Pluralizing an irregular family name
Family name pluralization
Is it possible to place windows with keyboard shortcuts in Gnome-Shell? With Compiz in Unity, I could press Ctrl+Alt+6 to place a window on the right-half of the screen, Ctrl+Alt+4 to place it on the left half, Ctrl+Alt+7 to place it in the top left quarter of the screen, and so on. Is there something similar in Gnome-Shell? Can ordered list produce result that looks like 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (instead of just 1, 2, 3, ...) with css? Recently I answered two questions on SO: The  is a completely trivial answer to a really basic question (kind of "read the manual and follow the one liner example there"). On the other hand, my  is a much more complicated answer that requires much more specialized knowledge of a very specific domain (happens to be related to my PhD research).  Clearly, the first answer could have been given by many SO users - I just happened to be the first to pick up the glove on this question. However, this is not the case for the second answer.  In contrast, when it comes to reputation - the first answer instantly got upvoted (everyone can relate to a simple question/answer), while the second one - I don't believe it will get much upvotes...  So, life isn't fair: for the one answer that really very few people could provide (the second answer) and is much harder to find and get -- is not rewarded, while the trivial answer is rewarded fast and strong...  How can we amend this? How can we encourage rare and specialized answers for difficult and deep questions?  Do we want SO to turn into a pool of trivial and superficial questions?    Update: Thanks to many meta-users who took the time to read through this question and ponder its implication, both answers I used as examples got exposed far beyond their fair-share. So, despite the fact that my original claim that the specialized answer get less reps is no longer valid, this does not change fact that in general my claim is stil valid: specialized answers requiring expert knowledge will recieve less attention at first.    Bottom line: (following my wish to have some sort of ). Indeed it sometimes seems like life isn't fair, but this is only in the short term. In the long run high quality answers do get their proper credit and exposure and their fair share of reputation. The reputation system of SO works quite well balancing and accounting for many factors and parameters. It would require a really strong argument backed up with serious research to change this mechanism.   Thank you all for the lively discussion and for showing me that life is fair after all. I just discovered an incredibly annoying "feature" of Windows 7 tonight.  If you click on your optical drive in Explorer, and there is no disc in the drive, Windows 7 is kind enough to open the tray for you.  I'm finding it hard to contain my rage over this idiotic design decision.  WTF?  According to , this behavior was apparently introduced in Vista.  The author posted a workaround, but I don't want a workaround.  I want it to stop doing this.  Like he, I have a case with a door that covers the drive bays.  If it's closed, and I accidentally click on that optical drive, it knocks on that door 10 or 12 times before giving up.  Can this behavior be turned off in Windows 7? How to disable SSLv2 or SSLv3? $\lim_{x \to 0} f(x)=\frac{\tan 3x}{\tan 2x}$ without L'Hospital Can I stop 100% Width Text Boxes from extending beyond their containers? Lets say I have a text box that I want to fill a whole line. I would give it a style like this:  input.wide {display:block; width: 100%}   This causes problems because the width is based on the content of the text box. Text boxes have margin, borders, &amp; padding by default, which makes a 100% width text box larger than its container.  For example, here on the right:    Is there any way to make a text box fill the width of its container without expanding beyond it?  Here is some example HTML to show what I mean:  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" &gt; &lt;head&gt;     &lt;title&gt;Untitled Page&lt;/title&gt;     &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;         #outer{border: 1px solid #000; width: 320px; margin: 0px;padding:0px}         #inner{margin: 20px; padding: 20px; background: #999;border: 1px solid #000;}         input.wide {display:block; margin: 0px}         input.normal {display:block; float: right}     &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt;     &lt;div id="outer"&gt;         &lt;div id="inner"&gt;             &lt;input type="text" class="wide" /&gt;             &lt;input type="text" class="normal" /&gt;             &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;   If this is run, you can see by looking at the "normal" text box that the "wide" text box is sticking out beyond the container. The "normal" text box floats to the actual edge of the container. I'm trying to make the "wide" text box fill its container, without expanding beyond edge like the "normal" text box is. Book featuring a child learning from a crowdsourced AI book Can you cast a spell learned from the Magic Initiate feat using spell slots? Say I play a wizard who learns cure wounds by taking the Magic Initiate feat. Could I cast that spell using the Wizard's spell slots? Share question to Social Media option or button is much needed Why are there two different hats for "Where in the World"? I am wondering why some got a moon and others got a sun as Where in the World hat for the same action:   vs.   And is it possible two collect both e.g. from different sites? I only get moons…  I know that there has already been some spoilering . All-in-One Event Calendar: Custom Query - Getting each event Instance Reviewing a suggested edit from a review queue jumps to the suggested edit queue I was in the first posts review queue and chanced on a post with a suggested edit. (Note: I have enough reputation to review suggested edits.) I clicked on “edit (1)” and was taken into the suggested edits queue. When I approved the suggested edit, I was taken to the next suggested edit, and so on until there were no more suggestions (“There are no items for you to review.”, still in the suggested edits queue). In this situation, I think it would make more sense if I was brought back to that post I was working on in the first posts queue, as soon as I acted on its suggested edit. Alternatively, the suggested edit should be shown in the same kind of pop-up as on a question thread page. The same goes for other queues (late answers, low quality, etc.). I seem to be having issues when I try and save the output file as a .png, or .jpeg for that matter. I've set up my user preferences, File, Render Output to my desktop as well as render output in the editor window. What am I missing here? I'm obviously very new to this program and your help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time How to customize the_archive_title()? When does a reaction happen if the trigger is movement? I'm using listings and I want to extend a language with additional keywords for highlightning. I know there is an option morekeywords available, but that only works for a particular lstset declaration and I don't want to have to copy-paste all keywords into all listings. I've tried declaring the keywords as part of a command but that doesn't work (probably because the command is not expanded and I don't know how to fix that).  So is there any way of declaring a new language by copying an existing one and just adding more keywords? Is better healthcare a bane to the long-term survival of the human race? The theory of natural selection has it that individuals with better genes tend to survive and reproduce, passing their genes to their offspring. This gradual process results in a population more adapted at survival. However, due to the advancement in medical science, humans with poorer genes tend to survive and reproduce just as well.  For example, in the past, many people, excluding those with natural immunity due to some genetic mutations, would have succumbed to illnesses such as malaria and typhoid. But with better hygiene and medical treatment, these patients tend to survive.  Now, imagine a future where all illnesses including cancer can be treated. How would it impact the survival of the human race? Would we become more and more vulnerable such that our survival hinges heavily on medical technology, analogous to how an astronaut's survival is dependent on his spacesuit? How to change account profile picture? I can't believe I have to ask this...but, how do I change my account profile picture in Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop? One would think it would be under the "User Accounts" section. Do SSD's really last 285 years? Some Sold State Disks (SSD) have a  (MTBF) of 2,500,000 hours. If you divide that by the rough number of hours in a year you get 2500000÷(365×24) ~= 285 years before there is a problem.  I know that the first generation SSD's used to have a short life - but now the estimated time before they fail seems absurdly high. Most warranties only cover them for 1-3 years it seems.  How long are the modern, SATA III drives supposed to last?