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    Python Help

    This is not homework. I am fairly new at python, and I'm working with a script that has a function defined in it. Here is the snippet of code thats giving me an issue: if not ((iDD > 0 and iDD < 32 and iMM == 1 ) or (iYYYY &#37; 4 == 0 and iYYYY % 400 != 0 and iDD > 0 and iDD <...
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    How does this gaming laptop look?

    I'm in the market for a gaming laptop. I travel non-stop so a gaming PC is out of the question (home on weekends only, and sometimes not even that). I don't know a whole lot about good quality gaming laptop brands but I've been shopping around on various sites and I think this is probably the...
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    Help Choosing New PC Parts

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming mostly. 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20&#37; spread $1000-$1200 3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from. USA 4. IF YOU have a...
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    Laptop Display Not Working

    My laptop display stopped working this morning. I had loaded up a new game (Rift Beta) and alt-tabbed out to browse around the internet for a bit. When I clicked back into the game, it loaded up the main menu screen then went to a BSOD. I shut it off for a few minutes, and when I booted it back...
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    USB Portable Hard Drives

    I've been looking into upgrading the storage capacity on my laptop. I was under the impression (not sure where from) that USB storage devices were pretty much only good for storing things like photos/music/backups etc, but they suffer from speed problems if you try to run applications (games in...
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    Download Owned Game From Xbox Live

    I have a copy of Fallout 3 that I bought a while back and never got more than a few hours into. I went to pop it back in today and the disc is pretty much unusable. It shows up as recognized from the dashboard, but it wont get past the opening credits before stalling out and I can't get it to...
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    Laptop Freezing Up

    I've had this laptop for about a year and a half, running under Vista Home Premium then upgraded to Windows 7 Pro late last year (November I think). It has run like a charm the entire time, but a little over a week ago it started having these strange lock ups. What happens is if I leave it...
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    Shuttle XPC Opinions

    Hey guys, I've got a decent offer from a friend to buy a Shuttlebox off him, but I don't have any experience with them as a product or brand and I'm a little wary of what he is claiming its capable of (not that I don't trust him, I just think he may not be as knowledgeable about the topic as he...
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    Bioshock

    I've got an HDTV and I've heard the graphics are really nice on Bioshock so I'm kind of leaning towards getting it for the 360 for the visuals, but I did just get a new computer that should be able to handle Bioshock with ease and I'm hesitant to get another Action/RPG game for my 360 since they...
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    Upgradeability

    I've heard that with notebooks you are usually stuck with a lot of the parts that it comes with, so I'm wondering what parts you generally can upgrade after the fact. I've been shopping around at a lot of sites but I just can't find one that has everything I'm looking for unless they are...
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    Strange CPU Usage Issue

    So I've been doing some cleanup on my computer recently and I happened to glance at the Performance tab in the windows task manager. I noticed that my CPU usage was jumping up and down very rapidly. With nothing open at all (I just finished stripping unnecessary processes and startup programs...
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    The Orange Box - Portal

    I just picked up Portal because a friend suggested it. I didn't know it was part of The Orange Box though, are these worlds connected somehow? Will I understand whats going on in Portal if I haven't played through the regular game? Will I understand the regular game if I haven't played the other...
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    Critique This Computer Please

    Hey fellas, I'm looking to buy a new computer and a co-worker of mine who runs a side business building PC's offered to build one for me. I told him what I was looking for and he put together a list of parts for me. I guess I'll answer the questions in the sticky before I go any further...
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    Overclocking

    I'm kind of a noob at computer hardware and what not, I've heard of overclocking hundreds of times and I understand that it increases the speed the processor works at. I have a couple nagging questions though that I've never been able to get an answer for. 1. What exactly are you changing by...