Should I use my kit lens at max aperture or max zoom for shallow depth of field?
How can I get dramatic shallow DOF with a kit lens?
How long can you say "the late so and so"? When you refer to the deceased, you say "the late so and so." How long can you say that? Is JFK referred to as the late John F. Kennedy? How about Abraham Lincoln? What is the difference between a PDU and a power strip (both 120V, 15A)? I just chatted with an APC rep about upgrading the UPSes at our office. She recommended a single higher-capacity 6-outlet Smart-UPS to replace the four Back-UPS units we currently have. When I asked how she recommended plugging in all the current devices, she recommended using a APC's  PDU, but said not to use a power strip. At first she said I had to use an APC brand PDU, but after I inquired about using a Tripp-Lite PDU, she said any brand PDU would be fine.  The APC PDU previously referenced looks like a standard 120V power strip with overload protection but no surge protection. Other than overload protection (which seems redundant if plugging into the UPS), is there something else I'm missing, or should any power strip (without surge protection) be fine?  Edit: I didn't mention it earlier, but we don't have a proper rack--though I did still plan to mount the PDU or power strip to something. I guess I'm wondering if there's any special reason I should pay as much as $180 for the low-end APC PDU (which just looks like a power strip to me) vs. $20-$30 for a . I'm building an object detector using HOG features and linear SVM. Some of the regions of the object are more "distinctive" so I would like to give more weight to the features extracted from those regions. (e.g. imagine we want to detect between mugs and glasses, then the most "distinctive" part is the mug's handle)  How could I do this? For sure there should be a more intelligent way than just replicating the features of those "distinctive" regions. Hello,  I'm getting this error every time when I boot my computer. My Ubuntu installation is fresh and I was got a few error on last step while install Ubuntu (because i have problem with my CDROM driver). Anyway, installation is continued .   For example when i tried to open ADDITIONAL DRIVER and LANGUAGE SUPPORT (on System Settings) nothing happened, it's not opening.  When i try this in terminal gnome-language-selector i'm getting this error  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 8, in &lt;module&gt;     from LanguageSelector.gtk.GtkLanguageSelector import GtkLanguageSelector   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 34, in &lt;module&gt;     from aptdaemon.gtk3widgets import AptProgressDialog   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/gtk3widgets.py", line 61, in &lt;module&gt;     class AptStatusIcon(Gtk.Image):   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/gtk3widgets.py", line 66, in AptStatusIcon     def __init__(self, transaction=None, size=Gtk.IconSize.DIALOG): AttributeError: type object 'GtkIconSize' has no attribute 'DIALOG'   Also getting this error for jockey-gtk  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/jockey-gtk", line 418, in &lt;module&gt;     sys.exit(u.run())   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/ui.py", line 461, in run     self.ui_show_main()   File "/usr/bin/jockey-gtk", line 81, in ui_show_main     col_icon.set_sizing(Gtk.TreeViewColumnSizing.AUTOSIZE) AttributeError: type object 'GtkTreeViewColumnSizing' has no attribute 'AUTOSIZE'   I'm worrying about are there any lack . I don't know what's wrong with my installation.  Are there any way, check my installation (packages, files etc..) . Why screen resolution remains 640x480 when I close a game? What is EFI in partition scheme? Recently I changed my partition scheme from MBR to GPT, and during after conversion I saw a another partition named EFI ... I don't have a good idea what does it do or its purpose ... but I think it's use for backup's.  So my question here is can you explain/tell me about EFI and it purpose? Schengen area 90 days limit: Can I leave on the 91st day? Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?  I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny. I have been given a Bode plot of a low pass filter, and tasked with essentially reversing the effects by using a high pass filter. I have solved for the transfer function which is the first equation, and I am assuming the inverse transfer function will give me the information I need to construct the high pass filter. I know the values for \$z\$ and \$p\$. Is there a method given any transfer function to realise the circuit elements required? $$H(s) = 0.17\frac{s-z}{s-p}$$ $$H(s)^{-1} = 5.88\frac{s-p}{s-z}$$ SSH tunneling error: "channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed" When I open this ssh tunnel:  ssh -nXNT -p 22 localhost -L 0.0.0.0:8984:remote:8983   I get this error when trying to access the HTTP server running on localhost:8984:  channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed   What does this error mean, and on which machine can you fix the problem? I was given a MySQL database file that I need to restore as a database on my Windows Server 2008 machine.  I tried using MySQL Administrator, but I got the following error:     The selected file was generated by   mysqldump and cannot be restored by   this application.   How do I get this working? Step to step how to install Cinelerra I have some problems installing cinelerra on my Ubuntu.  How do I install it? Do $T$-invariant subspaces necessarily have a $T$-invariant complement? Extracting embedded images from a PDF Before I started using Ubuntu I used Nitro PDF reader to automatically extract images from PDF files. Is there a PDF reader for Linux that does this?  I would like to be able to extract images faster/easier than when taking a snapshot. I have a data set for a predictive model(predicting survival rate with certain acute medical condition on some animals) with 25 predictors where around 30% of the predictors are complete, 3 predictors are sitting at 30%,25% and 20% missing, and the others are missing at around 5% level. Around 50% of my data are complete cases. I'm new to dealing with missing values so I have a couple of questions regarding how to deal with it:   What can I do with the variable with 30% missing assuming it's MAR? Is 30% too high for imputation? What kinds of metrics can I use to make the decision between removal of the predictor, listwise removal, imputation or some other options? How should I deal with a predictor with 20% - 25% missing when I have reason to believe that it's MNAR? I'm thinking of using imputation on the remaining predictors with around 5% missingness. How do I make the decision on which imputation methods to use? Are they chosen on a case by case basis based on the individual predictors? How does one impute categorical values?  How does(should?) the imputation carry out in practice? Should it use complete cases or compute it iteratively somehow?  Does feature selection comes in before or after dealing with missing values? if at all? What's the difference between stochastic and random? So I know I've heard this saying in American English before but I just can't quite find the original.  I have come up with several made up variations like:   I don't send the Navy (or whole army, or a battalion) when all you need is a diplomat. Don't buy the whole cow when all you need is milk.   What's the more commonly heard saying/phrase for this of expression? Best way to create an system of equations environment? Is it possible to run Android apps on Ubuntu? And I don't mean inside an emulator, but natively, as you would with any other application installed using the Ubuntu Software Center. Is there a term for words that when reversed, form other words? I'm aware of what a palindrome is. What do you call words that, when reversed, form other words, such as ton (not) and part (trap)?