Short story where bird-like aliens land on destroyed Earth
Story about protagonist finding a world that has died with a museum
As per the title, what hardware do I need to be able to run various versions of Android? Why is it usually "friend of his", but no possessive apostrophe with "friend of Peter"? As  shows, we nearly always use the possessive form of personal pronouns for friend of mine/his/ours/etc.  But when it comes to actual names, we prefer  without the possessive apostrophe. That preference is even more marked with, say, . Not that I think the usage itself is particularly American - it's much the same with .  Personally, I find friend of him grates. In general I've no strong feelings either way as to whether it's friend of Peter or friend of Peter's (though I deplore the possessive in ), but in line with many others, I really don't like the possessive in relation to things like countries.  Why is this?   Edit: Noting an apparent "progression" (pronoun -> person -> nation) marked by reduction in use of the possessive, I checked at a finer "granularity". NGram shows that although it does occur,  virtually "flatlines" against friend of mine. But the bias reduces through of you, of us, and by the time I get to  it's much less extreme. There seems to be something "egocentric" about the double possessive.  Presumably when babies learn to speak, they soon notice that possessive pronouns, possessive apostrophes, and the word "of", all do the same job. Parents would correct a child who says "of mine's", but probably wouldn't even notice the same "redundancy" in "of Peter's". Younger speakers are unlikely to even be talking about something "of America's". Perhaps as we mature we tend to discard the "double possessive" for the more "distant" things that only adults are likely talk about, but we keep it for "closer" people because that's how we spoke when we were younger.  EDIT2 I note that I'm a great fan of him is vanishingly rare compared to ...fan of his, but with ...fan (of John) the double possessive occurs far less often than ...friend (of John's). Usage seems to be affected by the noun before "of" as well as the one after it. This is getting complicated... So I tried deleting a question, my question. I'm not a mod, but I have reputation above 10k. I received this message after hitting delete, asking me to make sure I wanted to:    But after clicking Delete Question, I saw this:    It turns out that because the question has answers, I'm prohibited from deleting it. If I can't actually delete this question at all, could it just tell me immediately, and only show me the warning if I can actually delete it?  This is akin to the following analogy.     You see a flyer in your local paper stating there's a new burger shop   opening.  Great, you think to yourself, and rush over to get yourself   some burgers.  On your way into the parking lot, you see a huge banner   proclaiming one of their newest burgers. You see some employees walk   in and out of the restaurant, with T-Shirt with pictures of burgers on   them.  Great, you think to yourself, and walk in.   You get in line,   and after what seems like ages, you finally make it to the front.  You   look up at the menu.  You see that they also sell sandwiches. No, you   tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  You see that they also sell   burritos! No, you tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  Then you   see that they sell burgers. Great! You pick out a burger, then tell   the employee at the register, "Sir, I'd like to get a regular burger   please." Immediately, the employee looks up, with a quizzical look on   his face, saying "Sir? We don't sell burgers here.".   It's the same situation. I've come to that prompt so that I can delete a question.  After repeated messages and windows letting me know the consequences of deleting, what will happen after I have it deleted, I am told that the option of having it deleted by my own hand never existed in the first place. Flight ticket reimbursement after Travel Warning I've got a round-trip flight with Royal Air Maroc from Strasbourg, France (SXB) to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (OUA) on Monday, Nov 10. Return is on Dec 1. The recent turmoils in Ouagadougou have led the US Department of State for Travels to issue a , which is why I'd like to refrain from the trip.  Any chance I can get a reimbursement for my tickets? In Germany (where I live), an official travel warning can help you get a refund when you book a trip with a tour operator/travel agency, but in this case I booked the flight directly with a non-German airline, so German law surely doesn't apply here.  EDIT: Sorry for failing to state this earlier, but I had already called the airline as suggested in the answers. They had told me it's not possible to get a refund with my standard fare. However, I understand that sometimes you really have to bargain to get a refund, so I wanted to learn about similar experiences and possibly about some hard (legal) facts that I could bring forward. Convergence of cos, sin, tan functions In Radian mode, continually pressing the $\cos$ function of a number causes the result to converge to $x=0.739085133$, a fixed point of $\cos(x)$. Repeating this behavior with the $\sin$ function causes the result to converge to $x=0$, a fixed point of $\sin(x)$.   What happens if this is done using the tan function? It seems that $x=0$ is a repelling fixed point with no convergence in this case.  What would be the best way to explain these results mathematically? How to verify $H\otimes K \cong \bigoplus\limits_{i\in I}H$ Let $H,~K$ be the Hilbert space. if $\{v_{j}\}_{j\in J}\subset H$ and $\{w_{i}\}_{i\in I}\subset K$ are the orthonormal bases, then how to construct the isomorphic mapping: $H\otimes K \rightarrow \bigoplus\limits_{i\in I}H$. Here, the $H \otimes K$ is the tensor product of two Hilbert space. Omission of definite article with musical instruments What is the rule for omitting/including the definite article in the following sentences:     I used to play piano.   I used to play the piano.   I would pick the first sentence, but I've heard people say the second sentence even when they are not referring to a specific piano. Which one is correct? AlwaysOn AG: Current Host Server - Owner Node - Primary Instance Windows 7 "Waiting for background program to close" I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. When I shut down my computer why does the screen show this:    Before shutting down I'm close all programs. Why do wet objects become darker? Is there way to replace value of symbolic link? Is there way to replace value of symbolic link?  For example I want to replace symbolic link like this:  first -&gt; /home/username/foo/very/long/directories/that/I/do/not/want/to/type/again    to   second -&gt; /home/username/bar/very/long/directories/that/I/do/not/want/to/type/again   I want to change only foo to bar.  Of course I can create a link again, but if it is possible to replace value of the link, it become easier. Why is there no last activity message? Dynamic trigger creation from managed package I have a requirement to create triggers dynamically after a managed package is installed. I have read that the tooling API can be used to create triggers dynamically however it cannot be used in production. Is it possible to create triggers from a managed package in an org? I want to be able to create the trigger based on some user inputs. Looking for the name of a card-battle cartoon show Looking for a show about a group of three kids/teens who, using cards to change into monsters, fight and recover relics. I believe there are two or three other groups of three also trying to get the relics.  In the main group there are two boys and a girl. The boys were both white, one is from a farm and I don't know where the other is from. The girl was dark skinned and either black or blue hair. The three travelled around the world using a red plane.  I think they only use one monster primarily. The girl uses a monster created from gas and at one point is green. One of the boys uses a metal robot most of the time and at one point is given another better version of that card to use. I believe the episode for this was called something like green with envy.  All I'm getting from the internet is that it may be Chaotic, but that isn't the right show.  I also believe the girl's name was Mai and one of the boys were Ky, but I may be wrong. Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.? The following happened playing Minesweeper:   How do I figure out which square to click? How can you accelerate without moving? I want to be able to pull in the error log from BIOS across a network I want to be able to pull in the error log from BIOS across a network. Looking at Win32_BIOS in MSDN I did not see anything defining the error log. Would love to do this in C# with WMI, but am open to suggestions. Is it possible?  Win32_BIOS does not have a property (don't know if that is the right term) that contains the BIOS error log. Is there a library, API, etc. that I can use to pull this information locally or from the network? Anonymous users can't see new content type in feed I am in 1.13 Pre-Release 7 trying to make a one command creation and I need an item with a specific name. The command I use is /give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:"Sword of Power"}} and it gives my a diamond sword, but it doesn't have the name.   This is me running the command.   This is the command not working.