Recent content by jakalsucks

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    The Anniversary Gift

    I think this is supposed to be told in metric. No car, as far as I know, can go 0 to 200 in 6 seconds, but if it was 0 to 60 (or 70 or 80) the weight wouldn't be high enough. It should probably be 0 to 100, and kilometers per hour and kilograms. 200 mph and pounds doesn't make sense.
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    Can you smell heat?

    Ozone maybe? Isn't oxygen converted to ozone at high temperatures?
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    The Irony of Captain Planet

    That is actually one of the episodes that stands out in my mind. The American, and therefore jerky, planeteer was going off about China's 2 child policy. Then he got knocked unconscious and had a fever dream about an over populated rat island. Eventually I think the higher up rats tried to wipe...
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    How would I test compliance with Godwin's law?

    What he is saying is calling someone a Nazi (or something similar) just so the thread will end doesn't work.
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    How to crash and burn your hard drive

    This isn't really highly technical. A hard drive can handle as much data as you want to send it's way without being damaged. As I understand it laptop hard drives tend to last longer because the platters are smaller (something about stability), and they put off less heat.
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    How Is Motion Even Possible?

    Read up on Zeno's paradox, and please don't post while high.
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    We're all complaining about gas prices but are you doing anything about it?

    It is like the perfect storm. You have ever increasing demand from the US and China. You have oil speculation because of uncertainty in Iran and Nigeria (Nigeria right?). You also have the switch over from MTBE to Ethanol. It is in short supply in comparison to what is needed. It is also...
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    Is there a conspiracy against CRT HDTVs?

    If that is true then I guess it all makes sense.
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    Is there a conspiracy against CRT HDTVs?

    I don't see any other rational conclusion when looking at perfectly set up LCDs and Plasmas and CRTs that look terrible. I guess it is possible that flat panels are easier to set up or have better factory presets.
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    Is there a conspiracy against CRT HDTVs?

    That is an option, but it is a lot of trouble that I don't think I should have to go through. I think some are connected badly though because of the graininess, or the other possibility is that the source is grainy and that is the only TV sharp enough for it to matter. Although I would think it...
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    Is there a conspiracy against CRT HDTVs?

    I know that electronic stores use bright colorful images that look better on an LCD or Plasma than on a CRT, but I've noticed a trend that seems to go beyond that. All the CRT HDTVs I've looked at today have looked like total junk. I think it was how they were set up. Some where grainy when the...
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    Life Extension Question

    There is DNA in white blood cells but not in red blood cells.
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    Convert binary to decimal

    Forgive me, I haven't written in C++ in a very long time. I understand the syntax isn't anywhere near right. for(intCounterX = 0; intCounterX < strTemp.Length; intCounterX++) { intTotal = (intTotal << 1) + (int)strTemp[intCounterX] - 48 } That last post I made was complete rubish.
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    ping on a 256k connection?

    What would be 256k/256k? It couldn't be ADSL by definition. It almost certainly isn't Cable or satellite. I don't know about wireless so I'm guessing single line DSL? I have 256k/128k DSL and get 40 ms to a good number of Counter Strike: Source servers.