I know times can be used in "old times" or "in times of war" for instance, in the general meaning of an epoch.  I'm wondering what is the meaning of "times" in "", is that just "our epoch in NY", something like news from NY?
What does “times” mean in the newspaper “Washington Times”?  I have always wanted to ask about this, but feared it might be so obvious that I would look like a fool. For that many times, I haven't before experienced that level of hesitation with any other question, but I think now is the right time to ask, anyway.
Make an Ubuntu bootable USB drive for a PC using Mac? Multiple solutions for a particle in an infinite potential well I am starting to learn about quantum mechanics and was wondering about the solutions to a question about a particle in an infinite potential well of length $L$.  The solutions are: $$\psi_n(x) = \sqrt{\frac{2}{L}}\sin\left(\frac{\pi n x}{L} \right)$$  And I was wondering what is the meaning of $n$. Isn't there supposed to be only one wave function? In that case, $\Psi = \sum_{n=1} ^\infty a_n \psi_n$, but what are the $a_n$? Or maybe it is probabilistic, and we don't know which $\psi_n$ the particle is currently in? Why this javascript regex doesn't work? Function pointers, Closures, and Lambda I am just now learning about function pointers and, as I was reading the K&amp;R chapter on the subject, the first thing that hit me was, "Hey, this is kinda like a closure." I knew this assumption is fundamentally wrong somehow and after a search online I didn't find really any analysis of this comparison.  So why are C-style function pointers fundamentally different from closures or lambdas? As far as I can tell it has to do with the fact that the function pointer still points to a defined (named) function as opposed to the practice of anonymously defining the function.  Why is passing a function to a function seen as more powerful in the second case, where it is unnamed, than the first where it is just a normal, everyday function that is being passed?  Please tell me how and why I am wrong to compare the two so closely.  Thanks. How can I determine file type without an extension on Windows? In many courses, say Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Topology, instructors often say that knowing that certaing objects are isomorphic, sometimes makes life easier because we can work with more friendly objects.  Is there any example of using isomorphism concept to solve a non trivial concrete problem?   I must say, I'm not looking on important or famous isomorphic objects, but on non trivial application of the concept of isomorphism used in order to solve another kind of problem. I have 3 old computers lying around right now running a P2 at 800 MHz(?), Intel Mobile 1.6 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ at 1.66 GHz, and (might not use this) P4 at 2.7 GHz, all with 512 MB Ram, and am considering clustering them together for fun/knowledge. They would be running an undecided version of linux, preferably ubuntu based.   The issue is what I want to use it for: general computing and occasional video encoding. By general computing I mean day to day tasks. However I'm not sure if every program started by a single X session is going to exist on the same machine, defeating the purpose of such a system. Will programs be split up or exist on one machine?  Second, assuming this is running 100baseT ethernet (not sure if the PCI slot itself could handle Gigabit), would the speed of having a program exist over the network be an issue? It seems that the constant asking of various things in RAM would be quite slow.  And before you say "buy another computer!", that's not the point of this question. I'm asking would it be usable, not necessarily practical. And yes I know, this is going to be extreamly power consuming. Is there any easy LINQ expression to concatenate my entire List&lt;string&gt; collection items to a single string with a delimiter character?  What if the collection is of custom objects instead of string? Imagine I need to concatenate on object.Name. One divided by Infinity? I upgraded my Mega Ring and have been looking for Mega Stones, and I found . However, the Mega Stone isn't in the place it's supposed to be, and I'm sure the location is right. Why isn't my Mega Stone here? Enabling CORS in GeoServer (jetty)? I hope somebody has already figured this one out. I just installed Geoserver 2.9 on a vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 distro. The Geoserver 2.8 method of enabling CORS with the shanbe.hezoun class does no longer work with Jetty 9.2.13.  There are mentions that CORS support is already packaged with Jetty 9.2.13 in the jetty-servlets.jar.  The Jetty lib which is compiled with Geoserver contains a jetty-servlet-9.2.13.v20150730.jar in geoserver/lib but not jetty-servlets.9.2.13.v20150730.jar. Are these supposed to be the same jar with a different name?  It should be possible to enable CORS either in geoserver/etc/webdefault.xml or in geoserver/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml.  My understanding is that the webdefault.xml is applied first and the web.xml thereafter.  I have tried following filter in both xml. I haven't got as far as adding a filter mapping. Adding the filter alone will cause the Geoserver/Jetty service to not start proper.  &lt;filter&gt;     &lt;filter-name&gt;cross-origin&lt;/filter-name&gt;     &lt;filter-class&gt;org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CrossOriginFilter&lt;/filter-class&gt; &lt;/filter&gt; Is there a single word to describe a solution that hasn't been optimized? How does the new automatic reference counting mechanism work? Can "it" be used with plural subject? Several years ago I heard of something called dummy subjects in high school. It was then stated that, for example, it is a dummy subject when it starts many instances of sentences, e.g.        It is rainy today.   It is hard to imagine how hard is to live alone.   It is not my university degree that matters here.     My question is if we can use it with plural subjects? For example in       If some think that in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s works it is only social themes that matter and the writer is ignoring fictional arrays and artistic techniques, at least, endings of his stories show wrongness of this idea.     My question deals with the italicized part. If this usage is OK, can we also write they are social themes that matter? I mean can they also play the role of a dummy subject? For a book cover, I want to write the title vertically (like in Japanese, but using English text):           T T        I H        T I  I  M  L S  S  Y  E   How do I do this without jumping through a host of \vbox and \hboxes? How do I drag and drop files into an application? I've seen this done in Borland's  environment, but I'm not sure how to go about it for a C# application I'm working on. Are there best practices or gotchas to look out for? What is code coverage and how do YOU measure it?  I was asked this question regarding our automating testing code coverage. It seems to be that, outside of automated tools, it is more art than science. Are there any real-world examples of how to use code coverage? bases and binary I can not figure this out.   I started off by making a table and putting the base(2) on one side, the number in the middle and the remainder in the third row and for 2010 I got 11111011010 but I cant find the next two numbers please help and please explain in detail.  Thank you =)   to express 2010 in base 2, we use exactly 8 ones and 3 zeros. find the next two integers in base 2 that use the same number of ones and zeros "Same as I do" or "same as I have" She has the same book as I have.  Isn't it supposed to be She has the same book as I do?  But I often hear the former.  Why? Can I have two UK visas simultaneously? I have a visitor UK visa valid until October 2017.  I also want to apply for a Tier 4 student visa. My studies in the UK start in September 2017.  If I apply for the student visa in June, will they simply issue an overlapping student visa, or will they cancel my visitor visa and I will not be able to come to the UK until September?  I am worried because in a similar situation with Schengen visas, my existing visa was canceled.