If you played someone in a game of ping pong, and wanted to refer to the game later, you could refer to it as "our game". For instance:  "It was after our game."  But if I were talking to a different person about this, I might find myself inclined to refer to the other person and me specifically, such as:  "It was after John and me's game"  But that doesn't sound right and also doesn't quite make sense. I almost more want to say:  "It was after John and my's game"  But I don't think that's correct either. Despite this, I don't feel like expressing it like this should be completely impossible. Is there any way to convey something about a possession that belongs to two people in this way?
I want to talk to someone about the house that my wife and I own.  Saying, for example, "My wife's and my house is awesome," sounds a bit funny to me.  What's the best way to express this?  Clarification  I'm asking specifically about the grammar of multiple nouns in possessive form.  I'm particularly curious if it's possible to do this with a first-person pronoun (me).  I am capable of rephrasing this in other ways - my question is not how to express the idea, but about this particular grammatical construction, if it is even legal.
What is the structure in "as best you can"? I instinctively translate it "as best as you can", however this makes no sense.  What is the real structure behind this phrase?  I'll include an  to illustrate the historical presence of this phrase:    Whatever the structure is, I'm guessing that it has something to do with 19th century grammar. Detection of the Electric Charge of a Black Hole How to extract and install .deb without the command dpkg? I am running Debian jessie stable in order to understand how the .deb package interacts with the system. What is the correct way to extract and install a packge_name.deb without the command dpkg? Ckeditor toolbar not entirely showing up I have just moved my site from local machine to production, the wysiwyg editor based on ckeditor no longer show the complete toolbar. I have a minimal list of element. Can someone help, am trying everything, edit profile, check if all files are uploaded, i don't see any problem ! $x^2+y^2=z^n$: Find solutions without Pythagoras! I was presented with the following problem:      Prove that there exist solutions to $x^2+y^2=z^n$ for all $n$, with $x,y,z, n \in \mathbb{N}$   I showed that by taking any Pythagorean triple $x^2+y^2=z^2$ and multiplying by $z^{2(n-1)}$ we get $(z^{n-1}x)^2+(z^{n-1}y)^2=(z^2)^n$, which allows me to generate solutions easily for any value of $n$. I managed to find several similar questions on this site, such as  concerning the specific case $n=3$. I notice that all of these questions take a similar approach and start with a Pythagorean triple and use it to generate general solutions.  Is there a way to prove the statement (or better yet provide solutions to the equation) without first relying on Pythagoras? I am trying to understand how complex numbers made their way into QM. Can we have a theory of the same physics without complex numbers? If so, is the theory using complex numbers easier? I am trying to install Packet Tracer 7.3 (latest version) on Ubuntu 20.04 but do not succeed to so so because of two dependencies which are not installable ("libdouble-conversion1" and "qt-at-spi").  However I successfully installed the previous version (7.2.2) which was available in an Ubuntu installer format (.run file) but I nothing happens when I run it from my gnome desktop.  I am quite a newbie in Linux so I appologies if answers are obvious...  Thanks in advance ;-)  Denis Let $A$ , $B$ be topological spaces such that there for some subset $D$ of $B$ there is a homeomorphism form $A$ to $D$ and for some subset $E$ of $A$ there is a homeomorphism form $B$ to $E$ ; then must there exist a homeomorphism from $A$ to $B$ ? I need to set weights for some edges from a python script. I have tried looping through object.data.edges and setting bevel_weight values but I can't get it right. It only works if I have first edited some edge's bevel weight by hand from the 3d-view's transform window. But I would like to get it work from my script without any manual hacking.  Steps to reproduce:  Start Blender with default cube and switch to Scripting view.  Try to set weights for all edges:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight = 1.0   Verify that values changed:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight   Switch into edit mode in 3d-view and open up transform window by pressing n. Select edges to see that the change did not work (bevel weights are all zero). Switch back to object mode and read values again in scripting console to see that they were reset to zero:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight   Go back to edit mode and change some edge bevel weight straight from the transform window by hand. Go back to object mode and change values again from the scripting console:  for edge in C.object.data.edges:     edge.bevel_weight = 1.0   This time it works, bevel weights are 1.0 when you go back to edit mode and look from the transform window.   Any ideas? My final need is to apply a bevel modifier to only some set of edges and that's why I'm trying to mark them by using weights. Using vertex group for bevel modifier does not work in my situation, since I need to specify edges, not vertices, which to bevel.   I'm using Blender v2.71. Active Web Site as Gnome Background Is there a way to put an active website, such as Gmail, as your Desktop background in Gnome, running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? MS Win calls it "Active Desktop". Every finite commutative ring with no zero divisors contains a multiplicative identity? How do I start with in-camera JPEG settings in Lightroom? I'm a novice shooting in RAW and find that half the time my camera JPEG images come out better than my Lightroom tweaks to RAW files.  So to give myself a better start I'd like to apply the JPEG settings that are applied automatically by the camera to my RAW files in lightroom so that initially my RAW files look exactly like the JPEG files.   How can I do this? Implementing a PIVOT query How can I pivot the following SELECT statement:           SELECT sc.CID,                 sc.CodeName     as OverviewText,                 scRAG.CodeName  as RAGStatusText             FROM StatusCode      sc LEFT OUTER JOIN ProjectOverview po               ON sc.CID          = po.ProjectOverviewCID              AND po.ProjectId    = 180 LEFT OUTER JOIN StatusCode      scRAG               ON po.RAGStatusCID = scRAG.CID           WHERE sc.SCID         = 18   Such statement yields the result set that follows:  CID OverviewText    RAGStatusText --- ------------    ------------- 153 Cost            Green 154 Requirements    Yellow 155 Schedule        NULL 156 Technical       NULL 157 Testing         NULL   But, I want it to return one single row with 10 values, as shown bellow:   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | Cost | Green | Requirements | Yellow | Schedule | NULL | Technical | NULL | Testing | NULL |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Can I pivot on CID? Is it common for native speakers to put a question mark at the end of declarative sentence? Running two independent instances of Chrome I use Chrome as my main browser.  I also spend a lot of time on a particular webapp that my company uses.  I'd like to keep those two things separate.  I can run the webapp in a separate window - but I'd like to go further than that.  I'd like to have it be identified by a different task in the Win 7 taskbar; ideally a different icon; and ideally a different title in Process Monitor.  How can I run a second, independent instance of Chrome, with a different title and icon, that won't merge with my main Chrome browser. How do I suppress stderr warning messages from a command inside command substitution? touch ~/deleted/$(echo "directory_"$(readlink -f foo)|tr '/' '\') 2&gt; /dev/null   where foo is a directory  It's reading the full pathname of foo and creating it as a file replacing all '/' with '\' and putting a directory_ in front so the directory  /home/test/foo would create a file directory_\home\test\foo  It does exactly what I want except a warning keeps printing tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable   a. I don't know what that means b. I would like it to not show  I tried to redirect stderr to /dev/null but it doesn't work. How do I suppress it? SQLite - UPSERT *not* INSERT or REPLACE Is there some clever way to do this in SQLite that I have not thought of? Basically I want to update three out of four columns if the record exists, If it does not exists I want to INSERT the record with the default (NUL) value for the fourth column. The ID is a primary key so there will only ever be one record to UPSERT. (I am trying to avoid the overhead of SELECT in order to determine if I need to UPDATE or INSERT obviously) Suggestions?  I cannot confirm that Syntax on the SQLite site for TABLE CREATE. I have not built a demo to test it, but it doesn't seem to be supported. If it was, I have three columns so it would actually look like: CREATE TABLE table1(      id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ON CONFLICT REPLACE,      Blob1 BLOB ON CONFLICT REPLACE,      Blob2 BLOB ON CONFLICT REPLACE,      Blob3 BLOB  );  but the first two blobs will not cause a conflict, only the ID would So I assume Blob1 and Blob2 would not be replaced (as desired)  UPDATEs in SQLite when binding data are a complete transaction, meaning Each sent row to be updated requires:  Prepare/Bind/Step/Finalize statements unlike the INSERT which allows the use of the reset function The life of a statement object goes something like this:  Create the object using sqlite3_prepare_v2() Bind values to host parameters using sqlite3_bind_ interfaces. Run the SQL by calling sqlite3_step() Reset the statement using sqlite3_reset() then go back to step 2 and repeat. Destroy the statement object using sqlite3_finalize().  UPDATE I am guessing is slow compared to INSERT, but how does it compare to SELECT using the Primary key? Perhaps I should use the select to read the 4th column (Blob3) and then use REPLACE to write a new record blending the original 4th Column with the new data for the first 3 columns? What is the most secure hand cipher? By "hand cipher", I mean a symmetric cipher for which encryption and decryption can can both be performed with a pencil on graph paper, consuming about 10-20 seconds per character by a proficient user. Additional simple tools, e.g. a deck of cards or a multiplication table, may be used to expedite the process. No mathematical proficiency is required other than mental addition, subtraction, and maybe multiplication.  Basically, it should be a cipher that someone of average mathematical abilities can master, and it should require no digital technology or cryptographic tools that cannot be constructed out of paper.  For example, four-square in CBC mode seems secure to me because CBC is a well established mode of operation and four-square seems to be a good block cipher as it accommodates large keys and seems to produce a random-looking output. However, the fact that four-square in CBC was never widely adopted before digital encryption became a consumer technology leads me to believe that someone broke the cipher and thus discouraged people from using it.  So is there any hand cipher that the best supercomputers would take years to cryptanalyze? If not, then for which hand cipher is the best known attack the most complex? I need an adjustment layer which will invert in the same way as when you select some text in a text layer Symbolic links error while creating Ubuntu UEFI bootable USB I have tried to create UEFI bootable USB drive within Ubuntu 14.10 (Startup disk creator didn't help nor I am interested in using it.). I have formated USB with FAT32 and GPT. So the only thing left to do would be just to copy all files from ISO to USB. That method worked when it comes to Linux Mint 17.1 and Clonezilla live CD, but when I tried to create bootable USB for Ubuntu 14.04 or Kubuntu 15.04 beta 1 there was an error copying files. Actually, on several occasions (4 or 5) pop-up window appeared.   After ignoring this errors, both Ubuntu and Kubuntu USB boot-up just fine, with no apparent problems in Live mode.   Can someone please elaborate what this symbolic links presents? Will this cause some problem when OS is installed?