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I always think of Singapore like Hong Kong, where every square inch of the island is built on (except maybe a hill, but even then). But Singapore is much larger and has farms and stuff right?

Jasper Loy

I think there are very few farms left.

There are large parks in many places though.

Everything is super clean and green. Trees everywhere.

Edixon Gutierrez

Hi there all

finally I can have access to the chat :)

Jasper Loy

Welcome to this chat!

Edixon Gutierrez

tvm

May I ask question here too?

Jasper Loy

Yes, you can try.

Edixon Gutierrez

7:25 PM

let's see

do you know how to make a reprojection of raster fiels?

*files

Jasper Loy

No

Edixon Gutierrez

do you use qgis Jasper?

Mitch

um... a number of people here might, but there are probably better chat rooms to go to.

Edixon Gutierrez

lol

Jasper Loy

@EdixonGutierrez No

Mitch

7:26 PM

Did you mean to come to the ELU chat?

isn't there a graphics chat? or a software chat?

Edixon Gutierrez

software

Mitch

but what is reprojection?

Edixon Gutierrez

maybe is just for general chat in here right'

?

Mitch

general for ELU.

Edixon Gutierrez

I'm using GIS software ArcGIS and QGIS

Mitch

7:28 PM

Have you listened in to this chat before?

Edixon Gutierrez

it's my first time

Mitch

That's always a good idea to get an idea of the culture first before posting.

Edixon Gutierrez

but I was checking GIS chatrooms and all of them have been 5d quite

I know :(

I'll keep trying

Mitch

what is reprojection?

Edixon Gutierrez

in GIS you use what is called shape files

Mitch

7:32 PM

@EdixonGutierrez Game development might know (they're active now).

Edixon Gutierrez

those files has a geographycal projection in order to displayed it in a map

when you can place a shape one over the other and you know they share the same projection you must reproject one of those shapefile

Johan Larsson

@Mitch I'll show you sparse soon :)

Mitch

@JohanLarsson Well, from the picture you posted before, It wasn't isolated or rural, but I wasn't sure if you would call it suburban.

Johan Larsson

7:51 PM

:)

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Limerick Machine: There once was a mouse in a tower Who chewed on a chord filled with power The shock it received L…

posted on September 01, 2014 by sgdi

There once was a mouse in a tower Who chewed on a chord filled with power The shock it received Left its mousewife bereaved Remains were interred by the bower

Johan Larsson

^ Sparse location from last week, phone pic.

medica

8:05 PM

Might someone be trolling? There is a recent who/whom question open:

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Q: "who" or "whom" as a relative pronoun - not always so easy

I take it for granted we all know when to use the relative pronouns "who" and "whom". And we also know that since the early nineteenth century there has been a steady decline in the use of "whom" especially in speech, and people tend to use "who" most of the times. Let's assume, however, that so...

formality relative-pronouns

there is the duplicate posted:

this OP's example is exactly the one posted in the dupe.

Can this really be a coincidence?

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Q: "Who versus whom"

I want to know whether who or whom should be used in the following sentence The panel interviewed several candidates who (or whom) they thought had the experience and qualifications. Please explain. Thanks.

grammar

If it is, can we please close asap?

RegDwigнt

8:21 PM

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A: Term for someone who acquires an image

The author of an image is called its author. That includes digital images acquired with a digital camera, microscope, telescope or any other instrument that will produce an image. Go to Wikimedia Commons, navigate to a digital image of your choosing produced with an instrument of your liking, a...

I am the first one to suggest the most obvious thing?

That doesn't happen too often...

Jasper Loy

8:37 PM

It's a holiday in the US, no wonder this chat is quiet.

RegDwigнt

Most people here are not in the US, so they should totally take it up with themselves.

Jasper Loy

9:06 PM

Hello @StoneyB welcome to this chat.

meer2kat

Hey guys I need help with a word

Jasper Loy

@meer2kat Hi! Long time!

meer2kat

Hey

Jasper Loy

@meer2kat I sent you an email telling you my new email, lol.

Mitch

@JohanLarsson Which one is your place? Too many distractions.

@meer2kat is it a a new word or an old one?

meer2kat

9:14 PM

I'm looking for a word that describes like a subconscious reasoning that causes someone to do something. For example, the political unrest during Victor Hugo's childhood had a _____ influence on his writing of Les Miserables.

It's something small, and not usually recognized by the person doing it

Jasper Loy

@meer2kat subliminal?

Hmm, I am not sure. Need to look that up.

meer2kat

That could work...but it's not quite there

Agh

Jasper Loy

How about just subconscious?

meer2kat

Meh...I dunno. I might just highlight it and go back to it.

It's not really important to the story, but I want the right word

Mitch

subconscious sounds fine. Also be bold, maybe no adjective at all.

Holy crap..already an essay for school to write? School just started!

Jasper Loy

9:18 PM

I wrote almost none in college, lol.

Mitch

also thesaurus for subconscious.

'thesaurus' is now a verb

meer2kat

lol it's not for school

i'm writing a story

Mitch

When was the last time you thesaurused?

meer2kat

i thesauraus all the time :P i'm thersaurusing right now in fact ;)

Jasper Loy

I prefer dinosaurs.

Mitch

9:20 PM

@meer2kat TMI!

meer2kat

lmfao

Mitch

@meer2kat Oh. ha ha. painful memories. I'd spend hours trying to come up with just the right word. and in the end, the whole thing is terrible and half the length it should be. Extra large margins and an extra pt to font size fixes some of that.

meer2kat

lol @mitch it's not a big deal. like i said, it's not at all important to the story that i'm writing

Mitch

That's a story though? Hugo? Political unrest? Childhood?

meer2kat

lol at this point she's sitting in on a classical literature lecture, so yeah. it's just a filler paragraph developing her nerdiness

Mitch

9:23 PM

oh. ok. yes, that's nerd talk.

meer2kat

a quote from earlier in the story. it starts off pretty idealistic and then it will slowly crush everyone's hopes and dreams. "'Everyone has greatness. You may be born with it, you may work hard every day of your life to achieve it, or it may fall in to your lap and force you to rise to the occasion...but you can and will be great. Remember that...Be extraordinary.'"

Jasper Loy

@meer2kat I would like to ask you if Calculus 1,2,3 is the usual sequence of calculus courses for an undergrad math major. Is that what they are called in the US?

Mitch

"and for some it falls in their lap and they brush it away like a nest of spiders."

meer2kat

@jasper yep that's right. or if you're in engineering it's called engineering analysis 1,2, and 3

lol what's that from @mitch

Mitch

@JasperLoy what are 1,2,3? Regular, multivariate, um ... differential equations?

Jasper Loy

9:26 PM

@Mitch I don't know, that is why I ask, lol.

@Mitch It's just single and multivariable spread out over 3 courses.

meer2kat

there's also 4

Jasper Loy

Oh, so different universities have different numbers?

meer2kat

regular, regular plus extra crap, multivariable, and differential equations is a class in itself. they label it as differential equations instead of calc. 4

at least at all the school i know of

Jasper Loy

OK. I almost forgot I had to study calculus to take the GRE, lol.

Calculus is like half the GRE, so I must do well in it.

meer2kat

the gre is terrifying to me

i think i have to take some other test too to get in to my grad program

Jasper Loy

9:31 PM

I was talking about the math subject GRE, not the general.

meer2kat

still

i also have to start taking the praxis tests soon

Khallil

Just came in here to say that @Hippa is da real MVP.

Jasper Loy

@meer2kat You still have lots of time to be a missionary. You are still young, unlike me, lol.

Hippalectryon

@Khallil >:o

I said I was leaving, then I receive random pings xD

Khallil

Don't walk away from your destiny, @Hippa!

^_^

Have a nice evening, @Hippa!

meer2kat

9:45 PM

@jasper Missionary isn't really where I'm headed. Heading towards teaching. That's my priority right now

Jasper Loy

9:58 PM

@meer2kat I have currently given up on all religion.

tchrist

@Cerberus What’s with the phantom -h- in aenus for bronze-colored? Consider the cognomen Ahenobarbus, which still had it. Greek seems to have had χαλκός for the same thing, which doesn’t look cognate to me, but I know nothing.

meer2kat

i know @jasper

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