i just started using blender recently and wanted to render an animation made with my gpu cos it was taking ages with the cpu. I went to user prefrences to enable the gpu but the cuda option wasnt there for me to click.(i have a Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 gpu if that matters) also im using cycles
Why is it that Blender will only allow me to render with a CPU (GPU choice is unavailable)? Or is it until I acquire a graphics card that is specially built for such a task?  The images below show a Dell System Diagnostics (Video calibration) and GPU-Z results.      Platform: Dell Inspiron 3521 notebook with Core&nbsp;i3 Intel HD Graphics 4000
Why can't I mine diamond, gold ore, or redstone ore? Normal blocks I can mine fine, but when it comes to diamond and gold ores, the block just gets "destroyed" (as in you can't pick it up). I'm playing on multiplayer with no spawning monsters. Stack Overflow has left! I need to group 400 points in 10 groups with 40 points each. The goal is to get the 40 points geographicly together like this:        Any idea how to do this with QGIS? How do I resize my current ubuntu partition? I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.  Can I use gparted to do this?  If so how? The official deck construction rules for Commander (nee EDH) at  say that 'A card's colour identity is its colour plus the colour of any mana symbols in the card's rules text.'  How does this apply to dual-faced cards with faces of different colors, such as  out of Innistrad or  from Dark Ascension, where the color of the transformed face of the card is different from the color of the 'main face'?  The spirit of the rules would seem to suggest that these cards are the colors of both faces for deck construction purposes, but not only are these spells always cast as the front face, the front face is the only one 'seen' in other game zones: for instance, when the card's in the library, you could find Elbrus by searching your library for an artifact, but you couldn't find Withengar Unbound by searching your library for a creature card.  Could Elbrus then, for instance, be played in any Commander deck, or just one with a (partly) Black general? Why don't elves have more babies? How do I install drivers for a Canon LBP-2900 printer? I seen many times how people describe how to's about LBP-2900, and 10-12 steps from start to end of how to download, unpack, build driver, fix driver, make it work... Could be there some .deb package with ready-to-go driver for Ubuntu? This printer is very popular... 'Thank you for taking your time writing' or 'Thank you for taking your time to write' ? A person gave me an answer on English.SE and I commented:     Thank you for taking your time writing this wonderful answer!   Now, looking at the sentence in retrospect, even though I am not a native English speaker (duh, otherwise I wouldn't be asking a question on ELL.SE), I find the sentence a bit odd.  To get my point across, let me rephrase the sentence:     Thank you for taking your time to write this wonderful answer!   With my relatively little knowledge and understanding of English, I feel that using 'writing' (as I did in the original sentence) emphasizes the very process of writing the answer, whereas using 'to write' emphasizes the mere fact that an answer has been given, and a wonderful one at that.  This is exactly why I feel the original sentence is a little bit awkward and the second, revised one would have been more apt.  Am I correct or are the quoted sentences virtually synonymous? babel shorthand "| doesn't work in macros The package babel with the ngerman option (and most other languages as well, but not english) provides the shorthand "|, which prevents a ligature at the given position (see p. 81 of the , e.g. Auf"|lage will result in the word Auflage without an fl-ligature (as is desired because, in German, you don't want ligatures across morpheme borders).  However, when placed in a macro, "| doesn't work anymore. Why is this and how can I circumvent it?  \documentclass{article}  %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% doesn't help \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}  \newcommand{\foo}{"|}  \begin{document}  ff  f"|f  f\foo f  \end{document} what is the difference between - I make it to go and I make it go? What is the difference between sentences like these:     I make it to go.   I make it go.   or     You make me to cry.   You make me cry. Does "It snowed hard Monday" require an "on"? I came across an English learner writing     It snowed hard Monday.   After saying that it didn't snow on Friday and Saturday.  It didn't quite feel right to me.  I'd be okay with     It snowed hard.   or     It snowed Monday.   Is it okay for there to be two things ("hard" and "Monday") modifying the snowing without an "on" breaking things up a bit? Find images by size: find / file / awk I've been trying to find png image files a certain height (over 500px).  I know that file will return image dimensions.  Example:    $ file TestImg1a.png  TestImg1a.png: PNG image data, 764 x 200, 4-bit colormap, non-interlaced      But I need to use this to find all files in a directory with a height over 500px.  I know how to print out all files regardless of height:  find . -name '*.png' | xargs file | awk '{print $7 " " $1}'   But how do I limit the $7 to those results greater than 500? Integral of the square of the normal distribution. Does someone know what the integral of the square of the normal distribution with standard deviation sigma over the range $-\infty$ to $+\infty$ is?  Thanks! Why can't I use Stack Exchange if I'm under 13 years old, or if I'm under 16 years old and from the EU? Prove This Inequality ${\pi \over 2} \le \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {1 \over {1+n^2}} \le {\pi \over 2} + 1$ $${\pi \over 2} \le \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {1 \over {1+n^2}} \le {\pi \over 2} + 1$$  I see I should use Riemann sum, and that $$\int_0^{\infty} {dx \over {1+x^2}} \le \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {1 \over {1+n^2}}$$  But how do I explain this exactly, and how to get the other half of the inequality (with ${\pi \over 2} + 1$)? Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers? I just found http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, , with all its answers and no difference in a single character. There is no reference to Stack Overflow.  Is this legal, or at least tolerated? Is this impertinent theft of information? I just can't see any sense in copying whole pages, particularly when not referencing the source. What pins on a nRF51822 do I connect to a STM32 programmer? INT comparison without WHERE statement How can you construct the bijection between real numbers and functions over naturals? Is "Michael here" correct?