Is the Earth negatively or positively charged?
What is the net charge of the Earth?
Opposite of "trendy" without a negative meaning I am looking for an opposite to the word trendy without giving a meaning that those who adopted the trend are old-fashioned in hindsight. For example,     Service Oriented Architecture is the trend as of now. But what is trendy in 2014 can become ______ in 2015.   So in 2015, the trend becomes widespread to the extent that it is no longer trendy, but not necessarily old-fashioned.  Edit: I am currently thinking of using mainstream. But still any other thoughts are welcome! What would be the best way to calculate someone's age in years, months, and days in T-SQL (SQL Server 2000)?  The datediff function doesn't handle year boundaries well, plus getting the months and days separate will be a bear.  I know I can do it on the client side relatively easily, but I'd like to have it done in my . Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc' My new ASP.NET MVC Web Application works on my development workstation, but does not run on my web server...    Server Error in '/' Application.    Configuration Error  Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.     Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.    Source Error:    Line 44:         &lt;add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/&gt; Line 45:         &lt;add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/&gt; Line 46:         &lt;add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/&gt; Line 47:         &lt;add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/&gt; Line 48:         &lt;add assembly="System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/&gt;   Source File: C:\inetpub\www.example.org\web.config    Line: 46    Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' could not be loaded.     WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF. To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1. Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging. To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].     Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3053; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3053    Do I need to install the AspNetMVCBeta-setup.msi on the server?  Or is there a different installer for servers? Is a URL allowed to contain a space? Is a URI (specifically an HTTP URL) allowed to contain one or more space characters? If a URL must be encoded, is + just a commonly followed convention, or a legitimate alternative?    In particular, can someone point to an RFC that indicates that a URL with a space must be encoded?  Motivation for question: While beta-testing a web site, I noted that some URLs were constructed with spaces in them. Firefox seemed to do the right thing, which surprised me! But I wanted to be able to point the developers to an RFC so that they would feel the need to fix those URLs. How to use HttpWebRequest (.NET) asynchronously? How can I use HttpWebRequest (.NET, C#) asynchronously? Are there uncountably many surjections from $\mathbb N$ to $\mathbb N$? Statement: There are uncountably many surjections from $\mathbb N$ to $\mathbb N$.  Is the following proof valid:  The real numbers are uncountable.   There exists a bijection between the set of real numbers and the set of all functions from $\mathbb N$ to $\{0,1\}$.   Given a function, $f$, from $\mathbb N$ to $\{0,1\}$, construct a surjection from $\mathbb N$ to $\mathbb N$, denoted $g$, as follows:  We map the $n$th composite number to $n$, and the nth prime, to $f(n)$.   Clearly this is a surjection since the composite numbers are countable. Clearly different functions $f$ lead to different surjections $g$. Since there are uncountably many $f$s, there are uncountably many surjections $g$. As part of an early quest, my PCs are likely to face off against a wizard.  The problem here is that the stat block for Mage NPCs listed in the Basic Rules has a Challenge Rating of 6, while the PCs are going to be five Level 1s. So, instead of messing with the stat block and risk weakening it too much/too little, I'm choosing to create a Level 1 Wizard PC and use it as an NPC for this quest.  The problem with that is that, as far as I can tell, there aren't any designated rules for assigning either Challenge Ratings or XP values to a PC. So, should I just give the wizard a Challenge Rating equal to his level (and thus have him give 200 xp when killed), or is there a better way to do this?  (This is different from , because he's asking for a way to assign a level to an NPC, while I'm asking for a way to assign an XP value/Challenge Rating to a PC (for use as an NPC). Similar questions, but different.) What do I need for extreme macro photography? I am wanting to venture into some extreme macro photography, specifically insects, such as . After doing some research I have believe that my 1::25 macro lens will be sufficient if I am to use some extension tubes (which I have bought).  I would like to shoot the in the wild, is this possible/likely? Or is this always a catch, then release style of shooting?  Regarding the link I've posted, would this be possible with a 1:25 macro and extension tubes? I have a set of three (21mm, 31mm and 13mm). How would you go about shoot a blue bottle for example? Surely they are going to fly away? Should I use a tripod or will that cause more of a hindrance than a help? Are there any techniques/tricks I could use to get a sharp focus on my subject? I'm a fourth year undergraduate student in a university in the U.S., and this is my last semester. I have already applied to graduate schools, and I'm currently awaiting responses. Since I have already finished all my requirements and am ready to graduate, I wanted to go part time this semester. I am aware of how it affects my financial aid; however, I do not know if it has an effect on my admittance to graduate school. I do not mean whether or not I get accepted (the decisions will happen without knowledge of my current semester), but whether I am eligible to attend graduate school if I have been part time for a semester. That is, will there be any potential issues when the schools that have accepted me see my final transcript and see I was part time? Is there a universal answer to this? Or should I contact each school individually and ask about their policy?   Also, are there any other potential issues with going part time that I haven't mentioned? Anything noteworthy I might have missed? Android OS without Google Services? How exactly was the finalist chosen in the NIST AES competition? Google AJAX API - How do I get more than 4 Results? How do you display the archives of a Custom Post Type by Year &amp; Month? Why is my profile messed up on a single site and how can I revert it? I was just asking a question on Gardening SE and suddenly my user name there is a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75aand my picture is replaced by a Gravatar. My location is also left blank.  Here's a   Curiously, my profiles on all other sites are fine.  I don't have a separate login for SE, I log in using my Google account. Nobody other than me has access to my Google account. I use two step authentication and I can see on "recent devices" in Google that no one but me has accessed my Google account. I only access SE from home, and nobody other than me has used my devices.   I tried to edit my Gardening SE profile back to the way I want it to be and I got the following message:     Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:   Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again on Jun 20 at 10:49   I'm assuming this is because I changed the "about me" on all SE sites two days ago.  I never edit my profiles individually. I always apply changes to all sites, using the same profile on all sites.  I have certainly not made such strange (or any) edits to my profile on Gardening SE.  Why did this happen, and how can I get my proper user name and picture back on Gardening SE? Do I really have to wait for a whole month? I want to use the site, and I want them to recognize me as the user they know. I don't want to wait a whole month.  Update: The Gardening SE moderator Niall C. helped me out, and he offered the following potentially relevant information:     I changed your display name on Gardening &amp; Landscaping back to "Fiksdal". Your profile history shows that your profile image (from your headshot on imgur.com to a gravatar), email, about me also changed at the same time as your display name on May 21. It also shows that I changed your profile image to a different gravatar when I changed your display name just now... weird! – Niall C. 1 hour ago We have to prove that  "the product of two numbers ending in 6 also ends with 6" mathematically.  I have no clue how to start. I don't want you to prove it for me! but some hints would be very helpful as I'm totally stuck on how to start this prove. Time taken to hit a pattern of heads and tails in a series of coin-tosses Inspired by Peter Donnelly's talk at , in which he discusses how long it would take for a certain pattern to appear in a series of coin tosses, I created the following script in R. Given two patterns 'hth' and 'htt', it calculates how long it takes (i.e. how many coin tosses) on average before you hit one of these patterns.  coin &lt;- c('h','t')  hit &lt;- function(seq) {     miss &lt;- TRUE     fail &lt;- 3     trp  &lt;- sample(coin,3,replace=T)     while (miss) {         if (all(seq == trp)) {             miss &lt;- FALSE         }         else {             trp &lt;- c(trp[2],trp[3],sample(coin,1,T))             fail &lt;- fail + 1         }     }     return(fail) }  n &lt;- 5000 trials &lt;- data.frame("hth"=rep(NA,n),"htt"=rep(NA,n))  hth &lt;- c('h','t','h') htt &lt;- c('h','t','t')  set.seed(4321) for (i in 1:n) {     trials[i,] &lt;- c(hit(hth),hit(htt))     } summary(trials)   The summary statistics are as follows,        hth             htt          Min.   : 3.00   Min.   : 3.000    1st Qu.: 4.00   1st Qu.: 5.000    Median : 8.00   Median : 7.000    Mean   :10.08   Mean   : 8.014    3rd Qu.:13.00   3rd Qu.:10.000    Max.   :70.00   Max.   :42.000    In the talk it is explained that the average number of coin tosses would be different for the two patterns; as can be seen from my simulation. Despite watching the talk a few times I'm still not quite getting why this would be the case. I understand that 'hth' overlaps itself and intuitively I would think that you would hit 'hth' sooner than 'htt', but this is not the case. I would really appreciate it if someone could explain this to me. Can I paste plain text by default? I regularly copy and paste text between spreadsheets, emails, browser windows, etc. I can't think of a single time when I've wanted to keep the formatting from the source text.  I already know about the following workarounds:   Use “Edit” → “Paste Special” → “Unformatted text” Paste to Notepad and copy from there Install a program that takes over the clipboard   What I want is to tell Windows to just do this by default.  Is this possible? All Stack Exchange data dumps The original ClearBits link to the September 2011 data dump has broken. How can I access it and other previous data dumps? The Internet Archive only has . How to clean an E: drive (new Recovery drive since Windows 10 1803) on HP laptop Is time travel possible? Is it possible to go back in time? I read somewhere that according to relativity, it is possible - involving black holes and other stuff - to jump into the past. Is it possible for anything to go back in time either continuously or by jumping?