I seem to find myself in possession of a shiny phone. As opposed to my old one, which was an abhorrent pancake sandwich of electronics, screen, and what must have been some kind of horse poop.   Is there any way for me to join the Android beta, or is that period over / the slots filled?
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QGIS creating a fixed distance buffer over selected areas not the entire layer what im doing is making a fixed distance buffer and it's working splendidly but i need the buffer to be created over certain selected areas not the entire layer, and at the creation wizard is only offers the the option of selecting the entire layer, and i need some areas within that layer to have a different buffer and some none at all.  is there a way around that? Maximum weight an average bicycle can carry? I was recently told (  ):     You cannot delete a class in production directly. You will need delete   the class from your sandbox and then deploy the deletions to your   production org.   When you deploy from sandbox to production, the   missing classes will come up in red and you can choose to deploy these   deletions to Production.   However, I'd like some clarification because finding information on how to do this is like pulling teeth, unfortunately.  Am I supposed to:   Delete the Trigger in Sandbox Make a deployment package in Sandbox Add the Trigger which is going to be listed in RED now Deploy (and that deletes it from Production)?   I am not seeing deleted Triggers in Red in Sandbox.  Are they NOT listed under "Triggers" for deployment, but elsewhere?   Frustrated = true.   Does this ONLY apply to Classes??  UPDATE:  I just tried again, with a CLASS, and it still doesn't show up at all as a Deployable package (red or not) after I delete it in the Sandbox.  UPDATE 2:  I was just able to delete a class, that I know was written via IDE from a third party, in both Sandbox and Production.  So now I'm wondering if it has to do with where it was originally deployed from (if from IDE, IDE can delete it - it from Sandbox, you have to jump through hoops).  :-( Reading grep patterns from a file referring to Eqn. 1a) and 1b) in a sentence as eqn. (1) I am trying to incorporate a wms feed in the British national grid projection (EPSG:27700) into a openlayers 3 project. I initially had used this wms layer in an openlayers 2 application using the following syntax:  new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(         "ukimage",         "http://www.linktowms",         {             "LAYERS": 'ukimage',             "STYLES": '',             format: state.image_format         }, {     buffer: 0,     displayOutsideMaxExtent: true,     isBaseLayer: true } );   But I am having trouble converting this over to openlayers 3. I first tried setting the map projection to British national grid (view: new ol.View({ projection: 'EPSG:27700'}) as I had in the openlayers 2 app, but this produced the error  TypeError: h.B is not a function    and a white map.   When I try and use proj4 to convert the projection to EPSG:3857 as described here:  I get the same error:   TypeError: h.B is not a function    and again a white map.   my wms request is generally a varient of:  new ol.layer.Image({       source: new ol.source.TileWMS({         url: 'http://www.linktowms',         params: {'LAYERS': 'ukimage'},       })     }),   (I tried adding projection but that didn't help)  I am trying to work out if the image is even getting loaded from the WMS feed, but the syntax seems to have changed significantly from openlayers 2, instead of the properties and functions that have rather descriptive names, there are a now lots of short functions with names like Ua and Ig, which leaves me a bit in the dark as to what's actually going on when I try and inspect the layer with firebug.  I don't mind what projection the application is in, as I can re-project my other layers to match the basemap, so basically any way of using this EPSG 27700 WMS layer in openlayers 3 would be great. Write access without read access Is it possible for a user to have a write access to a file and not be able to read it? How is it possible?   I tried the following commands:  debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ touch filetest debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ ls -l filetest -rw-r--r-- 1 debianbox debianbox 0 14 oct.  03:10 filetest  debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ echo "Hello World" &gt; filetest debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ cat filetest Hello World  debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ chmod u-r filetest debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$ cat filetest cat: filetest: Permission forbidden  debianbox@debian:~/posix/io$   As you can see here, I have write but not read access on this file. How can this be possible? Is this considered as a bug? If not, in what situation would this be useful? One word for someone who always does what he loves I am looking for one word to describe someone who always does what he loves.   Loving means enjoying something very much, free-spirited means not restrained by convention. Is there a hybrid word?   I mean a word that describes someone who is independent and always does what he loves. Please also try to not make the word too esoteric. Also, the word needs to be positive.  How will it be used?  I am submitting an application for college, and they require me to supply a word to describe myself. I have always done what I love. So, I require a word to describe someone who loves what they want. There is no sentence, in particular, just a prompt asking me to describe myself in one word. I'm using TeXLive 2014. Here's a MWE:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tkz-fct}         % Must appear before {thmtools}  \usepackage{thmtools} \declaretheorem{theorem}  \begin{document}   \begin{tikzpicture}     \tkzInit  % No need to even plot anything!   \end{tikzpicture}    \begin{theorem}[A Silly Theorem]     Let $a = 1$. Then $a &gt; 0$.   \end{theorem} \end{document}   The error message is:  ! Extra \endcsname. \kv@processor@default ...fincsname\@xa \endcsname                                                   \csname iftrue\endcsname \... l.12   \begin{theorem}[A Silly Theorem]   If the optional theorem name is removed, all is well. Adding \protect{} doesn't help.  Any idea how to remove this conflict?  Thanks! :  Not ten minutes ago, I received this error, twice:  And also an &quot;Oops, something bad happened&quot; error.  I'm also getting question posting errors.  Can we fix this, please? Pointer to class data member "::*" I came across this strange code snippet which compiles fine:  class Car {     public:     int speed; };  int main() {     int Car::*pSpeed = &amp;Car::speed;     return 0; }   Why does C++ have this pointer to a non-static data member of a class? What is the use of this strange pointer in real code? Spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking (i.e. $SU(2)\times U(1)\to U(1)_{em}$ ) is at scale about 100 Gev. So, for , gauge bosons $Z$ &amp; $W$ have masses about 100 GeV. But before this spontaneous symmetry breaking ( i.e. Energy > 100 GeV) the symmetry $SU(2)\times U(1)$ is not broken, and therefore gauge bosons are massless.  The same thing happens when we go around energy about $10^{16}$ GeV, where we have the Grand Unification between electroweak and strong interactions, in some bigger group ($SU(5)$, $SO(10)$ or others). So theoretically we should find gauge bosons $X$ and $Y$ with masses about $10^{16}$ GeV after GUT symmetry breaks into the Standard Model gauge group $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$, and we should find massless X and Y bosons at bigger energies (where GUT isn't broken).  So this is what happened in the early universe: when temperature decreased, spontaneous symmetry breaking happened and firstly $X$ &amp; $Y$ gauge bosons obtained mass and finally $Z$ &amp; $W$ bosons obtained mass.   Now, I ask: have I understood this correctly? In other words, if we make experiments at energy above the electroweak scale (100 GeV) we are where $SU(2)\times U(1)$ isn't broken and then we should (experimentally) find $SU(2)$ and $U(1)$ massless gauge bosons, i.e. $W^1$, $W^2$, $W^3$ and $B$ with zero mass? But this is strange, because if I remember well in LHC we have just make experiments at energy about 1 TeV, but we haven't discovered any massless gauge bosons. I took a look at  but my question is not the same.  I have unique keys encrypting each plaintext (in CBC mode, AES-256) and I do not use a key to encrypt more than one plaintext. Is it insecure to use null IVs in this case? If it is insecure, why? Why is Facebook missing from the list of ways to share a page in Safari?  That option used to exist before the latest update.  When I'm directed to the extensions box Facebook is not there. Multiple runnable classes inside JAR, how to run them? Admin password of MariaDb doesn't seem to work How long does it take for DNS records to propagate? I want to achieve the exact same title page layout as the paper shown . For those that do not want to download the paper, the image of the title page is shown below:    The super-scripts indicating the authors doesn't have to be as shown in the example title page (e.g, a, b and c), other symbols are fine.  I am using the authblk package and know the general syntax such as:  \title{title of paper} \author[1]{author 1\thanks{details that goes into the footnote}} \author[1]{author 2\thanks{details that goes into the footnote}} \author[2]{author 3\thanks{details that goes into the footnote}} \affil[1]{university 1} \affil[2]{university 2} \renewcommand\Authands{ and } \maketitle  \begin{abstract} abstract goes here \end{abstract}   But I am not sure how to achieve the example title page shown. Any help would be appreciated! "Oriented" vs. "orientated" What are the origins of the word orientated?  As far as I know, the correct spelling is oriented and orientated is not an alternative spelling but an error that is in common use.  Is it for example more commonly used in a certain country or by a certain people? Is there a reason for people choosing to say or write orientated instead of oriented? How to work with iAds using xcode 3.1.3