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Don't know about feminists but some of us already may be strong believers in womens' rights

Seriously ROFLMAO Azat.

Except titles like "weavin around the bush" will only attract the wrong kind of guy crowd I think. ahem ahem gamavor cough ... hmmm I should have that cough checked.

That was so scary as for a second I thought I had said that.

I have to say it's great to finally see some life being pumped into this section (recently). I don't know who started this but I'll be glad to take care of that cookie by the way.

I don't mind being a traitor to any community that is comprised of blind, thick-headed, fanatics! I do believe in the power of open source but I don't think it should be shoved down everyone's throat by force. Building solid business models around open-source just doesn't work. Last I checked, Microsoft was raking in billions while RedHat who was supposed to come and take over was in the gutter. For now, I'll run XP on my workstation where I do development, analyze data, check email, surf the web, and write papers and do my research projects on Linux... although I may switch to CE or XP Embedded at some point (Microsoft does give out the CE source!!!! )

Me neither. Only way to tell is sometimes to touch. ... or ask them to jump up and down Ok but isn't it a slight jump to go from bangs to detailed socioeconomic analysis like this?

No RedHat recently... the last one I used was 7.x ... I am now using Mandrake 9.1 which is basically Red Hat as far as I understand plus a lot more bells and whistles. I like it ... it suits my needs ... but I do run it as a guest OS under WinXP (on my second monitor non the less! ... I have duals)

Ok this is the THIRD time I am explaining. It would pop up a porn site so it had to be removed. I sent you a PM AND replied to your other thread about it. Please relax give us a chance to catch up with you

Check your PMs. I sent you a message. The link you posted was ok ... but it would popup a porn site.

Ok here's the deal ... let's kick out Juggs and bring in Extra!!!!!!! There are still a couple of weeks left I think.

Fratboy, that sounds excellent and very glad to hear it. However, you yourself probably know the stereotypes generally associated with fraternities very well. I am not talking about the gay stuff ... just the "animal house" style of toga parites and getting drunk. So as soon as you decide to call yourself a frat, you categorize yourself into the "stereotype" college frat. And these types of thinkings are not that easy to change in people's minds.

But then what about "sheep mentality" ... like when one sheep goes over the hill, the rest all follow (which does happen in real life with real sheep and with real humans sometimes). When is one supposed to be "normal" and when is one supposed to think on his or her own and decide what is best regardless of what "normalcy" suggests.

Sometimes that's not because the white is "racist" per se, but maybe because there are so many taboos on so many things ... can't say this, can't say that, can't make this kind of inference, can't make that kind of inference ... so that does make sense that people would get nervous up to a point of panicing trying not to say the "wrong" thing.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/sm/sti.jpg Why? If not for the 2.5-liter intercooled and turbocharged 4-cylinder boxer engine spitting 300 HP, 300 ft-lb torque with a 0-60 mph in under 5 seconds, then just think of the fun going around a slick corner with all four wheels having traction! And no, I am not "accelerated".

... or maybe there's no such thing as "normal" when you look at individuals.

With the amount of money he has, nothing is against the law.

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Do e-machines have that protection? That's what I was referring to. OH and I was talking about the video card. I don't know the answer. FYI, I am going to build my own this time But it's not something I'd recommend to others these days.

No. I would however prefer to die after paying off all my loans and making sure my parents are well cared for until they die. But as far as doing all the things I've ever wanted to do in life ... I think I've done pretty much all of them so I'm happy there!!!

Steve your argument holds well for "CMOS" as a technolgy ... if a CMOS chip is working after a certain initial period (some refer to it as burnin) then the chances of it failing as a circuit becomes very low unless there are external events such as power spikes/gliches, over heating, or physical shock, etc. The argument can even hold at the "board level" I want to call it ... once you have a chip and the supporting circuitry on a board. HOWEVER There is a tremendous difference between poor engineering and cheap manufacturing processes versus well engineered systems using quality components. Let's not forget a "PC" is much more than just a chip ... the boards, the connectors, the cables, the analog components such as the power supply (MAJOR issue in stability), mechanical disks, heat heat heat disspation which is so important, memory hierarchies (off chip caches and DRAMs), bus architectures, "chipsets", a lot and a lot of other things influence the overall performance and reliability of something as complex as a PC. Even the chips intel produces for example can vary greatly in a single production run. I am not talking about different steppings of the same chip that get better and better as they fine tune the manufacturing. I am talking about the same "batch" ... it yields chips whose quality is distributed along a curve ... some can be FAST, some need to be slowed down due to impurities ... they never publish the details as those are highly secretive of course but we know the general trends. But there can certainly be "cheap" components as in a "video card" for example. Even if it's the most amazing design, if they cut costs and use cheap interconnect metals in the connectors, they can corrode over time and result in very "dirty" signals being transmitted on the bus lines. A cheap ball bearing fan can fail in a year or start making "dying giraffe" noises while a more expensive higher quality fan could probably last for years. A $10 fan dies and your entire system could melt to a useless piece of junk in minutes. I won't go into details of motherboards and chipsets but let's just say you do get what you pay for! I do agree with you though, that "warranty" sales people don't even know 1/10,000 th of the story --- Edit: One more note ... a lot of it also has to do with after sale support ... bug fixes, new drivers to support new peripherals and operating systems, etc that will undoubtedly be needed. A "cheap" component manufacturer will not have the resources to provide that kind of down-the-line support. So their stuff may become useless not because of physical failure, but due to lack of software support.

Yup ... sounds like you have an essay due.

Of course there is a way to do it. In C it's trivial ... r = (float) rand() / RAND_MAX In VB, worst case you can just write the ANSI rand() function in basic. Hre is the source to an ANSI C equivalent uniform random number generator between 0.0 and 1.0 ... if you want to make your own, you can just start with that. But again, with "real values" between 0.0 and 1.0, the inclusive/exclusive end points do not matter at all.

Maybe it'll help if you tell us what the essay is about .. it'll help you start thinking about it at least.

Fad, I have to think about your last post but I think you'll have an easier time convincing me of a universe and an anti-universe than billions of universes