Installing ubuntu on my windows 10 laptop, do my files and programs stay, or do I need to reinstall all my programs
I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?
Why isn't The Flash unstoppable? I've recently gotten into The Flash TV show, and so I've been reading about his powers. What I don't understand is why his typical rogues pose a threat - it seems like there should be very little limit to his powers.  He can go back in time, so if he loses a battle or the bad guys do something, he can go back and preempt it. In the new 52, he can all but predict the immediate future, so he can see bad things that are going to happen and stop them. He can phase matter through matter, or let matter pass through him. This means he is all but immune to weapons fire.  I haven't read enough of the old comics so I don't the know challenges he's had. For a guy who can't be attacked, can time-travel and can race around the globe several times in a minute, I can't imagine there is much that could pose a threat. US and Canada border crossing and computer privacy: What do I need to know? I've read stories about border officials searching laptops when crossing the border in one direction or the other. Does this really happen, typically speaking?  As a US citizen, can I be forced to give them my laptop's password for any/no reason? I don't believe they are allowed to deny entry to the US to a US citizen? ....but who knows these days?  Canada can deny me entry for any reason, so that's fine. But in practice, does this even happen in either crossing direction?  EDIT - I've now made the trip. They didn't so much as glance in the direction of my laptop. My biggest issue turned out to be lack of international wireless data service! Light is clearly affected by gravity, just think about a black hole, but light supposedly has no mass and gravity only affects objects with mass.  On the other hand, if light does have mass then doesn't mass become infinitely larger the closer to the speed of light an object travels. So this would result in light have an infinite mass which is impossible.  Any explanations? I would like to convert a Mp4 file in HD into a Mp4 file of lower resolution. Is there any software that can be used for this? When is a cellular automaton "bidirectional"? From .   "A (bi-directional, deterministic) cellular automaton is a triplet $A = (S;N;\delta)$, where $S$ is an non-empty state set, $N$ is the neighborhood system, and $\delta$ is the local transition function (rule). This function deﬁnes the rule of calculating the cell’s state at $t +1$ time step, given the states of the neighborhood cells at previous time step $t$"  I haven't found other "bidirectional" CA via Google, so I wonder what does the term say about this automaton's properties. Does it mean that the state $t+1$ can be used to find out the state t? Is it feasible to transform each variable differently while doing multiple regression I have a dataset with 10 variables ...is it feasible to transform each variable differently while doing multiple regression...  for example new_V1 = log(v1)  New_V2= V2^2  New_V3= 1/V3  Likewise differently for different variables and then applying multiple regression? Are the PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc methods available in most web browsers? I've seen a couple questions around here like , which mentions:     Unfortunately that same browser won't allow me to test HTTP PUT, DELETE, and to a certain degree even HTTP POST.   I've also heard that browsers support only GET and POST, from some other sources like:        However, a few quick tests in Firefox show that sending PUT and DELETE requests works as expected -- the XMLHttpRequest completes successfully, and the request shows up in the server logs with the right method. Is there some aspect to this I'm missing, such as cross-browser compatibility or non-obvious limitations? Why is using a wild card with a Java import statement bad? Is there any way to solve this problem using the diagonalization method? I know there's the proof that uses $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})$ = set of all finite subsets $\cup$ set of all infinite subsets, but I'm trying to solve it using the diagonalization method specifically. I was thinking that we can assume the two have the same cardinality and arrive at a contradiction, but I don't know how to get there. How can we show there has to be some infinite set in the set of all infinite subsets that cannot match 1-1 with a natural number? $n$-th digit in the sequence of natural numbers What's the $n$-th digit in the sequence $S$ of numbers formed by the natural numbers, i.e.,  $n$-th digit in the sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12... ? For example 11th digit in the sequence is 0. How to randomize (shuffle) a JavaScript array? How do I add a Pokestop to an area that has none? It is an area where there are tons of businesses but unless I drive about a mile from my work area there are no Pokestops.   I want to add one since we have 1000's of people in the work area, a lot of them play Pokemon Go, and we all can't leave work to drive a mile away to get to a Pokestop area.   Plus it would be nice to be able to capture Pokemon on our breaks. C# Regular Expressions with \Uxxxxxxxx characters in the pattern Auto delete spam email from a domain in Gmail Stripboard/veroboard/matrix board design software I'm prototyping a simple layout for a small project on matrix board, but figured there must be a better way than drawing it all out on paper. Are there any aimed at matrix board?  I've found the following software for stripboard, but nothing explicitly for matrix board:     Stripboard Magic (seems to be abandonware, but there's page about it )  Stripboard Editor Limited free version, designed to integrate well with     Any more I've missed? Any recommendations? How to find stopping distance of a car? I have a text file abc.txt and its contents are:     /lag/cnn/org/one.txt    /lag/cnn/org/two.txt    /lag/cnn/org/three.txt   If I use:  $ tar -cvf allfiles.tar -T abc.txt   I'm getting the tar of files in the list. Similarly is it possible to copy those files in abc.txt to a folder?  I tried this:              $ cp --files-from test1.txt ./Folder   But it is not working. Let n be an even integer. How many different ways can I choose subsets of the set {1,2...,n} Reading the reviews of the  on Google Play,  said that since Chrome supports HTML5, he had managed to persuade the BBC iPlayer website to play him streams meant for iPad/iPhone devices by spoofing an IOS user agent string on his Nexus 7.  How might I go about getting the same thing to work myself?  I have looked at  and  but both seem to concentrate on the Dolphin browser. Also, please mention if a solution will require me to root my Nexus-7.  Incidentally, I also tried using  with Firefox, but although Firefox supports HTML5 and the iPlayer website shows pages without either install flash or use external app messages, it still won't play the streams (it just sits swirling its progress wheel), hence looking for a solution for Chrome. It seems that Geometric Complexity Theory requires much knowledge of pure maths such as algebraic geometry, representation theory.   While I am a CS student and do NOT have classes of very abstract and pure mathematics, I am interested in this program.  Is there a list of "minimum knowledge" for learning this theory ?     This list includes lecture notes of CS or math departments, surveys of any journal or conferences, and text books of pure math.  [EDIT: Added later] Thank you for your comments.  General theory of computing: I read Sipser's book with the title "Introduction to the Theory of Computation"  Complexity Theory :In particular, I am interested in concrete models for lower bounds of complexity. Thus I read the part of the "concrete lower bounds" in Arora-Barak's text book. I also have basic knowlede in the several chapers of the communication complexity book written by Nisan.  Basic Mathematics : I have learnt about proof-based linear algebra such as general definition of the vector space etc and precicely argument of calculas based on epsilon-delta argument.   Algebra: I have learned about definition and examples of group, ring, and field. I had a class for cs students, and have not learned about general thoery of this algebraic systems.