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I'm curious about the americanbulls.com site, which provides buy and sell recommendations based on candlestick analysis. It shows ridiculous returns, like 500%, but I understand the catch is that their buy/sell recommendations are generated at the end of the day, so it's essentially a...

The Kardashev scale (I assume that's what you mean by type III) only describes energy use, and is probably irrelevant to describing advanced civilizations. They may have no interest in harnessing huge amounts of energy. What many people don't understand is the exponential rate of technological...

This Apple monitor is about as good as you can get currently, although you're paying a premium for the Apple name. PPI (pixels per inch) is simply the number of horizontal pixels (1920) divided by the display width (20.35"). It's a measure of pixel density, nothing more. A lousy 15" monitor...

This Apple monitor is about as good as you can get currently, although you're paying a premium for the Apple name. PPI (pixels per inch) is simply the number of horizontal pixels (1920) divided by the display width (20.35"). It's a measure of pixel density, nothing more. A lousy 15" monitor...

This Apple monitor is about as good as you can get currently, although you're paying a premium for the Apple name. PPI (pixels per inch) is simply the number of horizontal pixels (1920) divided by the display width (20.35"). It's a measure of pixel density, nothing more. A lousy 15" monitor...

This Apple monitor is about as good as you can get currently, although you're paying a premium for the Apple name. PPI (pixels per inch) is simply the number of horizontal pixels (1920) divided by the display width (20.35"). It's a measure of pixel density, nothing more. A lousy 15" monitor...

Most HDMI outputs on computers are video only. Only a few recent video cards include audio. You didn't say what model the computer is, but I would be surprised if it has audio on the HDMI output. But almost every receiver made in the past ten years includes optical (TOSlink) and/or coax digital...

Most HDMI outputs on computers are video only. Only a few recent video cards include audio. You didn't say what model the computer is, but I would be surprised if it has audio on the HDMI output. But almost every receiver made in the past ten years includes optical (TOSlink) and/or coax digital...

It depends on the specific model, but almost all surround systems have a way to select stereo mode only. But I find that using a surround mode like Dolby Pro Logic II on stereo music sources provides a far better listening experience. It transforms stereo sources into a sound field that is much...

If you paid to have installation done, you need to have them come back and correct the problems at no charge. To help you, we would have to know how the Blu-ray player is connected to the sound bar and TV. With HDMI cables? Only HDMI can carry the lossless audio tracks (Dolby TrueHD and...

I've only owned road bikes before, but would like to get something for the trails near my house. The trails are fairly smooth, no mud, so don't need a heavy-duty mountain bike, but there's a lot of gravel in some places. I'll still do some road biking with it, but nothing serious. I assume I...

Most image files (such as JPEG, GIF, and PNG) are already as compressed as they can be. You can use a compression program like Winzip, Winrar, or 7z, but it will have little or no effect. JPEG provides the most compression, since you can set the quality lower, which loses detail. If you are...

You have formatting marks turned on. The backward P is a paragraph mark, tab is shown as arrow, etc. Open Tools > Options and uncheck all the Formatting Marks (exact method of opening the options dialog depends on the Word version). Edit: Kathy had the right answer, I forgot there was a...

You have formatting marks turned on. The backward P is a paragraph mark, tab is shown as arrow, etc. Open Tools > Options and uncheck all the Formatting Marks (exact method of opening the options dialog depends on the Word version). Edit: Kathy had the right answer, I forgot there was a...