Arkan

I'm not even 40 and already there's a mental decline; I blame the pizza. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not even 20, and the same for me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's not mental decline, you were dumb to begin with

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_...etables_aging_4 Not that surprising, but more fuel for the parents who demand that children finish their vegetables.

Global Warming is irrelevant if we overstress the planet in general. The human cancer continues to grow.

That was....interesting. Would be cool to see it updated to conform with XP standards/features/etc.

Checking capacitors is very easy. Just take off the sidepanel and inspect all capacitors on the motherboard. If the caps are bloated or there's even goo coming out of them then the capacitors are bad and a new motherboard is likely needed. Bad capacitors usually means that the computer might crash, not boot or do other weird stuff. Here's a picture of capacitors gone bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bad_Capacitor_01.jpg I've never seen that white powedery stuff on a capacitor but i've seen many motherboards and PSUs with bloated caps and goo all over the place. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, it's probably the capacitors then. That seems to be what some of them look like. But why would it work "perfectly" in safe mode but not normal?

Taks hits Moose for MASSIVE DAMAGE. Moose: Death

Sorcerer makes life easier in CRPGs.

Never had a mouse go bad on me. I'm still using my MS optical Intellipoint that came with my computer over 6 years ago. It's my favorite mouse so far (it's got just the right buttons in just the right place). The only problem I've had with it is that the mousewheel button started giving me fits. Eventually, I come to find out that it had a ball of "gunk" that just needed to be removed and good as new it was.

Well, it's a Dell (I forget the model, atm), so I would hope that stuff would have been done properly (you never know). Of course, the computer is about 4 years old, so that may have something to do with it as well.

Building your own PC is fun...unless you get a friend motherboard and have to wait until another one is sent to you. But when everything works, you get a real sense of accomplishment...and a much cheaper rig.

I've got a friend whose computer keeps shutting down when windows is trying to boot up. When it is restarted a message is displayed along the lines of "The computer was shut down due to a previous thermal event..." I did a little research and I found it could be bad capacitors in the motherboard or bad chassis fans. I checked the fans, and they are working. No idea how to check the former, though. The weird thing is, it boots just fine to safe mode. It even worked a couple times regularly after going into safe mode, but then it started having the same problem... Any ideas?

Hmm...not the ending I got/interperated. I remember the conversation that addressed this topic...

You know, I've never been put in this situation, and I'd never want to (that I can think of), but I sincerely believe that I am of better character than to punish the school for my child getting injured (even seriously) for doing things that I did as a child. This is actually discouraging children from being active. I mean, who wants to really let loose and have fun if you have to have a teacher hovering over you.

Many of you seem to have overlooked this tidbit. I think many of the employees at the school would agree that the rule is stupid; they're just afraid of getting sued. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then we're raising our children to be scared as well as soft. Nice. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 'Cautious' is probably a more accurate term than 'scared'. Edit: Despite my arguments, I'm still against the decision. I just wonder how wrong it is for the school system to try to protect themselves from stupid parents. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> These stupid parents that sue the schools should be laughed out of court. People didn't sue the school when kids got hurt even when I was in school, and I'm only 23. This is encouraging our kids to blame others and not accept responsibility for themselves. That's the kind of fear I was talking about.

Making an observation based on your reply isn't an insult. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And here we have a loophole. Good day Now we can say "That was a stupid thing to say and you're a stupid person for saying it...just an observation."

Many of you seem to have overlooked this tidbit. I think many of the employees at the school would agree that the rule is stupid; they're just afraid of getting sued. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then we're raising our children to be scared as well as soft. Nice.

Go wash off your keyboard.

Seriously, aren't mods not supposed to spam? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Smiley replies aren't spam. Thank you for playing. Just because you seem to lack the ability to understand replies that are in abstract terms doesn't mean this is the case for everyone. Have a nice day. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And now insulting other members is ok too as long as you're a mod?

Like bringing daddy's handgun to school.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html PS: Thanks Gfted.

Twice the spam.

If we didn't interfere in those countries in the first place back after world war 2, maybe we wouldn't have the problems we have today. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And what should we have done with the jews? Throw them down a well?

Seriously, aren't mods not supposed to spam?

Nobody leaves the blood war. But by the time he gets there he's certainly powerful enough to not get killed (easily).