How to draw dots at beginning and end of range when plotting
Plot a piecewise function with black and white disks marking discontinuities
Looking for the title of an old sci-fi book, pretty sure it is a Baen or Del Rey imprint. Basically, mankind has reached the stars and expanded throughout the galaxy. Suddenly, an unknown race appears and begins a war of extermination against man. Finally, the galaxy is desolate, and one man remains. He is in a starship with an AI and becomes injured in the battle.  The ship's AI takes over and speeds out into the unknown, followed by the last remaining member of the unknown alien race. As all speeds are at tremendous multiples of the speed of light, the man cannot get away, but the alien cannot catch up.  Finally, communication is opened, at which point the man asks "why?" The alien tells him that man had discovered immortality, but that it required the death of a member of a race known as the Flower People for every human who achieved immortality. The alien says that Man would have found the answer eventually, but that genocide was so intolerable that the aliens came from another dimension, to which they could never return, to stop Man, which resulted in the war of extermination.  Finally, the light speeds become so great that the two remaining living beings in the universe approach the Big Crunch. As the Man begins to dive into the singularity, with the alien hot on his heels, he says that maybe there will be room in the next universe for both races to live in peace, and the final line is "not with a whimper, but with a roar of triumph"! Is there a website that summarizes the luggage and check-in requirements for each airplane company? I don't travel much by plane but I use a wide variety of companies. Since there is not much harmonization, specially with LCC, each one has its own requirements about luggage size, weight, extra luggage price, need for on-line check-in and printed ticket.  Each time I fly I ask my self what are the requirements, and although I can check them online at the official website this can't be quick, sometimes I leave it for last or, with so many, I just confuse airline requirements.  Is there a website or resource that lists this information? This would be very useful to quickly check or just compare requirements. Best Fake Proofs? (A M.SE April Fools Day collection) How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP? If user input is inserted without modification into an SQL query, then the application becomes vulnerable to , like in the following example:  $unsafe_variable = $_POST['user_input'];   mysql_query("INSERT INTO `table` (`column`) VALUES ('$unsafe_variable')");   That's because the user can input something like value'); DROP TABLE table;--, and the query becomes:  INSERT INTO `table` (`column`) VALUES('value'); DROP TABLE table;--')   What can be done to prevent this from happening? How do you remove Subversion control for a folder? I have a folder, c:\websites\test, and it contains folders and files that were checked out from a repository that no longer exists. How do I get Subversion to stop tracking that folder and any of the subfolders and files?   I know I could simply delete the .svn folder, but there are a lot of sub-folders in many layers. When is a MOSFET more appropriate as a switch than a BJT? How do I redirect a domain to another domain locally? My /etc/hosts file looks like this:  127.0.0.1       localhost 10.20.7.67      testsitealpha.dev othersite.dev   testsitebeta.dev   The first two work. The last one doesn't. Why not? How do I make it work? The reason I am doing this, is because I have a test server (othersite.com), which is on the local network, but it's ip can vary. e.g. 10.20.7.98 one day, 10.20.7.35 another, etc.  So, how do I make my system always resolve testsitebeta.dev to the same ip as othersite.dev? Wasted screen space due to multiple horizontal bars at the top when an application is open in GNOME desktop Just moved from Unity to GNOME with the update to Ubuntu 17.10. There is a HUGE amount of wasted space at the top of the screen, when an application is open.  Evolution and Firefox both have four "bars" with 90% of each empty. Unity, to its credit was able to blend / mix these horizontal bars so there was only one / two.      Four is way too much. If this is GNOME I may carry on with Unity for the next six months.  Can anybody suggest a tweak/change/fix for this? What does the exclamation mark do before the function? How can I use Netflix on Ubuntu? Is there a way to stream Netflix content to my Ubuntu machine? Answer appears automatically converted as a comment I solved the Lagrangian of a simple pendulum (with help from online examples as this concept is new to me) and ended with the following: $$\ddot{\theta}+\omega^2\theta=0$$ But in the example I was following, the next line written was this: $$\theta(t) = A\cdot\sin(\omega t + \Phi)$$ And I don't know what steps they took to get there? I can say "I feed someone". Am I forced to say "I give someone a drink", or is there a single word for this (as in "I [verb] someone")?  Unfortunately my thesaurus can't really help me. In particular, when $x=y=z$ isn't the above expression equal to 1 and not -1? No splitter widget in new separate window I am new to Blender and I am trying to find my way through its interface. I want to have several windows (I mean OS windows, not Blender windows). So I create a separate window by dragging splitter widget while holding Shift.  The problem is there are no splitter widgets in the newly created OS window. So I can't have multiple blender windows in it. The new window does not have a Layout type drop down menu either. So how do I add new Blender windows in a new OS window? (Sorry if I'm using the wrong terms, but hopefully its clear what I am trying to achieve). How do I tell Finder to always show my Library folder on Mavericks? I thought there was a checkbox to suppress the hiding of my user Library folder on Mavericks, but I can't seem to find it. I appreciate hiding Library by default, but  have missed it being easily accessible.  How can I get the library folder to be visible in Finder, the Finder go menus / file save dialogs without needing to hold down shift? How to call alert after all ajax requests are done? EJB Transactions in local method-calls In the following setup, does method B run in a (new) transaction?  An EJB, having two methods, method A and method B  public class MyEJB implements SessionBean     public void methodA() {        doImportantStuff();        methodB();        doMoreImportantStuff();     }      public void methodB() {        doDatabaseThing();     } }   The EJB is container managed, with methodB in requires_new transaction, and method A in required transaction. thus:  &lt;container-transaction id="MethodTransaction_1178709616940"&gt;   &lt;method id="MethodElement_1178709616955"&gt;     &lt;ejb-name&gt;MyName&lt;/ejb-name&gt;     &lt;method-name&gt;*&lt;/method-name&gt;   &lt;trans-attribute&gt;Required&lt;/trans-attribute&gt;   &lt;/method&gt;   &lt;method id="MethodElement_1178709616971"&gt;     &lt;ejb-name&gt;MyName&lt;/ejb-name&gt;     &lt;method-name&gt;methodB&lt;/method-name&gt;   &lt;/method&gt;   &lt;trans-attribute&gt;RequiresNew&lt;/trans-attribute&gt; &lt;/container-transaction&gt;   Now let another EJB call methodA with an EJB method call. methodA now runs in an transaction. Will the subsequent call to methodB from methodA run in the same transaction, or does it run in a new transaction? (mind, it's the actual code here. There is no explicit ejb-call to method B) Ring of rational-coefficient power series defining entire functions How do I install the latest version of gcc and g++?  I am using a variety of C++11 and C++1y features; which is why I need this.