Is the sentence "This is the first time I'll be taking the exam." grammarly correct? If so, why using the present continuous tense, and what about "This is the first time I take the exam."
I have been there first time.   The reason why I think this might not be natural is that the expression "first time" seems to describe "past". You do not use the present perfect with an adverb indicating "past", in my understanding.  However, I feel the phrase below is not that funny.     This is the first time that I have been there.   I am wondering about the relationship between "the first time" and "I have been there". "That" could behave like a relative adverb. If that is the case, the antecedent of "that"—"the first time"—is shared with the following clause: "I have been there". Then, is it OK to say "I have been there first time"?  By the way, Google searches for "" and " in the UK domain show just 33 hits for the first phrase and 10 hits for the second.
Re-use aliased field in SQL SELECT statement Why is $\sqrt {12} = 2 \sqrt 3$? How do I kill a process that won't die? I'm unable to kill a process using any of the techniques I'm aware of ("Force Quit" in Activity Monitor, top, killall from the Terminal) and wonder if there are some additional steps I can take.    ~ $ sudo killall -KILL 77439 Password: No matching processes were found ~ $ killall -KILL 77439 No matching processes belonging to you were found ~ $ killall 77439 No matching processes belonging to you were found ~ $ killall Mathematica No matching processes belonging to you were found   FWIW the process is "Mathematica" which I cannot relaunch, Quit, or Force Quit, or sample, either by name or PID, and it appears to have some odd side effects (screenshots don't appear, can't empty trash, and can't even shut down the system).  Are there additional steps that can be taken to really really kill a badly behaved process? Do computer viruses affect all user accounts on a computer? Do computer viruses affect all user accounts on a computer?  IF a virus affects a local user will that effect administrator account and vise-versa? Insert a "Let us continue this discussion in chat" comment before thread gets messy I've seen , but there seem to be no proper solution.  I suggest an ability to insert a "Let us continue this discussion in chat" comment before the thread gets messy enough to fit the requirement. The point is to prevent the problem before it occurs.  Perhaps this should become a privilege for users of X reputation or more?  Your opinions on the subject? I need a quick algorithm to select 5 random elements from a generic list. For example, I'd like to get 5 random elements from a List&lt;string&gt;. Can't boot without Flash Drive plugged in I had Ubuntu 12.04 Beta installed on my computer. When 12.04 was finally released, I made a bootable USB Flash Drive using Startup Disk Creator.  Then I decided to check if this drive works properly and to reinstall the system on my desktop. I must add, my desktop behaves a bit strange when it comes to bootable USB's, it recognizes them as HDD.  In BIOS I changed priority of boot so USB Flash Drive (recognized as HDD) was first. Successfully booted, I installed Ubuntu. Everything worked fine, but...  Now I cannot boot from my real HDD. Every time I want to boot, I put the USB Flash Drive into my computer, boot, safely remove it and everything works.  What do I need to do to repair boot? Given a group $ G $, how many topological/Lie group structures does $ G $ have? The error message is :the grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB bootloader the system will not boot  I'm trying to install on HP pavilion g6-2303 TX using USB.  How do I fix this problem? Standard error of a ratio I have a linear regression and two estimates, say A and B and their standard errors. I need to find the standard error of a ratio A/B [or A/(1-B)].  I guess the main problem is that I don't know the correlation between A and B. I also guess that makes this unsolvable, since the correlation plays a major role. Is this correct?  If I knew it, what would be the way to calculate the standard error? Log form of variables and descriptive measures Because of larger values of variables, I did a log- transformation in my dataset. Now I want to give a descriptive table regarding my variables like mean, max, min, median, skewness, kurtosis. Can I give standard measures like arithmetic mean or should I give geometric mean? In terms of skewness or kurtosis, do I need a transformation? What are the benefits of playing an alignment other than True Neutral? Why does Stack Overflow only allow one @User per comment?  This restriction lead me to a non-comment like :     @MiMo - seem my previous comment (Only one @ user per comment)   Which left me wondering why Stack Overflow is blocking me from notifying two users of a response.  I am sure there is a reason for this, can some one share it with me? What is the $\sqrt{i^4}$?   $i^4$ = $(i^2)^2$ So is $\sqrt{i^4}$ = $\sqrt{(i^2)^2}$ = $i^2$ = $-1$?  Or is $\sqrt{i^4}$ = $\sqrt{1}$ = $1$?  When I plug it into my TI-89 Titanium, I get $1$.  Edit: I now see why $i^4 \neq -1$. $$\sqrt{x^2} = \left|{x}\right| $$ So$$\sqrt{(i^2)^2} = \left|i^2\right| = \left|-1\right| = 1$$ Why didn't Harry Potter tell Aunt Petunia he was rich to improve how he was treated by Dursleys? This is a follow-up question to   One reason Aunt Petunia mistreated Harry was that she did not know he was rich. If she knew, she would naturally have treated this golden goose nicely. Her retirement would be secured if Harry financially supported her in old age.  Why didn't Harry tell Aunt Petunia he was rich? Surely every boy wants to be treated nicely by his family. Changing subject and verb positions in statements and questions We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this? Should I mention my Canadian visa refusal in my UK visa application? Install packages from newer release without building (apt pinning) I need these packages with the latest upstream version backported for ubuntu/natty   libccid_1.4.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libpcsclite1_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libpcsclite-dev_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libusb-1.0-0_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libusb-1.0-0-dev_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb opensc_0.12.2-1ubuntu1ppa1~natty1_amd64.deb pcscd_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb pcsc-tools_1.4.18-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb   I tried to build them from source with update but it failed. I am not an expert at packaging and there are so many tutorials and recipes out there.  Do you know a good and up to date tutorial for backporting Ubuntu packages?  How do I get packages from other releases without having to build them myself? How common is "thrice"? "That... be" construction