Lately I have been listening to a local morning show, the sports analyst for this show, when referring to "Runs Batted In", always says (Rs - B - I) instead of (R - B - Is). I shudder every time I hear this because it just doesn't sound correct. What is the proper way to say this and why?
For example, if I wanted to write the equivalent of  There are many automated teller machines in this city.  Would it be  There are many ATMs in this city.  or  There are many ATM's in this city. (could get confused with possessive form or contraction).  or just  There are many ATM in this city. (assuming the final s is included in Machines represented by M).  Maybe something else?
How can I change the registered name in Windows 7 to my own? how do I change the registered name in Windows 7 to my own name? I have answered 'No' to Siri initial prompt, but I can still see it in my process list. I've tried to kill it, but it loads again immediately. How can I unload and remove Siri from my Mac? The meaning of Bit-wise NOT in Python Typesetting linguistic rewrite rule I'm trying to (more or less) replicate this phonological rewrite rule:    I'm using the package , and what I manage to accomplish is this:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{phonrule} \begin{document}  \phonc     {\phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ +hi}}     {[$\alpha$grv]}     {\oneof{%         \phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ $\alpha$grv}\phold\\         \phold\phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ $\alpha$vce}%     }}  \end{document}     My main problem here is what appears after the "when" slash:  (1) The package only provides a left curly bracket - how can I add a right one as well?  (2) The two options within the curly brackets are not well aligned. I think comparing the two pictures themselves says it better than what I could do with words. Custom cross-reference formats (e.g. "Equation 1" instead of just "1") Energy conservation and interference I have a problem with energy conservation in case of interfering waves.  Imagine two harmonic waves with amplitudes $A$. They both carry energy that is proportional to $A^2$, so the total energy is proportional to $2A^2$. When they interfere, the amplitude raises to $2A$, so energy is now proportional to $4A^2$ and bigger than before.  The equivalent question is what happens to the energy with the superposition of two waves that interfere destructively.  Also, if someone could comment on the statement about this problem in my physics book (Bykow, Butikow, Kondratiew):      The sources of the waves work with increased power during the interference because they feel the wave from the other source. Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04? The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the "Volcanic Islands" cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX graphics cards will be supported out-of-the-box if Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is installed.  However I read that the open source AMDGPU driver has an experimental support for the "Sea Islands" graphics cards (HD7790, R7 260, R9 290, R7 360, R9 390). Is this support enabled by default on Ubuntu 16.04, or will these graphics cards use the Radeon driver?  Thanks What's the simplest way to call Http GET url using Delphi? There's a web services I want to call in my application, I can use it with importing the WSDL or by just use "HTTP GET" with the URL and parameters, so I prefer the later because it's simple thing.  I know I can use indy idhttp.get, to do the job, but this is very simple thing and I don't want to add complex indy code to my application.  UPDATE: sorry if I was not clear, I meant by "not to add complex indy code", that I don't want add indy components for just this simple task, and prefer more lighter way for that. Google Sheets QUERY won't display cell text if other cells have numbers I'm not sure what is happening in my Google Sheet query and could really use some help. I have  that demonstrates and explains the issue.   Basically, I'm using a query to pull data from a Google Spreadsheet that is populated by a Google Form. If the form submits only numbers (100), there is no problem. However, if someone submits a string ($100 or 100 dollars), the query will not display the string. It will only display form submissions that are 100% numbers.   Also, if the 1st submission is a string (not 100% numbers) the query will work.   Here is my query  =query(data!B2:CL,"select B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, CI, BZ, CA, BA  where J = 'Industry Certification'",false)   Any ideas on why this is happening?  Also, I'm aware that I can limit the form to numbers only. I'm trying to avoid that and learn 'why' this is happening. Or operand with int in if statement Uniform convergence with two sequences of functions For, $n\ge 1$ let, $g_n(x)=\sin^2(x+1/n)$ , $x\in [0,\infty)$ and $f_n(x)=\int_0^xg_n(t)\,dt.$  Then, which is(/are) correct ?  (A) $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges pointwise to a function $f$ on $[0,\infty)$ but does not converge uniformly on $[0,\infty)$.  (B) $\{f_n(x)\} $ does not converge pointwise to any function on $[0,\infty)$.  (C) $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges uniformly on $[0,1]$.  (D)  $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges uniformly on $[0,\infty)$.  I found that, $$f_n(x)=\frac{1}{2}\left[x-\frac{1}{2}\sin(x+1/n)+\frac{1}{2}\sin(1/n)\right].$$  So, $f(x)=\lim_{n}f_n(x)=\frac{x}{2}-\frac{1}{4}\sin x$.  Now, $|f_n(x)-f(x)|\le 3/4$. So, by M-test, $f_n(x)$ is not uniformly convergent, but point-wise convergent. So option (A) is correct..Am I right?? When do I use "I" instead of "me?" From some comments in the answers for  (now deleted, 10k only), there's confusion around the usage of I vs. me:  While the sentence, "the other attendees are myself and Steve," is agreed to be incorrect, there's confusion about whether the correct form is "the other attendees are me and Steve" or "the other attendees are Steve and I."  (I've always used the heuristic of removing the other people from the sentence, so I always thought "the other attendee is me" would be correct, instead of "the other attendee is I." Is this true, or am I using a flawed heuristic?) The origin of my question arose from a problem: Let $q: X \to Y$ and $r: Y \to Z$ be covering maps, let $p= r \circ q$. Show that if $r^{-1}(z)$ is finite for each $z \in Z$, then $p$ is a covering map.  I am just wondering is there an easy counter example to show the necessary of "inverse image of every point is finite" condition?  I have already checked Hatcher's book (the wedged circle example) but I wonder is there a less complex and more obvious example?  I tried to construct a counter example by composition of a covering map from $R_+$ to $S^1$ with $R$ in the middle, but I failed due to I can't find a covering map from $R^+$ to $R$ which does the job. nvidia-libopencl1-331 has to be removed before installing WINE What is an alternative to execfile in Python 3? It seems they canceled in Python 3 all the easy way to quickly load a script by removing execfile()   Is there an obvious alternative I'm missing? Why doesn't a block rotate due to friction? How do I apply differential cryptanalysis to a block cipher? I have read a lot of summaries of block ciphers particularly with regards to the NIST competitions stating that reduced-round block ciphers are – for example – vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis.  I have a general idea that the application of differential cryptanalysis is to look at the difference between inputs;  makes that fairly clear. However, I could take any two inputs for any given block cipher and I am pretty certain I'd be staring at random differences.    I am aware this is the idea of a well written block cipher; however, assuming a broken or vulnerable cipher (feel free to provide simple examples) how do I go about choosing differences to try?  Are there any clues in algorithm design that would inform a decision on which values to choose?  How does being vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis impact a cipher in the wild?  If all I have are differences between known plain-texts and known keys as my analysis and a captured ciphertext as my data to exploit, what can I actually deduce? Compare given date with today I'm trying to fill out the skills section on my first character, but when I look at the character sheets in the Starter Set as examples of how to make a character, the skills that are circled have higher modifiers than their Dexterity or Strength or whatever should make them.  I've filled out all skills but those. What do I add to the ability modifier to get those numbers?   My abilities are Strength 13, Dexterity 14, Constitution 11, Intelligence 15, Wisdom 8, and Charisma 8. Proficiencies are Arcana, Athletics, History, Investigation and Stealth. My saving throws are Strength and Dexterity.   I just started D&amp;D and have the Player's Handbook, DM's Guide, Monster Manual, and the Starter Set. I've been reading , and I would like to know why the Lasso provides variable selection and ridge regression doesn't.  Both methods minimize the residual sum of squares and have a constraint on the possible values of the parameters $\beta$. For the Lasso, the constraint is $||\beta||_1 \le t$, whereas for ridge it is $||\beta||_2 \le t$, for some $t$.  I've seen the diamond vs ellipse picture in the book and I have some intuition as for why the Lasso can hit the corners of the constrained region, which implies that one of the coefficients is set to zero. However, my intuition is rather weak, and I'm not convinced. It should be easy to see, but I don't know why this is true.  So I guess I'm looking for a mathematical justification, or an intuitive explanation of why the contours of the residual sum of squares are likely to hit the corners of the  $||\beta||_1$ constrained region (whereas this situation is unlikely if the constraint is $||\beta||_2$).