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75%. I'm usually such a laid back driver. Question for the Brits: What is "2 grams of Charlie?" I'm guessing coke. -- Brian
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It's an MPEG, so if you have Windows Media Player installed it should work just fine. If you use Linux, check out Mplayer. If you are on a Mac, you're on your own. -- Brian
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I think that homophones trip-up more people than anything else. That and there are a few users that insist on hitting the comma key four or five times in a row,,,, you know? Does that mean I should take a really, really, long pause when I read? Maybe two semicolons worth? A period and a half? -- Brian
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The beam is actually quite wide once it reaches your car. Unlike radar, which scatters off of all sorts of objects and is detectable far before you are in range, once you are hit by a laser, it's all over. -- Brian
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Call her parents, friends, the police, or whoever it takes to make sure she doesn't actually go through with it. If you get involved again the problem might go away for now, but it will only come back worse later on. And to make that last sentance clearer: Don't even call her back to get your stuff. Drop her completely. -- Brian
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31%. It should be lower once school is out and I don't have an always-on connection anymore. -- Brian
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Kieltä - probably 'language'. I gather this based on something that was translated to Swedish and then translated to English (by me, not a fluent Swedish speaker). Backed up by some Finnish programmers referring to the 'C-kielta.' In that case, kielta is used to refer to a programming/computer language. Tommosta - Possibly 'problems' or 'troubles.' Again lots of programming references on the web, used in what appear to be bug reports and the like. 'ostaa' appears to be a fairly common word ending. Käytäkkään is a tough one. It is probably a compond work. Käyttää, the likely first part, means 'employ, use, make use of.' Kaan, used as a postfix, seems to negate the beginning, like the English 'un' prefix. So my guess is 'unusable.' -- Brian
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I don't think you even looked at it! -- Brian
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Something similar happened to me at work once. -- Brian
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I think that all of the board's email features might be broken. I tried to have my password emailed to me and it never showed up. -- Brian
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This picture. -- Brian
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The company I work for distributes a skydiving VR game where you hang from a harness using goggles to look around and a set of toggles to steer. I had never skydived when I last played it, but I don't remember it as being particularly realistic. It might be better than having students stand in the classroom and pantomiming the motions of turning, but I doubt it would help with learning to fly a pattern or flare. It certainly wasn't equiped to react to pulling on the risers. -- Brian
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Ever read Stephenson's "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line?" His take on operating systems using the metaphor of car dealerships is hilarious. You can still find a free copy of it at his site, under the heading "In the Beginning". -- Brian
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I watched the Illinois State Police (or possibly Cook County, Lake doesn't have their own chopper), use a helicopter with FLIR to locate a suicide victim in an overgrown field more than 24 hours after the fact. If he is in those woods, they'll find him. Hopefully he just has a broken leg or something and can't hike out. -- Brian
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I happen to be (probably) getting my A a couple weeks before that weekend. I also happen to be a mess at RW. However, if the other Falling Illini are going I could probably make it out to lend moral support. -- Brian
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Is it a hockey bag? Those things could easily hold two rigs, a jumpsuit, a helmet, spare clothes, shoes, and a corpse with room to spare. And they have wheels. -- Brian
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Quick fix: 1) Disconnect 2) Attack with garden hose or sink spray-thingy. Soak thouroughly. 3) Air dry 4) Since you have some time to kill, give whoever spilled the Coke a good smack. 5) Reconnect Oh, and shut the computer off before doing this, unless it's a USB keyboard or the computer must stay on. Of course, if it must stay on it's probably a server, and whoever brought a drink into the cage deserves more than a smack. -- Brian
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Drrrr, I'm stupid. Here it is. -- Brian
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Sorry to drag this thread up, but I need an excuse to show the attached picture to somebody... Warning, it shows minimal nudity from the rear so think twice if you are at work. -- Brian
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Be sure to check Reseller Ratings before buying from a dealer on Price Watch. Be aware that for every negative review posted, many positve reviews often aren't posted, so don't be turned off completely by one bad review. The gear reviews on this site show similar patterns. I've been ripped off twice by dealers I found on Price Watch. One sent me PC100 RAM when I ordered PC133. I couldn't figure out why my system was crashing so much until I dialed down the bus speed and it became rock solid. Another sent me a bad processor, and when I sent it back they sent me the same processor as a replacement (I had written down the serial number). I eventually got a good replacement for the processor and I ended up using the PC100 in an older computer that I had planned on upgrading the memory in anyway, but I could have easily been stuck with a few hundred dollars of useless parts. -- Brian
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Like Quade said, PowerPC and Intel architectures are an apples-and-oranges kind of thing. I'd suggest heading back to the Apple store and playing some more. You will probably notice that the processor is quite responsive. There is no real accurate way to say that a PowerPC at X MHz performs like a Pentium at Y MHz. Try running a copy of Microsoft Office and Photoshop on a demo unit if the have them installed. Both programs are fairly resource intensive and should give you a good idea of the power of the system, especially if you have experience with those programs back in Intel-Land. -- Brian
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Dude! That just isn't right. -- Brian
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They seem to get through a good portion of the time, even with the error message. -- Brian
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0:3:1. First solo. Only two freefalls and a packing class away from an A license
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Pink Floyd is touring? Roger Waters came through Chicago on a solo tour two summer ago, and I saw a picture of David Gilmour in a guitar mag, sans-Floyd. I was under the impression that the band fell apart completely and finally after the Division Bell tour and I had given up hope of ever seeing a mostly complete Floyd live. Random quote, somewhat on topic: "Man, Peter Frampton's gonna be pissed!" "Hey, I bought that at Pink Floyd's garage sale!" -- Brian