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Timedog said:
No, you're calculating average speed over the course of the run, which include acceleration. His top speed would be higher. I'd be his top is at least 40km/h.
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Sure. Probably even higher than that, but it doesn't really matter. He couldn't come close to the acceleration or top speed of a cheetah and certainly couldn't maintain it.
 
Is there a way for Canadians to get like a small rental space somewhere near the border in the US? Cause many of the online retailers don't ship to Canada, and I wouldn't mind driving 2 hours to Seattle if I could rent out a small space for items to be shipped there. And they'd have to hold it for a couple weeks, I'd probably go down there every month or so

Anything service like this?
 
I've been thinking about this hypothetical situation for a while:

Let's say your friend asks you to help him kill his wife out of the blue. Let's say this is your thought: "Of course not, holy crap! But this guy is fucking insane. If I say no, who's to say he won't kill me on the spot out of fear that I'll call the cops and foil his plan?"

So you say "Yes" and hope he'll leave you alone long enough for you to call the cops discreetly. But then let's say that your conversation were somehow surveilled in some way and you and your friend were immediately arrested as co-conspirators in a murder plot.

Is there any way that you can convince the police that you didn't mean it when you said yes? Because you'd basically be screwed - either you say yes and risk incriminating yourself or you say no and risk inciting an unstable psycho.

What say you, GAF?
 
Talking about potentially killing someone is not considered attempted murder in US, afaik. Don't know about other countries. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't know they could arrest me for, since I've committed no crime.
 
agrajag said:
Talking about potentially killing someone is not considered attempted murder in US, afaik. Don't know about other countries. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't know they could arrest me for, since I've committed no crime.
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Conspiracy to commit murder?
 
Well, in that case, your defense attorney can easily say you either feared for your life so you agreed with whatever the friend was saying or that you thought your friend was joking and played along. If they can get Casey Anthony off the hook, this shouldn't be too hard.
 
How can one keep their gaming office chair from smelling like butt after a long day of gaming? I was my behind thoroughly, and change clothes every day. But I also game every day. Unfortunately the smell builds and builds over time, to the point where after six months I'm ready to chuck out the chair and buy a new one -- both otherwise it's the best chair I've ever had. The seat isn't leather or anything, and seems pretty standard.

So far I've tried wrapping towels around pine cone air fresheners, and sitting on those. I've sprinkled carpet fresheners under towels. I've tried various foot and jock powders & baking soda that are supposed to help relieve odor. I rented a wet vac and tried cleaning the seat that way, but the smell never really went away and came back strong in a couple weeks. I keep the room around 69 degrees at all times, so it's not like I should be excessively sweating down there.

Any tips? I could try buying a second chair and swapping them out occasionally, but I'm not sure that would do anything but delay the inevitable.
 
Would posting this as a thread have gotten me banned?


Title: 90% of people don't know the opposite of these words

1) Always

2) Coming

3) From

4) Take

5) Me

6) Down


I just saw it on Reddit and it made me laugh.
 
Last night I came across a thread for some stop motion video of a weird looking male manequin moving through the city in stop motion. The manequin had it's arms flailing and was looking overall creepy but it was hilarious. At the end of the video it comes across some stairs and stars having a seizure on them because there was a sign which said not to do it.

Can anyone please link me to it. I can't find it for the life of me.
 
When people say they "double majored" in something, does that mean that they did both majors in 4 years? Or did they maybe take an extra year or so more than everyone else?

If it's all in 4 years, does anyone EVER double major in two highly technical fields like engineering, computer science, or physics.
 
Timedog said:
When people say they "double majored" in something, does that mean that they did both majors in 4 years? Or did they maybe take an extra year or so more than everyone else?

If it's all in 4 years, does anyone EVER double major in two highly technical fields like engineering, computer science, or physics.
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They did it in 4 years often and yes. Usually it is very dependent on how many classes overlap between the programs and how many credits can count towards both.
 
Timedog said:
When people say they "double majored" in something, does that mean that they did both majors in 4 years? Or did they maybe take an extra year or so more than everyone else?

If it's all in 4 years, does anyone EVER double major in two highly technical fields like engineering, computer science, or physics.
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That depends on the majors. If you go into college with enough AP/IB credits, it's very possible to knock out two majors within four years, if you have the applicable credits. This mostly applies to liberal arts disciplines, which would have a lot of overlap in terms of coursework, so for more technical pursuits like engineering you would probably need an extra year. But it's entirely possible to do something like this in two related fields. I however didn't know anyone in college double majoring in the fields you listed.
 
Tapiozona said:
Last night I came across a thread for some stop motion video of a weird looking male manequin moving through the city in stop motion. The manequin had it's arms flailing and was looking overall creepy but it was hilarious. At the end of the video it comes across some stairs and stars having a seizure on them because there was a sign which said not to do it.

Can anyone please link me to it. I can't find it for the life of me.
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This one?
 
How much would it cost to make a record of everything everyone is sharing publicly on social networking sites?

Kind of like the Wayback Machine, but only with social networking sites. Would the cost of doing something like that be pretty much inconsequential for a government to do, just in case in some far off hypothetical it could be useful?
 
Timedog said:
How much would it cost to make a record of everything everyone is sharing publicly on social networking sites?

Kind of like the Wayback Machine, but only with social networking sites. Would the cost of doing something like that be pretty much inconsequential for a government to do, just in case in some far off hypothetical it could be useful?
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That depends on how you're doing it. If all you're doing is copying the databases, it's trivial, all you need is time and space. Not very costly, but depends on the cooperation of the involved businesses. If you spider the web somehow though, like "for each social network: for each user ID: get all public posts every two weeks", the cost would be incredibly high because the time it'd take to do this for each user, together with the time it takes to download the entries, to organize them in a meaningful database etc… All that is quite a feat. Both in terms of man hours as well as physical running costs for the computers and shit.
 
On Wi-Fi:

In the old days when the wireless N spec was new, any G or B devices on a N network would cause the entire network's performance to drop to G or B, depending on the lowest common denominator. Is this still the case or will network performance be at its peak with each device?
 
So I just lost my letter from Job Center Plus with my national insurance number on it(most likely threw it on the bin my bistake), is it okay since I still remember my national insurance number?
 
AbsoluteZero said:
On Wi-Fi:

In the old days when the wireless N spec was new, any G or B devices on a N network would cause the entire network's performance to drop to G or B, depending on the lowest common denominator. Is this still the case or will network performance be at its peak with each device?
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It is still the case. However, there are "dual band" routers around that support having both B/G and N at the same time, by essentially running both at the same time.
 
I this really happening or am i being le trolled?

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tubster68 said:
I this really happening or am i being le trolled?

http://i.imgur.com/eiy3T.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
Wiki sez:
[QUOTE]Kill Bill: Volume 3 was announced July 4, 2011. The release date is set to 2014[/QUOTE]
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Problem with GF's shitty hosting company.

1. FTP into her site.
2. Upload H.jpg in the same place as the rest of the images viewable in the root.
3. go to site/H.jpg
4.???
5. Get a File Not Found error.

Where as I upload H.jpg to the root of anyone elses hosting company, it works just fine. As it has for the past decade. I mean, I even checked the permissions, as if you have to do this. But yes, everything is fine. I even set to 777.

Simply put, why isn't the server her files are on, allowing access from a browser. They are there, file size intact, i can see them via the FTP, but not through http'ing... What is going on.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
^ is there a www directory?

Edit: nvm, just saw that you said there are other images that work in that directory.
 
Zoe said:
^ is there a www directory?

Edit: nvm, just saw that you said there are other images that work in that directory.
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Bingo,

Was www directory.

The root I was in, was the WWW mirrored oddly enough.

user error....
 
I've got a question on a subject most of you guys would know a lot about: website design.

For one of my classes I want to make a website that allows users to log in and answer a bunch of my questions about a book we're reading. No person can see each others answers, but I want to be able to put the results on a main page. Also, I'd like to compare results, so if three questions were:

Who is the author of the book?
What is the title of the book?
In what year was the book copyrighted?

I'd be able to display on the website: 50% of students who stated the author was John also stated the title was How to love. Does anyone have any idea if this is possible for a beginner?
 
For a login and dynamic data that is consistent across sessions, you need a database to store said data, and you need some sort of backend application to bring data from the database to the web frontend and back. A beginner should be able to tackle this easily with Ruby on Rails. The first few beginner tutorials on http://rubyonrails.org/ should suffice.

Edit: Of course, your server would have to be able to run Rails applications. An alternative to Rails is PHP. Another is Django. Look into that.
 
ruuk said:
How can one keep their gaming office chair from smelling like butt after a long day of gaming? I was my behind thoroughly, and change clothes every day. But I also game every day. Unfortunately the smell builds and builds over time, to the point where after six months I'm ready to chuck out the chair and buy a new one -- both otherwise it's the best chair I've ever had. The seat isn't leather or anything, and seems pretty standard.

So far I've tried wrapping towels around pine cone air fresheners, and sitting on those. I've sprinkled carpet fresheners under towels. I've tried various foot and jock powders & baking soda that are supposed to help relieve odor. I rented a wet vac and tried cleaning the seat that way, but the smell never really went away and came back strong in a couple weeks. I keep the room around 69 degrees at all times, so it's not like I should be excessively sweating down there.

Any tips? I could try buying a second chair and swapping them out occasionally, but I'm not sure that would do anything but delay the inevitable.
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For new chairs stop farting into it. For your old chair, take it outside, grab a baseball bat and give it a serious beating. Make sure you do this upwind; you cannot imagine what sort of things a cushion can trap.
 
Why are people with 800,000 programs, apps and extensions on their computer, probably with several terabytes of data storage, so anal about not getting silverlight?
 
KScorp said:
It is still the case. However, there are "dual band" routers around that support having both B/G and N at the same time, by essentially running both at the same time.
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Gotcha. I was considering picking up an Airport Extreme and using only my N devices on it (Xbox 360, iMac, Mother's PC, iPhone) and then plugging the old Airport Express into the Wireless ports to make a separate B network for everything else. (Wii, DS, PSP, etc.)

Judging by the Apple site the Extreme is Dual-Band, however, so the Express won't be needed at all for such a setup.
 
I assume this is a stupid question, but how come I can't view my older posts from my profile? It gives me a similar to message to what would happen if my account wasn't approved.
 
brucewaynegretzky said:
Feature is disabled.
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You can use the search at the top of the page to get around it a bit, just do "posted by: username" and you'll get a bunch of returns. They might not be in chronological order (or even reverse chronological order) though...
 
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