Basically I have 3 meshes connected to each other I want them to rotate in the positions they are in but I also need them to bend at a certain point. The rotation is fine the problem is with the bending. The bending effect will be done with a curve modifier. The curve will change shape at a certain point and I'll save it as a shape-key. The problem is when I apply a curve modifier to one of the meshes and choose the curve that passes through the three meshes, the mesh changes position and messes up the whole thing. how do I apply a curve modifier while maintaining the position of the mesh I apply it to?
Every time I think I have the curve modifier mastered, it throws me a another curve ball (no pun intended).  Why in  can I not get the lights to follow the spiral curve? When the modifier is activated, the lights are stretched and distorted along the curve.  I created the curve by converting it from a mesh (string of verts). Why does it not display like a normal Bezier? Is that related to my problem?  I am following all the "rules" that I am aware of, as detailed here: . The curve seems to run in the correct direction. The origin point is at the first point of the curve. The curve modifier on the lights is set to -Y which is the local orientation of the curve's direction.  What am I missing?
How can I develop for iPhone using a Windows development machine? Is there any way to tinker with the iPhone SDK on a Windows machine? Are there plans for an iPhone SDK version for Windows?  The only other way I can think of doing this is to run a Mac VM image on a VMWare server running on Windows, although I'm not too sure how legal this is. How to loop the particle simulation indefinitely? I've made a simple snowfall particle simulation (using gandalf3's solution: ). Is there a way to loop the animation, so the transition between last frame and first frame is not visible? Is there a setting to do it? How did we 'discover' dark matter? I'm an astrophysics student and I've been researching this topic and there is one point that keeps eluding me.  How did the scientific community realize that there had to be  in the Universe? I am flying from New Orleans to Dulles (IAD) on United Express, and from IAD to Frankfurt on United. I have a short connection (45 minutes) in IAD.   I'm trying to figure out how can I make it:  Will I need to go throughout security and border check since I'm leaving the US? How big is IAD airport? and are there different terminals for domestic and international flights? If so, how long would it take to walk between them? Custom command does not reference a label created with a previous custom command This question is a  of the common question asking for calculus references. It is here to  away the repetition, and give a canonical resource for calculus references.      I'm looking for a resources to learn single-variable calculus. python: restarting a loop i have:  for i in range(2,n):     if(something):        do something     else:        do something else        i = 2 **restart the loop   But that doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to restart that loop?   Thanks How to fix invisible form fields in Firefox while using Adwaita Dark Theme (or any other dark theme) I have this issue with some form fields in Firefox and using the adwaita-dark theme. In some webpages where the field background is white, you cannot read the text because it is also white.   This question was edited in order to clarify that this kind of wording of the question might help people who are not familiar with what a GTK+ theme. I also thing that the wording will help to get more hits through search engines. If it's still considered a duplicate, I'll accept it. Continuum between addition, multiplication and exponentiation? I noticed this  which attempts to find the shades of grey between a linear and log scale where results are between zero and one.  However, I was looking for the more general case where we find the continuum between the operators themselves - add, multiply, and exponentiation or even higher.  The function could be a hyperoperation$(n,x,y)$, where $x$ and $y$ are the numbers to operate on, and $n$ is allowed to be a non-integer number for the type of operator. So $n=1$ would be 'addition', $n=2$ would be multiplication, and $n=3$ would be exponentiation. But one would also have $n=2.5$ to be the shade of grey BETWEEN multiplication and exponentiation, or $n=3.5$ or $4$ for beyond exponentiation and tetration).  I want the formula to work with real numbers, not just integers. Any thoughts?  These related posts may also be of interest: Extra Backslash Required in First Appended Newline in sed How to get all possible combinations of a list’s elements? I have a list with 15 numbers in, and I need to write some code that produces all 32,768 combinations of those numbers.   I've found  (by Googling) that apparently does what I'm looking for, but I found the code fairly opaque and am wary of using it. Plus I have a feeling there must be a more elegant solution.  The only thing that occurs to me would be to just loop through the decimal integers 1–32768 and convert those to binary, and use the binary representation as a filter to pick out the appropriate numbers.   Does anyone know of a better way? Using map(), maybe? I was working with a new C++ developer a while back when he asked the question: "Why can't variable names start with numbers?"  I couldn't come up with an answer except that some numbers can have text in them (123456L, 123456U) and that wouldn't be possible if the compilers were thinking everything with some amount of alpha characters was a variable name.  Was that the right answer?  Are there any more reasons?  string 2BeOrNot2Be = "that is the question"; // Why won't this compile? load() method deprecated? $A \oplus B = A \oplus C$ imply $B = C$? I don't quite yet understand how $\oplus$ (xor) works yet. I know that fundamentally in terms of truth tables it means only 1 value(p or q) can be true, but not both. But when it comes to solving problems with them or proving equalities I have no idea how to use $\oplus$.  For example: I'm trying to do a problem in which I have to prove or disprove with a counterexample whether or not $A \oplus B = A \oplus C$  implies $B = C$ is true.   I know that the venn diagram of $\oplus$ in this case includes the regions of A and B excluding the areas they overlap. And similarly it includes regions of A and C but not the areas they overlap. It would look something like this:    I feel the statement above would be true just by looking at the venn diagram since the area ABC is included in the $\oplus$, but I'm not sure if that's an adequate enough proof.  On the other hand, I could be completely wrong about my reasoning.    Also just for clarity's sake: Would $A\cup B = A \cup C$ and $A \cap B = A \cap C$ be proven in a similar way to show whether or not the conditions imply $B = C$? A counterexample/ proof of this would be appreciated as well. 16.04 new installation gives grub-efi-amd64-signed failed installation /target/ ubuntu 16.04 at the end I am installing Ubuntu 16.04 in an Intel NUC computer with UEFI enabled. I am using an SSD from another computer. During the installation I chose Erase the disk and make a new full install  At the end of the process I see:  grub-efi-amd64-signed failed installation /target/ Ubuntu 16.04    And the system does not boot.  I tried to use boot-repair but apparently it does not solve the problem. I was talking to a friend who owns a Mac. He has his set up so that when he swipes three fingers across his touchpad, it moves to the workspace in that direction. Is it possible to set this up in Ubuntu? I need to start reading Lucifer comics, but I am having trouble figuring out where to start Do I read the Sandman stuff, or do I jump right into the main comics? Because I really want to maintain continuity, what's the right sequence to ensure that I get every bit of the story? Display of content-type I've got custom content-type with several groups and fields.   I want to change default display of that content-type. In which file can I find appropriate code? Cant install via Ubuntu Software- "apt transaction returned result exit-failed" I'm using 17.04 ( Clean Install ), and as far as I remember, every try to install any sofware- it fails with that error code.  I tried sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade and problem persists.  any idea why?   edit: Using software Updater gave this result :   edit : output of update  guy@LG-LAPTOP:~$ sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade [sudo] password for guy:  Ign:1 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease Ign:2 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease               Ign:3 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease             Err:4 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty Release                           503  Service Unavailable Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]      Err:6 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates Release                   503  Service Unavailable Get:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease [10.2 kB]             Err:8 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports Release                 503  Service Unavailable Get:9 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty/partner Sources [1,416 B]       Get:10 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty/partner amd64 Packages [1,616 B] Get:11 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty/partner i386 Packages [1,612 B] Get:12 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu zesty/partner Translation-en [708 B] Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [11.7 kB] Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [9,219 B] Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [14.4 kB] Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [31.0 kB] Reading package lists... Done                                          E: The repository 'http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty Release' does no longer have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates Release' does no longer have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports Release' does no longer have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. guy@LG-LAPTOP:~$    output of apt get  guy@LG-LAPTOP:~$ sudo apt-get install putty Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed:   putty-tools Suggested packages:   putty-doc The following NEW packages will be installed:   putty putty-tools 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 661 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,713 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]  Err:1 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 putty-tools amd64 0.67-3   503  Service Unavailable Err:2 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 putty amd64 0.67-3   503  Service Unavailable E: Failed to fetch http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/putty/putty-tools_0.67-3_amd64.deb  503  Service Unavailable E: Failed to fetch http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/putty/putty_0.67-3_amd64.deb  503  Service Unavailable E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? guy@LG-LAPTOP:~$ Why do games run slow on CPU Maybe my question sounds naive because I'm not a game developer but I dont see objective reasons for this. An average cpu is in times more powerful than an average gpu like a few graphics cards in one. The most repeated reasons in internet:  the GPU isn't as busy as the CPU  If the gpu renders the screen how it can not be busy The modern cpus are powerful enough. They are not busy most of time. For example my cpu's usage is 3%.  many GPU's are designed to process graphics commands in parallel, CPU single threads them  What bothers the games to run a few parallel processes even on one cpu core? In my opinion its not correct to tell that the gpu is better if games never use 100% of the cpu's capacity. To be specific they dont use even 50%.  To clarify my question based on responses in the comments:  Did you mean to ask &quot;Why do games render more slowly on the CPU?&quot;  Yes I mean why the cpu cant do the whole work for games when it is underloaded and especially if it does the largest part of work in any case.  You can not compare GPUs and CPUs directly, because they do different things.  What bothers them to do the same things?  The CPU isn't as well suited to performing rendering calculations  I dont understand what &quot;suited&quot; means. And why the cpu is not suitable for primitive tasks aka paint roller.  adding additional parallel processes doesn't improve performance  Then why do you produce multicore graphics cards and multicore central processing units? Just give various parts of one task to a few processes if one process is slow and 100% of the capacity is not used. What bothers to emulate the gpu? Its also unclear for me why when you play without a separate graphics module the games see only one cpu core when you play with the gpu they see and use all the cpu cores. May be some magic.