I'm looking for a cartoon space fantasy film that I saw on TV somewhere between 1985-1988. I think it was a one-off and not a series. I only have sketchy fragments and never got the whole story line, but it involved some form of space travel, quite a few people travelling onboard the vessel, with an old man of some importance who seemed to be comatose. They are trying to save him, I think, and there is some form of relativistic influence occurring, as whatever they are doing, or speed they are travelling at is influencing his age/rate of aging (it might even have been going backward in a parallel dimension). It was quite an intense, serious cartoon, but nevertheless absorbing. There were also a pair of blobby like sub-characters, pale in colour, with arms and legs who tended to drift about and could pick up the character of thought of those around, and may have been made of thought themselves. They had young child-like voices, somewhere around 8-10 years old or so, with UK-English accents. There was a certain electronic music theme that went with them too. That theme has popped up elsewhere, so I doubt it was scored specifically for this. It was aired in the daytime, somewhere mid-morning to early afternoon. The old man was white and had a white beard. The other adult characters spoke in English, and had as far as I remember mildly American- or UK- English accents.
I'm looking for a movie I've seen as a kid, the details are foggy and sparse but I'll try my best following :  What is it?: An animated movie. Tell us what it isn't: It is not . Tell us what made it memorable: A planet where some brain-sucking insect-like aliens live, also an old bald man lives on the same planet. When did you see this film?: Late 80's, early 90's. How old was it?: If I've seen the movie on TV in Spain, is a pretty safe bet that it will be at least 5 years old. Was it part of a series?: I don't think so. Plot: No clue, sorry. What language was it in?: The movie was dubbed to Spanish (Spain).  No detail is too insignificant  What details can I recall?:  Sci-Fi story with one character being an old bald man living on a planet where some insect-ish aliens can open your skull and suck your brain. Habitat of those insect-ish foes was depicted in light blue colors, I kinda remember giant mushrooms as well. A young boy befriends the old baldie, the boy came to the planet with some adults.   Other details I'm not completely sure (maybe my mind is filling the gaps):  I think that the movie was drawn using , not 100% sure though. I cannot remember which year I've seen the movie, but it should be late 80's or early 90's. I'm pretty sure that I've seen the movie in Spanish TV (not rented videotape). Somehow the young boy was the young version of the old baldie (time travel?). The old man lives in a wood house near the brain-sucking insect habitat, as many old man does he spend his time on the porch.    Try to offer unique details As anyone would expect from this kind of movie, there's a scene where the alien insects attack a group of people trying to suck their brains. A young boy was with those adults and survived with injuries in his head. The old bald man have some surgery in his head due to an attack he suffered years before.
Difference between processing.runalg() and general.runalg() In the discussion from a question I asked several days ago (), someone suggested that I use general.runalg() instead of processing.runalg() for running QGIS algorithms.    I've now used both, and haven't noticed a difference in either performance or syntax between them.  I'm just wondering what sort of differences there are between these two methods, and which one I should be using. What is the limit of $n \sin (2 \pi \cdot e \cdot n!)$ as $n$ goes to infinity? Is there a way to prove that the order of an element in a Group divides the order of the Group, WITHOUT USING LAGRANGE'S This is a very easy fact we use in Group Theory,  But somehow, I wondered that whether there may be another way (other than Lagrange's Theorem) to prove that the order of an element divides the order of Group.  I attempted to go on the term "exponent" of the Group (just assume that G is a Finite Group), which we may define the least common multiple of orders of elements in G. But this exponent divides $|G|$, since the order of each element divides $|G|$. So it became a little paradox.   Shall I think that; before teaching this fact in a Course, one should teach about Lagrange's first? Warning  If you're looking for advice how to make your document look like it's been written in Word, this is most likely not the question you're looking for. This question is mostly of theoretical nature, as it results in tiny differences, which will most likely not be noticed by someone who doesn't allow the use of LaTeX.  Questions that might be more helpful for this matter are:           Question  I learned that MS Word uses a slightly different version of the unit "point" (pt) than TeX does:     The 12 point of Word will be PostScript point, which in TeX would be called 12bp. 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Package one half of each pair in a special package, and send it out in a nano-spaceship keep the other half of the pair of entangled particles here on earth accelerate nano-spaceship to 99.99999999999999% of the speed of light using a number of    Due to Lorentz ,  $$ L = L _\text{0} \sqrt {1 - \frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}} $$  In one years time, the spaceship would have traveled 93B ly away from us (in the spaceships relative frame)  After one year of travel, the spaceship could be preconfigured to detect the CMB in the direction of travel, and then trigger their quantum entangled particle to send a '0' or a '1' depending on whether the CMB was detected.  Repeat this process using any number of spaceships in any number of directions, and soon you would experimentally show how big the universe really is.  Any problems? Every $n > 17$ is a non-negative integer combination of $4$ and $7$. So, somehow over the weekend, my 1GB USB flash drive has managed to become write-protected.  There is no switch on the stick, so I'm concluding that something has corrupted at some point.  Obviously I can't format it or remove.  The output from dmesg | tail is:  Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328168 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Data Protect [current] Info fld=0x0 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Write protected sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 05 08 00 00 00 01 00 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328200 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1   I think the second and final lines are a giveaway to corruption, but I don't know how to interpret this output.  Could someone help to see if this output gives any indication?  I usually eject the drive before removing it, but I may have been lax once or twice.  The data isn't critical, it's just bugging me.  Any suggestions on how to fix it (if the drive even can be) would be greatly appreciated. Is it true that the order of $ab$ is always equal to the order of $ba$? How do I prove that if $a$, $b$ are elements of group, then $o(ab) = o(ba)$?   For some reason I end up doing the proof for abelian(ness?), i.e., I assume that the order of $ab$ is $2$ and do the steps that lead me to conclude that $ab=ba$, so the orders must be the same. Is that the right way to do it? Module 'pdftexcmds' not found after update Yesterday I updated my distribution (tlmgr update --all) and now I cannot use TikZ with lualatex anymore.  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Is this a bug? Am I missing a package? I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi series, intended for children. Robots have control over the humans. There is a squad of humans who attack them. Every member in this squad has a badge on their suit, and when they touch this badge the suit becomes armed. This series was not cartoon series, it was performed by real people. The main robot character is very similar in style to Darth Vader in Star Wars. The series aired in the 1990s. I am sorry but I can't recall many details. Cat5e cable has a rated current of 0.577A (). I am wondering if this is voltage dependent? I am almost certain it is not, but if it is, something might blow up. Say I need to get 2A at 5V across the cable. I boost it to 24V / 0.5A, send it across the wire, and step it down to back to 5V and a bit under 2A. Would that work? If the cable is proper Cat5e could I do this trick with up to 100V as long as I don't exceed 0.577A?   I am worried if the cable heats up at near maximum rated current, for instance, the safe voltage could drop as the insulation softens up or something. I will certainly test this, but I wonder if there is some rule that I don't know about. I want to calculate the derivative of $|x|^\alpha$ with respect to $x$, where $1&lt;\alpha&lt;2$.  $\frac{d|x|^\alpha}{dx}=\alpha|x|^{\alpha-1}\mathrm{sign}(x)$  Is it correct?  And is it true that  $\lim_{x \to 0} \alpha|x|^\alpha\mathrm{sign}(x)=0$?  What with the following derivative $|x|^\alpha\rm{sign}(x)$. I would be grateful for any hints. Suppose that there is a trigonometric equation of the form $a\sin x + b\cos x = c$, where $a,b,c$ are real and $0 &lt; x &lt; 2\pi$. An example equation would go the following: $\sqrt{3}\sin x + \cos x = 2$ where $0&lt;x&lt;2\pi$.  How do you solve this equation without using the method that moves $b\cos x$ to the right side and squaring left and right sides of the equation?  And how does solving $\sqrt{3}\sin x + \cos x = 2$ equal to solving $\sin (x+ \frac{\pi}{6}) = 1$ Positioning of decorations on parallel lines I'm displayed three lines on a pgfplot. I want to show a marker for the slope of each line and the difference in height between lines.     I'm showing the slopes by adding triangles under the lines  (at a manual position) and placing an annotation inside the triangle (at a manual position). I'm showing the difference between the height of the lines by adding a brace manually as well.   How can I place the braces on the plot and anchor them at a certain point on each line? The triangles can be added at the end of each line declaration, but doing it like this is ok. The braces are put in place manually, which is not sustainable as I create more plots.   I want to avoid using xshift, yshiftand manual adjustment to put the braces,traingles and annotations in the right place. How can I do this?      \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots}  \pgfplotsset{compat=1.9}  \begin{document}   \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.45,trim axis left, trim axis right]     \begin{axis}[ylabel={$\hat{S(4)}$},xlabel={$S{^*}_{breakeven}$},ylabel style={rotate=-90},domain=1:25, legend style={legend pos=north west,font=\scriptsize}, legend cell align=left]  \addplot+[samples=200,mark=none]                                    {6.26 + 0.28*x} coordinate[pos=0.5](x) coordinate[pos=0.9] (y) (x)-| (y) node [midway,xshift=-0.6cm,yshift=0.3cm] {\footnotesize $Slope X$};;  \addplot+[samples=200,mark=none, dotted, thick]             {2.66 + 0.28*x}  coordinate[pos=0.3](a) coordinate[pos=0.6] (b) (a)-| (b) node [midway,xshift=-0.5cm,yshift=0.2cm] {\footnotesize $Slope 1$};  \draw [decorate,decoration={brace,amplitude=5pt,raise=4pt},xshift=4pt]  (225,107) -- (225,73)  node [midway,xshift=0.6cm] {\footnotesize $\beta_1$};  \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} For some reason, be it some bad habit or something else, I can not understand why the statement "p only if q" would translate into p implies q. 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Tikzpictures side by side The dock doesn't work correctly after I enter my password, either.