In a Simpsons episode of season 25 the dialoge   Monsarno Rep: Say hello to our chief scientist. Everyone: Augh! Sideshow Bob! Sideshow Bob: Dr. Sideshow Bob. Homer: Real doctor or PhD? Sideshow Bob: PhD.   takes place. In my country there is only a doctor and I thought a PhD would be exactly that in Anglo-Saxon countries. I would like to know is there a difference in the USA between a PhD and a doctor?  Especially: What did they mean in the dialogue?  Edit: In hindsight this may be a duplicate, but originally it wasn't because I did not know that the "doctor" of the dialogue was about a medical doctor.
Reading the question posted  left me with a more general question:  Given the professional title and name: Dr. (First Name)(Last Name), is there some way to differentiate between the holder of a philosophical doctorate and a medical doctor? Wouldn't it be more appropriate for a PhD holder to have the title (First Name)(Last Name), PhD?
STM32 & ST-LINK - Cannot connect to MCU after successful programming I have built my own board with STM32F7-45VGT6. I have successfully programmed it with ST-LINK v2 (not the original one though) and now I cannot even connect with MCU.  I use ST-Link Utility from ST and SWD interface. It can be the case that I use SWD pins as output and in my code I set them as GPIO output. Can it be the case?  Nevertheless, I connect my reset pin to GND and set "Connect under reset" option in ST-Link Utility but it doesn't work... What can I do?  On the Internet, I have found something about using BOOT0 Pin, but I don't know exactly... Possible Australianism - netbank = a website + app by which an Aussie can do their banking, including transferring money to other people.  A while ago, I ended up with $1000 transferred into my account, which in the description looked like a netbank transfer, not like a cheque, cash deposit etc, and which looked like it had already cleared and landed in my account. Usually when something is still working through the bank's system it displays as 'pending', but did not in this case.  I received a phone call from someone, saying that they had accidentally typed in the wrong account number, and wanting me to send them the same amount of money back via netbank.   Surely bank account numbers have a checksum, which make it relatively difficult for a typo to result in a payment going to the wrong person? What are likely sources of them being able to find my phone number to call me? Obviously, the bank either being hacked, or giving it out in response to a query from this person (but surely the bank is unlikely to tell me my own mobile number if I claim to have forgotten it?). Presumably either my phone, or the phone of someone I have sent money to/received money from could be compromised. Has anyone heard of any instances of this happening?  I then went to my bank, explained the situation and said that I did want to refund the money through the officially sanctioned methodology. After the laughter died down, the bank told me to ask the person to fill out a form, then they would get me to fill out a form that would authorize undoing that exact payment.  I rang up the person to tell them this, and over the course of about a week received an increasingly elaborate story about how that wasn't working, they needed the money immediately, there was a fee to fill out that form and they couldn't afford to pay it etc.  After that, I never heard back from them again. I check my netbank for several weeks after, expecting the money to magically disappear, but it did not. This was probably a year ago, and I'm pretty vague with money so may not have noticed if it disappeared more recently. How were they expecting to benefit?  Were they hoping to get the transfer from me, and undo the transfer to me, to leave them $1k up? If so, how can an internet banking transfer be 'undone' once it has already shown as 'received'. Or was this to do with money laundering? The account they requested me to send money to was the same as the one that the money appeared to come from. This was a scam, right? C++: delete vs. free and performance I found Sean Carroll's "A No Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity" (about page .  pdf ), a 24-page overview of the topic, very helpful for beginning study.  It all got me over the hump of learning the meaning of various terms associated with GR, most of which I had heard before without understanding.  It also outlined the most important examples.  Is there a similar document for quantum field theory, which presents the main equations, briefly describes the main ideas, and summarizes the most important applications and results so that the reader can feel the lay of the land before studying in depth? Is there a single word or very short phrase to describe the act of contemptuously referring to someone by using a diminutive "nickname", with which that person is not normally associated?  For example, referring to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as Hank Longfellow? Or William Penn as Billy Penn? How can I force a program to open in a specific desktop? I've created an environment where I use 3 different desktop configurations, but every time I reboot, I have to manually open each program in that target desktop to make it look like it did before.   So, I'd like to write a .bat file that can get all my programs running in their appropriate desktops. I'm wondering if something like this is possible:  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -desktop:2 "C:\Program Files\My\Other\Software.exe" -desktop:3 ...etc.   Obviously, this example is not real, but I hope there's something similar. I don't care if it's hacky :) event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead Suppose I have something like the following:      \begin{eqnarray*} \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 6x^2 + 5x + 5, x^3 + 13x^2 + 6x + 3) &amp;=&amp; 102x^2 + 108x + 2 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 109 \\ \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 2x^2 + 9x + 4, x^3 + 3x^2 + 7x + 9) &amp;=&amp; 1 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 131 \\ \mathrm{gcd}(x^3 + 3x^2 + 9x + 12, x^3 + 6x^2 + 12x + 4) &amp;=&amp; 6x + 122 \ \mathrm{with} \ p = 157 \end{eqnarray*}   How do I align the statements at the end of each line (i.e. the "with p = ..." bit) to the right? What's the difference between adjusting highlights and shadows in the basic panel and in the tone curve in the Develop Module of Lightroom? I wanted to reduce some highlights in a photo and found that there were two possible ways of doing so: one from the basic panel and another from the tone curve. when I reduce the highlights in one pane the value on the other is unchanged. Are both of them the same thing? Which would be better? Progressive Draw 2 and Draw 4 Uno When playing with progressive Draw 2 and Draw 4 and (say that there are 2 players playing) and    Player 1 goes out with a Draw 2  Player 2 puts down a Draw 2    Does player 1 have to pick up 4 cards? Find the inverse of a Trig Matrix I don't have a clue of what's going on. We haven't learn this in class so I need all the help possible. The more detailed of an explanation, the better. Thanks in advance. The only info I have is that this matrix is Orthogonal. Which means I know the answer, just don't know how to get it.  \begin{bmatrix}        \cos\theta &amp; -\sin\theta \\        \sin\theta &amp; \cos\theta       \end{bmatrix} Arithmetic of continued fractions, does it exist? I'm interested in the arithmmetic of continued fractions and specially in multiplication. Consider  $$ f(x)=\cfrac{f_{0}(x)}{1-\cfrac{f_{1}(x)}{1+f_{1}(x)-\cfrac{f_{2}(x)}{1+f_{2}(x)-\cfrac{f_{3}(x)}{1+f_{3}(x)-\cdots}}}} $$   and   $$ g(x)=\cfrac{g_{0}(x)}{1-\cfrac{g_{1}(x)}{1+g_{1}(x)-\cfrac{g_{2}(x)}{1+g_{2}(x)-\cfrac{g_{3}(x)}{1+g_{3}(x)-\cdots}}}} $$   Are there arithmetic rules (algorithms) for the multiplication of continued fractions? Specifically, is it possible to obtain a continued fraction $h(x)=f(x)\cdot g(x)$ where   $$ h(x)=\cfrac{h_{0}(x)}{1-\cfrac{h_{1}(x)}{1+h_{1}(x)-\cfrac{h_{2}(x)}{1+h_{2}(x)-\cfrac{h_{3}(x)}{1+h_{3}(x)-\cdots}}}} $$   I've found , but I'd like more. Does anyone here knows of papers, algorithms, etc?  Thanks.    Update 1: Another . In a couple weeks, I will have a long layover in Cairo on a trip from Mumbai to Toronto. I get to Cairo on Sunday at noon and leave for Toronto on Monday at about 1 AM.  I am travelling on EgyptAir business class. While browsing for people who have experiences with a similar itinerary, some people seemed to have said they they were put up ina  hotel by the airline. However, I did not see anything about this when I booked my ticket.   allows me to enter my status (i.e. citizenship etc.) which results in a .  It doesn't appear like I need a transit visa- however it specifies that:     Leaving the airport is permitted for passengers with transit time   between 6 and 12 hours   My transit time 13.5 hours.  Now for my questions:   Is it an issue that my transit time is longer than 12 hours? Can I still leave the airport? What are my options with regards to airport hotels, etc.? Any other recommendations about how I could best utilize my time while in Cairo? How does find -name work? Para 5, , by      If the Lord would show thee but this one   thing, -- that to use "thee" and "thou" to a particular person is   proper language, and Scripture language; and that to say "you," is   improper, and arose from pride, and nourisheth pride, and so is of the   world, and not of the Father; and thou should bow thy spirit to him in   this one thing, thou little thinkest what a work it would make within thee, and how strongly the spirit of darkness would fight against thy   subjection thereto. The Lord lead thee as he seeth good, and give thee   faithfully to follow; for else, if the Lord should lead in any thing,   and thou not follow in that thing, his Spirit would be grieved and   vexed thereby, and thy heart in danger of being hardened by the   deceitfulness of sin.   What is the Lord giving thee faithfully to follow?   The grey claims that the reader thinks little of the significance of stressing 'thee' and 'thou' over 'you'. So I'd guess that the Lord is giving 'thee' this caution? If I'm right, why is there no direct object in the bolded? I recognise grammatical differences in the 1600s, but still want to learn. SQL Server Max Memory not limiting use of RAM I would like your input on this. I have a sql server 2008r2 Ent. Ed. 64bit with 16 cores and 64GB RAM. There is one instance of SQL server patched fully as of 20111014.  The max ram is set to 60000MB. Amount of free ram is 0 according to task manager after a few days online.  If I change the max ram to below 53GB it will after a few days to stabilize and have some free ram.   It is the sql process that does allocate the ram according to task manager. How do i come to terms with what the problem really is? It goes without saying that i did alot of testing already but havn't solved this to my liking yet. and ohh we do not get the typical memory starvation lagging when the available ram is down to 0 free.  Update 1:  Inspired by another Q/A related to RAM on this page  . I used these two to see what the RAM is being used for.  SELECT TOP ( 10 )         [type] AS [Memory Clerk Type] ,         SUM(single_pages_kb) AS [SPA Mem, Kb] FROM    sys.dm_os_memory_clerks GROUP BY [type] ORDER BY SUM(single_pages_kb) DESC OPTION  ( RECOMPILE ) ;  SELECT  DB_NAME(database_id) AS [Database Name] ,         COUNT(*) * 8 / 1024.0 AS [Cached Size (MB)] FROM    sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors --WHERE   database_id &gt; 4 -- system databases --        AND database_id &lt;&gt; 32767 -- ResourceDB GROUP BY DB_NAME(database_id) ORDER BY [Cached Size (MB)] DESC OPTION  ( RECOMPILE ) ;   The amount used shown by these are  first select 7948432    Kb second one 44030,57812  MB that is a total of about 52GB used by sql server... so where did the rest of my RAM go? :-) Task manager show right now cached 363, available 401, free 40 and sqlservr.exe has Memory private set 64 459 656. Max Ram set to 60000MB as before. Recursive cast from SimpleXMLObject to Array I'm using a 5 V / 2 A voltage regulator () without a heatsink. I'm testing the circuit with a microcontroller (PIC18FXXXX), a few LEDs and a 1 mA piezzo buzzer. The input voltage is aprox. 24 VDC. After running for a minute, the voltage regulator starts to overheat, meaning it burns my finger if I keep it there for more than a second. Within a few minutes it starts to smell like it's burnt. Is this a normal behavior for this regulator? What could cause it to heat that much?    Other components used in this circuit:  L1:   R2:   F1: CronJob not running ANOVA analysis with only mean and standard deviation