Something has seriously gone wrong with my windows 8.1 PC
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I have a folder with some directories and some files (some are hidden, beginning with dot). for d in *; do  echo $d done  will loop through all files and directories, but I want to loop only through directories. How do I do that? Human & Alien captured, observed by higher beings From a collection of short stories I read at least 30 years ago. :/  This is going to be incredibly vague, so apologies in advance.  A human and alien (blob/octopus-like...I think) from warring races are captured by an unidentified higher intelligence and put in an enclosure (more like a zoo habitat rather than a prison cell). They are separated by an invisible barrier and can see each other.  I think they were both trying to escape or trying to figure out how they could kill the other first. There was a bulldozer/loader type vehicle they could use at one point to build a shelter (or something).  I believe they were crafting makeshift weapons as well. There was no communication between the two as far as I remember.  The main tension in the story seemed to be was the race to get to the other first.  This has been stuck in my head forever. I know its a very common theme.  The short stories may have included Asimov. Can we have some tools to handle link rot? There are many links posted in answers, and some in questions, that are either stale or broken.  An example is the change to  on-line documentation this year to do away with separate 'Optional' and 'Core' tasks areas in the documentation - the old links 404 now.  I've fixed a bunch of 'optionaltasks' broken links, but searching for 'coretasks' in Stack&nbsp;Overflow questions returns over 300 matches...  Are there any tools for us to review and fix these - with an emphasis on the fixing - without sifting through completely manually?  Is it time for some refactoring tools for Stack&nbsp;Overflow content, in particular, for links?  Also, I'd be interested to know if there is an analysis of links (as found in the Stack&nbsp;Overflow data dumps) out there. Answer: there is a  of a sample of links and images, but it's getting a bit out-of-date. Philosophy is the mother of all science Prologue Running google search:  at the time of this post yields about 114,000 results, and while this Quora post:  puts forth the question to determine the truth of the matter, it does not address the historical, etymological, and philosophical import of the matter. This PhilSE Post:  clearly addresses theory, but does not address the historical aspect. The related question in Researchgate post:  seems to not provide a substantial answer either. Inquiry What is the  context in which the statement 'Philosophy is the mother of all science' or related ones began to recognize as a  the  relationship between philosophy and the advent of modern science under thinkers like ? That is to say, what historical and social consequences were responsible for seeing  somehow superior as a theory to the ? Epilogue The question is intended to determine the metaphilosophical insights of philosophers. For example, if Karl Popper used the phrase or one similar, did he appeal to previous philosophers for insight on that same relationship? See Also Joining attributes of polygons and points by location in QGIS I have two shapefiles....   points containing a number field 'response_time' a polygon grid of square polygons containing fields including 'PNTCNT' with the number of points per polygon, calculated already using the tool 'points in polygon'   There are between 0 and 600 points within the bounds of each polygon in the grid.  I want to add fields to the polygon grid for the mean, min and max response times within each polygon, in addition to the PNTCNT field already there.  I have tried the 'Join attributes by location' tool, making the polygon layer the target and the points the join layer, and vice versa. I've selected 'take summary of interesting features'.  But I can't get the result I want. All I end up with is the polygon grid again but with an extra field 'COUNT' which replicates (or duplicates) the 'PNTCNT' field. No min, max and mean of values from the points layer.  What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to do this? I have tried this using QGIS 1.7 and 1.8. We are small team which working on car racing game but we don't know about licensing process for branded cars like Nissan, Lamborghini, Chevrolet and etc.   Do we need to buy any licence for using real car brand names, models, logos,... or we can use them for free?  Second option we think about using not real brand with real models is it possible? If someone have experience with that, fell free to share it.  Any information about that is welcome. Evaluating limit $\lim_{k\to \infty}\prod_{r=1}^k\cos{\left(\frac {x}{2^r}\right)}$ Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically? Union of two vector subspaces not a subspace? Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font Is there a general way to change the font of a particular symbol without switching packages?  For example, suppose I'm using Computer Modern for my entire document, but I want the "subset" operator to look as it does in mathabx.  How can I redefine it to appear in this way? In Ubuntu 13.04 there was an option to use the PPA by Relan in order to get ExFat functionality. Seeing that in Ubuntu this functionality is now available from the repositories without the PPA I tried this but failed to make it work.  So my question is how do I enable exfat support? What are the rules about using an underscore in a C++ identifier? It's common in C++ to name member variables with some kind of prefix to denote the fact that they're member variables, rather than local variables or parameters. If you've come from an MFC background, you'll probably use m_foo. I've also seen myFoo occasionally.  C# (or possibly just .NET) seems to recommend using just an underscore, as in _foo. Is this allowed by the C++ standard? Stack Exchange doesn't allow me to answer protected questions because I gave away earned rep in bounties I noticed that I can't answer protected questions. I don't want to actually, but it says:        It was , but I also didn't have an ability to answer other protected questions.  I earned 270 reputation points + 100 reputation point bonus. Then I  350 reputation points as a bounty. Then I earned 59 reputation points. Today I started another bounty (50 reputation points), etc – I offered 4 bounties with total 500 rep.  Despite the fact I started from the association bonus, I must have an ability to answer protected questions, as I earned reputation points here. But offered them as bounties.    I now have enough reputation points, but I would like it to be fixed, because I like offering bounties very much.  I would like system to check for my bounties when it checks if I can answer protected question. In the example  $\cup^{i=1}_{\infty}F_i$   How do you get the i=1 directly below the union symbol and the infinity directly above? Show that the set $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{2}] = \{a + b \sqrt{2} \mid a, b \in \mathbb{Q}\}$ is a field with the usual multiplication and addition. Inheriting constructors Autofilling fields based on another field What techniques, tricks or otherwise have you used to get upgrades on flights? I've travelled a lot.  Living in New Zealand or the UK means anywhere is likely a flight, but I've always flown economy.  Twice between LA and Auckland I managed to get the exit row after talking nicely to the check-in girl, but apart from that, nothing.  I've spoken to ticket agents, tried 'check in chicken' (where you wait until the last minute before checking in, hoping there's an overbooking of economy) but have never managed to get an upgrade, while others I know seemingly get them quite often.  What strategy have you used or do you suggest to achieve this?  My next flight is from Melbourne to Tokyo, and I plan on trying all of these ;)  (Related questions on  and  upgrades) Why does US Robotics destroy Lanning's house? Shortly after the death of Dr. Lanning, Detective Spooner travels to the doctor's house to look for clues.  While he is searching the house a demolition bot (which had been programmed to demolish the house the next day) goes on a rampage and destroys the house with Detective Spooner in it.   The house is fully furnished and appears to be in good condition. Why would US Robotics want to destroy the house with everything in it? Why not sell the house and everything inside? How does IPv4 Subnetting Work?