How to make Curve do not deform object?
How do I prevent object distortion when applying a curve modifier?
True random generation in Java I was reading the Math.random() javadoc and saw that random is only psuedorandom.    Is there a library (specifically java) that generates random numbers according to random variables like environmental temperature, CPU temperature/voltage, or anything like that? If $$\tan(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{\theta}{2})=\tan^3(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{\alpha}{2})$$, then prove that $$\sin \theta=\frac{3 \sin \alpha+\sin^3 \alpha}{1+3\sin^2 \alpha}$$  I tried using the fact that  $\frac{\cos A}{1-\sin A}=\tan(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{A}{2})$ but now not able to eliminate $\cos \alpha$ and $\cos \theta$. How should I proceed? Difference between DispatchQueue.main.async and DispatchQueue.main.sync I am looking for a multivariable calculus book that is really physics oriented.  Anyone know of any?  EDIT: My wife is looking to brush up on multivariable at the same time she needs to brush up on the related physics. How many non congruent trapeziums are possible with the side lengths from {1,3,4,5,6} I need to find number of mutually non  congruent trapeziums with side lengths from {1,3,4,5,6}.   I know for a trapezium with a,c as non parallel sides the condition for my question is that  $$|a-c|&lt;b+d&lt;a+c$$  But i cant apply it to count the cases. Can someone help in how to get the number of cases? Python: reload component Y imported with 'from X import Y'? Where can I find historical data on arrival and departure times of a particular flight? Where can I find historical data on flights, specifically Delta international flights?  I need to find out about cancellations, diversions and any other flight data pertaining on particular route at a given time.  This source has to be official and stand up to legal scrutiny. Encountered an error while updating through Synaptic Manager. Subsequent updates gave the error at the bottom of the output. I'm a noob so any help is appreciated.  al@al:~$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:   libjack-jackd2-0:i386 The following packages have been kept back:   linux-headers-generic skype 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives. After this operation, 493 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 310056 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libjack-jackd2-0:i386 (from .../libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb (--unpack):  './usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/buildinfo.gz' is different from the same file on the system dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Using Fermats prime numbers to prove that there is infinitely many prime numbers Hat duplicates when info is expanded Why can ECC key sizes be smaller than RSA keys for similar security? $\mathbb{R}$ with the lower limit topology is not second-countable I am trying to prove that $\mathbb{R}$ with the lower limit topology is not second-countable.  To do this, I'm trying to form an uncountable union $A$ of disjoint, half-open intervals of the form $[a, b)$, $a &lt; b$. Is this possible? I think this would imply the $A$ is open but no countable union of basis elements could coincide with $A$ therefore making the real numbers with the lower limit topology not second-countable.  I think there must exist something like $A$ described above but I am having trouble visualizing it and coming up with a formula to represent it.  Maybe there is some other way to show it is not second-countable. Cross tabulation of two categorical variables: recommended techniques Why does lightning emit light? What exactly is causing the electric discharge coming from the clouds to emit light while traveling through the air. I've read and thought about it a little but with my current knowledge I cant really figure what is happening at a subatomic level. In other words, what causes the emission of photons during lightning. What I want to know is, is there some sort of collisions taking place that produces the photons we see, or is it some other interaction that is causing it?. I don't know too much about particle physics, I've only read a couple of pages in the Introduction to Elementary Particles by Griffihts. So if you could keep the answer simple then that would be great. Did spacetime start with the Big bang? Did spacetime start with the Big Bang?  I mean, was there any presence of this spacetime we are experiencing now before big bang? And could there be a presence/existence of any other space-time before the big bang? Comma use with nonessential appositives Sorry, I do not know the language terminology. Is this a case of nonessential appositive?  Which of the following sentence has a correct comma use? Comma before &quot;should&quot;  Importantly, two frail subgroups of stroke population, long-term residential care and cognitive impairment patients, should not be excluded from the rehabilitation.  No comma before &quot;should&quot;  Importantly, two frail subgroups of stroke population, long-term residential care and cognitive impairment patients should not be excluded from the rehabilitation. What is the "Event Horizon" of a black hole Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python When piping the output of a Python program, the Python interpreter gets confused about encoding and sets it to None. This means a program like this:  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- print u"åäö"   will work fine when run normally, but fail with:     UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)   when used in a pipe sequence.  What is the best way to make this work when piping? Can I just tell it to use whatever encoding the shell/filesystem/whatever is using?   The suggestions I have seen thus far is to modify your site.py directly, or hardcoding the defaultencoding using this hack:  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') print u"åäö"   Is there a better way to make piping work? For files within a specific folder, I would like vim to never touch "modified" timestamp at all.  The background is that I use  for blogging, which uses plain text files in ~/bloxsom as source of all articles.  The article date (and therefore order of appearence) is based on modification date of the text file. I don't want article pop up like if it's new whenever I just fix a typo. (I do lots of them... :D)  So far, vim changes timestamp and the original stamp is lost forever.  This is OK and I want to keep it that way for most of files on the system.  But I don't want that for the blog files - I can always touch the file if I need.  Any ideas on how to tweak vim into this behavior? How can I find local IP addresses (i.e. 192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x) in Python platform independently and using only the standard library?