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veni veni veni posted:Is it normal for a 35 year old to want to hole up and watch movies on New Year's Eve in leu of going out with my friends? I can't tell if I'm getting anti social or if I'm just getting old? Yes It's both
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veni veni veni posted:Is it normal for a 35 year old to want to hole up and watch movies on New Year's Eve in leu of going out with my friends? I can't tell if I'm getting anti social or if I'm just getting old? You should go out with friends. Or just do as you wanna. But a life defined by what you watched is not as good as being around people.
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Jan 1, 2017 01:15
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I'm 40, and unless you fight it, it just gets worse with age. Find some middle ground between never leaving the house again, and being a social butterfly. Not to say you have to go out tonight, on the worst of all nights, NYE, but make a goal to get out of the house with friends once a week or so. It's like exercising. Makes you a better person.
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Jan 1, 2017 01:35
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Powered Descent posted:Just be warned that the word "malaise" is inextricably linked to Jimmy Carter. not to anyone under 40 it isn't
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Jan 1, 2017 01:38
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Earwicker posted:not to anyone under 40 it isn't Yeah, Jimmy Carter was a good guy.
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Jan 1, 2017 01:49
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Jimmy Carter: great ex-president, meh president.
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Jan 1, 2017 02:21
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I did a clean install for an old PC I'm selling that uses Windows 7 for its OS. I've been trying to make it update and its been showing "Searching for updates" for maybe 6 hours now, with no indication that it is actually doing anything. Am I missing something here?
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Jan 1, 2017 04:43
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Leal posted:I did a clean install for an old PC I'm selling that uses Windows 7 for its OS. I've been trying to make it update and its been showing "Searching for updates" for maybe 6 hours now, with no indication that it is actually doing anything. Am I missing something here? Me too, but make that 48 hours. I'd be keen to know the answer as well.
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Jan 1, 2017 05:05
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Hyperlynx posted:That is 100% definitely absolutely not a robot. He's just speaking clearly and deliberately, and I can't figure out how that's ambiguous. That's just an Australian accent, not a robot accent. He's pronouncing some things very oddly. Most notably, the T sound in certain words. I think maybe his natural way of speaking is to replace those T sounds with D sounds and he's over-correcting?
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Jan 1, 2017 05:09
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Leal posted:I did a clean install for an old PC I'm selling that uses Windows 7 for its OS. I've been trying to make it update and its been showing "Searching for updates" for maybe 6 hours now, with no indication that it is actually doing anything. Am I missing something here? I'd link it for you, but I'm on my phone.
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Jan 1, 2017 05:11
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Leal posted:I did a clean install for an old PC I'm selling that uses Windows 7 for its OS. I've been trying to make it update and its been showing "Searching for updates" for maybe 6 hours now, with no indication that it is actually doing anything. Am I missing something here? The core problem you have is that the Windows Update code you have is too old to actually get recent updates. And on top of that, there's a good 5 years of updates since Service Pack 1. Here's what you need to do: First download and install this package from Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810 You'll scroll to Method 2, and then pick the "All supported x86-based versions of Windows 7" file for 32 bit or "All supported x64-based versions of Windows 7" file for 64 bit. After you do that, you'll go here and download this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3020369 Follow the same steps you did for the first update. Then do it again, with this one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083710 Follow the same steps Finally, though this is optional, you'll want to do this last step. It'll save an hour or two of further updating. You need to go to http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3125574 and download either " Update for Windows 7 (KB3125574) " for a 32 bit system or " Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3125574) " for a 64 bit system. This is a package that bundles up a ton of the updates from SP1 all the way to not too long ago. If you're not sure whether you need 64 or 32 bit, don't worry. If you download both and try to run the wrong one, it'll just tell you so. You can then switch to the other. Also, you do need to have Service Pack 1 installed first, though your clean install probably has it. If you don't have Service Pack 1, you can easily get it from Microsoft.
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Jan 1, 2017 06:39
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fishmech posted:The core problem you have is that the Windows Update code you have is too old to actually get recent updates. And on top of that, there's a good 5 years of updates since Service Pack 1. Here's what you need to do: I got the first 3 installed, after having to do some weird thing where I had to disable the wuauserver in admin command prompt and rerun the files to get them to install... except for KB3125574. No amount of turning off wuauserver and retrying is working out. What is also bugging me is that if I disconnect while trying to use windows update it doesn't even react and tell me the computer isn't connected to the internet so it can't download anything. I also can't cancel it. Its like the program does nothing after opening it besides entering an endless loop. Leal fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Jan 1, 2017 09:10
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Well, installing those KBs appears to have done it! I had to stop the Windows Update service before each one, though. Thanks!
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Jan 1, 2017 11:41
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I had the exact same problem, but couldn't find a fix and in the end just converted them to windows 10.
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Jan 1, 2017 14:21
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How come phones these days can get away without external antennae? Is it because there are way more towers, because antenna design has improved, or something else?
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Jan 1, 2017 14:22
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hooah posted:How come phones these days can get away without external antennae? Is it because there are way more towers, because antenna design has improved, or something else? You can't really get around antenna length (that's a physics constraint), but signal processing is much better so you don't need it sticking out in mid air anymore.
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Jan 1, 2017 16:15
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Leal posted:I got the first 3 installed, after having to do some weird thing where I had to disable the wuauserver in admin command prompt and rerun the files to get them to install... except for KB3125574. No amount of turning off wuauserver and retrying is working out. Don't worry if you can't install that one, it's optional. hooah posted:How come phones these days can get away without external antennae? Is it because there are way more towers, because antenna design has improved, or something else? The external antennas had been ornamental for a while, like 20 years. You mostly needed them on old analog-only phones because analog cell phone systems require significantly higher transmit power and more reception sensitivity. Later digital phones stuck the antenna out a bit, but they usually only did so because they ran out of space inside the rest of the handset - and in other designs, just because people expected there to be an antenna nub.
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Jan 1, 2017 17:44
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Can anyone answer this question about the Avengers movie? In the scene where the Avengers and Nick Fury are arguing about Furys use of the cube to make weapons (just after the Loki/Black Widow prison cell talk) things are ramping up and getting more heated, coming to a point of crisis when David Banner looks down to realize he has somehow unknowingly picked up Loki's scepter. Before anything can happen the computer pings to let them know it has located a large gamma signature (the cube) Banner looks at the screen mutters "Oh my god" in a shocked voice and is promptly interrupted by the possessed Hawkeyes attack. My question is: Why is Banner so shocked? What caused his reaction? The cube is nowhere near the Avengers so what has the computer detected?
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Jan 1, 2017 19:10
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What do you call the frost that forms on trees and then falls to the ground so it looks like snow even though there hasn't been any snow?
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Jan 1, 2017 20:26
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You're probably thinking of rime or hoarfrost.
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Jan 1, 2017 21:09
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Is this tablet battery something I should actively look to replace? Bottom left of pic. 
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Jan 1, 2017 21:53
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504 posted:Can anyone answer this question about the Avengers movie? Did you know that David Banner became the Hulk when he was exposed to gamma radiation? Therefore a large gamma signature could indicate that he was about to change again?
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Jan 1, 2017 23:45
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I googled it using the basic details of the "cube in new York" answer, looks like that's it. Although, technically it doesn't really matter where Lokis doing it, so big deal if its in NY.
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Jan 2, 2017 00:37
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What animal makes tracks that look like thiscode:
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dokmo posted:What animal makes tracks that look like this Galloping rabbit, I think.
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Jan 2, 2017 03:06
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Looks like a human shoe. They usually have two feet though, so my only explanation is some sort of cryptid.
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Jan 2, 2017 11:30
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Can I ask a question about SA? Do we still have a pen pal/ goon mail thread?
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Jan 4, 2017 03:52
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In Windows 10, when you're looking at a folder and you start typing, it searches that folder and its subfolders. Is there a way to make it not do that and instead just highlight the first item in that folder that matches what you typed, like it used to do in earlier versions of Windows?
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Jan 4, 2017 07:35
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Is this tablet battery something I should actively look to replace? Bottom left of pic. If it's a LiPo (Lithium-based) - yes. LiPos spontaneously combust when breached.
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Tiggum posted:In Windows 10, when you're looking at a folder and you start typing, it searches that folder and its subfolders. Is there a way to make it not do that and instead just highlight the first item in that folder that matches what you typed, like it used to do in earlier versions of Windows? It still does this for me. How are you getting to that folder? Also, is the file pane in focus? Do you click or tab over to the box where the files are shown first?
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Jan 4, 2017 14:06
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tuyop posted:It still does this for me. How are you getting to that folder? I just open "This PC" in start, navigate to any folder and start typing. 
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Jan 4, 2017 14:27
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What is the thing in device manager (I'm on Windows 10) to reset associations between USB ports and devices that have been attached? My phone suddenly needs a new one every time it's plugged in.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:20
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Tiggum posted:I just open "This PC" in start, navigate to any folder and start typing. Yeah, that behaves normally for me. Must be a setting somewhere(s).
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Jan 4, 2017 23:57
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Tiggum posted:In Windows 10, when you're looking at a folder and you start typing, it searches that folder and its subfolders. Is there a way to make it not do that and instead just highlight the first item in that folder that matches what you typed, like it used to do in earlier versions of Windows? In the Folder options, View tab: make sure "When typing into list view" is set to "select the typed item" is selected (it's near the bottom of the list).
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Jan 5, 2017 00:08
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pylb posted:In the Folder options, View tab: Thanks, that did it. 
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Jan 5, 2017 01:55
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hooah posted:How come phones these days can get away without external antennae? Is it because there are way more towers, because antenna design has improved, or something else? Antennas are fractal shaped now as they get better gain that way. It used to be that a long stick got the best reception, now it is known that a flat fractal pattern works better. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph250/ferguson1/
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Jan 5, 2017 14:51
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We really are living in the future.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:59
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If you take a picture, you own the copyright to that picture, so if you take a screenshot of a game, do you own the copyright to that?
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tight aspirations posted:If you take a picture, you own the copyright to that picture, so if you take a screenshot of a game, do you own the copyright to that? No. Same reason you can't take a picture of a painting and make reproductions of that. Needs to be an original creation.
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