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Young Guru Snifit                    Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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- 9:35 - 10:25 ~ Signals and Systems II -10:40 - 11:30 ~ Moral Problems -11:45 - 1:15 ~ Running/Lifting/Basketball - 3:30 - 6:30 ~ EE Office Work Tuesday - 9:30 - 10:45 ~ Electronics II -11:00 - 12:15 ~ Hybrid Vehicles -12:30 - 1:45 ~ Electric Machines & Power Systems - 2:00 - 2:50 ~ Signals and Systems Recitation - 3:00 - 6:00 ~ Electronics Lab - 6:45 ~ Dinner - 7:45 - 9:45 ~ Four:/7 -10:00 - 11:00 ~ Log Chapel Mass -11:30 ~ Late Night Rosary Wednesday - 9:35 - 10:25 ~ Signals and Systems II -10:40 - 11:30 ~ Moral Problems -11:45 - 1:15 ~ Running/Lifting/Basketball - 3:30 - 6:30 ~ EE Office Work Thursday - 9:30 - 10:45 ~ Electronics II -11:00 - 12:15 ~ Hybrid Vehicles -12:30 - 1:45 ~ Electric Machines & Power Systems -10:00 - 11:00 ~ $2 Margaritas at Legends -11:00 - 3:00 ~ Student Night at the Backer Friday - 9:35 - 10:25 ~ Signals and Systems II -10:40 - 11:30 ~ Moral Problems -11:45 - 1:15 ~ Running/Lifting/Basketball - 3:00 - 3:00am(sunday) ~ Copious amounts of relaxation/partying/drinking/Backer/Detroit or Chicago Auto Shows/Concerts/Sports/etc. Nice little schedule there, MWF are easy, Tuesdays are a bear (at least the courses are interesting) and Thursdays aren't too bad. Friday's start out a little rough due to Thursday night's activities but hey, I've gotta make up for a semester in London not drinking with my friends in freezing northern Indiana. (edited by Young Guru on 01-25-07 06:51 PM) |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Let's just hope these don't get into the public sector as a police instrument to maintain order. The reason why I prefer police having guns with real bullets as opposed to bean bag guns is because they really have to think about using the lethal force whereas with non lethal there is less requirement for restraint. Also, I've heard that this new weapon will not injure people as long as they have no metal on them, but if they have glasses or jewelry they will get significant burns from the metal heating up. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I'd say start with Secret of Mana or a game like that. It's got some of the familiarity of traditional action games while including great RPG aspects. I haven't played it in a while so I can't remember exactly how difficult the learning curve is but I know that I really enjoyed it. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit  Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by SamuraiX When is the college board going to rid these tests of calculators. I took SAT, SAT II Math 1 and 2, and AP Calc tests without bringing a calculator. I did fine (more like spectacular) without the calculator and I haven't used a calculator in college exams either because they're not allowed. The classes where they are allowed don't really matter because you go through most of the math symbolicly then start plugging in the numbers later because there are usually series of values you have to test. I think that the AP and SAT tests should just say, no calculators on the tests because we're testing simple concepts. |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| If you've kept up with current events you'd realize that a senator (or was it a representative, I'm not sure) was sworn in with a Koran (happened to be good old TJ's, Thomas Jefferson) and now we have congressmen up in arms because the house and senate are going to be over taken by muslims. Yup, that's one muslin congressman in over 230 years, that gives all those christian congressmen some time to come up with strategies. Oh and the attorney general thinks that we don't really have a right to habeas corpus because the constitution doesn't specifically grant it. Too bad he didn't realize that the constitution is not for giving citizens rights but is actually the citizens giving rights to the government. I've officially given up on politicians.
Back to the topic, I don't really have a problem with Barak Obama being Muslim (if it were true) and I don't have a problem with him being black. Some people think he doesn't have enough experience to be a good president but maybe that's what we need, someone who isn't entrenched with lobbyists and all the back room favors that go around in DC. As for FOX News, I'd say they're just feeding off the fear and xenophobia (in a sense islam is viewed as a foriegn religion in the states) of the people and it's absolutely disgusting and shows a level of immaturity that shouldn't be seen in an organization that proports to report the news. I have no problem with FOX being on the air but I do have issues with them putting themselves up as a organization that provides unbiased news (because a good amount of people don't realize that it's mostly commentary). |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I know it's early, probably way too early, but what the hell. So there are potentially two presidential candidates that are going to stir up a little controversy without saying a single thing. Hillary Clinton is a woman and Barack Obama is African American. So my question is, knowing what you know of the people of the United States, who do you think would be more likely to be elected president if there were no other choices. I don't think that these people are in anyway the worst candidates (if that's how my last sentence sounded), but I don't want this to get into a discussion of other potential candidates that wouldn't be anything majorly historic if they were elected.
Edit: The politcal views, potential policies, and history of the two are fair game in deciding who you think the US citizens would vote for, you don't have to leave it to simple would people vote for a black man or a woman. *Disclaimer: racism and sexism not welcomed, but it's okay to mention those if you think the people of the US are that way. i.e. don't be a dumbass.* (edited by Young Guru on 01-30-07 09:37 PM) |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I know, there really is no reason that these two should invoke fear (well, at least not simply because one is a woman or one is a minority) but the fact of the matter is that fact does strike fear into many in the United States. I've heard people talking about how if one of those two were to be elected the office of the president would be ruined, which to me doesn't really make much sense considering what's happened to it throughout the course of history (and I'm not just talking about Bush, I'd say pretty much every president of the past 30 years has done quite a lot to sully the position). I'm actually quite interested in seeing what Obama's policies might be, I think this nation needs a new kind of president, and the fact that he's relatively young in the DC politics arena is very appealling. From what I've seen from him he presents a very different view on how US politics should be. But then again, I would still need to hear more from him to be able to strongly support him, not to mention the fact that he hasn't even announced his candidacy. As for Hillary, I'm a little more skeptical about her. She has a lot to overcome with her husband being Bill Clinton (I happen to be a fan of him as a president, aside from him making his own statement to the citizens of the US and blatently lying to them). I also haven't been a big fan of her, she's always just seemed a little crazy. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I used the term afraid exactly because of what Ziff said. The United States is currently being pushed arounded by politicians who use fear. Fear is behind all the "Think of the children" laws, all the "Anti-Terror" laws, etc. It is being used because there is no real justification for the removal of basic constitutional rights, but by stirring up fear people will disregard those power grabs. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Ok, first off, SS you're reading too much into this. This is only a dig at the right in that I would place myself so far left that 99% of the US is to the right of me. Secondly, voting for someone because they won your party's primary is not a good reason to vote for them. You vote for someone because they are better than the other candindate and I would vote for a republican if I thought they were the better candidate (I will admit that in most cases the views of the republican candidate will greatly clash with mine so I wouldn't vote for them).
Secondly, I think this is important because I believe a good portion of people who are democrats would still have concerns about voting for a black (I guess this is the term we're going to be using here) candidate or a female candidate. The reason I excluded the topic to just these two is because I didn't want someone to say, "Oh, neither, I'd vote for Edwards or Lieberman" |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| And this is news how? Don't mean to be offensive but welcome to the world of any engineer. We have the ability to use nuclear power but God forbid we try to use something that is cleaner because as all generally uninformed people know, nuclear plants explode like nuclear bombs. And of course the oil companies don't want to switch, they hike up prices because they're having issues with getting gasoline while still recording record profits. I have zero respect for the moral standing of oil companies. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I guess my only reply to that would be that there are many people working on alternatives, it's just that we don't have the money the oil companies do. Basically, the oil companies are failing in their moral obligation to help out with discovery and development of alternative energy sources. Apart from the government there are no other organizations that have the finacial ability to really move alternative fuels like the oil industry could. And if we don't find a way to keep our energy needs met with alternative fuels when all the oil is gone then we'll probably slip into a sort of dark ages, that won't be fun. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by geeogree And the US government spends $2.8 trillion in it's budget of which $470 billion is on the military. Let's see, out of the total budget, spending $100 billion is less than 5% (I realize that this is quite a fair percentage of the total budget). Now, if we spend money now to boost infrastructures to allow for alternative fuel sources then we'll be able to save trillions of dollars in the future when the change must happen overnight. The other thing about getting these alternatives up and running now is that when the developing nations of the world start to have the same per capita demands for energy that the developed nations of the world has we're going to have a serious problem if they need to use oil. We better be at a stage of energy production where we can create nuclear/solar/wind/hydro etc. at relatively low costs and who better to lead the way than the United States, the strongest economic power in the world. I guess a lot of people in the US (or at least those who run large coorporations) don't understand too much about ethics because it's fairly simple to show that the US has a moral obligation to be the leader in developing these new technologies because we have the greatest capability to do so. We need to get up off our lazy asses and start getting to work to prepare for the inevitable and prevent a potential catastrophe from happening. |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I'll agree, we're usually very good at adapting to problems. The thing is, with something like this, where we could potentially run out of our current energy resources, adapting to this problem too late in the game could have very very serious consequences. Everything that goes on in the United States needs electricity and if the ability to provide the same amount of energy drops because we haven't been able to fully adapt, the entire US way of life could be shatered. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Here's a link. Basically, the way they presented the story was very misleading. Anyways, I think that Fox News is not doing a very good job at presenting the news, but neither does MSNBC or CNN. I'm going to stick with standard chanel news because they seem to have an air of professionalism about them. As to the quality of the Daily Show, I wouldn't put it much behind that of Fox or the like. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I watch the Daily Show because I like Jon Stewart and I don't watch Fox because I don't like any of the people doing shows on it. I get my news from the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal as well as Slash Dot and my local NBC news. I think the Daily Show and Colbert Report are both really funny. The difference between those two shows and a lot of the stuff on Fox News that I've seen is that the two Comedy Central shows are obviously not news but the ones on Fox can be misunderstood to be news by people that aren't too aware (I'm not saying everyone who watches Fox, just some people). Also, as far as I know, the alegations that Hillary Clinton's campaign stirred up the story on Barack Obama also appear to be false. Basically, from what I understand, that entire story was based on information given (or found online, can't remember) that had no sources, i.e. your typical case of poor journalism. | |||
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Ok, so I'm having some serious issues with my computer. I had it in storage while I was in London four about 5 months. When I got it out of storage, I switched in a network card that didn't have windows approved drivers. So then my computer started crashing after about 10 minutes of uptime. I then went back and replaced the network card with my old wireless card. Then the shit really hit the fan. The computer was beeping like crazy and just not even working, so I let it sit for about a month because I really didn't have time to deal with it. Now I'm trying to fix it. So here's what's happened so far. After multiple attempts to start it up where it hasn't even put anything on my monitor I got it to stall during the start up and the mother board displayed that it was stalling at
"Expand compressed BIOS code to RAM" I then restarted the computer and it got into windows where right as it finished loading and would normally go to the login screen it gave me a BSOD that lasted for less than a quarter of a second. Then it started up again and was beeping like crazy and stalled at "Test all memory (clear all extended memory to 0)" If any of you have any idea what's wrong/how to fix it I would be very grateful. Right now I'm seeing if I can get rid of my windows install and reinstall it, hopefully that'll work but I'm not sure if I still have hardware problems or not. |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I don't know how I'm going to run memtest86 if I can't get into windows but is there any other memory test that I could run from the bios.
Anyways, I'm back to not being able to get anything on my monitor (i.e. no connection error, even though the cord is definitely plugged in). I'm getting this now "Complete uGuru initial process. AWARD BIOS take over booting job." (uGuru is the mobo booter) Any suggestions? |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Is there any test to be sure it's a busted CPU? I don't wanna go out and buy a new processor unless I absolutely have to (and if that's true then this box is going to be sitting collecting dust for 6 months until I can get the money).
Also, will removing all the cards in the system have any affect on it, i.e. would taking out my sound, wireless, and graphics card and trying to boot it up without them have any affect if there's a cpu issue? |
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Young Guru Snifit Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 5914 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Nope, no spare computer parts here. That's the thing, I don't want to buy a new CPU and find out it's a mobo problem. So is there anyway to test the mobo? |
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