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Guilty posted:There was a website that gave a lot of freeware programs for people who just got new computers and you could download them all in a bundle, anyone know what I'm talking about, where I could find it? https://www.ninite.com
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ZeeBoi posted:What's the website for the comic where characters are drawn something like this: http://anarchyanarchyanarchy.net/
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stubblyhead posted:On the Little Feat album "Chinese Work Songs," who's the female vocalist? She does leads on Bed of Roses and a lot of backups on Just Another Sunday at least. The entry on Allmusic doesn't list the full personnel, and the Wikipedia article lists regular band members (all men), and a few guest musicians (also all men). It's not Lowell George so who loving cares? (my friend says it's Shaun Murphy).
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Dr. Video Games 0089 posted:I have over 200 PDF files that need editing. I just want to add pages to them. Apologies if loonix isn't an option but ubuntu has a couple of free basic pdf editors, pdf edit and pdf chain. They're ugly as sin (designed by engineers) but they're free and do simple poo poo like add/remove/reorder pages pretty easily.
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greazeball posted:Apologies if loonix isn't an option but ubuntu has a couple of free basic pdf editors, pdf edit and pdf chain. They're ugly as sin (designed by engineers) but they're free and do simple poo poo like add/remove/reorder pages pretty easily. PDF TK Builder is also good and works on Windows. If you have 200 PDFs you can probably script something with PDF TK itself to do it all automatically if there's a common pattern to what you want to do.
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I haven't flown in over 12 years, and I have a really uneducated question: I accidentally deleted the confirmation e-mails that Southwest sent me about my tickets to and from my destination. Will I be able to go to the counter with just the confirmation numbers and my ID and get my boarding pass printed out, or do I need to do anything else?
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Haven't flown on southwest in a while, but that's usually all you need for flying.
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Southwest has computerized self check-in terminals at the airport. You just have to swipe your ID or credit card and it'll pull up all your flight information.
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Install Gentoo posted:http://anarchyanarchyanarchy.net/ Merci. 
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Xandu posted:Haven't flown on southwest in a while, but that's usually all you need for flying. Thanks. As a follow up, I still have about a week before my flight out. Will they send me another e-mail that I print out, or was the "thanks for buying your ticket" e-mail I got a couple of weeks ago the last one I'm going to get?
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GenericOverusedName posted:Kind of an odd one, but can anybody tell me what genre/type of book I'm thinking of? They had a simple plot to them, and it was completely linear, but each page had a bunch of stuff to do on it. "The evil wizard trapped you can you find all 7 keys to escape?" type stuff. Find the path through the Canyons of Woe! They were really beautifully illustrated for the most part. A glorified Where's Waldo, but I really enjoyed those books as a kid. I'm not sure if there is a specific genre name for these, but Hans Jürgen Press comes to mind but his wiki only lists his Black Hand Gang adventures: quote:Hans Jürgen Press (1926–2002) was a German illustrator and writer of children's books. Many of his books contain stories and puzzles in which the reader searches the illustrations for clues to the mystery.
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Giant Squid posted:Thanks. I seem to recall getting a "Your trip is coming soon!" email last time I flew SW, but I suppose that could have been from another airline.
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GenericOverusedName posted:Kind of an odd one, but can anybody tell me what genre/type of book I'm thinking of? They had a simple plot to them, and it was completely linear, but each page had a bunch of stuff to do on it. "The evil wizard trapped you can you find all 7 keys to escape?" type stuff. Find the path through the Canyons of Woe! They were really beautifully illustrated for the most part. A glorified Where's Waldo, but I really enjoyed those books as a kid. Sounds like Graeme Base to me. Probably best known for Animalia.
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Very Strange Things posted:It's not Lowell George so who loving cares? (my friend says it's Shaun Murphy). Sure enough, Shaun's a lady. Thanks for the confirmation. (rip lowell)
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Giant Squid posted:Thanks. I haven't flown them in a while but I don't recall another email being sent out. Protip: As close to <= 24 hours of your flight you can get find a computer with a printer and check in online. That will put you as close to the front of the, cattle herding, seat selection process as possible. I heard if you don't have a printer and you check in online when you check in at the kiosk it will retain your "position" but I have never verified that. Ohh and make sure you bring some duct tape and zip strips in case you need to do some in flight repairs! (just kidding they aren't as bad as they get a rep for) E: Oh yea, also even if you forget to check in online right at 23:59hours before flight time doing so a few hours before will still put you in front of the average kiosk check in person. ChubbyEmoBabe fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Dec 23, 2011 |
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What's the 3-D version of "360-degree movement?". As in a floating, stationary object that can turn in any direction. Something along the lines of "full rotation along any axis", but more concise. Most people would take "360-degree movement" to basically mean that already, but I have a feeling there's a better term and I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Hoops posted:What's the 3-D version of "360-degree movement?". As in a floating, stationary object that can turn in any direction. Something along the lines of "full rotation along any axis", but more concise. Most people would take "360-degree movement" to basically mean that already, but I have a feeling there's a better term and I can't quite put my finger on it. 6 degrees of freedom? That's what the game Descent called it.
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Full range of motion, 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF), sometimes "spaceship controls" or "airplane controls" but those don't have the lateral Y axis free so it's a bad term. There's so few games that have it, that nobody really came up with a single term to classify them.
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GenericOverusedName posted:There's so few games that have it, that nobody really came up with a single term to classify them.
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Hoops posted:It isn't anything to do with games actually haha, it's for my PhD proposal. I don't like "6 degrees of freedom", I think I'm gonna go with "complete spatial orientation". I don't know your local academic standards, but at least here in Finland it's considered good form to be as unambiguous as possible. Complete spatial orientation by itself really says nothing at all to me. So unless it's something that becomes clear in its context, I'd try to squeeze in "full rotation along any axis".
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Jerome Agricola posted:I don't know your local academic standards, but at least here in Finland it's considered good form to be as unambiguous as possible. Complete spatial orientation by itself really says nothing at all to me. So unless it's something that becomes clear in its context, I'd try to squeeze in "full rotation along any axis". Yeah that's what 6 degrees of freedom means. You can rotate around the x, y, and z axes freely and also freely move directly along any of those axes, and freely combine all those motions. Like in a very simple platformer, where all you can do is jump/fall and move left/right, you have two degrees of freedom, moving along the x and y axes.
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Install Gentoo posted:Yeah that's what 6 degrees of freedom means. You can rotate around the x, y, and z axes freely and also freely move directly along any of those axes, and freely combine all those motions. I know what 6DOF means but it isn't really, to my knowledge, widely used outside video games. It isn't immediately apparent to a reader unfamiliar with the concept and would require as much explanation as complete spatial orientation. Edit: My knowledge is flawed. Jerome Agricola fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Dec 23, 2011 |
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I'm looking for some good arguments against Intelligence Quotients (IQs) being a valuable measure of intelligence. Basically any good resources that criticize IQ tests would be nice.
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Marf Revus posted:I'm looking to find one of those stores that sells all sorts of science-y (educational?) toys and gadgets. The kind of store where you always see someone playing with one of those expanding spheres. I have no idea of store names or even if that's a good way to describe it. Anyone know any names of these stores that I might find in Canada? I'm in the GTA (Mississauga specifically). How far are you willing to go? There is an F.G. Bradleys in the Pickering Town Centre, I'm not sure of one closer to you though. There's also a neat store called Mind Games in the Oshawa Centre that sells a lot of Fred brand stuff and really neat toys.
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Jerome Agricola posted:I know what 6DOF means but it isn't really, to my knowledge, widely used outside video games. It isn't immediately apparent to a reader unfamiliar with the concept and would require as much explanation as complete spatial orientation. Degrees of freedom is a well-established mechanical term however, complete spatial orientation isn't.
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Jerome Agricola posted:I know what 6DOF means but it isn't really, to my knowledge, widely used outside video games. It isn't immediately apparent to a reader unfamiliar with the concept and would require as much explanation as complete spatial orientation. We talked about six degrees of freedom when I was at Space Camp like 25 years ago. v v
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"In mechanics, degrees of freedom (DOF) are the set of independent displacements and/or rotations that specify completely the displaced or deformed position and orientation of the body or system." Which is 100%, precisely what I'm talking about. Good enough for me.
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trigonsareNOThomo posted:I'm looking for some good arguments against Intelligence Quotients (IQs) being a valuable measure of intelligence. Basically any good resources that criticize IQ tests would be nice. I think most of the arguments are not against the tests, per se, but against the idea of intelligence as a unitary entity that can be measured accurately and represented by a single number. I don't know about tests today (which I assume are a million times better) but the ones in the past were ridiculously culture based. Here's an example from the test given to US Army recruits in 1917, who were asked to draw in the thing that's missing from each of these pictures.  Knowing that a chimney is supposed to come out of the top of a house is clearly a marker of intelligence. Test makers don't do this brazenly idiotic kind of thing anymore, but I can't imagine how a test could be culture-neutral. But in any case, the makers of these tests no longer claim to be measuring intelligence, but cognitive ability or something. I'm sure most of the criticisms of tests themselves are statistical in nature, so I don't know if you'd be interested in that. I haven't really followed the IQ thing for a while, but I learned a lot about the history of IQ testing from Stephen Jay Gould's Mismeasure of Man and Stephen Murdoch's IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea.
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trigonsareNOThomo posted:Thank you, I appreciate the informative answer. Here's another article on the flaws of IQ tests that might help you.
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Are there stretches or exercises I can do that stop my legs from falling asleep when I sit in a half-lotus position/any other zen position?
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I wanted to see what 15 year mortgage rates were, so I went online and the first thing that came up was something like lowermybills.com and they needed to know my property value and loan balance, and what I thought my credit score was. So far so good, But they needed an email address, so I put in a fake one. Then they needed a phone number so I tried to put a fake one in, but they somehow figured out it wasn’t a real number, so I put my cell in. Then that wasn’t good enough, they needed a social security number, so I bailed. But within 12 seconds I got a call from some mortgage company seeing if I wanted to continue my mortgage application and I explained that I just wanted an idea of the rates, but I didn’t want to apply. I hung up and then got another call and another and another. This was 3 days ago and I’m not taking the calls. Looking at the caller ID, it is about 5 different places, and I’m still getting about 8 calls a day. How long will it take for them to give up?
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GenericOverusedName posted:Kind of an odd one, but can anybody tell me what genre/type of book I'm thinking of? They had a simple plot to them, and it was completely linear, but each page had a bunch of stuff to do on it. "The evil wizard trapped you can you find all 7 keys to escape?" type stuff. Find the path through the Canyons of Woe! They were really beautifully illustrated for the most part. A glorified Where's Waldo, but I really enjoyed those books as a kid. I remember books like this too, but I can't remember their names. They had lots of them in my library at primary school. I think I bought one and might still have it along with my other books from when I was a kid, I'll have a look when I get home.
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Zeta Taskforce posted:... Considering they are probably autodialers your best bet is to actually take them and then demand to be taken off their list once you get a human. Assuming you are already part of the Do Not Call lists and you (unknowingly) agreed to some partner sharing terms on the site.
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Zeta Taskforce posted:This was 3 days ago and I’m not taking the calls. Looking at the caller ID, it is about 5 different places, and I’m still getting about 8 calls a day. How long will it take for them to give up? If it's on your cell and you have an android, there's a program called "advanced call blocker". Instead of just sending it to voicemail, you can set it to quickly pick up and hang up on them no matter how often they call. It's 4 bucks, but it's made my life so much easier, because they could be calling 1500 times a day and I wouldn't know. (I had the VA sell my number after I worked for them as an independent contractor for a couple days. Ridiculous.) I know it sounds ridiculous, but you can't really count on them taking you off their list, because they won't.
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I am interested in working for Geek Squad at a local Best Buy store. Has anyone had any experience working at the store level? I checked out their online application and they PREFER you to have knowledge of OSX and Linux. Yeah, I've never even touched on either one, closest to that was I installed Jolicloud on my Netbook... In a forums search a found a thread where someone recommended getting an A+ Certification. I guess that would be somewhere to start, but would it really be worth the trouble? edited to add: Whelp just found this in another thread... Jedi425 posted:I spent one of the worst years of my working career in the Squad. Here's a few pointers: Anyone else have anything to add?
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Zeta Taskforce posted:I wanted to see what 15 year mortgage rates were, so I went online and the first thing that came up was something like lowermybills.com and they needed to know my property value and loan balance, and what I thought my credit score was. So far so good, But they needed an email address, so I put in a fake one. Then they needed a phone number so I tried to put a fake one in, but they somehow figured out it wasn’t a real number, so I put my cell in. Then that wasn’t good enough, they needed a social security number, so I bailed. But within 12 seconds I got a call from some mortgage company seeing if I wanted to continue my mortgage application and I explained that I just wanted an idea of the rates, but I didn’t want to apply. I hung up and then got another call and another and another. If you have Verizon, you can block up to (I think) 10 numbers. This has proven very effective for me because the caller gets an automated message saying that their number has been blocked. I blocked Time Warner's horse poo poo telemarketing service that tries to sell you poo poo even after you already pay for their service, and someone clearly took the hint because once the blocked number expired (after something like 6 months), I no longer got calls from them.
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What exactly is a "Life Coach"? What kind of people patronize them? Do they actually help people or are they considered a scam?
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themindisonfire posted:What exactly is a "Life Coach"? What kind of people patronize them? Do they actually help people or are they considered a scam? It ranges from infomercial quackery (by my books and learn...) to honest guidance in organization and goal achievement.
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