In Quantum Leap, Sam Beckett switched into other peoples bodies and changed, or restored, or ensured history that was guided to the history as it was known in Sam's own timeline. These people seemed to be kept isolated in a lab in Sam's (their future) timeline. Once Sam did his thing as dictated by that weeks mission, he leapt out and the displaced person returned to their place in time. Since they were unaware of the decisions and actions Sam performed in their name, how did they continue the altered timeline without unraveling Sam's activities?
In the TV show Quantum Leap Sam Beckett would travel history and "right" wrongs, temporarily displacing someone native to that timeline in the process. Would the memories of what Sam did transfer to the person he displaced upon his leaping out, or would they wind up with amnesia for the time Sam was there?
I'm married have a job with stable income.I have 2 kids. I have applied for UK visit visa about 7 years ago and was refused. I can't remember what exactly was the reason for refusal.  I want to travel for tourism to spend 9 days and my budget is around 1300GBP for the trip. I would be spending part of my annual leave in the UK. I have the following people in UK: Mother, Dad, Sister(she's married), Brother (married), Uncle and Aunt.  I'm travelling alone since my wife is pregnant. I haven't travelled since I was in school then.  I will be on my yearly 21 days annual leave during which I will be spending 9days in UK. I can't think of anything more about my circumstance.  So what should a cover letter look like?  secondly I have just 1 account where my salary is paid in monthly and my savings.I will be submitting the 6 months bank statement for the account.  Additional question:  In the income &amp; expenditure where one is asked to indicate if I have income and savings,should I click Yes or No. And if Yes should state the ending balance as at the time of my application. Bottom frame of listing appears on top of the next page Show that $x^2+x+4$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Z_{11}$.    The problem can be solved by putting every element from $\mathbb{Z}_{11}$ and checking if there is any root.  $0^2 + 0 + 4 = 4 \\ 1^2 + 1 + 4 = 6 \\ 2^2 + 2 + 4 = 10 \\ 3^2 + 3 + 4 = 5 \\ 4^2 + 4 + 4 = 2 \\ 5^2 + 5 + 4 = 1 \\ 6^2 + 6 + 4 = 2 \\ 7^2 + 7 + 4 = 5 \\ 8^2 + 8 + 4 = 10 \\ 9^2 + 9 + 4 = 6 \\ 10^2 + 10 + 4 = 4 $   But this process is very long one. I am seeking a short method by which I can solve such problem.   Now suppose that it is reducible, then the factors should be linear. So how can we solve the problem based on this kind of observation? Any help will be great. Thanks. Writing a compiler in its own language Intuitively, it would seems that a compiler for language Foo cannot itself be written in Foo. More specifically, the first compiler for language Foo cannot be written in Foo, but any subsequent compiler could be written for Foo.  But is this actually true? I have some very vague recollection of reading about a language whose first compiler was written in "itself". Is this possible, and if so how? Windows 7 stuck on CLASSPNP.SYS I'm running Win 7 x86 on a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m in dual boot mode with Win XP, both OSes are running on separate partitions. I have a faulty battery and if left unplugged my laptop shuts usually down within 10 minutes. Last night, it shut down due to this, but after plugging in AC power and starting back up I'm stuck at the "Starting Windows" screen, I'm unable to boot into safe mode or into recovery mode(XP boots fine).  I believe I had installed some Win 7 updates the same/previous day. From one of the boot options I was able to see that Windows 7 is getting stuck on CLASSPNP.SYS  How can I go about fixing this?  I do have a complete Win 7 Restore CD that I created after setting up my machine, I'm unable to boot into this either.  Please help! Came across this little practice exercise, and I couldn't properly convince myself of this relation:  Let $X,Y \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and $g:X\times Y \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Show that $$\sup_{y \in Y} \inf_{x \in X}g(x,y) \leq \inf_{x \in X} \sup_{y \in Y} g(x,y).$$  My thinking was starting with $\inf_{x \in X}g(x,\overline{y}) \leq\sup_{y \in Y} g(\overline{x},y)$, but does that even hold for all $\overline{x} \in X$ and $\overline{y} \in Y$? Sauron's sight details? I am aware that the "Eye of Sauron" in Peter Jackson's movies was not Sauron's actual physical form.  What the answers at '' don't indicate is, despite this, what abilities of vision Sauron may have had.  Did he have the ability to see from afar? If so, what are his limitations or details of this power? Is it some kind of Elvish-sight like Legolas but stronger? Was it a magical power? Or perhaps with the help of the Palantir (I'm not sure of this last one because I dont remember if the Palantir could only see what other Palantíri were seeing or anything he wanted)? How do I migrate my Keychain's "Local Items" to a new Mac? After preforming a Mavericks-Mavericks migration using Migration Assistant, I have a "Local Items" Keychain on my new machine in which many (perhaps most) items are out of date (using old passwords), and some are missing altogether. While I have access to a copy of the entire contents of the ~/Library/Keychains/ directory from my old machine, which presumably contains all the information I'm missing, I see no way of importing that information into my new machine.  How can I import the "Local Items" from my old Keychain into the Keychain on my new machine? Is posting a very long quote OK for an answer? I just found  to a question on SO. While it provides a source for the (very long) quote, I do not like the fact that the answerer just posted the quote, without adding anything. Maybe add highlights/emphasis or remove uninteresting passages. Or skip the quote altogether and write a short summary. I feel, in the current form, this should have been a comment that just links to the original article.  Am I too pedantic? Should I flag this as not an answer? Should I downvote it? What do you think about such answers? Is "architect" a verb and a noun? I hear the word architect used as a verb in the technical field and now more often in other industries and groups, for example:     We need to architect a better solution to the problem.   I am interested if this is considered acceptable usage, as I see this word being used more in published technical documents (not necessarily books, but corporate publications).  I can see how a conductor can conduct, a typist can type, but can a scientist "science"?  A scientist might research, analyze, and so forth, as an architect might design, create, build, etc.  Merriam-Webster , however, I have been told that other dictionaries exist that define architect as both a noun and a verb&nbsp;— is there a credible reference or source that authoritatively answers this question? This is my circuit. I need to find the power dissipated by Vlamp. So the lamp turns on if the Vlamp is more than 2V. When the lamp is on it has an internal resistance of 10 Ohms, and when it is off it acts like an open circuit.  How would I find the power dissipated? I know how to do it for Voltage sources and Resistors, but not elements like these.  One more thing, I already figured out that: Battery has open circuit voltage of 4V R1 = 5 Ohms R2 = 5 Ohms k = 0.2A/V When lamp on and Vlamp = 2V, Rbat = 10 Ohms   . In Finder when I type something in the textbox the default is to search the whole mac in the contents of the files. I was able to change the default to search the current directory, but didn't see an option to change search for contents to search for file name. How can that be changed? I am looking to replicate black &amp; white maps in QGis, using hatching patterns and greyscales to indicate different categories of a continuous variable (example below).  It is possible/straightforward to do so in QGis? At first sight I only see color gradients and symbol fills.   ). How can I detect if my apple device supports Bluetooth Low Energy Word for someone who acts like an expert but who has very little knowledge? What is a word to describe an individual who acts like an expert in a subject area, constantly stating facts and correcting people, but who actually has very little knowledge on the subject? Is there a term for an issue or activity that occurs only until the moment that you ask someone else to watch? Is there a term for the coincidence that occurs when an issue ONLY occurs until the moment that you ask someone else to watch or help you resolve it?    For example, having an issue with software until you try to show someone, then it stops being problematic.  Or an issue with the computer/phone that resolves as soon as a help ticket is put in.    The final example is when you have a problem with your car (funny noise, etc) - you hesitate taking it in for weeks because you know it will disappear as soon as the mechanic drives it...then it does.    This is different than a , where the action of applying a debugger, for example, changes the behavior of the activity being watched.  It's also different from a 'works on my machine' scenario, where only the original user has the problem.   What is it called when a problem resolves itself just by the mention of it?  Jinxing the issue? :)  I see this every day supporting my software product -- the users are experienced and are not making mistakes at one time then doing something different when I watch.  The problems also truly resolve (coincidentally) as soon as they ask for help - they do not reoccur.  I guess it's a case of synchronicity? There are a couple of different ways to remove HTML tags from an NSString in Cocoa.   is to render the string into an NSAttributedString and then grab the rendered text.   is to use NSXMLDocument's -objectByApplyingXSLTString method to apply an XSLT transform that does it.  Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't support NSAttributedString or NSXMLDocument. There are too many edge cases and malformed HTML documents for me to feel comfortable using regex or NSScanner. Does anyone have a solution to this?  One suggestion has been to simply look for opening and closing tag characters, this method won't work except for very trivial cases.   For example these cases (from the Perl Cookbook chapter on the same subject) would break this method:  &lt;IMG SRC = "foo.gif" ALT = "A &gt; B"&gt;  &lt;!-- &lt;A comment&gt; --&gt;  &lt;script&gt;if (a&lt;b &amp;&amp; a&gt;c)&lt;/script&gt;  &lt;![INCLUDE CDATA [ &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; ]]&gt; Pacman option to assume "yes" to every question? Prove that if the sum of each row of $A$ equals $s$, then $s$ is an eigenvalue of $A$. Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix.  $i)$Prove that if the sum of each row of $A$ equals $s$, then $s$ is an eigenvalue of $A$.  $ii)$Prove that if the sum of each column of $A$ equals $s$, then $s$ is an eigenvalue of $A$.  I think that being an eigenvalue of $A$ implies that $sv=Av$ for some vector $v$. Furthermore, I know that $[a_i] = s$ if we let $a_i$ denote the i-th row of $A$. However, I do not seem to be able to find a link between these two facts. Could anyone please help me out? Well structured URLs vs. URLs optimized for SEO Let’s take an example of a movie site. So a well structured set of URLs for this site can be:     Movie page - example.com/movies/the-matrix Review for movie - example.com/movies/the-matrix/reviews Trailers for movie - example.com/movies/the-matrix/trailers Specific trailer for movie - example.com/movies/the-matrix/trailers/trailer1   where it’s possible to navigate the resource even by directly deleting/appending resource name seamlessly.  For SEO purpose I read somewhere that for two given pages, Google will prefer the page which have search query up in the URL hierarchy among other things. So for the given 2 URLs and the query "the matrix trailer"    example.com/movies/the-matrix/trailers example.org/trailers/the-matrix/    `     Google might prefer the second URL as it has the keyword "trailer" at first level comparing to first URL which has "trailer" at 3rd level (a resource deeper in URL hierarchy may be less important).    If it is correct, one may be tempted to create URL hierarchy somewhat like      Movie page - example.com/movies/the-matrix Review for movie - example.com/reviews/the-matrix/ Trailers for movie - example.com/trailers/the-matrix/ Specific trailer for movie - example.com/trailers/the-matrix/trailer1     which will break the seamless hierarchy.    My questions are:   Is it true that resource deeper in URL hierarchy is tend to be less important when comparing to URLs of other site?   Is sacrificing meaningful, seamless hierarchy worth for this SEO optimization?