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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Bojanglesworth posted:

My work wants me to take a webpage that already exists and make it into another page with a unique domain. So say for instance they want this to be a whole new page:

http://www.hyundaiusa.com/financial-tools/

So instead of going to that url they could just go to say https://www.hyundaifinancialtools.com

Is there a way to take that entire page and make a new page from it using the code or something. Clearly you can see I am not a web developer.

What part of it have you done already? First you will need to buy hyundaifinancialtools.com. Then some web hosting to point the domain at. Then you can copy all the content from where it is now to the hosting and it should start working if everything else is set up right.

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



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Mechafunkzilla posted:

So, kind of a credulous person or a mark?

It's not as strong as "someone you intend to defraud", maybe more like "sucker".

Or "sheeple", even though that's awful internet slang.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Have you ever read Gravity's Rainbow?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

RaoulDuke12 posted:

Also it records for AVCHD codec instead of H.264, which is a much better compression.

Everything else you said notwithstanding, AVCHD is h.264 (in a different organizing container).

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

ChubbyEmoBabe posted:

Why would I need a large HDD on an xbox 360 outside of storing music and videos, which I would do on my TB externals anyway? I see these 4GB models rolling around but I recall them being like 20Gb when they first started rolling out.

DLC packs and retail game demos are often 0.5-1GB. XBLA games are usually a couple hundred MB but are getting bigger and bigger. Xbox Originals, Games On Demand, and the install game feature will consume 3-6GB a pop (so they're entirely unusable on the 4GB models). Rock Band and similar games release an endless stream of songs. If you want to use any or all of these and don't want to be constantly redownloading stuff or swapping flash drives, you need the larger HD. The 4GB Xboxes are the budget/entry model, the others now come with 120GB or 250GB disks.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
For the most part, yes. It's the defending attorney's job to make a good-faith effort to get his client acquitted or at least minimize his penalty, his personal belief about whether or not he's guilty does not matter. The idea of attorney-client privilege was created so that defendants would not be afraid to tell their lawyers anything and everything relevant to their side of the story.

However, it's not unheard of for lawyers to quit cases because the client is hindering their ability to do that (lying to them or withholding information, abusing them, acting out in court, etc).

haveblue fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Dec 17, 2010

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



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Mr_Biggs posted:

I know this is somewhat related to the question in the FAQ in the OP, but it doesn't quite fully answer my question,

Does upgrading my account to platinum still not give the opportunity to remove the "Stupid Newbie" tag underneath my name? Is the further $5 still required for new custom title?

Yes. Platinum gives you the ability to use private messages, to use the search feature, to post poll threads, to report posts to moderators, and to host images on the SA servers, and that's it.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
If either of you has an iPhone or a high-end Android phone you can get GPS apps for them that are at least as good as the dedicated boxes, and are probably kept up-to-date better since the devices have always-on Internet access.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

madlilnerd posted:

In the song Big Iron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Iron), what exactly is the Big Iron?

Traditional slang for a mainframe computer.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Abel Wingnut posted:

Is there a better format than Blu-Ray on the horizon? I can't really imagine the quality getting better than what it is now but I'm pretty clueless on the matter and suspect movie studios are working on some new format just for further business.

Nothing that looks like it will be sent to the mass market as the next big thing. Not only is video quality on consumer displays just about topped out, but it looks like the real next big thing is going to be built around online delivery.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

BorderPatrol posted:

After 1080p, we're looking at 4k TVs.

No word on distribution method though, although since some Blu-ray discs can do up to 200gb of data now so it's possible to distribute 4k content on them.

In the long term, digital distribution is definitely the way to go. Whether the studios want to go along with the plan is another question.

If those TVs are brought to market, they will probably end up like DVD-Audio- technically superior, but never more than a small niche. The increase in quality will be minor enough and hard enough to perceive that only hardcore videophiles will own them.

When MP3s succeeded CDs they actually represented a step backwards in quality, but they more than made up for it in the types of usage and convenience they allowed. Video will probably follow the same path.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Dress as Batman.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Wagonburner posted:

Yeah that's all I could find googling it was people talking about safety reasons.

"gasoline dangerous! and it will make your food taste like petroleum! soak that poo poo in lighter fluid from the store, wait 3 minutes and soak it again!" :downs:

I'm guessing not everyone starts their charcoal or smoker with leaves raked away, a water-soaked 15' radius of earth, water hose within reach and ready, no wearing of synthetic fibers and actually knowing the safe location of bottles or cans of flammable petroleum stuff before flicking a lighter.

(I mow the lawn in steel toe full height boots, welding apron/mask and do pre-checks of my life insurance policy and beneficiary info on my funds)

I can answer authoritatively from watching Mythbusters that it's because gasoline is far more likely than lighter fluid to produce a gigantic fireball when you throw the match. Gasoline vapor is flammable, lighter fluid is not or is at least much harder to vaporize before lighting.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
But that's a real joke. The anti-joke would be something like "shout his name".

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Enigma89 posted:

Where did the relationship thread go off to? This Goon needs some help courting a fine young woman. (:

Threads about dating and relationships are found in the E/N Bullshit subforum.

Threads about PUA specifically are banned because they attracted creeps and drama.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

epsilon-6 posted:

This should be pretty funny to ask here, as it's an entirely serious question, despite the absurdity inherent in it.

You can live in a really nice beach house (where you can see dolphins from the back yard) literally walking distance from Oprah's house. loving beautiful area.

But.

You HAVE to smoke methamphetamine every day, multiple times. Whether that's your thing or not. Essentially you are required to be high on meth all day. All of your bills are paid, and you obviously don't need food.

If you DON'T you are entirely homeless, penniless, and entirely without resources. You have a t-shirt and some jeans, and it's hitting around ~40F at night.

In this 'theoretical' situation, what would YOU do?


This may be a weird question for this thread, but I figured it didn't need its own thread. Although that is exactly the situation I'm in. However goons give lovely advice anyway, especially all you '04+s ;)

Die penniless of exposure in a back alley. I'd never live that close to Oprah.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
http://insomnia.ac/ ?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Breath Ray posted:

No idea I thought Apple blocked stuff like this so you couldn't copy illegally downloaded music on to their devices. If this makes me sound naive then so be it I guess

The iPod will play any MP3 or AAC file. It doesn't care where you got it from, you just have to get it into the device.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

mister_gosh posted:

What is the math term for what these numbers are doing or represent (other than doubling the previous number):

code:
0 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
Is there even a name for it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

ChubbyEmoBabe posted:

Here's some of the shocking footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38cqDYqb4g&hd=1

It was like 14 9/11's. (actually I think the media cares a whole lot more than the people at the show judging by what they said after the fact)

Yeah, I don't get how this is "an outrage" when the vast majority of Hollywood types interviewed in that article either thought it was funny or gave as good as they got.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Avocadoes posted:

Somehow that thread made me embarrassed that I asked. Its hilarious though, will probably 5 it.

I really, really want to use that dumb BEEP BOOP catchphrase now.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Post in E/N about it.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
It comes standard on Macs because Apple paid the license fee on your behalf. That doesn't make it free for everyone in the world.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

kapalama posted:

I know TV is TV, but I am wondering about some of the apparent iPhone apps(or Android or whatever). How do law enforcement specific Apps get onto iPhones?

A large enough organization can get Apple to create what's essentially a private app store, so they can produce and distribute in-house apps for their employees only. No idea if any law enforcement departments have actually taken them up on this, but it's not farfetched.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
That one in particular says "mad" because it's a nerd reference so this whole argument is somewhat academic.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

jackpot posted:

Posted this in the ipod thread, nobody knew the answer:

I work at a place with no wifi connections. Is there a way to have my ipod touch connected to the internet while it's plugged in and charging on my Macbook? I mean the computer is online...it seems to me it ought to be possible to have the ipod be online, too.

If you turn on internet connection sharing on the macbook you can turn it into a base station and connect the iPod to it. But if your workplace has a real no-wifi rule (rather than just not bothering to set it up) this may be frowned on.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Drinking exactly one of the best beer in the world would still have no measurable effect on your health or body. You'd have to significantly raise the level of beer in your diet consistently for a long time to really mess yourself up.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Kitsch! posted:

Actually I got it second-hand too, so there you go.

I'm currently studying legal issues so part of me is saying McDonald's is going to come onto the website and be like, "Noooo you can't do that". I worry too much about little things like that.

McDonald's doesn't give a drat about what you do with the coupon unless you're doing it on a huge scale that significantly impacts their business.

You're about as likely to get busted for this as you are to get sued by the MPAA for lending a Blu-Ray to a friend.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
There's thousands of students at a typical Ivy League school, you'd think there would be at least a few who watched anime.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
You're looking for Ninja Turtles porn and can still experience revulsion?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Toadofsky posted:

What's the deal with all the dumb cartoon pony avatars I've been seeing lately?

They're from the new My Little Pony show. There was a TVIV thread where lots of adults defiantly proclaimed their love for this cartoon for little girls by buying avatars for themselves and others, then it got to be too much and the topic was banned.

haveblue fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 23, 2011

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
You hate all the people you'd be going with. You have a musculoskeletal disorder that makes it impossible to perform hours of strenuous outdoor walking. You have severe agoraphobia. You like being marginally heavier and less fit. You can't bear the thought of a few days away from the internet.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
How does PayPal even know it's a virtual number? I thought the whole idea was that only the credit card company knew.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Looks like Greek, but I couldn't tell you what it says.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Abel Wingnut posted:

Who is with Kermit in this .gif?



I think that's Christian Bale?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Bojanglesworth posted:

Lately I have noticed that when I walk in and out of stores in the mall that have censors the alarm always goes off if I have my gun on me, but not when I don't. Why would a gun set the alarm off, those things aren't metal detectors are they?

They are, actually. There are little bits of magnetized metal inside those security tags, and the gates respond to them. They might also respond to other metal objects.

Why are you bringing a gun to random stores in the mall?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
heh REAL men write their own iterated scripts to do this with curl :awesome:

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Golbez posted:

I just transferred some money from PayPal to my bank account. PayPal says it will take 3-4 business days.

Why is it that bytes can move instantly around the world, except if they're between financial institutions, in which case they'd move faster if I picked them up and carried them between the machines?

If a tiny bit of information were lost or inaccurate in an anime torrent, it costs at most a few hours of annoyance. If it is snooped on or maliciously altered or a router blows up in its path, the worst possible outcome is that you don't get your animes when you expect them.

If these things happened to transactions between financial institutions, it could ruin lives and cost thousands or millions of dollars to sort out.

The internet tolerates some errors and failures as a tradeoff for being fast and cheap. Communications between banks need to be as close to 100% reliable as humanly possible, which is why they do not have those two characteristics.

As for Paypal specifically, they suck because they're a terrible company and you shouldn't use them.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



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Dudebro posted:

He's not just talking about that but also how facial structure affects your personality and life. How being born on certain day and hour affects the kind of person you are like your personality traits and weaknesses. How certain sides of your house are bad luck because of the cardinal direction it faces and this varies year by year. Palm and face reading, etc.

I have a hard time believing this would be accurate for every single person although I had a personalized"life chart" and it seems somewhat accurate. this was just based on my birth date and time. But what if you induce birth?

The only way in which isn't bullshit is the way in which pronouncements like that can be self-fulfilling if you believe them early and deeply enough. "Personality charts" tend to be so general that they apply to virtually everyone; have you ever seen someone else's personality chart?

It's as accurate as you let it be but it's just confirmation bias. What direction your house is doesn't affect your luck or health, period.

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



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kapalama posted:

That's like saying 'eat no cloven hoofed animals' is just religious bullshit. At one time, trichinosis was not known, so following the religious stipulation actually resulted in health.

And now, trichinosis is known, so the directive should have been "eat no improperly cooked animals" all along.

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Similarly a house that is aligned properly will be warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer for practical reasons, which most definitely affect your health.

Yes, because of physics, not because of mystical energy fields. It also depends on the local wind direction rather than the compass.

You can't say these rules are "right" when they are correlations assigned importance for all the wrong reasons.

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