In the sentences:   He tries going to the city He tries to go to the city   Are there differences in meaning? If no, why not?
I tried to open the door. I tried opening the door   We can use both infinitive and gerund with verb "try" as used in above sentences. Does it change the meaning of the  sentence if use gerund or infinitive?.(here i don't know if the meaning of sentences is changed.)     The same confusion arise in these two sentences.  1.I stopped seeing him. 2. I stopped to see him.(But in case of these two sentence i know the meaning is changed but don't know exactly what the change is).
How do you document your databases? I find that most of my clients are not documenting their databases at all and I find that pretty scary. To introduce some better practice, I would like to know what tools/process people are using.   How do you document your database? (SQL-Server)  What tool do you use?  Documentation Storage Format for database schema/meta-data?   Word documents Excel spreadsheet Plain Text  Documentation process or policies?   I am not talking about reverse engineering / document a existing database, but mainly on the documentation best practices while you develop your system/database. Which way does the scale tip? I was supposed to find all possible Jordan canonical forms of a $5\times 5$ complex matrix with minimal polynomial $(x-2)^2(x-1)$ on a qualifying exam last semester.  I took the polynomial to mean that there were at least two 2's and one 1 on the main diagonal, and that the largest Jordan block with eigenvalue 2 is $2\times 2$ while the largest Jordan block with eigenvalue 1 is $1\times 1$.  Did I miss any matrices or interrupt the minimal polynomial incorrectly?  \begin{pmatrix}   2 &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;2  &amp;1  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;2  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1 \end{pmatrix}  \begin{pmatrix}   2 &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;2  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1 \end{pmatrix}  \begin{pmatrix}   2 &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1 \end{pmatrix}  \begin{pmatrix}   2 &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1 \end{pmatrix}  \begin{pmatrix}   2 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;2  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;1  &amp;0  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1  &amp;0\\   0 &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;0  &amp;1 \end{pmatrix} Where's the energy in a boosted capacitor? Suppose I look at a parallel plate capacitor in its rest frame and calculate the electrostatic energy, $E$.  Next, I look at the same capacitor in a primed frame boosted in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the plates. In this frame, the $E$-field is the same strength, there is no magnetic field, and the volume over which the $E$-field extends is less by a factor $1/\gamma$. This suggests $E' = \frac{1}{\gamma} E$, but relativity states that energy transforms as $E' = \gamma E$.   Where is the missing energy? This problem occurred to me when I came across a similar problem where the radii were taken over only the primes. That question was unanswered, but it seems to me infinitely many circles of radius $1/2, 1/3, 1/4...$ can fit into a unit disk. The area of all those circles would be $\pi \sum_2^\infty 1/n^2 = \pi^3/6 -\pi$, which is less than the area of the unit disk $\pi$. But can the circles actually be packed with no overlaps? How can I implement a download rate limited in Java? Warning: mysql_fetch_* expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given error How did Anakin Skywalker survive Order Sixty Six? . When activated, troopers would immediately perceive Jedi as a threat and kill them.  Since Anakin was a Jedi until around the time of the Order, how did the troopers know not to kill Anakin? When using the web interface, there is a favorite tags section where you can select a list of tags that you view most frequently.  This has become a cornerstone of my normal  on stack overflow, but it doesn't look like this is possible in the Android app.  There should be a mechanism by which you can add some favorite tags to the nav bar. Clicking these tags will take you to a list of similarly tagged questions.  Perhaps also the feed should include a section for each favorite tag.  These would be presented on their own, much like how "hot new questions" and "new unanswered questions" appear in the feed.  Perhaps something like this: This applies to all d20 systems, but with an example from the from the Pathfinder  (emphasis mine):  Stonecunning: Dwarves receive a +2 bonus on Perception checks to potentially notice unusual stonework, such as traps and hidden doors located in stone walls or floors. They receive a check to notice such features whenever they pass within 10 feet of them, whether or not they are actively looking.  In this case, does the GM roll the check in secret or ask the player roll the check? If the GM asks the player to roll for the check, what stops situations like:  GM: (interrupting) &quot;Gimli, Roll a perception check.&quot; Dwarf player: &quot;Oh, it's a natural one, I guess I don't see anything.&quot; Human player: &quot;Okay, I'll roll a perception check for anything unusual in this room. Nice! 19. How about 19, does 19 work for you?&quot; GM: &quot;Gimli, everything looks kosher to you. Aragon, you notice a rock coloured tarp on the ground here, covering what looks like a pit trap.&quot;  In this case, by telling the dwarf to roll his &quot;free&quot; perception check, he's telegraphed to the players that there is something to notice. How can this be fixed, without bluffing checks for nothing in particular to throw off the signal to noise ratio of similar checks? Intuitive idea of the Lipschitz function I'm trying to understand intuitively the notion of Lipschitz function.   I can't understand why bounded function doesn't imply Lipschitz function.   I need a counterexample or an intuitive idea to clarify my notion of Lipschitz function.  I need help  Thanks a lot Find the limit: $\lim_\limits{x\to 0}{\frac{\left(1+x\right)^{1/x}-e}{x}}$ If we minimize the Wasserstein loss, $$W_1 (P_S, P_T) = \underset{\gamma \in \Pi}{\text{min }} \sum_{x,y} |x-y|\gamma(x,y)$$ which means we are looking for the coupling $\gamma(x,y)$ that minimizes the cost of moving mass from the source distribution $P_S$ to the target distribution $P_T$,  Do the masses of the source and target distributions have to be identical? If so or not, how are the masses of $P_T$ and $P_S$ accounted for mathematically in, or when minimizing, the shown formula, or what might be missing/overlooked by the Wasserstein approach overall due to the mass differences? How do I technobabble without sounding like technobabble? How to use enum values in f:selectItem(s) How does a wheelie work? So I've been trying to create a mathematical model for an electric motorcycle and began to wonder about the maximum possible torque that could be supplied to the rear driven wheel without having the bike begin to lift up on one wheel.  I found ways to calculate this value online; however, the basic concept as to how the bike actually lifts escapes me.    My problem started when I began to think about what axis the bike will rotate about when it is doing the wheelie.  My first intuition was that the frame and front wheel, together, rotate about the rear axle.  But when I drew a free body diagram of the frame/front wheel system just at liftoff (see below) I made note that the only forces acting about the rear axle, point O, is the force of weight.  This means that an increase in applied torque and subsequently, the applied force Fa, should not effect the rotation about the rear axle.  I know that the applied force on the back wheel is indeed correlated with the propensity for a bike to wheelie, so I considered that the axis of rotation I was choosing was wrong.  If we take the free body diagram above and sum the moments about the center of mass, we would find that an increased applied force would in fact cause the solid body to rotate.  The problem with this understanding is that during rotation, the center of mass of the drawn system should actually rises relative to the surface the bike is moving across.  If the bike were to be truly rotating about its center of mass, then the back wheel would begin to dip below the surface of the road like you might see in a glitchy video game.    So I suspect that the bike is in fact rotating about the back axle, but I don't understand why, please help!  edit: I added the external torque from the back wheel to the frame, which would allow the bike to rotate about the back axle  edit 2:  I suppose that the torque acting on the frame via the engine should not effect the rotation as the movement of a motorcycle can be perfectly replicated by applying a force at the back axle.  A third possible axis of rotation might be the lowest point of the back wheel. Prospective PhD contacts potential supervisor but receives no answer after 2-3 emails, what to do? Say a prospective PhD has a high reply rate (90-95%) to first contact emails with potential superviors. He/She has a well thought out e-mail, but a particular professor (here: USA) that is in the top preferences does not reply after two to three e-mails that were sent within a time frame of three months. I also followed the instructions on the professor personal website in the section "prospective PhD students". The student has already contacted some of the advisor students and has received positive feedback about the professor.  Should the student just give up and move on? Should the student keep trying?  Aside from the obvious "I have too many incoming e-mails to answer" or "I am out in the field", what could create a no response behavior from the professor?  I have seen the simplistic answer "move on, bad advisor, doesn't have time, etc". But this seems a contradiction in this case. The PhD students like the professor and say he/she is personable and no e-mail response after a few well written emails. How can I deal with "Low on Space" messages on my Android? I keep getting the "Low on Space: Application data space is low. To free up" [the rest is cut off] message.  I've moved every app I can over to the SD card, cleared the cache, compacted my K9 mail cache.  Advanced Task Killer (ouch!) says I have 98M Available Memory  File Manager says I have 223M/748M (29%) free.  That's not so bad -- but I'm stuck in the no-updates scenario. The market downloads won't really start, gmail won't update, etc. I've rebooted several times, and nothing changes. Aaaargh.  What can be done, other than uninstalling everything ? Can an Indian citizen visit Dubai on a layover? Are there consequences to stamps in my passport that are not from border control?