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    Cumulative Programming Contest

    The problem is solveable, however from what's happened to me already finding a solution will probably take a large amount of time. An easier and quicker sub problem might be to find all the possible words that can be created by adding one letter to an existing word. eg. given car the program...
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    Minority Report (heads up, possible SPOILER)

    Anderton never needs to meet the man he is supposed to kill because with the system working correctly, he is arrested before he can kill him. Since he escapes though, his knowledge of what the pre cogs saw and having one with him enables him to find the man . Anderton is supposed to believe...
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    The Manhattanese Solution

    It should stay how it is. It proves that nuclear weapons are possible to all civilisations on the planet (as happened in 1945). However each civ should have to build a refining plant or nuclear weapons plant before they can build nuclear weapons. The Manhattan project could also count as...
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    Cumulative Programming Contest

    When creating addagrams, how should the next word be chosen if there are multiple words to create eg. race + t = trace race + s = races should we choose arbitrarily (doesn't matter which one is chosen, as long as one is) or is there a definite rule for which one should be added (for...
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    Sudden System Shutdown

    Your power supply or motherboard may be misbehaving. If it keeps happening and doesn't seem to be caused by any single program then this is a probable cause. If it happens fairly rarely its shouldn't be too much of a problem, just very annoying.
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    Utilizing Espionage

    The further away from the capital, the cheaper they are and usually easier to capture. If the city is too far away for you to easily defend, trade it to someone else. With a bit of shopping around you should be able to get more than what you paid for it.:crazyeye:
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    Time for a new computer.

    You also need the most important part of any new computer system - a brightly coloured case. For the mobo, cruise around the manufacturers websites and see what they have to say for themselves. Most of them have specs listed for their products.
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    Any *NIX gurus, or even a newbie, out there?

    PaleHorse If your new to linux in general your best bet is to try either Mandrake or Red Hat Linux. Mandrake is probably best for beginners and is the easiest to install (does yuk partitioning all by itself) and Red Hat is also quite good. If the learning part is a problem try a bookstore...
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    Command and Conquer or Warcraft? Whats the best?!?

    C and C. Definitely. Why? Kane. Bad Russian accents in Red Alert Tesla Troopers that sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger!!!
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    UFO, enemy unknown

    You might not want to get an early version of Xcom Apocalypse. Its Dos/Win95 and since it doesn't use directX for sound, the range of compatible sound cards is very limited. I found out about this the hard way the other day:mad: If anyone else knows whether you can get a directX compatible...
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    OverClocking

    Overclocking, verb; The art of finding the happy medium between "blistering speed" and "blistering hot smouldering lump of silicon"
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    The Points System

    Pummeling her pet with a 6 iron leaves you up five points???
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    Choose your favorite thinnest book...

    How about Non Core Promises that we kept by Australian Politicians.
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    The sequel to NAPSTER is HERE!

    Sun Tzu, the song is "Whiskey in the Jar" from Garage Inc.
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    Favourite Obscure Words

    Sycophant. The worlds full of them. Verbose. As in "extreme verbosity". Smite. What happens to AI controlled civs. Any chemical description of a substance. Llama. It starts with two l's so its got to be good.
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