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Mid 2012 MBP shuts down claiming no power with charge at 30% or 40% or more crossfade between 2 videos using ffmpeg 80's Animated movie: An old man joins mission to save a boy stranded on a hostile world A guy on a space ship picks up a distress call, a boy is stranded on a planet with a hostile environment. He &amp; his crew go to the rescue, stopping on the way to pick up an old man who comes with them. Most of the top of the old guy's skull is metal, from an old injury.  They've various adventures on the way (their ship is boarded by pirates/bandits/hostile forces at one point).  They get to the planet with the boy. They've limited time to save him as the planet is being moved back in time. (I can't remember why) When they find the boy, he's being attacked by giant wasp-type-things.   The boy is injured on the top of his head. The old guy dies protecting him. The boy gets shifted back in time with the planet and - you guessed it - survives, grows up and turns out to be the old guy.  Now that I've remembered some of it, the bits I can't remember are driving me crazy. I'd love to see this again, if I could identify it I might be able to track down a copy.  I'd swear I saw this mid 80's on morning TV, but it I could be out by 5 years either way. Thanks I'd like to typeset documents using the '' of page layout. Good examples are on pages 40-53 of . The  package is helpful for this, but two additional features would be useful:   Automatic flow of text across (arbitrarily placed) columns / textpos blocks. Vertical line spacing enforced to be an integer multiple of a base line spacing, even when interrupted (for example) by an equation of arbitrary height.   Any ideas as to how either or both of these could be accomplished? MySQL 5.5.16 allows anonymous connections Apparently, I can connect to MySQL (at least from my localhost) without having to provide any username or password. I can even put anything as username, as long as the password is empty. I have access to the information_schema and test databases. I can create tables. If I run SELECT USER() it returns the proper value randomstring@localhost, where the random string is whatever I used for username when I connected.  The mysql.user table contains root@localhost, root@127.0.0.1, @localhost and pma@localhost. I manually set encrypted passwords to all the records (UPDATE user SET password=...) and only root has any privileges, the other two records have "N" for all privileges. That record with the empty username looks suspicious, but I don't think it has anything to do with this and I think it was there from the beginning.  To make matters worse, if I add a user with a password, I can only connect using empty string as password (just like if I put anything as username). If I try to connect using the username I created and password I supplied when creating it (CREATE USER .. IDENTIFIED BY ..) it doesn't work.  Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix this?  Note: I am using MySQL 5.5.16 for Windows, provided by the XAMPP package. Variable substitution with an exclamation mark in bash What causes close votes to be annotated with "(deleted)"? In the "Votes Cast" section of my profile, my vote to close  is annotated with "(deleted)":    However, the close vote does not appear to have been deleted: it successfully closed the question:    Why was this vote marked as "(deleted)"?    If the vote was deleted my some internal process after the question was closed and the closers were recorded, I call that a . Regardless of what happens internally, it's irrelevant to users if close votes are deleted after they have taken effect. Why do some materials reflect (metals) and other materials reflect and refract (glass) from the quantum perspective? Recently I was asked to explain the difference between reflection and total internal reflection from a purely conceptual standpoint (no math).    Let me explain what I already know.  Reflection and refraction at the quantum level are the same thing.  Light is a photon.  A photon is a discrete particle that has wave characteristics (a finite wave traveling like a bullet).  As the photon travels it collides with electrons in the matter of the medium it is traveling in.  Depending on the energy of the photon and the allowed energy bands of the medium the photon cause the electron to jump up a level.  If the photon is absorbed then the medium will increase its motion (at the macro scale increasing its temperature).  If the photon is not absorbed it will be re-emitted (really as a new photon). I have read and watched Feynman's QED lectures and book and have a pretty good understanding of his process for determining how all these paths come together to give the net path of the photon.  The general rule of thumb is that the photon wants to take the path which requires the least amount of time.  I understand how this principle goes to explain refraction and reflection.    What I don't seem to understand is why does one material seem to cause a higher percentage of refraction compared to another (metal vs. glass).  What about the electron configuration of a the medium changes the net effect of the absorption and re-emissions of the photons?  Is there a change in the probability of the photon being re-emitted in a reverse direction?  Is there a farther distance the photon can travel before being incident onto an electron?  This is the part where my understand breaks down.    When you have hit the critical angle in a medium that refracts and the light completely reflects, are the photons moving is the same manner as they would be in a material that always reflects? How does this connect to the question in the previous paragraph?  I know I have a bunch of mini questions embedded in answering this one larger question.  Any help on any of the parts would be greatly appreciated? I am trying to model a violin belly and I am intrigued, how is it possible to make faces with soft / rounded edges?    The edges I do are totally straight (see the blue amoeba).  Also, do you have some idea on how to avoid the edge loops getting too "compressed" in the middle of the model (see the red amoeba) ?    I know the Subdivision surface modifier, but I want curved edges after applying the modifier... like in this picture :  Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you in advance!  Marcos  2nd part  In fact, I've tryied to model using nurbs and bezier curves, but I wasn't able to find any tool similar to loft that works with curves, then I was forced to convert it in meshes, the results were not terrific and I've started to move the vertices manually, a real pain... Unlike a guitar, each edge loop is on a diferente elevation on z axis and I have to keep the original dimensions, So I have to be extremely careful when using the subdivision suface modifier. I've already modeled this think on three different CAD softwares, but the meshes are far from good... I want to improve the edge loops, but it will be a long path... Thank you again. Using separation of variables to solve the wave equation I'm trying to teach myself separation of variables and have been following some notes for the wave equation, but there's one part which really confuses me and I'm not exactly sure how it makes the step.  For the wave equation   $$u_{tt} - c^2 u_{xx} = 0$$   with length $l$ and fixed ends, $u(0,t)=u(l,t)=0$ we seek a solution in the form $$u(x,t)=v(x)q(t)$$  and substituting this into the equation gives $$\frac{1}{q(t)}\frac{d^2 q}{dt^2}=c^2 \frac{1}{v(x)}\frac{d^2 v}{dx^2}=-\omega ^2$$   and I understand all of this so far. But when solving the equation  $$q''+\omega ^2 q = 0$$ the general solution is $$q(t)=A \cos(\omega t +\alpha)$$ where $A$ and $\alpha$ are constants - which is the part which I'm not exactly sure on how it gets to.   Could someone explain this step to me? Thanks! How did Draco apparate within Hogwarts? I followed Mike's solution from my first question:    My next question is how to add entries (for the abstract and acknowledgements pages) into the table of contents. How to escape quotes in shell? I'm having trouble with escaping characters in bash. I'd like to escape single and double quotes while running a command under a different user. For the purposes of this question let's say I want to echo the following on the screen:  'single quote phrase' "double quote phrase"   How can I escape all the special chars, if I also need to switch to a different user:  sudo su USER -c "echo \"'single quote phrase' \"double quote phrase\"\""   Of course, this doesn't produce the right result. Using the itemize environment inside a caption Why is fundamental group insufficient to classify manifolds? I have heard that some issues in group theory prevent classifying all manifolds upto homotopy using the fundamental group invariant. Does anyone know what are those issues?  Thanks, K. What exactly is the difference between a parametric and non-parametric model? I am confused with the definition of non-parametric model after reading this link  and .   Originally I thought "parametric vs non-parametric" means if we have distribution assumptions on the model (similar to parametric or non-parametric hypothesis testing). But both of the resources claim "parametric vs non-parametric" can be determined by if number of parameters in the model is depending on number of rows in the data matrix.  For kernel density estimation (non-parametric) such a definition can be applied. But under this definition how can a neural network be a non-parametric model, as the number of parameters in the model is depending on the neural network structure and not on the number of rows in the data matrix?  What exactly is the difference between parametric and a non-parametric model? Comparison theorem for ODE Here is something I'm trying to prove:     Conjecture: Suppose $f'(x) \leq \phi(f(x), x)$ and $f(a)=\alpha$. Suppose $g'(x)=\phi(g(x),x)$ and $g(a)\geq \alpha$. Then $f(x)\leq  g(x)\,\,\forall x$.   It definitely seems like it should be true, and I don't think we even need continuity of $\phi$.  (Edit: a user has correctly pointed out that we should require $\phi$ be locally Lipshitz in the first variable, uniformly with respect to the second variable. Let's add that assumption.)   I can prove it in the case that the inequality is strict. I'll place my proof below the fold. How can I extend it to weak inequality?  If it's wrong, I'd love to see a counterexample. A reference is fine; I have the book by Teschl, for example.  A similar question with stronger assumptions was asked .     Proposition: Suppose Suppose $f'(x) &lt; \phi(f(x), x)$ and $f(a)=\alpha$. Suppose $g'(x)=\phi(g(x),x)$ and $g(a)\geq \alpha$. Then $f(x)\leq  g(x)\,\,\forall x$.  Proof: Suppose not. Suppose WLOG there is a $b&gt;a$ such that $f(b)&gt;g(b)$. Let $c:=\inf \{x&gt;a:f(x)&gt;g(x)\}$. By definition of the derivative we have $f'(c)\geq g'(c)$, a contradiction, since $f'(c)&lt;\phi(f(c),c)=\phi(g(c),c))=g'(c)$. What is a word/idiom for 'unable to decide'? Let's say I have an important decision to make and I can't decide between two competing things (like break up with a girl or not break up with her). What would be a word/idiom to express that? Show that computation of all such expressions will result in the same element of $X$ conjunction of disjunctions and disjunction of conjunctions $(p∨q) ∧ (p∨r) ∧ (q∨r) \iff (p∧q) ∨ (p∧r) ∨ (q∧r)$  Without using set theory, how can I prove this using logical equivalences? I've tried to approach this problem with De Morgan and I've also tried the property of distributivity but I keep reaching a dead end.   How should I approach this problem?  Thank  you.