Saving progress while Cycles is rendering
How can I pause a render in progress and then resume it at a later time?
C# Lambda expressions: Why should I use them? I have quickly read over the  documentation.  This kind of example has helped me to understand better, though:   delegate int del(int i); del myDelegate = x =&gt; x * x; int j = myDelegate(5); //j = 25   Still, I don't understand why it's such an innovation. It's just a method that dies when the "method variable" ends, right? Why should I use this instead of a real method? How do you select a particular option in a SELECT element in jQuery? Difference between >> and >>> in verilog? What is the difference between &gt;&gt; and &gt;&gt;&gt; in verilog/system verilog? I know that == tests for only 1 and 0, while === tests for 1, 0, X, Z. So how is that similar to the shift operator? I have now almost completed my family tree, having each branch going back to approximately the French revolution, discovering dozens of previously unknown ancestors.  I would like to share the family tree with my family, the problem is that I cannot have a tree in a nice format that could be printed on a standard A4 sheet (maybe using both sides or whathever).  I have a SVG tree that use graphics, but it is unconventionally large and if scaled down to a A4 sheet, the text would be so small that it would not be legible. The maximum width is of about 50 ancestors of a generation, then it goes sparse again.  I'd like to know if a format exist where the family tree (with direct ancestors only) would be printable, with names but also other complementary information, and the format should be printable as not all my family users are particularly skilled with computers. Marking plural of code words In my blog (which is about programming) I often use reserved words from different programming languages.  Like this:     When column is nullable in both tables, this query won't return a match of two NULLs for the reasons described above: no NULLs are equal.   Here, NULL is a programming language keyword.  For numerous reasons, I mark them with &lt;code&gt; tag so they are rendered with a fixed width font, not translated into the foreign languages by Google Translate, can easily be seen on the page etc.  In the example above, which would be the best way to mark the plural?   NULLs NULL s NULL's NULLs NULLS   Option 1 looks ugly on the page (the word and the plural marker are rendered in different colors and fonts)  Option 2 adds a space between the word and the plural marker  Option 3 looks nicest but is not correct  Options 4 and 5 may leave the reader under impression that NULLS is a reserved word (which is not true) and this may be confusing. Also, Google Translate would leave the word as is which would be definitely wrong in other languages.  What would be the least of 5 evils? PHP syntax for dereferencing function result Can you run Android in a VM on PC? I came across a how-to guide for running Android 1.7 in a virtual machine (VirtualBox), but 1.7 is old. I haven't been able to find a Android 2.2 or 2.3 image anywhere, does anyone have any ideas on how to virtualize newer Android OS's? Preferably a free virtualization solution like VirtualBox.  Here is the link about virtualizing 1.7:    They send you to here to download Android disk images:    But I can't find anything newer than 1.7, anyone have any ideas? half sine and half cosine quaternions Is there a way to see who voted on your posts? How exactly does time slow down near a black hole? How exactly does time slow down near a black hole? I have heard this as a possible way of time traveling, and I do understand that it is due in some way to the massive gravity around a black hole, but how exactly does that massive gravity slow down time? SOQL results returning RecordTypeId which is not included in query Orthographic scale of camera in Blender could somebody explain how orthographic scale is calculated in Blender? I am trying to match an orthographic view that I get from another software with that of Blender, but I am not able. Camera gets in the correct position but the zoom level is wrong.  Thanks, byte How can I do a line break (line continuation)? How can I vertically center a "div" element for all browsers using CSS? What's the best way to scan in hundreds of pictures? I have thousands of old pictures which were sitting in a photo album. Unfortunately, instead of the photo album protecting the pictures, the plastic coverings yellowed, and the pictures themselves had to be carefully extracted from the books. There is also quite a bit of powdered paper (the backings on the books pretty much fell apart while we extracted the pictures), and the fronts of the images are still a bit sticky.  These pictures are 30+ years old, are often extremely faded, and were originally taken on (what I think is) "110 film" -- they are approximately 2.5" squares.  Anyway, I need to scan all these images in to preserve them from further decay. Unfortunately, it's taking forever -- going through less than 100 images took an entire day, even if one discounts any time spent in Photoshop trying to remove some of the photo album's artifacts on the images.  What I really need is some method of scanning the images in faster. Most automated solutions aren't going to work because they accept 4x6s as their smallest image size, and even if that was not the case, the adhesives still stuck to the prints would probably ruin any such device in 5 seconds flat.  Is there a better way of doing this (i.e. fast scanner?) that wouldn't take so much time? Does “gay” still include the meaning “merry”? Dictionary.com lists , with “merry, lively” as the first entry.  Microsoft  for listing  (a real place) as his hometown:   Xbox Live considered the term gay absolutely inappropriate in any context.     As a non-native English speaker, my question is whether in contemporary English, does gay always mean homosexual? Are British and American English the same in this respect? Continuously copy all file changes from one folder to another on change (Windows) I'm working on a massive Java web application which is kept under centralized version control, but the source files are used to build and run the actual server, which then copies all the files I work on into a random temporary directory while it's running.  My problem is that I need to either rebuild this huge application to see any changes to my files, or keep track of all my changes and copy over the files I've changed back to their source location before committing them back to source control.  My question is: is there a command line script I can run that will monitor any changes in the source folder and automatically copy changed files across to temporary folder X?  The idea is to remove the human point of failure in having to manually mitigate the two-locations problem. How do I resolve slow and choppy performance in virtualbox? Ubuntu runs very slowly inside of VirtualBox.  How do I run Ubuntu with unity or enabled transparency smoothly with VirtualBox? How to prevent US post code formats I have an issue with American and Canada postcodes in accounts and contacts. Some of the users are creating the salesforce records with postcodes like (MD 20904), when we sending post code from salesforce to SAP integration, SAP system is rejecting salesforce records as postcode is not in correct format.   My question is:   what are actual US and canada post code formats? If Users are creating the post codes with MD 20904, how would prevent through validation rule like only accept sepecific format? Momentum is defined by the product of mass and velocity. Now a projectile out of a gun has to have high velocity to penetrate a human body, as its mass isn't significant. But to reach this velocity, due to inertia/the law of energy conservation, momentum on both sides is to be equal. As there is strong negative acceleration in the opposite direction of the bullet, it should result in a strong force in the opposite direction of the bullet ($F = m*a $).  Therefore I wonder why shooting a bullet with a handgun is not ripping your hand apart.