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BIOS updates aren't too painful. Check eMachines' website for BIOS updates.

Last year we had a hat on it

Appeal to authority. That doesn't make him any better than anyone else. And what is an "official" magazine, anyways? The government newsletter?

In our ongoing effort to control the minds of intelligent people everywhere, we have opened the SFN Brain Challenges forum to all. Brain Challenges will be moderately difficult (but not too difficult) questions that should be fun and interesting. The first person to answer the question correctly will win the user title "Ubernerd" and a free cookie once the next challenge is announced (that means that you will not know immediately if your answer is correct, allowing others to try as well). For more information, check out this thread.

What's the advertised speed (what you're supposed to get)?

I've done the same.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org would be the best bet for a question like this.

It provides references. You don't.

Good, good, but background radiation is an outside factor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kulagina

Anybody who goes to a doctor regularly can relate with this one. Do you think that more intelligent people tend to have worse handwriting? I swear, there has to be an illegibility class at most medical schools...

Excellent use of probability right here: background radiation is essentially random. Provide some references then. Give me a link to a peer-reviewed article on the topic.

I'm not trying to point out that you "suck at probability," I'm trying to tell you to take a look at it. If you're a scientist, then use the scientific method to devise a few good, solid, well-documented experiments to test your psychic abilities, and get some outside scientists to watch you as you do it. And to this point, nobody has proven that psychokinesis is anything but magic. My point is not that you're a fraud, or that you're stupid. My point is that nobody as yet has proven, in a well-designed and executed experiment, that psychic phenomena exist. I encourage you to try to change this by devising an experimental method that would be accepted by scientists, conducting an experiment, and publishing the results in a peer-reviewed journal so as to convince the world that there really is something here to investigate. Until that point, I will remain skeptical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha That should tell you about the "research" conducted by scientists about "psi."

I am pointing out that the vast majority of "psychics" use simple probability and some tricks to achieve what they claim. Any magician could do psychokinesis.

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Oh, the irony. My position is not that of "you're a moron and wrong." My position is "show me the evidence." Also, one useful thing for you to do would be to take a probability class. Often times results from psychics are easily explained by probability - anybody with a bit of luck could do it. (Although probability doesn't explain moving soda cans, it can explain divining rods and such.)

I think the key point is this: Nobody, ever has ever managed to prove that they have psychic powers. If you think that you do, get yourself an experimental setup, some unbiased outsiders, and some recording equipment.

Okay, fine. But I'm not likely to believe you until you can prove yourself under controlled conditions.

I suggest you talk to this guy.

I don't think there'd be enough use of it.

You'll need to find what sort of motherboard you have and what socket type it uses. The easiest thing to do would be to replace the whole motherboard, as replacing the CPU may be more difficult. The important question is, of course, is what you need a faster processor? Is the computer slow because of a slow disk, lack of RAM, or the processor? Compare the speeds of things that use lots of disk access (loading large files) to those that do only processing (there are some programs that calculate pi that you can use for benchmarking... google).

That may cause problems with spacecraft electronics. also... "I'm stuck to the wall! Help me!"

I wasn't sure either, so I just stuck it in "Medicine" rather than a specific forum.

This is probably one of those simple questions that nobody's thought to ask before. Why is it that when humans are very nervous, they have the "butterflies in my stomach" feeling? What neurological system makes that happen?