Becca

I just bought a new laptop, and I think it fulfills all the requirements for Dragon Age, but I don't know if it will work on windows 8. Also, I see a lot of reviews complaining about installing Dragon Age on the pc, and it's got me paranoid... I don't want to spend $30 at steam for something that won't even work on this computer.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/100879/HP-En...

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HP ENVY dv6z-7200 Notebook PC

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Windows 8 64

AMD Quad-Core A10-4600M Accelerated Processor (3.2GHz/2.3GHz, 4MB L2 Cache)

1GB AMD Radeon(TM) HD 7670M Discrete-Class Graphics

6GB 1600MHz DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)

640GB 5400RPM Hard Drive

No Additional Office Software

No additional security software

6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

15.6-inch diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit Display (1366x768)

SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support

HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated dual array digital microphone

802.11b/g/n WLAN

Standard Keyboard

They are pretty much the same, with a few key differences. One is $599, though through rebate you can get that down to $549 (the first one). The second on is $599 after a $100 dollar coupon.

I want to use it for gaming, though not exclusively. See, the first one has a AMD Radeon HD 7660G Discrete-Class graphics card while the the second has a AMD Radeon HD 7670M Discrete-Class Graphics, which according to notebookcheck.net, is a lot better. They have the same processor.

That would make it seem like the second one is the better buy, even if it is $50 more. But then, the first one lists a lot of features that the second one doesn't list, though still may have. So... yeah.

Any preference?

I'm not even going to hope to buy a laptop that can max the graphics for Skyrim, especially with my budget. I'm hoping for something along the lines of 600-700$, though lower is always better (and also wishful thinking). It's not going to exclusively be a gaming laptop, I'll also use it for school. I'm just sort of hoping to play games like Skyrim (which is more of a bar setter, I actually want to play Dragon Age).

I was looking at these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009AF4YRG/ref=as...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009FX5DDW/ref=as...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009FX5BGQ/ref=as...

DON'T GO OFF AND TELL ME WHAT SPECS I NEED. I've been looking through them for four hours, and I don't understand what separates an AMD Radeon HD 6620G from a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260. SO DO NOT GO LISTING OFF REQUIREMENTS. PLEASE. And yes, it MUST be a laptop. I don't even want to see a link to a desktop. So please, just bear that in mind.

Thanks to anyone who is able to help me, or point me in the right direction.

When I was around the age of seven, I got baptized into the Methodist faith with my mother because I thought it was something I wanted to do. It wasn't spiritual for me, I don't remember what it really was, but I don't feel like I did it for religion. Well, now that I'm older, I look back and see a lot of things I'm not proud of, and am thinking of converting/being baptized into Catholicism. Is that possible? Would that have the same effect as being baptized the first time? Or would I just have to confess for five hours straight to be 'clean'?

I have to fly by myself tomorrow, and I want to know how much time I should give myself to get through security.

Also, how bad is Denver's airport, like how hard to navigate is it for a first timer? I have a 45 minute layover/plane switch there, and I'm stressing about being able to make it to the gate.

I'm heading off to college soon, and while they supply laptops, I don't feel like f**king theirs up like I tend to do mine. I was planning on bringing the one I have now, but the way this things been acting up had me second guessing myself. The fan burns my legs after only ten minutes of minecraft using all the lowest settings. I regretably bought Skyrim for the PS3 because I knew this Dell Inspiron 1545 would never be able to handle it. And now, the damn things keeps getting disconnected to the internet; firefox always says can't connect to servers. No matter what browser I use, all youtube videos/loading in general is extremely slow. Not to mention the battery. My god, the battery. The plug literally came out for ten seconds, and right when I went to put it back on the charger, it died, saying it had reached the critical level.

That said, what laptop should I get? My preferences are that they should be able to run minecraft to the point you can have the render distance on far and not go on a lagging spree. I don't really care how big it is, as long as it's portable. It's gonna be staying in my dorm most of the time, anyways (hidden away, for obvious reasons). Good graphics... well, I can never really tell the difference with computers. If it's got a bigger screen than a notebook (or whatever), and can run minecraft/skyrim, graphics should already be a given, right?

Okay, so that's what I've got. Gaming, web surfing, and photoshop (which isn't a problem on the one I have now, so that's why I haven't mentioned it).

I DON'T SPEAK TECHY TALK. I don't know what this 'core, drivers, intel, etc. etc.' means. I can take guesses, but that's all they are, guesses. I don't know model numbers, hell I only recognize the big brand names, so try to dumb the answers down for me...

One last thing. My budget. This one was a christmas gift from... maybe two years ago. Mom payed around 570$ for it. Now, since she's paying my tuition and everything, I want to pay for half of it, but being jobless, I can only afford... $300-400, depending on how good the thing looks (feature wise, not appearence). I'm going to try to convince her to pay the other half (I'm not a brat, I'm saving her two years of regular tuition by being in an advanced program, and when I go to a real college after my two years are up, chances are the college will pay ME).

So that puts us a 600-800, but I'd REALLY prefer to stay under 700.

Thanks!

So I'm on a friends acc (lvl 91, so people tend to think I'm rich even if I only have 40k and a suit of rune), and this lvl 71 girl comes up and says "Want 70 mil?"

I'm like, well, that'd be nice. They aren't asking for anything in return, so why not? Well, unsurprisingly, they declined on the last part before the trade was complete, and logged off.

I've been gone for a while, like 3 years, so I was confused when some random guy who was nearby said don't do it. He said the girl was a scammer, though I can't really fathom how she could possibly be? I mean, sure, she was just rubbing 80mil in my face, but that doesn't make her a scammer. Is there something I'm missing?

It's killing me, I knew the name of it two days ago, but now that I have time to put it on my iPod I can't remember it.

It's kind of old, I'm thinking 1990's to early 2000's, though I'm not completely positive. It's sung by a girl (narrows it down, huh?). And one of the lyrics, though I honest to god can't remember them, is a saying that you might say in a conversation. You know, it's just THAT kind of phrase. That 'phrase', whatever it is, may be the title of the song. It's not a dirty song, and if I had to compare it to something style-wise, I'd say "I'm Like a Bird".

Any help is appreciated, if I can think of anything else I'll put it here.

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It was working fine for me two days ago, but no matter what I do pixelovely.com (a gesture drawing tool site) keeps coming up with this. I have cleared my cookies, cleaned up my files, etc etc. I went to downforeveryoneorjustme and it said it's just me.

Help? I really need this site.

Only anime club, and that doesn't exactly look nice on an application... My grades are 4.57 gpa, I take honors courses, and I'm a sophomore trying to get into an early college program.

I'd say I don't have time for them, but that would be a lie. I do, but none of the clubs really stand out to me. I'm a shy person, so my writing skills can't be incorporated into newspaper or journalism clubs, because I don't really like the interactions they require.

I did get placed for third in the Fibers section of a local art show, don't know if that counts, and I like to write in my free time. Should I say writing and art are my extra curriculars? Or would they rather see social oriented clubs? Keep in mind this place I'm trying to get into is more academically oriented...

I really want to get into this place though, because I think it will help me to branch out and challenge me more. But I don't know if I can get in because of my lack of interaction.

Should I start writing and creating a bunch of appropriate pieces that I could refer to as my extra curriculars? I say I want to branch out, but it needs to be in a new environment with different people who won't look down on me for being smart, kind of like I feel I am now.

Or will I be okay, with my grades and all?

I need some help. I have a glitch, where Rikke is still in the previous camp (not Windhelm camp. Not sure if that's supposed to happen). Also, when I go to get orders from Gen. Tullius, he's not there. He's actually in Solitude, where he always is, with the same dialogue options as always, in a fighting stance. I can't progress, and I've turned autosave off (crashes the game). The only other save I have is way back to the Jagged Crown quest...

Also, when I went back to try to replay from that save point, I took the Axe to Ulfric, and when I left his castle, Windhelm looked to already be on fire, so I just quit there because I figured that's where the glitches started.

Platform: PS3.

Quest completed that may or may not be conflicting with current quest:

Blood and Ice

Theives Guild quest line (?)

Dark Brotherhood quest line (?) (I've killed the Emperor...)

Companions quest line (?)

Also, I had originally decided to join stormcloaks, so had gotten the quest to Join them, but I never got around to it. Also, the irony of joining the people who are dedicated to protecting the guy I killed was way to tempting. Does this little conflict maybe cause the issue?

Fix please? I'm a level 33, 100 smithing, I do NOT want to have to start over because of this glitch :(

I finished everything else. I've gone up to the Rikke, and all she does is scream 'We're taking over the city, join the other soldiers, blah blah blah,' even though their is a quest marker over her head. Then, the other quest thing for the same quest, says to get my orders from general Tullius. I've gone both to Solitude, where he just stands there with his sword out and no useful dialogue options. I go to the Windhelm stables and run up to the city gate, where I'm told they are supposed to be, but the only thing there is an empty space and a floating quest marker. The last save I have is from the beginning of the quest line (NO AUTOSAVES. I've turned them off because my game file is so huge my PS3 keeps crashing on me).

Help?!

Yeah, what the title says. Ordinary light bulb, I think 60 watt. Hasn't been turned on for two long, but it flickered while I'm just sitting her playing a game, and now I smell something weird. It's like a mixture of wetpaint, fishy, and something that smells like it's burning (though not so much the burning part).

Kind of freaked me out. I turned it off, but Imma little scared that something is ACTUALLY burning, like the wires. The lights are in my ceiling fan fixture, if that helps.

In skyrim. I vaguely remember killing a dragon in Riften, and then noticing that all the horses in the stables were (after fighting the dragon along side me :D) ride-able, even though there was no red 'steal' indication. So, I got on one and prances around for ten seconds, got off, and went about my duties. That included leaving shadowmere behind, 'cause I didn't want him dying, which which likely where I was going.

But then again, he may have just died, and if that's the case, I don't know where. It's been a month in game, so he should have re-spawned by now. I've fast traveled, but he's not at the stables. Help?

When the first term is cubic, the second is squared, and so on. I thought I had to group it, but I don't see how to get the right answer that way.

Problem: x^4+ + 2x^3 + 2x^2 - 2x -3a, with a factor of (x-1). Find the remaining factors.

I did the synthetic substitution, and got: x^3 + 3x^2 + 5x + 3, but I don't know where to go from there.

The answers are supposed to be (x + 1) and (x² + 2x + 3). Help?

This is what I have so far:

4x^4-14x^2+12=0

Q=2x^2

(Q)^2-7(Q)+12

(Q-3)(Q-4)

2x^2=3 and 2x^2=4

x^2=(3/2) and x^2=2

And then i'm supposed to square root those fractions to solve for x. The answers are supposed to be Plus or minus 2 to the square root of 3 over 3, and the square root of 15 over 3. I don't get how to do that. I though it would just be the square root of 3 over the square root of 2, and the square root of 2. I don't know how to get the right answer.... Help please?

I just feel so... sad. Angry. Stick with me people, it may be long, but it needs to be said, and I need your help.

No matter how hard I push myself, my shyness doesn't allow me to reach out to others. If someone, a stranger or a person I moderately know, tries to strike up a conversation with me, I either go blank, and have to give simple answers, or the answer I do have comes out as a jumble of words. That limits me to the friends I've had for the past years, or the ones I make through other friends.

The ties I have with my friends now are fraying more and more as high school progresses. I only have one friend that occasionally comes over to my house. Always the same one. And we may well be going our separate ways next year.

School is also literally killing me. I push myself to exhaustion to keep my all A's, especially in my hard as **** honors classes. I'm applying to go to an academy next year, just so I have a chance to get in if my friend does. They'll go without me. I won't without them.

When I get home from school, I do 4 hours of homework. Keep in mind, I'm a sophomore. After that, it's to the laptop for the rest of the night. No texting. Just gaming, writing, drawing, and surfing.

And at night, I lay awake, like I am now. 12am, on a school night, been up since 5am, had four hours of sleep. And all I can think about is the future. The future that I'm afraid I'll have.

Between my shyness, my slipping friends, my stressful school life, and depressing home life... I'll put it this way. If I'm struggling now, with socializing and sophomore classes, how can I expect to do well (or even get into) a good college? And if I get that far, who knows how I'll do on a job interview? Or a JOB?

I know what several, if not all, of you will say. 'Get a hobby, find a sport.' Sports are OUT. Not only can I not play them, but I have a hard time communicating with the other players. And I have hobbies. Writing and drawing. If I can, I want to make a living off of one or both. But that's a long shot, and my amateur writing and art, though they may astound my relatives, will hardly pass the test of the big league critics, or even that small, payed-for article in the newspaper.

A few more things: I refuse to drive right now, too many almost accidents (this is a problem if I have a hope for a job or college). I can't talk to my parents because they just tell me that I need to be more social. I think we've established, that I CAN'T. It's not that I don't want to be, it's that I literally can't without coming out looking snobbish ('I'm to good to talk to you, so I'll just end it here with a simple answer), or mentally incapable.

It all comes down to this. I see my struggles now as having a domino effect. My trouble with keeping good grades in just the 10th grade will mean my grades will slip either later in high school or college. This will cause trouble for my already handicapped chances for a good job, since I have both a lack of things to put on my resume (sports, honorable clubs), and my inability to get a sentence out without stuttering. This will mean that I'll have to either live with my mother for years to come, or take my chances with any small amount of cash I do have and get an apartment to retain my dignity. Which is a shame... Everyone I know - Everyone - has high expectations of me. And the fact that I know these expectations are just out of my reach, that even if I jump I won't be able to meet them, crushes me. Disappointing them will leave me purposeless, because despite my antisocial tendencies, I'm still a kind, polite person, and an overall people-pleaser.

And when I think all these things... I cry. Because I feel that there is no way out, at least not one that's in sight. And this burden that all these expectations are putting on me... I just feel like I'm suffocating. I can only be social when my friends are with me, but with them leaving, gradually mentally or physically, I kind of left with little choice. I am a dependent person, I've accepted that, but it's getting too hard to live with. In the modern world, it's kind of impossible.

I need your help. Just voice your thoughts, there's no question here, not really. I don't mean to sound self pitying, and I'm not going to commit suicide (though if I had a choice, I would die young). I just need help, some feedback that's not coming from my parent's, a counselor, or any biased person.

Thank you for you time, and please, for my sake, be serious.

My mom really needs Internet Explorer 8 for her work computer. Apparently, Explorer 9 or and of the other BETTER browsers may not be compatible. But when I got to microsoft's website, there's not download for Windows 7.

Help me out?

Today was supposed to be the first day of my Sophomore year. I didn't go, because I got sick at 12:30 this morning, and again ten minutes before I was supposed to wake up.

What I want to know, to those of you who have also missed your first day, did it mess things up at all? I'm a little concerned that I'll have a difficult time getting the papers and information that's standard procedure for the first day.

I'm 15, I'm looking for flights so I can go see my dad in California. Thing is, I found a flight... there's only one seat left.

Good new, it's a windows seat. The bad news, since it's the only seat left it's likely someone else in that row will try to take it. I'm a 15 year old girl, what the hell can I do to them?

So my question to you is this. You are 15 years old, and are traveling for six hours alone (without a friend or family). You walk to the back of the plane to see someone is sitting in your seat. What do you do?

Scenario A: The seat they switched with is in the same row, either the aisle or in the middle.

Scenario B: The seat they switched with is in a different row entirely, aisle or middle.

What would you do?