I have several ESXi hosts that running vSphere version 6.0 standard licenses. Now, I have a plan to upgrade all of that to vSphere version 6.5. I'm not sure to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 for free. Can I upgrade to 6.5 for free?
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Why with two classes, LDA gives only one dimension? I am working with dimensionality reduction algorithms. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a supervised algorithm that takes into account the class label (which is not the case of PCA for example). I am using Python to do a comparative study between some algorithms.  Why with two classes (k = 2), regardless of the data dimensionality, LDA gives one dimension, i.e. the new subspace is composed of only one dimension? For example if I try to project my dataset (of 100 attributes and 2 classes) to 10-dimensional space by using LDA(n_components=10) I only obtain 1 dimension?  For k&gt;2 I can obtain the number of discriminant vectors that I specified as n_components. How can I get n_components dimensions for k=2? If $F_n$ is the $n$-th fibonacci number, then prove that, $$F_n={n-1 \choose 0 }+{n-2 \choose 1 }+{n-3 \choose 2 }+\ldots$$  I tried the idea of using Pascal's triangle, but it seems to need some adjustment, so I am stuck, please help.    Any combinatorial argument would be of greater help than rigorous proof.  Thank you. How do I find my follower if and when they leave me? Just want to get clarification on something we're noticing in our org. Its regarding a new integration user we've created for an external application to connect to Salesforce. We also created a Connected App for this application to authenticate using OAuth. All of this is setup and working up to this point.   But one thing that we don't understand is there is a related list on the integration user detail page named "OAuth Connected Apps". We're concerned because although we are connecting fine and data is getting return to the external application no records are showing up in this "OAuth Connected Apps" related list. Should we expect to see Authorization or Access tokens in this list?   We just want to make sure we aren't bypassing the connected app in anyway, which we assume not, but just want to run it by the community and see. All comments are appreciated. Thanks ahead of time for the support. If a function $f$ defined on $[a,b]$ and differentiable everywhere, does it mean that its derivative $f'(x)$ is continuous everywhere on $[a,b]$?  My understanding is 'yes'. Because if there were 'a gap' in $f'(x)$, we could integrate back to $f(x)$ and show that where the gap is, there would be a sharp "angle" where $f(x)$ is not differentiable. From what I understand, the  states that there is a fundamental natural limit to how accurately we can measure velocity and momentum at the same time. It's not a limit on equipment but just a natural phenomenon.  However, isn't this just an observational limit? There is a definite velocity and momentum, we just don't know it. As in, we can only know so much about the universe, but the universe still has definite characteristics.  Considering this, how do a wide range of quantum mechanical phenomena work? For example, quantum tunneling - its based on the fact that the position of the object is indefinite. But the position is definite, we just don't know it definitely. Or the famous light slot experiment? The creation of more light slots due to uncertainty of the photon's positions?  What I am basically asking is why is a limit on the observer, affecting the phenomenon he is observing? Isn't that equivalent to saying  because we haven't seen Star X, it doesn't exist? It's limiting the definition of the universe to the limits of our observation! pgAdmin to display multiple result sets Is it possible to add a list of hosts that are only specific to a certain user? Perhaps a user-specific hosts file?  This mechanism should also complement the entries in the /etc/hosts file. I know the usage of     This is a new car.   This is singular.     These are some books for you.   These is plural.  Shall we use   There exists some people who agree with me. There exist some people who agree with me.   Which one is the correct usage and why? How to hide "internal" polygon boundaries? Use of var keyword in C# After discussion with colleagues regarding the use of the 'var' keyword in C# 3 I wondered what people's opinions were on the appropriate uses of type inference via var?  For example I rather lazily used var in questionable circumstances, e.g.:-  foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } // Type of 'item' not clear. var something = someObject.SomeProperty; // Type of 'something' not clear. var something = someMethod(); // Type of 'something' not clear.   More legitimate uses of var are as follows:-  var l = new List&lt;string&gt;(); // Obvious what l will be. var s = new SomeClass(); // Obvious what s will be.   Interestingly LINQ seems to be a bit of a grey area, e.g.:-  var results = from r in dataContext.SomeTable               select r; // Not *entirely clear* what results will be here.   It's clear what results will be in that it will be a type which implements IEnumerable, however it isn't entirely obvious in the same way a var declaring a new object is.  It's even worse when it comes to LINQ to objects, e.g.:-  var results = from item in someList               where item != 3               select item;   This is no better than the equivilent foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } equivilent.  There is a real concern about type safety here - for example if we were to place the results of that query into an overloaded method that accepted IEnumerable&lt;int&gt; and IEnumerable&lt;double&gt; the caller might inadvertently pass in the wrong type.  var does maintain strong typing but the question is really whether it's dangerous for the type to not be immediately apparent on definition, something which is magnified when overloads mean compiler errors might not be issued when you unintentionally pass the wrong type to a method. What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function. I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with two projects (a Word-Template project and a VB.Net console application for testing).  Both projects reference a database project which opens a connection to an MS-Access 2007 database file and have references to System.Data.OleDb.  In the database project I have a function which retrieves a data table as follows   private class AdminDatabase    ' stores the connection string which is set in the New() method    dim strAdminConnection as string     public sub New()    ...    adminName = dlgopen.FileName    conAdminDB = New OleDbConnection    conAdminDB.ConnectionString = "Data Source='" + adminName + "';" + _        "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"     ' store the connection string in strAdminConnection    strAdminConnection = conAdminDB.ConnectionString.ToString()    My.Settings.SetUserOverride("AdminConnectionString", strAdminConnection)    ...    End Sub     ' retrieves data from the database    Public Function getDataTable(ByVal sqlStatement As String) As DataTable         Dim ds As New DataSet         Dim dt As New DataTable         Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter         Dim localCon As New OleDbConnection           localCon.ConnectionString = strAdminConnection          Using localCon             Dim command As OleDbCommand = localCon.CreateCommand()             command.CommandText = sqlStatement             localCon.Open()             da.SelectCommand = command             da.Fill(dt)             getDataTable = dt         End Using      End Function End Class   When I call this function from my Word 2007 Template project everything works fine; no errors. But when I run it from the console application it throws the following exception     ex = {"The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0'   provider is not registered on the   local machine."}   Both projects have the same reference and the console application did work when I first wrote it (a while ago) but now it has stopped work.  I must be missing something but I don't know what.  Any ideas? How does Azkaban's management work? I was under the impression that only Dementors are guarding the prison of Azkaban and are only there to keep the inmates on their cells, though after reading again the following passage it put me into thoughts:     'One night, when (the Dementors) opened my door to bring food, I   slipped past them as a dog. It's so much harder for them to sense   animal emotions that they were confused ... I was thin enough to slip   through the bars. I swam as a dog back to the mainland. I journeyed   north and slipped into the Hogwarts grounds as a dog. I've been living   in the Forest ever since.'       Prisoner of Azkaban; chapter 'The Servant of Lord Voldemort'   So Sirius says that he escaped from his cell when the Dementors brought him food.... I say what??? Dementors dont obey anyone, not even the commands of the Ministry of Magic.  So the actual question is, How is the Azkaban prison managed? e.g. who cooks the food? the inmates have blankets, who is washing these blankets etc etc GPU compute grayed out dist$(x,A)=0$ if and only if $x\in \overline{A}$ (closure of $A$) I am trying to calculate the final velocities of two equal mass 2-dimensional circles after an elastic collision. I have tried to figure it out using formulas I know from high school physics, but nothing seems to work. My known variables are:   initial x and y velocities for each circle x and y distances between the centres of the circles at the time of the collision   The variables I would like to solve for are:   final x and y velocities for each circle   Here are diagrams showing all the variables: Is there such a thing as a restore point in Ubuntu? Windows has this. Basically what I want is to record the state of the system either manually or periodically and then restore to that point if required. For example, before upgrading the distribution, or before installing a certain package.  What would be the easiest way to do this? Why do modern mountain bike forks no longer use boots on fork stanchions? Older mountain bikes used to have them on the forks, and lefty and headshocks still do. Why have these fallen out of fashion and would putting aftermarket fork boots on your stanchions be productive or not? How can I add metadata to NTFS files/folders? I want to tag different file types (i.e. .pdf, .epub, .iso, .bin, folders,..) using the same descriptive fields. For example i would like a metadata field "type" which would be "eBook" on pdf- and epub-files, "CD-Image" on iso- and bin-files.  I read about Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to make this possible. Does anyone know a good program for Windows 7 to tag different files and search for them? It is important for me, that the metadata is NOT stored in a separate database. I move the files a lot and need to stay flexible (ADSs 'stick' to the files).  Any ideas?