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    A physics problem.

    That is exactly the point I am constesting.
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    A physics problem.

    At constant velocity you certainly can determine your position is changing. If you are in a car moving at 20mph and you pass a house on the side of the road. First that house was in front of you and then it is behind you. Relatively speaking if it was just you and the house you can't tell which...
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    A physics problem.

    If the ride was long enough (just a few seconds would do it) your free fall may have reached some sort of terminal velocity during the middle of it. At which point there would be no acceleration. I agree that it would be hard to mantain a constant acceleration with a gas pedal. But in a...
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    A physics problem.

    I am working out of Halliday and Resnick's 7th edition Fundamentals of Physics. On page 26, Sample problem 2-7, a man goes over Niagara Falls in a steel ball. The author(s) claim that once he is in free fall, he is unaware of his increasing speed because the acceleration during the fall was...
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    Looking for a good introductory calculus based physics book.

    I am looking for a good introductory calculus based (not algebra based) physics book and was wondering which one the Anandtech community would recommend. I have the 2nd edition Wolfson and Pasacoff, but I am underwhelmed. Their derivation of acceleration for uniform circular motion is one of...
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    Paypal Question

    If I transfer funds from a checking account to paypal, how long does it take before I can use them?
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    ING Direct Referral?

    I see several posts about getting $25 when you are reffered by someone when you open an ING Direct account. Is this true? If so, can someone refer me?
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    Is there a way to take math/physics notes on a laptop?

    If you are familar with mathematica you could try this Publicon.
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    Why do people buy Full-Screen DVDs?

    AFAIK TV shows only come in full screen DVDs.
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    Poll: Most you'd pay for a pair of jeans?

    $20.00 max. I buy all my jeans for the year a week or two into January when they have been marked down 50% to 70% off. In fact I get all my clothes for the year during after Christmas sales.
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    Hotmail 250MB storage

    I had mine since 1997 and still no upgrade.
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    ~~~ The New Official Gmail Thread ~~~

    Still trying to get a GMail account. PM me if you have one available.
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    Why did AMD Athlon FX-53 go up in price??

    AMD takes away one pin and charges $66 more and that's supposed to make sense?
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    Excel Help

    I need some help making an excel worksheet. I have two columns of data. The first contains dates and the second contains some numbers. Every week I add a couple of new rows to the worksheet. I have a chart with the first column on the x-axis and the second column on the y-axis. Every time I add...
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    Is hotmail DOWN?

    Down for one of my accounts, but not the other.
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    **Official** Internet April Fools joke thread! **Confirmed**

    Electronic Frontier Foundation
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    Do you photocopy all your rebate submissions?

    Yes I make a copy of everything, but have never had to resubmit anything. Anytime one of my rebates goes sideways I phone the appropriate people and the problem is fixed right then and there.
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    DVDShrink 3.2 released July 25th new AEC algorithms

    I've seen alot of guides explaining how to rip the main movie from a DVD, but how about one explaining how to rip one of several TV episodes from a DVD? For example I want to rip just the second episode off a DVD with just the English stereo sound track and then burn it onto a DVD in a way that...
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    Just got scammed out of a $20 rebate! PISSED OFF!!!

    I had an evasive CSR who kept jumping around one of my questions. I repeated it several times and never got an answer. Eventually the CSR hung up on me. Luckily I got his name and id number at the begining of the call. Lets just say when I called back his supervisor immediately put my rebate...
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    FREE DVD - Friends ? The Complete 7th Season

    I have signed up for about five or six of these and still haven't recieved one of them. Until I get one I won't be signing up for another. All I get from these offers is daily SPAM.
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    Anti-smoking nutjobs are at it again....

    I wouldn't be calling non-smokers nutjobs. Afterall they aren't the ones high on drugs.
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    Free Kill Bill DVD

    I have gotten every free magazine subscription and daily spam from these guys, but none of at least four DVD offers that I signed up for.
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    Just got scammed out of a $20 rebate! PISSED OFF!!!

    I just got an postcard back from OfficeMax stating that my UPC was invalid for my $10 rebate for a Microsoft USB adapter that I bought. I called them up, gave them the reference number on the postcard and told them that the post card stated that the UPC was invalid. They then asked for my name...
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    Washing my car in my own apratment complex is a breach of contract... WHAT?

    All apartment leases I have had specifically state that I could not wash or repair my car on the premises.
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    Chrono Trigger: Best. RPG. Ever. w/Poll

    Greatest SNES game I have played. It is the only reason I still have my SNES.
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    DVD Decryptor Questions

    I got the main movie using IFO mode and splitting it into 1 GB VOBs, but there is a noticeable transition between VOB files when I play it. Is there a way to correct this problem?
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    DVD Decryptor Questions

    I don't want to copy the entire disk just the main movie. So I can't just make an ISO.
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    DVD Decryptor Questions

    I want to rip the main movie from a DVD to my hard drive and play it there. Later I want to burn it from my hard drive to a DVD-R. In DVD Decryptor there are three modes: File, IFO, ISO. What is the difference and which one do I use?
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    Microsoft mouse replacement

    Yes. Microsoft replaced my Natural Elite Keyboard about a year ago.
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    Microsoft mouse replacement

    I just did this yesterday. The CSR told me the same thing except they didn't mention "To: Microsoft Supplemental Parts". Hope mine comes through.
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    Futurama or Family Guy?

    Futurama.
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    WD 80gb Hard Drive 19.99 @ Office Max - after mail in rbt

    There was a line outside my OfficeMax this morning from people trying to get in on this deal. I managed to get the last one in the store.
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    I'm still running SDRAM! >_<

    So am I.