Did they steal or Did they stole?
Should I use the past tense with did?
UK Visitor Visa: Required Time or Interval Between Visits? I am a US citizen and have recently visted the UK  with simply a passport which allowed me to vist for 6months I have heard rumors that I am obligated to stay in the US for a Equal amount of time that I have visited the UK before I am able to return, but I am struggling tour no any proof of this obligation .. Am I missing somthing or is it simply not true so someone tells me i need to call a few people.  they send me a vCard called contacts.vcf.  i import it.  i open my phone app and start to dial, but wait...i don't know their names.  How do i look up a recent vCard on my phone?  How do i know who's contact i've been sent?  when i navigate to a .vcf file, i can't open it.  all i can do is import it.  polaris office won't import/open it.  is there an android txt editor i can use to peruse a vCard?  yours truly, Confused by vCards Note 3, kit kat Failed to load map. Error contacting Google servers. This is probably an authentication issue CSS alignment issues on close reasons with pending votes "Should" word in italics is shifted down in the vote-to-close popup when there is at least one pending close vote.  Just have a look at this:        Now without close votes:        So the issue occurs when there is a close vote on it. It doesn't look good.    Tested on Chrome 27.0.1453.116 m, Windows XP. And it looks fine on Firefox 21.0 and Opera 12.02 (Windows XP)  Here is an example of a slightly different but obviously related problem in Windows 7 SP1 and Firefox 21.0:    This seems to have something to do with how line-height and/or margin attributes are being interpreted.  Can this be fixed? Can we some how use color labels on icons like OS X?  Something like this: What's that ship in the opening credits of 'Star Trek: Enterprise'? How do I change the MAC address of my network card? I have a local network in a Windows system where the Admin gives permission to the PCs by their MAC address. But he is on vacations and I have a new PC.  How can I change the MAC address of my new PC to have the same MAC address as the old one?  I know this can be used for spoofing the address, but this is local, so I don't think I will have a problem. What is the purpose of a Windows Workgroup? In Microsoft Windows, what is the purpose of a Workgroup? I understand that a Domain allows the administration of security (user names, passwords, file access, etc.) to be centralized. But what does a Workgroup give you? Here's the scenario...    if (entry.Properties["something"].Value != null)   attribs.something = entry.Properties["something"].Value.ToString();   While effective and working correctly, this looks ugly to me.  If I don't check for a null before performing the ToString() then it throws an exception if the property was null.  Is there a better way to handle this scenario?  Much appreciated! How to prove $\bar{m}$ is a zero divisor in $\mathbb{Z}_n$ if and only if $m,n$ are not coprime Should I flag obviously wrong answers as NAA? Imported CSV data is not displayed in QGIS Using cd command in Windows command line, can't navigate to D:\ This may be a silly question, and I think I have looked elsewhere to find the answer...  Might be a path issue, but when I open the command line and type from the C:\&gt;: cd D:\  I cannot get to the D drive.  Even if I type: cd D:\&lt;folder name&gt;  The command.exe will auto-complete the line with the tab key, so it knows where I'm at.  It just doesn't print to screen the result or actually get me there.  This problem exists for the network drives as well. Now, if I use the chdir (cd) command like this: chdir D: or cd d: I get the print out of the D:\ below the command but it still says I'm in the C:\. I feel like I'm missing something simple. "Please ask a new question" encourages question repetition for duplicates I just had a case of a user who re-posted his question because his first question was closed as a duplicate. And, logically, I closed his re-post as a duplicate of his original, asking him to edit his original and explain why it's not a duplicate, so we can reopen it.  This process has worked like that for years now, but suddenly I realized that with the new message, question repetition is even encouraged:     This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.   Clearly, a new user who finds their questions closed will now be happy to just post their question again and again, until it's not a duplicate anymore, instead of just fixing their original post.  We need to be more explicit about this, and show this message to the OP of the question:     If those answers do not fully address your question, please edit your question and explain why it is not a duplicate.   The original message should still be visible to other users and visitors, as they can't fix that question, of course. Isn't every subset of a compact space compact? Let $\mathfrak{C}$ be an open cover of a topological compact space $X$, and let $\mathfrak{B}\subseteq \mathfrak{C}$ be its finite subcover. Then every subset of $X$ also has the same cover and subcover! Shouldn't every such subset also be compact then?  Motivation: I read somewhere that every closed subset of a compact space is compact. I wonder why it shouldn't be the case for every subset of $X$, rather than just the closed ones. Rigorous proof that $dx dy=r\ dr\ d\theta$ I get the graphic explanation, i.e. that the area $dA$ of the sector's increment can be looked upon as a polar "rectangle" as $dr$ and $d\theta$ are infinitesimal, but how do you prove this rigorously?    1. Geometrically, the exact area would be $$\frac{(r+dr)^2d\theta}{2} - \frac{r^2d\theta}{2}$$$$= (r + \frac{dr}{2}) dr d\theta  $$$$= r dr d\theta + \frac{dr^2 d\theta}{2}.$$  How do we get rid of $\frac{dr^2 d\theta}{2}$? Is it too insignificant in value compared to $r dr d\theta$ so that it vanishes? If so, is it the reason it gets ignored? And what's more, geometrically speaking, why would the two areas - $dx dy$ and $r dr d\theta$, be equal?  2. Approaching it algebraically, setting $$x = r\sin\theta$$$$y = r \cos\theta$$  gives $$\frac{dx}{d\theta} = r\cos\theta,  dx = r\cos{\theta} d\theta$$$$ \frac{dy}{dr} = \cos\theta,  dy = \cos\theta dr. $$  Multiplying both equations, side by side, gives $$dxdy = r\cos^2\theta dr d\theta.$$  Again I get an extra term, which is $\cos^2 \theta$. In both cases I am unable to derive that $dxdy = rdrd\theta$.  What do I do wrong in my reasoning? It all makes me think that I'm getting something essential terribly wrong. .toArray(new MyClass[0]) or .toArray(new MyClass[myList.size()])? Assuming I have an ArrayList  ArrayList&lt;MyClass&gt; myList;   And I want to call toArray, is there a performance reason to use  MyClass[] arr = myList.toArray(new MyClass[myList.size()]);   over  MyClass[] arr = myList.toArray(new MyClass[0]);   ?  I prefer the second style, since it's less verbose, and I assumed that the compiler will make sure the empty array doesn't really get created, but I've been wondering if that's true.  Of course, in 99% of the cases it doesn't make a difference one way or the other, but I'd like to keep a consistent style between my normal code and my optimized inner loops... Convert char to int in C# I have a char in c#:  char foo = '2';   Now I want to get the 2 into an int.  I find that Convert.ToInt32 returns the actual decimal value of the char and not the number 2.  The following will work:  int bar = Convert.ToInt32(new string(foo, 1));   int.parse only works on strings as well.    Is there no native function in C# to go from a char to int without making it a string?  I know this is trivial but it just seems odd that there's nothing native to directly make the conversion. Difference between HTMLCollection, NodeLists, and arrays of objects Mock vs MagicMock