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If I'd just made a billion-dollar deal for my company, I'd sure look long and hard

If you'd just made a billion dollars, you would look long and hard to most women out there!... money... the best aphrodisiac! Just like The Professor says. w00t! for 101

http://www.blowmeuptom.com/

Listen to The Professor sometime and get schooled.

I used to support lots and lots DELL laptops. My former department purchased a few hundreds of them to brib^H^H^^H^H^H^H for a certain of group of people so that they can do their Academic work "better".

As of the past 3 years, I have been recommending less and less DELL computers do to a high rate of DOA's and defective units. It goes up to 30% of the DELL computers we purchased.

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For those who missed one part of The Tom Leykis Show about the girl who asks for donation for her UCLA funds.

Here's her website, and ask yourself if this is for real.

If you want a bully, try Tom Leykis. Meaner than Stern, but then also way smarter. Total asshole bully. But then, he gets chicks to get naked for him, and he's old, fat, and ugly!

Mr. Leykis, to borrow from the Budweiser commercials, you're a Real American Hero. :-)

Tom Leykis would like to know how many TechnoGeeks and Poindexters are listening to his show! Especially the ones that are using Mac OS X.

1-800-5800-TOM

1-800-580-0866

Yes, DTB!!!!!!!!

DUMP THAT BITCH!

Go here serious as a heart attack. Find a station that runs hist show and listen to it on the way home from work -- especially Thursday. It would be a healing experience for you.

.... when you can get better advice for free:

http://www.sosuave.com/ - this one is my favorite for content, but the interface sucks

I haven't looked at this one much, but it has potential.
http://fastseduction.com/guide/

and a couple more:
http://www.blowmeuptom.com/index2.html

http://askmen.com/

No, I wouldn't consider myself a player - far from it, but yes I do read these websites. You can always learn from others even if you don't agree with their philosophies. If you'd consider yourself more of a "niceguy" than a "player", you should still read this stuff and figure out what you need to do differently to start scoring.

Good FM talk radio in the morning??!? Those shows fucking suck. Every last one of them. Listening to that shit is the purest form of torture ever invented.

No, the only good FM talk radio is only on in the afternoons. Period.

It's like this. "Water seeks it's own level. Women seek the most wealthy guy they can attract, and men seek the most attractive women they can afford." And it's fucking true.

If your wearing some nice threads, sporting a gold watch, and driving a BMW, they are going to think you are loaded, even if your living in poverty because of your BMW payments. They wont hesitate to get in your back seat, thinking that they will be getting a piece of your bank account at some point. It's basically nothing more than legal prositution, but that's how it works.

More nookie would have been nice, but girls only take up your time nad spend your money

Ok, if you're spending too much time and money on girls you just wanna lay, you're doing it all wrong! If you're in the Seattle or Los Angeles areas, I suggest you listen to Tom Leykus's talk radio show. Thursdays is Leykus 101, where he teaches guys to stop being pussies and start getting laid, without having to spend a lot of money on the girl.

Tom's actually got a pretty apt observation of how things really work: guys go for girls with the looks, girls go for guys who (look like they) have money. Use that knowledge to manipulate your way into her panties.

Me myself? I'm happily married, but I still agree with 90% of what Tom has to say...if you want to get laid, follow his advice! If you're looking for a relationship, you should probably still follow his advice, cuz you probably just want to get laid and you just think it's a relationship you want.

These are the two very different goals that guys have when meeting women. Many (most?) "geek" guys are more interested in having a relationship. A good one may include the other part anyway. ;-) Most "normal" guys are more interested in getting laid, with as many women as possible. In most cases, these two goals are mutually exclusive. So, you face a choice.

If you want to get laid as much as possible, follow the advice of the Tom Leykis radio show. Be a jerk. Don't call her back. Tell her you'll call on Monday, then don't call til Thursday. Don't spend money on her -- make her pay (say you forgot your wallet, etc). Don't be available when she wants to go out, make her think you have more important things (or women) to do than her. For the type of woman who will screw anything that moves, this will only make her want you more. Go out on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Don't go out on Friday or Saturday unless it's a guaranteed lay - remember you want her thinking you're doing something even more fun without her.

This stuff works, as long as you're willing to do hot chicks who've done dozens (if not hundreds) of other guys before you. A great little trick they've been talking about on the show lately is to make up fake ATM receipts with large account balances. This should be easy for the geeks - just scan your receipt, edit in gimp to give yourself a 6 figure balance, and print. Crumple it up a little to make it nice and believable. Then talk to some hot chick, tell her you have to go to some important meeting but give her your phone number and write it on that ATM receipt. She will call and you will get laid.

Now, let's face it. Many of us geeks are nice guys and just don't have the balls to do stuff like the above. We don't get laid by chicks like that - not because of our looks, but because we treat them nicely (oh, he's so nice -- and boring!!). But for many of us (myself included), that's ok - we'd rather run nothing but Windows 2.0 than have anything to do with those brainless dopey chicks who put out on command. I mean, come on -- ewww! Do you know what (or how many different... 'things') have been in that? No thank you! Have some self respect, lady!

For those of us in this group, we want a real relationship, with a lady who has a brain. I'm proud to say that I found one, without being a jerk, and ended up marrying her. I'm totally shy and awkward, with no confidence in social situations. So what worked? Personals.

Many people still look at personal ads with a stigma -- "Oh, he couldn't get a date so he had to resort to THAT! What a loser!" But screw them. It's practically the perfect way to find the right person, not just someone who's ok. Find out about the other person before wasting time or investing a lot of emotion into it. Search, wait, and hold out for that perfect gal (or guy).

Personally, I used Yahoo! Personals, about 4 years ago, back when it was still free. I responded to about 2 ads a week - some went as far as phone calls, some even went to a dinner date after several emails and phone calls. None went farther because none of these women felt "right." I never felt totally comfortable. That's ok, though. Nobody needs to be in a rush for this stuff!

Finally I posted my own ad and got 2 responses. One was thousands of miles away looking for a penpal. Ok, whatever. The other started emailing back and forth and then we started calling each other. The first night we talked for 4 hours on the phone. I never do that, much less with someone I've only emailed for a week. Needless to say, it was a sign that she was "the one." I felt totally comfortable on our first date (SW Episode 1 -- the movie sucked but the date rocked!). We just belonged together. 3 years later we were married.

So, you see, I am a big proponent of personals if you want to find that special someone. It worked beautifully for me, though that's no guarantee for anyone else. Relationships are a lot of work, no doubt about that - but what you get out of it is much more than you put in (and much more satisfying on all levels than the guys above who are just getting laid with a bunch of skanks -- but hey, if that's your thing, great! Have fun!).

Unfortunately most of the sites now require payment. That sucks but totally understandable. I don't know if I would have met my wife if one (or both) of us had had to pay. There's no guarantee that you'll get anything out of any one ad, so it's a crapshoot, with pretty poor odds. For geeks, though, I can recommend Peer2Peer which is made only for geeks. I believe it's still free, but it's been some time since I looked at it.

Anyway, good luck, be smart, and have fun -- whether you choose option #1 or #2, they're both ok as long as it's right for you!

FM is ad-ware like everything else that's crap. What's worse still, is they are the same stupid advertisements occupying 25% (generally) of the time you listen to radio. In fact, if it weren't for Loveline (Adam rocks!) and Leykis101, I would not listen to any radio. So please people, quit saying this stuff is free, it's not by a long shot.

You mean this one?

From Mechanical Metallurgy by George E. Deiter 3rd Ed.

The hardness of a material is a poorly defined term which has many meanings depending upon the experience of the person involved. In general, hardness usually implies a resistance to deformation, and for metals the property is a measure of their resistance to permanent or plastic deformation. To a person concerned with the mechanics of material testing, hardness is most likely to mean the resistance to indentation, and to the design engineer it often means an easily measured and specified quantity which indicated something about the strength and heat treatment of the metal.

After that the chapter briefly discusses how the different tests work, and some light derivation including a special case of finding the tensile strength. (Incidently, this conversation is why I provided a link to Powell's collection of Mechanics of Materials texts; I wanted to avoid it.) A link to convert hardnesses for steel into tensile strength. I might remark that given strength is simply a load over an area for a certain event, and any hardness test also uses a load over a slightly more complicated area (with some other considerations) one might readily and correctly assume they can be related. I might further add, that MY contention that strength and hardness are related is not even addressed in any of your definitions. I feel little need to offer anything in the way of proof, but since you seem to require it, this web site might be illuminating. Also any materials, and most mechanical, engineering departments will have a similar poster in their hardness testing labs.

Don't think me cruel, as I don't intend it in this fashion, but I had noticed the ASM site had a section called "Ask ASM" where you can pose questions, and thought it clearly marked. I suppose you could also write your local physics, mechanical, civil, or materials engineering departments as they almost certainly answer all sorts of questions. They are typically given to grad students to answer in math and physics departments.

I'm sorry you didn't see the value in links that I hoped you would find useful. I tried my best to keep everything simple and accurate, I hoped others would find it interesting. But it would seem you have little if any interest in finding answers, which is fine. But if you're not going to seek illumination beyond that of a poor dictionary, for the life of me I can't see why you quibble with mine. The fact is they created a new phase of steel (I took this as an obvious point from the press release, clearly I was in error). If you still believe they did not, you MUST also believe glass and quartz are the same. Which is your perogative. A new phase is better than simply a new alloy, as their figure of 16 GPa certainly shows. As a final token, here is a Iron-Carbon (Steel) phase diagram, note the lack of an amorphous phase (I realize it is quite busy, but it at least shows what steel fundementally is). In closing, you see what everyone else does, what you want to. Maybe this is what I get for picking nits.

Do not listen to Tom Leykus.

Do not goto This website.

Do read Cosmo.

Do make your boyfriend take those tests as they really will tell you what's going on in your relationship.

Do ask him what he is thinking, preferably if he's watching his favorite sports team.

However, if he's watching his team in the playoffs: Turn off the TV and tell him you want to talk about your relationship.

Your boyfriend was actualy a composit of all man and so is an accurate depiction of any individual man. Your milage will not vary.

Do generalize all of his traits to the larger population, as they will certainly hold true.

But most importantly, make sure the next guy pays in full for the crimes of the last.

Only in this way will two people ever find true love.