Which non-stick pan to buy?
How to select a good non-stick pan, price point wise?
How to mathematically evaluate a string like "2-1" to produce "1"? In the radio series, how did Zaphod get into the artificial universe? In the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, it's very clearly explained how Zaphod gets into the simulated universe; he's in it from the moment he enters Zarniwop's office, and a big deal is made of him leaving via the window rather than the door so that he stays in it.  In the radio series, however, this doesn't happen. At the end of Fit the Seventh, Zaphod asks "How do we get to this universe, then?" and Roosta replies "I'm afraid it looks like we don't...", pointing out that the building is splitting down the middle, preventing them reaching the office.  Later, in Fit the Twelfth, Zaphod finally meets Zarniwoop in the lounge of the slightly-delayed spaceliner and reacts with astonishment at learning he's been in the artificial universe all this time. "How did we get into it? I mean like where, when?"  Zarniwoop only replies enigmatically: "You didn't notice? Well, I'll let you work it out for yourself."  So, how did he get in? As noted, he never actually entered Zarniwoop's office. My only thought is that it happened during the "body debit" incident with the disco, but there's no particular indication that that should be the case. Is there any other possibility? Generating random results by weight in PHP? I know how to generate a random number in PHP but lets say I want a random number between 1-10 but I want more 3,4,5's then 8,9,10's. How is this possible? I would post what I have tried but honestly, I don't even know where to start. Is it possible to detect 32 bit vs 64 bit in a bash script? I am writing a bash script to deal with some installations in an automated way... I have the possibility of getting one such program in 32 or 64 bit binary... is it possible to detect the machine architecture from bash so I can select the correct binary?  This will be for Ubuntu machines. When you tap a row in a UITableView, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing? Quick easy way to migrate SQLite3 to MySQL? Anyone know a quick easy way to migrate a SQLite3 database to MySQL? Look at the profile page of , who has just "lost" 100k reputation and all their bronze badges, because of this broken design.  Shouldn't the primary usercard be kept intact no matter how other elements grow?  P.S. So many design bugs these days, did SE do a large CSS refactory?  P.P.S  that squeezes the right pane ( to reproduce) So if I'm correct, when you chose your starter gear and wealth you can either choose to roll some dice depending on your class and buy everything from that or you can choose the starter gear from your class and add the background items (including some gold). Here are my 2 questions:   If I choose the gear from my class, do I have to take all the equipment from only one of the (a) or (b) choices, or can I freely mix-and-match choices from the two sets? Can you spend the extra gold you get from your background on extra equipment (e.g. some soap and some fishing equipment) or do you have to start with that gold in its pouch?   The reason I ask is that I have recently created a level 1 wood elf druid and I mixed-and-matched the gear from the class, so that I chose a shortbow as a "(b) simple weapon" for the first point and a "(a) Scimitar" at the second point. My DM wasn't so happy about this, as he can't understand why I'm mixing (a) and (b).  He also wasn't so happy with me spending my 10gp from my outlander background. I decided that my druid wouldn't lay so much worth in 10gp compared to a bunch of stuff I got for that (e.g. some soap and some fishing equipment and some other useful things) and he seems to think that I'm supposed to just start with the gold instead. Show that $A_n$ is the kernel of a group homomorphism of $S_n \rightarrow \{−1,1\}$. How can I cure lycanthropy? I really want to get rid of it. I've been through the whole companion’s quest line and cured Kodlak's. I killed all 5 witches and have 4 of the heads left in my inventory.  I've been back to that same flame and tried to use it with the head, but nothing going; activating it does nothing. I've heard this is how you cure it; however I have not heard a first-hand account of anyone actually curing it.  If you have, can you explain what you do? Do you go to the same tomb where you fought Kodlak's beast form? Do you do something special with the witch head in your inventory, or just have it in there and activate the harbinger flame or whatever? How to get a DOM Element from a jQuery selector? Continuous injective map is strictly monotonic Alright, I'm toying around with converting a PIL image object back and forth to a numpy array so I can do some faster pixel by pixel transformations than PIL's PixelAccess object would allow.  I've figured out how to place the pixel information in a useful 3D numpy array by way of:  pic = Image.open("foo.jpg") pix = numpy.array(pic.getdata()).reshape(pic.size[0], pic.size[1], 3)   But I can't seem to figure out how to load it back into the PIL object after I've done all my awesome transforms.  I'm aware of the putdata() method, but can't quite seem to get it to behave. Some spells, such as Forbiddance, say that under certain circumstances, they last "Until Dispelled".  Other spells, such as Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum, say that under certain circumstances, they become "Permanent".  What is the difference between these two terms?  Does "Permanent" mean that the effect can never be dispelled? I've got the new Canon Pixma MG 3150 and so far, I can't seem to find a driver anywhere. I do have the CD for both Windows and Mac, but this doesn't help me, as I have Ubuntu 11.10. I'd prefer to have it running on the wifi.  I'm really new to this, so I need for you to explain this to me as basically as possible. JSonNet boolean serialization What evidence is there that 'to' belongs to any particular part of speech? Reopen note:  There is a quite finite and modest amount of evidence in the literature about this issue, which members can record here as they see fit. Less than there is for example about what a noun is or what a verb is, or how to tell what the Subject of a sentence is. It's a simple question, that people need to be able to get answered on a site such as this. It is of continuing interest as more recent questions such as  attest to. The fact that people disagree about the outcome of the evidence does not mean that there is too much evidence to be documented. Quite the reverse. They disagree because there is relatively little evidence altogether. However, it is seriously interesting evidence.   The question   What part of speech is to as in:   I need to know. To err is human, to forgive divine. What am I to do?   This question is not really about the difference in meaning between the examples. It is a question about what grammatical or syntactic reasons we have to classify this item as a particular part of speech. If arguing that it is 'its own part of speech', I'd like to know what grammatical - but not historical - reasons you have for your claim.   Just to clarify, I'm not asking about what assignment any particular authority or publication gives it. I'm interested to know the reasons why. Your own personal insights are also very welcome.  If you're a grammar anorak - like me - then you may want a list of the contenders out there from other grammarians. In no particular order:   preposition subordinator non-finite auxiliary verb modal verb inflectional element   Can you help? Vandermonde Determinant This is an exercise from Ian Stewart's Galois Theory, $3^{rd}$ edition:     If $z_1,z_2,\ldots,z_n$ are distinct complex numbers, show that the determinant $$D=\left|\begin{array}[cccc]  11&amp;1&amp;\cdots&amp;1\\ z_1&amp;z_2&amp;\cdots&amp;z_n\\ z_1^2&amp;z_2^2&amp;\cdots&amp;z_n^2\\ \vdots&amp;\vdots&amp;\ddots&amp;\vdots\\ z_1^{n-1}&amp;z_2^{n-1}&amp;\cdots&amp;z_n^{n-1} \end{array}\right|$$   is nonzero.       Hint: Consider the $z_j$ as independent indeterminates over $\Bbb C$. Then $D$ is a polynomial in the $z_j$, of total degree $0+1+\cdots+(n-1)=\frac{1}{2}n(n-1)$. Moreover, $D$ vanishes whenever $z_j=z_k$ for $k\neq j$, as it then has two identical rows. Therefore $D$ is divisible by $z_j-z_k$ for all $j\neq k$, hence it is divisible by $\prod_{j&lt;k}(z_j-z_k)$. Now compare degrees.   My question is how to do this. I follow the hint and I'm thinking of $D$ as a cofactor expansion; is that the idea? Also, the fact that $D$ vanishes whenever $z_j=z_k$ for $k\neq j$ follows since it would have two identical columns, right? I don't see why $z_j=z_k$ would imply it has two identical rows, as the hint suggests. The fact that it is divisible by $(z_j-z_k)$ is easy since that would make $z_k$ a root for $k=j$, but I'm not quite sure I follow why the degrees would be different. I think the degree of the product would be $1+2+\cdots+(k-1)$, but then add these up for all $k&lt;n$?   I appreciate any clarification that you can provide! Why do I get "Required key not available" when install 3rd party kernel modules or after a kernel upgrade? What do you call someone who can't keep secrets? Some one who is not good at keeping secrets. In my native language it is called "chugalkhor" but it's a slang. So I can't translate it.  What do you call such a person who can't keep secrets because his instincts don't let him.