Long time ago, like 45 years ago or more, I read a book where Earth had been invaded by an alien space empire. Problem was, for the aliens, that on average humans were more intelligent than the aliens. Humans spread out throughout the empire and cause all kinds of chaos and confusion. The book ends with the empire having crushed all rebellion with the help of a now independent Earth and the humans confronted, together with the aliens, are now confronted with a third alien race that is more intelligent than humans.
Trying to identify a science fiction short story from an anthology likely published before 1991.  Aliens invade during a nuclear war (which would be World War III, WWIII, WW3). The warring nations then turn their nukes on the landing sites, but the invasion succeeds.  Believe the setting is in the U.S., possibly Pacific Northwest, but definitely a mountainous region.  Based on negative inference from the aliens' description of humans as fur-less, no-tail, bipeds (or similar), the aliens are apes or monkeys.  The aliens describe Earth as worse than the Hell planet they previously conquered. They see our tanks and think that we can't have more than a few of those to fight with.  Yet the aliens are somewhat benign, as they take some children back to their parents for a stern talking-to after the children run an alien convoy off the road into a chasm by stringing a rope across the road.
How does the 2009 Star Trek film mesh with Enterprise canon? All of the events in the 2009 Star Trek movie would have taken place after the adventures of Captain Johnathan Archer and company.  So, unless J.J. Abrams and friends decide to completely hand-wave that bit of history as well, all of the events in Enterprise should (in theory) still be able to line up with this new timeline.  Are there any points of conflict in this?  How about any time-travel episodes in the Enterprise series which may have happened differently after the interventions of Nero?  Are there possible good explanations for such conflicts, or are there some which are irreconcilable?  NOTE:  I'm not arguing here whether or not ST2k9 is a part of Star Trek canon.  In fact, this question is specifically granting that it is.  I just want to know if there's any conflicts between the new movie and the existing Star Trek history that remains applicable to it. I have no idea how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. The chapter I'm on is about differentiation and the mean value theorem.  Prove $a^\alpha b^{1-\alpha} \le \alpha a + (1 - \alpha)b, \; a,b &gt; 0,\; 0 &lt; \alpha &lt; 1$ Application launchers in '/usr/share/applications' not working in Nautilus Getting a FILE* from a std::fstream Is there a (cross-platform) way to get a C FILE* handle from a C++ std::fstream ?  The reason I ask is because my C++ library accepts fstreams and in one particular function I'd like to use a C library that accepts a FILE*. Earth Engine convert list with coordinates and values into a feature collection for export I need to create a feature collection from a list containing coordinates and band values.  These are extracted from a landsat image as shown in this linked script.    I'm unable to find a solution in creating a feature collection.  Here is the tail end code.  var valuesList = joinedImage.reduceRegion({   reducer: ee.Reducer.toList(4),   geometry: myGeometry }).values().get(0);  var feature = ee.Feature(null, valuesList);   // Wrap the Feature in a FeatureCollection for export. var myFeatures = ee.FeatureCollection([feature]);   // Export the image, specifying scale and region. Export.table.toDrive(myFeatures, "data", "myData", "B4-B5",  "CSV");   This doesn't work, because it is clearly the wrong way to create the feature collection.  I've tried to create it similar to Rodrigo E. Principe's solution of mapping a Feature Collection but I can't seem to create the initial feature collection to start with. Addition is to Integration as Multiplication is to ______ Trying to run , embedded Tomcat instance fails.  Error seems to appear here:    Apr 17, 2015 2:13:47 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor  INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /opt/OpenForisCalc/calc-server/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/calc.xml  Apr 17, 2015 2:13:58 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal   SEVERE: Error listenerStart   Then if messes up with the rest (this repeats a lot):  Apr 17, 2015 2:13:58 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal  SEVERE: Context [/calc] startup failed due to previous errors My current employer has given me the opportunity to design my own GIS workstation. The problem is I have no idea what is important when it comes to hardware! I have been given a datasheet from Fujitsu which includes the latest CELSIUS M720 series workstations but the configuration includes about 30 different processors, graphics cards, and hard drives.  I will be working a lot with the ESRI desktop suite (spatial analyst and 3D analyst) and doing a fair amount of raster processing (DEMs, visibility analysis, etc.), but I also use the GDAL library, SAGA-GIS, Quantum GIS and others.  Does ArcGIS 10 actually use multiple cores?  I have the choice from 4 cores with 8 threads up to 8 cores with 8 threads - 16 threads?  Is SSD SATA III better than HDD SATA III?  The Celsius R920 supports up to 512 GB RAM. But what do I need?  It will probably be the last time I get a new workstation for the next 5 years, so I am curious what others have ordered or feel will be necessary for the coming years. Obviously the cloud isn't taking over as quick as they say! I've done a clean install of 18.04 and I can't open desktop folders, not even the desktop trash can. Anybody else had this issue? I click on the desktop folders (double click) and nothing happens.  Strange enough, I can open  them when using Nautilus and going to home\stackinator\desktop\ or whatever the path is (can't remember at this point). window-switching keyboard shortcuts interfere with emacs and cannot be changed in the main keyboard system preferences Using getline(cin, s) after cin Get polynomial interpolation formula QR Codes generation from MySQL rows "Year olds" or "year-olds" I am writing about some leadership stuff, and I am trying to say that I am leading the 14-15 year old boys. How do I correctly use year-olds as in, "I was the adviser to the 14-15 year-olds."  Thanks in advance El Capitan froze and rebooted (Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2012) 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i7 8GB DDR3: Was running NetAdmin Pro which is monitoring  my office LAN, processors consumption was at  ~15 - 20%. Simultaneously I ran WiFI Explorer,  3.7% no more than 5% CPU usage. And I was  updating Xcode to v 7.3.1 and was browsing and  watching video from playground.ru Watch the videos until half of it (20mins) the Video froze I moved the mouse and turned out  the whole OSX is frozen. littleSnitch v 3.7 has no reaction I immediately pull the Ethernet adaptor and  MacBook just went to black screen. I then  switch off the wireless router. (My MacBook Pro  is connected to the network via Ethernet  adaptor and via WiFi router bearing different IP, I was thinking of cutting both network  communication, in case it was an intrusion) MacBook just restarted itself to login screen,  after 15-20 sec of black screen and total  silence) I again restarted and booted into Recovery  mode use disk utility. After completing disk  check. Login and previously opened programs resume  back (NetAdmin Pro, WiFi Explorer, Yandex  browser, Activity Monitor and AppStore) AppStore doesn't resume the download  everything else is functioning normally and in Addition I have got my calendar open after login (I did not launch accidental nor was it set to  start with system login)   Question 1: Are there any way to know what was happening and what was OS El Capitan last reaction before it froze and rebooted?  Question 2: Are there any software better than "Console" v10.11 to interpret what was going on before it crashes?  P.S. Thank you in advance, I will try to upload the Console messages later from the MacBook Pro    DDT-2:~ Chaleune$ syslog | grep -i "shutdown cause"  Jun 22 14:15:37 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 22 20:34:46 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 23 15:18:23 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 24 17:58:32 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 24 20:09:52 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 24 22:58:15 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5Jun 25 14:43:36 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 25 21:55:31 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 3  Jun 25 22:20:57 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Kext com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog failed to load (0xdc008012).Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 26 10:18:44 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 26 12:09:45 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 26 18:00:31 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 27 13:05:58 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 27 22:56:11 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  Jun 28 14:18:27 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: 5  *Jun 29 18:56:21 localhost kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: -128*  Jun 29 23:31:22 DDT-2 kernel[0] &lt;Notice&gt;: Previous shutdown cause: -128      shows the following   dsIllInstErr                  = 3,    /illegal instruction error/ dsChkErr                      = 5,    /check trap error/ userCanceledErr               = -128    gave the following interpretation:   03 Illegal Instruction The computer has a specific vocabulary of machine language instructions it can understand. If a computer tries to execute an instruction that isn't in its vocabulary, you see this error code. It's less likely than error 02, but still very common. 05 Range Check Error Programmers can use an instruction in the Motorola 68000 to check if a number is within a certain range. This error indicates that the number tested isn't in the specified range. -128  userCanceledErr         User canceled an operation MacBook [Pro] - how many displays, what resolution/frequency? How do I find out the number, type, resolution &amp; refresh rate of additional monitors I can attach to my MacBook or MacBook Pro?  This is an attempt at a canonical QA, as per the Meta QA -   to try prevent the myriad "same but different" questions we get on every possible combination of computers, cable &amp; monitors There are perfectly good resources out there that Ask Different should not have to duplicate the efforts of. I would like to compare the contents of a couple of collections in my Equals method.  I have a Dictionary and an IList.  Is there a built-in method to do this?  Edited: I want to compare two Dictionaries and two ILists, so I think what equality means is clear - if the two dictionaries contain the same keys mapped to the same values, then they're equal. Has there ever been a warp / non-warp collision? Like something going at warp hits a planet, star, another ship, moon, satellite, alien, tribble, etc.... Basically, can stuff in subspace (warped stuff) hit stuff in real space (not warp)?  Star Trek: The Voyage Home shows us clearly that entering warp speed within Earth's atmosphere has no adverse consequences for the starship or the environment.  HMS Bounty went through miles of atmosphere, dust, birds, and clouds and nothing entered  to hit her. Enterprise did this again by dropping out of warp in Titan's atmosphere.  which explains some tech used, but now we have to ask if there is even a hazard of collision at warp. Has there ever been a collision in the franchise - any normal object being hit at warp speed? (This obviously doesn't include things traveling at warp together, like photon torpedoes from one ship to another).  Closest example I found: In  Enterprise attempts warp before balancing their warp drives and creates a wormhole instead. They nearly collide with an asteroid which was already inside the wormhole, but neither the ship not the asteroid were traveling at warp.  Compressing Space Real-world (non-canon) attempts to explain ST warp technology rely on compressing space itself in front of the vessel. The image sequence below from Star Trek: Into Darkness (canon) shows Enterprise warping past the USS Vengeance and confirms that Enterprise actually gets smaller (or compresses the space around it). The light on Vengeance shows that at the instant the two ships are side-by-side Enterprise looks like a toy beside it. (Large image needed for detail - sorry):    Thus objects at warp occupy less real space - possibly none at - because , which according to Memory-Alpha is implied to be the medium which FTL travel happens. Normally subspace and real space do not interact. When they do it is called a .  Also, objects inside the warp bubble are not moved by the warp drive:     The observer(spaceship) is still immersed in the interior of the warp bubble and this bubble is carried   out by the spacetime ”stream” at faster than light velocities with the observer at the rest with respect to   its local neighborhoods  (p. 25)   It is my belief that to be consistent with warp bubble physics derived from the Einstein Field Equations in general relativity, the ST interpretation of warp speed travel should not allow collisions between n-space objects and objects within a warp bubble and remove the phenomenon from any plotlines such that warp travel is intrinsically safe for the traveller, but possibly greatly impactful for the normal world outside.  But has it happened?  Points of clarification raised by comments  Deflector Shields: Yes, ships have them. Gene Roddenberry envisioned Navigational Shields which would deflect anything in front of the ship, from a single hydrogen atom to an asteroid (see his notes below).    It's important to note that much of what he had in this guide was changed in final production. In fact, based on this guide we could write an entire episode on a simple deflector sabotage resulting in them hitting a hydrogen atom. Real science calculations tell us that even hitting a photon of light would release incalculable energy.  These notes very much explain the many questions asking why ships don't go to warp inside a solar system. Solar systems are FULL of particles and debris, which would require a great deal of energy to deflect. Interstellar space simply draws less power because the shields work less. Remove space around tikz This is kind of a weird request. For some reason whoever owns safeandbuy.com has pointed their domain at my IP address. The reason it's a problem is that I'm having all kinds of crawlers that are trying to crawl my site with that domain name.   Is there anything I can do about this?