I brought this up. - 0  I did bring this up. - 1  I did brought this up. - 2  Is it ever acceptable to use (2)? I have a vague memory from high school that the second tense is something rarely used to emphasize or exaggerate the idea, stronger than the previous 2 (in this order). Example:  Are you silly? Don't you remember? I did brought this up.  I also have a feeling this is a lesser known grammar fact that few people are aware of, so I am afraid that if I do use it, the larger public will frown.  That said, it's also possible that I am very wrong.  Please, input ideally from natives or C2 speakers. I consider myself very advanced, but I have, however, been having this doubt.   Thank you so much in advance!
Should I use the past tense with did? For example, I was to say:     The important question is: Did they knew what it means or not?   Or should I say:     The important question is: Did they know what it means or not?   In other words: Should I use past tense with did?  I looked at this:    but it didn't really answer my question.
Use the new helpcenter for the question/answer ban message proof of functional completeness of logical operators If I know that the set of operators {∨, &amp; , ¬} is functionally complete, how do I go about proving/disproving the functional completeness of the following set of operators?  a) $\{\vee,\neg\}$  b) $\{\to,\neg\}$  c) $\{\to\}$  I have looked at the answer here for (b) : Is it possible to follow a user automatically? ModelBuilder not adding output feature class to Table of Contents? I'm trying to create a tool in ModelBuilder that will take a new point from a user, create a feature class for this point and display it on a map.  What I've done is:   I've created a feature class for a point-like feature in ArcCatalog. I've prepared a really simple model in ModelBuilder, that starts with a feature set variable (which takes the feature class as a schema and symbology file). The variable is marked as a parameter. Next I'm using the Copy Features tool that takes the variable as input and saves it as a feature class in my scratch workspace. The output feature class is marked as a parameter with the 'add to display' option.   After the module is run I get a shapefile in my scratch workspace. I can add it manually to TOC and it contains the selected point. However no matter what I do, I can't display it in TOC automatically after the model completes.  There is a known issue described in several places that doesn't allow to display newly created layers in TOC when model finishes with the 'add to display' option. However there's a quick workaround, which is to mark the output layer as parameter. In my case it doesn't work.  I'm using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 on Windows 7 x86_64. Why is the light reflected at the same angle from mirror? From the school physics I know that the material objects bounce from the plane surface at the same angle, losing some kinetic energy. In the same school I was taught that the light (and waves in general) obeys this principle too.  Obviously, in the case of light the plane surface should be a perfect mirror. But I can't understand how should this work from the quantum point of view. Let's assume that our mirror consists of a single silver atom.  Why should the electrons of this atom re-emit consumed photons at some specific angle? Age and Graduate school I am 33. I live in the US. I am a neither a US citizen, nor a green card holder. I have worked in various jobs as a research assistant (physics, biology, economics) usually involving programming, mathematics or statistics.  As a newly minted undergraduate, I didn't really have much confidence in myself and I completely ruled out graduate school as pointless.  I didn't think of myself as smart enough.  I drifted into working in labs, because those are some of the easiest ones for which one can get a work permit in the US as a non-American.  Having worked in academia for a while now, I've had a chance to leap into various fields and help build solutions to complex problems.  I think I have literally gone as far as I can go researching in academia with no higher degree.  I work at one of the top universities in the world.  (If you looked at US News rankings or the Academic Ranking of World Universities, it's in the top 5.)  Lately, I've been thinking about applying for graduate school.  I do have a few papers in various fields.  I'm thinking of a PhD in either pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics or computer science.   I see two big minuses to applying to graduate school:   Most people applying are more than a decade younger than I am.  (Alas, more than a few gray hairs have made an appearance in recent years.) Perhaps my achievements would look good for someone younger, but partially my achievements are the result of a long career rather than any special brilliance. So, I wonder how my record will be perceived.  I did take GRE and I scored 800 quantitative, 800 verbal and a 5 on the essay.  (I would most likely have to do a GRE subject test depending on what field I ultimately decided.)   Please advise on how accomplished, but older candidates, are viewed in the graduate school application process. “Unable to Connect to World” Minecraft PE 1.16.201 So my brother and I have been playing Minecraft together on our iPads for years now, but in September I got a new iPad Pro 3rd Generation and I’ve been having issues with Minecraft ever since. Every time we have tried to join each other’s worlds we get the message “Unable to connect to world”. Recently after the update on December 16th, it worked for about a week without having any issues, but now it has gone back to not letting us connect to the worlds. Both of us are able to connect to other people’s worlds, but not each other’s, we’ve tried many things to fix this but so far nothing has worked. If you have any ideas for what we should do please let me know, thank you so much! How to float until on left (or right) page? I have two sideways tables that I want on two facing pages so the reader can turn the entire book and read them both in one turn. For the moment I keep moving them around to keep them on facing pages. Is there a way I can make the first one float until it's on a left page and then place the other one right after? Or perhaps some similar way to automatically get them on the same spread? "Goose"–"geese" vs. "moose"–"moose" Why is it that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is moose? The same goes for mouse and house. Mouse becomes mice, yet house becomes houses. How to obtain the sum of the following series? $\sum_{n=1}^\infty{\frac{n^2}{2^n}}$ It seems that I'm missing something about this.  First of all, the series is convergent: $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{2^{-n-1} (n+1)^2}{2^{-n} n^2}=\frac{1}{2}$ (ratio test)  What I tried to do is to find a limit of a partial sum $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}S_n$ as follows: $S_n=\frac{\frac{1}{6} n (n+1) (2 n+1)}{\frac{1-\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^n}{2 \left(1-\frac{1}{2}\right)}}$. Still, the limit is $\infty$ and I'm clearly doing something wrong. Select translation: where? Subtracting 2 lists in Python Right now I have vector3 values represented as lists. is there a way to subtract 2 of these like vector3 values, like  [2,2,2] - [1,1,1] = [1,1,1]   Should I use tuples?  If none of them defines these operands on these types, can I define it instead?  If not, should I create a new vector3 class? I am a beginner to python coding in GIS. I want to calculate the total number of counts in raster attribute table. In order to do that:   I would like to build a attribute table of raster data use a loop through attribute table using ARCPY.SearchCursor()   Therefore, I wrote a code to build an attribute table. However, I am getting an error while running the code and not able to figure out the error in the code.  Code:  import arcpy # Create the geoprocessing object  import arcgisscripting gp = arcgisscripting.create()  #To overwrite output arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True  #Set environment settings gp.workspace = "C:/Subhasis/Test/raster-read"  #Build Raster Attribute Table gp.BuildRasterAttributeTable_management("sti-9", "Overwrite")  Error Message: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:/Subhasis/Test/raster-read/test.py", line 15, in &lt;module&gt;     gp.BuildRasterAttributeTable_management("sti-9", "Overwrite") ExecuteError: ERROR 000049: Failed to build attribute table Failed to execute (BuildRasterAttributeTable). Does moving leave the object in a usable state? How to tell Max CP? Pipe to multiple files in the shell I have an application which will produce a large amount of data which I do not wish to store onto the disk. The application mostly outputs data which I do not wish to use, but a set of useful information that must be split into separate files. For example, given the following output:  JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK A 1 JUNK B 5 C 1 JUNK   I could run the application three times like so:  ./app | grep A &gt; A.out ./app | grep B &gt; B.out ./app | grep C &gt; C.out   This would get me what I want, but it would take too long. I also don't want to dump all the outputs to a single file and parse through that.  Is there any way to combine the three operations shown above in such a way that I only need to run the application once and still get three separate output files? Firefox application associations not working in the 'Downloads' window No matter what changes i make to file associations (actions) in the 'Applications' tab in Firefox, they're totally ignored. For example, i set .wmv and .avi files to open with 'smplayer' but when i download a file and double-click on it (through the 'Downloads' window), it keeps opening with Totem player.    The default file associations through nautilus ('open with' tab) work fine, i.e. i've set smplayer as the default player and when i double-click a video file it open correctly.  I've tried to delete and recreate mimetypes.rdf but that didn't help.  Any ideas on what else should i check? How can I list installed packages by installation date?  I need to do this on debian/ubuntu. Answers for other distributions would be nice as well.  I installed a lot of stuff to compile a certain piece of code, and I want to get a list of the packages that I had to install. How to scale and shift voltage signal? I want to scale and shift my voltage signal by below relation:  $$ V_{out} = \frac {10} {12} \cdot V_{in} - 10 $$  Indeed my primary voltage is from 0v to 24v and I want to put it from -10v to +10v.  I try to use the below circuit but its gain is always greater than 1.    Image from SLOA097 TI.  Does anyone know how I can achieve my goal? I have ±12v and 5v power lines.  EDIT: According to the innovative solution by scorpdaddy, I thought it would be valuable to edit my question:   High input impedance is required to decrease load effects. How can it be achieved? How can I achieve the more and more accuracy? There was a foolish (in my opinion) question asked on Scifi.SE       James bond keeps returning with a different face, albeit usually a similar one, and often operates with high-tech gadgetry that seem to be on par with the Doctor's sonic screw driver.   In my opinion each new actor represents a reboot of the franchise using the new face, not a continuation of the story.   Is there any continuity between versions of James Bond which change actors? I'm not talking about characters like M or Q, I'm talking about events or past advisories being referenced in a different Bond movie where the main actor was someone else.