quote: Dumb Stunts, Smart Show The Discovery Channel’s new Friday-night hit ‘Mythbusters’ applies the scientific method to hoary urban legends. Don’t eat another poppy-seed bagel until you’ve seen it.
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so should i mention that i could've scored higher if it wasn't for the lack of funds that keeps me from having things like a labtop, or pdas, or cool wireless gizmos?
i guarantee Leto gets a perfect score. anyone want to take bets?
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I like the episode where they disprove the whole "drop a penny from the empire state building" thing. A penny reaches a terminal velocity of about 65mph as they measured using a windtunnel. At 65mph, a penny barely leaves a mark on cement, and has no chance in crushing a human skull, as the myth says. Then, just to have fun, they shot pennies out of a hunting rifle. Yep! shattered that skull. Still didn't imbed in the concrete though.
OOR the one where they go into a police station, get trashed, then see if anything that is said to fool a breathalizer actually works. Mouthwash, for example, did the opposite. Boosted the bloodalcohol reading from .13 (where they actually were) to .43 (.5 is considered lethal). WAY TO FOOL THAT MACHINE! yay you're almost dead
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Well... it's 144. But, if I pretend I have all those things like Bluetooth and PDAs and such, I get a 170. Money really can buy you intelligence... well indirectly anyways.
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111. If I was wealthier and could buy things like PDA, bluetooth, etc. it would be like 130+. But it was very fun indeed. Posts: 1785 | Registered: Oct 2003
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ok, i got my score up to +3. am i taking a different test or are the rest of you just that deep-seated in technology?
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I agree Tres, those dang things are more trouble than they are worth. Yay! I can write stuff on it like paper, only its not paper! and it costs $300!
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Mythbusters rocks. Last night they painte dthe bald guy in latex paint to see if the myth was true about people dying from reaction to the chemicals. He looked histerical all painted up. The chemicals didn't bother him but the lack of oxygen from the latex messed with his blood pressure and heart rate. Very cool!
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I don't own a cellphone, either. And I'm planning on getting that extra laptop battery, so I'm a bit ticked at losing points there.
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My handspring visor is quite useful, particularly its ability to hold a small library's worth of books.
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This former programmer only got 100 . . . but I take exception to some of the things they took off points for (which had nothing to do with knowledge).
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quote:You know, having used a PDA, I think you should lose points for having one...heh...
quote:I agree Tres, those dang things are more trouble than they are worth. Yay! I can write stuff on it like paper, only its not paper! and it costs $300!
Says you. My PDA/Cell Phone is a lifesaver, and I'm actually pretty literal in saying that. Easily the best purchase I have made in the last . . . heck, aside from a car and engagement/wedding rings, this is probably the best purchase I've ever made.
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a 107 probably exactly where I belong. I don't pretend to know as much as TomDavidson gurus but I generally understand them when they talk techie.
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117, and I reiterate the gripes the rest of the non-wealthy have been making.
And one of the questions seemed like it may have been wrong (can't say, since they didn't give the answers). Having a faster processor can, in fact, speed up your Internet downloads, but only if you use dialup and have a winmodem. This is because winmodems have no actual modem hardware, so all modulation and demodulation is done in software. I suppose it's really more like a really old processor can slow your downloads, but still...
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saxon, assuming a fairly recent computer (big assupmtion for some folks!) a winmodem's performace hit would be negligible. Probably unnoticeable for most folks, I should think.
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Pff, that test was unfair. Of course I open random email attachments and don't have virus protection software! I have a Mac! Who on earth puts virus protection on a Mac?
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You know, I have to admit that there have been times when I, in my darker moments, have thought about writing a virus to exploit one of Apple's announced bugs, just to see all those people who have Macs running around in circles asking each other why their Finder is acting weird. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Go ahead and try. Even knowing exactly what the vulnerability is, I bet you'd have a tough time doing anything bad to a remote Mac.
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The problem is, in the past, no self respecting virus writer owned a Mac. Maybe now they have a BSD based OS, someone will get a decent virus out there.
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I think it may have been all the wireless network stuff that put me over. Wow.
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