Nick

I need to know the name of this part (circled in red in the pictures) and what it does, from a 2000 Cadillac Catera. I have searched the entire internet and have found nothing, and I don't want to have to buy a chilton manual. So does anybody know what this is?

http://i.imgur.com/eJlbJe4.jpg

http://imgur.com/PgclwEP.jpg

Okay, so I went out on a date with this girl last saturday during christmas break, and now that school is back in I've learned that the Sadies Hawkin's dance ( usually a girls-ask-guys dance ) is January 25th. I thought about asking her to the dance, but it's not very traditional to do so, so I asked some people about it, and everybody else says to except my brother (Junior, I'm a freshman). He says that if she really wanted to go out with me she would come ask me (which makes sense), but she's a very shy person so I don't know if she would even if she wanted to. What do you guys think?

I have an old runescape account (I think it was created late 2005-early 2006), but I had stopped using it about two years ago. Well, I forgot the current password, but I would like it back. I know the original username/password for certain, unsure quite when it was made, I'm pretty sure of the email, and I know the recovery questions I set. I entered this into the account recovery request form, but it was denied. I'm not sure what to do from here. Any help here?

I started Spanish 1 in high school a few weeks ago, and since then we have learned a few basic greeting and other stuff. I discovered a gender indifference in buenos dias, buenas tardes, and buenas noches. I asked my mom about it last night, and she said her college teacher had a good answer, but she couldn't remember it. I then asked my teacher today, and she just said it was just another Spanish exception and that we will come across more later. She didn't provide a reason like my mom's teacher did. So what is the reason?

I have been creating a Minecraft texture pack, and I'm a little scared of when the 1.2.6 update comes that I won't be able to update it, and it will be a lost project. How would I be able to fully update it, without having to re-do every single one of my textures? should I just layer my terrain.png over the new one? But then there are all sorts of other files to do that with, so that wouldn't really be a good way of going about it. Can somebody help me?

and I'm getting kind of nervous. I've never really flown in a plane before. How can I keep myself from getting too nervous? My plane takes off at like 11:30 tomorrow. :P

I recently got the inspiration to start programming iOS apps (not sure why this happened but okay). I did a little research on the matter and I have found out that I need to install the mac OS to program iOS directly, although I can just start learning Objective-C and see how far I get with that (and then if I get far enough I'll worry about the mac OS thing). Problem is, I can't find any compilers for it. I can find IDEs, but I don't want to go through the troubles of learning an IDE along with the language (I'm transitioning from Java, so it's already hard enough). Is there some sort of development kit that I'm unaware of?

I want to make a 2D, side-scrolling platformer inspired by Minecraft. I'm doing this in Java, but I just need to know where to begin. I figure I should begin with the grid system, but I don't know how to start building that. Any help?

so, I decided that I wanted the Little Blocks mod on my server, but havn't put any mods on the server (just plugins). I knew that it's designed to be put straight into a .jar file, so I put it in craftbukkit's .jar file. I also installed modloader MP, and, figuring it couldn't hurt (and after trying it without), the regular modloader. I ran the server, tried it, and I get a flash of the little blocks block, but then it went away. How can I solve this? I'm running craftbukkit-1.1-R4.jar.

I don't get AMC anymore, but want to watch the show. After hours of searching, I have found that it's a mid-season premiere, not season 3. So which episode aired? 7 or 8?

I have been investigating why both my threads can't run at the same time and I found that each thread has a priority, and threads that have a higher priority are executed in preference to threads with a lower priority (if you don't believe me go into eclipse, type the word Thread, and hover over it with your mouse). I believe setting both of my threads to the same priority might solve my issue. Any help on doing this?

http://pastebin.com/xXUNLtW9

You guys may have seen the same issue I had before. The entire program is grey until up press the a or d buttons, then it flickers to the game, then back to grey. The next time you press the button, though, you can see the blue box had moved, so the key listener is working. If I comment out the super.paint(g) line, then the key listener just doesn't work at all. Help?

I just started using Eclipse (like, 10 minutes ago) and I figured out how to start a project. I copied and pasted my code (~400 lines long) and at my class declaration ( class Racing extends JFrame { ) it gives me this error:

The serializable class Racing does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long

I don't know what this means, nor how to fix it. What I can get (I think this is something along the lines) is that I declared a long variable final (or maybe not - it's complaining about one of those). Is that what this means?

http://pastebin.com/AMfbEA0e

I get twelve errors when compiling asking for a class, interface, or enum on a bunch of random lines. Normally this is because I miss/add a bracket, but I have checked all of them and nothing is working. Any help on this?

http://pastebin.com/b6i2CEBm

Whenever I run my program it flashes- from a grey color to the game. The controls work fine- for a little bit, then they just stop working. I don't think there is an error in my Move1 or Move2 classes, because it happens even if I don't press a button. Help?

http://pastebin.com/hAPBUs2E

my compiler doesn't like line 23, and I don't know what's wrong with it. help?

I want one of my buttons to play a sound, but have no idea where to begin. I have looked at the AudioSystem class but that just makes it more confusing. I just need a way to play my sound. Note- it's in .wav format, I don't know if that affects this process (probably not, but just to be safe).

I this segment of code:

int startChoice = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,

"Who starts this game?",

"Starter?",

"X, please!",

"O, please!",

JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION,

JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,

red);

and it's giving me that error. I know what it means, I just can't fix it. I was trying to edit the button texts, but it isn't working. Help?

I need an example of editing the text of two buttons in a confirm dialog box. I've never done this before, nor learned how. Help?

http://pastebin.com/15L15FQD

it compiles, it just doesn't run. I type the command "java TTT" in the command line and it just sits there and does absolutely nothing. I think my while loop is still infinite- I was having the same issue a few days ago but can't get rid of it. I set pretty much the entire frame properties inside the while loop so it wouldn't be infinite. Any help?