What is the difference between the various image-stabilized Canon 18-55mm lenses?
Is the standard Canon 18-55 lens the same as 5 years ago?
Proof of $Y=F_X(X)$ being uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$ for arbitrary continuous $F_X$ I bought a Minecraft account for my little brother for Christmas, and I'd like to play with him on my server every now and then. If I log in while he's on, however, it kicks him off since we have the same username. Is there any way to change my username so that I can play with him, or anything I can do so that we can both play together using this account on my server?  I'm open to anything that could let us play, whether it be username changes, server property changes, etc. If I traceroute to my server via a bunch of different methods, the external ip seems to not work. However the server is online and accessible by this ip.  Localhost:  michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$ traceroute 127.0.0.1 traceroute to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)  0.120 ms  0.069 ms  0.064 ms   Internal Ip:  michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$ traceroute 192.168.1.3 traceroute to 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  michaelxu-server (192.168.1.3)  0.122 ms  0.065 ms  0.067 ms   External IP:   michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$ traceroute 24.24.174.153 traceroute to 24.24.174.153 (24.24.174.153), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  * * *  2  * * *  3  * * *  4  * * *  5  * * *  6  * * *  7  * * *  8  * * *  9  * * * 10  * * * 11  * *^C michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$   ...it contines all the way to 30 ... the same thing happens if I traceroute it through the dns server  It also occurs if i do it from another online service:     Tracing route to cpe-24-24-174-153.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.174.153]...  hop rtt rtt rtt     ip address  fully qualified domain name 1   1   1   1       70.84.211.97    61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com 2   0   0   0       70.87.254.5 po101.dsr02.dllstx5.networklayer.com 3   0   0   1       70.85.127.109   po52.dsr02.dllstx3.networklayer.com 4   0   0   0       173.192.18.230  ae17.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com 5   0   0   0       66.109.9.97 ae-11-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com 6   41  40  39      66.109.6.208    ae-6-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com 7   39  39  40      66.109.6.0  ae-3-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com 8   37  39  39      66.109.6.65  9   42  40  39      72.129.9.3  agg1.lamrcadq-ccr02.socal.rr.com 10  36  36  35      72.129.10.73     11  53  60  49      24.24.209.18    ge17-0-spsdca1-ars1.socal.rr.com 12  *   *   *            13  *   *   *            14  *   *   *            15  *   *   *          What do the * * * mean? Is there any way to "fix this" bash: ./program: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error DataGridTextColumn.IsReadOnly seems to be faulty I am looking to identify a story that I read around 2001 (it is probably much older).  Someone showed me the story on pages printed from the internet, and it was attributed to Isaac Asimov (although I cannot state that is the true author).    The story is told in glimpses at different points of time in the future.  In each glimpse, humans are asking a more and more "intelligent" computer how to prevent the universe from collapsing into a singularity in the future, and the computer states it needs more computational power and resources to solve this problem.  At some point, man becomes one with the computer, and the computer exists in hyperspace (or subspace?).    In the final glimpse, it is the end of time and the universe is collapsing into a singularity.  At the instant the universe reaches the singularity, the computer figures out how to prevent it and says "Let there be light" and the universe begins to expand again.  Is anyone familiar with this story? How was Jon Snow able to kill the White Walker in S05E08? If you could travel to the center of the Earth (or any planet), would you be weightless there? Plural nouns in nominal compounds I wonder whether there are rules or guidelines regarding plural nouns in nominal compounds. For example a compound university students list. If there are many lists and many universities is it grammatically correct to say universities students lists? Must all elements be in the plural form or can some be left in singular, even though the meaning is plural? I've seen an expression universities student lists; is it correct? How to prove that this set is closed? Suppose $Y$ be an ordered set in the order topology. Let $f, g: X \to Y$ be continuous. How to show that the set $\{x| f(x) \leq g(x)\}$ is closed?  This is a excercise from munkres. Maybe trying to show that the set $f(\{x| f(x) &gt; g(x)\})$ is open is suffice. But I could not figure out the connection between this set and the continuity of the two functions.Could you give a hint?  Thanks. I've always wondered why the number of protons in the Universe exactly matches the number of electrons. They are such different particles with totally different cross sections. So, first of all, is this true? And, secondly, how could it be that they have been produced in the same amount after the Big-Bang? What server control panels are available for Ubuntu Server? As a dedicated Ubuntu server or as a VPS, I am looking for a web control panel, something like cPanel which is something like a web administrator for a server.  I have not used any on Linux since I do everything through the terminal, but still want to know what I can use in the case I have to recommend Ubuntu Server with such an application installed. Out of five needed members for my doctoral thesis committee, four are fixed. For the fifth member, I approached Mr.A. He has no real connection to my research or topic but I contacted him because he was just as good a fit as anybody else in the department to be the fifth member. I have never worked with him or taken any classes but we did talk a lot in the first few years where he would just ask about my progress by the copy machine, etc. We don't even have a "rapport". The relationship is absolutely neutral, nothing positive/friendly, and nothing negative. I asked him to be on my committee and he said yes. I said I'll get back to you with dates, etc. He is a senior tenured professor.  Then about a month later, I was looking at the CV of some of the new hired (junior) faculty in the department Mr.B (this is his first year) and I see that we have a collaborator in common. Mr.B has published multiple papers with him and Mr.B is working with the same code and the code managing team that we are working with. He is definitely a good person to have on my committee. I finally see Mr.B after a few more months (because of busy schedule/travel/etc.) and he agrees to be on my committee.  The question is, how can I tell Mr.A, as tactfully as possible, after about four months of being quiet that he is basically rejected from my committee because I didn't know about Mr.B but now that I know, Mr.B is a much better match than he is? That I don't need him but I do appreciate his offer? I don't want to antagonize Mr.A or burn any bridges. Should this be in email or in person? Should I explain or just keep it terse? Should I keep it vague that I don't need him and thanks for his time? Or should I tell him about Mr.B and why he is a better match?  FYI, this was before anything official/paperwork was done so there is no problem with that. How to do seperate render passes in blender? I a lot of VFX breakdown that uses something they call "render passes". From what I see, they are rendering the clip in seperate ways (like rendering the ambient occlusion, specular, shadows, depth of field, etc individually and then combine it). Is there any way I can do this? If I need to use Blender within a colour-accurate workflow, what do I have to do to set that up (including hardware calibration, etc)? Accessing class members on a NULL pointer I was experimenting with C++ and found the below code as very strange.   class Foo{ public:     virtual void say_virtual_hi(){         std::cout &lt;&lt; "Virtual Hi";     }      void say_hi()     {         std::cout &lt;&lt; "Hi";     } };  int main(int argc, char** argv) {     Foo* foo = 0;     foo-&gt;say_hi(); // works well     foo-&gt;say_virtual_hi(); // will crash the app     return 0; }   I know that the virtual method call crashes because it requires a vtable lookup and can only work with valid objects.   I have the following questions    How does the non virtual method say_hi work on a NULL pointer? Where does the object foo get allocated?   Any thoughts? (p → q) ∧ ¬p ⇒ ¬q  I have tried to use the rules of inference in many ways to prove this argument to be valid. However, I cannot seem to find a way to validate the argument, but I am afraid I have missed something.  Using a truth table I find that when p and q is 0, then p → q is 1, ¬p is 1 and ¬q is 1. Would that not make the argument valid?  I apologize in advance if I have misunderstood the whole concept. Any answer would be much appreciated. Thank you I make use of the view: "taxonomy term". Is there an easy way to also show the children of a term, next to the nodes beloging to this term?  Example:  Cars - Volvo --- Family_cars --- Sports_cars - Honda --- Parts --- ... Trucks - ...   When you see the "cars" page I want to show all articles about cars (but not about Volvo, Honda, ...) AND I want to show the children (Volvo, Honda, ...) When you click one of these I want to show all the articles belonging with them, again with their children. I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:  \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \advance\leftskip-3cm \advance\rightskip-3cm \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,scale=0.6]{slike/visina8} \caption{} \label{visina8} \end{center}\end{figure}   to place my figures. How can I tell latex I REALLY want the figure in that specific place, no matter how much whitespace will be left? We are doing research on monitor human activities to avoid adverse events. In part of it, we did an experiment in our MoCap lap to detect the human motion to monitor his activities. We have f-curves from that motion. But we need all the xyz coordinates values for that motion for that given time (just say about 2-3 minutes) to do a scientific analysis of the data.  Do anyone have an idea how to get xyz values from f-curves?