What is the need of using the passive form, for instance:     These lines have been taken from the poem XYZ.    and     These lines have taken from XYZ.   What's the reason behind it?
I found native people prefer to use passive voice in a sentence. For example:  Tonight's moon can be seen from anywhere worldwide. We have reason to believe that progress can be made.  Be honest, it's difficult for an English learner to understand. Why not phrase it this way:  We can see the moon from anywhere worldwide.  In which cases do people prefer to use passive voice rather than active voice?
How can I recover from deleting the /usr/share/themes directory? I am buing assamble self PC for playing games.  I am wondering, all the drivers, which are most likely for Windows, can i just use them on Ubuntu?  So if i understand you right, it will automaticaly detect the drivers, no need for installs ? or it find custom drivers for ubuntu.  This is the setup, will there be any problem with it? Do you think there is a big difference in for...in and for loops? What kind of "for" do you prefer to use and why?  Let's say we have an array of associative arrays:  var myArray = [{'key': 'value'}, {'key': 'value1'}];   So we can iterate:  for (var i = 0; i &lt; myArray.length; i++)   And:  for (var i in myArray)   I don't see a big difference. Are there any performance issues? Differences between ways to express future actions I asked this question  but I haven't gotten a useful answer. Could you tell me the difference in meaning between these sentences?        Do you think you will visit them next week?     Will you visit them next week?     Are you going to visit them next week?     Are you visiting them next week?     Are you going to be visiting them next week?     Are you planning to be visiting them next week?     Do you plan to visit them next week?      Will there be any difference in the answers?        I think I will visit them next week.     I will visit them next week.     I am going to visit them next week.     I am visiting them next week.     I am going to be visiting them next week.     I am planning to be visiting them next week.     I plan to visit them next week.      Can I use "planning to" instead of "going to"?  (E.g. "Are you planning to visit them next week? — Yes, I am planning to visit them next week.") Which of these sentences show that the subject of conversation has already been discussed? For example, I talked with a friend of mine about my plans to visit somebody. So my friend is aware of my plans.  And my last question. Which of these seven sentences express that the action will certainly take place? $(z_{2n})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ and $(z_{2n+1})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to same limit. Show $(z_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to the same limit. $(z_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is a complex valued sequence such that subsequences $(z_{2n})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ and $(z_{2n+1})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to same limit.  How could I show that the sequence $(z_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to the same limit using $\epsilon$, $N$ definition?    For every $\epsilon &gt;0$,  $|z_{2n}-l|&lt;\epsilon$ whenever $n&gt;N_1$, and   $|z_{2n+1}-l|&lt;\epsilon$ whenever $n&gt;N_2$.  We want to show that for every $\epsilon &gt;0$, there exists $N$ such that $|z_{n}-l|&lt;\epsilon$ whenever $n&gt;N$. I tried something like  $|z_{n}-l|\le|z_n-z_{2n}|+|z_{2n}-l|$ but wasn't sure what to do next Comparing two Lists and returning the distinct values and the differences pdflatex bash script to supress all output except error messages? I have a bash script which I use to compile a file with pdflatex twice (to make sure it sorts out references properly, etc.). This is the 'latexbuild' script I use:  module load ctan pdflatex --shell-escape --interaction=nonstopmode $1 bibtex $1 pdflatex --shell-escape --interaction=nonstopmode --interaction=batchmode $1   I would then call this script with latexbuild test.tex. It produces a lot of output which I would like to supress, except for the error messages which I'd like to see. Is there any way to only allow error messages to be displayed? Where can game assets for Blender be downloaded? Is there any place where I can download surroundings of a game as a 3d model or maybe there re some inspired artists where they put them for download. I'm trying to find rooms from Wall-e. Some rooms, or outside surroundings or some interior surroundings. Where can I find things like that? How do I get jQuery to select elements with a . (period) in their ID? Given the following classes and controller action method:  public School {   public Int32 ID { get; set; }   publig String Name { get; set; }   public Address Address { get; set; } }  public class Address {   public string Street1 { get; set; }   public string City { get; set; }   public String ZipCode { get; set; }   public String State { get; set; }   public String Country { get; set; } }  [Authorize(Roles = "SchoolEditor")] [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public SchoolResponse Edit(Int32 id, FormCollection form) {   School school = GetSchoolFromRepository(id);    UpdateModel(school, form);    return new SchoolResponse() { School = school }; }   And the following form:  &lt;form method="post"&gt;   School: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Name") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Street: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.Street") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   City:  &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.City") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Zip Code: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.ZipCode") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Sate: &lt;select id="Address.State"&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Country: &lt;select id="Address.Country"&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/form&gt;   I am able to update both the School instance and the Address member of the school.  This is quite nice!  Thank you ASP.NET MVC team!  However, how do I use jQuery to select the drop down list so that I can pre-fill it?  I realize that I could do this server side but there will be other dynamic elements on the page that affect the list.  The following is what I have so far, and it does not work as the selectors don't seem to match the IDs:  $(function() {   $.getJSON("/Location/GetCountryList", null, function(data) {     $("#Address.Country").fillSelect(data);   });   $("#Address.Country").change(function() {     $.getJSON("/Location/GetRegionsForCountry", { country: $(this).val() }, function(data) {       $("#Address.State").fillSelect(data);     });   }); }); How do I get rid of eggs? Kepler problem in time: how do two gravitationally attracted particles move? Two particles with initial positions and velocities $r_1,v_1$ and $r_2,v_2$ are interacting by the inverse square law (with G=1), so that  $$ {d^2r_1\over dt^2} = - { m_2(r_1-r_2)\over |r_1-r_2|^3} $$ $$ {d^2r_2\over dt^2} = - { m_1(r_2-r_1)\over |r_1-r_2|^3} $$  (the inverse square law along the line of separation). What is the complete solution of these differential equations? What is the position of the two objects as a function of time?  After reading a lot on Wikipedia, I've come to the definition of center of mass and relative coordinates:   $$R(t) ~=~ \frac{m_1 r_1 + m_2 r_2}{m_1+m_2}$$  $$\ddot{r}(t) r(t)^2 ~=~ (m_1+m_2)G$$  Where $R$ is the center of mass, and $r$ is the displacement between the particles... Is this correct? How do I proceed to solve the differential equation? I have got a template class as follows:  class MyClass&lt;T&gt; {     T field;     public void myMethod()     {        field = new T(); // gives compiler error     } }   How do I create a new instance of T in my class? I'm a little confused about the following sentences. Could you please tell me which one(s) is/are correct?        The first and the second chapter are difficult.   The first and the second chapters are difficult.   The first and second chapters are difficult.   The first and second chapter are difficult.      I believe #1 &amp; #3 are correct, while #2 &amp; #4 are incorrect.  But when seeing the answers to the Quora question , I wonder why they say #2 is correct. Bathroom vanity light with no junction box How do I find out which program and process ID accesses a given IP address in Windows? Is it possible to catch, which program is accessing a specific IP address?   I found my computer is flooding and wish to check addresses one by one.  May be it is possible to set up some audit for this? Is there an elementary proof that $\sum \limits_{k=1}^n \frac1k$ is never an integer? How do I prove that $m(TE)=\left|\det(T)\right|m(E)$? Let $m$ be the $n$-dimensional Lebesgue measure and $T$ be a linear operator on $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $\Sigma$ be the sigma-algebra of Lebesgue measurable sets. How do prove that (1) $\forall E\in\Sigma, T(E)\in \Sigma$ and $m(T(E))=\left|\det(T)\right|m(E)|$? Since the $\sigma$-algebra of Lebesgue measurable sets is strictly larger than the borel algebra, I think it cannot be proven by showing that $T$ is continuous. How do I prove this formally? I have a script from UC Davis and every thing is proven precisely here, except for one lemma which is critical for rest proofs in the script. That is,  Define $\mathbb{B}=\big\{\prod_{i=1}^n [a_i,b_i) : a_i,b_i\in\mathbb{R}\big\}$. Let $T$ be a unitary operator on $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $A\in \mathbb{B}$ and $\{A_k\}_{1≦k≦m}$ be a finite disjoint sequence such that $\bigcup_{1≦k≦m} A_k \subset T(A)$. Then $\sum_{1≦k≦m} m(A_k) ≦ m(A)$.  It's written in the script: &quot;This result is geometrically obvious, but a formal proof seems to require a fuller discussion of the volume function on elementary geometrical sets, which is included in the theory of valuation in convex geometry. We omit the details&quot; It's okay to me to go through full discussion of volume function if that is precise. If it cannot be proven another easier way(so I can prove it in a day), please recommend me a &quot;convex geometry&quot; text which explains this. I am given two charged particles of same charge at a distance of $r$. They initially apply force $F$.  Now an infinite dielectric (of dielectric constant $4$) of width $\frac{r}{2}$ is introduced between the particles. What will be the new force?   I find this problem confusing because I have only been told about forces when its either fully dielectric or fully vaccum given by Coulomb's law. How do we get forces when only partial space is dielectric? Changing affiliation on publication I am moving from one job to another (postdoc to tenure track) this summer and I have papers in several stages of being written, these go from handwritten notes with all the necessary arguments to under revision at a journal. All the papers will have my new contact information put on them but where is the line for changing affiliation? It seems obvious to me that the one that is still in the handwritten notes stage will get the new affiliation and that the ones under revision won't. So somewhere in between is a line.   Where is it?  There are some similar questions so far (see  and  but they do not seem to be quite the same situation since I am not changing fields and the appointments are not concurrent. Splitting all lines in layer at vertices using QGIS