RogerDodger

I just bought a used ASUS laptop. How can I tell if the drive will let me write to DVDs?

I mean really, sending someone an electronic mail. Yeah right, like people are going to start doing that.

Ok, so I'm looking at this map from the USGS that shows mineral deposits and recommended areas of interest in Afghanistan:

http://thenewslink.com/Afghanistan-Mineral-Map.htm...

These mineral deposits are basically *spread *out throughout the country. The country has little infrastructure, namely no roads and no train rail (and no power-plants). China is to the east and will undoubtedly start building rail and bribing officials, etc. India is further to the South of Pakistan. And don't forget about the Taliban (could someone remind me of where there strongholds are?)

So given the logistic nightmare of this landlocked region, how best can Afghanistan develop its infrastructure for the benefit of its impoverished people - and ultimately allow international entities to openly bid for these resources - again for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan?

The new iPhone 4 is going to be $200 I think; is that right? I mean I just paid $200 for an ithouch like a year ago.

What if you bought it but didn't sign up for a cel phone plan (I just use prepaid). Could you still video conference over wifi? Could you still make calls and surf over wifi?

SEO is such a shady business (imo). How can I acquire inbound text links without dealing with a bunch of small independents?

Hi, we are trying to come up with some ideas to improve this page based on the new $100 bill that's coming out. I placed sample bills going back to 1880 in the right; is this a good idea or bad? Also the article was originally written when it was unveiled, and we included a few basic facts about the security features, but I think we could do a better job on that; perhaps some visuals; not sure. Any suggestions, tips, facts, or a new angle to update the story etc. is much appreciated.

http://www.thenewslink.com/content/us-treasury-rev...

It seems that everybody has an opinion about Arizona's new immigration law. But how many people have actually read it?

http://www.thenewslink.com/content/arizonas-imigra...

What forum or website would be appropriate for this?

The medium will be drawings, characters, political cartoons, social comments, etc. The theme will be ~'Artist responses to current events and news'. It will be a weekly contest, with opportunities for self promotion.

I need to set up a webcam that points down on a table at a text-book or handwritten homework documents that I am working on. (I have carpentry skills so mounting the webcam is not an issue.)

Every day I will be asking *different *people for homework help. If it is a hassle to log in somewhere, or to send attachments via email, etc. then I will have trouble persuading people to help and it will be distracting and too time consuming. (I am trying to create a virtual tutor situation, but sometimes handwritten documents or textbooks become an issue).

In other words, I need to show a stranger a text book, a handwritten math solution, etc. about 2-seconds after I wrote it or opened the textbook etc.

So the two criteria is:

1) it needs to be live, or one click upload to an ftp site (I have go-daddy hosting accounts.)

2) Regarding the actual camera, it needs to reproduce text documents that are legible.

-I have up to $100 to spend on this project.

-I don't know a thing about web-cams.

For this exercise:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xQlPHnRO33YC&pg=P...

I put these answers:

1) me gustan

2) le gustan

3) nos gusta <--- ?

4) les gusta

5) me gusta

6) me gusta

7) le gusta

8) me gusta

(Please note the previous two pages of grammar rules on gustar)

I'm working on this overview for an employer's total tax-related costs for one employee. I'm fairly certain that I wrongly lumped the social security and Fica together at 1.6%. Could someone please help me straighten this out.

50,000

*1.062 Social Security Fica (???????)

+ 434 Unemployment/FUTA (6.2% of 7000) (correct)

*1.0145 Medicare (correct)

*1.003 Worker’s Comp. Ins. (This is a low end “clerical rate”)

225 ??? NC SUTA (New companies start at 1.2% of 16k, but varies widely thereafter.) ???

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54,717 <----total

Statistics: Probability Density Function?

How is this done?

Consider the following probability density function (pdf).

f(x) = 0.6 if x between 0 and 1

f(x) = 0.4 if x between 1 and 2

f(x) = 0 elsewhere

What is the probability that X is between 0.5 and 1.5?

What is the expected value of X?

How is this done?

Consider the following probability density function (pdf).

f(x) = 0.6 if x between 0 and 1

f(x) = 0.4 if x between 1 and 2

f(x) = 0 elsewhere

What is the probability that X is between 0.5 and 1.5?

What is the expected value of X?

I have been given a class that I am supposed to import a text file into. The main looks like this:

public static void main(String args[]){

...

new ClassName(args[0])

}

I am currently using windows xp. While on a Linux system (last semester) we used a command prompt that looked something like this:

java ClassName<file.txt (if I remember right)

That does not work on windows/DOS.

I thought I had it with

java ClassName file.txt

, but that is literally importing the string "file.txt" not the content of the file. The file name is in the correct directory and I double checked the spelling.

What in the correct command prompt that I should be using on Windows XP?

We did something like this in my java course last semester. I need to do it on windows.

In windows I'm using java ClassName file.txt

(note: no left arrow)

It is litterally importing the string "file.txt", not the entire file as a string.

Please help, my day is slipping away.

I know a little java (2nd course) and have learned about the command line argument (on linux) java ClassName<file.txt for using a text file with a class. Two weeks ago I started using eclipse. What do I do instead of the above command line argument when working in eclipse?

I'm doing an experiment for a class. I am going to Home depot and I need something made of iron that is shaped like a wire. the gauge or thickness of the iron should be about that of a copper wire for 110v or 220v household current.

Google feeds their employees (very well), does their laundry, etc. etc.

Is this seen as a perk or compensation by the IRS?

Consider this contrived example, an employer buys an employee an $8.00 lunch every day, all year. Another employer compensates an emlpoyee with an amount that equates to an additional $8.00/day **takeHome** pay (i.e., both employees reek the same benefit). (If we need to get into this, Say it's an employee in the 25% bracket with a clerical workers comp rate of 0.3% and state income tax is 2%). Bottom line: which is the cheaper way to buy the employee an $8 lunch?

If a business owner buys their employees lunch everyday, are there any tax issues or reporting requirements required for doing that?

(U.S. Tax Law)

How is this done?

93% of all students taking a beginning programming course fail to get their first program to run on first submission. Use a binomial distribution and assign probabilities to the possibilities that among a group of 6 such students at least five fail on their first submission.