Bill

Never thought about this until today... Why does a ratcheting torque wrench have a reverse?

I could only think of 2 possible answers:

1) so you could attempt to determine the torque when removing a fastener.

2) so you can "knock" a socket loose if it gets jammed on the head of a fastener.

Not being able to remember the name of this movie is driving me nuts. Here's what I remember:

I'm pretty sure it was a 70's film. I only remember 1 human being in the film. He was the captain of a spaceship, tall, thin, blonde curly hair and was always dressed in a white jumpsuit. There were three "robots" on board as well. Each was kind of square in shape and rolled on tires (I think a better description would be trapezoid shaped). I seem to remember them being called 1, 2, and 3. I remember it was an agricultural type ship and I also remember the captain goes nuts... cabin fever for lack of a better term.

The spaceship was triangular shaped, with three spheres at each corner of the triangle.

I think the actor's name was Bruce, but I'm not sure of that.

Lastly, if I got any of the details wrong, please don't slam me.

I'm a very confused. I've used 2 wattage calculators (on line) and have come up with DRASTICALLY different wattage estimates. So here is what I have for a system:

Biostar TA780G M2+ motherboard

AMD Phenon x4 9550 quad-core cpu

Ultra X-Wind Aluminum Socket K8/AM2 CPU Cooling Fan

4 x Kingston PC6400 800MHz 4GB DDR2

1 x 140mm case fan

EVGA GeForce 9500 GT Video Card (PCIe 2)

Seagate 160GB Serial ATA 7200/8MB/SATA-3G

no optical drive (I use a portable usb dvd/cd-rom drive with it's own power supply)

I use the Motherboard's on board audio and network cards

Currently I have a BFG 450 watt power supply that has no problem what so ever running this system. and surprisingly the case is nice and cool.

I'm upgrading the video card to a XFX Radeon HD 4890.

one wattage calculator reports the wattage total (with new video card) as 281 watts, the other reports 586 watts. So which one is closer to the truth?

btw the two calcualtors are:

http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.ht...

I'm a 38 yo male and since I've been old enough to date I have been hearing the sentence "...but we're such good friends and I don't want to lose that". Or the alternative "It would be like dating my brother". Now, I'm not a model, but I'm handsome enough. I have a good personality, I'm funny, witty, happy, etc. I do have a daughter (who lives with her mother) who was born when I was 20. It has happened so often that my will stipulates my epitaph: "He was everyone's friend". (no lie, that's actually in my will.) But I'm really sick and tired of this. It happened again with a woman yesterday (christmas day). We've been dating since November, dinner, movies, meeting each other's families, etc. but no physical contact. Then yesterday she tells me "I don't want to ruin the friendship we already have." This last time she told me "Sometimes friends become lovers". I told her "Your lips to Gods ears, because it's never happened in my lifetime except on TV." Honestly I have 4 sisters and more than a dozen friends that I've gotten this way. At this point I've got enough "friends" I want a lover. BTW I'm not an idiot, I realize these ladies are hiding behind this statement and are just not being honest with the reason they don't want to date me. But while I generally become their best girlfriend, this seems to be something they won't talk about. Honestly, what the hell is going on, what am I doing wrong?

Where does that quote come from? I seem to remeber it being a movie but it could be TV. And I'm not thinking of Jeff Goldbloom in Jurassic Park and ID4.