As far as your variety of English goes, can the verbal turn "order something done" be used interchangeably with "order something to be done"?     "We  to our local store."      "I  to my son in Utah."      "I  to my girlfriend's workplace."      "Yemen  dead or alive."
I'm from Western Pennsylvania. Until I moved away, I never realized that when I omitted the to be from phrases like needs to be cleaned, my usage was different than what most English speakers are accustomed to. Is it wrong?
I heard the following dialog in a British English movie:     Words go round quick. All the little tongues go clack, clack, clack.   What does this mean, and why was the word "quick" used instead of "quickly"? CSS alignment issues on close reasons with pending votes "Should" word in italics is shifted down in the vote-to-close popup when there is at least one pending close vote.  Just have a look at this:        Now without close votes:        So the issue occurs when there is a close vote on it. It doesn't look good.    Tested on Chrome 27.0.1453.116 m, Windows XP. And it looks fine on Firefox 21.0 and Opera 12.02 (Windows XP)  Here is an example of a slightly different but obviously related problem in Windows 7 SP1 and Firefox 21.0:    This seems to have something to do with how line-height and/or margin attributes are being interpreted.  Can this be fixed? Triangle inequality for L2 norm I am posed with a problem as below.  Let $X$ be the collection of real valued functions that are measurable on $[0,1]$. For a given number $p\geq 1$ define the $L^p$ norm by $(\int_0^1|f(x)|^p)^\frac{1}{p}$.  I need to show for $p=1,2$ that this defines a semi norm on $X$. $p=1$ was simple as was all of $p=2$ except for the triangle inequality. I am having trouble proving the triangle inequality for this. Could anybody nudge me into the right direction or am I simply over thinking it? I think I can prove it for vectors but I'm not sure how to tackle it with integrals. Right now I can only use relatively basic results because this in for an introductory measure theory course.  Thanks! What is the probability that a shuffled standard deck of 52 cards has no two cards of the same rank together ?  I am unable to get a handle on this problem, and wonder whether there is an analytical solution ? Previous question:    That was when my buttons died.  On other days, my text dies.    And some times it's just italics.    Now, I like blaming @skiwi for this, and he's often nearby when it happens.  But today, he's not here, and it happened again.    I'm running Windows 8 and using Chrome 40.0.2214.94 m.  Refreshing and such does not fix the issue.  Inspect element -> console -> error log:  http://chat.stackexchange.com/chats/8595/messages/new Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 409 (Conflict) http://i.stack.imgur.com/2ZJdJ.png?s=128&amp;g=1&amp;g&amp;s=16 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 502 (Bad Gateway) http://i.stack.imgur.com/boUZp.jpg?g&amp;s=16 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 502 (Bad Gateway) http://i.stack.imgur.com/U8P3C.jpg?s=128&amp;g=1&amp;g&amp;s=32 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 502 (Bad Gateway) http://i.stack.imgur.com/boUZp.jpg?g&amp;s=16 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 504 (Gateway Time-out) http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/19891816 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 409 (Conflict)   What's going on here?  I should note, I can view italics by selecting, then alt-tabbing:    So it reeks of a client-side issue. What's hiding the text from me?  EDIT:  30 april 2015 it happened again =/ I'm running Drush on a host that has multiple versions of PHP installed. By default, php --version would give you 5.2.x, but php53 and php54 are also available. So in my .bash_profile I have alias php='php53' (php --version = 5.3.13), which makes Drush work for some commands.  However, I still get "Your command line PHP installation is too old. Drush requires at least PHP 5.3.2" messages for some very useful commands.  A couple of really annoying instances:   drush pm-update will report that it has backed up and then updated all modules and core successfully, then return the PHP version error and restore all backups. In verbose mode, the command that comes before the error is: php /home/[username]/drush/drush.php  --backend=2 --verbose --root=/home/[username]/webapps/drup --uri=http://[domain name]  pm-updatecode-postupdate 2&gt;&amp;1 drush archive-dump will immediately return the PHP version error   The other commands I have tried so far work fine. I'm not sure why this would be, if Drush is sometimes using the php53 binary, and other times not, or if it just has trouble detecting the version correctly, but some very important features are broken for me. I would like to add texts with halo, in the composer (not in the map). Do you know a way to do it?  I'm using QGIS 2.0.1 System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher and WinForms? Methods for autocompletion in TexStudio don't work I've made a mymacros.sty file which I would like my LaTeX files to be able to access with commands that I've defined. I've managed to get it to work by putting \usepackage{mymacros} in my preamble.   However when I try to autocomplete I can't. I looked at this question:     ), which recommends 3 ways of doing this, none of which work for me.    The first it recommends is to have mymacros.sty open in the editor. But this doesn't work.  The second is to activate the option Editor -> Automatically load included files in the configure TeXstudio options panel. However while I have an Editor tab , there is no such option there.  The third is to using .cwl files, however I'm not sure how to go about this. In the completion tab I've noticed that there is a mymacros.sty option that has come up, which I ticked but that has had no effect. Do I need to make my own mymacros.cwl file? I've tried to look this up but haven't had any luck.  Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance! Prove that if b is coprime to 6 then $b^2 \equiv 1 $ (mod 24) Let $\gcd(b,6) = 1$. Prove that $b^2 \equiv 1 $ (mod 24).  Now I have that as $\gcd(b,6) = 1$, we know that  $3\nmid b $ and $2\nmid b$ (else the GCD would be 3 or 2 resp.)  So as $2\nmid b$, $b$ must be odd. Hence $b^2$ is also odd.  Then I'm not sure where to take it from here? Maybe I've gone down the wrong path to start with, and should be looking more along the lines of the Chinese Remainder Theorem? I'm not sure. Do these new insights into prime numbers affect encryption security? reports:  Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers [...]. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them. Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9.  Do these insights make breaking keys based on primes more mathematically plausible in a shorter amount of time? I have a Sony VAIO S series with Windows 8 preinstalled, and I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a new partition. When the PC boots Grub is display, and I can choose between Windows 8 (didn't worked at the beginning, had to change Grub settings) and Ubuntu 12.10. When I select Ubuntu 12.10 everything is OK, but when I use Windows 8, and I restart Grub isn't displayed anymore (Windows 8 boots immediately).  I booted a Ubuntu 12.10 LiveUSB, used efibootmgr, and found out that Windows 8 (each time it boots) changes EFI default bootloader from Grub to Windows Boot Manager.  How do I change this in Windows 8? I read something about bcdedit, but it does not work or I don't know how to use it... Can a Dungeons and Dragons 4e character take D&D Essentials feats? In Heroes of the Fallen Lands many of the core feats have been streamlined, some paragon feats have become available to all levels.  Before that feats were tiered by level: heroic, paragon, epic.  Can a character that was made before the Heroes of the Fallen Lands publication use Heroes of the Fallen Lands feats? Beamer - place text of footnote in footline I must place footnotes and footcites at the bottom of the frames, like shown in the picture:   The line above the footnotes must always be there, and it must have a minimum distance to the bottom of lets say 2.5em.  So I see two possible solutions:   Add the footnote via \setbeamertemplate to the footline. Change the format of the footnoteline and let it always appear, even if no footnote was used.   For the last hours, I tried to accomplish point 1, but I had absolutely no success. Can you please help me? Otherwise I have to use *whisper* Powerpoint. ;)    EDIT: Do you know the phenomenon that only after you ask someone, you can get the right ideas? ;)  Here is a MWE of my current solution:  \documentclass[xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}  \usepackage[absolute, overlay]{textpos} \usepackage{environ}   \usetheme{default} \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}%remove navigation symbols   \newcommand{\makemyrule}{%     \setlength{\unitlength}{14pt}%      minimum distance to bottom     \ifdim\footnoteheight&gt;\unitlength \setlength{\unitlength}{\footnoteheight} \fi%     check which distance is bigger     \begin{textblock*}{\linewidth}(0pt,\dimexpr\textheight-\unitlength)%    place with use of textpos         \textcolor{blue}{\rule{\paperwidth}{.3ex}}     \end{textblock*} }   \let\oldfootnote\footnote%      redefine the footnote command \renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\Addheight{#1}\oldfootnote{#1}}  \newlength{\footnoteheight} \newsavebox{\mytext} \newcommand{\Addheight}[1]%     measure height of the text         {%                 \savebox{\mytext}{\small\strut\parbox{\textwidth}%                 {\hspace*{2em}\thefootnote#1}\strut}%       approximated by eye, not perfect!                 \addtolength{\footnoteheight}{\ht\mytext}%                 \addtolength{\footnoteheight}{\dp\mytext}%         }     \NewEnviron{myframe}[1]{%     \begin{frame}{#1}%     \setlength{\footnoteheight}{0pt}%     \BODY%     \makemyrule%     \end{frame}%     }    \renewcommand\footnoterule{}  \begin{document} \begin{myframe}{} \frametitle{Beamer example} using\footnote{Y LUSPIN, et al} footnotes\footnote{P. GHOSEZ, et al and a lot more information to create a linebreak} excessively \footnote{You do not need to read this, this is only blindtext to create even more and more text. Blindtext will go on forever, nobody can stop the allmighty blindtext. I think I am a blindtext author.} \end{myframe}{} \begin{myframe} \frametitle{Beamer example} using\footnote{Y LUSPIN, et al} footnotes\footnote{P. GHOSEZ, et al} \end{myframe}{} \begin{myframe} \frametitle{Another example} without footnotes\\ \end{myframe} \end{document}   What this does: At the beginning of each myframe-environment, the length \footnoteheight is reseted to zero. When a \footnote is placed, the height of the text is added to this length. At the end of each frame, via \makemyrule the bottom rule is created, which is above the footnote texts (my solution is not perfect) or, if there are no footnotes, at least 14pt above the bottom.  My wishes (not real problems, but I want it to work better) are   The height of the footnotetext is only approximated. I would like a solution where you can measure the height of the formatted footnote. The frame environment needs to be renamed to myframe. I would like a solution which works without changing the document. But it all failed, because I could not execute \makemyrule before \end{frame} automatically. Usually a probability distribution over discrete variables is described using a probability mass function (PMF):  When working with continuous random variables, we describe probability distributions using a probability density function (PDF) rather than a probability mass function. -- Deep Learning by Goodfellow, Bengio,  and Courville  However,  is using PDF to describe the probability distribution over discrete variables:    Is this a mistake? or it does not much matter? For some reasons, I would like to do an explicit quoting of a string value (becoming a part of constructed SQL query) instead of waiting for implicit quotation performed by cursor.execute method on contents of its second parameter.  By "implicit quotation" I mean:  value = "Unsafe string" query = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE some_char_field = %s;" cursor.execute( query, (value,) ) # value will be correctly quoted   I would prefer something like that:  value = "Unsafe string" query = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE some_char_field = %s;" % \     READY_TO_USE_QUOTING_FUNCTION(value) cursor.execute( query ) # value will be correctly quoted, too   Is such low level READY_TO_USE_QUOTING_FUNCTION expected by Python DB API specification (I couldn't find such functionality in  document). If not, maybe Psycopg2 provides such function? If not, maybe Django provides such function? I would prefer not to write such function myself... How do I move Ubuntu dock to bottom on Ubuntu 17.10 and later? I have been editing an answer on , with some considerable amount of effort, and when I hit on Save Edits, the edit gets rejected with the following error. I got to know the meaning of this from .     The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!     I tried in a few mins, and still it didn't work. I believe that some edits might be valuable and this resists the users from doing so.   Main Question: Is there a way to show the queue limit at the beginning of the editing process? (So that we won't spend time on doing the edit, knowing it will fail) When / how should I ask about a manuscript's status in review? How is Cooper's age justified?