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How to enable virtualization on booting? (Ubuntu 13.10) Is there a word for four times as much, analogous to once, twice, and thrice? Is there a word for 'four times as much', analogous to once, twice, and thrice? Show that for any prime $ p $, there are integers $ x $ and $ y $ such that $ p|(x^{2} + y^{2} + 1) $. How can DMs effectively telegraph specific dangers in D&D? There are some play-styles of D&amp;D in which the spectre of player-character death is considered a feature of the game rather than a bug. For my own reasons (which aren't the point of the question), I see them as a feature especially in exploration-focused games (e.g., sandboxes, old-school dungeon-crawling) where there are lots of ways for players to arm themselves with enough information to make informed decisions about the dangers they're willing to tackle.  Even with players that play strategically, seeking that intel and using it to pick their battles strategically, it is still on the DM's shoulders to provide good clues and tell-tales during play. How well the DM does this will significantly impact the players' ability to make informed decisions on where to go, how to prepare, what to fight, and what to avoid. If the players don't catch the clues, it should be because they weren't paying attention or didn't put 2 and 2 together, not because the DM's descriptions suck.  What techniques can the DM use to effectively telegraph to the players the existence and/or nature of the dangers they face?  These assumptions are inherent in the question:   The players are already playing strategically, and don't need to be "trained" in this play-style. Senseless, random PC death is a real possibility, not just threat to set the tone of the game or generate fearfulness in the players. Characters almost always die when players put them in dangerous situations they're not prepared to deal with. Characters might live when players are observant, know what dangers to expect, are well-prepared, and don't take on dangers that are beyond their ability—and even then, the dice have to go in their favour. Knowledge is the edge they need to bend the odds in their favour. The players don't necessarily have access to stat blocks or other, out-of-game information on in-game dangers. Players are relying on the DM's descriptions to understand the world, including its dangers and rewards.   (This isn't an invitation to argue whether an exploration, frequent-PC-death play-style is good or not. That's just background to the question.)   Related: What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you  to understand what has happened and how to regain the permissions that you lost. While trying to ask a question, one could see:  We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See  to learn more.  Likewise, for answers:  We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See  to learn more.   Why am I getting this message? Are deleted posts taken into account too? Is a question/answer ban the same as a suspension? How do I avoid getting a question ban? How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account? Can I simply create a new account? I'll just ask somewhere else on the SE network, and they'll migrate my question to the correct site! Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my standing on other sites in the network? Does this apply to meta sites too? My account is in good standing. Why am I still blocked? How does polynomial long division work? Sometimes, I notice the following message on the Questions tab in my profile on Stack Exchange site:  Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?  When does this message get displayed? Is it based on time of non-availability of answers or inactivity period? formatting long numbers as strings in python What is an easy way in Python to format integers into strings representing thousands with K, and millions with M, and leaving just couple digits after comma?  I'd like to show 7436313 as 7.44M, and 2345 as 2,34K.  Is there some % string formatting operator available for that? Or that could be done only by actually dividing by 1000 in a loop and constructing result string step by step? I haven't written any C++ in years and now I'm trying to get back into it. I then ran across this and thought about giving up:  typedef enum TokenType {     blah1   = 0x00000000,     blah2   = 0X01000000,     blah3   = 0X02000000 } TokenType;   What is this? Why is the typedef keyword used here? Why does the name TokenType appear twice in this declaration? How are the semantics different from this:  enum TokenType {     blah1 = 0x00000000,     blah2=0x01000000,     blah3=0x02000000 }; I have a sequence $T_1,T_2,\ldots$ of independent exponential random variables with paramter $\lambda$. I take the sum $S=\sum_{i=1}^n T_i$ and now I would like to calculate the probability density function.  Well, I know that $P(T_i&gt;t)=e^{-\lambda t}$ and therefore $f_{T_i}(t)=\lambda e^{-\lambda t}$ so I need to find $P(T_1+\cdots+T_n&gt;t)$ and take the derivative. But I cannot expand the probability term, you have any ideas? I often find that I can zoom in to a point, but then cannot zoom any more, even when there is a lot of room to zoom to the meshes on the scene.   This is particularly annoying in the following scenario:  I often land up left clicking on the scene and the 3D cursor shifts there. I use Shift+C to shift the 3D cursor back to the origin. However, this also centers the view on the cursor and shifts the view to show all objects, and sometimes this zooms things way out &ndash; at this point, if I try to zoom in, I can zoom in to a point (using the pinch/zoom on trackpad), but then it stops zooming in.   How do I zoom in after that? Is there anything else I am doing wrong in this case? How could the human race be saved in Interstellar? In  (2014) the human race seemed to be facing pretty poor odds until they discovered a convenient wormhole placed by an unknown entity expressed as "they". Later in the movie, we discover that       "they" are actually the human race in the future, reaching back in  time to save itself.   The end of the movie gets a little wild on the physics end, and I'm happy to take that ending as is - no need for it to make sense - but one very basic detail does bother me:  How could the human race have gone back in time to save itself from circumstances that would have caused us to go extinct without our own help (the convenient wormhole)? Entry to The US before 30-day grace period for student visa The F student visa allows me to enter the US up to 30 days before the program starts. For starting to set up things it is of my interest to arrive sooner than that. How hard is it to travel there beforehand with a tourist visa (waiver) and leave to, say Mexico, to then re enter on a proper date within the 30 days with the student visa? This seems easier than requesting for a status change inside the US from tourist to student.. Whole disk unallocated? Gparted error or partition overlapping? PHP conditionals, brackets needed? I was just browsing a forum and someone asked about a PHP file they had found on the web.  It has several spots like this in the code:  if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip"; else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);  I have always thought brackets are needed to enclose what you want to do if the condition is true.  Is there some other alternative, such as if it is on the same line you don't?  There is also another line like this: if ($action != ""): mail("$adminaddress","Visitor Comment from YOUR SITE",  My instinct is to say this wouldn't work, but I also don't know if it is an outdated PHP file and it used to work? When I login to my ubuntu system, it show me this this message, How can I see it any time? I tried to run . .bashrc but it didn't worked.   Welcome to Ubuntu 12.10 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-24-virtual x86_64)   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/    System information as of Sat Jul 13 06:16:35 UTC 2013    System load:  0.55              Processes:           96   Usage of /:   8.1% of 68.74GB   Users logged in:     0   Memory usage: 55%               IP address for eth0: 198.xx.xxx.xxx   Swap usage:   0%                IP address for eth1: xxx.1x0.xx.xxx    =&gt; There is 1 zombie process.    Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/  223 packages can be updated. 134 updates are security updates.  Last login: Mon Jul  8 17:47:05 2013 Showing that the set of fixed points is a smooth manifold Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and Let $G$ be a finite group acting on $M$ by diffeomorphisms. Show that the set of fixed point $F=\{m \in M: g.m=m \}$ is a smooth manifold. I am unable to deal with the set of fixed points. It doesn't seem to be an open set. It would have been trivial if it was open. Any hints? Why are these black dots / spots appearing in my pictures? Automatically building a database of forward and backward citations My goal is to produce a graph showing the linkages (and lack there of) between several fields that share a common subproblem by showing who cites whom.  There are many databases that show citations between papers: , , and Google Scholar.  However none allows me to download even part of their database.  Is there some database I have overlooked?  Has someone written a scrapper for one of these websites?    For reference, the fields I'm considering are Mechanics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Signal Processing, Geophysics, and several others. Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared?