Recent content by leroyjenkens

Thank you very much, jedishrfu. I was kinda hoping for this kinda answer and not hoping for it at the same time. On one hand, buying a new computer is easy, and I've had my current one for quite a while. But on the other hand, it will probably be much more expensive than just replacing a couple...

Thanks Bill and Ibix for your responses. I thought about a container with low pressure in it having its lid opened for air to rush in, but I wasn't sure how much of that sound was due to the edges of the container vibrating from the air brushing against it. I have read a bit about cavitation...

I have a camera that can shoot in 4K video, but trying to edit the footage is very laggy and my computer won't export the footage in 4K. I'd like to upgrade the computer I have instead of buying a whole new one. But I'm not sure what exactly I need to upgrade and what to upgrade it to. My...

I have a friend who has a film with teleportation in it, and when the people teleport, it makes no sound and doesn't have any effect on the area the teleporter left or arrived at. Since a teleporter leaving a location would create a vacuum the size of their body, and the air would quickly...

I'm going to Italy in September and I need advice from people who have been there on what I should do about travel within the country. I planned on renting a car, but I keep reading that driving in the big cities can be a huge headache, battling the traffic and finding parking, and in a place...

Thank you for the information, guys. And thanks for the breakdown there, Bandersnatch. I had the complete wrong idea of how taxes worked. Thanks.

The numbers are gross. They're the numbers straight off my W-2's. I just noticed that in 2017, I made $29,615, and the federal income tax withheld was $3,256. In 2018, I made $36,892 and my federal income tax withheld was $3,386. If I calculate, proportionally, how much my income tax withheld...

I made $29,615 in 2017 and my tax return was $838. I made $36,892 in 2018 and my tax return is $592. I didn't go up a tax bracket. The only thing different is I made a little more money. Why did my refund go down? Any ideas?

I just got my Kindle, I'm able to connect to the wifi easily, but whenever I try to get on the internet with it, nothing loads. Everything tells me I have no connection. When I connect to the same wifi with my phone, the internet works just fine. I've contacted both Amazon and my internet...

I suppose I could try an HDMI to VGA cable, but it makes me wonder how compatible the two devices will be if I need an adapter for them, i.e. will the video and audio look and sound as good as it could if I just had a graphics card with an HDMI port? I think I'll go ahead and just purchase a...

Hello, I just got a TV for the first time in about a decade, so I'm unfamiliar with TV's that hook up to computers, but this is the only way I'll be able to watch anything on this TV. The first is a picture of the connections I have on the back of the TV. The second one is the connections I have...

Hello. I went to the plastic surgeon last year to have a procedure done. He told me what he would do and I waited a few months for my insurance company to respond to the surgeon office's inquiry to find out how much I would be paying and how much the insurance company would be paying. I found...

That's a good suggestion, but I think any light that isn't reflected off of that material is absorbed by it. It's hard to believe any visible light is penetrating it. The range of wavelengths that it reflects goes from the visible spectrum all through the infrared spectrum. I think if any light...

I procrastinated big time about getting some solar filter or solar film or something to make my camera capable of filming the Sun, and now I can't find anything. I tried buying replacement glass for welding masks, but even with 4 sheets of it stacked together, the Sun blasts right through it...

Thank you. The derailleur gears are a great suggestion. For my application, I would need to think of a way to change gears without them being in motion. You mentioned a variable diameter pulley. I think that could work. That would be more difficult to construct, and I would need to think of a...