I came across these sentences and cannot tell the difference. What is the difference between these two sentences?     I wish you bought me a car.      I wish you would buy me a car.
What's the difference between the following sentences?      (a) I wish they wouldn't make so much noise.   (b) I wish they were not making so much noise.    (c) I wish they did not make so much noise.   I'd appreciate your help.
How to decide which glm family to use? I have fish density data that I am trying to compare between several different collection techniques, the data has lots of zeros, and the histogram looks vaugley appropriate for a poisson distribution except that, as densities, it is not integer data. I am relatively new to GLMs and have spent the last several days looking online for how to tell which distribution to use but have failed utterly in finding any resources that help make this decision. A sample histogram of the data looks like the following:   I have no idea how to go about deciding on the appropriate family to use for the GLM. If anyone has any advice or could give me a resource I should check out, that would be fantastic. Find the limit of $\frac{n^{x}}{(1 + x)^{n}}$ Let $x&gt;0$. Find $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{n^{x}}{(1 + x)^{n}}.$$   What I was thinking involved an inequality, by reason of considering the fact that  $$(1 + x)^{n} &gt; C(n, k) x^{k}$$ for some $k$ such that $n&gt;k$. Expanding the binomial coefficient and taking the $n$ common from each bracket, we have something like $$(1 + x)^{n} &gt; C(n, k) x^{n} &gt; \frac {x^{k}n^{k}}{k! 2^{k}}.$$ But now, I am totally clueless. By intuition, I know that the limit has to be zero, so I just want to prove using the concept of inequalities that what I thought was the right approach (being the sandwich theorem). Any help would be appreciated! $a+b+c =0$; $a^2+b^2+c^2=1$. Prove that: $a^2 b^2 c^2 \le \frac{1}{54}$ If a,b,c are real numbers satisfying $a+b+c =0; a^2+b^2+c^2=1$.  Prove that $a^2 b^2 c^2 \le \frac{1}{54}$. Rounding up to next power of 2 I want to write a function that returns the nearest next power of 2 number. For example if my input is 789, the output should be 1024. Is there any way of achieving this without using any loops but just using some bitwise operators? The movie "Die Hard" or The "Die Hard" Movie? Sometime like this case I don't know if I can put the name before or after the label (movie in this sentence)...  The movie &quot;Die Hard&quot; or The &quot;Die Hard&quot; Movie? The variable &quot;X&quot; or The &quot;X&quot; variable?  Are they both correct? What is their difference? What is the application of each? My question is not about &quot;the&quot; (), but the order of the &quot;movie&quot; and &quot;Die Hard&quot; How fill face between irregular curves? Hello Blender Stack Exchange,  I am trying to fill a face between 4 surfaces. Two are straight edges and two are a curved line made up of short vertices that came from a SketchUp export.  The problem: I select the vertices on the top and bottom and fill the hole. It creates a strange face that ruins the curve. I would prefer it create some sort of complex curve. I want it to be smooth.  Images attached to better explain. Is there a reason why we gain ghost reputation on the meta of an SE website? Chatroom deleted? I created a chatroom about the Qt Framework some time ago but it seems it's no longer available. The  just says &quot;Page Not Found&quot; and the possible reasons for removal are &quot;spam, off topic, abuse&quot; but I don't think any of this concerns the chatroom (though I was rarely checking it). Any idea what could be the issue? What ubuntu applications provide support? (guides, how to's, status) Also, specifically, details on support for syncing music to iPhone's and iPod's with the latest OS version:   Can you sync music to apple devices using >iOS4? (iPhone &amp; iPod) What applications allow you to do this and how? (guides, how to's, status)    What has already been established is:   Apple does not support Linux and has no plans to.  provides some support, however it currently does not support music/video synchronization with devices &gt;iOS4. Go to  and scroll to the section titled "" to see if your device version is supported. Invert colors of an image in CSS or JavaScript Refresh thumbnails in nautilus How does one refresh thumbnails in nautilus? In my videos folder I have some MKVs and only half of them have the movie border and a excerpt from the movie and the others (also MKVs encoded in the same way) just have the ordinary film icon.  (F5 doesnt do it.) What makes a good entry level road bike? I've been riding a mountain bike for years, but I prefer to go longer distances on paved ground, so I think a road bike would be better. When I ask what is a good bike, I don't need brands or models - more like what components of the bike should I look for, and what should I avoid? Additionally, is it necessary to "go big or don't go at all" as far as spending - getting a real good quality road bike for $500 to a few thousand, or should I cheap out on a $100-200 road bike, as it is my first, then get a better one when I'm more experienced? I have a cron job that runs every minute on an Ubuntu 12.04 box  $sudo crontab -e * * * * * mylogin /pathto/file.sh &gt; /log/filelog   If I run file.sh, the bash script does some stuff and echos out runs:  $ ./file.sh  runs   If I check the log of cron tab it shows that the job is running:  Jul 10 12:41:01 localhost CRON[1811]: (root) CMD (mylogin /pathto/file.sh &gt; /log/filelog) Jul 10 12:41:01 localhost CRON[1810]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Jul 10 12:42:01 localhost CRON[1813]: (root) CMD (mylogin /pathto/file.sh &gt; /log/filelog)   However, the script is not running. It is not doing it's work and not echoing runs to /log/filelog.  $cat /log/filelog  #shows nothing   What other steps can I take to debug this problem? Packed images used as background don't show up when reopening the file After monitor calibration colors on my two monitors are still different, why? Given an infinite set of cardinality $X$, is there a chain in $\mathcal P(X)$ of the same cardinalty of $\mathcal P(X)$? $P(\mathbb N)$ = power set of $\mathbb N$. $A \subset P(\mathbb N)$ is a chain if $a,b \in A \implies$ either $a \subseteq b$ or $ b \subseteq a$ That is, we have something like this: $$\cdots a \subseteq b \subseteq c \subseteq\cdots$$ where $a,b,c \in A$ are distinct. We can show easy enough that there is an uncountable chain - this is done by noting $\mathbb N\sim\mathbb Q$ then using Dedekind cuts in $\mathbb Q$ to define $\mathbb R$ we see that a family of (nearly arbitrary) cuts satisfy the condition. For instance the family $L_r=\{q \in \mathbb Q : q &lt; r \}$ for $r &gt; 0$ gives us the sets we need and obviously we can pick others. I tried doing this for $ \mathbb R$ and don't seem to be getting anywhere.  To be more specific, does there exist a chain in $P(\mathbb R)$ with cardinality $2^ \mathbb R$? Given a set of cardinality $X$ (necessarily non-finite), is there a chain in $P(X)$ of the same cardinalty of $P(X)$? My dev team is getting ready to start a new project. The shop has been a "VB shop" since the days of VB3, but the prevailing opinion now is that we're a ".NET shop" and since C# was created specifically for .NET, whereas VB.NET was a retrofit, we've decided to move forward writing C# only. The controversy revolves around the question of whether the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace has a legitimate place in new development or if it is only for backward compatibility for VB6 (and older) code. A further, and more interesting question is whether the code "under" the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace is even .NET code of if it is really the old VB runtime carefully packaged in a .NET wrapper, making it in fact a COM interop control (similar to how WinForms wraps the non-.NET Win32 windowing API but exposes only .NET APIs for consumption).  To make this even more confusing, our dev team has a Microsoft Consulting Services consultant telling us Microsoft no longer supports Visual Basic, including the VB runtime underlying the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.  What I'm looking for are links -- preferably to unimpeachable Microsoft sources -- to documentation that definitively answers this question one way or the other. I've already tried several search permutations on Google and not gotten any closer to getting to the bottom of this question.  EDIT: Apparently I didn't make my question clear. I'm not asking if VB.NET is true .NET code. I'm trying to determine if whatever is "under" the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace is .NET code or if it's the old VB6 runtime carefully packaged and exposed as .NET code. Someone already said that 9/10 of the namespace simply wraps code from elsewhere in .NET; what about that other 1/10? Is there a free program to (batch) change photo file's date to match EXIF? I want to specify a directory and have the software find all the photos in the directory and its sub-directories, and if they contain EXIF date/time, it sets their filesystem timestamp to match the EXIF. Find the sum of two elements in a matrix Given $[a_{ij}]_{10\times10}=\left[ \begin{array}{ccc}   1&amp;2&amp;4&amp;7&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...\\   3&amp;5&amp;8&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...\\   6&amp;9&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...\\   10&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;\\   ...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...\\   ...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;98\\   ...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;...&amp;99&amp;100\\ \end{array} \right]$, what's $a_{7,3}+a_{7,7}$?  Is there a better way than write down all the elements? It's not easy to find the formula of $a_{i,j}$ An inequality involving 4 real or complex numbers