In Dead 7, Carrie and other movies, there have been some scenes where an artery has been severed and an open wound is visible causing an artierial spray coming from inside the wound.  I am sure this may be CGI or whatever, and for the wound, I have no idea, but there doesn't seem to be any fake blood tubes coming from the area of the spray.  The blood just squirts and squirts. In Dead y, Apocalypta slits a mans throat when he wants to join her and it results in arterial spray.   Also in an episode of The walking dead where the cannibals have got hold of some survivors, they slit the survivors throats over a trough, resulting in arterial spray.  How is this filmed?
I have seen in American Sniper, Dead-7 and Carrie that when someone is killed, they are laying on the ground with blood leaking out of their back or somewhere else on the body.  The puddle continuously grows with few signs of slowing down. This is obviously not CGI because it is a real liquid (may not be real blood as that would spark an emergency in real life).   I have seen in American Sniper that when the protagonist kills yet another enemy, they are filmed hitting the ground and blood starts pooling around their body.  In Carrie: In the dance room where Carrie sets her powers loose and kills a lot of teenagers in the process, there are a few that hit the ground with blood pooling under their bodies. Sometimes they would be on their side with blood coming out.  In Dead 7: Kimono and the other six killed lots of zombies. Some of the six were killed in the process as well before they came to Apocalypta to kill her. They were filmed hitting the ground dead with blood pooling around them.  I am not sure how they film this as they are wearing thin shirts for these scenes, and not only that, but the characters also have blood (obviously fake) only just dripping out of the side of their mouths (an indicator they have a ruptured and wounded stomach or lung (in this case the blood would be pink and frothy).  What is the film technique that allows this to happen?
Fish vs Fishes for plural use Is it because Rey just saved BB-8 from a net, and then the droid just decides to follow her about - or is it for some other reason?  Does BB-8 have any idea who Rey is prior to being rescued by her?  Just wondering as she literally tells the droid to go elsewhere. According to , POST is used to create a resource:  The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.  According to , PUT is used to create or replace a resource:  The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers to an already existing resource, the enclosed entity SHOULD be considered as a modified version of the one residing on the origin server. If the Request-URI does not point to an existing resource, and that URI is capable of being defined as a new resource by the requesting user agent, the origin server can create the resource with that URI.  So which HTTP method should be used to create a resource? Or should both be supported? Distance function is continuous in topology induced by the metric The question is (from Topology without tears) that: Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space and $\tau$ the corresponding topology on $X$. Fix $a \in X$. Prove that the map $f:(X,\tau) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ defined by $f(x) = d(a,x)$ is continuous.  My first attempt was that let an open ball, $B_{\epsilon}(a)\subset \mathbb{R}$ and show that $f^{-1}(B_{\epsilon}(a)) \subset \tau$. Since $f(x) = d(a,x)$, $f^{-1}(B_{\epsilon}(a))=B_{\epsilon}(a) \in \tau$.   I am pretty sure the last sentence is wrong. I am not sure if every open ball is an open set in topology induced by metric space.  Please give me some hint and direction. Thanks Facebook: Ways to preserve image quality of uploaded images? After uploading an image, Facebook converts it to a new image.  Their conversion process introduces artifacts and mottling to the magenta-ish parts of the image.  Original image:   Facebook's conversion:   Are there ways to preserve the original quality of this image and have the image appearance on Facebook reflect more of the original quality? I have a MySQL table with utf8 general ci collation. In the table, I can see two entries:  abad abád  I am using a query that looks like this:  SELECT *  FROM `words` WHERE `word` = 'abád'   The query result gives both words:  abad abád  Is there a way to indicate that I only want MySQL to find the accented word? I want the query to only return    abád    I have also tried this query:  SELECT *  FROM `words` WHERE BINARY `word` = 'abád'   It gives me no results. Thank you for the help. I would like to customize Ubuntu live CD by installing some additional packages. I have followed   but it doesn't seems to work. Can anyone provide clear instructions?   Note: I do not prefer Remastersys, manual way will be appreciated.  Customization  Packages that I want to install:   Thunderbird    Samba    SSH       Changes that I need:   Remove Games menu from the Application menu Firefox shortcut on Desktop Radiance as the default Theme Different default Ubuntu Wallpaper   Configuration file changes   I want the panel to be placed at the bottom I want to paste my Samba configuration file instead of default Samba configuration I have few Firefox shortcuts and folders I would like to show that in Desktop Also it will be nice if you say me how to change the icon sets   Recent Updates   I have customized Ubuntu 10.10 with Firefox shortcuts and few folders on desktops. Everything went smooth. But the installer gets crashes after choosing the timezone. How do i fix this issue? Also setting wallpaper affects the login screen. The wallpaper which i set is displayed on the login screen also. I just want the default one for the login screen. Two layers, same coordinate system, wont show up I have vector two sets of vector layers that won't show up together. One set shows up together and the other set together etc but they are of the same area.  The layers I was given did not have a defined spatial reference which I manually projected as the same as the data frame I specified so all layers now have same CRS...yet not showing up together. I have noticed they appear to have different extents... What should I do? Initialize class fields in constructor or at declaration? I've been programming in C# and Java recently and I am curious where the best place is to initialize my class fields.  Should I do it at declaration?:  public class Dice {     private int topFace = 1;     private Random myRand = new Random();      public void Roll()     {        // ......     } }   or in a constructor?:  public class Dice {     private int topFace;     private Random myRand;      public Dice()     {         topFace = 1;         myRand = new Random();     }      public void Roll()     {         // .....     } }   I'm really curious what some of you veterans think is the best practice. I want to be consistent and stick to one approach. How to avoid tripping over UTF-8 BOM when reading files I'm consuming a data feed that has recently added a Unicode BOM header (U+FEFF), and my rake task is now messed up by it.  I can skip the first 3 bytes with file.gets[3..-1] but is there a more elegant way to read files in Ruby which can handle this correctly, whether a BOM is present or not? How to use a variable for a key in a JavaScript object literal? Modular arithmetic: division, fractions, solving linear congruences Virtual member call in a constructor Countable set of truth assignments satisfying set of well formed formulas I am trying to answer the following question posed in my logic class: (throughout we work in propositional logic) is there a set $S$ of well-formed-formulas (wffs) satisfied by countable set $V$ of truth assignments such that any truth assignment satisfying $S$ lies in $V$?    My guess is no.  My first reaction to this was to do a diagonalization.  Present $V$ as an array with $v_{i, j}$ the truth value that assignment $v_i$ gives to the $j$-th propositional letter.  Obviously the hard case is when $S$ is infinite; if $S$ is finite, then only finitely many propositional letters occur in the $S$-formulae.  Then there is some maximal $k$ for which all $A_n$ with $n \geq k$ do not occur in V.  Then the diagonalization is trivial: just diagonalize from the $k$-th letter onward, since changing $A_k$ in this range doesn't affect anything in $S$.  But I have little clue about how to approach the main case when $S$ is infinite. I thought maybe I should try using the fact that $S$ is consistent (since it's satisfiable).  If it's maximally consistent, then I think this is simple too, since for every propositional letter $A_n$, either $A_n$ is in $S$ or $(\neg A_n)$ is in $S$, implying that there is only one truth assignment satisfying $S$--since every truth assignment must agree on each propositional letter.    But if $S$ is not maximally consistent, this isn't available to me.  Somehow I would like to show that infinitely many propositional letters do not occur in $S$.  Then I can apply the trick above and just diagonalize through the superfluous letters.    So, yes, just looking for some hints or corrections if you have any please, though maybe if I don't get anywhere on my own I'll give up and ask for more.  Thanks.  (By the way, by referring to letters that "occur in $S$" I mean letters that occur in some formula in $S$). Converting Older United States Dollar Bills Is every discrete absolute value non-archimedean? I've been reading Milne's notes on absolute values and local fields (Chapter 7 of the book on algebraic number theory), and a possibly minor point is confusing me.   On page 126, Milne writes, "$K$ is a field complete with respect to a discrete absolute value $|\cdot|$..." and then he talks about things that only make sense for non-archimedean absolute values, like the ring of integers and its maximal ideal.   Is every discrete absolute value on a field $K$ also non-archimedean? This would explain a lot, but I also suspect that it is not true, because I can't find any statement of this fact anywhere.  EDIT: An absolute value is discrete if the value group $|K^\times|$ is a discrete subgroup of the multiplicative group $\mathbb{R}_{&gt;0}$. An absolute value is non-archimedean if it satisfies the stronger triangle inequality $$ |x+y| \le \max (|x|,|y|) $$ or equivalently if the set $\{|1|,|1+1|,|1+1+1|,\ldots\}$ is a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}$. I have a BA degree in Biochemistry.  I worked at a research lab for 5 yrs before I quit my job to be a stay at home.  Now I want to change my career and get into the field of QA.  I don't have much knowledge as to what the best way is to get into this field.  I cant afford to take online courses, so I want to self teach it to me.  Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated. Regular (non-moderator) users should be able to override deletions by Community user There is a question on  that got deleted by the Community user. This question isn't terrible (we have worse one's there), and I'm not complaining about this question in particular.  I wanted to vote to undelete it. However, it says "A moderator has deleted this post and it cannot be undeleted". This "moderator" is Community!  I understand if a "real" live human moderator (no offense to all non-humans out here) deleted this question that we can't override it. But this is a Robot! It sees that it got a downvote, no answer and little activity for a while and just deletes it.  Can we have "Community user" have rights to delete, but have those "deletions" subject to normal-person override? Cheat-proof online die roller? I am looking for an online die roller that works similarly to the following:   The GM provides a string identifier to the player. E.g., "gandalf attacks balrog #12"   The player enters the id on the roller site, which checks it for uniqueness vs the DB, then generates the results, lined to that id.   The GM can check the results by id.     An alternative implementation would be for the GM to request a range of pre-generated ids from the site and hand them out to the players for rolls. E.g., "please roll 5d8 with id #314159265"  Is there anything similar?  Notes and Clarifications:  As Thales Sarczuk inferred, this is indeed for "play by forum/email" games.  The idea is to have "verifiable" rolls, preventing "roll until you you get a good result" scenarios. However, it will be used on forums that are not gaming-specific so using plugins is not an option.  Thank you! Find the limit $\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{x_1 y_n + x_2 y_{n-1} + \cdots + x_n y_1}{n}$ When $\lim_{n\to\infty} x_n = a$, and $\lim_{n\to\infty} y_n = b$, find the limit, $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{x_1 y_n + x_2 y_{n-1} + \cdots + x_n y_1}{n}.$$ Thank you for your help in advance.