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    Who has the fastest Internet Connection

    hmm...94Mb/77Mb http://www.speedtest.net/result/400197703.png
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    Matt Harding responds to hoax accusations.

    Umm... am I the only one that caught the massive amounts of sarcasm in this response video? IMO the video is clearly real and this is Matt ****ing with us. I love it.
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    Building for 4 Ghz with a Q9550 on air?

    I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but it is a lot more feasible if you don't populate all your ram slots (like 4x2gb). The reason I commonly hear is that it stresses your NB a lot more. My overclock was wrecked (3.8+ to 3.6 on an E6850) when I did that.
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    Squats form check?

    Yeah, I'm a coterm. I generally try to go before late afternoon when it starts getting really crowded.
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    Squats form check?

    Good old Arrillaga. What year are you?
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    Need Mathematic Help

    Try Cos instead of cos.
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    probability

    Nah, I used R. I didn't save the code, but it only took a few minutes to write. I just sampled with replacement multiple times from {-1,1}, took the cumulative sum, and counted a failure whenever it dropped below 1.
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    probability

    Ah, I misunderstood the problem as first. I'll think about this. In the mean time, I ran some simulations (10000 trials of n flips) n=3, p=.2512 vs .25 actual n=4, p=.1867 vs 0.1875 actual n=5, p=.1881 n=6, p=.1604 n=7, p=.1561 ... n=10, p=.1249 ... n=20, p=.0915 ... n=100, p=.0403
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    probability

    The only problem here is that you assumed that p = 1/2. Anyways, if n is even, the probability that the number of heads = the number of tails is given by nC(n/2) * 1/2^n.
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    probability

    This is just the sum from i = m to n (where m = n/2 + 1 if n is even and (n+1)/2 if n is odd) of nCm * p^m * (1-p)^(n-m)
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    Do you use Vista's UAC?

    I left it on for the first few months I used Vista. It never triggered as a safety mechanism during that time, only as an annoyance. I got very fed up with forgetting to run R as an administrator all the time and having to save my workspace, run R as admin to be able to install a package...
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    Anyone know of software that'll plot heatmaps?

    R http://cran.r-project.org/
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    4850 + Hotfix drivers + CoD4 = Crashing every 10mins

    Strange. I'm running Vista 64 and a 4850. I used 8.6 with CCC (didn't use hotfix) and played the entire way through CoD4.
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    Did I just get lucky?

    I was able to run at 800MHz 4-4-4-12 1T with 4x1GB, but only 800MHz 5-5-5-15 2T with 2x1GB and 2x2GB.
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    Movies everyone loves that you don't get

    Donnie Darko
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    What video card runs smooth at 2560x1600

    I forget my exact settings at 2560x1600 but I think they are max AF, highest quality textures, and no AA. I'm running an e6400@3.1 with an overclocked 8800gs, and I get generally 60+fps (some dips to the 40s with a lot of action). TF2 doesn't require a beast to max out. I can even run UT3 @...
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    Overclocking 8800GS. wow?

    yeah, i got in on the alpha dog xfx deal (125AR + flash drive) made sure it was 1.4ns ram, installed a vf900cu atitool was at 736core/960 mem for a while i did a bunch of testing at 720/940 and it's very stable with no artifacting i'll push it a bit more when i have some time
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    8800GTX single or dual for dell 30" monitor?

    You need 3 8800 Ultras in tri-SLI to run Crysis okay at 1920x1200, so you are going have to wait for next gen (or the one after) to run Crysis at 2560x1600. A single 8800GTX would suffice for 2560x1600 for all games except Crysis without AA or AF.
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    math wizs

    If you want a symbolic solver or closed form solutions, definitely mathematica (math majors). (I haven't used maple before) Ease of programming and numerical solutions (think engineers) - matlab. Working with 'dirty' data and extremely powerful statistical packages (stats majors) - R. I...
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    4 gigs in a 32-bit OS is a waste?

    I'm running winxp 32 with 4x1gb ram, and it reports 3.4gb in task manager. If you want to dual channel 3gb, get 2 1gb sticks and 2 512 sticks.
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    Classmate and I share a book

    I'm sure the book just sat on his desk these two weeks and he also needs it now to cram for the exam. Good luck.
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    *** NVIDIA 8800GT OVERCLOCK ***

    Also, any successful attempts at installing aftermarket cooling would be good to know. I have a spare vf900cu lying around.
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    OCZ Gold 1GB PC2-6400 800MHz XTC Heatspreader Memory

    I see a lot of threads with a google checkout rebate. Is this different from the one time $10 rebate they started offering months ago?
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    Post Pee Chill?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...on_convulsion_syndrome
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    Scrubs vs. Arrested Development

    Wow. I was expecting AD to win by a long shot. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching Scrubs and all, but AD was incredible.
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    Summer School

    It really depends. I've had a few that have been jokes and others that have been very difficult. The very difficult ones were 10 week classes condensed into 4 weeks with a bunch of EE PhD students who were taking the class for a Stats PhD minor.
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    "Hannibal Rising" (the movie)...

    "Silence" ends with the capture of Buffalo Bill and Starling's graduation from the FBI academy. The movie concludes with a phone call from Hannibal who has disguised himself and looks to be somewhere in the Caribbean. While discreetly looking over at Dr. Chilton, he tells Clarice that he will...
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    Tanning does NOT make you more attractive.

    I spent a good amount of time in the sun as a kid. Only recently though have I been religious about applying my sunscreen (I'm 21 now). It probably started after someone showed me UV pictures of sun damage.
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    Summing up the PS3 launch in the Fray's "how to save a life"

    Wow, that was amazing. So true.
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    Is 911 the appropriate number to report a drunk driver?

    I'm from CA too, and on new years they had those electronic billboards telling us to report drunk drivers by calling 911.
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    Get ink out of the dryer?

    The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Luckily, I only stained a few t-shirts. Maybe try using a rag dipped in bleach to get rid of the stains. If that doesn't work, I'd say just use the dryer to dry a few loads of wet towels that you don't care about staining. If/when the dryer...
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    Why is my Raptor read speed so slow???

    New sata controller drivers?
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    GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Raid Problems

    No problem. Glad everything's working for both of us.
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    GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Raid Problems

    Okay. Just fixed the problem. You need to download the beta F4C bios from here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109719.
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    GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Raid Problems

    Wow. I wish I had read this thread earlier. I just set up a DS3 rig with an E6400. I have 2 Seagate 7200.10s in RAID0, and a dvd-rom and dvd-burner on IDE. Everything flies EXCEPT for installing things from dvd and burning dvds. I am getting frequent buffer underruns as well. My mouse all...
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    Help me build a poker comptuer

    There's a well known problem in the partypoker client where if you open up many "monster" tables, your cpu usage goes through the roof. Most of us feel that in their latest update partypoker programmers added some kind of code which eats up cpu cycles in moving the monster jackpot banner back...
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    online poker, do you?

    PS. There are people out there who make an obscene amount from online poker. Stoxtrader is a well known professional poker player. This last year he made over $1 million. Here's a link to his website and the $million screen shot: http://www.stoxpoker.com/node/96. Also, if anyone is out...