defines different canon level for the Star Wars Universe. In the end of the Wikipedia paragraph :  Leland Chee, December 6th, 2006: &quot;Anything not in the current version of the films is irrelevant to Film only continuity.&quot; This statement confirms the existence of two separate continuities, the &quot;film only&quot; continuity maintained and followed by George Lucas himself, and the &quot;films + EU&quot; continuity that is used for licensed products; G-Canon, and Star Wars Canon.  So... since, as I understood, Lucas will only be a consultant on the 7th movie, will it be considered G-Canon ?
For all types of derivative works, namely:   Movies Novels Comic books Other written works (including RPG materials) Cartoons Video games Derivative movies (such as the infamous Ewok movies and even more infamous )   According to what rules does something become "canon" and who is responsible for the evaluation of a published work?
I thought the new Apple font was called San Francisco, but I cannot find it in the font list of the Keynote.app for my Mac. Is it called another way or it is not available for Keynote?  I am currently using OS X El Capitan. Why is "ask" sometimes pronounced "aks"? We've recently moved from New Zealand to New York City, and have noticed that many people (most of whom have good English) pronounce "ask" as "aks". For example:     Could you please go aks her tomorrow?   Sure, I'll ax her! :-)  What's the origin/etymology of "aks"? It seems to be more common among African Americans, but it's definitely used by others too. When I login, nothing happens.   I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.    No Dash, no Launcher, nothing. I'm having trouble understanding the simple voltage regulator that can be built using a zener diode (from section 2.04 in the Art of Electronics).  I know that it would be better to use amplifiers, et cetera, but I'm just trying to understand how this circuit works.      I don't really understand how the circuit works, but I am guessing that when a load is applied to the output, it drains current from the source (Vin) and thus causes the voltage to drop?  How does the zener diode help to maintain the voltage and thus make this circuit act as a regulator? Find missing indexes tool available to find missing indexes in mssql 2008 ? can we find the missing index using Database Engine Tuning Advisor I have a log file being written by another process which I want to watch for changes. Each time a change occurs I'd like to read the new data in to do some processing on it.  What's the best way to do this? I was hoping there'd be some sort of hook from the PyWin32 library. I've found the win32file.FindNextChangeNotification function but have no idea how to ask it to watch a specific file.  If anyone's done anything like this I'd be really grateful to hear how...  [Edit] I should have mentioned that I was after a solution that doesn't require polling.  [Edit] Curses! It seems this doesn't work over a mapped network drive. I'm guessing windows doesn't 'hear' any updates to the file the way it does on a local disk. Can "mustn't" be used for conclusions? I heard this sentence in an American film a while ago as I was watching it on DVD (the part after but is verbatim):  "I'm doing my best but I mustn't be doing it right."  This is something I occasionally hear in American films: phrases like "he mustn't have done it" or "she mustn't be studying now", where a logical conclusion is expressed. So far I've thought that the normal thing to say is "he can't have done it" or "she can't be studying now".  My question is: Can mustn't be used to express a logical conclusion when the speaker is certain that something didn't happen or isn't happening, at least in informal speech? Is this an American usage? (I've never heard this usage in British English, but this doesn't mean it doesn't exist.) Is there a change going on in the usage of the particular modal verb?  Note: All the references I've checked don't even mention this use of mustn't. Google books aren't of help either.   EDIT: I should clarify that I'm asking this question because if I wanted to express that I'm certain I'm not doing something right (as in the sentence quoted from the film) I'd say "I'm doing my best but I can't be doing it right". I would think that the use of mustn't/must not wouldn't be standard usage (although the meaning is perfectly clear to me; I never mistook it for an injuction). How do I repeat a theorem number? Often in my papers I want to mention theorems in the introduction that are introduced in more detail and proved in a later section.  I'd like to include the statement of these theorems twice over, each time numbered as the theorem would naturally appear in its later section.  My current solution (using amsthm) is, e.g.  %(in the introduction) \newtheorem*{thm:associativity}{Theorem \ref{thm:associativity}} \begin{thm:associativity} Lorem ipsum ... \end{thm:associativity}  %(in a later section) \begin{thm} \label{thm:associativity} Lorem ipsum ... \end{thm}      Can anyone think of a cleaner solution? With powershell get exactly the same application list as in Add/Remove programms There are various methods to find installed applications on the system but to my knowledge none returns exactly the same list as control panel item Add Remove Programs. Some of the ways I tried are:   WMI via Win32_Product and Win32Reg_AddRemovePrograms Registry, both x32 and x64 branches   For instance, I have 217 entries in AR and   gwmi  Win32_Product   returns 261 items.  gp HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*, HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | ? {![string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($_.DisplayName) } | select DisplayName   returns 119 items.   (gwmi Win32Reg_AddRemovePrograms) + (gwmi Win32Reg_AddRemovePrograms64) | sort DisplayName -Unique    returns 107 items.  I tried to nail it down with more complex filter that included InstallLocation, InstallSource, InstallDate etc without success. What diceless tabletop RPG techniques are there? I am interested in using a diceless resolution system for my roleplaying, but am not sure what my options are in that vein. I can think of basically two categories of diceless tabletop role-playing systems - systems which eschew any randomisation, and those which randomise by some method other than dice.  Examples  Non-random tabletop systems  One option is of direct comparison of stats or other game statistics without a randomization factor. The obvious example here is Amber DRPG, but I suspect that there are other narrative driven RPGs out there that I don't know about.   Even in Amber, situation resolution it is rarely by direct comparison between stats. Narrative techniques can be used to manoeuvre two characters into a situation which narrows the gap between their ranking, widens it, or brings other stats into the picture - the classic example of course being Corwin relying on his stamina to stretch out conflicts with his siblings such that it becomes a dominant enough factor that he can escape.  Other randomisation techniques  I have seen card-based randomization system. Over the years, I've played quite a few home brew games based on the original SAGA Dragonlance system, which was similar to the SAGA Marvel superhero system.  The basic mechanics were that you had a hand size according to your experience, and for any skill check you would play a card from your hand and replace your card from the draw pile. If you had a card of the right suit as the skill check (a strength card on a strength check) you would also draw a card from the draw pile and add that to your skill check, so a small trump was often worth more than a medium value card not of the correct suit. When you were wounded, you would discard cards to the value of the damage, but those cards wouldn't be replenished - your hand size would be reduced until you were healed. One nice aspect of the system was that it simulated fatigue beautifully, you might start a scene with a spread of high, medium and low cards, but as your high cards were played they would more often than not get replaced by lower value cards, until you were left with a bunch of useless cards and feeling very vulnerable.    The only other system I've played without dice was Everway which, if I remember correctly, used a combination of these techniques, stats based resolution, card resolution and GM fiat.  What I would be interested in is what other diceless resolution techniques exist, ideally with examples of tabletop diceless resolution methods people have tried and how they found them to play. OS X: Blurry Beamer presentations on Sierra / High Sierra Since OS X 10.12 (Sierra), the built-in Preview, but also many other PDF Viewers on OS X (such as Skim) show a number of problems, among them the following rendering issue:   The page is first rendered in low-res  with blurry text and graphics. About one second (!) later, the page is rendered in high fidelity. The display "wobbles", as text and graphics on the high-fidelity page is about one or two pixels up.   Example code:  \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{Duke says}   \begin{itemize}   \item&lt;+-&gt; It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing         \item&lt;+-&gt; (doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)         \item&lt;+-&gt; It don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing         \item&lt;+-&gt; (doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)  \end{itemize}  \end{frame}  \end{document}   While one may consider this acceptable when reading documents on screen, this is a show stopper for presenting beamer presentations with animations. The low-res display and wobbling makes the audience sick, while the 1 second rendering time makes PDF-based animations impossible.  So I am looking for a PDF Viewer for OS X that does not suffer this problems, but that a suitable for presenting beamer-based slide shows. Requirements:   page-wise full-screen/presenting mode with just the page and nothing else on the screen crisp and high-fidelity display quick rendering time   Unfortunately, the root of the problem is in Apple's own PDFKit library that is the base for most PDF viewers on OS X. So I am looking for PDF viewers that are not based on PDFKit, but fulfil the requirements above.  I am aware, of course, of Acrobat Reader DC. However, I do not particularly like its font rendering (Req 2) and I would also prefer something more light weight. I also have PDFExpert, which also is not PDFKit-based, however, does not support a presenting mode (Req 1). Ubuntu 14.04 Wireless not working: no network interface. Atheros [168c:003e] device I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS after installing windows 10 in my new VN7-571G and the wireless is not working. It never had: even during the installation it was not recognized. I run a script to gather the data , which is . lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 output 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:003e] (rev 20)         Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:0804]  The OS behaves like it has no wifi card. I do not see wifi settings in network settings I'm not a linux power user, so I do not know what to do to solve the issue. What should I do to make it work? Cross product term in linear regression why is it zero I'm trying to see why this is the case. I have taken  the LHS and added $X\hat{\beta}$ and subtracted $X\hat{\beta}$.  From this I can get both terms on the right but I end up with a cross product term  $2(y-X\hat{\beta})^T(X\hat{\beta} - X\beta)$  that I can't prove equals to zero. I think there is some trick I'm missing, anybody remember it? How to rename multiple files by removing the extension? cat file : prints prior to "user :/" prompt What is the difference between a homepage link with or without a trailing slash? Lifting idempotents modulo a nilpotent ideal The problem is this:      Suppose $I \subseteq R$ is a nilpotent ideal and there is $r \in R$ with $r \equiv r^2 \pmod I$. Show $r \equiv e \pmod I$ for some $e \in R$ idempotent.   I have spent a few hours rolling around in abstracta with no destination. I believe that if I could write down a concrete example of this, the example could guide me through the abstract definitions and show me where to look for an idempotent in $R$. I have looked at 2x2 matrices and could not find any such examples. Might anybody have one? Why do some questions in question lists have a yellow background? On SO, when I'm scrolling through "questions" some have a yellow background.  Is this intuitive to everyone but me?  What is the yellow background trying to tell me about this particular question? What is the equivalent of Persian idiom "When the reed blooms"? In Persian, we say "When the  blooms" when we want to  express that an event:   Never happens. (This is only the opinion of the speaker so it's not a fact) It's very unlikely to happen. It's going to take so long to actually happen. (It's so long that you'd be better off giving up expecting it)  3.1. We also use it when someone is always postponing something they have to do so you never actually see it happen.   For example:      Kyle: When are you going to pay my money back?      Cartman: When the  blooms.   Now I don't know if I got the plant's name right because there are some other versions like:        In any event, they have mentioned this plant in the idiom because apparently some versions of it actually never bloom. Others believe it's because farmers harvest them before they get the chance to bloom (e.g to make music instruments), so it never happens. I'd love to know the equivalent idioms or expressions for this.  PS: I only know "When pigs fly" but I'm not a fan of it because the word pig sounds a bit rude to me and partly because it implies a strong impossibility which doesn't work for the #3 use. Does a constantly accelerating charged particle emit EM radiation or not?