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Hair particles render not same as 3dView(Eevee) What is the difference between independent and mutually exclusive events? Two events are mutually exclusive if they can't both happen.  Independent events are events where knowledge of the probability of one doesn't change the probability of the other.  Are these definitions correct? If possible, please give more than one example and counterexample. How did a new question with a title shorter than 15 characters come to exist? I don't want to watch the prisoner cart ride to the execution: is it possible to skip this?   If so, how? Can I replace the intro movie file by some empty video? Book series with college students finding a way to open portals to other planets I got the storyline of this book series (I believe it was a series) told to me by a colleague at a former workplace but I can't remember the name of the author or of any of the books in the series. The first book is about a couple of college students who find a way to relatively easily open portals to pretty much wherever they want to go. One day, NASA(?) finally succeeds in sending astronauts to Mars(?). When they have just left the spaceship, one of them suddenly gets a tap on the shoulder, and when he/she turns around, these college students stand there in their homemade space suits, chuckling. I believe these students later also start a company that helps other organizations establish themselves on other planets, or perhaps even &quot;conquers&quot; and sells planets to other organizations. A later book in the series also describes a system that lets people upload their minds to the cloud. Some people choose to live solely in the cloud as virtual creatures, only deciding to &quot;descend&quot; into a &quot;flesh&quot; body when they need to perform some task that requires them to be in physical form. Some people also choose to live in physical form but as several entities, or clones, and sync their mind between the clones through this system, basically allowing them to, for example, run a one-man company with several &quot;instances&quot; of the same human who all share their knowledge and all know exactly what all other clones know in the same moment, effectively creating a super-efficient team of workers. How to get color of pixel in coordinates 123, 456 in screen? My AppleScript app needs to get color of pixel in coordinates 123, 456 in screen. Determine the SQL Server version and edition from the available set up, before actually installing it? How to mount read-write an ext4 partition on Windows? I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 &amp; WinXP).  Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've found , but it only reads ext4.     9. ext4 extent read-only, no  size truncating and expanding support   More:     Supported Ext3/4 features:         flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size   dir_index:    htree directory index   filetype:     extra file mode in dentry   large_file:   > 4G files supported   sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor   uninit_bg:    fast fsck and group checksum   extent:       reading, writing with no extending.   journal:      only support replay for internal journal         Unsupported Ext3/4 features:         journal: log-based operations, external journal   extent: size truncating &amp; expanding, file deletion   flex_bg: first metadata group   EA (extended attributes), ACL support      Also, I have found a patch for Ext4Fsd v0.50 ():     New: Matt Wu has made a new release 0.50 at   ext2fsd.com.  Support for ext4 extents and fix   for BSOD on Windows 7.   I don't think it will be safe. Also I've read some words about writing ext4 in Windows could cause data loss on the disk...  What is the External HDD used for? - First, it will store backups, then family movies, pictures. Some music, and etc. It will be connected to a Raspberry Pi, if I finally receive it. It won't really move, just when it is used to migrate computer's data to a new one. The largest files it will store are Clonezilla disk images (I don't know, if they will be large files or not).  Can someone provide a solution for this problem? Or is there NO important enough difference between ext4 and ext3, and I should use ext3? - (If yes, then can I use Ext2Fsd for that ext3 mount?)  Thank you! How to prove this limit exists: $a_{n+2}=\sqrt{a_{n+1}}+\sqrt{a_{n}}$ Question: Consider a sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ such that $a_{1},a_{2}&gt;0$, and for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ we have:  $$a_{n+2}=\sqrt{a_{n+1}}+\sqrt{a_{n}}$$  Prove that :  $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}a_{n}$ exists and find this limit.  My work: If this limit exists, let $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}a_{n}=x&gt;0$; then we have $$x=\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{x}\Longrightarrow x=4$$ But I can't see how to prove the limit of $\{a_{n}\}$ exists. Thank you for you help! How do I install wine? I have a list of dictionaries and want each item to be sorted by a specific value. Take into consideration the list: [{'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10}]  When sorted by name, it should become: [{'name':'Bart', 'age':10}, {'name':'Homer', 'age':39}] Start TOC from chapter 1 and also page numbering How can I get to Iceland on a cargo ship? Planning a low budget and environment friendly trip to Iceland from Helsinki, Finland next summer for me and my friend. Haven't been able to find relevant information on possibility for cargo travel (from where - eg. Norway, Denmark? - timetables, prices etc). Expected departure from Helsinki around June 18th, return at latest on July 7th 2015. I'm very thankful for any related advice (and first time on stackexchange, so apologies if I didn't formulate my question in a best possible way) How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone? Why is the installer not showing any partitions? I'm having a problem installing Ubuntu, and Kali as well. I downloaded the iso from the official site &amp; tried installing using USB. I also tried desktop installation, but the problem is same.  It shows a single drive i.e. my total Hard Disk and if I select it, it asks me to create a new partition &amp; shows total space as FREE.  It's with all Ubuntu I downloaded, 11.10 Server, 12.10 and 13.04. I also tried to install BackTrack's new version Kali Linux but again I got the same problem.  I hope I meet thier system requirements. Here's my system details for your ease:   OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Processor: Intel P4 2.80 GHz RAM: 3GB Hard Disk: 320GB No of Local Drives: 4 (1 Primary, 3 Logical) Free Space: 195GB (about) Motherboard: G31 Cache: 1MB Help me, please. Strange math notation, vertical bar with parentheses. So I was reading "Resistance Distance" (D. J. Klein, M. Randić) (Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 12(1993)81-95) when I came up with strange notation.  From the paper:  The graph adjacency matrix is defined as: $$A_{xy} = (x|A|y) =  \begin{cases} 1/r_{xy} &amp; x \sim y \\ 0 &amp; \text{otherwise}  \end{cases}$$  The graph degree matrix of a graph is defined as:  $$\Delta_{xy} = (x|\Delta|y) = \delta(x,y) \sum_{z}^{\sim x} 1/r_{xy}$$  $$ |\phi) \equiv \sum_x |x)  $$  My main question is what does the combination of the vertical bar parentheses mean. Thanks in advance. At school, I really struggled to understand the concept of imaginary numbers.  My teacher told us that an imaginary number is a number that has something to do with the square root of $-1$.  When I tried to calculate the square root of $-1$ on my calculator, it gave me an error.  To this day I still do not understand imaginary numbers.  It makes no sense to me at all.  Is there someone here who totally gets it and can explain it?  Why is the concept even useful? Objects Not Showing in Other Workspace Viewports, Only Default What determines speciation at a molecular level?  At what point does a scientist determine two lineages are different enough to be considered separate species?  Does it have a margin of error? How do I use reflection to invoke a private method? There are a group of private methods in my class, and I need to call one dynamically based on an input value. Both the invoking code and the target methods are in the same instance. The code looks like this:  MethodInfo dynMethod = this.GetType().GetMethod("Draw_" + itemType); dynMethod.Invoke(this, new object[] { methodParams });   In this case, GetMethod() will not return private methods. What BindingFlags do I need to supply to GetMethod() so that it can locate private methods?