Mathematical Definition of Power
Why isn't the product rule used in the definition of mechanical work?
Why does time change in Ubuntu after installing Windows Today I was installing Windows 7 on the same computer I have Ubuntu. For some reason, after installing Windows 7 and going back to Ubuntu the time went from the correct hour at that moment, 12:30PM to 7:30AM. This happened after installing Windows 7. For what I understand the BIOS has a time set, Ubuntu has the same time that is shown in the BIOS when installing it. At least up to this point is what I have seen. Now after installing Windows 7 (And believe me this is only for testing the performance of Windows 7 against Ubuntu in which case Windows 7 is falling behind a lot on the same hardware) the time changes in Ubuntu to the wrong one that is set in Windows 7.  I actually do not change the time in Windows 7 since this is one of the checks I am doing to see if the operating system can correctly grab the time. Windows 7 fails. Ubuntu does not BUT Windows 7 actually changes the time for Ubuntu if I boot with it afterwards.  So my question is, why/how does time change in Ubuntu after installing Windows.  NOTE - I have set Ubuntu time to "manual" instead of grabbing it from the Internet just to test out this. Is it possible to earn more than 100 lollipops per second? I have pumped my lollipop rate to 100/s, but it took a long time to go from 99 to 100. Is it even possible to get higher or should I stop? Hierarchical clustering with mixed type data - what distance/similarity to use? In my dataset we have both continuous and naturally discrete variables. I want to know whether we can do hierarchical clustering using both type of variables. And if yes, what distance measure is appropriate? Black screen after suspend-after moving to the nvidia official drivers (not priority) Percentage of overlapping regions of two normal distributions I was wondering, given two normal distributions with $\sigma_1,\ \mu_1$ and $\sigma_2, \ \mu_2$   how can I calculate the percentage of overlapping regions of two distributions? I suppose this problem has a specific name, are you aware of any particular name describing this problem?  Are you aware of any implementation of this (e.g., Java code)? I'm looking for a fantasy book I read about 10 years ago. I don't remember a lot of it, but there are a few things I still know:   The setting was in medieval times. There was no traveling dimensions. I can't recall whether there was magic or not. It wasn't on Earth, but on some invented world. I believe it was a trilogy, with a focus on the son of some nobility. The goal for the characters was to collect a certain number of stones or gems (I believe there were 5 of them), all in certain colours. Every stone has a certain power attached to it. I believe it started out with one or two characters, but the group grew and every character had a certain colour stone at the end. What is important about the gems is that they are unique. It's not part of a bigger magic system, but they are artefacts from somewhere.   There are some minor incidents I can recall vividly:   They build up a fellowship with some stereotypical fantasy builds: an old school fighter, a minstrel, a female archer and probably more. At one point, they mention that if one of the guards in a country falls asleep on duty, he will be kept awake by his garrison/brothers in arms for seven days. At some point the minstrel falls asleep, and the old fighter teaches him how to stay awake. They travel through a forest full of leeches and other insects to reach one of the stones. Also, I seem to recall there was a member of an underground evil organisation among the nobility, who tried to poison someone and were able to do that because they built up an immunity to the poison.   Does anyone has a clue what this series might be?   Suggestions by kind people, but not what I'm looking for, are:   The Seventh Tower Deltora Quest Diadem Westria Sword of Heavens series Determining confidence interval with one observation (for Poisson distribution) How can I decide between the medium sized intuos tablet or the small one? I am a high school student with an interest for drawing tablets for some hobby. I went to check on a store that sell Intuos, a sales representative (or something) of Wacom told me that most students buy the medium sized tablets. Even the staff said that since it is always bought the supplies of the medium size are a lot more than the small size.  I am on a tight budget (which is why I am buying the Intuos), and the small size seems small to me (when my hands are open, my thumb and my pinky would reach the sides). But then, why would Wacom sell the Manga variant in small? Is the staff just saying that so I would buy the more expensive one?  I have enough savings from my small allowance to buy the small size right now, should I wait for another month so that I can buy the medium size? Why can't I sort questions by "votes" or "unanswered" without logging in? Where is the BIOS stored? From :     BIOS software is stored on a non-volatile ROM chip on the motherboard. ... In modern computer systems, the BIOS contents are stored on a flash memory chip so that the contents can be rewritten without removing the chip from the motherboard. This allows BIOS software to be easily upgraded to add new features or fix bugs, but can make the computer vulnerable to BIOS rootkits.   Since ROM means Read-Only Memory,  why can the BIOS contents be rewritten?  Does the "flash memory chip"  mean the same as the "non-volatile ROM", both meaning where BIOS is stored? Programming pattern to generate VGA signal with micro-controller? Sci-Fi Movie/Show Where a Soul is Captured in a Glass Vessel I remember very little of this, I was quite young -  It was on television in the mid 90's, but seemed older. My wife was telling me about the 21 grams experiment and the memory clicked into place. Setting Inside of a mad scientist sort of lab, with the plasma balls and everything else, a character (Who in my mind resembles Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein) is conducting an experiment. The room is hazy, lots of hues of purple and red. He has an assistant present. They were conducting some sort of experiment to try to figure out the secrets of immortality (or possibly reanimation). I remember them &quot;trapping&quot; a human soul in a glass vessel to see what it weighed or what kind of volume it took up - I believe they shot someone in this vessel, and because their soul could not &quot;escape&quot;, they did not die. I want to print two files in two columns -- first file on the left side and second on the right side. paste doesn't do the job, because it can only insert a character as delimiter, so if first file lines have different length output will be twisted: $ cat file1 looooooooong line line $ cat file2 hello world $ paste file1 file2 looooooooong line   hello line    world  If it was a command to add trailing spaces like fmt --add-spaces --width 50 the problem would be solved: $ paste &lt;(fmt --add-spaces --width 50 file1) file2 looooooooong line                                 hello line                                              world  But I don't know a simple way to do this. So how to merge and print several files horizontally without twisting? Actually, I just want to look at them simultaneously.  UPD: command to add trailing spaces does exist (for example, xargs -d '\n' printf '%-50s\n') But solution like $ paste &lt;(add-trailing-spaces file1) file2  does not work as expected when file1 has fewer lines than file2. I came across a map and when I was playing I found some coloured and bolded item names. I thought it isn't possible as at most you can only use the custom name tag to rename things! Is there a way to colour and bold item names in vanilla Minecraft? External programs are OK. Oh, and the wiki page of formatting codes doesn't really do much. google search index what is fresh content I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content.  what does fresh content means from google's point of view?  I have many pages. I have created articles and tutorials.  These page dosent change except the comments which are at the bottom.  I have made this page as static (.html) and never edit cause that is the information i wanted to be ever. cause the concept is not going to change?  with these parameters how to judge whether my page is fresh or not? Can you re-enter USA on an ESTA? I am visiting the US in August 2014 for a week, returning home to the UK &amp; will then be visiting for another 2 weeks in October 2014.  My question is, can I use the same ESTA or would I need to reapply for the second visit? I think the ESTA lasts 90 days but I am unsure if you can leave &amp; re-enter? Does leaning (banking) help cause turning on a bicycle? Why don't my female dwellers give birth to children? I am playing Fallout Shelter on my IPad. There were some women who have already gave birth, but two female dwellers are carrying their babies for about 18(!) hours. I know that this process takes three hours, so this is not normal. What do I do? Possible Duplicate:          In a question, I see that each time I refresh the page, the answers were placed in a different order. The question has 3 answers each with zero votes. The users' reputation was something like 6, 1200, and 7300 but these numbers didn't affect the order.  What is the criteria of the sort order of the answers? In almost all proofs I've seen of the Lorentz transformations one starts on the assumption that the required transformations are linear. I'm wondering if there is a way to prove the linearity:  Prove that any spacetime transformation $\left(y^0,y^1,y^2,y^3\right)\leftrightarrow \left(x^0,x^1,x^2,x^3\right)$ that preserves intervals, that is, such that  $$\left(dy^0\right)^2-\left(dy^1\right)^2-\left(dy^2\right)^2-\left(dy^3\right)^2=\left(dx^0\right)^2-\left(dx^1\right)^2-\left(dx^2\right)^2-\left(dx^3\right)^2$$  is linear (assuming that the origins of both coordinates coincide). That is, show that $\frac{\partial y^i}{\partial x^j}=L_j^i$ is constant throughout spacetime (that is, show that $\frac{\partial L_j^i}{\partial x^k}=0$).  Thus far all I've been able to prove is that $g_{ij}L_p^iL_q^j=g_{pq}$ (where $g_{ij}$ is the metric tensor of special relativity) and that $\frac{\partial L_j^i}{\partial x^k}=\frac{\partial L_k^i}{\partial x^j}$. Any further ideas?