He's spoken to others who have done time. VS He's spoken with others who have done time.  My question is: When to use spoken to and when to use spoken with?
If one is asking for a person, what should s/he say&mdash;1 or 2?   Could I speak to Kristina? Could I speak with Kristina?
Dependency problem with mysql-server-core-5.5 When I start the Ubuntu software centre, it says I cannot do anything until the package catalog is repaired. However, repairing fails.  I ran sudo apt-get -f install and found the problem to be:  mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1); however:   Version of mysql-server-core-5.5 on system is 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.   So, the question is, how do I install that version and resolve the dependency problem? In his  Feynman calculates the field momentum of a moving charged sphere with charge $q$, radius $a$ and velocity $\mathbf{v}$. He finds that the total momentum in the electromagnetic field around the charged sphere is given by:  $$\mathbf{p} = \frac{2}{3} \frac{q^2}{4\pi \epsilon_0} \frac{\mathbf{v}}{ac^2}.$$  He calls the coefficient between the field momentum, $\mathbf{p}$, and the velocity, $\mathbf{v}$, the electromagnetic mass:  $$m_\textrm{elec}=\frac{2}{3} \frac{q^2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 a c^2}.$$  He claims that this electromagnetic mass $m_\textrm{elec}$ has to be added to the standard "mechanical mass" of the sphere to give the total observed mass of the object.  Would this view be accepted by most physicists today?  Have any experiments been performed that show the effect of the additional electromagnetic mass on the dynamics of a macroscopic charged object?  I guess the problem is that such an effect would only be large enough to be observable for charged particles like electrons. In that case it would be difficult to distinguish mechanical mass, presumably due to the Higgs field, from electromagnetic mass. Maybe one could perform a high energy/short length scale experiment on an electron that excluded the effect of the electromagnetic mass? I have a character playing a multiclass Barbarian/Monk. Does the resistance from rage combine with Deflect Missiles to negate the damage and make the reaction attack? Should the results of a calculation happen automatically, or require a button push? This is a problem I've ran into several times, and I imagine that others have ran across it too.    Basically, I have a complicated equation, and I want the user to type in the values needed to calculate the results.  (For what it's worth, there are good default values for the variables in the equation.)  I've constructed a GUI that shows the user the names of the variables/fields that need to be provided, along with a control (like a numeric up/down, slider, etc.) to enter the values of the field.  Below that, I have an area that shows the output of the equation.  So my question is this.  Should my results area automatically change the calculated results whenever the user makes any changes to any of the input fields, or should they push a "Calculate" button to generate the results?  One other thing that probably applies is that the user is not trying to "get the right answer" out of the results.  They shouldn't be using the output to then go back and modify the input to get a better answer.  Are there any benefits to requiring the button press?  Is the extra click to see the results worth those benefits? How do I add a Pokestop to an area that has none? It is an area where there are tons of businesses but unless I drive about a mile from my work area there are no Pokestops.   I want to add one since we have 1000's of people in the work area, a lot of them play Pokemon Go, and we all can't leave work to drive a mile away to get to a Pokestop area.   Plus it would be nice to be able to capture Pokemon on our breaks. A very basic question concerning the $R^2$ of OLS regressions   run OLS regression y ~ x1, we have an $R^2$, say 0.3 run OLS regression y ~ x2, we have another $R^2$, say 0.4 now we run a regression y ~ x1 + x2, what value can this regression's R squared be?   I think it's clear the $R^2$ for the multiple regression should be no less than 0.4, but is it possible for it to be more than 0.7? Why are newer generations of processors faster at the same clock speed? Why, for example, would a 2.66 GHz dual-core Core i5 be faster than a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, which is also dual-core?  Is this because of newer instructions that can process information in fewer clock cycles? What other architectural changes are involved?     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this question. Feel free to edit the answers to add additional details. There are a variety of characters that are not legally encodeable in XML 1.0, e.g. U+0007 ('bell') and U+001B ('escape'). Most of the interesting ones are non-whitespace 'control' characters.    It's clear from (e.g.)  and others that it's  -- but can anyone illuminate me as to why the XML spec forbids these characters?   It seems like it could have been required that they be encoded in escapes, e.g. as &amp;#x0007; and &amp;#x001B; respectively, but perhaps there's a practical reason that the characters were forbidden rather than required to be escaped?  Answerers have suggested that there is some motivation towards avoiding transmission control characters, but Unicode includes many other control-like characters (consider U+200C "zero width non joiner"). I recognize there may be no good reason for this behavior, but I would still like to understand it better.  It's particularly frustrating because when those character values appear in other encodings data formats, I end up "double-escaping" new XML documents that need to encode this. To illustrate, assume that I have two tables as follows:  VehicleID Name 1         Chuck 2         Larry  LocationID VehicleID City 1          1         New York 2          1         Seattle 3          1         Vancouver 4          2         Los Angeles 5          2         Houston   I want to write a query to return the following results:  VehicleID Name    Locations 1         Chuck   New York, Seattle, Vancouver 2         Larry   Los Angeles, Houston   I know that this can be done using server side cursors, ie:  DECLARE @VehicleID int DECLARE @VehicleName varchar(100) DECLARE @LocationCity varchar(100) DECLARE @Locations varchar(4000) DECLARE @Results TABLE (   VehicleID int   Name varchar(100)   Locations varchar(4000) )  DECLARE VehiclesCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT   [VehicleID] , [Name] FROM [Vehicles]  OPEN VehiclesCursor  FETCH NEXT FROM VehiclesCursor INTO   @VehicleID , @VehicleName WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN    SET @Locations = ''    DECLARE LocationsCursor CURSOR FOR   SELECT     [City]   FROM [Locations]   WHERE [VehicleID] = @VehicleID    OPEN LocationsCursor    FETCH NEXT FROM LocationsCursor INTO     @LocationCity   WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0   BEGIN     SET @Locations = @Locations + @LocationCity      FETCH NEXT FROM LocationsCursor INTO       @LocationCity   END   CLOSE LocationsCursor   DEALLOCATE LocationsCursor    INSERT INTO @Results (VehicleID, Name, Locations) SELECT @VehicleID, @Name, @Locations  END      CLOSE VehiclesCursor DEALLOCATE VehiclesCursor  SELECT * FROM @Results   However, as you can see, this requires a great deal of code.  What I would like is a generic function that would allow me to do something like this:  SELECT VehicleID      , Name      , JOIN(SELECT City FROM Locations WHERE VehicleID = Vehicles.VehicleID, ', ') AS Locations FROM Vehicles   Is this possible?  Or something similar? How does a new user begin using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange? As a new user, I find it impossible to contribute to the community or to even begin contributing. I know why the reputation system is in place and I respect it, but at the same time it is too hard on new users.  It started with me wanting to upvote a question...     "Vote Up requires 15 reputation"   Just to appreciate a good question that helped me I need 15 rep? OK..., so I find out how I can get reputation points. More or less, I need to ask a question for +5 and add an answer for +10. I don't have any questions at the moment and I don't want to spam a random question, but I did happen to have a slightly different answer to the earlier question that I wanted to upvote. So I try to answer...     This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site.   Now... I know this doesn't apply to every question, but at the same time, this means I'm forced to answer yet another question, and I don't want to go around looking for random questions and spam irrelevant answers...  Now I'm stuck. So I try to talk to some other users in the chat rooms about how to go about getting reputation points and how they first started. I entered into a "casual chat room".     You must have 20 reputation on Meta Stack Overflow to talk here.   Yes... I can understand why this is enforced, because we don't want new users to spam chat rooms, but all I wanted to do was ask for help. So I can't even talk to anyone about my newbie problems. So okay, I'll just settle for upvoting comments in the question that helped me. I don't see an upvote hover-over button so I can't even do that.    So now I'm stuck at 1 reputation point, unable to cross that 15 rep barrier, and even after posting this question I'll only have 6 rep points and still unable to do anything, and I'll be forced to look for questions to answer. Yes, I should be contributing to the community, but I shouldn't need to begin answering or making questions to upvote questions and answers. This only spurs more spam/irrelevant answers if anything.   Very, very, very new-user unfriendly. I keep running into areas where I see a chest in a section of the room that seems completely walled-off. Is there any way to get to these, or is that just the randomly generated dungeon being a tease?  I had to splice two screenshots together to show an example of what I'm talking about:   Is there any way to get in there? SQL Delete clears the table instead of erroring Many apps are missing from Ubuntu Software app I tried to enable additional repositories according to the instructions from , however my Ubuntu Software app is still missing a lot of popular apps. Is there anything I'm missing?  Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu Software app 3.20.1 what is a thyristor As part of my 2330 lv3 am required to know about thyristors. I just want to confirm my understanding is correct. A thyristor is basically similar to a transistor, only it stays switched on when it's trigged for as long as there isn't a break in the circuit it's switching. Am I correct? I'd like to get a notification when a question that I've voted to close (but isn't closed yet) is edited Finite group with isomorphic normal subgroups and non-isomorphic quotients? I know it is possible for a group $G$ to have normal subgroups $H, K$, such that $H\cong K$ but $G/H\not\cong G/K$, but I couldn't think of any examples with $G$ finite. What is an illustrative example? When I run this command :  apt install libkf5*   I get the following error :  Unable to locate package libkf5*    I'm sure that the packages whose names start with libkf5 exist (tab-completion says so) . So the problem is not about the absence of those packages.(Note the asterisk at the end of that error message , the wildcard's not working at all) I use apt v.1.9. Thanks in advance. Recovering Home folder after failure to boot I have a small issue. I was having some issues in getting some libraries to work and to resolve it, i deleted some shared libraries by mistake(sudo ...).Now ubuntu fails to boot up but i can access the files from recovery mode. I can see my home folder intact but i cannot even run sudo nautilus as it says it shared libraries not found. The data in my home folder is quite important and i want retrieving it is important. I am running a windows dual boot, if it helps. If anyone could help copy the home folder to a windows drive from the terminal itself(as i can access it at recovery mode) it would be of immense help. Thanks.:-) My neighbor has asked me help with his laptop, an HP with lost power-on password. I tried inserting an Ubuntu cd to format the partition, but well... it doesn't even get there. Any ideas? How many Naruto Shippuden dubbed episodes are there? I am watching Naruto and I am currently on episode 164. How many episodes of Shippuden do they have dubbed, and are they still dubbing it?