I want to invest in the stock market, but can't get one thing clear.  It is seen that as a company's earnings increase, its stock value also increases.  Why? The company is earning more money, not the people who own the stocks.  I know that some company give dividends. But what about those that don't?  What if there is no dividends or stock buy-backs?
I read somewhere that companies are not required to pay dividends to shareholders (this is correct, yes?).   If so, then if company A never pays dividends to its shareholders, then what is the point of owning company A's stock? Surely the right to one vote for company A's Board can't be that valuable.   What is it that I'm missing?
How can I get barcode-scan information into my photo metadata, onsite, untethered? I need a DSLR camera with a barcode scanner for on-site tours photography, which means it needs to be untethered! The image would have to contain the barcode scanned information in the image metadata or in the name itself.  I've seen solutions like, Foolography and a $2600 Canon Studio Edition launched in 2010. But I'm not sure of either those products!  So I'm asking the gurus here how I can get this working, which camera would I need and any accessory necessary?  I'm trying to recreate something like I saw the on-site volume photographers do in Disney's parks. Is it okay to copy-paste answers from other questions? This one leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, but I defer to others as to whether it is appropriate or not. In , I wrote an answer to a question based on my experiences; it was upvoted and accepted, woo.  Now, today, in response to a different &#8212; but related &#8212; , someone has pasted my answer nearly verbatim (awkward English intact, I may add) as an answer.  Is that really okay? Is it a behavior that should be encouraged? Discouraged? Plotting solutions to NDSolve How to make a circular array using offset object as center? We know that the there is an Object Offset option for Array modifier, but when trying to make a circular array with that offset object as the center of the array circle, it always doesn't behave quite like what's expected. So how to make a nice and controllable circular array?  P.S.: There is an old  about moving the object's origin. I wonder if there is any way to do this without changing the location of the origin. :) What Does it Really Mean to Have Different Kinds of Infinities? Can someone explain to me how there can be different kinds of infinities?  I was reading "" by  and came across the concept of countable and uncountable infinities, but they're only words to me.  Any help would be appreciated. Cannot sort on numeric field with SOQL in Custom Metadata Cannot sort on a soql-request in a custom meta data type. When i perform SELECT .. FROM x__mdt WHERE ... ORDER BY x. Then field x cannot be numeric to get a correct order. Change it to a string-field ordering works ok. Playing with ASC/DESC makes no difference! I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it. Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box:     Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://www.example.com/. Please verify http://www.example.com/.   I'm running into some problems following these instructions:   As far as I can tell I already did verify sometime in the past. There's a TXT DNS record with the gibberish Google tells you to set for it that I couldn't have come up with myself. …and nothing is telling me this information is bad. So let's assume the site is somehow not actually verified. All  instructions start with "click the Manage Site button next to the site you want, and then click Verify this site." That button doesn't even exist on my screens. (It presumably goes away when you successfully verify?) Those instructions were all updated pretty recently, and the DNS one in particular just a couple weeks ago so it seems a bit unlikely they're inaccurate.   I am not using Apps, and won't be, so can't try out the verification .   Note that I also have another domain that I have not done any verification for which is showing the same behavior(no such button, being told to verify when it seems impossible etc.) so something appears to just be broken.  I already have a no-www process in place server-side, so we can skip that. I'm just trying to get the box checked off in GWT.  If I don't get any resolution, I'll eventually scrap the TXT record and see if the site gets un-verified(or whatever since it thinks it isn't), and see if I can just restart the process.  It's not urgent so I'm just trying to figure out if I've gone blind to something or what. Did the button move? Is it possible to extend an Indian business visa from India? I'm an Egyptian girl from Cairo. I'm planning a six-month trip to India in December for training purposes, but getting a six-month visa is so hard from my country.  If I can only get 3 months instead of 6 months, is it possible to extend the business visa in India? Although many have attempted to explain the difference among \mathrm, \textrm, \textnormal and \text (and others?), I found them misleading.  See for example the LaTeX's Wiki \mathrm explanation   Why is it wrong? Let's try all of them within an article and a beamer and you'll see the difference and, therefore, error.  equation.tex  \begin{eqnarray*}   \int_1^9\! \cos{x} \,\mathrm{d}x &amp; &amp; \textrm{this is textrm}\   \sum_1^9 y                       &amp; &amp; \textsf{this is textsf}\   \prod_1^9 z                      &amp; &amp; \textnormal{this is textnormal}\   \bigcup_1^9 w                    &amp; &amp; \text{and this is just text} \end{eqnarray*}   article.tex  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb}  \begin{document}   \input {equation} \end{document}     And until here everything looks fine...  beamer.tex  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb}  \begin{document}   \begin{frame}     \input{equation}   \end{frame} \end{document}     And here we can clearly see that \mathrm does not behave as expected, i.e. does not provide a function aspect to the d. Does anyone know what am I supposed to use here instead? Just \text?? o.O  Moreover, I cannot see any difference between \textnormal and \text.  Finally, \textrm looks useless.. Chrome browser will not connect to intranet web addresses Cardinality of set of real continuous functions I believe that the set of all $\mathbb{R\to R}$ continuous functions is $\mathfrak c$, the . However, I read in the book &quot;Metric spaces&quot; by Ó Searcóid that set of all $[0, 1]\to\mathbb{R}$ continuous functions is greater than $\mathfrak c$:  &quot;It is demonstrated in many textbooks that $\mathbb{Q}$ is countable, that $\mathbb{R}$ is uncountable, that every non-degenerate interval is uncountable, that the collection of continuous functions deﬁned on  $[0,1]$ is of a greater cardinality than $\mathbb{R}$, and that there are sets of greater and greater cardinality.&quot;  I understand that (via composition with the continuous function $\tan$ or $\arctan$) these sets of continuous functions have the same cardinality. Therefore, which claim is correct, and how do I prove this? If the sum of $n$ cubes is zero, then the sum must be no larger than $\frac n3$. How could I write my name, for example, to look like the \LaTeX logo? How could I write my name, for example, in a \LaTeX style? It is just interesting, as in Google all other things pop up when I try to search for an answer! Why are heatmaps on qgis 2.8.1 produced in the wrong CRS? Are repository updates secure?  As a bear of little brain from the developer side, I cannot understand why the repository list is http://security.ubuntu.com and the other http(unsecured) sites listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.  Without a certificate chain match this appears as "ask any responder for a list of packages to update" instead of "ask the ubuntu.com site..."  Can any network choose to spoof the update sites, and is this a common practice to provide a locally cached and vetted copy? Replace preg_replace() e modifier with preg_replace_callback How do I find a recursion formula to solve the following question:  In how many sequences of length $n$, with elements from $\{{0,1,2,3,4}\}$, the difference between every 2 adjacent elements is $1$ or $-1$?  I've been trying to solve the problem for the last 5 hours maybe, I'm sure that I'm missing something..   This is a problem in combinatorics, and the solution must be by finding a recursion formula for the problem.   best solution I've come so far is that if we say that $a_n$ is the solution to the question, so let's count how many sequences of size $n-1$ there are that meet the requirement, and we complete the first element to make it a sequence of $n$ elements. so for $n-1$ there $a_{n-1}$ sequences, and for each sequence we have $2$ options to choose the first element (one option is to take a plus $1$ number from the number that start the $n-1$ sequence, and the other option to to take a minus $1$ number from the number that start the $n-1$ sequence), only problem as you figured out is that if the $n-1$ sequnce starts with $0$ or $4$ there is only $1$ option left for the first element in the sequnce.. so $a_n=2a_{n-1}$ won't work.  I think that the solution may involve using $2$ or maybe $3$ recursion formulas.  Hope I was clear enough. What does it take to understand Maxwell's equations? Assume I want to learn math and physics enough to reach a level where I understand Maxwell's equations (The terms and reasoning in the equations I.e. why they "work"). What would I have to learn in order to have the tools I need to make sense out of it?  I'm kindof looking for a road map which I can use to get started and know what to focus on. The fields are pretty big so some pruning would be very helpful (if possible) In this  to a question about a series, a theorem was stated:     If $A= \{a_i \}$ is a set such that $\sum_{i = 1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{a_i}$ converges, then $d(A) = 0$, where $d(A)$ is the  of the set.   My background in number theory is basically zero and all my attempts to prove this have been utterly unseccessful; would anyone please help me, or at least provide me with a hint to prove it? Direction of $d\mathbf{l}$ A solid sphere has charge $q$ and radius $R$. Find the potential at a point a distance $r$ from the center of the sphere where $r&gt;R$, using infinity as the reference point.  My attempt:  From Gauss' theorem we may deduce that $\displaystyle\mathbf{E}=\frac{1}{4\pi\epsilon_0}\frac{q}{r'^2}\hat{\mathbf{r}}$ where $r'$ is the distance of an arbitrary point from the center of the sphere provided $r'&gt;R$.  $V=-\int_\infty^\mathbf{r}\mathbf{E}\cdot d\mathbf{l}$  My question: What is $d\mathbf{l}$? Since we are traversing in the direction opposite to $\hat{\mathbf{r}}$, I think it should be $-dr'\hat{\mathbf{r}}$. But when I use it to find $V$, I get a sign error. Please help!