I'm building an application that can accept a shapefile/mapinfo/feature class/spatialite table/etc.  So - various formats from various vendors/organizations.    So let's say the user is going through a wizard to import data (or visualizing that data in plan view)...is there generic term for spatial data?  Something that a typical user would understand that would differentiate it from a text file or standard table?  This isn't a GIS product - it just makes use of GIS data.  It is not limited to use in one area of the world.  Anyone have any experience with lowest common denominator terminology for beginner/intermediate users (advanced users would just figure it out I suppose)?  What is most obvious?   Spatial data?    Spatial file?   Geospatial data/file?    Geographic data/file/table?    Data with one weird column/file that I can't understand?
What word indicates spatial data within the geographical and geological domains? In particular, what word is precise enough for a science journal article (i.e., formal prose)? Candidates might include &quot;spatial data,&quot; &quot;geodata,&quot; &quot;geospatial data,&quot; and &quot;geographic data.&quot; &quot;Spatial data&quot; seems too generic (not necessarily within the geographical and geological domains). What is the consensus, if any exists?
Minimum safe spacing between lava and flamable materials? It seems that containing lava in solid glass, stone and iron blocks may not be sufficient to prevent wool from burning, even if the lava is completely encased.         After some delay, it seems that fire will jump onto the wool above the iron.   Are solid blocks more effective than airspace, or not? If so, Does it matter whether the corner block is filled in? What are the exact rules on distance that I need, and how can I prevent flammable blocks from being eliminated by nearby lava? Bonus: Does a flowing lava block behave differently than a lava source block when it comes to fire creation? Caps-lock remapping stops working I have caps-lock key remapped to control, which usually works fine, but after some uptime and one/more suspend/awake cycles* this mapping breaks, and caps-lock reverts back to the default behavior -- i.e. turning on the led and capitalizing whatever I type. (Even though the Tweaks UI still shows it as being mapped to Ctrl -- see picture below.)  Questions:  Is this a known issue (with maybe a known fix)? (Could not find anything relevant with a quick search.) Is there a way to debug the problem, preferably from the command line?  *Remark: I'm not sure it is the suspend/awake cycle that causes the problem, but I can't connect it to anything else... Remark2: removing and readding the mapping (or rebooting) solves the problem, but it would be nice to find a more permanent solution. Initial capitalization of foreign surnames when starting a sentence The question is as below:      Show that each vertex $v$ of a tree $T$ appears $deg(v)-1$ times in the Prüfer encoding of $T$, where $deg(v)$ is the degree of $v$ in $T$.   For this, I think there are 3 scenarios a leaf should be considered for: (1) when it is a leaf as part of a tree; (2) a leaf that has been discarded; (3) the remaining edge. I feel like this will result in a short proof which is only two (or so) statements long, but at the same time, feel it is too simple.   EDIT: I've had a look at this again and narrowed it down to 2 cases:   Case 1: The vertex $v$ in question has $deg(v)\ge2$. $v$ then loses its neighbours as the algorithm is applied repeatedly until $v$ becomes a leaf itseelf. At this point, $v$ is attached to another neighbour, leaving an edge. This means the algorithm can no longer be applied and we have obtained the final Prüfer Encoding for the tree $T$.  Case 2: The vertex $v$ has $deg(v)\ge 2$. It loses its neighbours as the algorithm is applied repeatedly but is deleted itself at some point in the process.   Have I gone about this wrong?  Thank you. Intuition behind the definition of linear transformation I have studied that given vector spaces $V_1$ and $V_2$, a function $T:V_1 \rightarrow V_2$ is called a linear transformation of $V_1$ into $V_2$, if following two properties are true for all $u, v \in V_1$ and scalar $c$:  $(1)$:  $T(u+v) = T(u) + T(v)$ and $(2):  T(cu) = c T(u) $.  My questions are   $1$: What is the geometrical interpretation of properties $1$ and $2$ which says that $T$ preserves additivity and scalar multiplication. I am not able to see this geometrically. What is the meaning of preserving additivity and scalar multiplication.  $2$: At some place I have studied that a linear transformation will be linear if it sends each line to line and planes to planes and so on. How can we interpret this based on these two properties.  I need help to understand this.   Thank you very much for your time.. When in Journey Builder what is the difference between journey data and contact data? I am creating a JB with an engagement split. What is the difference between Contact Data and Journey Data. ie what will I see listed in the two groupings. If I choose the journey data will this only be as up to date as the time that the data entered the Journey? Where can I get a device with 'Ubuntu for phones' pre-installed? Bottom of tool shelf grayed out novel with psi slavery Name the novel, 197x.  Setting is a world of human(oid)s most of whom have the psi ability to enslave weaker others.  (Maybe the word slave and its derivatives are not used.)  Masters and slaves form a tree rather than a dichotomy; everyone delegates as much as they can. The protagonist is an outworlder on a mission, maybe simply doing a survey.  He wears the green robe of a native subculture who lack the power (or maybe they renounce it?) and are immune to it – by law or custom, I think, rather than by nature. His host or primary contact is Jael Forty of Lant, the number being how many slaves he can control; it can fluctuate. This is a repost with additional info of an older question that was never answered. I have stumbled upon this old question while also trying to find the name of the book series myself, as I dearly wish to read it again but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it.      This is a long shot but I'm really in need of help for this because      it was an amazing book. It was either a kid's or YA book. A guess      from what year it was published would be 90s-mid 2000s, as I read it      around 2008-2011.         The book cover was in first person view, with the main character   holding a weapon, and was a 3D rendered image inside a dungeon or   cave (that was very reminiscent of early 90s CGI animation), though   there may be variants.    It would have been set around when computer   games were mainstream (maybe around the same time as when it might've   been published) It's about a teenage boy who is bored at home, so he   looks through an old family computer to play a game and finds one   that he has never seen before. When he plays it he gets transported   into the game which is a fantasy-medieval setting.    All that I can   remember about the game and story is that the main character is on a   quest, he rides horses a lot, (to the point where he can ride horses   perfectly in real life), at one point he eats food at an ingame   tavern/restaurant? and he tosses the ingame coin currency at the   server because he's in a hurry, (don't know why I remember that bit   specifically haha), and he meets a gnome/dwarf character who is   helping him on his journey, who has a home in an ingame mountain, and   that time goes faster in the game. (For example, if he spent 5   minutes in the real world, 3 in-game days would have passed)   Sometimes as he's playing something stops him from being able the   play the game for a few weeks, maybe a concerned parent because he's   playing too much or there's a family vacation. I remember during the   time when he's not playing the game he's on a farm and knew how to   ride the horses there.    There was a character in the real world who   was the main character's sibling, relative or friend. They were like   a rival and was also very whiny (to some extent). They were on the   farm as well with him and questioned how the main character knew how   to ride a horse when he had never done it in real life.   This is all I can remember but if you need more specific information I can try and answer. It is definitely not Space Demons or Demons Don't Dream. If anyone knows anything remotely similar please mention it, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!!            Additional info:    It is not an online game or virtual reality game. It was a normal PC game, and all other characters are (I think), just NPCs.  He woke up for the first time in a field/farm and was super confused about what happened and where he was, as he had never played the game before. He is asked a super serious question before starting the game up for the first time, like "are you sure you wish to play ___?", and then he is transported into the game.  He frequently exited the game, to continue his IRL life. And sometimes, he would lose access to the family desktop PC for a couple of days at a time, and when he went back everyone in the game (NPCs), thought he had disappeared because he was gone for ages. I think once, his family when on holidays and he couldn't take the PC, for example.  It was a book series, not a single book. In later books he would play the game again months later in the real world, and years and years would have passed in the game world.  The plot involved 2 main warring sides/factions/countries of humans, but there were fantasy/magical races and characters involved. I vaguely remember something about each side having official colours, one red and one blue. I think the main character was on the blue side.   The original question was never correctly answered, so I'm posting again to see if anyone can remember.   Books that were ruled out in original post: Eden's Gate &amp; Heir Apparent. I'm trying to print types like off_t and size_t.  What is the correct placeholder for printf() that is portable?  Or is there a completely different way to print those variables? I have defined my own language whose syntax is very close to the one of Pascal. I would like to type the following program for instance. Many people use the packages algorithmicx or algorithm2e to print programs, but it seems that we have to use their specific keywords of its syntax like procedure, end while.  I just want to indent spaces when needed, and bold some words when I want (sorry that I could not bold letters in the following figure). Do I have to use  texttt for each line? Also, with verbatim, I could not bold words...  Also, as the program is not large, I would need to put it on the left side of the page, and leave space for some explanasion text on its right hand side. So I  guss I need to get them all together, and use multicols.  Could anyone help?  program test                                      some text here var   i : integer;                                    ...    b : boolean; begin    i := 1;                                        ...    b := true;    while i &lt; 15 do       i := i  + 1;       b := not b                                  some text here    od end   Edit1: Following @Werner's tabbing solution, I have made the code a minipage:  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth}% \begin{tabbing} Werner's solution \end{tabbing} \end{minipage}\hfill \begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} a paragraph \end{minipage}   Actually as the code shows, I want the texts to be another separated minipage on the right hand side of the code. I have then 2 questions:   is it reasonable to make 0.48\linewidth instead of 0.5\linewidth? 0.48\linewidth is a conventional choice? is it possible to make a frame around the code, and use \caption and \label to make it a reference (I prefer figures)? This is a  about  Related:      I have a question regarding capacity planning. Can the Server Fault community please help with the following:   What kind of server do I need to handle some number of users? How many users can a server with some specifications handle? Will some server configuration be fast enough for my use case? I'm building a social networking site: what kind of hardware do I need? How much bandwidth do I need for some project? How much bandwidth will some number of users use in some application? I am setting up a server where there are multiple developers working on multiple applications.  I have figured out how to give certain developers shared access to the necessary application directories using the setgid bit and default ACLs to give anyone in a group access.  Many of these applications run under a terminal while in development for easy access. When I work alone, I set up a user for an application and run screen as that user. This has the downside that every developer to use the screen session needs to know the password and it is harder to keep user and application accounts separate.  One way that could work is using screen multiuser features. They do not work out-of-the-box however, screen complains about needing suid root. Does giving that have any downsides? I am pretty careful about using suid root anything. Maybe there is a reason why it isn't the default?  Should I do it with screen or is there some other intelligent way of doing what I want? Replace unknown reference (?) with the tag from \ref or \cite Attribute field names truncation when creating shapefiles I am wondering what is the expression that truncate a given name to the 10 characters name used in ESRI shapefiles when an object is saved as shapefile with the function writeOGR in R. For example, the attribute field from a spatial dataframe "Ablepharus kitaibelii" is converted to "Ablphrk" when saved as shapefile, how the truncation is done? Is "gift" accepted as a verb? I have always argued adamantly, as long as the issue has been around, that gift should never be used as a verb. However, someone whose English knowledge I quite respect disagrees.  I’ve done some searching and I haven’t found a consensus; should gifting be shunned? How to wrap lines in a jtable cell? Should I use "who" or "which" when referring to a specific animal species? I'd like to know what option to use, specifically when referring to a species by its scientific name. What is polymorphism, what is it for, and how is it used?