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On start up, I get a loud noise coming from beneath the valve cover which sounds like valve knock. After a minute of running it dissapears.

The oil level is good and was changed three weeks ago. Recently, I had white smoke shooting out the exhaust for several days. and then it stopped completely. My electric power steering also went out. I think it s the motor. Anyways, The car is a 2005 Chevy Cobalt with 102k miles, AT.

What do you guys suspect the cause of the start up knock and could it be related to my recent troubles?

Anyone

Hello everyone,

If I chose to a varchar(10) column as an Index vs a a Text datatype column? I understand that Text is 65k bytes where as varchar(10) is much smaller. Can someone give a specific explanation of why larger indexes are more burdensome? The only thing I can think of is there's more bits to compare per individual subset of a query.

Even when using the float property or the display property and accounting for the available width of the display space, my block level elements still stack atop one another.

Thanks

Say I want to make paragraph. <p class=BOX> 200 chars long </p>. This paragraph is 200 chars long.

Here is the definition of p.BOX:

p.BOX

{

width:400px;

height: 200px;

backgroundcolor: yellow

}

//Ignore syntax errors

If we were to open this in a web browser, then we would have a yellow box whose text would spill out.

Bad:

-----------

. sadsad.dsdsadasdasdas

. .

. Box .

. .

------------

Are there any CSS statements I could incorporate in where the text's font's size and newline characters

are automatically calculated by the browser such that the content fits within the perimeter of the box.

Good:

-----------

. sadsad.

. dsadsa.

. dsasd .

. saddd .

------------

I got (1/2 ln(4x+1)(4x+1) - (4x+1)) + C.

Is this correct?

Thanks!

You have a piece of material that measures 10 x 20 feet, and you are to cut the corners in order to make a box. What will the height of the box be if the volume is maximized.

So..

This is my setup.

b = base, h = height

(Surface Area)

200 = b^2 +4bh

Volume = b^2 * h

I think my set up is wrong, but I can't figure out why. If someone could go through this problem and explain their steps, that would be appreciated.

So, I hear a lot about ageism in Tech. I wanted to get some input from people who currently work or have worked as software engineers. I'm 25 and should have my AAS by when I'm 26.5 yr old and I may be able to land an entry level job at that time. However, I am absolutely frightened of being denied work when I turn 40+. What are your experiences or experiences of other older folks in the field when it comes to ageism?

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I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. My right lower rear caliper bolt either sheared off or unscrewed itself during driving and broke/fell off. I'm about 30 miles from home on the free way and I smell something which resembles the odor of a smoky over heating electric motor. When I get to where I was going, I inspected my brakes and saw that one of my rear calipers was peeled 30 counter clock wise. I had a hammer and pry bar in my car so I knocked back to where it's supposed to be. Is my car safe to drive home slowly, applying engine braking when I can (mt)? I can stop through out my trip and knock the caliper back if needed? Has anyone gone through something similar to this before?

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Lets say I have a base class and four derived classes. Three of these derived classes will have an additional set<string> while the fourth will not. Is it bad practice to include a pure virtual getSet() function in the base class?

If so, is there a way to avoid casting base* ptr into derived* ptr in order to call getSet()?

Thanks

Hello everyone,

I have a map<string, CustomClass> and I am not sure how to properly declare the iterator. It's driving me insane.

The declaration of the map I want to declare is this:

map<string, CustomClass> myMap;

The declaration of the iterator is this:

map<string,CustomClass>::iterator myIterator;

To which I get the following error:

Severity Code Description Project File Line

Error (active) no suitable user-defined conversion from "std::_Tree_const_iterator<std::_Tree_val<std::_Tree_simple_types<std::pair<const std::string, CustomClass>>>>" to "std::_Tree_iterator<std::_Tree_val<std::_Tree_simple_types<std::pair<const std::string, CustomClass>>>>" exists asgmt04 c:\Users\Toshiba\Desktop\a5\a5\Proj.cpp 44

Foggy on trig. It seems that adding and subtracting like trig functions is straight forward, but I just wanted to check.

Is my answer correct?

So, Ikura nan desu ka is the way I've been taught to ask how much an item costs.

Do Kore, Sore, and Are ever come into play. If I'm holding a watch, would I insert kore in my sentence. Likewise, if the watch is far away , hanging up on a wall, would I use Are or simply point to it and say Ikura nan desu ka? Or, would I maybe use it's noun in the inquiry (My Japanese is bad so grammar will be horrible): Tokei wa ikura desu ka?

Thanks.

Are encapsulation and information hiding separate concepts. Also, are abstraction and information hiding related? I've been told that all these things are and are not connected and maybe it's just an issue of semantics. Can a class can be well encapsulated but posses poor information hiding properties and poor abstraction or is that when a class hides information poorly, that it is poorly encapsulated?

For example,

class MyClass

{

// Data should be private.

public int data;

...

public void methods();

}

Assume this class can do everything that the object is modeling. In that sense, it is well encapsulated, but since it exposes sensitive data variables, it does not hide information well. Further, does this cause it to have a lesser quality of abstraction as it exposes details (variables which should be private) which (assume in this case) the user does not need to know.

Thank yo.

Let's say I have an ArrayList<CustomObj> in my simple class. I import Java.util.*, does this copy and paste all code from util into my source file? Does it increase the size of the program somewhat like C++ #include statements, or does it only include the ArrayList code?

On a side note, if I create my own ArrayList class, but still (for whatever reason) import util.*, is there name collision between my custom ArrayList and the ArrayList in util.*

thx

Say I have the equation y = 2 whose domain is [-2, 3). -2 defined but 3 is not ( hole).

If I'm asked, is this equation continuous from [-2,3], would the proper reply be that is continuous from the right to -2? Or would the answer be it is not continuous on this interval since 3 is not defined.

Also, what if I have another almost identical equation, except that this time around 3 is defined, and I'm asked whether or not the equation is continuous on [-2, 3]. In this case, the equation would have 2 sided continuity from [-2, 3].

Thanks!

My mom went to the ER room. It was a minor problem. She had a urine test and ultrasound performed. In total, she spent 5 hours in the ER. Most of her time she just sat around in the waiting room. The bills amount to 5300$. The first 3000 are for the tests and medication which is fine, but the last 2300 are for a "level 4" fee. She spent maybe 10 minutes talking to a physicians which basically told her to go to a specialist. The rest of the time she consumed, tests and ultra sound, she was billed for. I researched this level 4 er code and it seems this fee is reserved for severe medical problems which require a lot of resources.

Is there a way to renegotiate this? It seems far too high given she spent most of the time in the waiting room?

Thanks

I don't understand what the topic is. If you could explain, that would be great.

Also, does wa mark the word before or after.

Boku wa Amerikan-jin desu.

Here, is wa marking Boku or Amerikan-jin or both?

g(x) = Root(x^2 + 5)

I want to multiply g(x) by 1/x, but I want the 1/x to be inside the root operator.

No: [Root(x^2 + 5) / x

Yes: Root( [x^2+5]/ x)

I'm just not sure what to do to the x when I move it inside the operator.

Thanks

So I have a project where I need to use a data structure provided by java.util.

There's going to be a list of alphabetically sorted entries containing counts.

Here's an example:

Name Count

John 5

Sally 33

Will be many more entries, but you get the picture. I was planning on using a TreeMap<String, Integer>.

I've just learned that the object Integer is immutable once created. I thought, well I'll just create my own Counter Object but I'm not allowed. I also can't use int in place of integer because it is a primitive.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to solve this?

New to java so not very familar with the basic library yet.

Thanks