Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate

This sounds like a dumb question (and it probably makes me sound stupid): how does rocket propulsion work in the vacuum of space? It seems to me as though the engines would have nothing to propel the rocket/ship/whatever off of; nothing to "push" off of, so to speak. Is my understanding of space, or air in general, skewed?

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"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

Makes sense. Thanks.

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"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

There is a video where His Holiness Carl Sagan shows how the earth's circumference was measured waaaaayyyy back when. I'm at work and can't remember what video it was. Youtube somewhere, I'm sure. Something about shadows....Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

Open up a command prompt, then type in then, when the ip is flushed, type (note a space after ipconfig)However, there could be a number of reasons for this happening and the above will only resolve the issue if it is due to your machine. for example, on my Windows 7 Ultimate machine right now, I get the same icon when my modem loses connectivity even though my PC's IP address is fine because my router acts as a DHCP server. It is apparently indicating to me a loss of internet connectivity, whereas prior versions of windows did not do this.Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

i am on my phone because my internet is down ATM, so my resources are limited, but I found this: answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090131123734AAYJyuG.what os are you running? hopefully the problem isn't something worse than a simple IP error.....forgive my formatting, it's not fun doing HTML on a phone...

I assumed winblows because it looks like vista/7 network connection icon.

there is no help for you......

It's time for Santa Claus to get his fat ass onto his sleigh and bring me my god damned toys!

Network driver upgrade/reinstall. Figure out what model motherboard, your operating system (32bit or 64bit?) and go to the motherboard manufacturers website.If it is a store bought machine (HP, Dell, eMachines etc.) then go to their website. Dell actually has a utility that all you have to do is type in the service ID or some shit and it knows what your machine is. Fuck Dell, though, and I'm sorry if that is what you have.Sorry if this is stuff you've already covered upthread, I couldn't be bothered to dig through your replies. I'm only on coffee numero uno yet.

My little pony something or other.

In laymens terms, why do gas prices (the prices we pay at the pump) fluctuate on a daily basis? Why is it the only consumer item that does this (if not, what others are priced this way and are at a consumer level)? At it's purest consumer form (I'm talking out of my ass here), gasoline isn't some commodity for every day consumers that they are "lucky" if they can get. No, it is something they have to calculate into their budget (myself especially who has a ~1 hour trip to work each way).If i break it down to how my dumb ass understands it: the fuel mart buys X gallons per month or something at X price, then charges us some portion of what a barrel of oil costs that day as opposed to any other good where the merchant recoups his cost for what he paid. I mean, if your grocery store changed the price of bread daily due to wheat cost or something, we'd surely find a different grocer, yes?If this sparks a huge discussion, I'd be glad to start a topic so we don't muddy this thread.

I need your help man. I need to change my Windows 7 language (on my HTPC) from Dutch to English and fuck me if I can't read Dutch for shit....

Well, i didn't exactly want to have to look up each individual word as i went along. Anyhow, I figured it out and it sucks because windows doesn't appear to actually translate everything. I'm just going to aquire an English version. Thanks anyways.

I could, but Linux requires far too much fucking with and it will be an HTPC/Print server only AND be for my wife. Even as a print server alone, Linux is too much to fuck with. Sure, for basic internet browsing, Linux "just works" and for hardcore *nix heads it's fine. But I am neither and it is too much to deal with. Plus, Linux still hasn't got robust enough HTPC software.

Is there an easy mental note one could use to determine which usage/spelling should be used? Something similar to "I before E except after C".Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.