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I have just fitted a new screen to my iPhone 5s, and i need to restore it to factory settings.  One problem though, it's disabled for over 23,000,000 minutes and the home button doesn't work.  Does anyone know how I can restore it? Comparisons: "so [adjective/adverb] as" or "as [adjective/adverb] as" Get in vs. get on Possible Duplicate:          I'm an EFL (English as a foreign language) teacher and I haven't been able to come up with a good principle for which preposition to use after get when referring to transportation.  Some examples:   Get in:   a car/taxi/van/truck, etc.  Get on:   a bus/plane/bike/truck, etc.    How can one choose whether to use in or on? Note that in some cases, such as the example with truck, either preposition is possible but the choice affects the meaning.  I've been telling my students that there is no rule, so they just have to memorize which preposition to use, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong.  This question would be better suited for the upcoming  Stack Exchange, but it hasn't entered beta yet. More . Why does camera this tracking fail completely even when the solution value is very low? How do I show that $\ln(x) = \lim_{n\to\infty} n (x^{1/n} - 1)$?  I ran into this identity on . I haven't been able to find any proof online and my efforts to get from $\ln(x) := \int_1^x \frac{\mathrm dt}t$ to that limit have been a failure. How can I parse dates and convert time zones in Perl? When to use reinterpret_cast? I am little confused with the applicability of reinterpret_cast vs static_cast. From what I have read the general rules are to use static cast when the types can be interpreted at compile time hence the word static. This is the cast the C++ compiler uses internally for implicit casts also.  reinterpret_casts are applicable in two scenarios:   convert integer types to pointer types and vice versa  convert one pointer type to another. The general idea I get is this is unportable and should be avoided.     Where I am a little confused is one usage which I need, I am calling C++ from C and the C code needs to hold on to the C++ object so basically it holds a void*. What cast should be used to convert between the void * and the Class type?  I have seen usage of both static_cast and reinterpret_cast? Though from what I have been reading it appears static is better as the cast can happen at compile time? Though it says to use reinterpret_cast to convert from one pointer type to another? Probability of area being greater than 0.5 with random lines Ubuntu desktop suddenly points to home folder I'd like to show that, given to hermitian operators $A,G$ on a Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$, the following identity holds: $$ e^{iG\lambda}A e^{-iG\lambda} = A + i\lambda [G,A] + \frac{\left(i\lambda\right)^2}{2!}[G,[G,A]]+\ldots+\frac{(i\lambda)^n}{n!}\underbrace{[G,[G,[G,\ldots[G}_{n\ times},A]]]\ldots]+\ldots $$ where $\lambda$ denotes a real parameter and $[\ \!,]$ indicates the commutator.  This is a proof left to the reader by Sakurai in his books on Modern Quantum Mechanics. Enabling CORS in GeoServer (jetty)? Can I configure Ubuntu to never install a specific package even if it is required by another package I install? Should I assign dwellers to the storage room? Entire function bounded by a polynomial is a polynomial Suppose that an entire function $f(z)$ satisfies $\left|f(z)\right|\leq k\left|z\right|^n$ for sufficiently large $\left|z\right|$, where $n\in\mathbb{Z^+}$ and $k&gt;0$ is constant. Show that $f$ is a polynomial of degree at most $n$. Down vote changed to up vote caused reputation meter to pass daily maximum How to get rid of update notifications for a given app in Google Play Store? General question I have an app X installed on my device in version Y. I don't want to update it to any newer version (Y+z) for some reason. Still, the Google Play Store app always lists updates for X, which keeps me from a simple &quot;update all&quot;. My question, put to a single sentence:  How to hide updates for X permanently from the &quot;available updates&quot; list?   Specific examples First, I know there are alternatives as e.g. the , which can handle this quite well (skip this update, skip all future updates). I prefer a &quot;generic solution&quot;, which does not depend on a 3rd party's market app. Second, I know that  includes a &quot;Market doctor&quot;, which can be used to disconnect an app from Google Play.1 However, in my specific case that only worked for a few hours: I disconnected GTalk, as I don't want it replaced by Hangouts. The update notification disappeared for a few hours, then it was back. No idea what restored the &quot;link&quot;. Third, just to make sure: I'm not talking about the &quot;auto update&quot; feature as discussed e.g. in . I was rather hoping for something close to , but without the need to &quot;freeze&quot; the app in question (which I still want to use, but in the version installed, not in a &quot;future version&quot; available). Fourth: No, uninstalling the app in question is no option here, though it would perfectly hide any future updates from being displayed :) Nor is &quot;freezing&quot;, as the app is used regularly. Fifth: There is a related question for my GTalk example:  However, I want the opposite: No update.  It might very well be that &quot;Google Apps&quot; (and other pre-installed apps) are handled in some specific way, and restore their &quot;market links&quot; themselves somehow. For this case, my question includes: How to prevent that from happening?  Update There's a  discussing the very same issue. Until recently, a work-around for &quot;user installed apps&quot; was to uninstall them and then sideload the .apk – but even that stopped working. Well, re-signing the .apk with a different key might work for user-apps. But both would fail for pre-installed apps (can't sideload them to override; different signature would refuse that install completely). Moreover, there's an  on this by some &quot;joel.bou..&quot;. Not hard to guess, though blanked out: that would be Joël Bourquard. If it's really him, then that's really an issue (for those who don't know: Joël is the dev behind Titanium Backup). Let me quote from the issue:  For the record: in the Android Market days it was possible to &quot;Attach&quot; or &quot;Detach&quot; apps (on rooted devices) with a system tool such as Titanium Backup. But nowadays (with the Google Play Store app) this has become nearly impossible to do, because the complete app list seems to sync from Google's servers and the user has no control over that.  Which explains why detaching with apps like Titanium Backup is no longer permanent. And I'm afraid I've asked the impossible. But I thought the same in the past with other questions, and surprisingly got solutions here. So I do not yet give up hope on this one!  1: what that does is explained by eldarerathis  (thanks to  for digging that up!) Why does my transparent PNG not look good? I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my template:    The original image is  Why doesn't it look good when it's made into a transparent PNG? Could I have better luck making a transparent GIF? OR is it the blue colors that don't mix well with the black and I could have more luck using some of the other logos:    Thanks Does assigning objects to null in Java impact garbage collection? Does assigning an unused object reference to null in Java improve the garbage collection process in any measurable way?  My experience with Java (and C#) has taught me that is often counter intuitive to try and outsmart the virtual machine or JIT compiler, but I've seen co-workers use this method and I am curious if this is a good practice to pick up or one of those voodoo programming superstitions? So I wish to create and object and set it's shading to 'smooth' using python. It seems simple enough but after trying every method I could find on the internet none of them worked for me. Here's a short example script where the object needs to have smooth shading:  import bpy from mathutils import Vector  verts = [(0,0,0),(0,5,0),(0.25,5,0),(0.25,0,0),(0,0,5),(0,5,5),(0.25,5,5),(0.25,0,5)] faces = [(0,1,2,3), (4,5,6,7), (0,4,5,1), (1,5,6,2), (2,6,7,3), (3,7,4,0)]  grat1mesh = bpy.data.meshes.new("grat1") grat1obj = bpy.data.objects.new("grat1", grat1mesh) grat1obj.location = (5, -5, 0) bpy.context.scene.objects.link(grat1obj) grat1mesh.from_pydata(verts,[],faces) grat1mesh.update(calc_edges=True)  grat2obj = grat1obj.copy() grat2obj.data = grat1mesh.copy() bpy.context.scene.objects.link(grat2obj) grat2obj.location += Vector((-0.125, 1.25, 1.25)) grat2obj.scale = (2, 0.5, 0.5)  bm = grat1obj.modifiers.new("Chop", 'BOOLEAN') bm.object = grat2obj bm.operation = 'DIFFERENCE' bpy.context.scene.objects.active = grat1obj bpy.ops.object.modifier_apply(modifier=bm.name) bpy.context.scene.objects.unlink(grat2obj)   I found this online and tried to place it at the end of the script:  smoothings = [] smoothings.append(face.use_smooth) me_ob.faces.foreach_set("use_smooth", smoothings)   However this just returned an error on the second line, perhaps as it was from an older website. Obviously using a simple bpy.ops.object.shade_smooth() didn't work and I'm kind of stumped as of what to do here! What are the practical differences between 256-bit, 192-bit, and 128-bit AES encryption?