I am a financial noob. I wonder what are some intrinsic value of stocks. While purchasing a stock, I expect that the price of it will go up, and I'll sell it to gain the price difference. However, the price is determined by the mass, which also applies to currencies or such. If no one wants the stock tomorrow, its price will be zero. What, then, contributes to the price of stocks, other than the expectation for the price to grow?
I read somewhere that companies are not required to pay dividends to shareholders (this is correct, yes?).   If so, then if company A never pays dividends to its shareholders, then what is the point of owning company A's stock? Surely the right to one vote for company A's Board can't be that valuable.   What is it that I'm missing?
Rendered image is just grey I am having some issues when rendering an image, my rendering screen is turning into grey even when making a full render. What am I doing wrong? How to start a GUI software on a remote Linux PC via SSH Sometimes I need to start XMBC media player or other GUI software a one of my PC (small Xubuntu PC used as a media center).  Usually I do this starting a X11vnc server on the remote PC via SSH and than connecting with an Xvnc client to the Xfce desktop.  Is there a way to start a GUI software on a remote Linux PC via SSH?  Thanks! I have two raster images, Boolean classified (1 or 2).  They overlap in given areas.   I need a raster that is only the overlapping sections.  Using Arcinfo 10.  Answer can only use raster methods, no converting to polygons, points, etc... Recently I needed to do weighted random selection of elements from a list, both with and without replacement. While there are well known and good algorithms for unweighted selection, and some for weighted selection without replacement (such as modifications of the resevoir algorithm), I couldn't find any good algorithms for weighted selection with replacement. I also wanted to avoid the resevoir method, as I was selecting a significant fraction of the list, which is small enough to hold in memory.  Does anyone have any suggestions on the best approach in this situation? I have my own solutions, but I'm hoping to find something more efficient, simpler, or both. Calculating $1+\frac13+\frac{1\cdot3}{3\cdot6}+\frac{1\cdot3\cdot5}{3\cdot6\cdot9}+\frac{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdot7}{3\cdot6\cdot9\cdot12}+\dots? $ How to find infinite sum How to find infinite sum $$1+\dfrac13+\dfrac{1\cdot3}{3\cdot6}+\dfrac{1\cdot3\cdot5}{3\cdot6\cdot9}+\dfrac{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdot7}{3\cdot6\cdot9\cdot12}+\dots? $$   I can see that 3 cancels out after 1/3, but what next? I can't go further. Localization of a UFD that is a PID I have an Android device which is running Android 4.0.3 (or something like that).  My little brother decided to try and guess my lock screen pattern the other day, and ended up locking me out.   I have since been unable to log back in to the tablet using my Google Account details. I provided the correct login details, however it says they are incorrect. Could this be connected to the fact I have no internet connection?  I have no internet connection as the device is WiFi only, and the WiFi is currently turned off. I cannot turn it on, as I am locked out.  How can I log back into my tablet without wiping the user data? Why won't Amanita move in and settle down? verbatiminput and fontsize Where can I get a device with 'Ubuntu for phones' pre-installed? Canonical has recently announced , which is Ubuntu with a specific interface for mobile devices.  Where can I get phones with this version of Ubuntu pre-installed? If no devices are available yet, where can I pre-order one? This is my attempt to prove that, if $a &gt; 0$, then $\frac{1}{a} &gt; 0$, using just field and order axioms.  $$a &gt; 0 \implies a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right)^2 &gt; 0 \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right)^2 \implies a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right)^2 &gt; 0 \implies a \cdot \left(\left(\frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right)\right) &gt; 0$$  By associativity of multiplication:  $$\left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right) &gt; 0$$  We know that $a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right) = 1$, because one is the multiplication inverse of the other.   So we have:  $$1 \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a}\right) &gt; 0 \implies \frac{1}{a} &gt; 0 $$  Which is what we wanted to prove.   My question are:    In the field axioms, there's no axiom that says that $0$ times another number is $0$, but I have used this property. How would you translate it to field and order axioms? I have assumed that $\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)^2$ is positive, have you noticed? Note that I need a positive number in order not to change the $&gt;$ sign. But this is not present in the field or order axioms. How would you explain this? Could someone explain the muon $g-2$ experiment problem? Server 2012 Core (no GUI): Remote Server manager not working I am trying cmd --> MMC --> Server Manager and then connecting to my Server 2012 no GUI  but i keep getting the following error The WinRM client cannot process the request  I am unable to upload images right now  This is not related to other post "How to Remote Manage Windows Server 2012 in Server Manager?" because title and description of that post is quite different from what i am asking How to show only hidden files in Terminal? I have a directory that contains thousands of files, some of them are hidden.  The command ls -a list all files, including hidden ones, but I need just to list hidden files.  What command should I use? Additional Drivers for Ubuntu 17.10 The Additional Drivers settings interface is no longer available in Ubuntu 17.10  How can I install proprietary drivers in Ubuntu 17.10?  I need drivers for Wifi &amp; Bluetooth (BCM43142) and Intel Graphics.  The earlier Additional Drivers program showed a package named jockey but it no longer seem to exist in repositories. Dropping Internet connection on Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821AE I have continuous problems of network dropping connections on wifi with ubuntu 16.04, I have an ASUS R510J, this is my network card:  ##### lspci #############################  03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8821]         Subsystem: AzureWave RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [1a3b:2161]         Kernel driver in use: rtl8821ae  04:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 12)         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1043:200f]         Kernel driver in use: r8169   sudo service network-manager restart doesnt's help, as I never regain internet connection after it drops, and I have to restart the PC. On Ethernet cable I have no problem.  What do you think is the issue? drivers?  thank you An unclear sentence in the book "Griffiths, Harris-Principles of algebraic geometry" Let $X$ be a complex manifold and consider a holomorphic vector bundle $\pi:E\to X$ of rank $r$. By the usual correspondence between vector bundles and locally free sheaves, we consider $E$ as a sheaf by abuse of notation. We denote with $\mathscr A_X^{p,q}$ the sheaf of $C^\infty$ $(p,q)$-differential forms on $X$ and we define: $$A^{p,q}(E):=\Gamma(X,\mathscr A^{p,q}\otimes_{\mathscr O_X} E)$$ $$A^k(E):=\bigoplus_{p+q=k}A^{p,q}(E)$$  Now suppose that $\nabla:A^\bullet(E)\to A^\bullet(E)$ is a linear connection on $E$, then the curvature operator is defined as: $$\nabla^2:A^0(E)\to A^2(E)$$ where $\nabla^2$ is the composition of the maps $\nabla: A^0(E)\to A^2(E)$   and $\nabla: A^1(E)\to A^2(E)$. One can show that $\nabla^2$ is $C^\infty(X)$-linear.    I don't understand the following sentence from the Griffiths-Harris book at page 75 (I rephrase it by using my notation):     Since $\nabla^2$ is $C^\infty(X)$-linear, then it is induced by a bundle map $E\to\bigwedge^2T^*X\otimes E$, or in other words, $\nabla^2$ corresponds to a global section $\Theta$ of the bundle $\bigwedge^2T^*X\otimes\operatorname{Hom}(E,E)$.   I absolutely don't understand how I can see the operator $\nabla^2$ as the section $\Theta$. mariadb Unknown system variable 'server_uuid' Im trying to setup replication between mariadb(10.1.31-MariaDB - MASTER) and mysql(5.7.12-log - SLAVE). After executed the start slave, I got the below error.     Fatal error: The slave I/O thread stops because a fatal error is   encountered when it tries to get the value of SERVER_UUID variable   from master.   Then I tried to get the value of master_uuid.  MariaDB [(none)]&gt; show variables like '%server_uuid%'; Empty set (0.00 sec)   Then tried to setup this in mysql prompt.  MariaDB [(none)]&gt; set global  server_uuid = 11123c25-cac0-3523-8089-4c54d9b46f33; ERROR 1193 (HY000): Unknown system variable 'server_uuid'   And also I tried to setup auto.cnf in data directory.  [auto] server_uuid = 11123c25-cac0-3523-8089-4c54d9b46f33  chmod 644 auto.cnf   But still im getting the fatal error is encountered when it tries to get the value of SERVER_UUID variable from master. asp.net mvc put controllers into a separate project I'm just learning asp.net mvc and I'm trying to figure out how to move my controllers into a separate project.  Typically when I have designed asp.net web apps before, I created one project for my models, another for my logic, and then there was the web.    Now that I'm learning asp.net mvc I was hoping to follow a similar pattern and put the models and controllers each into their own separate projects, and just leave the views/scripts/css in the web.  The models part was easy, but what I don't understand is how to make my controllers in a separate project be "found".  Also, I would like to know if this is advisable.  Thanks! How can I instantiate a generalized hash function? I've come across a bunch of "strange" hash function notations, such as the following ones and now I don't know how to choose / instantiate them.  Can you please explain me what this notation means and how I can actually instantiate such a hash function?  The notation in question: $$H_1:\mathcal M \rightarrow \mathbb F_p$$ $$H_2:\mathcal M \rightarrow \mathbb Z_n^*$$ $$H_3:\mathcal M \rightarrow \{0,1\}^l$$ $$H_4:\mathcal M_1\times ...\times \mathcal M_k\rightarrow \mathcal S$$  where $\mathcal M\in\{\mathbb F_p,\mathbb Z_n^*,\{0,1\}^*,\mathbb G,...\}$ where $\mathbb G$ is a generic (but there instantiated) group and $\mathcal S\in\{\mathbb F_p,\mathbb Z_n^*,\{0,1\}^l\}$