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change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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If I put a piece of irradiated food in a sterile vacuum chamber, would it last forever?

# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 05:03

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 16:10

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Does anyone here have a MiFi/ know someone who does (more specifically, the Virgin Mobile MiFi)? I love the idea of being some kind of cyberpunk nerd

change my name fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Sep 3, 2010

# ¿ Sep 3, 2010 04:19

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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This is probably a dumb question, but is there such a thing as a ceiling fan with built in stabilization to keep it from wobbling around when on high?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2010 02:02

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Is there a word or technical term for eating a large meal, knowing you're full, but feeling hungrier then when you started eating? I've got it pretty bad right now, like I know I'm full but it feels like I'm starving.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2010 04:50

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How do I remove my credit card information from steam? Whenever I go to the my account section, all I see is a transaction history

# ¿ Sep 13, 2010 02:13

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kapalama posted:

Here's my general take on bicycles: You can buy a $100 bike at Walmart that you can ride. It will not be put together right (sometimes hilariously/dangerously so), and no one there can fix it. You will be paying someone at an actual bike shop to fix it if you actually use it.

You can buy a $200.00 bike at a bike shop that is assembled correctly, and comes with a 30 day tuneup (bikes need this because lots of things on bikes like all the cabling can really only be stretched by use, and need adjusting once they are broken in).

As to which bike, just buy whatever the local bike shop recommends. Let your body tell you how it feels and then add that to whatever they are saying. You will need a shop to do the adjustments/maintenance, so just buy what the local shop sells. The shop is the only place that has any real concentration of local riders, and local conditions will affect more about which bike is good than anything else.

Maintenance, Adjustment, and Fit are an order of magnitude more important than brand with a bicycle, so brand does not really matter. Buy what your local shop sells.

Also the local place might do better than 30 days of maintenance depending on where you buy it, for instance I just bought a new bike and the shop is giving me a year of free service with it.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2010 15:01

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Wyatt posted:

As for what to look for, the lighter the frame the better, and the skinnier the tires the better. These two factors will have the greatest impact on your speed, and the greatest overall impact on how much you enjoy riding the bike. If you're shopping hybrids, they obviously won't be as nimble as a road bike. But you can still steer clear of beach cruiser style bikes that are just painfully heavy and slow.

What's the point of cruisers anyways? They're big, heavy, ugly and slow.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2010 02:40

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Are kickstands not usually found on "real" bikes? When I got mine the guy at the shop put one on.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2010 03:37

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More bike stuff: since I like to ride mine on the sidewalk because it's usually less congested than the street, how badly will I mangle my (shockless)hybrid if I keep riding it like a mountain bike?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2010 19:16

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Loopyface posted:

You know this is usually illegal and more dangerous than riding in the street, right?

Except I always see other people doing it and the police don't care? It's not like I'm riding in the city by the way.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2010 20:19

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AceO posted:

A couple weeks ago my mouse started acting like an rear end in a top hat. Randomly, it'll doubleclick things when I click once, text selection won't stay put as I try to define them, when I'm using the rectangle select tool in ps I'll be applying steady pressure but it'll start and stop new selections as I move around. Any obvious solutions/problems/something I hosed up myself inadvertently? It's a wireless logitech.

Have you tried replacing the batteries? A lot of wireless mice get hosed up when the battery's low.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2010 23:41

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Is the music video for Heaven Can Wait about a housewife gradually losing her sanity or is it just weird for the sake of weird because Beck worked on it?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2010 04:51

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How does the Droid marketplace work? Is it true there's just no guidelines at all? That'd explain things like the psx/gba emulator and the hotspot creator apps (when sprint normally charges $30 a month to "officially" use it)

# ¿ Sep 25, 2010 23:04

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Does anyone have any experience working at buffalo wild wings/ know someone that has?

# ¿ Oct 4, 2010 00:27

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RaoulDuke12 posted:

Uh, it's awesome if you're a reasonably good looking dude and you like working with hot girls.

If you're like, thirty though, then it's probably not a great idea.

Haha thank god then, try 20. Just trying to pay my way through school/ move out and they're opening a new one in a fairly high trafficked area. I have an interview on Tuesday and just wanted to see if there was anything I should know.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2010 04:27

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Is it a common thing for a young person to have the shakes? Do some people just naturally have rock solid hands and some have shaky ones?

# ¿ Oct 5, 2010 23:39

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haveblue posted:

How shaky are we talking about? Do you have trouble doing things that require fine motor skills like typing or tying your shoes?

Nah but if I can't hold a camera still/ hold something delicate still like a leaf or whatever. It's not a big thing, more like minor tremors.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2010 03:41

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hooah posted:

Why does Subway make their sandwiches upside down? That is, they put the meat on the upper portion of the bread and the toppings on the lower, so when they close up the sandwich, the meat is above the toppings, which is obviously wrong.

Every deli I've ever been to does this, not just subway. No clue why they do it though but I wondering too.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2010 03:03

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So I was doing this out in my head: a can of lovely beer like bud light is 4% alcohol by volume, and 1 can of beer fills one cup. So if I poured a cup of the same size of something that was 70 proof, would it be the same as drinking nearly 9 beers? That doesn't seem like it's right to me.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2010 04:42

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I want to get that complete series of the wire boxset, but I've heard the packaging is so bad that by the time you get it, all the discs are ruined. If I just buy it in the store instead of through amazon will that mitigate the problem?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2010 21:50

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Where can I get a really cheap Beethoven bust? It's mainly so that I'll have somewhere funny to keep my knit-hat and/or snowboarding goggles when I'm not wearing them.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2010 03:22

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Rent-A-Cop posted:

This seems right up your alley.

Yeah that seems like exactly what I want, thanks!

# ¿ Oct 19, 2010 05:19

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If I rip a song from a youtube video of dubious quality, is there anyway to touch it up? Like somehow making it sound less grainy, evening out the highs, etc. An original song, not something that'd count as pirating if that makes a difference.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2010 06:09

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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How does amazon calculate tax? I just bought 50 dollars worth of books, and the tax only came out to 80 cents.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2010 02:18

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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The federal subsidized loan I'm getting as part of my financial aid has an interest rate of 7.9% a period of 10 years and only covers a fraction of my need, but if I can get a private sally mae loan for a lower rate that covers all of what I need to pay for school, how are federal loans better than private ones?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2010 20:51

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Golbez posted:

The ten cent tour:

Standard-def TVs (SDTV) can only display a certain, lower resolution, of, I believe, 640x480. They are interlaced, meaning every other line is drawn with each refresh, and are referred to as 480i (480 interlaced lines). SDTV shows are sent in this resolution. SD shows and TVs operate on a 4:3 ratio; they would be 4 feet wide if 3 feet tall.

High-def TVs (HDTV) can display higher resolutions, much nicer than 480i, and also are wider screen: Generally 16:9 or 16:10. The resolutions you're dealing with are 720p (1280x720, progressive, meaning it draws every line each frame, rather than every other line, leading to less flicker and smoother movement), 1080i (1920x1080, interlaced) and 1080p (1920x1080, progressive). Note that while Blu-rays, games, and some satellites may support 1080p, it is not used by any other broadcast method. 720p and 1080i are generally interchangeable, though some will say one is better for certain action than the other. I haven't looked hard enough to try to tell the difference.

Another benefit of progressive vs interlaced: SD TV is 60 frames per second, but interlaced, so each line is only being redrawn 30 times a second. 720p draws every line 60 times a second, making for smoother video.

SD shows will not look better on a HD TV. Some might say they look even worse; most SD shows were made back when the CRT, not the LCD, was the norm, and were designed around its limitations. Viewing them on an LCD makes those flaws that much more apparent.

HD shows will look amazing on an HDTV. They are not receivable on an SDTV.

The XBox 360 and PS3 support HD resolutions; the Wii unfortunately does not, though it does support widescreen SD. Hooking the 360 or PS3 up to an HDTV will look amazing. Older, non-HD, systems will look generally worse on an HDTV than a CRT simply because, again, they were designed around the limitations of a CRT. Specifically, the pixel size is different, and also with older games you could expect a certain amount of blurriness, unlike the sharp pixels of today. This is why many people like to turn scanlines on in emulators when playing on a modern PC, to bring back that look rather than just have a sea of perfect, sharp, 8-bit color.

tl;dr:
An old episode of Seinfeld will look okay on an SDTV
An old episode of Seinfeld will look the same on an HDTV
An SD broadcast of Monday Night Football will look okay on an SDTV
An SD broadcast of Monday Night Football will look the same on an HDTV
An HD broadcast of Monday Night Football will look amazing on an HDTV (it's not just a tiny step up)
A Wii game will look good on an SDTV
A Wii game will look better on an HDTV
A 360/PS3 game will look okay on an SDTV (ever tried to read the text in Dead Rising on one? I don't recommend it)
A 360/PS3 game will look amazing on an HDTV

If you're familiar with computer graphics, it's almost the same as the jump from 640x480 to 1920x1080. That's a big jump, and that's what's happening to your TV when you go from standard to high def. Doom won't look too awesome at 1920x1080, but Modern Warfare 2 looks a hell of a lot better at 1920x1080 than at 640x480.

You forgot to mention that some older systems like the ps2 CAN be hooked up via component cables; this will negate most of the blurriness but it obviously won't look as good as a game that's been designed to play in hd

# ¿ Nov 12, 2010 00:49

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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In the matrix movies or any of the other things associated with it, do they ever say why there even needs to be a matrix? I know they explained the human battery thing but I don't think they ever touched on why there even needs to be a simulated reality for everyone.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2010 21:30

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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Is there some kind of secret for making oatmeal in the microwave without it exploding out of the container?

# ¿ Nov 16, 2010 05:13

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Arriviste posted:

Use a deeper bowl and/or use your microwave�s lower power % settings.

It bubbles out even when I make it in a deep ceramic cup and cook it gradually. I know the ideal way is the stove but honestly I just don't have time for that.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2010 05:23

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What colors would something that's smaller than a wavelength of light appear to be? Just black, or would it be functionally invisible?

# ¿ Nov 18, 2010 20:43

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I know all about the different frequencies of light, it's just that I read an article in the nyt times about animating proteins that were smaller than a visible light wave, and I was curious what they would look like in real life.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2010 21:26

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There's one banner ad I keep getting for coupons in nyc, and the picture on it is a stack of multicolored burgers(?). What are they?

# ¿ Nov 21, 2010 21:24

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

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What's the best way to get a free acoustic guitar? I really want to learn how to play but I have absolutely no room in my budget.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2010 02:52

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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:

If you live around the GTA in Ontario, I'll give you one of mine.

Lower new york but thanks anyway for the offer.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2010 05:21

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A bunch of questions:

First, I'm going to buy a new phone in about 2 weeks and I really want the EVO 4g. Would it be possible to get it under $400 (preferably under 350) anywhere? Would SAmart be my best bet?

Secondly, how come AV club tv reviews are multiple pages but every other review, including film reviews, are often just a paragraph?

Finally, I ordered guitar hero 5 from amazon though Go Hastings, but the guitar came broken. I've sent several emails to the company trying to get a refund/replacement but they just haven't answered. Do I have any recourse?

# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 06:14

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the posted:

What famous actor is this supposed to be?

Wikipedia says robert taylor

# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 07:25

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change my name posted:

A bunch of questions:

First, I'm going to buy a new phone in about 2 weeks and I really want the EVO 4g. Would it be possible to get it under $400 (preferably under 350) anywhere? Would SAmart be my best bet?

Secondly, how come AV club tv reviews are multiple pages but every other review, including film reviews, are often just a paragraph?

Finally, I ordered guitar hero 5 from amazon though Go Hastings, but the guitar came broken. I've sent several emails to the company trying to get a refund/replacement but they just haven't answered. Do I have any recourse?

Reposting all of this, especially since I'd like to get my money back on the last one

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 04:41

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Wedemeyer posted:

Someone made fun of me for having Yahoo mail. What's a cool free email that won't steal my credit card numbers?

Also, is it weird to thank your bus driver when you get off at your stop?

Why wouldn't you thank the bus driver? Nearly everyone does it.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2010 05:14

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Is there like a megathread or something for shoes? An entire shoe forum perhaps???

# ¿ Dec 13, 2010 07:26

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 16:10

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I just want to know what to do about a pair of boat shoes I have that are about half a size too big. I was going to return them but they got dirty so now I have to tough it out. Should I just wear 2 pairs of socks when I go out?

Also I want an opinion on sambas

# ¿ Dec 13, 2010 07:41

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