Recent content by quoc

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    Anyone know of an online English to Japanese converter?

    An excellent dictionary if you only need to convert single words: Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary You can use it even if you can't display Japanese fonts on your computer. For translating text or webpages, Babelfish works. There is also the excite.co.jp translator. Both of these will...
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    Photoshop - Need logo/banner, $20.00 Paypal reward! **Winner revealed!**

    Ok, I played around with it for a bit, and this is what I came up with. The two are the same, except the second one has another inner edge. Banner 1 Banner 2
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    question regarding basketball rules in the nba.

    That's right, with the old rules, each defender had to be guarding another player, and not a zone. For example, this would prevent Shaq from just camping out under the basket on defense. In addition, you could not double team a player without the ball, so for example this meant you could not...
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    Photoshop gurus - How did you ever get so good?

    I just spent LOTS of time playing around with all the tools, features, and filters. The Help file is actually pretty useful--it gives pretty good descriptions of what the features do, and sometimes even has examples. At first I'd just open up a picture, or even a new blank image, and just play...
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    Apex ad-3201 DVD player $78 at sears! til 4-20 only! (possibly pasadena only, not sure)

    Wow, pretty warm deal, I might go check it out myself! ;)
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    Crack the code - FREE Ferrari!!! Maybe VERY hot if you can crack it :-)

    << Heh << Utilizing a combination of Virtual Matrices and a 1,048,576 bit symmetric key, VME is impervious to brute force attacks. >> No, not correct....just takes longer than other encryption keys..... hate statements like this :| >> Hmm... From their web page: One can argue that one...
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    Link to Your Favorite Winamp Skin

    I'm in the same boat as notfred, I hate most winamp skins. Either too flashy, or poor useability, or poor text readability. I used the default winamp skin for a long time, but now I use this one. Titanium
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    Nissan Maxima forever! (There you guys happy now?)

    << Actually Quoc, there was a significant change in the B5.5's (2001.5). The car is considerably stiffer. This was done to accomodate the w8 engine, which I believe is upwards of 300 HP. >> Yes, I actually have a B5.5 myself. I should have been clearer by stating that I meant interior...
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    Nissan Maxima forever! (There you guys happy now?)

    VW 2001.5 New Passat Cupholders Edited: This picture has a better angle view.
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    Nissan Maxima forever! (There you guys happy now?)

    The new Passats (2001.5+) have great cupholders. :) One of the few changes from the 2001 model. I will agree that the pre-2001.5 models cupholders were very poor. I'll post a picture if I can find one... I'll add that I love my Passat, no complaints. The only other car from that list I'd...
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    Russia protests skating result

    << Everyone says Huges have a great performance last night and deserves the gold, but isn't the whole thing consist of short & long events in which she in fourth place in the short event. The Russian chit did well in both events, so overall, I think she should won (because of consistency). >>...
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    Russia protests skating result

    << <<To be accurate, a flawless performance is not requisit for a first place. A non-clean performance that is complex is better than a clean but simple performance. Perhaps this is the Russian point of view. >> Hughes' performance was clean and complex. Slutskya's program was gonna be hard...
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    Kobayashi Does It Again!!!

    Yep, he was amazing---the other guys didn't even ate half as much as he did!! BTW, there's already another thread on this... http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=721614
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    OH MY GOD! anyone watching "glutton bowl"

    << Nasty!!!! Cow Balls!!!!! That Japanese guy is amazing, he is got to be the smallest one there. >> I tuned in when that Japanese guy was on also, eating hot dogs. Amazing... way smaller than his competition, but he 0wned! I think he ate 31 hot dogs, and the next closest guy only ate 15...
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    help me with math!!!! (solved!)

    << so X is 168.5? >> I get 168.75. ( 450 * (3/8) )