The Disciple

Recently replaced the power cord twice. Whenever I unplug it from the wall outlet and/or plug into a surge strip and then plug it back into the wall, the cord fails and no startup occurs. I'm thinking the outlet or the PSU.

In an NCAA regulation swimming pool, there is a flat paper cup (the fountain soda kind with the wax). Again, the cup is flattened and laying on the BOTTOM of the pool filled with water. It is unlikely that it has been taped or otherwise attached to the pool floor.

How is this possible?

On my Windows XP machine, the time zone picture when you adjust clock settings (and allows you to toggle DST) is only showing part of Europe or something! I'm in the U.S. but the image is incomplete. Is this a bug with the DST patch Microsoft released?

I have plaid/checked dress shirts and striped ties that match in colors. What are the rules and etiquette concerning mixing checked shirts with striped ties?

I have heard and read conflicting opinions on this!

My television picture has suddenly become larger than the glass screen itself and the picture gets cut off on all sides. The corners/sides of the picture are warped and skewed. What is wrong and how do I fix it?

I'm in college and just made a new friend. We are both a bit shy and I want to know what we should do and go to hang out for the first time. This is not necessarily going to lead to romance, it may just be friendship.

For example, the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album has been issued with the "Rainbow," "Purple," and "Orange" labels.

What is the difference? And which is/are the original release?

I'm 20 and I have a well defined "love trail" from my abdomen to my naval.

However, the lower portion of my body is covered in thick hair, yet my torso is not nearly as harry. To me, it looks disproportional. It looks like I wax or shave my back, but I don't. The hair begins on my lower back.

I've just started to sprout hair on my chest, which I thought was a bit delayed.

Is this normal?

And is it unattractive to females?

On my Dell Inspiron 600m, the bios screen where the blue bar appears and you can press ctrl + F11 to get the Symantic System Recovery Tool has disappeared.

It happened either when I flashed the BIOS or when I tried installing a second Windows OS.

I still have the tool on my hard drive, but I can't invoke it from the BIOS screen on startup.

How do I get that blue bar back at startup in order to invoke the recovery tool?

Or is there another way to use the tool?

Now that Rod Smart has been released by the Raiders, I'm not sure how to write to him. How may I write to him?

Where can I get a He Hate Me jersey like the one Rod Smart wore when I played for the Las Vegas Outlaws XFL team?

I tried eBay, but no luck there.

Is it true that you should save your edited jpg images as TIFF images instead of jpg? I read that saving edited photos to jpg causes loss of data and distortion after several edits/saves.

I have a USB external hard drive and I want to install WinXP on a partition I created and Vista beta on a second partition of the external drive.

I want to do this from my laptop. Can I boot from the CDs and do the installs on the external HD that way?

The college I attend has partnered with a music company to provide music downloads that are "tethered" to your PC.

These downloaded songs can't be burned to CD or placed on an MP3 player.

I understand this layer, but how does the technology itself work, that it doesn't allow these operations?

Btw, I'm a computer science major, so I want to know the technological aspect of this technology.

I want to uninstall MS Visual C++ 2003, but I've lost my key to install it again. Is the key in the Help-->About box?

In JAVA, I have to write an abstract Vehicle class with subclassed abstract Car class with subclassed CompactCar.

Also, how do I pass the private data members through each class?

A college (java) programming assignment requires the following:

abstract class Vehicle

abstract class Car (derived from vehicle)

public class CompactCar (derived from vehicle)

Can you derive Car from Vehicle and then derive CompactCar from Car?

Wouldn't it be simpler/better design to just derive NON abstract CompactCar from Vehicle rather than having an abstract Car class as a "middle man"?

I have an abstract superclass Vehicle, derived class Car, and derived class CompactCar:

public abstract class Vehicle

{

public Vehicle(String Model, int Mileage, String VIN)

{

pModel = Model;

pMileage = Mileage;

pVIN = VIN;

}

//abstract public String getVehicleInfo();

abstract public void setReservation(boolean reservation);

abstract public boolean getReservation();

abstract public String getVehicleType();

abstract public String getVehicleNumber();

abstract public int getMileage();

//private data members

private int pNumberOfSeats;

private boolean pIsReserved;

private String pVIN;

private int pMileage;

}

//car class

public Car(String Model, int Mileage, String VIN)

{

super(Model, Mileage, VIN);

pVIN = VIN;

pModel = Model;

pMileage = Mileage;

}

//driver program

Car c = new CompactCar("Nissan", 20, "23537HYHU5");

int i = 0;

i = c.getMileage();

This keeps throwing an error saying no identifier in the above line.

How do I fix this??

Is there a number "500 thousand million"

A friend asked my and I wasn't sure.

If it is a number, what does it look like?

I'm 20 and I'm attracted to older women like 30-50. But never been in a relationship with one.

How might I approach a woman of such age and get something going, whether casual sex or a relationship?