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Kill some processes by .exe file name Some months ago I watched  video of Blenderguru about "How to create a realistic earth in blender". In this video blender render is used and  now that I understand texturing in cycles a little better I am trying to rebuild this "realistic earth" with cycles.    In the video - starting at about 11:30 min - it is shown how to map the "earth day" and "earth night" image textures. Depending on the lights shining on the earth the earth or night image is projected. I tried to rebuild that in cycles but I think I a making mistakes. In the circled box the "night" nodes are found. What Is my mistake ?   P.S When you see other mistakes in this node tree, please let me know.  OK ... I now have implemented the advice of Uncle Snail (except moving the black slider). Below an image of the earth and the updated node tree (I also rearranged nodes for better overview).    In the Color Ramp, I did not move the slider. Is that really necessary ?? Korea: Visa required to go to the city while in transit in Seoul for a Philippine citizen? Hi I'm traveling to Uzbekistan and have 12 hours layover in Seoul via Korean Airlines. Do I need a visa to go out of the airport for sightseeing? I'm a Philippine passport holder. When $z\neq 0$, $\arg z$ is defined to be the set $\{\theta \in \mathbb{R} : z=|z|e^{i\theta}\}$.  What if $z=0$? Usually does one leave the argument of $0$ undefined? Or is $\arg 0 = \mathbb{R}$? Packages: graphics vs graphicx Different websites suggest using one of those two packages.  \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{graphics}   What are differences between them? Which is better? I would like to typeset some easy polyomino puzzles and therefore need a suitable LaTeX package. I could not find an easy to use package (other than using TikZ of course). Is there any approach other than using TikZ/PSTricks?  For anybody not aware of what polyominos are:   Edit: With a polyomino puzzle, I mean something like this:   So my intention is to put a set of polyominos into a given shape. How to deserialize a JSON String to Apex How can I deserialize this json object:      {     "response": {         "count": 1,         "benchmark": 0.22567009925842,         "requests": [             {                 "request": {                     "id": 537481,                     "image_thumbnail": "",                     "title": "Request for new bin(s) - residential",                     "description": "Propmain ref  3234-1114",                     "status": "submitted",                     "address": "36 Pine Tree Close",                     "location": "Peterborough, England",                     "zipcode": "PE1 1EJ",                     "user": "",                     "date_created": 1417173208,                     "count_comments": 0,                     "count_followers": 0,                     "count_supporters": 0,                     "lat": 52.599967,                     "lon": -0.233482,                     "user_follows": 0,                     "user_comments": 0,                     "user_request": 1,                     "rank": "0"                 }             }         ],         "status": {             "type": "success",             "message": "Success",             "code": 200,             "code_message": "Ok"         }     } }   What i've tried:   Map&lt;String,Object&gt; rawObj = (Map&lt;String,Object&gt;) JSON.deserializeUntyped(jsonString);     Map&lt;String,Object&gt; responseObj = (Map&lt;String,Object&gt;)rawObj.get('response');     List&lt;Object&gt; reqs = (List&lt;Object&gt;) responseObj.get('requests');     System.debug('Map Size = ' + reqs.size());     Map&lt;String, Object&gt; i = new Map&lt;String, Object&gt; ();     for (Object x : reqs) {          i = (Map&lt;String, Object&gt;)x; }     Map&lt;String,Object&gt; requests = (Map&lt;String,Object&gt;)i.get('request');     System.debug('Map Size = ' + i.size());     for (String field : i.keySet()){          Object id = i.get(field);         Object title = i.get('title');         System.debug('Id : ' + id);         System.debug('title : ' + title);          //System.debug('Title : ' + title);       } Concatenating numbers and adding in leading zeros? I have three text fields populated as follows: 1, 9, 1 that I need to concatenate into a field that looks like 01.09.01.  Getting to 1.9.1 is easy but can anyone help out with how to formulate it so that each value has two places (i.e. add in those zeroes).  I used to do this in Excel but can't figure out how to work in ArcMap 10. How to generate all permutations of a list? How do I get an animated gif to work in WPF? What control type should I use - Image, MediaElement, etc.? I am running Ubuntu 14.04 from Windows, using virtualbox 5.0. I tried several options to make size of Ubuntu in virtual box larger, but none helped so far.   I am using latest virtual box with latest guest add on installed. sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 I went to Ubuntu 'software and Updates' and made sure that under 'Additional Drivers' tab, 'using x86 visualization solution...' is active. In virtualbox window, under view->virtual screen 1, all 'resize to' options are disabled.   None of these options helped. This is frustrating. Any comments or help? Can the problem be I am using 64 bit system? Does this problem occurs in earlier/later versions? If not, please suggest a 'good' version of Ubuntu for virtualbox. can my transit visa take me through munich and frankfurt? Can $\pi$ or $e$ be a root of a polynomial with algebraic coefficients? Since $\pi$ and $e$ are transcendental, neither can be the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients. However, it is easy to construct a polynomial transcendental coefficients (with $\pi$ or $e$ as one of it's roots), namely $(x-\pi)$ and $(x-e)$. However, is it possible to construct a finite polynomial (one of whose roots is $\pi$ or $e$) with only algebraic coefficients? (i.e. something such as $y=x^5-(\sqrt 2 -1)x^2+x$ .) A polynomial with only radical coefficients would be the best.  P.S. The polynomial doesn't necessarily need to have BOTH $\pi$ and $e$ as it's roots, just one is interesting enough. How can I select a point without selecting its reflected side The limit of truncated sums of harmonic series, $\lim\limits_{k\to\infty}\sum_{n=k+1}^{2k}{\frac{1}{n}}$ What is the sum of the 'second half' of the harmonic series?  $$\lim_{k\to\infty}\sum\limits_{n=k+1}^{2k}{\frac{1}{n}} =~ ?$$  More precisely, what is the limit of the above sequence of partial sums? On mu Ubuntu 12.04 setups my tmux clipboard copy and paste commands are setup as follows:  set -g prefix M-a unbind C-b bind C-c run "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i -sel clipboard" bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer \"$(xclip -o -sel clipboard)\"; tmux paste-buffer"   This worked great for the longest time up until a month or so ago, when I suspect some configuration change or package change was made that broke the above. In GNOME terminal, pasting still works fine with both prefix+ctrl-v and ctrl-shift-v.   However the xclip copy command no longer works no matter what I do, and I have tried removing the custom prefix binding above, using -select instead of -sel, not using clipboard etc. This is pretty much a show stopper for a GVim user like me, since I don't even have the GNOME terminal workaround of ctrl-shift-c with tmux taking over the shell. I go into copy mode, select text with space+movement, and when I execute prefix+ctrl-c absolutely nothing happens. Before this broke, tmux would display a confirmation message in the notification section at the bottom.  Does anybody have suggestions as far as how one might debug this? This is a pretty big productivity hit. I can probably use the , but it'd be great to know just what happened to xclip. When should I fudge dice rolls? When I started my first D&amp;D campaign as a DM, I accidentally rolled and confirmed a crit on a PC from a goblin. It was an instant kill as our campaign had no cleric. That time I decided to fudge the dice. Now, there's a similar problem, but this time the PCs are at 3rd level and they are dealing with a very important NPC. If they fail this one diplomacy check, the entire game world will fall apart, as the king would then send his entire army against the PC's homeland and will destroy it, plunging my entire game world into chaos, at which time drow that I wanted to save for a later adventure will have to come out, which will instigate a wizard's guild to release their secret ultra-deadly virus, and everything in my game world, including the PCs, will die. So should I fudge the dice roll? When is it good to fudge it? Situation: when a user self-marks their post as a duplicate, it shows as closed by "community" rather than the original poster.  Problems: this is not clear at all to most users of SE what has happened. It looks like the question was "mod closed" as a duplicate against the asker's wishes.    Suggestion: instead of the community user "closing" the post, have the final close user be the asker (or make it "Community &amp; Asker"). This will help clear up confusion and streamline the process for understanding what happens. Irreducible cyclotomic polynomial How to prove that we are living in a 3+1D world? Is there any scientific experiment that can lead us to conclude we live in 3 spatial dimensions without the premise of the conception of limited dimensions?  Thank you all who helped in the improvement of this question (which was not clear at first).   EDIT:  I know that this can be a little philosophical, but it is also a scientific question.  Let's consider the scenario where the mankind was not ever able to see.  Let's also consider that this limitation could be surpassed thus not limiting us to reach a scientific and technological knowledge "similar" to what we have today.  Would this civilization of blind people reach the conclusion that they are living in a 3D spatial world?  Is the sense of touch enough to reach that conclusion? Is there any scientific experiment that can lead us to that conclusion without the premise of the conception of limited dimensions?  Would it be easier, harder, or just different to reach a conclusion predicted by the M-Theory? (please do not focus only on this last question)