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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:He means that 350GB is plenty for normal usage, and you're only likely to go over if you're running torrents. Right. It's highly unlikely you'll hit the 350GB limit if you're using your connection for a normal amount of Netflix, and any amount of gaming or web browsing or voice/video chat, or even downloading a bunch of stuff. The only way you'll hit that limit is pretty much if you're torrenting while not at the computer.
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Sir Jebus posted:The internet package I'm considering getting has a 350gb "useage allowance". I do a LOT of streaming (netflix etc) and gaming. In laymans terms, how much useage is 350gb?
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Bittorrent and netflix aren't the only things that use large chunks of bandwidth these days. Digital distribution of games, for example - I know 350GB wouldn't be enough to reinstall my entire Steam collection, if for some reason I wanted to. That said, 350GB is lovely in principle, but is pretty high for capped internet and is unlikely to be a problem in practice. To put this in perspective, you could: - play TF2 eight hours a day - watch an HD movie on Netflix every evening - install The Force Unleashed, famously the largest game on Steam, once a week just because you can - and torrent fifteen seasons of HD television every month And you'd still have around 20GB of bandwidth left for porn, if you still have time for it after all that. In other words, it's a high cap. Pretty much the only circumstances in which you'd have to actually worry about it are: - downloading way more media than you can plausibly consume in a month - sharing it between several people, all of whom use it very heavily - special requirements, like downloading hundreds of gigabytes of experimental data from the lab on a regular basis
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Is there any way to change the default font for Google Docs?
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We've seen it in Cube, Ghost Ship, Final Destination 2, Piranha 3D, and even Piranha 3DD. What I want to know is: How remotely realistic is it for a wire to slice through someone like that? How sharp and fast would it have to go to slice someone cleanly in twain without them being dragged along by the impact? Bone probably being stronger than flesh, what if it was just a boneless fleshbeast, a la Honey Boo Boo Child? And what if it was a normal human being with bones and feelings? I've heard of people being killed by a snapped wire like that, but the image in my head of that happening involves the wire not moving cleanly through them, but rather kind of obliterating them on contact. The difference between a small caliber round and a high-powered rifle. How does it really go? How much has Hollywood been lying to us?
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Golbez posted:I've heard of people being killed by a snapped wire like that, but the image in my head of that happening involves the wire not moving cleanly through them, but rather kind of obliterating them on contact. The difference between a small caliber round and a high-powered rifle. How does it really go? How much has Hollywood been lying to us? I remember a Mythbusters episode about this. I couldn't find the clip but I found a summary. Basically, they weren't able to cut a pig in half with any of their varying lengths/widths of snapped cables. After they tied a cable around the pig and used a forklift to apply force they were able to bisect it, but that's a pretty different kind of tension. I know that lines have been known to remove limbs and cause fatality through the sheer force of the trauma, but straight-up slicing through someone seems pretty far-fetched.
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My wife lives in California and got a Jury Duty summons. We have a 1-year old at home and she's the primary caretaker, we don't have daycare or anything. She sent in the form asking to be excused because of this and was denied. What recourse do we have?
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FCKGW posted:My wife lives in California and got a Jury Duty summons. We have a 1-year old at home and she's the primary caretaker, we don't have daycare or anything. Take the letters and go and talk to a person? She may also qualify for a postponement, which the court may feel will give her time to make alternative arrangements.
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What's a good--or better, official--term for someone who is book/self-educated on a lot of subjects and therefore is sporadically incapable of properly pronouncing odd things (like foreign ministers, cities, etc) aloud? I figure the least I can do when I apologize for being one is be concise. 
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Liebfraumilch posted:What's a good--or better, official--term for someone who is book/self-educated on a lot of subjects and therefore is sporadically incapable of properly pronouncing odd things (like foreign ministers, cities, etc) aloud? I'm sure there's a precise linguistic term for "being able to read a word but not know how to say it properly", but I've jokingly called the disease 'bookworm's tongue'. I found out 'conquer' wasn't pronounced 'con-queer' in the 6th grade. 
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I got sent to remedial reading/speaking class in third grade even though I was reading at a high school reading level because I had bookworm's tongue and people thought I was a dumbass. What set it off was me being practically unable to read "The Emperor's New Clothes" aloud. gently caress "emperor."
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Liebfraumilch posted:What's a good--or better, official--term for someone who is book/self-educated on a lot of subjects and therefore is sporadically incapable of properly pronouncing odd things (like foreign ministers, cities, etc) aloud? Barbarism? e: Refers specifically to the mispronunciation. A barbarian philomath? Big Bad Beetleborg fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Golbez posted:Right. It's highly unlikely you'll hit the 350GB limit if you're using your connection for a normal amount of Netflix, and any amount of gaming or web browsing or voice/video chat, or even downloading a bunch of stuff. The only way you'll hit that limit is pretty much if you're torrenting while not at the computer. Also, the wording is important. From what I gather most ISPs use the term "usage allowance" because it's not a hard cap, but if you frequently exceed it you may/will be notified and then eventually suspended, billed or upgraded.
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I'm unfamiliar with american legal forms, I'm signing a contract and it says code:
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Wayne Gretzky posted:I'm unfamiliar with american legal forms, I'm signing a contract and it says Sign the "By" line. Print your name in the "Name" line.
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Thanks, never seen "By" unless it was "Witnessed By"
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Gobbeldygook posted:I'm sure there's a precise linguistic term for "being able to read a word but not know how to say it properly", but I've jokingly called the disease 'bookworm's tongue'. I would never have had "quixotic" go from being a most fascinating word to a disappointing one if not for reading Ambrose Bierce taking a jab at it in his The Devil's Dictionary: quote:Quixotic, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomprehensible adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. so I'm so with you, unfortunate buddy.  mirthdefect posted:Barbarism? In even my salad days someone made a joke about my condition (in regards to himself, as well) and I was so sure it had biblio- in the term that I was half hoping for confirmation here. But, as you see, even my reading/writing/listening comprehension is shameful. I must have fibbed my way through college with interpretive dance or something. Ugh. EDIT: I love your username. Just to give an example of how far down my under-educated rabbit hole goes, I remember reading a poem when I was very young about personalities based on birth month. December was "If cold December give you birth, month of snow, ice, and mirth..." and thanks to my (accurate) categorization of things like snow and ice as horrible, I went through the following decade thinking "mirth" was some synonym for "misery". Liebfraumilch fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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If it makes you feel any better, and it probably won't, I dropped out of college. Twice.
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Wayne Gretzky posted:Thanks, never seen "By" unless it was "Witnessed By" If you were a corporate representative, it would be "Skippy Inc." by "Wayne Gretky (signed)" Title: "the man" (or CEO, etc.). It's more of a "who is signing this on behalf of the company" piece.
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I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I'm thinking I might need to start drinking it soon. What's the best way to get used to the taste of it?
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Lance Streetman posted:I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I'm thinking I might need to start drinking it soon. What's the best way to get used to the taste of it?
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Lance Streetman posted:I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I'm thinking I might need to start drinking it soon. What's the best way to get used to the taste of it? I have only had two cups of coffee in my life, and the second made me almost poo poo my pants on the streets of Amsterdam. Just drink Pepsi or Mountain Dew or take caffeine pills.
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TheGame posted:I remember a Mythbusters episode about this. I couldn't find the clip but I found a summary. Basically, they weren't able to cut a pig in half with any of their varying lengths/widths of snapped cables. After they tied a cable around the pig and used a forklift to apply force they were able to bisect it, but that's a pretty different kind of tension. I know that lines have been known to remove limbs and cause fatality through the sheer force of the trauma, but straight-up slicing through someone seems pretty far-fetched. Aha, I remember this episode. I guess my question was, is it possible for this to work given a wire of a certain thinness? Like, would a carbon nanotube cable be able to slice through you, and what velocity would it require?
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My friend gave me a 2G iPod shuffle, and she put some music and books on it for me. I have never owned an actual iPod product, and I'm frustrated as hell right now. Is there a way you can see a tracklisting, and add and remove tracks without using iTunes? I've heard there is, and I'd rather avoid iTunes, especially having set up my parent's iPod. I hated it and I'd rather not have it on my Windows computer. I have bunged this little thing up already, I accidentally pressed some 'voice over button', and the nice song I was listening to disappeared and I'm hearing an ebook now. I've navigated through and can't seem to find the music again, all I seem to have done is cycled through chapter after chapter of god knows how many e-books. I turned it on and off and it picks up where it left off, which is what I expected. I feel like a total idiot and/or past the point of no return when you're too old to operate these newfangled whatchamahoozits.  Any smarter people have any expertise they can lend me here?
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when worlds collide posted:My friend gave me a 2G iPod shuffle, and she put some music and books on it for me. You can try using http://www.copytrans.net/ but I'm not sure it will work. Copytrans says compatibility is for "3G and 4G" ipod shuffles. Do you mean you have a 2 gigabyte shuffle or a 2 generation shuffle? Either way, give it a go. It works well for my ipod touch and is hella easy to delete and transfer music to. If copytrans doesn't work try foobar: http://www.foobar2000.org/ However I can't find if it's compatible with your 2G shuffle :T
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Wedemeyer posted:You can try using http://www.copytrans.net/ but I'm not sure it will work. Copytrans says compatibility is for "3G and 4G" ipod shuffles. Do you mean you have a 2 gigabyte shuffle or a 2 generation shuffle? Either way, give it a go. It works well for my ipod touch and is hella easy to delete and transfer music to. It's 2 Gigs. It's this little square silver thing that has a clip. I finally figured out that the power switchy thing has two settings and to push it over the whole way meant shuffle, haha. I really am a total fool at this stuff. I have my music back, now that it's not on shuffle. But I definitely want to be able to go through and actually see the playlist. I will check those out, thank you so much! I knew someone here would know. 
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Why do new media releases (CDs, DVDs, Games) come out on Tuesdays?
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Lance Streetman posted:I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I'm thinking I might need to start drinking it soon. What's the best way to get used to the taste of it? I solved this by making it not taste like coffee anymore. Something like 2-5 Splenda packets and a quarter cup of powdered creamer (or half-and-half if I bothered to bring some into work and the pilferers left me any) until the drink was a delicious beige color. Six years later, I still do pretty much that. I try to be more spartan (or sneaky) about it when I'm a guest, though, because I know it's shamefully obnoxious. I got a late start on coffee and tea because my mother was a Coke-drinking barbarian, but now that I'm thinking about it, Earl Grey was a pretty good gateway to coffee for me. I mean, in terms of trying to appreciate bitter adult drinks instead of Sugar Free Red Bull, tea is a gentler start.
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Lance Streetman posted:I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I'm thinking I might need to start drinking it soon. What's the best way to get used to the taste of it? If you don't mind the amount of sugar in it, a couple spoonfuls of hot cocoa mix makes a pretty good mocha.
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CzarChasm posted:Why do new media releases (CDs, DVDs, Games) come out on Tuesdays? To generate traffic to the stores. Tuesdays were slow retail days, and with all those new things out, it led to a spike in sales.
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Liebfraumilch posted:What's a good--or better, official--term for someone who is book/self-educated on a lot of subjects and therefore is sporadically incapable of properly pronouncing odd things (like foreign ministers, cities, etc) aloud?
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Runcible Cat posted:Autodidact?  You! You're awesome!I was just about to decide to go through an unabridged dictionary "biblio-" until I ran into it. And then I wouldn't have. Ever. Thank you.
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Liebfraumilch posted:I got a late start on coffee and tea because my mother was a Coke-drinking barbarian, but now that I'm thinking about it, Earl Grey was a pretty good gateway to coffee for me. I mean, in terms of trying to appreciate bitter adult drinks instead of Sugar Free Red Bull, tea is a gentler start. Coffee shouldn't be bitter if you're doing it right. Grind your own beans and make it using a french press instead of buying burnt-rear end starbucks coffee or whatever.
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That's like saying "you should just brew your own beer" or "you should grow tea leaves and dry and harvest them yourself" to someone who doesn't even like coffee. poo poo, I grind my own beans and french press, but I didn't start doing that until after about 2 years of drinking drip coffee every day. ladron posted:I have only had two cups of coffee in my life, and the second made me almost poo poo my pants on the streets of Amsterdam. Just drink Pepsi or Mountain Dew or take caffeine pills. Well, black coffee has like 10 calories, and an average Mountain Dew has about 280 and 60 grams of sugar. So you do the math over the course of a year and I'll think you find coffee is a better option...and yes, it does help with pooping, though it shouldn't make you poo poo your pants? 
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RaoulDuke12 posted:That's like saying "you should just brew your own beer" or "you should grow tea leaves and dry and harvest them yourself" to someone who doesn't even like coffee. I don't know I sometimes put in 1/4 cup of sugar and creamer to make it taste ok. That has to be up there with the Dew. If you never drank coffee and had an expresso or something you may poo poo yourself I guess.
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1/4 cup?! That's loving nuts. That's like 12 packets of sugar in one cup. Amazingly enough, still not as much as Mountain Dew, which has almost a half cup of sugar in each bottle. This is the gooniest poo poo I've ever heard.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:That's like saying "you should just brew your own beer" or "you should grow tea leaves and dry and harvest them yourself" to someone who doesn't even like coffee. I had been traveling through Europe for about two weeks. I had only one cup of coffee before in my life. Yes, I almost poo poo my pants on the streets of Amsterdam, on a Wednesday morning, with business type people all around me. When I finally got to the hotel (Crown Plaza near Centraal Station), I poo poo/spit into the toilet for a good hour at least. It felt like my whole stomach was being squeezed. So, now I'll just drink Pepsi or Mountain Dew if I need caffeine. Enjoy your starbucks, tho.
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If you want to drink coffee but think you don't like it, try finding the freshest beans possible from a qualify roastery. I used to drink coffee with 2 packets of sugar and cream, but ever since I started buying beans roasted in town, grinding then at home, and using a French press, I'm really happy with black coffee. Coffee is a really interesting drink with tons and tons of variety in beans and flavor. You can even find coffee that tastes remarkably like tea. Then again, you might just never like coffee. But too many people are turned off of it by folgers and maxwell house.
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