VAR for Non-Stationary Data?
Levels or First Differences, VECM or VAR for Ultimate Impulse Response Functions?
Let us view our deleted comments Let $x, y$ and $z$ be real numbers such that $x^2+ y^2+ z^2= 1$. Find the   maximum and minimum values of $2x + 3y + z$ .       How can I able to solve the problem? Thanks for your help. Why does an argument similiar to 0.999...=1 show 999...=-1? I accept that two numbers can have the same supremum depending on how you generate a decimal representation. So $2.4999\ldots = 2.5$ etc. Can anyone point me to resources that would explain what the below argument that shows $999\ldots = -1$ is about? Here is the most usual proof I see that $0.999\ldots = 1$:  $x=0.999\ldots$ $10x=9.999\ldots$ $10x - x = 9$ $x=1$  Using this same argument template I can show $999\ldots=-1$:  $x= \ldots9999.0 $ $0.1x= \ldots9999.9$ $0.1x - x = 0.9$ $x=-1$  What might this mean? Edit from one of the comments: $$\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}{9 \cdot 10^k}=-1$$ Encrypting as3 flash .swf I'm looking to get data such as Size/Capacity, Serial No, Model No, Heads Sectors, Manufacturer and possibly SMART data. Declare variable to hold job name and if job running kill it I’m looking for a single file that does these things in order.   Declare a variable to hold a job name  Run a query to check whether that job declared is currently running Set up an if loop If the job is running, execute the stored procedure that kills it.   My question is to write a query that declare a variable to hold a job name and gives us result the job is still running or not if the job is running execute the stored proc to kill it.  My manager was asking me to listing running jobs and suspended jobs and declare a variable to hold job name and setup an IF loop like if job is running run proc to kill it. Keyboard layout isn't kept upon reboot I had a problem with the keyboard layout changing from PT (I'm Portuguese) to EN automatically with the last Ubuntu updates in Ubuntu 13.10. After Ubuntu 14.04 came out, I formatted my computer and installed the new version.  After that I haven't had any problems until the recent Ubuntu base update 2 or 3 days ago, when I started having the same problem again. I even removed the English keyboard from the Keyboard configurations, left only the Portuguese one, but still, every time I reboot my PC I get the keyboard configured for EN, despite Ubuntu displaying the contrary?  How can I remove this? I don't want to format the PC again and I'm getting really tired of this problem, since it looks like many Portuguese/Brasilian Ubuntu users are having the same problem. Is it possible to check a bash script syntax without executing it?  Using Perl, I can run perl -c 'script name'. Is there any equivalent command for bash scripts? E.g.: If your Gmail ID is abc.xyz@gmail.com, it considers this the same as abcxyz@gmail.com.  Why is this so? Data   I want operator users on this machine to mount their own cifs shares The sudoers file already contains the /bin/mount -t cifs //*/* /media/* -o username=* command for all operators I want the users to mount a cifs share through a script typing the password only once, not twice. The sudo password and the cifs password are identical.   What I already have  This script works:  #!/bin/bash sudo 'mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/home /media/$USER/home -o username=$USER'   ...but it requires the users to type the same password twice!     Once for sudo Once for the mount itself   This would also work:  #!/bin/bash echo -n Password:  read -s szPassword echo $szPassword | sudo -S sh -c 'echo $szPassword | mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/home /media/$USER/home -o username=$USER'   ...but this would require me to allow all operator users to be able to sudo sh (major security problem)  Question  How to mount a cifs share in bash¹ without putting sh in the sudoers file nor creating a permanent/temporary file???  Note 1: no python, perl, C, Go, ... please? Note 2: I know I can just remove the password through the sudoers file, but I'm trying to tighten security, not loosen it, without giving up convenience... I see that one time out of the twenty total tests they run, $p &lt; 0.05$, so they wrongly assume that during one of the twenty tests, the result is significant ($0.05 = 1/20$).      Title: Significant Hover text: "'So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a--' 'RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN/ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RECOMMENDED!'" I recently came across an IE7 only bug that I thought I'd share so when I come to this site 6 months from now to figure out the same thing, I'll have it on hand.   I believe the easiest way to recreate this bug would be the following html in a page with a declared doctype (it works correctly in "quirks mode" / no-doctype):  &lt;div style="overflow: auto; height: 150px;"&gt;     &lt;div style="position: relative;"&gt;[...]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   In IE7, the outer div is a fixed size and the inner div is relatively positioned and contains more content (assuming the inner div causes an overflow). In all other browsers, this seems to work as expected.  Screenshot: how much space does a given package, and dependencies, cost? Error message says I can't flag... but yes I can When trying to upvote a comment made on a locked post (ordinary lock, not historical lock which remove the vote arrows and flag altoghether) we are greeted with such error message:        Or in words:     This comment is not eligible for voting or flagging   Being the curious type, I went straight away and tried to flag, fully expecting the same message... just to see the flag dialog open up just fine:        I was able to flag as well.  Can the error message please be changed to just "This comment is not eligible for voting"? Or of course, if it's not the intended behavior really disable the option to flag?  The original post on which I experimented is now deleted, but  you can play with. The Data Interoperability Tools .tbx appears in my system toolboxes, however when I double click quick export or import, a red X appears.  I have gone into the administrator settings and the tool doesn't appear to be installed. How do I install it?  I am using ArcGIS 10.2 for desktop trial.  After I attempt to evaluate extensions, I receive a message which states all requested features have already been authorized on this machine. C1/D Visa - Mexico and US Construct a network of citations Recently I noticed that many people post .htaccess files here with:  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;   Sometimes this even appears several times in the file! It obviously checks to see if mod_write is in fact enabled but the statements it protects are necesary to those sites anyway. So if the IfModule fails, the website is broken anyway.  Is there an advantage in having the &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; fail rather than the RewriteRule statements below it?  mod_write now is so essential and ubiquitous that I do not check for it anymore. Might this cause a vulnerability of some kind? I found it in an old dictionary and I'm not sure what it means. It looks like the number &quot;3&quot;, but the top of the three has been flattened(and slightly curved). I've only seen this in three or four words. [] What 70s (60s?) TV show / TV movie had a generation ship whose inhabitants did not know they were on a spaceship? I have the vaguest memory of a TV show (maybe a BBC import?) in which the protagonists were moving through the sections of a massive generation ship whose inhabitants had forgotten that they were on a spaceship... I know there was an RPG with the same plot (which, after all, is a pretty great blank slate) but I definitely feel I saw this on a static-filled 13" B&amp;W TV back in the day...