Jerry is one of those students who (miss / misses) the homework   assignment as he leaves early.   In the above sentence which is the correct choice of verb and what's the reason for the choice? If Jerry is the subject then it should be 'misses'. But I have seen a rule which says that when using pronouns like 'who' the verb depends on the noun that appears immediately before the verb.
One of the boys who always give/gives the correct answer is Samuel.   As per rule, one of is followed by plural noun/pronoun and singular helping verb, so we should be using gives in the sentence. But the answer is give.
Finding $\lim\limits_{x\to1^-}\Bigl(\prod\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\Bigl(\frac{1+x^{n+1}}{1+x^n}\Bigr)^{x^n}\Bigr)$ Compute : $$L=\lim_{x\to 1^-} \left(\prod_{n=0}^{\infty} \left(\frac {1+x^{n+1}}{1+x^n}\right)^{x^n}\right)$$   My try:   Writing out the first few terms I noticed that the limit can be expressed as $$L=\lim_{x\to 1^-} \frac 12\left(\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1+x^n)^{x^{n-1} -x^n}\right)$$ $$L=\frac 12\lim_{x\to 1^-} \left(\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1+x^n)^{x^{n-1}}\right)^{1-x}$$  Converting to exponential form I get $$L=\frac 12 \exp {\left(\lim_{x\to 1^-} (1-x)\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left(x^{n-1}\ln(1+x^n)\right)\right)}$$  And got stuck here. I did try to use approximation $\ln x\sim x$ hereon to get final answer as $\frac {\sqrt e}{2}$ but I think it was improper to use approximation and hence I believe that the answer I got is flawed. I also noticed that the form I obtained is quite similar to be used for a Riemann Sum but I didn't get a way to tackle the problem using that way.  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How to convert physical Ubuntu operating system into a virtual machine? A while ago I turned my PC into dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu. But my experience is, that I rarely boot into Ubuntu, so I wanted to make it available as virtual machine in Windows rather than as a second OS. Can you provide me some information which is the tool of my choice and how I can achieve this migration? I already have VMWare Player installed. How can I know which apps are currently connecting to the Internet? I have a Samsung Spica running Eclair (rooted). I've noticed on a number of occasions that inspite of the Autosync option turned off, the sync icon appears in the notification bar. By default, Gmail, Calendar &amp; Contacts are set to sync whenever the Autosync option is turned on.  I don't use any scheduler app like Locale or Tasker.  Is there an app or some way to see which app is connecting to the Internet at any given time? Or can someone verify if this sort of behaviour of the sync icon appearing is normal? In which way does quantum mechanics disprove determinism? Does JavaScript have the interface type (such as Java's 'interface')? Default currency symbol Is there a name for this database schema of key values? Why is the Star Trek 2009 reboot called a reboot? Doctor Who (2005) isn't called a reboot. It is called a continuation of the old series. This was made possible by that regeneration ju-ju and stuff.  On the other hand, Star Trek 2009 reincarnation is often called a reboot. Nobody dared call it continuation. I don't think I need to do citation because it's common.  Now, if we actually go into the details:   The new universe contains two Spock. One is from the original timeline. The Spock Prime even gives data from the original timeline like trans-warp equation, Khan etc. We see other past data from before the timeline diverged. For example, Scott told that he transwarped Admiral Archer's dog. 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In my own language I'm used to writing these lists like this:  "I kicked foot-, basket-, and volleyball"  The sentence is supposed to mean that I kicked all types of balls (football, basketball and volleyball). However, it does not seem correct to me. Should I write them as whole words, with or without hyphen, or how? Multi-level wildcard DNS matched by *.domain.com? Q1: Does a DNS rule for *.domain.com match multi-level domain names? In other words, if I just set *.domain.com in my DNS records, will it match all of:  a.domain.com b.a.domain.com c.b.a.domain.com   as many levels deep as needed, with just that one wildcard DNS specifier?  We have a use case for multi-level DNS and I would like to confirm that we are doing the right thing in setting one wildcard DNS setting for the root domain.  Q2: will this work with round-robin DNS? 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