What is the difference between these two words in the following examples:   Why don't you get your hair cut? Why don't you have your hair cut?
Why do 'get' and 'have' work similarly in      I got/had my car repaired.    but differently – that is are not complemented in the same way although they still mean the same – in      I got someone to repair my car.    and      I had someone repair my car.
How can I tell hotels exist that aren't on the booking web sites? There are a ton of sites out there to help book hotel rooms and to aggregate all the different sites to book hotel rooms. These companies make enough money to buy ads on TV, so I won't name them here. I normally poke around 3 or 4 of these as part of planning any trip.  I am now starting some very long term planning for a 6 week South Pacific trip, which includes undertstanding what hotels costs on some very small islands. I have paper guidebooks and I've been looking online. But I come across anomalies. For example, a place which has only 9 hotels listed on the sites I use, and prices range from $1000/night down to $200/night, then when I read the reviews on that cheapest one people are saying "it's nothing special, there are 5 or 6 places just like it here for half the price". Well, not on this site there aren't!  My guess is that many of these places don't have web sites, or don't have online booking, and therefore aren't getting into the aggregators. For some islands I have found local tourism boards with lists of "pensions" and such, typically cheaper than what I can find on the aggregators.    But how can I know? I don't want to assume that popular web sites represent reality, and choose only from places listed there. But I don't want to invest 10-20 hours of research per island only to discover the aggregators had everything. How can I know where the coverage is good and where it isn't, what kinds of hotels are more or less likely to be listed at expedia, trivago, booking, hotels, tripadvisor, and the like? (For example, I don't want to stay at a hostel, so I don't mind if they're not included in online sites.) Are there sites like wikitravel that list places without much of an internet presence?  I'm starting my research over a year before the trip, but wading through hotel pages is not the fun part of the planning so tell me how the smart people do it. For which positive integer values of $n$ does $a|mn-b?$ I am taking a number theory class, and I was not able to solve this homework problem.   Let $a,$ $b,$ and $m$ be constant positive integers. For which positive integer values of $n$ does $a|mn-b?$   I tried this out for a couple of values, and the values of $n$ satisfying this expression seem to occur in a cycle.  (For example, let $m=2019,$ $a=20,$ $b=19.$ The values of $n$ that work are $1,21,41,61,....$) However, I am not able to show that this always happens. Is it possible to mark or modify a player with a specific item in their inventory I'm building a CTF map of sorts, using command blocks in vanilla 1.8. I've discovered two commands for detecting if an item is in a players inventory:  /clear @a[team=Red] banner 4 0  /testfor @a[team=Red] {Inventory:[{id:"minecraft:banner"}]}  Those work fine, unless you want to perform a command ON the player carrying that item. For example: I want to cause the player who picks up a banner of the opposite team, to automatically equip that banner in their head slot with a command similar to this:  /replaceitem entity @a[???????] slot.armor.head banner 1 4  Can this be done? If not, is there a way to mark a specific player carrying an item using scoreboards? Inequality: $ab^2+bc^2+ca^2 \le 4$, when $a+b+c=3$. How can I transfer large files from Linux to iPad over a cable or wifi? I am looking for a way to transfer large files to the iPad without using iTunes or pushing to and pulling from a remote server.  I run an Ubuntu laptop as my only OS at the moment and want to be able to transfer movies to my iPad.  I currently transfer most of my files by way of the dropbox app which works well for small files but is quite slow for larger files and eats up my bandwidth.  Ideally I'd like to be able to transfer over a cable or through WiFi.  Thanks for any tips. When there are X New Questions, the views don't update untill you refresh the page Can I create a TIN from contours lines (shp) in QGIS? I need to do a slope analysis, and would like to make a TIN from 2m contours lines.  Or do a slope analysis directly from contours? The only DEM available is not precise enough.  I do not have any elevation raster files.  And how do I then make slope classes?  The TIN properties does not seem to be able to classify anything other than elevation. Moving Grub to a new drive to get rid of Windows How does one find which files are taking up 80% of the space on a Linux webserver? The drive is constantly filling up. You've hunted down all the spare and random files you can. grep'd for coredump files and even removed some of the un-needed backups...  What would be your next move.  The actual server in question has 10GB of website files and the OS shouldn't take any more than 10GB so how do you track down what's filling a 50GB (virtual) drive? Add time restriction in ArcGIS Network Analyst I'm trying to use train tracks as a network in ArcGIS Network Analyst.   We are trying to create a model for security agents on board our trains and we'd like to optimize their daily "route". For now, it's all made by hand.   My approach is to take our gtfs data and create a network using stop times to determine when the train segment is "traversable". When there's a train on the segment, it's open, if not, it's restricted.   The problem is I can't set a restriction based on time in Network Analyst (or wasn't able to). I would like to be able to say by a formula or script than you can take that segment only from 7:03 AM to 7:10 AM for example.  Is it possible?  Thanks! How can I determine the current brew package count? I tried to get the number of available brew packages by running  brew search | wc -l   but I don't know how accurate this really is. What do I need to take into account to get a more correct number?  PS: macports lists 19,889 packages online Array of zero length I am working on refactoring some old code and have found few structs containing zero length arrays (below). Warnings depressed by pragma, of course, but I've failed to create by "new" structures containing such structures (error 2233). Array 'byData' used as pointer, but why not to use pointer instead? or array of length 1? And of course, no comments were added to make me enjoy the process...  Any causes to use such thing? Any advice in refactoring those?  struct someData {    int nData;    BYTE byData[0]; }   NB It's C++, Windows XP, VS 2003 How do I create a Windows 7 USB installer with preinstalled software? I was wondering if it was possible to make a bootlable image of a Windows 7 Pro OEM Installation CD that I have and put it on an USB stick for faster/easier installation. I am asking because we have a couple of PC´s where I´d have to install the OS using the same key (MAK).  Also is it possible to kind of populate that image with software that would have to be installed anyways on all machines (like Chrome, Outlook, etc)?  It would be really helpful to just install a Windows 7 image with customized software already installed. I would just make an image of an OS and use that, but the hardware of the machines differ. If I create a custom environment based on the equation environment, I get a spacing issue: the next line of text after my environment closes doesn't start on the left margin.  Example code:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \newenvironment{myenv}{\begin{equation}}{\end{equation}} \noindent $| \leftarrow$ this is the left margin. \begin{myenv} e ^{i \pi} + 1 = 0 \end{myenv} $| \leftarrow$ this isn't the left margin. \end{document}   Output:    Removing the newline after \end{myenv} solves the spacing problem, but the resulting code is not readable.  Of course, in this example I could just use the equation environment itself. My real issue involves a more complex custom environment that suffers from the same problem, and which also includes an equation environment within it. Where, how and when I can acquire HM's? Just ran the latest batch of updates on 20.04 (Xubuntu), and now I'm getting a GRUB error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found  I'm dropped into the 'grub rescue' shell, but have no idea what to do there that might be useful. To me, 'symbol not found' implies some sort of build error with the grub package, but I don't really know how grub works. I noticed that this update also included 'firmware', not sure if that could be related. Is my best bet just to boot from a live CD and see if I can roll back the update to grub somehow? Edited to add: OK, thanks to lots of people ! Here's what I think I now understand.  On 'non-UEFI' systems, grub is installed in two separate parts. The first, most basic, part is the part that is started on bootup. But for most of it's functionality, it needs the second part. These parts must be aligned - neither part must require any functionality from the other part which is not actually there. The visible, run-time problem occurs when these parts are not aligned, and the function grub_calloc is not supplied. It's not 100% clear to me if grub_calloc belongs in the second, larger part or the first. I would have expected the second, but the grub build system is a work of considerable art, so I don't know :).  The root cause of the problem is that the grub update has not ensured that both parts have been updated. Ideally, failure to do this should cause grub installation to fail, and the system should be reverted to a safe state. This does not happen. This is actually still a bit of a mystery to me. All that the update needs to do by default is put each part where the current parts are, because obviously that worked. If the install locations/drives are configuration - driven, and one of these locations can't be reached, then somehow a mismatch has arisen between that configuration data and reality. This might not show up as a problem as long as no new dependency was introduced between the parts.   All flavours of solution involve reinstalling grub to ensure that the two parts are aligned. It's not actually necessary to go back to the previous version ( although that will work ), because it's not the grub runtime per se that is broken. There are numerous ways to achieve this, depending on your environment, but running the Boot-repair live disk worked for me. It may be useful, for the purpose of avoiding such a misalignment in future, to ensure that the grub installer on your system is configured to install to the correct devices. This update resolves some important bugs (). If you have reverted grub to resolve this problem, be aware that you are exposed to these issues. Connectedness of the Hausdorff distance. Does anyone know a proof of connectedness of the Hausdorff distance?  I mean a proof of the following:  Theorem  If $(X, \rho )$ is a connected metric space, then $(F(X), d_h )$ is also connected.  Remark:  $F(X) = \{ A \subseteq X | A \text{ is nonempty, closed and bounded } \} $, and $d_h$ stands for the Hausdorff distance. When customers buy things from a store, you say:  (1) Customers give ABC Store business.  If I "turn this around", can I say:  (2) ABC Store obtains or acquires business from its customers.  Do these verbs work in (2)? Unexpected behavior of rule matching a pattern Suppose that $X_1,X_2,...,X_n$ is a random sample from a normal distribution, $X_i\sim N(\mu,9)$.  Find the UMVUE (uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator) of $P(X\le c)$ where $c$ is a known constant.  Do this by finding the conditional distribution of $X_1$ given $\bar{X}={\bar{x}}$ and apply the Rao-Blackwell theorem with $T=u(X_1)$, where $u(x_1)=1$ if $x\le c$ and zero otherwise.  So clearly the parameter that we're trying to estimate given the problem description can be written as $\Phi\left( \frac{c-\mu}{3} \right)$ where $\Phi$ represents the CDF of the standard normal distribution.  However, I get stuck when I need to try and find the conditional distribution.  Without knowing the joint distribution or the other conditional distribution, how can I possibly find the conditional distribution of $X_1$ given $\bar{X}={\bar{x}}$?