html("Saving").show(); },             success: function(result) {                 alert(result.Result);                 $("#saveStatus").html(result.Result).show();             }         });   I have seen this question which is similar, but not quite the same as I am not using a forms to manipulate the data.   I have also seen references to using a 'JsonFilter' to manually deserialize the JSON, but was wondering if there is a way to do it nativly though ASP.NET MVC? Or what are the best practices for passing data in this way?