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[Obsidian]

I must be tired; I read the shift key as shit key *yawn*. Depending on why it broke will really affect how hard it'll be the replace it.

[Blightmare]

plastic pieces on the key itself actually snapped off so it popped off. but knowing these guys, they'll probably replace the whole damn keyboard.

[Obsidian]

The easiest solutions usually aren't the best ones. Too bad keys are different enough that finding a replacement isn't exactly easy.

[J.C.]

I am getting a tad tired of my computers breaking...

Are we to understand that this is not the first time? Is it more like a trend?

 

[Obsidian]

So I was watching a rerun of Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader tonight, and one of the questions really irked me. It was: How many full sets of teeth does a human adult get? The possible answers were 1, 2, or 3. The guy answered 1, but the show said the answer was 2. Since the question stated FULL sets of teeth, the answer should be 1 because you only have one set of wisdom teeth and you don't get a second set, and it's just been bugging the crap out of me. But I dunno, I might somehow be wrong there... *sigh*

[ProHypster]

What about Milk teeth????

[Obsidian]

Yeah, I think more or less they were just using baby (or milk) teeth and adult teeth as the defining features of "full sets", but I really think you could argue either answer to be correct, although you can say that a full set is defined by how the teeth are replaced. In the case of baby teeth, they're all replaced, but an adult set of teeth adds an extra 4 teeth that weren't developed in the baby tooth cycle. Whether or not it'll matter (it never does on game shows, see the various Jeopardy examples where some questions do have multiple answers IRL) is a different issue. It seems like a really poor way to word a question, but maybe I'm thinking too much about it. After all, it's just a game show.

 

It's all just semantic bullshit, I realize.

[ProHypster]

I remember watching "Are you smarter then a fifth grader" when I lived in Canada, I could answer 9/10 questions, the 10th one usually being USA geography or history which I'm not familiar with. I also remember seeing a dumb bitch who thought Europe was a country.

 

Anyway I just fixed my sound card (It finally plays stereo, turns out the jumpers where in the wrong places) although at first I thought I failed with the jumpers as my music still played only on the left head phone piece, then I realized that it was the equlization on the aimp2 player turned to the left for some reason. So, there was actually two problems .

 

I feel like I just leveled up.

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[J.C.]

How come the jumpers were in the wrong settings in the first place? Did it come from the factory set to play mono?

[Blue]

So I was watching a rerun of Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader tonight, and one of the questions really irked me. It was: How many full sets of teeth does a human adult get? The possible answers were 1, 2, or 3. The guy answered 1, but the show said the answer was 2. Since the question stated FULL sets of teeth, the answer should be 1 because you only have one set of wisdom teeth and you don't get a second set, and it's just been bugging the crap out of me. But I dunno, I might somehow be wrong there... *sigh*

Reminds me of when they asked how many Kilowatts in a Megawatt/Hour.

 

That's like asking how many Feet in a Meters Per Second.

[Kirkreng]

Kilowatts are 1000 watts and Megawatts are 1000000, right?

[J.C.]

Yes, but the important thing is that a kilowatt is a unit of power and a megawatt-hour one of energy.

[Kirkreng]

Oh yeah, I remember now. We had this in class last week, thanks for freshing up my memory

[Blightmare]

I am getting a tad tired of my computers breaking...

Are we to understand that this is not the first time? Is it more like a trend?

Nope, not the first.

 

In fact, here's the history of the 2 computers I have:

 

Alienware:

out of the box, bright red broken pixels in screen, faulty USB port.

After screen is replace, motherboard dies. 3 week old computers motherboard dies...

 

Alienware replaced by company for free,

 

touch pad breaks down. not too worried as I never use it much.

screen spider-web fractures during a trip to school. so much for padded carrying case.

screen replaced, speaker dies.

speaker replaced, esc key disappears one day. (I still don't know what happened to it.)

 

Replace alienware with ASUS:

 

Bad sectors on very important part of hard drive causes OS to start failing. Log in not recognized due to corrupt sys32 files.

deal with problem. good for a week then problem reoccurs with even more files damaged.

reinstall windows completely and scan and repair bad sectors.

problem appears with disk slot that contact with the tray may open it, even if button isn't pressed.

touch pad breaks (what is it with these things)

during vacation hairline fracture appears down center of screen.

screen replaced. minor and non-distracting but we'll see if it gets worse.

and now, missing shift key. turned on laptop 2 days ago and the key just fell off when moving the computer. O_o

 

This is all the course of summer last year till now. I also had a macbook and desktop have it's own long set of problems showing up but i think my points has been made.

[Ian]

I die a little inside when I unknowingly leave my computer on for extended periods of time.

[Axeldeath]

You bought an Alienware

 

 

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ProHypster]

How come the jumpers were in the wrong settings in the first place? Did it come from the factory set to play mono?

Made in China

[Obsidian]

How come the jumpers were in the wrong settings in the first place? Did it come from the factory set to play mono?

Made in China

 

Probably had too much lead paint on them

[ProHypster]

Obsidian: I didn't get it... The chinese?

J.C: Sorry, to answer your question it wasn't on purpose in mono, I saw that the jumper for the right audio retardedly was put unto the part where the mike jumper was supposed to be but the jumper for the left was on the right spot.

[Axeldeath]

Obsidian: I didn't get it... The chinese?

J.C: Sorry, to answer your question it wasn't on purpose in mono, I saw that the jumper for the right audio retardedly was put unto the part where the mike jumper was supposed to be but the jumper for the left was on the right spot.

 

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/china-lead-poisoning.htm