Randomness Resurected

**dj_stick** · Mar 11, 2006, 02:18 AM

blu-ray is people

Sandok · Mar 11, 2006, 02:24 AM

Hahaha well should I stickie this thread?

(PS: Not allowed to I think...)

**dj_stick** · Mar 11, 2006, 07:20 AM

it was stuck for a while, but that ended

does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac stays up all night wondering of Dog really does exist?

SFOSOK · Mar 11, 2006, 02:26 PM

SHors?

LuCifer · Mar 11, 2006, 02:51 PM

Music is Life

Sandok · Mar 11, 2006, 03:54 PM

Thus life is music

Dark Lord · Mar 12, 2006, 04:02 PM

i hate idiots.

my sister was complaining that her computer wasnt working. no suprise there, she always screws it up.

anyways, this time she was saying it wouldnt even start. well i hop on it, but it really is acting odd, and for some reason there was about 50 tasks running, and i couldnt get into task manage with ctrl alt del.

i turn all the crap off, virus scan, reboot. in the post its makeing this god awful beeping noise. check disk flashes up but quickly dissapears. im in windows, but a couple of warning logs pop up momentarily and are gone as fast as they appeard. then the system reboots again for some reason.

this whole time im thinking, what in the hell is going on here? ive never encounterd anything like this.

and then i realise what the problem is. she has crap piled a mile high on the keypad with the enter key stuck down. i pulled hte keyboard out from the mound and everything works just fine again. did a reboot and the sound was gone, the warning logs were what i thought (nothing to worry about) so i just clicked do not show and now its all back to normal.

Sandok · Mar 12, 2006, 04:21 PM

Hahahahahahaha! Well I wish all my probs were that simple

CDsDontBurn · Mar 13, 2006, 02:53 AM

the sky is green, smoke is blue, pirates are legit, legitimacy is fraud, fraud is good, good is evil, women are evil, evil is money, money is time, time is life, life is valuable, value is golden, golden is the rainbow, rainbows are gay, gay is happy, happy is mastercard, mastercard is ATI, ATI > nVIDIA, nVIDIA is green, therefore nVIDIA makes the sky

Dark Lord · Mar 13, 2006, 03:01 AM

its also apparent that you have absolutly no life

CDsDontBurn · Mar 13, 2006, 03:29 AM

O rly?

Duranix · Mar 13, 2006, 04:06 AM

ya rly!

Dark Lord · Mar 23, 2006, 05:51 PM

damn it... this is going to be expensive. i found out why my fuel filters were plugging up so fast in the vette. i actually took a look inside the gas tank today, and the inside of it is coverd in rust. in the bottom of the tank, theres piles of rust down there next to the sending unit.

sooo... im shopping around for a new tank now. looks like its going to 200+ for the damn tank, and about 4-6 hours of work takeing the old one out and putting the new one in.

not a project im looking forward to.

pr0digal jenius · Mar 24, 2006, 12:34 AM

for the cost of a replacement tank you can usually find a 12-15 gallon fuel cell if you look hard enough

I'm in the same boat, and I get to unbolt the rear crossmember in order to get the heatshield off so that i can even get at my tank...fuuuuunnnn

Dark Lord · Mar 24, 2006, 01:21 AM

heh, thats not so bad. the recommended way to get at mine is to lift the body off the frame.

if you dont want to go that far, you pull the mufflers off.

thank fully, last time i was able to get away with just pulling the tire carrier off, on hooking the mufflers from the hangers, and spreading the mufflers apart. was a tight fit, but it did make it out.

as for those fuel cells, i already run out of gas fast enough in this thing. a 12-15 gallon cell would cut my max storage by 1/4-1/2 seeing as i run a 20 gal on it right now.

really gotta see if i can get my hands on a 'tanker' gas tank. i dont know how they ever cramed them in, but from 63-69 they had a 36gal tank option on them.

CDsDontBurn · Mar 28, 2006, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark Lord

i dont know how they ever cramed them in, but from 63-69 they had a 36gal tank option on them.

that's a crap load of gas on one tank! But question is.....would you ever top it off

.

i wish my car had a larger tank. even an extra 2gal of fuel would make my car a drive a little longer. on 14.5gal of fuel (my tank is 15gal), my car can travel 260mi. not very far.

Dark Lord · Mar 30, 2006, 01:42 PM

im not entirely sure what my mileage is, but i think i get about 160-200 miles on my 20 gallon tank right now. thats 8-10mpg.

would i ever fill up the 36 gallon tank? i most certinaly would. with how much i drive the vette, i would probably only need to fill the tank twice for all of my summer driveing. of course at going gas prices, it would cost me 102.24 to fill that sucker up.

Sandok · Mar 30, 2006, 03:53 PM

8-10 mpg?!

Damn that's horrid....

Dark Lord · Mar 30, 2006, 08:46 PM

hah ya it is. gas mileage wasnt really all that important back in 69 when gas was only 50 cents a gallon. was all about high horsepower and speed, damn the fuel economy

Razgriz · Mar 30, 2006, 09:04 PM

my truck used to get 6.....sucked bad

Dark Lord · Mar 30, 2006, 09:24 PM

heh, i bet. i doubt your ran on premium gas though. right now its almost 3 bucks a gallon.

grog · Mar 30, 2006, 10:07 PM

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May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!"
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Computer engineers chose to introduce randomness into computers in the form of pseudo-random number generators. As the name suggests, pseudo-random numbers are not truly random. Rather, they are computed from a mathematical formula or simply taken from a precalculated list. A lot of research has gone into pseudo-random number theory and modern algorithms for generating them are so good that the numbers look exactly like they were really random. Pseudo-random numbers have the characteristic that they are predictable, meaning they can be predicted if you know where in the sequence the first number is taken from. For some purposes, predictability is a good characteristic, for others it is not.

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Sandok · Mar 31, 2006, 11:46 AM

Hey I got a puny car and all but I wanna know, since it's a manual, I know I can burn rubber

Just the question is, how?

Do I need alot of gas and little clutch or vice versa or what?