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What is the best way to store user settings for a .NET application? I have a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Where is the best place the store user settings (considering Windows guidelines)?  Some people pointed to Application.LocalUserAppDataPath. However, that creates a folder structure like:     C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application   Data\company_name\product_name\product_version\   If I release version 1 of my application and store an XML file there, then release version 2, that would change to a different folder, right? I'd prefer to have a single folder, per user, to store settings, regardless of the application version. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Remove subscribers from Auto Suppression List I saw her dance/dancing? I saw a flash of lightning strike/striking? I caught her steal/stealing? How do I parse command line arguments in Java? Why does light bend towards the normal when passing from a rarer to a denser medium? Whenever light rays are entering a denser medium they bend towards the normal.  Why do rays choose the path towards the normal? Why cannot they choose the path away form the normal? I've installed a version of Ubuntu Server and although I'm fairly still fresh with Ubuntu, I'm trying to create a bash file to run a program in the background. More importantly, I'm trying to get a file nameto display correct and create it before I start running the program (I like my debug stuff).  However, here is my bash script:    #!/bin/bash  PATH="/var/log/servers/Game/"  FILENAME="startup"  EXT=".log"  DATE=$(date +%d-%m-%Y)  NEWFILE=${PATH}${FILENAME}_${DATE}${EXT}   I have verified that the file does exist in the PATH directory. However, the issue is with the date command. When I run the script bash -x game.sh this is what is displays.   + PATH=/var/log/servers/Game/  + FILENAME=startup  + EXT=.log  ++ date +%d-%m-%Y  game.sh: line 5: date: command not found  + DATE=  + NEWFILE=/var/log/servers/Game/startup_.log  + echo /var/log/servers/Game/startup_.log   I don't understand why it would say the command doesn't work, when I can go to the main console and run date and get a valid response.  Any help is greatly appreciated! How does one go about and try to find all subclasses of a given class (or all implementors of a given interface) in Java? As of now, I have a method to do this, but I find it quite inefficient (to say the least). The method is:    Get a list of all class names that exist on the class path Load each class and test to see if it is a subclass or implementor of the desired class or interface   In Eclipse, there is a nice feature called the Type Hierarchy that manages to show this quite efficiently. How does one go about and do it programmatically? Short story collection about Transporter "Doors" I'm looking for a short story collection about different uses/inventions of transporter doors. I think it was just a single author collection, that I read in the early 2000s.  In each story these Transporter Doors exist, I seem to remember them being described as blank grey sheets. You step through them and come out somewhere else. The forward to the book talked about early Rocket stories where the launch of a spaceship would be the end of the tale.  Plots of the individual stories:  Two men one of whom's home is inside an asteroid are discussing the use of Base12 in their society and if it is because they have 12 fingers, one says that "people" used to use base10. The implication is that a different species arrived through the doors and replaced humans.  A man puts the code for his home into a door and is instead transported to prison where he's accused of murdering his wife, which he strongly denies.   Two scientists and a pilot take a probe ship deep into Jupiter's atmosphere, the will return to base via a door that they need to construct while they are down there. The scientists dislike each other and don't work well together. When they finish the door, the hamsters seem woosy out the other side, but the scientists insist it is ready. The pilot says he will go first as he can't fix it if it's wrong. When he arrives on the far side he's mentally damaged and the scientists have to get along without him acting as a buffer while the try to save themselves. How long is a 'block'? Is there a specific reason that the number of views is not included as a feature on the mobile version?  I understand there are certain features which are better to be viewed on desktop rather than on a mobile device.  However, the number of views for a question, which is shown along with the topic title on left on the desktop browser shouldn't be much resource consuming to be displayed on the mobile browsers too.  Is it specific to the desktop/mobile browser or is it a feature which is not at all included for mobile browsers.  I am only talking about mobile version and not the mobile application. I am trying to prove  $$\int\cos^n x \ dx = \frac{1}n \cos^{n-1}x \sin x + \frac{n-1}{n}\int\cos^{n-2} x \ dx$$  This problem is a classic, but I seem to be missing one step or the understanding of two steps which I will outline below.   $$I_n := \int\cos^n x \ dx = \int\cos^{n-1} x \cos x \ dx \tag{1}$$  First question: why rewrite the original instead of immediately integrating by parts of $\int \cos^n x \ dx$?  Integrate by parts with $$u = \cos^{n-1} x, dv = \cos x \ dx \implies du = (n-1)\cos^{n-2} x \cdot -\sin x, v = \sin x$$  which leads to  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x +\int\sin^2 x (n-1) \ \cos^{n-2} x \ dx \tag{2}$$  Since $(n-1)$ is a constant, we can throw it out front of the integral:  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x +(n-1)\int\sin^2 x \ \cos^{n-2} x \ dx\tag{3}$$  I can transform the integral a bit because $\sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1 \implies \sin^2 x = 1-\cos^2 x$  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x + (n-1)\int(1-\cos^2 x) \ \cos^{n-2} x \ dx \tag{4}$$  According to Wikipedia as noted , this simplifies to:  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x + (n-1) \int \cos^{n-2} x \ dx - (n-1)\int(\cos^n x) \ dx \tag{5}$$  Question 2: How did they simplify the integral of $\int(1-\cos^2 x) \ dx$ to $\int(\cos^n x) \ dx$?  Assuming knowledge of equation 5, I see how to rewrite it as  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x + (n-1) I_{n-2} x  - (n-1) I_{n} \tag{6}$$  and solve for $I_n$. I had tried exploiting the fact that  $$\cos^2 x = \frac{1}{2} \cos(2x) + \frac{1}{2} $$  and trying to deal with $\int 1 \ dx - \int \frac{1}{2} \cos (2x) + \frac{1}{2} \ dx$  which left me with $\frac{x}{2} - \frac{1}{4} \sin(2x)$ after integrating those pieces. Putting it all together I have:  $$I_n = \sin x \ \cos^{n-1} x + (n-1) I_{n-2} x \left(-(n-1) (\frac{x}{2} - \frac{1}{4} \sin 2x) \right) \tag{7}$$  but I'm unsure how to write the last few terms as an expression of $I_{something}$ to get it to match the usual reduction formula of   $$\int\cos^n x \ dx = \frac{1}n \cos^{n-1}x \sin x + \frac{n-1}{n}\int\cos^{n-2} x \ dx$$ In the example  $\cup^{i=1}_{\infty}F_i$   How do you get the i=1 directly below the union symbol and the infinity directly above? Strange nonexistent link in a specific user's Top Network Posts I discovered a strange, blank link in 's Top Network Posts:        The above link and screenshot are of the user's Unix &amp; Linux site profile, but this issue can be reproduced on any of the user's site profiles other than Meta Stack Exchange (as the blank post appears to be on this site, and posts from the same site are excluded).  The link seems to go to , which features a really negative question ID (close to the lowest value that can be represented by a 32-bit signed integer, specifically -(2^31) + 1005), and lacks the title in the URL that is present in all of the other links. It leads to a 404 error.  Going to the  seems to go to an actual answer on a question migrated to this site, which happens to have a score of 13 (as of the time this was asked).  Why is the question ID incorrect here? Based on the duplicates, it seems that this affects posts (both questions and answers) that were migrated from other sites: somehow, the question ID seems to be getting messed up.  Update: It looks like the above linked user has deleted their account on this site, so the issue cannot be reproduced on the profile I originally reported. It can, however, be reproduced on . The errant link in that profile is , and the errant question ID seems to also be close to the lowest possible 32-bit signed integer, -(2^31) + 3412. Meaning of 'const' last in a function declaration of a class? Why don't sandwich toasters have an on/off switch? The absolute majority of electrical appliances have an On/Off switch. However, the absolute majority of sandwich toasters do not - you just plug them into the socket and unplug them when you're done. At least, that's the case for all household sandwich toasters I've ever seen. I'm referring to this device, not the vertical toaster (where the lever doubles as a switch):    It looks like some models do have a switch, but apparently these are just the larger/industrial types, not the common variety.  Why is that? Can we create a subsection of the References Cited section with different reference numbering? What commands are there for horizontal spacing? I know that \: in LaTeX produces a space when rendered.  Are there any alternatives, because my LaTeX renderer doesn't support \: (it renders it as text), and there is no help / FAQ that I can find. Several companies are commercializing tests for telomere length such as this one . I understand the basic mechanism for why telomeres shorten during DNA replication, but how good is the evidence that telomere length is a reliable indicator of healthspan/lifespan? Can I load a 32 bit DLL into a 64 bit process on Windows? What is the explicit meaning of “corresponding author”? Problem  This question was triggered by the comments on , but comments and answers on   confirm the existence of conflicting ideas.  There seem to be two prevalent interpretations of the word corresponding author:   The corresponding author is the one who corresponds the (unpublished) paper to the journal, i.e., who performs the technical process of submitting the paper, is available for requests on the review and publishing processes, and so on. The corresponding author is the one who corresponds on the (published) paper with anybody who likes to do so, e.g., because they found an error or like some clarification.   What I found out so far  Until today, I was only aware of the first interpretation, which was confirmed by my experience: For all papers I submitted, I automatically became the corresponding author and cannot remember that I could choose one of my co-authors for this role. Some of these journals do not even indicate a corresponding author to the reader. Also, there already is a way to indicate that an author is available for questions on the paper (interpretation 2): stating the e-mail address.  On the other hand, other journals do indicate corresponding authorship, which makes little sense for interpretation 1. Also, the value put into this role by some funding agencies for its  makes more sense for interpretation 2 (not that I completely agree with it).  Looking for some guidelines from publishers covering multiple fields, I found the following  from Elsevier¹, which kind-of covers both interpretations:     Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.   While there are other questions on this site touching this issue, they focus on consequences of the interpretation, such as , , or .  Actual question  What is the explicit meaning of the word corresponding author? Interpretation 1 or 2 as listed above, both, something else, or is this an extreme example of  and the answer depends on the field or publisher? Please answer only if you have more to offer than personal experience and individual journal guidelines. In particular, please address the possibility of a varying meaning.     ¹ which is separate for each journal, but seems to be identical in content for many journals