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What's the etymology of the word "proc", in the gaming sense? Oddly, Wikipedia does not have an entry on this.
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FCKGW posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2296 Posting in the thread was always a choice, although it wasn't obvious what would happen if you did. It was a couple of years ago in the now-closed YCS forum; at its height there were around 160 holders of video game doctorates.
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Oct 12, 2012 23:20
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Mescal posted:When's the last time a US aircraft has been shot down by an enemy? Or a ship sunk? I guess I'm trying to get a grasp on when war stopped being war. Now we've got drones, and sanctions, and stuxnet. I honestly don't know the last time America or the UK sent out planes and boats to just... shoot things and get shot. Depends on what you mean by "war". The American Civil War was just about the last time war meant two sides simply lining up and firing at each other until one side was dead, because after that weapons technology began improving at a tremendous rate and the old tactics would just lead to an endless meat grinder that gave no long-term advantage to anyone (see the trenches of World War 1). Drones are just one of those things that fundamentally changed the way militaries the world over operate, like the automatic rifle or the tank or the airplane or the atomic bomb. haveblue fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 09:09
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If you believe the rumors the next Xbox and Playstation are at least a year away, probably more, and counting the usual launch-period jitters and game drought neither of them might be worth buying until well into 2014. Today, the current-generation hardware and games are easy to find heavily discounted and both platforms have years' worth of diverse, refined back catalogs. May as well go for it.
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Dec 12, 2012 21:31
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What happened to the old Logitech Harmony remote thread? Where do I ask questions about one now?
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Mar 11, 2013 01:36
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Byde posted:"Dying for Bush's oil profits" This incredibly subtle and nuanced cartoon:  quote:"Wrap it up Obamailures" IIRC that came from a notorious forums character who posted a lot of anti-Obama screeds during the 2008 campaign.
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Apr 27, 2013 04:12
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On a related note, are you supposed to tip the delivery guy when using Seamless or a similar service? The order form has a place to include a tip in the CC charge, which I use, but then I have no way of knowing how or if the tip actually got to him.
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Apr 30, 2013 19:47
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RebBrownies posted:What is the break down for the use of the Mangosteen.
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May 1, 2013 18:09
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registration fee for somethingawful.com ? I know some of it must be used in hosting the website, but I was just curious as to what the excess money was used for.
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Can someone give me the canonical version (or at least a good version) of that joke that involves three heads of state wasting their country's most famous products?
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May 14, 2013 05:29
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Protruding? Foreground?
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May 15, 2013 19:44
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Actually, some providers let you make a temporary number based on your real credit card. Citibank calls it a "virtual account number", I don't know what terms the others use. The Citibank ones let you set dollar and time limits on the virtual numbers, so you can give them to
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May 17, 2013 02:37
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You can bring up the ring size when you ask the father for her hand in marriage.
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May 17, 2013 02:40
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How do they determine statistics about things that "go unreported"?
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May 17, 2013 18:49
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In the original show, they didn't bother to come up with a good in-universe reason for the colors of the uniforms; they were just what the designers thought would look cool. For the second movie (Wrath of Khan in 1982) the production designers wanted to make Starfleet more explicitly a uniformed civil service with a military influence, so they redesigned all the uniforms and settled on a standard color scheme which they could apply to every member of the crew.
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May 18, 2013 18:31
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And sometimes all that strategizing is meaningless in the face of pure scale.
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May 18, 2013 20:27
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You can buy purpose-built waterproof wallets but the ziploc bag idea really is the most cost-effective. Just make sure you get a nice thick one, especially if you're going to put keys or pens or anything else pointy in it.
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May 20, 2013 18:53
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Yeah, it's not a small question. Most of the relatively reasonable objections revolve around the idea that gun owners who haven't broken any laws should not be subject to undue scrutiny and red tape or otherwise treated like potential criminals. Most of the unreasonable objections are about how a gun registry is itself a slippery slope to a mass gun confiscation program.
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May 23, 2013 00:21
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There is no clause in the constitution about the right to own cars and no major lobbying organization to throw tons of money at influencing car legislation. Again, this is not a small issue, and if this discussion goes on for too long people are probably going to get angry about it. Your best bet for more in-depth info is to look in DnD or brave the waters of TFR..
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May 23, 2013 00:25
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Hundreds of years passed between those two, they aren't using the word in the same sense.
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May 28, 2013 21:37
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Jun 4, 2013 07:27
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Is it prudent to buy a bicycle helmet off Amazon, or is this something I should really go to a store for and poke at them myself/try them on/talk to knowledgeable people? (This would just be used casually with the NYC bike share program, no serious racing or offroading.) haveblue fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Jun 4, 2013 18:58
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Tshirt Ninja posted:I think, however, that the combustion of a gun is the aspect of the weapon that living tissues could not feasibly replicate due to the destruction of cells/denaturing of proteins that happens at high temperatures. So heat will be your limiting factor in the evolution of zebra gatling guns, not conductivity, because as Xenoborg said: we already conduct electric signals through our nerves. There are animals that produce materials that can withstand extremely high impact forces and the Mythbusters built a cannon out of a tree trunk once and were able to fire a shot out of it. There's probably a high speed but low temperature reaction like the sort used in airbags that could feasibly occur within a suitably equipped cavity in a living organism without destroying it, so an organic gun, while it wouldn't be at all comparable to mechanical guns, is not completely impossible. The real reason a zebra can't evolve a Gatling gun is that life as we know it cannot produce joints with total freedom of rotation.
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Jun 10, 2013 01:17
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If it were a camera it would have a small black dome sticking out the bottom.
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Jun 10, 2013 22:23
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Gravity Pike posted:Yup. You can also make security questions a lot more secure just by giving bullshit answers. Someone can easily figure out your mother's maiden name but they won't be able to figure out that you told your bank that her maiden name is "password" or that your first pet was named with your favorite movie quote.
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Jun 11, 2013 20:57
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It does make them less secure, there is no advantage, and they have that policy because someone at the bank does not understand computer security.
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Jun 12, 2013 05:49
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You can also make mules and ligers and things, but those are the rare exception and not the rule.
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Jun 14, 2013 01:47
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What comes next is that the Swan implodes and it turns out they were dead all along.
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Jun 21, 2013 01:44
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For pretty much anything involving electrical mains you should consult an expert. Even if you do whatever you're planning without getting killed, you could create a fire hazard. That said, can't you just buy an adapter?
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Jul 12, 2013 16:27
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b0nes posted:If you preorder a game, what does that exactly mean? You are guaranteed a copy? What happens to your money if you don't pick up the game when it comes out? Is that money lost? Usually what happens is you pay a small amount to secure the preorder, which will be deducted from the final price so you don't end up paying extra overall. If you don't pick up the game, they keep this money (as payment for the service of the store holding a copy of the game for you and not letting anyone else buy it). It should say somewhere in the store or on the receipt how long they will wait before giving up on you. You only get charged the full price when you go through with buying the game after it comes out.
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Jul 15, 2013 23:00
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I hardly ever preorder games, I thought that was how I remembered it working.
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Jul 16, 2013 18:52
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RaoulDuke12 posted:I've never had that situation occur. Cmd+Shift+3 captures the entire screen and saves it as a JPEG. Cmd+Shift+4 let's you drag out a section first. OS X will refuse to screengrab some DRMed media- try taking a screenshot including the DVD player window, or paid iTunes video content if you have any. One thing you can do with that PDF is print it to PDF, which will result in a second PDF which is probably editable or will at least allow you to draw rectangles over it.
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Feb 11, 2014 19:24
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Stephen Hawking is the new Einstein.Trastion posted:Einstein lived in a time when it did not take much to impact society. In our current society it is much harder to do something that changes society in such a way because there are so many people and so much knowledge already. We've also become much more aware of the fact that most great "idea men" are at best standing on the shoulders of giants and at worst just directing the work of thousands of other less famous people.
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Feb 17, 2014 18:21
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Baron Porkface posted:What is that internet meme where some number or formula that intuitively does not equal zero actually equals zero? Do you mean 0.99999... = 1?
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Feb 18, 2014 20:42
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1. Yes. 2. There's no hard and fast answer to that, since it also depends on what the wall is made of. You could try it in both places and see which one gets a better signal.
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Feb 19, 2014 19:20
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It was a huge deal at the time, but it ended 42 years ago. Since then we've puttered around in low Earth orbit, built an incredibly expensive space station that struggles to justify its existence beyond being really cool and doing basic science, gotten over a dozen people killed, lost the political adversary that motivated us, and generally de-emphasized science and curiosity in our educational system. Taking the next step beyond going to the moon turned out to be a lot more complicated, risky, and time-consuming than everyone hoped, and that can kill the momentum of anything over several generations.
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poopkitty posted:Also Voyager. Not a low earth orbit, still very much relevant. And Hubble. Lots and lots of good stuff out there. Look up the James Webb Telescope. Astounding technology. I know, and it's good and valuable science, but none of it really seizes the general public's imagination the way a manned mission to somewhere can. The question was about why the moon mission specifically seems to be fading into history.
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