Do you know of a way to enter a file directly from the MXD extension QGIS? Is this possible? How about MapPackage files? I do not have access to the ArcMap software. Best Regards.
I recently tried to use QGIS and I wondered if you can convert a draft ArcGIS map (*.mxd file) into a QGIS project (*.qgs file).   This would avoid thematize the entire project.
I have a bunch of magnets (one of those game-board thingies) given to me when I was a school-going lad over 20 years ago, and the magnets feel just as strong as it was the day it was given.   As a corollary to this question , is there a way to determine how long a permanent magnet will remain a magnet?   Addendum: Would two magnets remain a magnet for a shorter duration if they were glued in close proximity with like poles facing each other? Words that mean ''to say something unintentional'' I am looking for words that mean ''to say something unintentionally'' Equals(=) vs. LIKE When using SQL, are there any benefits of using = in a WHERE clause instead of LIKE?  Without any special operators, LIKE and = are the same, right? Does a man contain all the genes needed to make a woman? This question is brought on by a Sci Fi novel I am thinking about writing. The plot device involves a colonist in charge of building a population on a new planet who loses his supply of embryos and so forth in the landing. With the artificial "wombs" intact, he populates the planet with clones of himself.  If he wanted to introduce enough variation (without making up new genes, only rearranging) in the population to allow them to be able to reproduce naturally without inbreeding problems, would he be able to? In particular, could he make a woman?  Alternately, could a woman (without a Y chromosome) do the the inverse?  At the risk of introducing bias into the answers, the plot as it stands assumes he is a male and he CAN'T do any of the above and he is restricted to clones. \numcases with \tag I would like to label some cases with specific tags, and was hoping for something like  \begin{numcases}{A = } \frac{r}{a} &amp; r &gt; a \tag{G} \\ \frac{a}{r} &amp; r &lt; a \tag{H} \end{numcases}   utilizing the numcasesenvironment from the cases package, and \tag from amsmath. However, the two don't seem to be compatible:     ! Package amsmath Error: \tag not allowed here.   Is there any alternatives that would do what I hope to accomplish? Outlook, POP and PST handling Essentially I have a client who is on hosted exchange and have decided to use POP3 to download the mail (I don't know why they don't use .OST's but anyway), they rebuilt the machine and backed up their .PST file. Now their Outlook was configured to keep mail downloaded on the server for 14days.  Essentially their current PST is fairly complex, many folders and sub folders and so on. So what is the best way to handle it really - create a new Outlook profile on the rebuilt machine and download the mail via POP into a new .PST then just recreate the folders in the new pst and drag and drop the mail via attaching the backed up .pst, recreating the folders etc?  But is their an easier way to do this, maybe pointing the new account to use the original PST, but then that would download all the mail again from the server to that .PST file.  Any ideas on the best way to handle POP3 account rebuilds from scratch when you have a backed up PST? Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? Why can't an enum value be fully qualified in a switch statement? I just sent a text to a friend, who didn't understand an acronym I used for a game:      "Ah, I said it in a previous text so thought it was ok to abbreviate   it."   Though, since it was an acronym I had created, could I have used the word 'acronymise/ze' to be more specific?   I'm pretty sure it isn't a (formally used) word, but I wondered, as you often refer to acronyms specifically as acronyms, rather than abbreviations. Can you be more specific with a verb, too?  It sounds too odd to me, so I'm guessing generally no. But I wondered—so perhaps I'm wrong. Or half wrong. How do I evaluate these fork() calls with the && and || operators in C? How to get a combined ticket in IRCTC (Indian Railway) Suppose I want to go from Station A to Station C but Station C is not a stoppage of some train say train 01, so I can get a combined ticket from station A to Station B  through train 01 plus Station B to station C through a different train say 02, so my total fare will be of same ticket as from Station A to Station C.  We can get Combined ticket from the Booking Window but how's that possible on the IRCTC website? Trouble With Persistence After Making a USB Live Thumb Drive Using Pendrivelinux I created a bootable Ubuntu on my 32GB thumb drive (on a NTFS partition) and I selected a persistence of 4GB.  I've noticed that when I reboot from the initial booting off of the USB thumb drive, nothing is preserved.  No apps that were installed nor saved bookmarks.  Is there a way for me to manually force persistence? Find total number of relations that are equivalence as well as partial order set. Assume set contains total $n$ elements.     My attempt:  As equivalence relation has property reflexive, symmetric and transitive and POSET has property reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive.  Symmetric and antisymmetric will cancle each other except reflexive relation and transitive relation can case antisymmetric, so it's also absent on resultant relation.  Therefore, all diagonal element should be present to satisfy conditions of equivalence as well as POSET.  So, it's independent of number of total number of element of set and answer will be $1$.     Can you explain in formal way, please? Reading the question posted  left me with a more general question:  Given the professional title and name: Dr. (First Name)(Last Name), is there some way to differentiate between the holder of a philosophical doctorate and a medical doctor? Wouldn't it be more appropriate for a PhD holder to have the title (First Name)(Last Name), PhD? Plot above desired region Can't connect to wireless networks on a Dell Latitude D430 As stated above, I can't connect to my home wi-fi with natty but can with Windows 7. The strange thing is I that I have gotten it to connect to other password protected networks with natty, it's just mine that it dosn't like.   I am using a WPA2 pass-code with AES Encryption and all other devises work fine on my network. Laptop used is a Dell Latitude D430. Data inconsistency prohibition if a table refers to another via two many-to-many relationships I have following database design (by =&gt; foreign key constraints are depicted):   Company[id] CompanyRealm[id, company_id=>Company.id]many2many  Project[id, company_id=>Company.id] ProjectRealm[id, project_id=>Project.id, company_realm_id=>CompanyRealm.id]many2many   Problem is that provided database design allows inconsistent data. For example:   Company1(id=1) Company2(id=2) CompanyRealm(id=11, company_id=1) Project(id=33, company_id=2) ProjectRealm(id=44, project_id=33, company_realm_id=11)   (Company can have many Realms, Project belong to Company and  may concern any number of company's Realms)  ProjectRealm refers to two different companies:   Company1 (via CompanyRealm); and Company2 (via Project).    Is something wrong with my DB design? If yes - which prescriptions are violated? If no - how to prevent incorrect data insertion (via constraint? trigger with exception?) I ran dolphin like this:  dolphin . &amp;   I see messages in the console like these:  QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap   How can I keep the console clean or silent? What are the uses of "using" in C#? User  answered the wonderful  question by mentioning the using keyword. Can you elaborate on that? What are the uses of using? I am not asking for a solution to speed it up, i simply want to know how long it should take!  I would also like a way to speed it up but not something technical, im new to Blender!