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    Installing win 8.1 that came with laptop without media

    I've got a related question. If I'm installing a different version of windows (8.1 pro vs 8.1) on a laptop that didnt come with install media, it should be no problem as long as I have a product key for the new version right?
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    OnePlus One: Experiences?

    Ive had the OPO for a year with no problems at all. I dont upload roms or mess with it at all and it's been very stable. I have it on Tmobile with a prepaid plan and the coverage has been great on my college campus. I really couldnt beat the value when I bought it.
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    What's your ideal combo? Phone/tablet/laptop/desktop?

    current: Oneplus One - my phone Lenovo Yoga pro - I rarely use my laptop custom desktop - what I use at home ideal: The only thing Im missing really is an android tablet. I want to be able to use my phone when I'm away from home, but it would be nice to have an Android device with a larger...
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    Best portable laptop at $1000 budget?

    if you want a touchscreen, think about the thinkpad yoga
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    Google's "Project Ara"

    I like that google/motorola is pouring money into what is basically an R&D project. I don't think, however, that the end result will be modular mobile devices. Mobile devices are too size constrained to make the volume-modularity tradeoff viable. The lessons learned from trying to create...
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    yoga 2 pro

    pricing for the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro showed up on Best Buy website. i5 model with 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD starting at $1000. I've got the original 13-inch and was extremely satisfied. Would definitely recommend for somebody looking for a lightweight laptop. It's got a 3200 x 1800 resolution...
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    Networking Support thread for the unemployed: Spring 2014

    I worked at Viasat as an RF intern two summers ago in their Phoenix location, and it's a pretty nice place to work and everyone was very helpful
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    Amorphous alloys

    it all depends on how dislocations propagate through the material. If the material is perfectly crystalline, a crack or fracture might propagate through the entire material. Since the grains in amorphous materials are smaller, propagating dislocations are more likely to be stopped by grain...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case

    in for one!
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    Is there a limit to voltage or electric field strength?

    I dont see any reason why, if you could isolate positive charges, that you couldnt have an arbitrarily high electric field strength. In the real world though, there is no perfect vacuum. An electric field of high enough intensity will start to cause nearby particles to ionize and create...
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    How do they know how hot a star is?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
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    Google IO 2013 thread

    I was able to fix it by going to google play on my desktop and installing from the play store.
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    Need idea for senior design

    Here are a ton of old projects from our senior design class at UIUC: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/?g=Home&p=Projects There's a search function and plenty of documentation to get your gears turning.
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    Dota 2

    I've got 6 invites for DotA2 as well. send me a PM with your email and I'll get it to you.
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    HELP WITH PCB Design

    look up and download Eagle PCB. It's free and pretty easy to use as long as you arent fabricating multi layer boards. The parts library has a decent selection of part footprints, but youll probably want to design your own eventually. There are a lot of tutorials, good luck.
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    Silicon process technology and tools

    Intel does a lot of their process technology in-house. Where Intel excels is their domination in the process space. They aren't just going to sell it to their competitors to use. Attempts by other companies to accelerate their process so quickly can result in unacceptably low yields. The costs...
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    What's an acceptable indoor temperature?

    Winter: 68 during the day, 60 when everyone is asleep. Summer: 78, AC is off when everyone is asleep. The summers aren't particularly dry (like California), or else I would ok with 80+. Dry heat doesnt both me much.
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    (Calculus help) Average Rate of Return

    http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
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    Give me a positive reason as to why Obama should get another term

    That's because the point of government is NOT primarily to create a profit margin! Of course environmental regulation doesn't directly create wealth, but it has secondary effects that can be measurable effects on, for example, reduced health care spending. This is an indirect creation of wealth.
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    Give me a positive reason as to why Obama should get another term

    The hope is that those agencies spend the money in areas, like basic research, where the private sector normally would not. The reason could be that a private business might not be able to reap the full rewards of that investment. Perhaps the rewards are dispersed over the entire population...
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    Networking Support thread for the unemployed: Spring 2014

    Any suggestions for a college junior majoring in electrical engineering, with a desire to specialize in RF/antennas? Looking for summer internships.
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    catalyst 11.8 released

    I'm having trouble opening AMD Vision Control Center after switching from 11.7 to 11.8. The installer works fine, but nothing happens when I try to open CCC. Ive tried uninstalling the entire package and reinstalling, but the same problem persists. Anyone else having this problem? Any...
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    "The China Question" Documentary

    Just watched this documentary on CNBC with the family. I thought that it spread itself a bit too thin. It talked about too many things in too short a time. For someone with very little background knowledge about China, it's a decent place to start. My dad (who grew up in Taiwan, but moved to the...
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    Common Ground Between Libertarians and Progressives: Is it possible?

    I believe this is related to my problem is libertarians. I would consider myself a liberal, and your example showcases my issue with libertarians. The libertarian envisions a time when we should be debt free, the economy is doing well, and tax dollars are being used efficiently. Their policy...
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    Energy conversion

    Millions of sufficiently sized capacitors/memory shape alloys/flywheels/air compressors/springs. Of course, none of them seem too practical...
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    Path of least resistance should really be path of least inductance.

    This doesn't make very much sense, because the impedance of a resistor isn't zero even during the switch on for a DC source. It is simply dwarfed in comparison to the voltage drop over the inductor during the short period when the voltage source is turned on. If what you are saying was true...
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    slowing down light

    In the same way that visible light is slowed down by certain materials, propagating electromagnetic waves are slowed down in the same fashion. This is consistent, since visible light is just an electromagnetic wave within a certain wavelength. Electron beams, on the other hand, are not quite...
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    MSI 870A-G54 AM3, $70 shipped at Newegg (after $15 rebate)

    I recently built a system with this board ordered from newegg. I ordered an open box version of it. It came DOA, but newegg accepted it back free of charge and gave me a full refund. I then purchased the same mobo at a local FRYS (I was time constrained and didnt have time for newegg to send...
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    msi 870A-G54 and ACC

    The default voltage was 1.35V, and upping it to 1.4 didn't help. The system still wouldn't post. The manual makes no mention of ACC, there is only Core Unlocker. Maybe I just got unlucky. Oh well. Thanks for the replies.
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    msi 870A-G54 and ACC

    Hi, I just built a computer using this mobo, and was hoping to unlock 1 or 2 of the cores of my Phenom 2 X2 555BE. I have the most recent BIOS from the MSI website, but the problem is that there is no ACC feature in the BIOS. To unlock it, I have to enable core unlocking and ACC right? If I just...
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    new build won't boot

    I just got around to putting together a new system: new: Phenom II X2 555BE MSI 870A-G54 Sapphire 5770 4GB (2x2) OCZ ddr3 RAM old/from previous computer: Ultra 500W PSU case/monitor/etc The problem is that the mobo won't light up. I just took the psu out from my previous build...
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    Starcraft II Beta Handle Thread (Auto Updating)

    Denbo 1v1 Diamond, 3v3 diamond
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    Brag if you got into the SC2 beta

    aww yeah. Good thing my little brother is friends with a kid who spend two years of his life playing WoW. beta beta beta. Finished my placement matches today, but I'm getting rocked in my gold division. good luck to those who still want a beta key.
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    Windows 7 HP/Pro for $30 for students!!!

    Are you guys sure this is upgrade version only?
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    perpetual restart, memory problem

    the computer is a refurbished HP m9340f. Q6700 6GB ddr2 Nvidia 9500GS Windows Vista SP1 64bit The computer will restart on startup. Sometimes it happens when the OS is loading, and sometimes it happens when I try to log in to my user. However, it only seems to restart when I try to log...
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    where are....

    ya, I dont think my mobo is supported by XFX anymore. I got it in a combo deal with an Athlon X2 4600 at newegg. At the time, it was on their website. Now its like it doesnt exist. i CAN, however, find drivers and stuff for the mobo (but I doubt that they are updated).