Linking to the internet

Question: I know nothing about computers.
I'm trying to link to my wireless and it is asking for SSID and BSSID.
What is this and where do I find it.
Answer: The Service set identification (SSID) is just the name of your wireless network. The router needs to give a human-readable name so you can find it, especially in crowded areas like an apartment building.
Your best bet is to check out a video like this one on YouTube, which visually explains how to connect.
Basically, you should be moving your mouse to the upper right of your screen to a little antenna-looking thing, and selecting your WiFi network from the list that drops down when you click the icon. The only thing you may need to type is the password to connect to your wireless network if it's encrypted (it should be, but leave that for another day). Good luck and don't get frustrated. Try YouTube for other related videos. It's often better than just trying to do a web search and reading lots of results. Especially when you are just starting out with Ubuntu.
Answer: SSID is a name identification for wireless networks, as per my example, the SSID for my network is 'TCT-LOCAL'. That one, you have to check your modem for.
If you are asking to find out what the 'WEP' is, that answer is the same: check your modem. You may also want to call your Internet Service Provider.
The rest should be configured more-or-less automatically as long as you have those two, but it's important to note that having wireless on your laptop means you can connect via Wi-Fi, like you would for wiring a regular computer to a modem for internet.

Linking to the internet


How to practice tactics correctly?

Question: When it comes to tactics training what is the best approach to optimize results? I've recently started only doing really hard puzzles, the only immediate change is it obviously take me a lot longer and end up maybe doing around 10-20 per day. Is it quality or quantity that's more important? Also as a side question I keep hearing that playing blindfold chess is bad for you for some reason? Can someone explain why I keep hearing that?
Comment: http://www.apronus.com/chess/trainingtactics.htm might be an interesting source of inspiration. Describes the unique features of the ChessTempo.com website for tactics training.
Answer: I'm assuming your aim in practicing tactics is to improve your game performance.
In that case, I would recommend you treat each problem not as a puzzle, but as a real game situation, because your goal is to be able to spot tactics OTB, without knowing whether or not a tactical shot exists or not.
Thus, you should apply the thinking process you would use in a real game to the puzzle, and just try to play the move you would in a real game.
This means that you would, after a quick evaluation of the initial position, look for (1) Forcing moves, checks/caps/threats, (2) logical, positionally sound options that increase your activity/decrease opponent's activity. Then, you should calculate and evaluate these candidate moves one by one, and determine which one is the best. This is how you would play in a real game, and thus your tactical training should be like this.
If you can't spot the tactic (get the problem wrong), then you know that something is wrong with your thinking process, and you can correct it immediately. For example, if you spotted all the appropriate candidate moves, but, after calculation/evaluation, didn't find a winner, and thus settled for a "positional" move, then you know that there's an issue in your calculation; maybe you didn't remember to find all candidate moves at every move, and thus missed something. Or perhaps you couldn't visualize a long sequence, and now you know you have to get better at this.
This is assuming you know how to improve every aspect of your thinking process. There are many free online resources, particularly youtube, that tell you how to train to improve certain things.
I think that 10-20 difficult puzzles is plenty, as long as you apply your thinking process to each, and remember to diagnose/improve your thinking process at the end of each puzzle. Also, remember that in a real game, you have around 3 minutes per move. In critical situations, you may use more, but try not to use more than x minutes for a move, if you not spend more than x minutes on the position in a game.
Also, playing blindfold chess is not bad. Blindfold chess is one way to improve your visualization skills, which is crucial for calculation.
I am a USCF expert rated player.
Answer:
Use a book on tactics. This will help you recognize tactical patterns and subconsciously organize them into themes. A good book will also provide an appropriate amount of puzzles to each theme. Tactical themes usually occur with each other, and capitalizing on that usually involves a sacrifice, and the variations leading is called a combination. A book that fits nicely with that would be "Chess Tactics for Champions" for Susan Polgar.
Solve puzzles. Other than the puzzles you'd find in a book, solve lots and lots of puzzles. Solving online puzzles is a free and engaging way.
Play blitz. Blitz games are all about tactics and so you get to play a whole game that is based on a tactical and often sacrificial style. And what is good about blitz especially for tactics is that if your sacrifice is not sound, but good enough to catch your opponent off guard and force him to defend correctly, you would usually win on time! Blitz is all about tactics.
Answer: I find that one of the things missing in tactics training is concentrated, thematic study, i.e., you try and solve a few dozen tactical problems with the same theme - Discovered Attack, The Mill, etc. Often there is a theme you might not be that familiar with and it shows when you try and solve tactical puzzles. Even though it might seem to point you in the right direction to solve the puzzle, that's not really the point. The point is to get used to seeing these themes in action so you can quickly recognize them in your games or when solving difficult tactical puzzles in earnest. In this regard, I use Renko's Intensive Course Tactics for thematic solving practice.
So:

Thematic Study to understand all the different tactical nuances
Master tactics problem-solving at 70+ percent success rate

Blitz makes you lazy in calculation, so be careful. You'll "get away" with lots of bad tactics in blitz that you will pay for in real points in real games. You can generally spend 5 minutes on any position in a real game - not so in blitz.
Also, it might be worthwhile to keep a sheet of paper handy and note what "theme" you missed when you get a problem wrong. For example, let's say you failed to see a discovered check - write it down. Be honest. This will identify themes you are weak at.
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How to practice tactics correctly?


My rabbit is making this weird noise. Is something wrong?

Question: My rabbit is making a weird noise. It kind of sounds like wheezing and a mix of a cough with bad phlegm and the crunching sound when rabbits eat pellets. I don't know if this is normal. What should I do? I am very scared for my rabbit.
Here is the link to the audio of my rabbit's breathing: https://clyp.it/oqwgyxnw
Answer: It is difficult to hear your rabbit breathing in the audio recording.  There are a number of issues that can cause breathing noises in rabbits, the most often diagnosed is Pasteurellosis. It is important to take your bunny to a good rabbit vet to get a proper diagnosis.
If the diagnosis is Pasteurellosis you and your vet may or may not decided to treat it.  Rabbit health and digestion is dependent on bacteria in the gut, disruption of these bacteria from antibiotics can lead to difficulties.  In some cases it can be difficult or impossible to completely eliminate the infection. We have an 11 year old rabbit who has been living with us for 9 years, with the snuffles (Pasteurellosis).  Sometimes Harmony wheezes, some times she has coughing/sneezing fits, mostly she is is just fine.
The crunching sound you mention, is not a sign I would relate to the snuffles, so a vet visit is definitely needed for good diagnosis.
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Answer: The crunching sounds when eating could be a sign that his teeth are grinding. Many small animals like rabbits have continuous tooth growth throughout life.
Is he offered a mineral block, salt lick and/or flavored wooden blocks? The salt and fruit flavors attract your bunny to chew them (hopefully instead of plastic litter box, cage wires or water bottle) to keep teeth at a healthy length.
If you take him to the vet to get his upper respiratory checked out, a general physical examination should be done, but just in case ask said vet to check his teeth. Overgrowth can end in mouth sores, the loss of the ability to eat, and vets can manually grind down any extra growth.
Also imagine when YOU have a cold or upper respiratory infection. When you chew your food and can't breathe through a stuffed up nose, you inhale while chewing to breath, thus causing a more noticeable and loader chewing noise. This may sound silly, but is still a possibility.
Either way, sounds like a necessary vet visit as said by previous answer. Hope your bunny gets well soon.


Must all Mormons marry and have children?

Question: Mormonism believes "that God's [first] commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the earth [Gen. 1:28] remains in force". Does this mean all Mormons must marry and have children? Or can some be perpetual virgins? What about infertile or childless marriages?
Comment: Related: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/18500/35930
Answer:
Does this mean all Mormons must marry and have children?

'Must' is a strong word, Mormons believe in agency: the ability and privilege God gives us to choose and to act for ourselves. As with all commandments, Mormons believe we have a choice, however, if we want the blessings, promises, or protection a commandment brings then we should/will make the choice to keep God's commandments.
If a Mormon wants to attain exaltation, the highest glory of the celestial kingdom, then they must marry, be sealed, and live faithfully to their covenant.1
The Family Proclamation restates the command given in Genesis 1:28 for families:

to multiply and replenish the earth

and while there is not a specific blessing attached to this command, we know that God blesses us for keeping the commandments. So if you want the potential blessings yes.2

Or can some be perpetual virgins?

Yes, because Mormons believe in agency, no if they want the same blessings and promises to those who are sealed.

What about infertile or childless marriages?

God knows the intents and desires of our hearts.3 Mosiah 4:24-25 says:

24 And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all you who deny the beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.
25 And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain guiltless, otherwise ye are condemned; and your condemnation is just for ye covet that which ye have not received.

This lets us know that God will judge us based on our desires. So if we have righteous desires but are unable to act on them for some reason we can still attain the blessings.

President Harold B. Lee relied on these scriptures in another example:
"[Women] who have been denied the blessings of wifehood or motherhood in this life—who say in their heart, if I could have done, I would have done, or I would give if I had, but I cannot for I have not—the Lord will bless you as though you had done, and the world to come will compensate for those who desire in their hearts the righteous blessings that they were not able to have because of no fault of their own." (Ye Are the Light of the World, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1974, p. 292.)4

Because in the context of the LDS Church, where the family is celebrated as the fundamental unit of society, childlessness can be an especially difficult challenge. There are many articles to address those facing infertility:

Faith and Infertility By Melissa Merrill
Faith and Infertility An Ensign Online Exclusive
Many more

1 https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/131.1-4
2 D&C 130:20-21, D&C 14:7
3 Hebrews 4:12-13 and https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/god-omniscience-of?lang=eng
4 The Desires of our Heart
Comment: Note that reward most likely is your children and the joy that they will bring.
Comment: Adding to the quote from Harold B. Lee above, I wish to note that many church leaders (current and former) have taught something along the lines of "those blessings which you are not able to attain in this life through no fault of your own, if you are faithful and worthy, will be given to you in the eternities."  It is a common teaching.
Comment: @Geremia Can you ask this in another question, as the answer will go on a tangent from your original question?
Comment: @Geremia can you clarify what you mean by superiority?
Comment: Yes, those who are married (and keep their covenants) attain a greater reward in heaven
Comment: So Mormons believe in the superiority of marriage over virginity?
Comment: By "superiority" I mean "merit a greater reward in heaven".
Comment: @depperm How do Mormons interpret [1 Cor. 7](http://drbo.org/drl/chapter/53007.htm), where virginity is clearly considered superior to marriage? Or [Mt. 19:29](http://drbo.org/x/d?b=drl&bk=47&ch=19&l=29-#x), where Jesus says virginity yields a hundredfold ("every one that hath left…wife, or children…for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.")?
Answer: It is a commandment. Mormons, or members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe that the family is the most important institution under God's plan, they also believe that strong families is the base of a strong society. In the same document you linked we can read:

The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity.

Mormons believe that individuals must keep the commandments to the best of their abilities. This is an individual matter, so others shouldn't judge why someone isn't married or why couples don't have children. There are people with various challenges that limit them to keep these commandments to the fullest such as infertility, other health conditions, sometimes even local law, etc. What is important is that each individual is genuinely doing the best they can. I know couples that couldn't have children no matter how much they tried, they decided to adopt children.
Answer: No one is forced to marry just as no one is forced to attend college — but if you want that college degree (at least one worth getting), you must attend college and get good grades....  Good college degrees, like exaltation, are not simply given away.
The LDS Church believes that the Celestial Kingdom is divided into three divisions.  We know precious little about them, but we are taught that to obtain the highest of these divisions, we must enter into the "new and everlasting covenant of marriage."
(All abridgement and emphasis in the quotations below are mine.)

In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees; and in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]; and if he does not, he cannot obtain it.  He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an increase. (D&C 131:1-4)

The LDS Church believes marriage (a Temple sealing) is a mandatory ordinance for exaltation.

Rule #1: If all you aspire to in this life is a worldly marriage, that is all you will enjoy.  Thereafter you are merely an angel (see D&C 29).  Note that this has no condition of being a member of the LDS church or not.

Therefore, if a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry her not by me nor by my word ... their covenant and marriage are not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world....  Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.  For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation.... (D&C 132:15-17)

Note that phrase, "which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory."  There is no definitive proof, but this suggests that people who are otherwise worthy of the Celestial Kingdom are rewarded one of the two lower divisions of the Celestial Kingdom.  Note, please, the phrase "otherwise worthy."  Even a worldly marriage must be honorable, faithful, etc. to receive either lower division of the Celestial Kingdom.

Rule #2: If you were sealed in the Temple for time and all eternity, but that sealing/marriage failed to be recognized (sealed) by the Holy Spirit of Promise, you're out of the Celestial Kingdom.  The best you can get is the Terrestrial Kingdom.

...If a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise ... then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world ... they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God. (D&C 132:18)

This fits neatly with the Parable of the Faithless Servant found in Luke 12:41-48, which concludes, "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."  Members of the Church are expected to know better.  Having been given the opportunity to receive the highest division, they are held to a higher standard.
It also fits neatly with John's statement in Revelation:

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

The Lord respects a firm yet wrong decision above making no decision at all.  Or, said another way, if you're handed the brass ring and let it tarnish, it's worse than if you'd never been handed the brass ring at all.  It is better to willingly choose a worldly marriage because you know you can't abide by the rules of a celstial sealing than to accept the celestial sealing and then treat it as dross.  (What does this mean?  That's an answer to another question.)

Rule #3: If you are sealed by proper authority and your sealing/marriage is sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise then you are in this one thing worthy of the highest division of the Celestial Kingdom.  You must also be obedient and faithful in all other things (e.g., a perfect husband who's a lazy minister will not receive the glory: but that's yet another answer for another question).

And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them—Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths—then shall it be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he shall commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever.  (D&C 132:19)

It's the beginning of verse 20 that tends to cause a bit of controversy, but it makes the point very clearly.

...Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them.

That's what it means to recieve the highest division of the Celestial Kingdom: to be rewarded with all that the Father hath.

Choosing perpetual virginity is no different than choosing a worldly marriage: in the end, you're single (Rule #1).  Therefore, the choice to be a perpetual virgin will (all other obedience assumed) gain you the first or second division of the Celestial Kingdom.  But if you're not willing to take on the greater responsibility of family, you will not be given the keys to the highest division of that kingdom.

But, what about childless/infertile marriages?
This needs a more lengthy treatment than I'm going to give it here.  Fundamentally, a person is only accountable for a command they can both understand and obey (see 2 Nephi 9:25 and Moroni 8:10 for instance).  Were this not so, a great many people with disabilities that prohibit "normal" (whatever that actually is) observance and obediance would be judged sinners unfairly.
For example, a person who cannot comprehend the covenant of baptism and the accountability it entails is not required to be baptized.  (Regrettably, these instructions are only found in Handbook #1, which is restricted to Church leadership.  However, the basic rules can be found in this Ensign article from 1976.)
Consequently, people who cannot conceive children are not accountable to the law to multiply and replenish the Earth.  Those who can and choose not to, however, are subject to Rule #2.

One more thing...
As with most gospel rules, there are a thousand "but what about this situation?" issues that the Lord has not yet revealed and may never reveal.  In these instances, I tend to trust in the following verse from Moroni:

Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you....


Texting and phone I am texting is asking for my name

Question: I have my neighbor's phone number and he said that I could let him know if I needed any help moving.  When I went to text him, it seemed like his phone required my name or it wouldn't let me text him. First of all, how would his phone do this? And, second, why would I have to give a name?  Is this my iPhone 4 doing this or his phone?
Answer: It sounds like you are just trying to send a regular text.
Here's how to do it:
Open the Messages app, (tap "Messages" in the upper left corner if you are in a thread), tap the compose icon, enter the recipients phone number (I've never had it ask for my name), then type your text.
If you are using the Messages app, it should not ask you for your name.


iTunes isn't installed on both user accounts on PC

Question: How do I change where iTunes is installed to on Windows? For example, on my PC, iTunes shows up on my husband's user name but not mine.
Answer: When you install a software on windows it usually asks "install for this account only or for all accounts". It looks like your husband chose "for my account only". I do not know any option to change this later.
Last week I re-installed a program I had the same problem with. When it asked me, I then chose "for all accounts".
The user settings for the existing installation were not harmed.
Answer: The most simple thing to do is uninstall the iTunes and reinstall it selecting install for all users. Alternatively you can just install it under your username and it will likely realize that it's already been installed and may just allow the required files to be installed for your use.
It's possible though that the iTunes installed in such a way that it's only not visible to you but you can likely still run it. The simplest way to test this would be to go to, default on most computers:
<code>c:\users\[your username]\desktop
</code>
on the admin account and place a shortcut to iTunes on your desktop. On the .exe for iTunes you might have to right click->Properties->Security and give the appropriate permissions to [your username]. If it works then you're done. If it doesn't it might be more tricky than that and it might not ever work without reinstalling.


US Census Data - An orderly means of deducting the area-weighted population of segments of incorporated places from the population of counties?

Question: I'm working in ArcMap 10.1.  Currently examining the segment of states with a geographical hierarchy of

Counties, coextensive with state boundaries
Within counties, unincorporated areas and incorporated places

But incorporated places are in most of these cases not restricted to one county; i.e., a given city can span multiple counties.  Although these are to some extent exceptional -- most cities are entirely contained within one county -- not all are of this type.
I know how to do an intersect, calculate area-weighted populations for the resulting segments of places within counties, etc.  But I'm wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on how to take an orderly approach to deducting, from the county population numbers, the population of incorporated places lying within, either area-weighted (where the place spans more than one county), or entire: the result I'm looking for would be the population of the balance of the county (i.e., the population of unincorporated areas).
By orderly approach, I mean, how should I manage and reshape the data, use database operations, etc.  The process of doing what I'm talking about is pretty straightforward when I'm looking at a small set of features and can analyze them piece-by-piece, but I'm looking at a huge set of features.
It may be worth noting that the attribute tables for the places layers do not have a foreign key field for the counties in which they lie, which, perhaps, was obvious from the fact that they may span multiple counties.
My apologies if I've set this forth in a confusing way.  Thanks in advance for any help you could provide!
EDIT: I ended up taking a different, more straightforward approach to this.  See below ...
Answer: I simply did an intersect of census blocks to the various entities in my layers -- aggregating the population figures 'up' rather than slicing them 'down'.  More accurate -- larger volume of data, though.


Booking a hotel for unusual hours

Question: My flight arrives at Budapest at 1:00, and the next flight leaves at the same day at 23:00.   I need a hotel to leave my luggage and have some sleep during this 22 hours period. But, usual hotels can be booked only from 14:00 to 10:00 the following day. Is there a way to book a hotel without having to book two nights?
Comment: I am wondering how much you want to sleep in this 22 hours. Say at a worst case you get to sleep at 3am and have to check-out by 11, that's surely enough sleep for the day?
Comment: there are lots of hotels where you can check in late, check out not-too-early (11 or 12), and leave your luggage until you fly out.
Comment: So the simple answer is you're looking for "night-time check in" or "24 hour check in".  A few (not many) hotels do offer this.  Very simply, google "Budapest airport hotels" and email the three or four results, asking if you can check in/out at 0200 / 2000.  Good luck!
Comment: It might be worthwhile looking into alternative places to take a shower, such as at the airport or at a swimming pool or similar
Comment: @Berwyn I was hoping to get back to my room at the evening and take a shower before the flight.
Comment: The general answer is simply **NO**. When you have this schedule, it's just bad luck: **you have to book two days**.  BUT it is true that SOME hotels (mainly at airports) understand this need, and have the ability to have unusual check in times.  For example, the (awesome!) hotel right inside the airport at DBX would allow you to do precisely what you are asking.
Comment: I've seen some hotels in my country offering special prices for people who rent only one night, not the whole day
Comment: This doesn't help you, but Emirates has special deals with most of the hotels in Dubai, not just the airport hotel, where you can book rooms in 24-hour increments as part of a DXB layover.
Answer: If you just want to sleep in a bit and go explore, some hotels have later check-out than 10:00; try looking around a bit on booking websites, and you might be able to find 11:00 or 12:00. Others are willing to extend check-out time for a fee; there's no harm in asking, if you find a place where you'd otherwise be happy to stay.
Alternatively, many Airbnb rooms have later or flexible check-out times, especially if there's no guest the following night (be sure to double-check, though, since some have early check-out and are fairly strict about it).
As far as staying in your room through the afternoon (as opposed to later in the morning) without booking a second night, you're probably out of luck, unless you find an abnormally permissive Airbnb host, small B&B, etc. But if you're only in the city for one day, you probably will want to be out in the afternoon, and most hotels will be willing to store your luggage for the day after you check out.
Comment: And instead of finding late check-out, you can also try and find a hotel with early check-in. It may be a bit awkward spending the time between your arrival at 1 am and the time you can checkin somewhere, but it may be easier to find a hotel which allows you to arrive at, say, 11 am so you can sleep from noon until 8 pm, then have a bite to eat and leave for the airport again.
Comment: I did once stay in a rented apartment until 21:00, which the host permitted because nobody had rented it the following night anyway.  This was a private host in Henningsvær, Norway.  Not through airbnb, but it could have been.
Comment: That was not my intention. I tried to suggest ways the OP could sleep for 8-9 hours instead of 7, by extending check-out by at least a couple hours (which is moderately easy), and drew a line between this and staying through the afternoon (which is much more difficult). Upon reading my answer, it was fairly unclear (I'm tired), so I've edited it. Thanks.
Answer: As suggested, AirBNB can be helpful. You can contact several hosts prior to booking their property and explain your special requirements. Based on that you can book accordingly.
There are several other options like sleeping at airport terminal lounges for a few hours and exploring the city while getting a storage locker for your bags. http://www.sleepinginairports.net/ is a good guide for sleeping options in or around any airport.
Also you can book hostels which might be cheaper to book so it may make sense to book two nights if you find a good price and stay in a central area so you save on travel costs while exploring the city.
Comment: The link appears to be broken (on sale)
Comment: Sorry about that, check it again and i hope it helps.
Comment: These are good advices. Especially the hostel option. They are indeed over 50% cheaper than hotels. The website is also very useful.
Answer: This is probably not a hugely useful answer unless the OP miraculously fits the criteria or can status match. However, for completeness -
SPG Your24:

A Starwood Preferred Guest Member who reaches 75 Eligible Nights with
  Starwood Preferred Guest during a calendar year will qualify for the
  Your24™ benefit through the following subsequent calendar year.
As a qualified member, you can request, any check-in time for an
  upcoming stay. Requests must be submitted by 3pm, hotel time, two days
  prior to arrival. If the request is confirmed, your check-out time
  (day of departure) will be same as your confirmed check-in time
Comment: Unfortunately they do not have hotels in Budapest. However, I think it is a great idea and I hope it will be adapted by other hotel networks.
Answer: Assuming your main concern is saving money, simply book two nights at a cheap hotel. While there are hotels out there who wouldn't mind an unusual check-in time, these are more likely to be on the expensive side. Booking a $200 room with 24/7 check-in doesn't save you anything when compared to getting a $50 room for 2 nights.
The reasoning for this is simple: hotels have strictly established check-in/check-out patterns and violating them costs time, effort and headache. Someone has to pay for that extra effort and that is always you, the customer.
Answer: If you arrive at 1:00, you can be at hotel at about 2:00, so you still have about 8 hours until 10:00. Considering some bathroom and preparations, you should still have about 6 hours of sleep, which is, for most of the people, perfectly fine.
As for you luggage, hotels will usually allow you to store your luggage after check-in and take it later. They have no interest in not giving you that option - it costs them almost nothing, and if they refuse, the folks will write some negative opinions, and some people will go somewhere else. From my experience, it's not a problem, but you should ask to be sure.
So, if you don't need to sleep between 10:00 and 22:00, you should be perfectly fine.
Comment: You can often arrange a late checkout at 12:00 or even 14:00, you just need to ask.
Answer: There are some hotels that will allow you to check-in anytime the desk is open. One that I know of is Corvin Center Suites (hotels.com link).
Check in is open from 4PM to 1AM, but if you are arriving after 1AM just inform them in advance:

If you are planning to arrive after 1 AM please contact the property
  at least 48 hours in advance using the information on the booking
  confirmation.  Airport shuttle service is available on request.
  Contact the property in advance to make arrangements. Guests must
  contact this property at least 48 hours prior to arrival to arrange
  check-in. Failure to do so will result in a surcharge. Please contact
  the office using the information on the reservation confirmation
  received after booking.

I was researching them during a trip last year, and remember this to be one of the reason they were shortlisted.
Comment: According to the link, they allow you to check-in anytime, but, the checkout  is still at 11:00 AM...
Answer: As far as I can see the other answers are not Budapest specific.
There are, however, Budapest specific answers but these often do not have English webpages. For example, http://www.lakas-orakra-budapest.hu/buvohelyarak-budapesten.html is specialized in renting out apartments in the center per the hour, they mention these are used as a meeting spaces for couples but also mention transit passengers 13-24 hours costs 16500 HUF, 53 EUR, that's for two people. That's very reasonable for an apartment, I'd say. This place asks half to be wire transferred first when someone uses them on the first occasion. Transferwise is your friend for that.
This one http://buvohely-kispest.com/arlista.html advertises a place in the XIX district which is quite close to the airport actually and says 24 hours is 13 000 HUF.
This one is also quite close to the airport http://buvohelyterkep.hu/budapest_budapest-xviii-kerulet_gloriett-buvohely_buvohelyterkep-299.html says 24 hours is 14 000 HUF. While the building both for this and the previous one is ... ahem ... let's just say more authentic than you ever wanted to see (giant, drab, prefab concrete buildings from the socialist era -- I guarantee you that most tourists never see one of these!) ... the apartments are said to be air conditioned which makes them bearable (otherwise in the summer they become ovens and the central heating in the winter also makes them way too hot -- I grew up in buildings like these). This site is actually a search engine for this kind of apartments.
Google find a lot of these when I enter búvóhely órákra budapest but I have no direct experience with them and considering their primary usage is pretty dodgy I wouldn't be surprised if they would be dodgy too. And there's the language barrier. But, this is what's on offer. I reached out to some primarily airport focused places, hotels and guest houses (panzió) both and they refuse to budge on fixed check in and out time so I really doubt there's anything else but apartments either via one of these "hidey hole for a few hours" websites or airbnb.
Answer: I have hosted on couchsurfing for purposes like this.
Sometimes people arrived very early in the mornings and just needed a place to get a nap during the day.
So try couchsurfing.org, if you don't mind the possible lack of privacy!
Answer: In Asia I use Red Planet. Tune,Red Dragon. For this. You put it in special request before you book on line. You get a yes or no back. Before you book. Days inn will do this also. So check mid range hotels. Many will do this. Many cheap hotels will also do this but you might loose luggage at them. I think I am on Redplanets friend list in Asia so they cut me some slack.

Booking a hotel for unusual hours


Cannot access account

Question: I have a Yahoo email account.  I know my password.  I know all the answers to my all my secret questions.
When I try to login, Yahoo demands that I verify access through an alternate email account.  I no longer have access to that alternate email account.  I mistakenly thought simply having just a Yahoo account was a good idea and I stopped using that other account.  I was obviously wrong.
So I go to Yahoo's help system.  I click on 'Don't have access to alternate email'.
Here are the options that Yahoo then presents:

What is an alternate email address?
Why was I notified about account access attempts?
Difference between alternate email address and extra email address
Can't edit my personal information

Those options don't have anything to do with not having access to the alternate email account.
So despite knowing my password and the answers to all my secret questions, I am locked out of my own email account.
What do I do now?  How do I get back into my account?
I never gave Yahoo a phone number, phone number approach won't work either.
Answer: You can release your account without your alternate Email account
Go to yahoo mail login page
Click the link I can't access my account
Choose the option my account have been compromised and proceed next

Enter you yahoo mail id
Click next to receive new password to your mobile number
Hope this helps!

Cannot access account


Is Apache commons an active project? Is there a public roadmap?

Question: Does anybody know if Apache Commons is under active development?  It seems to me like it requires a serious refresh.  I cannot find any roadmap referencing a newer version.
Answer: Yes they are, take a look at this roadmap from commons-lang:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
Answer: Apache Commons per se is not a single project, but a collection of various small projects which perform some isolated functionality, see http://commons.apache.org/ for the current list and the official description of the project.
Many of these projects are active, e.g. commons-lang, commons-io, commons-exec, commons-mail.
Additionally there are some projects which are listed under "sandbox", these are projects that are not mature enough yet and there is a list of "dormant" projects, which are not actively developed any more.
So in fact the actual answer depends on the actual project under apache-commons which you are looking at. Most of these projects handle feature requests/discussions on JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/jira/) and might have some release-plan being posted there, however you will probably get the most authorative answer by posting to the mailing lists that each of these projects maintains.


Overriding the sort order of the built-in search

Question: Using MOSS 2007. Is it possible to change sort order for the Search Center to be based on a field other than "modified date" or "relevance"? I'd like to sort by Created (descending). Doing this programmatically IS an option. Would someone tell me how/if I can accomplish this?
Answer: No, this is not possible OOTB. You can write your own custom code using SharePoint search APIs in which you can use any of the managed property for ordering the results.
Answer: You can customize the XSLT that is used by sharepoint search to achieve sorting column. for help u might want to go through this link...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cZ-Ww9jbDNQJ:social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/sharepointserverknowledgenetwork/thread/90845216-da59-494d-9c3c-9af5d529803d&hl=en&gl=in&prmd=imvns&strip=1


Advisor drops incoming student four weeks before Master's program starts

Question: This is not my directly personal situation, but that of a family member who is to start a Master's program (natural science), in Canada. You are, as a rule of thumb, admitted with your advisors specified on the offer of admission.
Their primary advisor (with whom I happen to have professional ties) has abruptly resigned from the university to take an administrative position elsewhere. For them, it is a great career move. However, this advisor is contractually unable to start new projects in January, so they have dropped the family member as a student. The secondary advisor appears to have done the same because they lack expertise in half of the project area. The primary advisor further says that the project is cancelled; the project was in collaboration with a government body which would have provided funding.
From what I've gathered so far, it might be possible to get the collaboration going if another prof would be supervising but it looks like a Hail Mary option. The department that Master's was to be done in is very small and the profs have fairly different areas of expertise. Going with a different advisor and project would mean (a) finding funding in three weeks (b) a radical shift in research area and (c) finding a prof who can take on an extra student.
This opportunity arose slightly in part from my ties to the original primary advisor. I would be able to advise my family member during the Master's based on my expertise in the field (this is the field of expertise that the original secondary adviser lacks, whereas I have a Ph.D. in the broad topic) but a formal supervision, aside from my not having any formal link to the university, is completely out of the question! So, if a prof could be found that would be comfortable with such an arrangement where I informally assist my family member with the parts that the adviser (original secondary or otherwise) is shaky on, that could be an option. And precisely for this reason everything seems like a Hail Mary!
As it stands so right now, my family member is being completely screwed over by the original primary advisor out of the money and an education. I have in addition advised my family member to go see the university's ombudsman to see what they think or advise. Otherwise, I myself am out of ideas, because the options I can think of so far are long-shot Hail Marys.
What else can be done here?
Answer: Thats too bad but not absolutely surprising given the instability of academia. I would say to advise him to take a temp job for a year and then reapply--for next year he should not have trouble. Can he work as an intern somewhere, etc.? This wasn't his fault so the situation shouldn't hinder his employment opportunities elsewhere.


CD/ DVD/ Blu-Ray Device Undectable

Question: I can't get my fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 to recognize that I've got a drive for CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays...
Here's the output of a couple of commonly-requested terminal commands in other forum posts I've read on the topic:
<code>$ ls -l /dev/{cd,dvd}\*
ls: cannot access /dev/cd*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /dev/dvd*: No such file or directory

$ sudo lshw -c disk
  *-disk:0
       description: ATA Disk
       product: ST9250421ASG
       vendor: Seagate
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: DE12
       serial: 5TH00M12
       size: 232GiB (250GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00099b7e
  *-disk:1
       description: ATA Disk
       product: ST9250421ASG
       vendor: Seagate
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sdb
       version: DE12
       serial: 5TH00HHY
       size: 232GiB (250GB)
       configuration: ansiversion=5

$ sudo lshw -c drive
</code>
Additionally, here's my fstab file:
<code>\# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
\#
\# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
\# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
\# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
\#
\# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
\# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=3112a024-7483-447b-9069-c6d0b5ed23d4 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
\# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5742166e-368f-4374-b188-a1ce61faadaa none            swap    sw              0       0
</code>
Sorry, I really don't know much about the Linux auto-detect/ mount process.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Answer: Ah, apparently Ubuntu doesn't detect the type of connection I have by default...after installing all updates to the OS, it autodetects and mounts appropriately.
My bad.

CD/ DVD/ Blu-Ray Device Undectable


Prevent "nofollow" from Being Inserted into BBPress Posts

Question: How can I prevent "nofollow" from being added to my internal links on bbPress posts? (I have the latest version of bbPress and WordPress)
The "nofollow" attribute is being added to my internal links on my website (DCJTech.info). However, this issue only occurs on bbPress posts, but not WordPress pages. Here is an example of the problem (bbPress post) – http://dcjtech.info/topic/general-unixoid-topics/
I have tried commenting out the below lines from ./includes/core/filters.php, but without success. I also cleared the cache (server and browser) and waited a minute before checking the page's source code.
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'bbp_rel_nofollow',   50   );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_content', 'bbp_rel_nofollow',   50   );
I used 'grep -r -e "follow" ./plugins' to find all code that may be inserting "nofollow", and I also searched my theme and mu-plugins. In addition, I searched my SQL database (via phpMyAdmin) for "follow". I did not find any plugin, setting, etc. that could be causing this problem. There were no "nofollow" attributes in the posts either. I also searched my plugins for "bbp_rel_nofollow".
I disabled "External Links" and commented out the previously mentioned bbPress code (and cleared the cache), but the "nofollow" attribute was still on my internal links.
I thoroughly checked the WordPress codex website, forums (like https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/turning-no-follow-links-to-do-follow/ ), etc., but I cannot find a solution or cause.
Answer: As a temporary (but poor fix) the below code can be added to "functions.php".
//Remove nofollow
function rm_nofollow($txt){
    $txt=str_replace(' rel="nofollow"','',$txt);
    return $txt;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_content','rm_nofollow',20);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_content','rm_nofollow',20);


What support does the Play Framework have for the synchronization of client/server state?

Question: Play Framework looks very interesting but it encourages minimal state on the server side. My question is how can I synchronize client state with server state easily? What if I want to have server state such as in the development of a chat application, how easy or difficult is it to keep server state and synchronize client and server state?
Answer: For standard web applications, state is held in either the cookie, in the database, or in a cache (remembering that cache is unreliable and must be accessible from the DB if the cache does not contain the data you want). Nothing is therefore held in state in server side sessions.
However, there is a slight nuance here as far as what is defined as stateless for a Play application for a chat type application. If you look at the chat application in the early versions of the Play (before Websocket support), you would have found all 'Message' objects which are individual lines in a chat, stored in the database. However, in the most recent version, which includes WebSocket support, you will find that the state of the chat is stored in a Singleton object, which will last for the enter length of the chat.
The argument from the Play devs is that a Websocket communication, therefore a full chat can be thought of as a single request, over many back and forth communications. Therefore, by keeping the state held in a singleton on the serverside does not break the rules of a stateless architecture. The reason why this is true, is because once a websocket communication is set up, the conversation along the socket will always be between the client and the single server, until the websocket is closed.
Answer: Play is a stateless framework, meaning there is no server session and no server state. Ideally all state information get retrieved from your back end database (either SQL or NoSQL) upon each request. However you could also use cache mechanism to speed up if some data will not changed in a certain amount of time. Usually Cached object is keyed with a special string plus the session id. Keep in mind that session here is not the session in Java EE world, it's purely a string deserialized from the client side cookie.
Answer: Play includes a sample chat application which is a good starting point.


Why does cycling use a measure of time ("century") as a measure of distance?

Question: Wikipedia only attempts to explain the origin of the riding distance event but not why the term was used and why it "stuck".
Comment: It's also used for 100 runs in cricket, which is a noteworthy achievement, like 100 miles on a bike.
Comment: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's a misunderstanding about an English word and only tangentially about cycling
Comment: Used in Snooker, too ("century break" = at least 100 points in a single break).
Comment: For some people, it's both a distance and the time taken for it!
Comment: In the antipodes we might refer to a "tun" or a "tonne" as 100 km/h, or $100.   Neither is related to weight.  Example "I was draughting a truck and did the ton down the Raumati Straights" or "round the final cost up to the tonne and I'll call it even"   English makes no sense sometimes.
Answer: A distance of 100 miles (161 km) is often referred to as a century. Century is also a common designation for 100 years, but that is not its exclusive meaning. The English word derives directly from Latin centuria, a group of 100 [etymonline]. This is a form of centum (or CENTVM if you will) which simply means (one)hundred.
A ride of 100 miles is thus aptly named a century ride, without having to resort to metaphors or figurative meaning.
Chris H mentioned another instance where century is used to count something other than years: In the sport of cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batsman [wikipedia].
Comment: Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been [moved to chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/50573/discussion-on-answer-by-gschenk-why-does-cycling-use-a-measure-of-time-century).
Answer: If I read Google correctly, it isn't that a century necessarily means 100-years and a bike event borrowed from that. Instead, they are peers of one another.
The Latin root, centum or centuria simply means 100. In a more generic sense, it can simply refer to any collection of 100 definition.
Thus, a century in time is a collection of a common unit of time (year) and a century in biking is a collection commonly used units of distance (miles) or (km) for a metric century. The are both likely derived from the same Latin, not the later from the former.
Comment: To add to this, a *centi*meter is 1/100th of a meter.


How do I completely unpublish a node (not just change revision state) when using Workbench Moderation with rules?

Question: I am attempting to use rules scheduler to automatically 'archive' content after a set period. Essentially, I want the content to disappear for everyone except administrators. Ordinarily, I would just use the standard 'unpublish node' action, but I have installed workbench moderation and this does not unpublish the node. If I attempt to simply change the revision state to Draft, the state changes but the node is not unpublished. Is there any way I can unpublish the node programatically? Should I look at some kind of access control module instead?
Answer: Well, I suppose it's a bit late, but this issue is discussed in and should be mostly solved by https://drupal.org/node/1436260 once the issue is fixed. You should be able to unpublish the node, and as long as the code calls node_save, workbench moderation should set the state back to draft. If you want a different state, e.g. "archived", you'll probably have to come up with something custom.


Does filing a duplicate provisional within the 12 months of filing the original negate my original filing date?

Question: I filed a provisional patent app about a year ago.  Seven months later I refiled the exact same provisional.  Does the second filing delete or get rid of my original filing date?  Do I now only have the second filing to rely on as a priority date? Or is the original first provisional priority date still valid?
Answer: The second provisional filing does not affect the validity of the first one at all. You could freely claim priority to just the first one if you wanted.
In addition, in the US, you could validly file a non-provisional application based on the second provisional only, at any point within 12 months of the second provisional's filing date if you wanted. The key risk though is that there is some disclosure between the two provisionals.
However, for non-US Conventional applications, assuming you filed the second provisional before the first was abandoned, the 12 month Convention deadline still runs from the first provisional, even if you only claim priority to the second. That is, it would be an invalid priority claim if you only claimed priority to the second provisional 12 months after its filing date (since that's outside the 12 months of the first provisional).
Could you abandon the first provisional subsequently to use the second provisional for international priority?
No. The Paris Convention art 4(C)(4) expressly provides that a second filed application can only be used for priority if:

at the time of filing the subsequent application, the said previous application has been withdrawn, abandoned, or refused, without having been laid open to public inspection and without leaving any rights outstanding, and if it has not yet served as a basis for claiming a right of priority.

Thus, once the second one has been filed, there is nothing you can do to recover it.
Comment: What's the mechanism behind the still running deadline from the first prov.? If it was abandoned after the second filing it would still prevent the second one from being a valid priority document?
Comment: @DonQuiKong I have added this to the answer: hopefully it makes it clear.
Comment: @Maca - It would not be a valid priority document for Paris purposes but it would be a valid priority for a U.S. non-provisional, correct?
Comment: @GeorgeWhite Absolutely. I had thought I mentioned that, but clearly the words got lost between me and the keyboard. Now fixed.


If the nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere were doubled would the pressure double?

Question: As to P=ρgh, would the height of the atmosphere be affected by an increase in nitrogen and oxygen mass or would the height remain constant?  Thanks!
Comment: This question is ambiguous. As per my answer below, the equation quoted has nothing to do to answer the question. Please provide a clearer statement of the problem that you truly want to be addressed. Define the system. Describe the information that you already have about it. State what answers you think apply and explain what answers still cause you confusion.
Comment: There are slightly different questions in the title and the body of the question.

To a first approximation we can say that air is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, so effectively you're asking "if I double the amount of air, what will happen to the depth and pressure of the atmosphere?". People have effectively answered this below.
Comment: @SemidiurnalSimon ... Duly noted. The ambiguity would be lifted by deciding whether the question is about pressure change (as per the title) or about height change (as per the contents).
Comment: True, but those things are closely linked...
Comment: The phrase "closely linked" is itself ambiguous.
Comment: I'm rather new to this site and would like to improve.  If my question is at fault should I modify it, provide a clarification, or abandon it entirely?
Answer: The surface pressure is just the weight of the atmosphere per unit area, so yes.
The density decreases with altitude so there is no well defined "top" to it. Assuming constant temperature (Isothermal-barotropic approximation) the density decreases exponentially with altitude.

If it were doubled there would the same portion of mass above any given altitude (but more mass above any given altitude).
Comment: @Spencer Half of the atmosphere is below $5.5$ km. That is less than $1/1000$ of the Earth's radius, so the difference in weight is very small.
Comment: If a molecule is higher up, the weight is less, so I wonder what the calculations are. And I suspect that's what the OP was asking.
Comment: @Spencer: I would encourage the OP to clarify what is really being asked.
Answer: The starting question is phrased as such ...
As to $P=\rho gh$, would the height of the atmosphere be affected by an increase in nitrogen and oxygen mass or would the height remain constant? Thanks!

Density is mass per volume.
You can only add mass to a system in one of two ways. One way is to keep density constant. In this case, volume must increase. Since volume is area times height, either area or height must increase. On the earth, the air on the surface cannot expand itself laterally. Area is constant. Therefore, we learn
—> ANSWER 1: As mass is added to air on the earth under the condition of constant density, the height of the air above the earth will increase.
Another way to add mass is to allow density to change. The intuitive first response is that, when we add mass, we expect density will increase. At the limit, this is the same as keeping volume constant. For this case, we learn
—> ANSWER 2: As mass is added to the air on the earth under the condition where density increases, the limiting case is one where the height of the air above the earth will not change.
Finally, we could argue that we want to allow volume to expand somewhat as mass is added. The result is an answer between the two above.
Note that air is compressible. Its density will change as a function of pressure and temperature. By the ideal gas law, $\rho = M n / V = M p / R T$ where molar mass, moles, volume, pressure, gas law constant, and temperature are used. The overall effect is that density is not a constant for the system of air above the earth.
Any other answer requires that we have clearer specifications of the system. We correspondingly learn, either the equation quoted is of no consequence to the question or the question is not phrased properly in respect to the equation quoted.
Comment: I added a comment that air is compressible.
Comment: To better understand this relationship I think I should study scale height for planetary atmospheres.  Thank you.
Comment: To better understand the relationship I would hope that you would first define the problem statement better. As it is, the question is rather vague and fraught with puzzles. Hence my answer with caveats noted.


Batter stepping over first base

Question: With no runners on bases, the batter hits a ball to the short-stop. The batter steps over first base without making contact with it. The first baseman drops the ball and never had possession.  Knowing that the runner didn't touch first base, before the runner returns to the first base the first baseman picks up the ball and touches the base.  What's the call?
Answer: Until either the runner crosses first base, or a force out or tag has been applied, the umpire will not make a safe or out call.
Given this scenario, the umpire will not make a call either when the runner oversteps the base, or when the ball is dropped by the first baseman.  As you state, the next action is the tagging of the base by the first baseman with the ball, and so this would result in an out.
The same can be seen in close plays at the plate.  Often home plate is overslid or missed, and a tag is also missed.  The umpire will watch intently until either the runner is tagged, or home plate is touched.
Answer: This is best covered by MLB rule 5.09(c)(2)

5.09(c) Appeal plays
Any runner shall be called out, on appeal, when:
(2) With the ball in play, while advancing or returning to a base, he
fails to touch each base in order before he, or a missed base, is
tagged;

The ball is still in play, the runner has failed to touch first and has not yet returned to the base, and the fielder tags the missed base.  The runner is out.
Comment: This rule does not address the OP's scenario.
Comment: This is not an appeal play necessarily- if the ball is still in play and the runner has not advanced to second. If the runner just overran the bag it's just a normal putout.

Batter stepping over first base


If an email bounces back from one recipient have the others received it?

Question: When sending an email to multiple people if an email bounces back from one recipient have the others received it?
Thanks
Answer: That is the normal behavior of any MTA I've worked with. Just because an email bonces to one of the recipients, doesn't mean it bounced to all of them, you'll get an NDR for each recipient that it bounces for, or one with all recipients that the MTA could not send to.
If you are seeing that your message is not being delivered to all recipients you probably have something else going on.
What MTA are you using?
Comment: @Mark: Correct, !bounced != delivered
Comment: Thanks, I only got one bounce so I must have the wrong address, I'm using Exchange.
Answer: The short answer: Probably - This is how most mail transport agents handle it.
The long answer: "There is no guarantee on delivery of email, it is a best effort service. Some sites best effort will include sending Lassie herself to bring the email to the users, other sites will throw it in a pile and forget they ever received it".
(This is like my favorite question: "Did you get the last email I sent you?", to which I always reply "I don't know what the last email you sent was, however the last email I received said xxxxx" :-)
Answer: Yes, though if you have many recipients and a high bounce rate, you will look spammy.


Why is a grand piano better than an upright piano?

Question: A Grand piano is considered better than an upright piano. Aesthetically I could understand why, but why does the orientation of the strings matter so much sound-wise?
Comment: I just came back from a Hiromi Uehara, Anthony Jackson, Simon Philips gig :) You should catch them somewhere for the difference heheh.
Comment: Here's a good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD1QxoxabMQ
Comment: I have a good German Upright schimmel C126 which sounds much better than many descent Chinese or Indonesian grand pianos of any size....
Ultimately sound should satisfy you and also action to create good music and dynamics.
Although upright has some limitations but bad grand piano is not comparable with good upright
Answer: It's all about the size, and therefore the length of the strings and the size of the vibrating surface of the wooden soundboard.
Even a baby grand at ~5 feet is longer than a typical upright is tall. A concert grand at 7-10 feet is much, much longer.
I can't do any better than what Wikipedia says, so I'm going to quote wholesale:

All else being equal, longer pianos with longer strings have larger, richer sound and lower inharmonicity of the strings. Inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (known as partials or harmonics) sound sharp relative to whole multiples of the fundamental frequency. This results from the piano's considerable string stiffness; as a struck string decays its harmonics vibrate, not from their termination, but from a point very slightly toward the center (or more flexible part) of the string. The higher the partial, the further sharp it runs. Pianos with shorter and thicker string (i.e. small pianos with short string scales) have more inharmonicity. The greater the inharmonicity, the more the ear perceives it as harshness of tone.
Inharmonicity requires that octaves be stretched, or tuned to a lower octave's corresponding sharp overtone rather than to a theoretically correct octave. If octaves are not stretched, single octaves sound in tune, but double—and notably triple—octaves are unacceptably narrow. Stretching a small piano's octaves to match its inherent inharmonicity level creates an imbalance among all the instrument's intervallic relationships, not just its octaves. In a concert grand, however, the octave "stretch" retains harmonic balance, even when aligning treble notes to a harmonic produced from three octaves below. This lets close and widespread octaves sound pure, and produces virtually beatless perfect fifths. This gives the concert grand a brilliant, singing and sustaining tone quality—one of the principal reasons that full-size grands are used in the concert hall. Smaller grands satisfy the space and cost needs of domestic use.

Really tall uprights do exist, but they're not very common. They are sometimes referred to as upright grands.
Of course, whether inharmonicity is good or bad is purely subjective. That classic "pub piano" sound, fits perfectly with some kinds of music. It's the sound of an upright, and probably couldn't be replicated on a concert grand.
Comment: I don't have figures to hand but I'm sure that the shorter baby grands have shorter strings than a standard upright. A decent upright such as a Yamaha U3 will definitely sound better, by most definitions, than a grand piano of similar price and condition. I inherited a Challen baby grand and it looks lovely, but the sound really isn't anything special.
Comment: A condensed way to explain the harmonicity of a grand is that it can actually be "more" in tune than an upright due to string length and this is the primary reason the sound is better, craftsmanship, materials, etc. notwithstanding.
Answer: The action makes a grand better.
In a grand, gravity helps the key return so you can play faster stuff.
In an upright, the action goes sideways and has to be helped out by, umm, don't quote me on this, springs I think?
And the sound, too.
The sound is more of a subjective thing.  But in almost all cases, a long enough grand will sound better due to the wonderful bass sound.  Also they open more directly to the room so the string/soundboard sound gets to you more directly (plus the room reflections).
Uprights have to bounce the string/soundboard sound out the back against the dang painted drywall (your wall).
Also the pedals.
Grand pianos have a middle pedal called a Sostenuto pedal, which captures keys which are depressed and lets them ring while keys played after the pedal can play without being held on.  Uprights on the other hand have a middle pedal that serves as a "practice pedal" which essentially mutes the whole instrument.  Usually this middle pedal is missing or non-functional on an upright.
Comment: Actually gravity is too slow to come into play. The hammers are very quickly kicked back by the string when the strike impulse (wave) is returning in inverted form after having "bounced" at the closest solid end node. This has been proven with high speed cameras. However grand pianos have more sophisticated keyboard mechanics than uprights, with a special feature that enables quick repeated hits without returning the key all the way up before accepting the next hit and thus can be played "faster" in passages with repeated notes.
Comment: Soft pedal is called the una corda pedal.  There are 1-3 strings per pitch on the piano.  1 for the lowest bass strings, 2 for mids, and 3 for trebles.  The una corda pedal works by shifting the entire action to the right, making the hammers hit fewer strings or in the case of the bass strings, make glancing blows.
Comment: You beat me to it by 6 secs ! ecline6 . It doesn't mute, per se, it just softens the blow.
Comment: tohecz, can you elaborate more on your comment,please: the strings are not attached to the hammers ?
Comment: There're no strings attached to the hammers in a reasonable-quality upright, because strings would get worn. There's a much more complicated mechanism that uses the energy you give to the key to move the hammer away. Therefore the upright is less sensitive to the hit energy.
Comment: @Tim: I think what he's saying is that when a fast-moving hammer strikes the strings that will produce a note, it doesn't stop and then fall down, but will  "bounce" downward off the string.  If a key mechanism were to simply push the hammer to within e.g. 1/8" of the string and let it fly the rest of the way, but didn't get out of the way for the rebound, the hammer could bounce off the string, then off the key mechanism, then off the string again, then the key mechanism, etc.
Comment: +1 for mentioning the action.  For playing pieces with quickly repeated notes (such as Rhapsody in Blue), the slight sluggishness of an upright's action compared to a grand's can make a profound difference.
Answer: Adding to the above, this is the reason why upright pianos went from having strings vertical to being overstrung. This means the strings ,particularly the lower ones, are diagonal across the soundboard.It makes them longer, with the above advantages, but still not as long as those in a grand. 36" on the bottom string of one of my uprights, compared with 42" on my baby grand.
Comment: Overstringing also helps prevent the piano from literally collapsing in on itself.  : )
Comment: I doubt any uprights were ever made without overstringing, and certainly no grands have been made without it for probably more than 150 years.  The difference lies in the angle.
Comment: On further research, it seems that there were some manufacturers producing straight-strung pianos in Europe, but not in the US.  In any event, overstringing was an established practice in the production of grands from the middle of the 19th century.
Answer: I used to think that a baby grand piano was superior to an upright piano but this is definitely not the case.  The reason most people think this is the poor quality of most upright pianos.
A 1930s Blüthner upright piano sounds nearly as good as a Blüthner 7ft grand piano, with a fantasatically sonorant bass.  A Blüthner baby grand of the same era definitely sounds somewhat "dead" in the bass, indeed has somewhat of a toy like sound compared to a proper piano with long strings.
Comment: well said. And of course the fact that most accomplished pianists play mostly grand pianos, thus the sound coming out of even the best upright is negatively impacted by the indferior skill of the player. Add inferior maintenance (an upright in a smoky bar is likely to not get the attention from techs that does the grand in a concert hall) and ditto acoustics of their typical environment, and the picture is complete.
Comment: It's not just the sound - it's the action as well, and a grand will usually be far better, as it uses a completely different one.
Answer: Comparing same build quality uprights and grands, the answer is mainly the string length and soundboard area are larger on a decent grand. Uprights are limited to a maximum height (these days) of around 132cm but grands are available up to 280cm and even bigger. The longest bass strings must fit into this size, and longer is better (less inharmonicity caused by thickness being a substantial fraction of length in the small uprights), so the sound is purer. Larger soundboard means better matching to the string, so the decay time is longer on a good grand. The una corda pedal on a grand (when properly adjusted) is usually much more effective than the half-blow pedal on an upright.
Other improvements like the repetition levers in a good grand piano action, and longer key length possible in a big grand (impossible in an upright as it would then not fit through a normal door) also allow more precise playing by a virtuoso, but are lesser issues than string length and soundboard area. Hardly anyone seriously uses the middle sostenuto pedal, so that also is not a big issue.
If we are not comparing same quality, it is perfectly possible for a good upright to be better than a poor grand. The Yamaha U3 (older model) or SU132 (newer model) is a good example of an excellent design that will see off many small and ill-designed grands. If you are just starting out and can't afford at least a Yamaha C3 grand, a Yamaha U3 or SU132 is a good choice.
Answer: Sound quality of a piano strongly depends on the instrument's size and strings alignment. Longer strings give out better (richer) sound due to lower inharmonicity. One major factor that makes grand pianos sound better is gravity. Because of the horizontal alignment of the strings, most parts of the instrument would have to move up and down. Eventually brought to rest by gravity. However, in the upright piano the string action is verticall and requires springs, and over time they tend to acquire imperfections.
For same reasons, the upright has some limit in the speed and control, as the note can be repeated only after key comes back to the top. In the horizontal piano, the same key can be repeated after about 1/3 of the key's way to the top.
This is as simple as it can be put without getting too technical. If you are very interested in seeing all of the machinations of these wonderful inventions, I would suggest observing the transparent piano in action and see all the intricate components working together that go into creating the sound.
Answer: As with all things....it depends.  A high-quality professional upright made by one of the top companies is an excellent piano indeed.  I have played on some truly wonderful upright pianos. Schimmel makes uprights that have a touch and sound that will rival many very good grand pianos, and does Sauter. In a home setting, an upright piano can have just the right amount of volume and tone.
Answer: Grand pianos sound much better because they are better. :-)
Just kidding. Grand pianos are constructed a bit differently as has been noted, but the biggest thing is the sound is project up and out from the instrument and not towards the user with a lot of wood in one's face. An upright piano also has its action in front of the strings unlike a grand with the action underneath and striking the strings from behind. This also affects the sound, making an upright sound much different.
On an upright piano, the pedals work differently. The upright's una chorda pedal works by placing the hammers closer to the strings to make the piano play softer. This is a totally different mechanism where the hammers are moved over and strike two strings, rarely one string, on a grand piano. The tres chorda pedal on both works in a similar fashion with the string dampers are lifted off the strings to allow the strings to vibrate. The sostenuto pedal is a rare beast on an upright. They do exist but only on the really expensive ones. Many uprights that do have a middle pedal, are fitted with a practice pedal which puts a thin sheet of felt between the hammers and the strings. This creates a muted sound so the piano isn't as loud and intrusive, and allows for much later evening practice.
Overstringing does not increase the length of the strings. What does is create harmonics in the open part of the strings. Up until the early 20th century, even grand pianos were straight strung, with a mix of both straight strung and overstrung instruments around. Erard was still making straight strung concert grand pianos right up until the 1920s.
Here's a place that's worth visiting should you be able to. This is a collection of antique pianos that can be played on and heard. I have play on all these pianos listed on this website.
http://www.frederickcollection.org/collection.html
The main site is http://frederickcollection.org/
Comment: I think "they are better" is a valid point though - a lot mork work and attention to detail goes into a grand piano which is reflected in the cost.
Comment: Of course overstringing increases the length of the strings! How can it not?
Answer: Just to chime in with one more advantage of grands over uprights: they hold tune better.  The floors of concert halls or living rooms might seem really solid, but they're actually carrying vibrations pretty frequently - vibrations from footsteps, passing trucks, etc.
Picture a vibration propagating across the floor.  When it meets an upright piano, that piano's case is resting on four points on the floor.  As the vibration reaches the piano, one of those points is going to start moving before the others, which means the case will flex microscopically.  And that flex transfers to the sound board, the pin block, the harp - you're basically shaking the strings slightly, and they might slip a bit.
Contrast that with a grand, which rests on the floor on just three points.  When the vibration reaches the piano, the piano tilts a bit - but it doesn't flex.  Three points of contact allow it to float along with the vibrations.  Less shaking of the strings, less slipping of the pins, and better tune overall.
Comment: That's fascinating! Can you ad a reference? Something that establishes that the effect is more than hypothetical?


How to limit Google Scholar to peer-reviewed papers?

Question: Google Scholar is great to get a quick overview of scientific publications. However, it also gives you textbooks, theses and so forth. I would like to limit its results to include only peer-reviewed (conference) papers. Do you know of a way to do so?
Comment: big problem with google scholar is that the results only have to look scientific, but they don't actually have to have any scientific value in them. if you are aware of that it's still a great source for scientific papers.
Comment: @WalterMaier-Murdnelch: Yes, but if you limit the results to peer-reviews and the conference where it was published has a good reputation, you have cut out most of the stuff you don't want.
Comment: Conference papers are not peer-reviewed; you want journal articles instead
Answer: There is no direct means to only show peer-reviewed work; as Google Scholar also posts legal summaries, and other major journal articles from the Online WorldCat.  However, there are means by which you can help narrow down your results, to show what you are looking for (within reason).
See this PDF:
Using Google Scholar to Find Peer-Reviewed Articles
Answer: For peer-reviewed articles, you should use the subscription databases of you college library or public library. Most of these databases can filter peer-reviewed articles from your search results.


What kind of arthropod/animal is this?

Question:
Can anyone identify this strange creature? I live in a very urban part of Montreal, Canada. It wasn't moving (seemed dead) and although the image is huge, it wasn't as big as it seems (a couple of centimeters).
Answer: It's a type of centipede.
Based on the long legs, I would bet on something like that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Or at least a Scutigeromorpha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigeromorpha#Scutigeromorpha
Answer: I live in Japan and here they are called "gejigeji". As mentioned, they are a member of the centipede family and are as creepy as hell. I live in a newly-built house, so thankfully there are no cockroaches, but every now and again one of these little blighters will scurry across my floor in my peripheral vision and scare the bejesus out of me.
They are not dangerous (at least not to humans). I have been told they eat the larvae of other insects, like cockroaches so they are not so bad really. Also, and I assume this is just a Japanese myth, but it's said they hunt in pairs.
Answer: It is a common house centipede. Apparently they're everywhere but I've never seen one before.

What kind of arthropod/animal is this?


first point of view and the problem of opinion

Question: Is it better for first person POV to be treated in the same way as third person POV meaning that the POV person withholds opinions? (So the reader can form them?) Or is it okay to establish conflict via first person POV opinions? Is that a sloppy method?
Answer: You can expose opinions in third person POV. In "close" third person you're extremely likely to expose the third person POV character's opinions. And even in third person omniscient, you could have an omniscient voice with an opinion. The Chronicles of Narnia, for example, is full of narrator opinion.
In first person, it would be unusual--not impossible, but quite unusual--to avoid having the first person's narrator's opinions.
Answer: As others have explained, if a story is written in first person, the readers expect to be privy to the POV character's opinions, thoughts and feelings. This is true of third person limited too, and even an omniscient narrator would get into characters' heads.
However, this does not preclude the readers from forming their own opinions. They might, after all, disagree with the POV character's evaluation of a situation, or even their approach to the main conflict. The POV character might well be mistaken about something, and perhaps be made to pay for their mistake.
There is nothing underhanded about using the POV character's inner thoughts to fuel conflict. It is, in fact, quite commonly done. Consider, for example, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: the source of the main conflict is the main characters' mistaken opinions of each other.
Answer: Preferably, in first person POV, you're completely transparent with precisely one person's opinions and thoughts; the POV character's. Everyone else's, though? They're as opaque as any other human is to us.
As such, you get the experience of 'living through [POV Character]'s eyes' and while you will know everything about what they think, you're left to form your own opinions about what others think of the POV character, schemes that may be going on without their knowledge, et cetera, et cetera.
Answer: The Animorphs series of books provides us with another excellent example of the need to be privy to the main character's thoughts.  The series has a rotational cast of First Person narrators who frequently have to describe themselves experiencing the emotions of an animal (all the characters have the power to turn into any animal they have previously touched.  One of the rules of the process is that the first time morphing into a new animal can be overwelming and the narrator frequently finds the animal's instincts overriding their still human personality) as well as the sensual changes.  There's a very good bit in one of the books where an alien experiences a human mind for the first time and describes the sensation of self-doubt that was never something her race had a problem with.


Will a sharpener for a wider edge ruin a knife with a narrow edge?

Question: I'm loving my new Victorionox chefs knife, and I'm aware the it has a 15 degree blade edge. When the time comes to sharpen it, will using a sharpener for a 20 degree blade ruin the knife edge?
Comment: i use the bottom of a ceramic cup and i've never had a problem...:)
Comment: Dear Geo, welcome to our site! You have probably noticed that the title of your question changed. On our site, everybody can edit others' posts for clarity. I changed your title to be more descriptive of the actual question, and left the post as it is.
Answer: If you sharpen it with a 20 degree edge, it will remove material until it matches the 20 degree bevel.
It is up to you whether you like this better or not; however, if you selected this particular knife because you like the way it feels and cuts, the 15 degree bevel may be a contributor to that.
Will it harm the knife?  No, but it will change its performance characteristics.
Sharpening Supplies provides a table of common bevel angles for various purposes, but indicates it is mostly up to personal preference.  They indicate 20 degrees is common for chef's knives, and go on to say:

The lower the angle the sharper it becomes, but it also becomes less
  durable and more prone to chipping. If you seek a very durable edge, a
  larger angle is preferred because it can withstand more than the
  thinner edge of a low bevel angle.
Answer: The angle of the edge should adjust itself when sharpening anyway.
Most professional chefs will probably use a sharpening steel or stone and will just sharpen their knives in a way that feels natural.
It helps to understand the way a knife edge becomes dull. If you were to zoom in on a knife edge you would see what look like hundreds and thousands of teeth, much the same as on a saw blade. When the knife is used these teeth become misaligned, and because they are so tiny knife blades require regular sharpening.
A 15 degree blade kept at this level will consequently feel sharper but for a shorter period of time and will require more regular sharpening. Conversely a 20 degree blade will hold an edge for longer and will cut as if "sharp" for longer but will not give you quite the same smooth easy feeling. It is similar to thinking about the difference between a razor blade and a non-serrated steak knife. I very much doubt many people will sharpen, or change their steak knives much, but they will (or should) change their razor blade frequently.
Chefs who use a steel or sharpening stone will give their knives an edge which is unique to them due to the unique angle of sharpening on either side of the blade and the direction the knife is sharpened (some sharpen away from the handle and some sharpen towards it). Which is why you should never let anyone but you sharpen your knives.
In short, as long as you are consistent the blade should be fine and last you a very long time. Victorinox knives are nice. I had a couple of them when I was working in kitchens and they should last you a very long time if looked after. My head chef's filleting knife had a blade that was as wide as a fat pen he had it that long and sharpened it that much!


A function is continuous if its graph is closed

Question: Any help with the following problem:
Prove that if a function $f: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is bounded and its graph is a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, then $f$ is continuous.
Comment: By the way, it is also true that if $f$ is continuous, then the graph is closed.
Answer: There is a useful theorem due to Kuratowski: if $C$ is compact and $X$ is any space, then
the projection $\pi: C \times X \rightarrow X$ defined by $\pi(x,y) = y$ is a closed (and continuous, of course) function. See here for a short proof.
If $f$ is bounded let $C$ be a compact interval with $f[X] \subset C$.
The graph $\Gamma =\{(x, f(x)) \mid x \in \mathbb{R} \}$ of $f$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R} \times C$ by assumption.
If now $K$ is a closed subset of $C$, then note that we have
$$f^{-1}[K] = \pi[ \Gamma \cap (\mathbb{R} \times K) ]$$
(as $x \in f^{-1}[K]$ then $f(x) \in K$ and $(x, f(x))$ is in $\Gamma$ and in $\mathbb{R} \times K$ and $x$ is its image under $\pi$, while if $x = \pi(x,y)$ for $y \in \Gamma \cap \mathbb{R} \times K$ we know $y \in K$ and $y = f(x)$ to be on $\Gamma$, so $x \in f^{-1}[K]$)
Also, as $\pi$ is a closed map and the set we take an image of is closed in $\mathbb{R} \times C$, $f^{-1}[K]$ is closed in $\mathbb{R}$ for all closed subsets $K$ of $C$, so $f$ is a continuous map from $\mathbb{R}$ to $C$ and thus to $\mathbb{R}$ as well.
Note that the fact that we use $\mathbb{R}$ is irrelevant, all we need is that the image of $f$ is contained in a compact set in the codomain, and there are no conditions on the domain.
The condition is needed because of the example $f(x) = \frac{1}{x}$ for $ x\neq 0$ and $f(0)= 0$ which has a closed graph but is not continuous, and $f$ is not bounded.
Answer: Interesting question; I haven't seen it before, so here's my stab at it.
It's clear that the boundedness is needed, because otherwise we have the counterexample:
$f(x) = \begin{cases}
0 & \text{if } x = n\pi \\
\tan(x) & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}$
So we're given that $f$ is bounded and its graph, which I'll call $G$, is a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$.
In order to show that it's continuous, we can show any one of a list of equivalent conditions, including the inverse image of an open set is open, or the inverse image of a closed set is closed. But $f^{-1}(S)$, for $S \subset \mathbb{R}$, is just the projection of $(\mathbb{R} \times S) \cap G$ onto the $x$-axis.
If you utilize the fact that $G \subset \mathbb{R} \times I$, where $I$ is a sufficiently large closed interval, and consider $f^{-1}(C)$, $C$ a closed subset of $I$, I believe compactness is on your side to show that $f^{-1}(C)$ contains all of its limit points. See if you can work out the details from there.
Answer: HINT: Try proving the contrapositive, namely

If $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ has a point of discontinuity, then $f$ is either unbounded OR its graph is not a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$.

A common way to deal with "OR" in a conclusion is to break the proof into two cases. First, suppose $f$ is unbounded. Since this is one of the two conclusions we hope to draw, we're already done! In the other case, we can assume $f$ is bounded and hope to conclude that $f$ is not a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$. In other words, we can transform the original problem into this one:

If $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ has a point of discontinuity AND $f$ is bounded, then $f$ is not a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Comment: Apply the negation of the $\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition of continuity. You should see that there are at least two limit points of $f$ with the same $x$ coordinate. You'll need to use the fact that $f$ is bounded somehow.
Comment: I am still not able to prove that f is not closed subset in your last suggested problem. any further hint?
Answer: Alternative to the answers already presented, one might use sequences.
Without giving away everything, suppose $x_n \rightarrow x$, and consider the the sequence $f_n:=f(x_n)$. If any subsequence $f_{n_k}$ of $f_n$ converges, the only candidate for it to converge to is $f(x)$ by the closedness of the graph. Considering $f_n$ is bounded, what can be said about $\limsup f_n$ and $\liminf f_n$?


Is running almost every day bad during a bulking phase?

Question: I'm in a bulking phase and I like going for a run after my gym sessions (5 days a week). I estimate that I burn a little less than 500 Calories per run. Will these running sessions not affect muscle growth if I consume an extra 500 Calories (total 3,000 Calories) on those days to account for the extra Calories burnt? Or am I putting my body in such a deep catabolic state from running so often that I'm sacrificing muscle growth despite the extra calorie consumption?
Answer: I addressed this in this question. I basically state that not only is cardio not killing muscle gains, but not doing cardio would possible hold you back.
The things that could hurt your progress to gain muscle are:

Not eating enough which you've stated you are actively trying to avoid.
Spending too much time running and not enough time lifting. There's a limit number of hours in the day and sometimes you have to pick one over the other.
Being too tired and exhausted to fully complete a workout. To gain mass you need to practice progressive overload which means lifting heavier weights more often over time. Excessive cardio can tire you out which could hinder progress.

Although, what you've stated doesn't sound to be that much. If you
    can do it five days in a row, then it doesn't sound very intense to you. You should be just fine as long as you're getting the appropriate calories.
Answer: I would say yes! I'm not a certified physical trainer but I know from my own experience and research that doing cardio everyday while bulking will make it more difficult to make the gains you're looking for!  Of course, the caveat would be that you are eating in a SUPER surplus because you should already be in a surplus for a bulk.
Answer:
Consider what's required by your body to build muscle

Proper diet is required to build muscle.  You need enough protein and carbohydrates and fats to fuel and enhance recovery from your workouts.
You also need rest and recovery time between workouts to allow your body to rebuild and increase your muscle mass.
You don't grow muscle during your workout - but rather between workouts.

Think of these resources like a bucket of water

The more often the bucket is full - the faster you're able to gain muscle mass.
The emptier the bucket - the harder it is to build more muscle.

For each strength training workout you perform:

You take a scoop of water out of the bucket. The harder you train, the bigger the scoop of water you take from the
bucket.

As you replenish your muscle-building and energy supplies by resting and eating effectively - you assure that you have all the necessary resources necessary to build muscle.  In other words:

You refill the bucket

The problem you can run into with cardio is that you draw on the same resources that you have available to build muscle. In other words:

You take more scoops out of your bucket.

That not only means fewer resources that are available for building muscle, but because your recovery is also compromised.

It becomes even harder to refill the bucket.

That doesn't mean you can't do any cardio while building muscle. It just means that you need to perform cardio that minimally impacts the resources necessary to build muscle - such as shorter, more intense forms of cardio.