I wanted to ask about the documentation for the programming interface of the game  since I can't find it anywhere. I first was about to ask on Gaming.SE, where I found similar questions that were closed as off-topic and recommended to be asked again on Super&nbsp;User. But I don't think it's on-topic on Super&nbsp;User either (or is it?).  Where should I post this question?
Questions like looking for css templates, blog templates, icons ... In general, resources (let's leave the licensing terms aside for now) which you might need when building a project of your own. Where should those questions go?  They're definitely not on-topic on Stack', SuperUser maybe although I doubt it. Webapps? Hmm, probably not.  Is there a place where they would be on-topic on the SE network?
How can an uneducated but rational person differentiate between science and religion? I recently found myself unable to respond to the statement "But the big bang theory is just another creation myth!" during a science vs. religion argument. I found it very difficult to explain the difference between the big bang theory and creation myths without going through a crash course in Newtonian and then Relativistic mechanics.   This had me thinking of the following scenario: Consider a person who for various reasons never got a formal education beyond basic reading and writing. He/She doesn't know any science or math, and was never exposed to any scientific reasoning and experiments. She/He is however an open minded, level headed, and rational person (I've met more than one such person myself).   How would such a person differentiate science from religion? As far as he/she is concerned science has the exact same structure as religion:    A hard to understand scripture: Science treatises and journal papers.  An ordained clergy with a high entry barrier: Doctors, professors, scientists, etc... Seemingly arbitrary injunctions against certain behaviors: "Don't smoke", "Don't pollute",.... Various metaphysical (from his/her perspective) claims about the world around us: The big bang, other galaxies, blackholes, quarks,... Organizations which control and oversee doctrine: The FDA, The NIH, The NFS,...   From his/her perspective, all of these characteristics are no different than the way organized religion presents itself as being the source of truths about the world.   In particular if such a person were to heed the advice of the :         Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing (anussava),   nor upon tradition (paramparā),   nor upon rumor (itikirā),   nor upon what is in a scripture (piṭaka-sampadāna)   nor upon surmise (takka-hetu),   nor upon an axiom (naya-hetu),   nor upon specious reasoning (ākāra-parivitakka),   nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over (diṭṭhi-nijjhān-akkh-antiyā),   nor upon another's seeming ability (bhabba-rūpatāya),   nor upon the consideration, The monk is our teacher (samaṇo no garū) Kalamas, when you yourselves know: "These things are good; these   things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise;   undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness,"   enter on and abide in them.'      Following the Buddha's advice (ironically himself a religious figure), such a rational but uneducated person would have just as much reason to doubt the various results of scientists as to doubt the dogmas of organized religion.    How would it be possible for such a person to distinguish scientific facts from religious dogma?  How can we convince such a person of the validity of ideas like those of modern cosmology or evolutionary biology, without first having to teach them enough biology and physics to understand those concepts? How to check a particular directory is mounted on the Linux machine. For instance there is a folder named test, I want to check if it is mounted or not. I asked about it on  and they told me to post it here.  Probably need to add the :active to the :hover meta class or something like that.  Example:      Hammer Time Eclipse Shortcut to Split Long Strings I swear I've seen someone do this, but I can't find it in the various lists of shortcuts.  Given:  String s = "A very long ............................ String";   Is there an Eclipse shortcut to turn it into:  String s = "A very long ............................ "      + "String"; What exactly happens to the signals hitting a common mode choke? I'm trying to better understand the principles behind the common mode choke. I made a few drawings to clarify.  &nbsp; Differential Mode Signals  Differential currents (driven by differential voltages) create equal but opposite magnetic fields B in the inductor core:    These magnetic fields cancel each other out, so the net flux in the core is zero. As such, these differential currents don't "feel" any impedance.  &nbsp; Common Mode Signals  In contrast, common mode currents generate equal and additive magnetic fields in the core. That's why they "feel" a high impedance, and cannot get through (or getting through means they are highly attenuated).    But what exactly happens? I have several theories, which I will describe below.  &nbsp; Common Mode Signals - Theory 1  My first thought would be that the common mode signal hits the choke and creates a magnetic flux inside. By doing this, lots of energy is lost (hysteresis and perhaps other effects) as heat. Only a small part gets through:      What kind of common mode choke would behave in this particular way? "Burning up" the voltage spike seems a very desirable effect to me.  &nbsp; Common Mode Signals - Theory 2  Perhaps the voltage spike doesn't really get the chance to build up much magnetic flux in the core, or maybe the core is simply not "lossy" enough. The voltage spike bounces off the core and turns back. Only small part gets through:    Although the system on the right side of the choke is protected, the system on the left has to deal with reflected signals. Nasty things like standing waves might appear.  &nbsp; My questions  I've got a few questions for you:   Do you think theory 1 or theory 2 is most plausible? Do you think certain types of common mode chokes tend to behave as described in theory 1, others like in theory 2? Perhaps both of my theories are just plain wrong. If so, what actually does happen?   Please enlighten me. When writing dates in prose in the dmy format (29 March 2014), is the correct preposition "in" or "on". I'm seeing it with "in" , but that construction is foreign to me.     It was released in 29 March 2010 on Steam for Microsoft Windows, and in 25 March 2010 on Xbox Live Indie Games for the Xbox 360.    "On" would seem to make more sense, from what I know. Verdict? How to install LXDM instead of GDM3? I'm running Debian Wheezy and my default Display Manager is GDM3, and I would like to replace it with LXDM. The problem is that I'm trying to run # apt-get install lxde and it's not working, what am I doing wrong?  My /etc/apt/sources.list is:  deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binar$  deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main  deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib Can I get SSD rw performance while keeing data security if I combine SSD & HDD in btrfs RAID1 I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu &amp; Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.  What I want to achieve is data replication on HDD while keeping SSD performance: Something like this:  For read case it would be ideal for procedure to go like this:   read from SSD check checksum if it verifies.. awesome, give me the data if not, fetch data from HDD and perform error correction through duplicate data   I'd manually run (some tool I'm not sure which one... btrfs check --repair perhaps?) every month or so to check HDD checksums and correct them via SSD data against bitrot.  For write case:   write to SSD sync to HDD when write requirements are low, thus not slowing down the system.   Is this possible and how would I do it?  Bottom line is, I like btrfs and would like it to duplicate data across HDD &amp; SSD drive automatically while keeping SSD excellent performance.   Using SSD as write cache is not an option since it's missing data duplication and security. Find $f$ if $ f(x)+f\left(\frac{1}{1-x}\right)=x $ Find $f$ if $$ f(x)+f\left(\frac{1}{1-x}\right)=x $$ I think, that I have to find x that $f(x) = f\left(\frac{1}{1-x}\right)$ I've tried to put x which make $x = \frac{1}{1 - x}$, but this equation has no roots in real numbers. I'm trying to find the complex roots of $z^3 + \bar{z} = 0$ using De Moivre.  Some suggested multiplying both sides by z first, but that seems wrong to me as it would add a root ( and I wouldn't know which root was the extra ).  I noticed that $z=a+bi$ and there exists $\theta$ such that the trigonometric representation of $z$ is $\left ( \sqrt{a^2+b^2} \right )\left ( \cos \theta + i \sin \theta \right )$ .  It seems that $-\bar{z} = -\left ( \sqrt{a^2+b^2} \right )\left ( \cos (-\theta) + i \sin (-\theta) \right )$  However, my trig is pretty rusty and I'm not quite sure where to go from here. Re-install Ubuntu without losing data in home folder Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Server Edition on my PC. Unfortunately, I attempted to install a lightweight desktop but due to the fact that I have an old graphics card, the PC does not perform so well. I am thinking of re-installing an Ubuntu version but I do not want to lose the contents in my home folder. Is there any way to do that with a Live CD? Can we have an option to disable notifications on community wiki posts? Access network share from within VBScript eg FileSystemObject How do I use an NBT editor to modify item properties? Layout selector missing Can "what kind" be plural? Is it correct to say, "What kind of patents are being issued in these sophisticated times?" It seems like it should be What kind of patents is being issued..., but that sounds wrong.  What kind of patent is being issued... is correct and sounds right, but loses a little bit of the original meaning.  Is there something magic about what kind that allows it to be plural, or do people just misuse it a lot? How force Chrome to use google.com search engine without https Chrome's default search engine is .  How we can force chrome to use  without https?  I need a solution that allows proxies to rewrite my URLs, but https currently makes this impossible... I have a new computer with a Seagate ST500DM002 SATA internal hard drive.  I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on it but the installer does not recognize/detect/see the hard drive. When I reach the Installation type step, the panel which is supposed to show devices and partitions looks empty.  sudo fdisk -l shows only /dev/sda1, the USB drive from which I am running the installation. I have already tried the following two solutions without any success:   sudo apt-get remove dmraid Switch the SATA mode in the BIOS from IDE to AHCI   I am sure it's not a hardware related problem as I have already successfully installed another operating system on the same computer.  The output of sudo lshw -class storage -class disk follows:    *-ide UNCLAIMED                 description: IDE interface        product: ASMedia Technology Inc.        vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0        version: 01        width: 32 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: ide msi pm pciexpress cap_list        configuration: latency=0        resources: ioport:d040(size=8) ioport:d030(size=4) ioport:d020(size=8) ioport:d010(size=4) ioport:d000(size=16) memory:fe400000-fe4001ff   *-storage        description: SATA controller        product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 1f.2        bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2        logical name: scsi1        version: 05        width: 32 bits        clock: 66MHz        capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated        configuration: driver=ahci latency=0        resources: irq:44 ioport:f0b0(size=8) ioport:f0a0(size=4) ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f060(size=32) memory:fe705000-fe7057ff      *-cdrom           description: DVD-RAM writer           product: DVDRAM GH22NS70           vendor: HL-DT-ST           physical id: 0.0.0           bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0           logical name: /dev/cdrom           logical name: /dev/cdrw           logical name: /dev/dvd           logical name: /dev/dvdrw           logical name: /dev/scd0           logical name: /dev/sr0           version: EX00           capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram           configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc   *-scsi:0        physical id: 1        bus info: usb@1:1.2        logical name: scsi6        capabilities: emulated scsi-host        configuration: driver=usb-storage      *-disk           description: SCSI Disk           physical id: 0.0.0           bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0           logical name: /dev/sda           size: 14GiB (16GB)           capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos           configuration: signature=0004e5a4   *-scsi:1        physical id: 2        bus info: usb@1:1.3        logical name: scsi7        capabilities: emulated scsi-host        configuration: driver=usb-storage      *-disk           description: SCSI Disk           product: Storage Device           vendor: USB Mass           physical id: 0.0.0           bus info: scsi@7:0.0.0           logical name: /dev/sdb           capabilities: removable         *-medium              physical id: 0              logical name: /dev/sdb   Any idea on what I could do to fix this problem? I know base 2 and base 10 , MB and MiB, but i'm not understanding the byte counts shown for a directory, by du and by windows explorer The du command shows 43G in use. I'm not sure whether that's base 2 in the sense of 2^30 or if it's base 10, in the sense of 10^9.  But anyhow -   Running this du command from cygwin, to see the size of the windows directory (done from an administrative command prompt - since it seemed to have some issues reading some directories otherwise)  user@comp ~ $ du -sh /cygdrive/c/windows 43G     /cygdrive/c/windows   Windows Explorer  which I understand shows it in 'base 2', (a larger unit for KB,MB,GB than base 10 KiB, MiB e.t.c.), and hence a lower quantity of that larger unit is required to give the same result.    Windows explorer shows      46.6GB  , over 50 billion bytes.    (according to windows explorer)  or  46.8GB  , over 50 billion bytes. (according to windows explorer)  So, du aside.  Even if I multiply the larger figure, 46.8GB  by 1.048576 then I get 49.0733568 that's not over 50 billion. So that's part A of the question,  but then also, part B of the question, why is the du figure so low. Why modules with no variables?