Why does the king of the Numenoreans not get to choose between elf and man?
The Half-Elven and their choices
Alternative for Notepad++? Comma before "and" in compound sentences? I read this sentence on an educational website:     Now times have changed and you are ready for situations involving forces in two dimensions.   Shouldn't there be a comma before and, since the subject of the sentence has changed (things vs. you)?      Now times have changed, and you are ready for situations involving forces in two dimensions.   What is the exact comma rule for joining two clauses with and? Difference between "theoretical computer science" and (beta) "computer science" Possible Duplicate:          Title says it all. From what I can see, "theoretical computer science" questions seem to be slightly more isolated to discussing algorithms, whereas "computer science" seems to have questions that are slightly broader and higher-level. Is there any place on the Stack Exchange sites where they give a longer description?  I'm just curious as to what niche the beta "computer science" site is meant to fill, as I see many topics in both forums that overlap. I want to write an application that detects when a page is loaded in the browser, then I should be able to insert content on top of the loaded web page? Anybody with an idea on how to do that?  Please note that I should be able to do this in any browser (Firefox/IE).  What language should I use to help me do this?  How do I detect this from an external application?  How should I integrate this with the browser? I am looking to identify a story that I read around 2001 (it is probably much older).  Someone showed me the story on pages printed from the internet, and it was attributed to Isaac Asimov (although I cannot state that is the true author).    The story is told in glimpses at different points of time in the future.  In each glimpse, humans are asking a more and more "intelligent" computer how to prevent the universe from collapsing into a singularity in the future, and the computer states it needs more computational power and resources to solve this problem.  At some point, man becomes one with the computer, and the computer exists in hyperspace (or subspace?).    In the final glimpse, it is the end of time and the universe is collapsing into a singularity.  At the instant the universe reaches the singularity, the computer figures out how to prevent it and says "Let there be light" and the universe begins to expand again.  Is anyone familiar with this story? SQL Server 2008 server cannot connect to itself with alias name or "localhost" We have a SQL Server 2008 ENT 64bit SP3 server running Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 64-bit.  This is also a windows/sql clustered environment.  There is the cluster alias for the server, and then we have 2 AD DNS aliases as well for the server  Suddenly I can't connect to the sql instance in Management Studio, or with a Powershell Invoke-SQLcmd IF I am doing it from that actual server, when using one of the dns alias names, or "localhost".  If I use the Cluster alias name it works and if I use the other dns alias name it works.  Using management studio with the non-working dns alias I get "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication."  If I use localhost, I get "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)"    Shared Memory and TCPIP are enabled in SQL Server Config manager but named pipes is not.  But we've NEVER had named pipes enabled, and don't have it enabled on any of our other sql servers and they're set up the same (clustering, dns aliases...etc) and are having no issues.  I've Googled around and had a view people suggest listing what other SQL servers it can see (cmd prompt sqlcmd -L)  If it do it from a good server I see all other servers on my network including the "bad" one.  If I do that command from the "bad" server, I get no results at all.  Pretty much checked everything from this blog and it's all ok except the sqlcmd -L issue I just mentioned above.    Windows firewall is not enabled.  This was working just fine for a couple of years.  I'm not sure when this started happening, but I know that at some point, it was not happening.  And the other kicker...it's only happening locally to this server.  If I connect with management studio or run a powershell Invoke-Sqlcmd from another machine, or my local machine connecting to the "bad" server, it works fine no matter what alias I use.  I'm stumped.  I think it sounds like an issue with the AD alias (there are 2 ad aliases, 1 works locally the other doesn't)...but not being able to connect with localhost makes me question that.  any help is greatly appreciated. From my (honestly limited) knowledge of what the Heat Death of the Universe is, I understand that HDotU is the point when energy levels across the entire Universe reach equillibrium, thus energy doesn't flow anymore absolutely anywhere, and thus nothing will ever happen anymore.  If that's the case, would time still be? Even when there's not a single event happening inside it and nobody's there to observe the ticking, does time (or space, come to think of it) exist? Or would HDotU cause something that ends the entire spacetime? Can't reach wi-fi signal on Ubuntu, but can do it on other OS/devices (ath9k) I have two laptops, both running Ubuntu 13.10, as well as a different OS (Windows 7), dual boot on both.  My wi-fi router is on my bedroom and I want to get the wi-fi signal from the living room. I can reach the wi-fi signal from both pcs when running windows, with a relative good signal, but can't reach it on both of them when running Ubuntu, can't even connect to it.  Is there something that I can do to amplify the wi-fi signal? Sleeping in a batch file When writing a batch file to automate something on a Windows box, I've needed to pause its execution for several seconds (usually in a test/wait loop, waiting for a process to start). At the time, the best solution I could find uses ping (I kid you not) to achieve the desired effect. I've found a better write-up of it , which describes a callable "wait.bat", implemented as follows:  @ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 -w 1000 &gt; nul @ping 127.0.0.1 -n %1% -w 1000&gt; nul   You can then include calls to wait.bat in your own batch file, passing in the number of seconds to sleep.   (at last!). In the meantime, for those of us still using Windows&nbsp;XP, Windows 2000 or (sadly) , is there a better way?  I modified the sleep.py script in the , so that it defaults to one second if no arguments are passed on the command line:  import time, sys  time.sleep(float(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) &gt; 1 else 1) Prove that any two consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence are relatively prime Prove that any two consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence are relatively prime.   My attempt:    We have $f_1 = 1, f_2 = 1, f_3 = 2, \dots$, so obviously $\gcd(f_1, f_2) = 1$. Suppose that $\gcd(f_n, f_{n+1}) = 1$; we will show that $\gcd(f_{n+1}, f_{n+2}) = 1$. Consider $\gcd(f_{n+1}, f_{n+2}) = \gcd(f_{n+1}, f_{n+1} + f_n)$ because $f_{n+2} = f_{n+1} + f_n.$ Then $\gcd(f_{n+1}, f_{n+1} + f_n) = \gcd(f_{n+1}, f_{n}) = 1$ (gcd property).  Hence, $\gcd(f_n, f_{n+1}) = 1$ for all $n &gt; 0$.  Am I on the right track? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, What's wrong with this query: INSERT INTO Users( weight, desiredWeight ) VALUES ( 160, 145 ) WHERE id = 1;  It works without the WHERE clause. I've seemed to have forgot my SQL. I want to know, if this bug is fixed, because all previous versions of Ubuntu didn't work for me. So I just want to know, should i leave Windows 10 and go for Ubuntu 17.10. Thanks! How can I make a dispenser that has unlimited arrows? How to launch terminal on login How could I get the terminal to be launched once I have logged in, so that typing commands is much simpler? How to get a toddler to start chewing and eating solids? My son is 18 months old and still doesn't want to chew and eat solid foods. We have to blend soups and other food into purée for him to accept it. If there is even a slight solid, he will automatically push it out of his mouth with his tongue.  I have had a breakthrough with breakfast where I don't blend as much and leave it a little chunky. He ate it but still pushed chunks of soft banana that were bigger out.  Some of my friends have kids that are 4-5 months younger, who are eating chicken cutlets.  Any ideas or proven methods for getting a child to start eating solids? Can I use virtualbox with a 64 Bit image in a 32 bit host I have Virtualbox 4.1.20 in Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit (With PAE) and I want to run Ubuntu Server 64 Bit on the Guest. Is this possible?. I ask since I get the following warning:    I want to make sure that there is no option to "emulate" this. I have a 64 bit CPU that supports virtualization. The Intel DZ68DB motherboard with an Intel I7 2600 CPU. javac command not found I am trying to compile a java program I found on the internet and it says that I must check if javac is installed. I installed the JDK a long time ago so it should be working but I get command not found error:    how can this be resolved? Relativistic speed/energy relation. Is this correct? Why is Facebook PHP SDK getUser always returning 0? Single-word synonym for "immensely valuable"? I am looking for some (may be rarely know to nonnative English speakers) synonyms for  "immensely valuable" or "extremely valuable".