Important information can be stored in a computer   vs     Important information can be stored on a computer   Also, can we use stored and saved alternatively/interchangebaly with computer.  E.g.      Important information can be saved in a computer
Do you say IN one of the computers or ON one of the computers? Which is right?
I can’t for the life of me figure out where to use a and where to use the — and where there is no article at all. Is there a simple rule of thumb to memorize?   The standard rule you always hear:     “If a person knows which item you are talking about then use "the"   . . . doesn’t clear things up for me, as I have no idea whether or not they know. Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE Why aren't variable-length arrays part of the C++ standard? Localization of ideals at all primes Displaying two XML listings side by side. I have two XML outputs from a program that I would like to include in a LaTeX document. I would like them to appear side-by-side each in its own box. So that a reader can compare the two outputs while reading the document. Can't seem to find a way to do this, without making images for each output and adding both as images/graphics. Could there be a better option? Is it possible to identify the font used in a specific document/picture?  Answers to this question should identify:   Possible methods to do this (perhaps one answer per method) and adequately describe how to use it (as opposed to merely stating it); Ways of finding the identified fonts, if possible (free or not); and Any prerequisites associated with the method used, if required (for example, "In order to use method X, your document has to be in format Y").   This question is meant as an FAQ, based on an . Its aim is to facilitate the community with the general procedures involved in font identification. Similar cases are solved on a per-usage basis on 's  tag. Detecting TCP Client Disconnect What are the basis for co-countable and co-finite topologies Why are there two Address lines in Address forms? Experience and a quick Google Images search suggests that it's standard to provide two fields for Address/Street. A colleague argues that it's perceived as two alternative addresses, and that the fact that there's only one country, state, zip, phone just makes it more confusing. I tried to think of a good explanation for having two fields but couldn't. To the reason of "there are some very long addresses" he replies "then why don't they use a multiline input field which would make it clearer that it's the same address".  So, what's the reason? And is it only standard for the US or for Europe as well? Sort arrays of primitive types in descending order I've got a large array of primitive types (double). How do I sort the elements in descending order?  Unfortunately the Java API doesn't support sorting of primitive types with a Comparator.  The first approach that probably comes to mind is to convert it to a list of objects (boxing):  double[] array = new double[1048576];     Arrays.stream(array).boxed().sorted(Collections.reverseOrder())…   However, boxing each primitive in the array is too slow and causes a lot of GC pressure!  Another approach would be to sort and then reverse:  double[] array = new double[1048576]; ... Arrays.sort(array); // reverse the array for (int i = 0; i &lt; array.length / 2; i++) {      // swap the elements      double temp = array[i];      array[i] = array[array.length - (i + 1)];      array[array.length - (i + 1)] = temp; }   This approach is also slow - particularly if the array is already sorted quite well.  What's a better alternative? Using a Java library with Scala reserved words AES and DES - reusing the same round keys I accidentally removed some files on a NTFS partition  How can I recover them staying inside Linux without rebooting ? Why does arXiv have a multi-day lag between submission and publication? If you go on the  (now, 8th December 2020, 19:24 Italian time), there is for example the article &quot;Exploring the Usage of Online Food Delivery Data for Intra-Urban Job and Housing Mobility Detection and Characterization&quot;. This article is under the heading &quot;8 December&quot;. But if you , it was &quot;Submitted on 4 Dec 2020&quot;. Why there is a lag between submission time and the header under which it appears for recent publications? I guess the arXiv staff have to approve the article before is being published .... is my guessing correct? Over the years I have slowly developed a  that validates MOST email addresses correctly, assuming they don't use an IP address as the server part.  I use it in several PHP programs, and it works most of the time.  However, from time to time I get contacted by someone that is having trouble with a site that uses it, and I end up having to make some adjustment (most recently I realized that I wasn't allowing 4-character TLDs).  What is the best regular expression you have or have seen for validating emails?  I've seen several solutions that use functions that use several shorter expressions, but I'd rather have one long complex expression in a simple function instead of several short expression in a more complex function. Should “two weeks vacation” be written “two weeks’ vacation” with a possessive apostrophe? I’ve always understood that the phrase two weeks usually turns into two weeks’ when used as a modifier as in   I’m giving my two weeks’ notice.  I get two weeks’ vacation. (“two weeks’ holiday” for Brits)   with an apostrophe on the word weeks’, indicating that the vacation “belongs” to the weeks.   One way to explain this is the phrase “two weeks of vacation” being contracted to “two weeks’ vacation” – the vacation is “of” the weeks; that is, it is possessed by them.  But I’ve seen a lot of people omit the apostrophe in casual writing, and thinking about it, it seems plausible that the noun vacation would be plainly modified by the adjectival phrase two weeks.  But on the other hand, shouldn’t adjectival phrases be hypenated, namely two-weeks vacation?  Yet that seems wrong, too: the hyphenate should be singular, two-week vacation (like two-tone shoes) because .   touches on this (and references a good ) but doesn’t explain why the plural must be possessive in this case.   suggests that two weeks might be adverbial rather than adjectival, and thus resists being used attributively. But that still doesn’t quite explain this particular muddle of pluralization, possession, and attribution.  Given all this, why should “two weeks vacation” be written “two weeks’ vacation” with a possessive apostrophe? String manipulation with & or + in VB.NET I'm a bit annoyed with the typesetting of citations that biblatex deems "ambiguous". In the following example, I have two papers with the same first author, but a different second author in two different years. When citing in the main text, the second author is included before "et al", since biblatex deems these references to be ambiguous. However, the references were published in different years, so I cannot see why these are ambiguous. Is it possible to get these citations referenced using only the first author?  MWE  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{filecontents} \usepackage[hyperref,style=authoryear,natbib=true,maxbibnames=10,maxcitenames=2,useeditor=false,url=false,useprefix,giveninits=false]{biblatex} \addbibresource{ref.bib}  \begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib} @book{author_book, title = {Book's title}, author = {Author, Some and Better, Some and Cetter, Some}, location = {The City}, publisher = {Publisher}, date = {2005}, } @book{author_book2, title = {Book's title}, author = {Author, Some and Getter, Some and Cetter, Some}, location = {The City}, publisher = {Publisher}, date = {2006}, } \end{filecontents}  \bibliography{jobname} % \bibliography{ref}  \begin{document} Hello world \citet{author_book} \citet{author_book2} \printbibliography \end{document} In the header of my document I set the maximal author names to 2:  \usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, maxbibnames=9, maxcitenames=2, backend=biber]{biblatex}   Now, when I cite texts with two authors, LaTeX gives me the following:     (Author_A/ Author_B 2012: 232)   When I have three authors or more, LaTeX makes it:     (Author_A/ Author_B et al. 2012: 232)   But I want LaTeX to just name the first author if there are more than two authors ... like this:     (Author_A et al. 2012: 232)   Any tips on how to achieve this ? What is wrong with "Where should this car be parked?"?