I want to buy a laptop, wipe it and install Ubuntu 14.x.x on it.  I saw this HP Stream with this specs:   Celeron N3060 speed1.6 GHGz Graphics  cardIntel GMA HD Ram 2 GB  SSD  32 GB (eMMC)  Do you think I can Install Ubuntu 14 on this one? Im suspicious of the eMMC disk in particular.  Thank you all.
I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu Desktop, but I don't know what flavor is the best for my system. What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements? What kind of CPU? How much memory? Should I have Hardware Acceleration? What flavor should I use?  This is an attempt of a canonical answer. My answers have the &quot;official  requirements&quot;, the recommended are a mix of official sources and opinion based (along with the answer it's told the source). You can comment or edit if you feel that the information is obsolete or incomplete. It is a good rule of thumb that any system capable of running Windows Vista, 7, 8, x86 (Intel) OS X will almost always be a lot faster with any Ubuntu flavor even if they are lower-spec than described below.
Is JavaScript a pass-by-reference or pass-by-value language? After taking a statistics course and then trying to help fellow students, I noticed one subject that inspires much head-desk banging is interpreting the results of statistical hypothesis tests.  It seems that students easily learn how to perform the calculations required by a given test but get hung up on interpreting the results.  Many computerized tools report test results in terms of "p values" or "t values".  How would you explain the following points to college students taking their first course in statistics:   What does a "p-value" mean in relation to the hypothesis being tested?  Are there cases when one should be looking for a high p-value or a low p-value? What is the relationship between a p-value and a t-value? Get Label value for specified language Please give me feedback on my answer to this question. Question: For all $ n\geq1:\binom{2n}{0}+\binom{2n}{2}+\binom{2n}{4}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2k}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2n} $   is equal to $ \binom{2n}{1}+\binom{2n}{3}+\binom{2n}{5}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2k+1}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2n-1} $. Answer: False, since;  Let $a=1,  b=-1$  and $n=1$  ,$k=0$   , using Binomial expression.  $$(a+b)^n=  \sum   \binom{n}{k}  a^{k}b^{n-k}$$  Then $(1+-1)^{2(1)}=\binom{2}{0}1^{0}(-1)^{2-0}+\binom{2}{1}1^{1}(-1)^{2-1}+\binom{2}{2}1^{2}(-1)^{2-2}=\binom{2}{0}-\binom{2}{1}+\binom{2}{2}$  Thus :For all $n\geq1:  \binom{2n}{0}+\binom{2n}{2}+\binom{2n}{4}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2k}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2n}   \ne \binom{2n}{1}+\binom{2n}{3}+\binom{2n}{5}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2k+1}+\cdots+\binom{2n}{2n-1}$  . "Me and Joey's" or "mine and Joey's" Which of the following should I use?     Today is me and Joey's anniversary   Today is mine and Joey's anniversary How would you prove the following limit?  $$\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} \frac{x^3y}{x^4+y^2} = 0$$  I think the best way is using the squeeze theorem but I can't find left expression.  $$0 \le \frac{x^3y}{x^4 + y^2} \le \frac{x^3y}{x^4} \le \frac{x^3y}{x^3} \le y = 0.$$  But I'm not sure I'm right (especially at $\frac{x^3y}{x^4} \le \frac{x^3y}{x^3}).$  If I'm right - I'd glad if you can accept it.  If I'm wrong - can you please correct me?  Thanks in advance! How to interpret these acf and pacf plots Following are acf and pacf plots of a monthly data series. The second plot is acf with ci.type='ma':    The persistence of high values in acf plot probably represent a long term positive trend. The question is if this represent seasonal variation?  I tried to see different sites on this topic but I am not sure if these plots show seasonality.           Edit: following is the graph for lag upto 60:     Following are plots of diff(my_series):     And upto lag 60:     Edit: This data is from:  Here the contributors did not consider acf and pacf plot of original or differenced series worth mentioning (so it must not be important). Only acf/pacf plots of residuals was referred to in a couple of places. Draft watermark image just in a \section Is it possible to have a draft watermark only in a \section?  EDIT:  I have in a document more then one \section, and I need the draftwatermark just in some \section. Unfortunately the section with and without the draftwatermark share the page. For example I want the draftwatermark under the text of just one of these sections A,B,C  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{kantlipsum} % supply mock text  \begin{document}  \section{A}  \kant[2]  \section{B}  \kant[2-4]  \section{C}  \kant[2]  \end{document} What is the reason for the observation that across the board fields in physics are generally governed by second order (partial) differential equations?    If someone on the street would flat out ask me that question, then I'd probably mumble something about physicists wanting to be able to use the Lagrangian approach. And to allow a positive rotation and translation invariant energy term, which allows for local propagation, you need something like $-\phi\Delta\phi$.  I assume the answer goes in this direction, but I can't really justify why more complex terms in the Lagrangian are not allowed or why higher orders are a physical problem. Even if these require more initial data, I don't see the a priori problem.  Furthermore you could come up with quantities in the spirit of $F\wedge F$ and $F \wedge *F$ and okay yes... maybe any made up scalar just doesn't describe physics or misses valuable symmetries. On there other hand in the whole renormalization business, they seem to be allowed to use lots and lots of terms in their Lagrangians. And if I understand correctly, supersymmetry theory is basically a method of introducing new Lagrangian densities too.   Do we know the limit for making up these objects? What is the fundamental justification for order two? How to select the most recent set of dated records from a mysql table I am storing the response to various rpc calls in a mysql table with the following fields:  Table: rpc_responses  timestamp   (date) method      (varchar) id          (varchar) response    (mediumtext)  PRIMARY KEY(timestamp,method,id)   What is the best method of selecting the most recent responses for all existing combinations of method and id?   For each date there can only be one response for a given method/id. Not all call combinations are necessarily present for a given date. There are dozens of methods, thousands of ids and at least 365 different dates    Sample data:  timestamp  method  id response 2009-01-10 getThud 16 "....." 2009-01-10 getFoo  12 "....." 2009-01-10 getBar  12 "....." 2009-01-11 getFoo  12 "....." 2009-01-11 getBar  16 "....."   Desired result:  2009-01-10 getThud 16 "....." 2009-01-10 getBar 12 "....." 2009-01-11 getFoo 12 "....." 2009-01-11 getBar 16 "....."   (I don't think  is the same question - it won't give me the most recent response) I would like to know how I can get the value of a node with the following paths:   config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/host config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/username config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/password config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/dbname   from the following XML:  &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;config&gt;     &lt;global&gt;         &lt;install&gt;             &lt;date&gt;&lt;![CDATA[Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:31:25 +0000]]&gt;&lt;/date&gt;         &lt;/install&gt;         &lt;crypt&gt;             &lt;key&gt;&lt;![CDATA[70e75d7969b900b696785f2f81ecb430]]&gt;&lt;/key&gt;         &lt;/crypt&gt;         &lt;disable_local_modules&gt;false&lt;/disable_local_modules&gt;         &lt;resources&gt;             &lt;db&gt;                 &lt;table_prefix&gt;&lt;![CDATA[]]&gt;&lt;/table_prefix&gt;             &lt;/db&gt;             &lt;default_setup&gt;                 &lt;connection&gt;                     &lt;host&gt;&lt;![CDATA[localhost]]&gt;&lt;/host&gt;                     &lt;username&gt;&lt;![CDATA[root]]&gt;&lt;/username&gt;                     &lt;password&gt;&lt;![CDATA[pass123]]&gt;&lt;/password&gt;                     &lt;dbname&gt;&lt;![CDATA[testdb]]&gt;&lt;/dbname&gt;                     &lt;initStatements&gt;&lt;![CDATA[SET NAMES utf8]]&gt;&lt;/initStatements&gt;                     &lt;model&gt;&lt;![CDATA[mysql4]]&gt;&lt;/model&gt;                     &lt;type&gt;&lt;![CDATA[pdo_mysql]]&gt;&lt;/type&gt;                     &lt;pdoType&gt;&lt;![CDATA[]]&gt;&lt;/pdoType&gt;                     &lt;active&gt;1&lt;/active&gt;                 &lt;/connection&gt;             &lt;/default_setup&gt;         &lt;/resources&gt;         &lt;session_save&gt;&lt;![CDATA[files]]&gt;&lt;/session_save&gt;     &lt;/global&gt;     &lt;admin&gt;         &lt;routers&gt;             &lt;adminhtml&gt;                 &lt;args&gt;                     &lt;frontName&gt;&lt;![CDATA[admin]]&gt;&lt;/frontName&gt;                 &lt;/args&gt;             &lt;/adminhtml&gt;         &lt;/routers&gt;     &lt;/admin&gt; &lt;/config&gt;   Also I want to assign that value to the variable for further use. Let me know your idea. How can I apply an effect when a player left-clicks/right-clicks with an item in hand? Is there a way so that I make make it when I left click/right click with a certain item it applies an effect? I know that you can apply attributes to wearing armor and things but I want it so when you use the item it applies an effect on your player.  For example, let's say I want something so that when I right click with a certain item (let's say an iron ingot that was given to me) I'll then have a jump boost for 10 seconds. So kinda like a potion in a way.  Is this possible with command blocks/commands/any mods? Is it possible to write a Ping class in C# that will run within Windows 8 Metro environment? I installed blender for the first time, so I have the latest version, 2.78c.  I played with it for a bit.  Then I discovered I couldn't save my work.  I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.  Rebooted.  Same problem.  After a little testing, I realized I CAN save to my NAS storage drive.  I cannot save on my C: drive.  Any project.  Any folder.  C: always fails.  If I run blender as Administrator, it will save to the C: drive.  But not as my normal userid.  So it sounds like a bug of some kind.  I am running Windows 10.  Bitdefender A/V.  I use OneDrive.  I have a 2TB drive installed.  All clean and purring nicely.  Is there a better way to install it?  Or some change I can make (other than always running as administrator)?    Sounds like a bug - but hopefully there's a proper solution.  Thanks,  Jerry The diagonalizable matrices are not dense in the square real matrices I've just installed a new SSD replacing an HDD in my old (late 2008) iMac. When I switched it on all I got on screen was a question mark.   On the advice of my son I tried cmdR during switch on with no result.   I then tried alt which at least got me a cursor on the screen, but nothing else. Any suggestions? I've got everything backed up on an external Hard Drive, by the way. Infinite Volume but Finite Surface Area Is there any pathological shape that has a finite surface area but an infinite volume? Sort of like the opposite of a Gabriel's horn. Node access based on view mode I am confused by the orientation of a topological manifold. My understanding is: An orientation of a topological manifold is a choice of generator of the $H^n(M,\mathbb Z)$. So given a manifold, we could have 2 orientation defined on the manifold. For $\mathbb{CP}^2$ on orientation is determined by the complex structure, the other orientation is denoted by $\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^2$. And it is well known that there is no orientation reversing map from $\mathbb{CP}^2$ to itself.  My question is: are they homeomorphic? I guess they are not homeomorphic. But I am confuesed, doesn't the orientations defined on the same manifold, how come after reversing the orientation they become not homeomorphic? Apex Array Slice Sometimes I like to use a Queueable to perform work on a list of Ids or sObjects over the heaver Batchable Interface.   However, to do this, we need a very solid implementation of an Array slice method.  Most other programming languages have a native slice method, but Apex does not.  While I have written my own version of slice and it's working fine, I would be interested in hearing about other implementations of slice - the more efficient the better.  My version is in this Utilities class on github   It's modelled after the Javascript version described on the mozilla site   I would expect that the usage and output be similar to this:  String[] arr = ['zero', 'one', 'two', 'three']; String[] sliced = Utilities.slice(arr,1, 3);  System.debug(arr);      // ['zero', 'one', 'two', 'three'] System.debug(sliced);   // ['one', 'two']