Callipygous

no idea what any of that means, but... 1. double posts are frowned upon and 2. you seem to have missed the forum that would probably be most helpful: applied mathematics. the first thing they list under it is statistics. i think there are people here who can help you with pretty much anything, you might have to wait for them to come online though : P good luck.

and yet everything he says fits neatly into a pattern that sounds completely yoda (with the exception of plot developing sentences, the importance of which forces yoda to put it into the standard english vernacular so the other characters/audience understand better). please dont kill me AP, but some of yours just dont quite ring true.

the thing that gets me isnt yodas unique sentence structure, but that for some reason no one here has yet succeded in duplicating it correctly. he doesnt just throw crap in random places, he switches two specific parts of sentence structure.

were we under the arrogant assumption that humans were past evolution?

oh how i loathe this riddle... it doesnt have a real answer, and the answer they expect doesnt even actually work in the punny way they try to do it. you look in the mirror and "See what you saw" (riiiiight) you take the saw and saw the table in half. two halves make a whole, you crawl out through the hole.

so you think making a solar cell takes more energy than that cell will produce during its entire lifespan?

because batteries are expensive and have lifespans. its much cheaper and easier to just pump it back into the system and still buy your power from the company, then just give it back to them with your solar. the power company has much more efficient batteries than you. they are called lakes. all they have to do is reduce the flow during the summer (when the houses are more able to carry themselves) and then release more in winter when solar production goes down.

i dont know about other states, but you cant make profit off of it in california. you can earn back your entire bill, but its just a reduction to your bill, not selling your energy to the company. so the best you can do is not have an electric bill. my teacher did it to his house. its really not a cheap project. he got 2 arrays of panals on his house, i dont remember the exact dimensions, but it was something on the order of 10ft x 25ft for each array. they put out enough power that, with the difference in winter and summer output and all that, throughout the year he breaks even. he puts back as much power as he uses. so its making him around $150 a month. he says it should pay for itself in around 15 years. i should also note that he got some pretty awesome discounts for various things. i think it came out to about 2/3 price in the end.

is said it detected that the norton on access scanner was already active and that theirs couldnt be active at the same time, so it turned off its IM, email, on access, and whatever other scanners it had. but antivirus was alread removed from my system, only the firewall was still there. i removed the firewall and it started doing fine. is there a free firewall i can get too?

how do you make a raft big enough to support several tons? much less get the block onto it?

avast seems to be clashing with my firewall. does it act as a firewall as well, or do i need to have another program dealing with that?

the subscription on my antivirus software just ran out and i really dont feel like (ie, cant afford) throwing more money at it. so im curious, are there good, reliable, and most of all, free antivirus programs? if so, where can i get one? (and no, yourdad, i dont feel like hearing about how i dont have to worry about viruses on linux, )

i can sort of see how a flood might make it easier to move a gian block, but i dont entirely get it. i have trouble imagining them making a boat big enough to actually float an entire block, but it would be easier to lift with a lot of it under water, but i would imagine the hassle of having everything flooded would cause them more problems than actual help. how did they do this?

btw... i cant find psydo anywhere. is this supposed to be psuedo? or does it actually have some meaning i cant find?

rofl so were clear? im a fanboy and your "too gay" to realise im right. glad we covered that. and back on the topic: linux wins if you want lots of web browsing and similar activities, windows will probably be less hassle for most of your gaming needs. done?

im the fanboy... good to know. good call, this discussion has gone down the tubes anyway.

which tells me that your family never does anything deeper on that computer than double clicking the icon for their browser. what a shock that they wouldnt see a difference...

i dont remember the specifics, i dont really need to. having to learn a new system is the reason linux will not be replacing windows in most peoples homes for a long time. its pretty common knowledge. linux fans PRIDE themselves on the fact that they use a system that is designed for more capable users. windows is designed so grandmother can use it. im not gonna try to explain all the new and different things that make it confusing for someone whos used to windows.

weve covered the fact that i have tried linux. if were switching over to such blantantly false statements as this im done.

it really isnt. first of all, it suggests that linux is about as much better than xp as xp is over 95. it also suggests that its about the same as far as what new things you have to learn. neither of those is true.

major differences in windows xp... more things are automated and they made the bottom bar prettier? there are plenty of differences, just none that really require you to learn anything new. bad analogy.