I have an Empty, not located at the origin. When I parent a mesh to the empty, the mesh changes location. I don't understand this functionality in Blender. Is there an option to prevent this from happening? Right now I make sure to leave the Empty at the origin to prevent the mesh from relocating during parenting.
I'm looking for a way to have two separate objects be connected, so that when I move the first object the second one will move also. The term parent is used, but how do I parent a object?
How to repair a broken .EXE file association After (hopefully) scrubbing viruses out of a Windows 7 installation (after deciding not to simply run over the laptop repeatedly with my car), I've got everything almost back to normal. The only lingering issue I have is that for my non-admin users, the ".exe" file extension doesn't work. That is, clicking on the various desktop application links results in a "How do you want to open this?" dialog.  I've been through the alleged registry fixing from "winhelponline" and that had absolutely no effect.  I've tried running "assoc" for the affected users, but it reports the .exe association to be "exefile" even though it persistently does not work.  Right-clicking on a desktop icon and then choosing "start" does successfully open an application, but that's clearly a terrible situation.  For my admin user, things seem to work fine.  What do I need to do to get things working? Using old version of numpy even with a newer version installed Hi there! I'm looking for a help drawing this diagram. Any ideas? Formatting floats differently based on placement I am trying to run Notepad as admin so I can edit my hosts file from the command line.  I have tried runas /user:(myusername)\administrator "notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" I then input my password and I get     RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - notepad   c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 1327: Account restrictions are   preventing this user from signing in. For example: blank pa sswords   aren't allowed, sign-in times are limited, or a policy restriction has   been enforc ed.   PS: I know if I give permission to my user account I can edit it without running as admin. But I'd like to know how to do this without having to change permissions on the hosts file. How to disable autorefresh in snap Is it possible to disable autorefresh in snap? This  says that Snaps are updated automatically in the background to the latest version, every day. Some snaps (e.g. vlc) are built daily, and it makes no sense to install them every day. Should I put myself last? "me and my friends" vs. "my friends and me" or "my friends and I" I've always been taught to put myself last when referring to myself in the same sentence as others but the usage of "me and..." seems to be everywhere these days. The misuse of the word "me" instead of "I" aside, is there some new rule I haven't heard of? Shouldn't we put ourselves last regardless of the "me"/"I" usage?  Examples of "correct" usage:      My friends and I went for some ice   cream. Did you see my friends and me   at the ice cream stand?   Examples of "incorrect" usage:     Me and my friends went for some ice   cream. Did you see me and my friends   at the ice cream stand?   Note: I was also taught that the only person who could put themselves first was the queen. Setting up PyCharm to reference ArcPy? How would I setup  to recognize import arcpy?   I'd like to use PyCharm to develop and debug geoprocessing tool. I try to share my internet connection from my laptop (win7) via virtual wifi to my android phone (Samsung Gio). In an elevated cmd I enter  netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=VWiFi key=xxx keyUsage=persistent netsh wlan start hostednetwork   The android phone connects to VWifi, but the internet connection is hardly usable on the phone while the internet connection on my laptop is very good at the same time (some Mbps)  What works: I can start WhatsApp, type and receive text messages, so I guess there's no general problem, i.e. config can't be completely wrong - but when I try to send pics or audio or try to receive pics or audio messages then I see from the network monitor on my laptop that the connection doesn't even try to send or receive anything (0 kbps up/down).  What sometimes works: connection to some websites with acceptable speed - but sometimes I don't get a single byte. Also this is not reproducible - the same website sometimes shows up, sometimes android tells my the site was not available.  What never worked so far: connecting to Google Play Store. It always tells me to check my connection and try again.  What I tried so far: I read on problems with IPv6, but no matter if I enable or disable IPv6 in the settings of the virtual Wifi, it doesn't help.  I also read about problems related to static/dynamic IPs, my netsh interface ip show config tells my that dchp isn't enabled on my virtual Wifi connection. If I try to enable it by netsh interface ip set address "myWificonnection" dhcp the android phone won't even connect anymore to the virtual Wifi at all. So there may be a solution here if android would connect with dhcp enabled.  I also read about problems with MAC filters, but this is no router, there's no MAC filter in the virtual Wifi.  When I directly connect to a real WLAN router, everything is fine and working. I have the problems only when trying to get into the internet via the virtual Wifi.  Any ideas what may be configured wrong? Either on laptop or on android? Thanks. Did regular Americans speak the way actors in the 30s and 1940s did? I watch a lot of old movies, and I've noticed that American actors of the 1930s and 1940s often spoke in a quasi-generic-posh-British accent.  Katherine Hepburn's accent would be the perfect example. It seems exaggerated, and I imagine it was not common off the stage and screen. What was that? Was it just an accent or was it a dialect? Did real people actually speak that way? TypeError: Element-wise multiplication: not supported between 'Matrix' and 'Vector' Intervals are connected and the only connected sets in $\mathbb{R}$ As the topic, prove that Intervals are connected and only connected  in $\mathbb{R}$. I know what is the definition of connected set. But not sure how to prove that. Please describe direct products in the category Rel. What is the proper name for a "river plot" visualisation In a famous plot, Charles Minard visualised the losses of the French Army in the Russian campaign of Napoleon:    (another nice example is  xkcd plot)  Is there a canonical name for this type of visualisation? I'm actually looking for an R package to create such plots, but I don't even know how to look for it.  EDIT:  As I could not find a good package in R do do this type of plots, I have created my own, called "riverplot" -- you can download it . Here is a simplified version of the above diagram:    And an example of what other diagrams can be created with the package: Term to describe users' initial dislike of user interface change What is the best term to describe the fact that most users have an initial dislike of any change to a UI even though it may really be net better over time?  Note: Question originally appeared proof relating to limit definition of e I'm studying the book A Primer for the Mathematics of FinancialEngineering, along with it's solution guide. I've ran into trouble with the solution to question 7 in chapter 1.    The problem is:  Show that $(1+\frac{1}{x})^x &lt; e &lt; (1+\frac{1}{x})^{x+1}$ .   Specifically, I'm having trouble with one step in the solution.    It says that  $$x\ln\left(1+\frac{1}{x}\right)&lt;1&lt;(x+1)\ln\left(1+\frac{1}{x}\right)$$  can be written as   $$\frac{1}{x+1} &lt;\ln\left(1+\frac{1}{x}\right)&lt;\frac{1}{x}, \forall \ge 1.$$  How can the first equality (or is it inequality?) be written as the second? When does Thread.CurrentThread.Join() make sense? show that the solution is a local martingale iff it has zero drift How do you integrate $\int \frac{1}{a + \cos x} dx$?  Is it solvable by elementary methods?  I was trying to do it while incorrectly solving a homework problem but I couldn't find the answer.  Thanks! Induction Proof: Fibonacci Numbers Identity with Sum of Two Squares