Hows that again?

I've opened one before to find out. I guess the ring pairs are split
into 2 sets. The right and left. Each on their own piece of metal. The
two flaps you push down pushes up between the two peices and makes it
like ^ instead ofa flat --.

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<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting French Toast</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Okay, nest question.

You know in a 3-ring binder, how you push those two flaps down and the rings open...

How the hell does that work?
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OMG! how DOES that work? I can't figure it out!!! I'm serious, I can't.

Here's another question:
In the northern hemisphere, we get the summer off from school, and we get the christmas season off too; In Australia, Christmas is IN the summer, so do they get a winter break during the time that is actually MY summer? If so, what's the reason?

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Australian schools usually have a long summer break (a couple of months), with three two-week breaks evenly spaced through the year (between terms of about 10 weeks each). It varies between states.

My university has a long summer break (3 months), a longish winter break (6 weeks) between semesters, and mid-semester breaks of 2 weeks. The reason for this is that uni students are lazy bums who wouldnt do any work during that time anyway.

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I wish I got that kind of time off.

The whole at least 2 weeks between terms sounds really nice. I'm also lucky to get a four week winter break.

It's just my school though, Morphine's school has breaks up the ass. THAT'S NOT FAIR, YOU BASTARD!

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Hahah.

I start school September 1st. I get a 4 day weekend sometime in
late October. Then I get a week off for Thanksgiving break.
Then I get off school from around December 18th to January 3rd.
Then I get a break between Feb 1 and Feb 13. Then we have spring
break March 17 to March 27. Last exam is May 23.

Q: One of the mysteries of the universe...

How do you ask a girl out and then make it so she doesnt tell everyone if she says no. I mean, I'm not afraid of getting rejected, but I don't want her telling everyone about it... The people that she'd tell would in turn, tell the BIGGEST gossips in the world, and my private life would be all over the world in ten minutes. So... how?

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If she rejects you, kill her. If people ask what happened (which they will), say she asked you out, you rejected HER, and she couldn't handle the heartache. Simple!

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Hugh said:
If she rejects you, kill her. If people ask what happened (which they will), say she asked you out, you rejected HER, and she couldn't handle the heartache. Simple!

That's pretty, good... but I wouldn't ask her to be my woman if'n i didn't love her. It's a weird situation, you'd have to be a part of the Russian Church to understand...

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there is a concave strip of metal that runs down the inside of the
metal tube that holds the rings. When you press the two
buttons it bends the metal out and opens the rings.

I think you'd have to be a Russian to be part of the Russian Church, but I guess I'd have to be part of the Russian Church to understand that too, eh? The moral of the story is, love sucks. If you love her enough that you're willing to ask her out, you should love enough to let her "reveal your private life." It's not like your private life revolves around killing hookers or raping schoolschildren or embezzling money or... things of that nature. So just go for it or don't, but if you don't, don't whine about wanting to. :razz:

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Yeah, I suppose you're BOTH right. If I do care about her enough to press the concave strip of metal, It's okay to reveal the Three Rings. And i was not whining, don't make me kill you when we go to the Vancouver olympics...

No but seriously, I've asked out more girls that I could count and all the ones since 8th grade have turned out to be O-K. lol So why am I so aprehensive about this one? I't a different environment than I am used to. I'm just gonna ask and be like "so yes or no, or just whatever, call me." and she'll be like "He's so cool that he doesn't even care, i love him!"

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? posted by Nickelplate

Yeah, I suppose you're BOTH right. If I do care about her enough to press the concave strip of metal, It's okay to reveal the Three Rings. And i was not whining, don't make me kill you when we go to the Vancouver olympics...

dude, you do have yer moments....i havent laughed that unexpectedly hard in ages.... damn near choked on my coffee

Doc B... :dodgy:

Nickelplate, just ask out girls who aren't blabbermouths. Case closed :razz:

Seconded! Do you really want to be with a gossip-machine? She'll nag you to death when she's older. :razz:

SHE'S not the blabbersnoot, her stupid friends are. Many of them are not even allowed to watch TV, so they get SO bored that they talk about ME... I can't imagine being so bored.

I understand telling your friends stuff, but i don't see why you have to tell everyone else what your friends tell you.

Ephesians 5:22 says "Wives, submit to your husbands in everything." If i hit her with THAT little gem she'll not nag. lol

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Well -- I guess you have to ask yourself, is this girl worth the
annoying company she keeps? If so, then say to hell with what her
friends think and say, and just go for the girl.

You could always squeeze in some subtle hints that you don't want other
people to know what's going on between the two of you. Like telling her about
a
friend of your's whose reputation was blasted to bits by his
loud-mouthed girlfriend who blabbed too much and was ultimatley
butchered [the girl] by mafia hitmen hired by the before mentioned guy. Or
something along those lines. :evilgrin:

yeah, She's worth a lot. I'll just talk to her. The reason this is even a risk is because it's so hard to tell what she is thinking.

Oh, i forgot to mention that I ALSO have to ask her parents. Any suggestions? Besides using REALLY nice formal Russian and being all nice and stuff?

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Just be yourself nickel. Overprotective parents can smell a fake :smile:

Myself IS nice. But thanks. lol.

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I was going to create a new thread but since I'm asking a questions I'll ask it here.

How do I tell if a video card supports HDR?

Also.... Why do we capitilize the first letter of the first word of each sentence? We use periods to end a sentence.

We put a period becuse it was a roman thing. The period was called a "point" and it meant "That's all" pretty much. It also helps us recognise that it is a declarative sentence instead of interrogative or exclamatory. The capitalizing is probably just a way to signify the start of a sentence. Especially those that don't have a period or another sentence preceding it.

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A video card doesn't support HDR per-se; it depends on how the game implements HDR whether a given card can use it. I'd guess that any card that supports SM3.0 will run any current implementations of HDR in games, as that is the highest current generation shader model and as such you can't really have a game using features that such a card wouldn't support. Some older cards that only support SM2.0 or lower may work with some game's implementations of HDR, and may not with others, depending if their implementation requires SM3.0 features. The same can be said for just about any graphical feature in games these days - almost all of them are based around shaders, and as such it depends on the shader support on your card as to whether you can use the effects or not.

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Yo thanks Reno. The card I'm getting does have shader model 3.0 so I should get to play my games with HDR. YAY!

P.S. The card is a BFG Geforce 6200 OC 256mb PCI

I wouldn't bet on getting HDR running with decent performance on that Spartan - the 6200 is a pretty low level card - though it should support it. I'd also say that the 256mb of VRAM that has on it is wasted on it, given its slow speeds. You'd be better getting a 6600GT or one of the 6800 models, even if it only had 128mb of VRAM. If you haven't ordered the card yet, then I'm sure either myself or others could help you pick out something better without spending much more.

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Myrk- said:
#2

How does self cleaning glass work?

Found out it has an organic layer which eats anything that lays on it for ages.

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Unfortunatly Reno my motherboard only has PCI slots. So it's either this card or the Geforce FX5700 LE. Which do you recommend?

P.S. I don't plan on playing with HDR, I just want to use it so when I take screenshots of maps it looks much nicer. I plan to get back into mapping.

Ooooh, I thought you had meant PCI-E, but if it's just plain PCI then I guess that limits you a whole lot. I haven't looked into what is available for PCI in a long long time, but it does seem likely that the 6200 is quite possibly your best option.

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What's the point of upgrading pointlessly on a limited board? It'll run slow simply because there isn't a separate BUS between the graphics and chipset.

I'd strongly suggest spending as little money as possible to suffice for now then upgrade in a little while. That and don't buy pre-build machines from those terrible companies. Which is pretty much the only way you'd have no AGP slot on a current machine (blasted built in video will not suffice!)

That's just a suggestion, but you're just throwing money away to upgrade the machine you already have. At least if you built a computer when you're done you could sell it, since it'd still have impressive specs.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yes I know. I didn't want the Dell but it's something my dad bought so it's still better than having no computer.

Do you think I'll be able to play Doom 3?

Celeron D 2.53ghz
1gb RAM
BFG Geforce 6200 OC 256mb PCI

Spartan said:
Yes I know. I didn't want the Dell but it's something my dad bought so it's still better than having no computer.

Do you think I'll be able to play Doom 3?

Celeron D 2.53ghz
1gb RAM
BFG Geforce 6200 OC 256mb PCI

No. I think not but, only because of the card. Course, there could be an ultra low setting.

I have a 3500+ amd @ 2.2ghz and 512 ram with a 9800 pro 256 agp 8X and mine grunted.. Slightly.

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Yes, of course you can play D3, it might be able to go up to medium, especially if you adjust the apature size in bios (if you can) I've seen it run on lower specs. It still looks good, amazingly enough.

I mean, the only big bottleneck of those specs is the SouthBridge bus (which is what the PCI slots have to go through). You've got a decent amount of ram and all that jazz, maybe the speed and space on the Video card its self will make up for it?

Also, you should keep in mind that a lot of Dell machines (not all) are micro-atx and may require half-height cards ... which means you'd have to leave the side of the computer off to use a normal card. :/

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Oh, and for those of you who have been following this thread, I told the girl how I feel. And I'll let u know what the heck happens.

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Andrei said:
You know, some people actually believe some of the bulls**t I presented in my theory. The church of Scientology (repeat the name a couple of times until the implications of having a "church" of "science" settle in) actually believe that the ruler of some foreign galaxy had the members of another intelligent race all put aboard starships which resembled (human passenger) planes with rocket engines

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>The Douglas DC-8, said to be an exact copy of Xenu's [evil space ruler] spaceships, seats a maximum of 250 people and has a payload of only around 40?50,000 kg, depending on the specific model.

and had them dumped into the volcanoes in Hawaii (according to one version of the story; a different version states that they we're blown-up by hydrogen bombs), and then ordered that their souls be sucked up by special ships. But some of the souls escaped and inhabited the existing creatures on earth. I'm not kidding here, they really believe this stuff.
The founder of this religion is L. Ron Hubbard, a SF novel writer, of all things. And a very poor one, judging by the premise of his "religion".

Here's a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
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HOLY f**kING s**t THEY BELIEVE THAT?!?!

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

Is it really all that diffrent from anything else we believe on faith?

seems to me that if enough people are behind something facts almost
create themselves (note: rumors and gossip). Ask some one with
religious veiws about Easter, I'll gess they will say something like:
"oh it celebrates the reserection of J.C."

truth and fact dont really need to be tied at the hip.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting DrGlass</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Is it really all that diffrent from anything else we believe on faith?

seems to me that if enough people are behind something facts almost create themselves (note: rumors and gossip). Ask some one with religious veiws about Easter, I'll gess they will say something like: "oh it celebrates the reserection of J.C."

truth and fact dont really need to be tied at the hip.
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I know that some religions which I didn't mention (for non-offensive purposes) have nearly as crazy "truths" but people get brought up by their parents believing that stuff so I can understand why they believe it so but scientology being fairly new and not many people having been brought up on it, how on earth do people read this stuff and choose to believe it at an age where they can make a religious decision?

Also I just saw the "Artists Rendition" of Xenu's "space planes". I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

How did humans copy that plane 75 million years later exactly? Someone
didn't think Xenu's story
through at all (the story is worse than a child's attempts at writing
SF novels). If you willingly decide to believe in such crap,
then you've got serious mental issues. Scientology is most likely a
sort of business, though.

Most people will beleive what they're told until a certain point, when they become more liberated by college or some such thing. Then they become Liberals. Not the good kind of liberal that actually KNOWS what they beleive, but the bad kind that gives all the others a bad name. They become the kind that does the exact opposite of what thier parents would do, just because they CAN now. That is how crap like Scientology gets started: somebody doesn't like the olde establishment, but they dontknow what they want in its stead, so they make up some c**kamamie crap and do all kinds of crazy stuff.

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I think South Park hit the nail on the head when it comes to Scientology.

I think we underestimate humanity and the quest to answer questions
that can only (imo) be found on your own. I suppose that for
some, evil space lords and DC-8 space ships are just an easy answer.

I have a few questions:

#1: If water's transparent, why do things get darker when they get wet?
#2: Why is it that when you close your eyes and press your eyelids you see these weird circle things?
#3: Is it physically possible to finish Namco Dirt Dash (1995)?

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Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

I have a few questions:

#2: Why is it that when you close your eyes and press your eyelids you see these weird circle things?

The neural discharges I mentioned a while ago?

Foxpup said:
I have a few questions:

#1: If water's transparent, why do things get darker when they get wet?

More than likely its due to refraction. I am not sure but sounds right to me.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Foxpup</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>#3: Is it physically possible to finish Namco Dirt Dash (1995)?</DIV></DIV>

I never did...

Question:

Bratislava can mean one of two things Brat' slava meaning "Brother's glory" or Brat Slava meaning "take glory" Which one?

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Foxpup said:
I have a few questions:

#1: If water's transparent, why do things get darker when they get wet?

I don't know if I trust these sources but...

http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/waterstain/darkening.html

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_356a.html

Morophiene-

Source 1 is pretty terrible, but I'd say source 2 is likely to be correct.

This is my guess: The primary effect is probably the increase in internal reflections caused by the air-water-material interface. Water is Transparent, but as any boater knows, it's also quite reflective. Light that makes it though the water into the base material then has to make it back out again, and there is a significant probability that it will reflect off the air-water interface and never reach your eye.

Tracer Bullet said:
Light that makes it though the water into the base material then has to make it back out again, and there is a significant probability that it will reflect off the air-water interface and never reach your eye.

giggles

refraction.. :wink:

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Doc B... :dodgy:

missed ya tracer... :heee:

Refraction indeed. :smile:

I crawl out from under my rock every now and then, but I'm generally to busy to post much. Oh, and I Love the new avatar Doc!

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

The primary effect is probably the increase in internal reflections caused by the air-water-material interface. Water is Transparent, but as any boater knows, it's also quite reflective. Light that makes it though the water into the base material then has to make it back out again, and there is a significant probability that it will reflect off the air-water interface and never reach your eye.

Of course! It all makes sense now.

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Why do we always wake up with morning wood?