or

2- ~~Buy a TL tank top ($12).I doubt this will happen so guess my favorite smiley to get a key.~~

or

~~3- Write a sentence (in English) that I don't understand which forces me to look up at least 4 words in that sentence.~~

or

~~4- Be the 118th person to post in this blog (can only post once per page).~~

Contest is now over.

PainBall

Sweden111 Posts

May 14 2010 16:30 GMT

lol 118th?

this is jst 2 much

kOre

Canada3617 Posts

May 14 2010 16:32 GMT

1-Unmount the drive.

konadora

Singapore50080 Posts

May 14 2010 16:33 GMT

1-

http://forums.techarena.in/customize-xp/218346.htm
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-fix-corrupt-drive-icons-in-my-computer/

try these

Palewolf

Sweden14 Posts

May 14 2010 16:36 GMT

That that is, is. That that is not, is not.

uNiGNoRe

Germany1093 Posts

May 14 2010 16:37 GMT

3- I didn't write this sentence myself but I found it while I was searching on the web and I found it kind of amusing.
"The most successful cutting plane approaches are based on polyhedral theory, that is they replace the constraint set of an integer programming problem by a convexification of the feasible zero-one points and extreme rays of the problem."
From http://iris.gmu.edu/~khoffman/papers/set_covering.html .
I don't want a key, just thought it was worth sharing.

Kralic

Canada2616 Posts

May 14 2010 16:43 GMT

3-
Voila this contest is superfluous, I would need a Milreis tossed into a well of some sorts to ward off any hoodoo, but it does have the potential for rigmarole in the end.

Good luck to all!

Edit: Key is for my friend.

krndandaman

Mozambique8311 Posts

May 14 2010 16:44 GMT

--- Nuked ---

QuickStriker

United States3694 Posts

May 14 2010 16:47 GMT

3. so I don't understand what this question is asking so I'm assuming I have to look up any 4 words of the sentence in #3 with a definition. Thus, I went to my trusty friend, urbandictionary.com:

I - A letter that overly energetic high school girls add to their otherwise traditional names to make them "cute".

Example: Cheerleader: Hi, I'm Jenni--with an i! And this is my friend, Christi.

Don't - the act of not doing

Example: don't eat my bananas!!! -oov

*warning - the definition for understand at urbandictionary.com IS LONG*
Understand - that capacity of the intellect(with the aid of the body and the senses), alongside reason(with which it exists in reciprocity) which enables man to have insight and substance to the words and concepts he makes use of. not only that but to see, to perceive.

in its essentialy quality of being it is feminine.

for simplicity's sake, we may remind ourselves that we have a brain which has two hemispheres, the left hemisphere correlated with the right hand and has to do with rational thought, reason and logic.
the right hemishpehre correlated with left hand, and has to do with imagination, originality, 'irrational' feelings so on and so forth.

the understanding enables us to add new data to an idea, under a concept, words. and synthesize differnt elements from differnt ideas and concepts. it is creative.
reason enables us to analyze, critisize. but the understanding enables us to see immediately when its enough, to have temperamence and ingenuity, what time , continuous strife and practice in themselves cannot give us.
it is true, reason is that which makes us differnt from the 'animals' (or our 'lower' nature). but in a way the understanding is that which makes us different from robots.

interestinly enough, the term understanding isn't only used in psychology and philosophy, but in our daily regular and subconscious speech.

Example: "now i see, now i understand"

words - An answer to someone babbling on...a sarcastic response to someone talking about a subject that you don't care about or understand.

Example: Person A: "blah blah blah, Last night, blah blah blah"

The beta key is for my friend who has yet to secure one and begged me to get him one which I hope to bring him to TL and the wonders of TL to him in exchange...

caelym

United States3936 Posts

May 14 2010 16:53 GMT

#10

Within the existential morphology and phonology of the human communication schema, the portmanteau is inly used to describe sordid colloquialisms used by the proletarian, which have now amalgamated with middling language.

^what i wrote is probably false. i just wrote it for this contest

EDIT: what i wrote is OC, not some copy pasta. gimme brownie points please

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 16:54 GMT

#11

Lol, Striker look up at the three posters above you.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 16:54 GMT

#12

On May 15 2010 01:32 kOre wrote:
1-Unmount the drive.

How do?

Masamune

Canada3172 Posts

May 14 2010 16:59 GMT

#13

offtopic, but I found it adorable how the non-english native speaking posters have sentences that are understandable lol. awwwwwww

ZBiR

Poland1092 Posts

May 14 2010 17:01 GMT

#14

3.
Due to the need to manufacture heterojunction bipolar transistor devices with extremely high-doped thin base layers, molecular beam epitaxy is principally employed, although, in addition to base, emitter and collector layers, highly doped layers are deposited on either side of collector and emitter to facilitate ohmic contacts, which are placed on the contact layers after exposure by photolithography and etching.

Pika Chu

Romania2510 Posts

May 14 2010 17:01 GMT

#15

On May 15 2010 01:54 BuGzlToOnl wrote:

Show nested quote +

How do?

Try disabling it in device manager.

Edit: Oh no, i misread.
Guess it's a virtual drive then?
Type diskmgmt.msc in run, then just delete the drive.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 17:06 GMT

#16

On May 15 2010 02:01 Pika Chu wrote:

Show nested quote +

Try disabling it in device manager.

Edit: Oh no, i misread.
Guess it's a virtual drive then?
Type diskmgmt.msc in run, then just delete the drive.

It's telling me all data will be deleted. I don't want to delete all data. o_O!!

Also yes its an external HD.

decafchicken

United States19598 Posts

May 14 2010 17:11 GMT

#17

3)
But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

I'm sure one of those sentences has 3 words you don't know

Pika Chu

Romania2510 Posts

May 14 2010 17:11 GMT

#18

It's an external HDD you have plugged in?

I don't really understand what you need, you want that H: doesn't appear there/not a partition anymore? or you simply dislike the fact that it shows a broken icon for the drive in explorer?

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 17:13 GMT

#19

Dislike the fact that it has the broken icon. ^_^

Pika Chu

Romania2510 Posts

May 14 2010 17:14 GMT

#20

How about follow what i wrote on my first post and then instead of deleting the partition try giving it a different letter assignment. That might fix it.