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I'm trying to find an article on wikipedia but I can't. It's about a word in English that has each syllable taken from some other word. Each one of those syllables is silent and basically make up a word that is unable to be pronounced. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I used to have it bookmarked but I can't seem to be able to find it.
 
Ezalc said:
I'm trying to find an article on wikipedia but I can't. It's about a word in English that has each syllable taken from some other word. Each one of those syllables is silent and basically make up a word that is unable to be pronounced. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I used to have it bookmarked but I can't seem to be able to find it.
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I looked for you but I can't find it at all. Closest I can find is ghoti.

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Does skipping a night of sleep actually "reset" your circadian rhythm/sleep schedule?
 
Alright Gaf I'm pulling my hair out here.

I've been struggling in vain trying to get my Xbox One to play my MP3's via DLNA.

I'm running Win 8.1

I can actually get them to show up and play flawlessly but ONLY if I place them in the default music folder that windows sets up on C, along with pictures, documents etc. The problem is that my C drive is a 256gb solid state so space comes at a premium and I've got several hundred gb worth of music.

I keep all of my music on a separate drive and I've checked every possible sharing option I can find on this drive and the folders within but nothing ever shows up on the Xbox. The damn thing is wide open, but the Xbox only seems to look at that one folder on C.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I'm looking for the name of a coach/manager in American sport. I read an article about it in the press over here in the UK, talking about this person, as being one of the best coach/manager ever.
All I recall is that they took a team from last place, or maybe from a similar failing position, and took them to first. And perhaps also that they had done this before too with a different team.
 
If I have written a piece of music and had a great music video produced for it, is there any thread I could use to share it with neogaf without being obnoxious? :)
 
Does anyone know why I cannot log into NeoGAF on my phone? It just empties both fields after I filled in my username and password.
 
Ashes said:
I'm looking for the name of a coach/manager in American sport. I read an article about it in the press over here in the UK, talking about this person, as being one of the best coach/manager ever.
All I recall is that they took a team from last place, or maybe from a similar failing position, and took them to first. And perhaps also that they had done this before too with a different team.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dungy maybe?
 
Rosenskjold said:
If I have written a piece of music and had a great music video produced for it, is there any thread I could use to share it with neogaf without being obnoxious? :)
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Once you become a full member you can make your own thread for it.

Until then, maybe you can use one of these:
• NeoGAF "Share your music" thread. (thread died 4 years ago)
• Anyone else here in a band? Share your music thread. (thread died 3 years ago)
• Classical Music and You: Share and Discuss your Favorites (active, but not intended for promoting your own work)
• NEOGAF's Official Music Production Thread: calling all producers (active, but for digitally produced music)
 
archnemesis said:
Once you become a full member you can make your own thread for it.

Until then, maybe you can use one of these:
• NeoGAF "Share your music" thread. (thread died 4 years ago)
• Anyone else here in a band? Share your music thread. (thread died 3 years ago)
• Classical Music and You: Share and Discuss your Favorites (active, but not intended for promoting your own work)
• NEOGAF's Official Music Production Thread: calling all producers (active, but for digitally produced music)
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Ha ha, who else should answer but of course archnemesis, are you stalking me :P ?

But yes I suppose the 4 year old thread could work, I'm not sure I dare bump such an old friend being just a junior member though :P
 
If you become a little bit more active you could become a full member in a few weeks and then you will feel safer bumping an old thread.

This thread is in my subscription list so I read most posts in it. Can you send me a PM with the video or post it on that other board?
 
Yaboosh said:
I have a question about Google sheets.

I am doing a labor calculation spreadsheet, and i need a formula to do the following :

A single brew on a single day takes 10 hours of labor. A subsequent brew on that day only takes an additional 4 hours. On a new day, the hours are the same.

So in a given week, we may have 3 total brew days where 5 brews are performed. The number of hours would be 38. What formula would i use to calculate this? It can either be a single cell for the input, where the input is total number of brews, or two cells for the input, where one cell is number of brews and one cell is number of days they were done over. But maximum number of brews in a day currently is 2.

Thanks for anyone helping in advance.
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If I understood you correctly, you don't need a "formula" just put in a column the days of the week, in the column next to it will have the first brew of the day. Just put a 1 or a 0 depending on if it happens. Then on the column next to that you'd put the subsequent brews of that day. The final column (let's day column D in this case) will have a very simple formula, like this: =+B1*10+C1*4.

However I recommend you put the 10 and 4 hours as parameters in another cell, so you can change them later on without having to change each specific formula. At the end of the week (or whatever period you want) you just add every cell in the D column to get the total hours.
 
Ashes said:
I'm looking for the name of a coach/manager in American sport. I read an article about it in the press over here in the UK, talking about this person, as being one of the best coach/manager ever.
All I recall is that they took a team from last place, or maybe from a similar failing position, and took them to first. And perhaps also that they had done this before too with a different team.
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Just a guess, could it be Buck Showalter, manager of of baseball's Baltimore Orioles? The Orioles had a losing record for 14 straight seasons when they hired Showalter a few years ago, in 2014 they nearly made it to the World Series under his leadership and he was awarded his third American League Manager of the Year title.

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

edit: misread your post, Buck's not one of the 'best ever', he's one of the best recent.
 
Ezalc said:
This is it! Ah man I thought it was something that couldn't be pronounced. This explains why I kept thinking of fish whenever I tried remembering this word. Thanks a lot man!
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Ah! Hah, no problem! I'm glad I could help. Constructed words are pretty cool; shows how weird English is as a language.

Another cool one: "scissors into schiesourrhce by combining parts of SCHism, sIEve, aS, honOUr, myRRH and sacrifiCE." - Source
 
Wolf Akela said:
Oh, that's nuts. What happens during boarding? First come first served?
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As Battersea said, you're assigned a seat at the check-in kiosk. The last time I flew and didn't choose a seat it worked out great for me. I got the very first seat in the first row. Tons of leg room (which is great since i'm 6'3").
 
I just bought a cheap tn panel 24 inch Full HD Acer monitor. I was planning to buy an IPS monitor, but at the end I didn't because reasons. So, here are my questions:

1. If I switch from dsub to digital, hdmi to dvi in my case, will I get a noticeably sharper image? I'd prefer personal experiences if possible.

2. Is there a good program to reduce screen brightness? At least apparently, beyond what is hardware vise possible.
 
endre said:
I just bought a cheap tn panel 24 inch Full HD Acer monitor. I was planning to buy an IPS monitor, but at the end I didn't because reasons. So, here are my questions:

1. If I switch from dsub to digital, hdmi to dvi in my case, will I get a noticeably sharper image? I'd prefer personal experiences if possible.

2. Is there a good program to reduce screen brightness? At least apparently, beyond what is hardware vise possible.
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If you're worried about the screen brightness, you can always try f.lux.
 
More of a common sense question, and I'm sure I know the answer, but:

My apartment lease expires on the 26th, and we've signed a one month extension to fulfill the 60-day move out clause. On the lease it says I need to pay the pro-rated rent for 12/27-12/31 on 12/27.

This morning I go to pay my rent and I see the charge for the pro-rated rent on there with the regular rent for 12/1 - 12/26. Since my lease says 12/27, I'm in the clear not paying it until then right?
 
JMDSO said:
More of a common sense question, and I'm sure I know the answer, but:

My apartment lease expires on the 26th, and we've signed a one month extension to fulfill the 60-day move out clause. On the lease it says I need to pay the pro-rated rent for 12/27-12/31 on 12/27.

This morning I go to pay my rent and I see the charge for the pro-rated rent on there with the regular rent for 12/1 - 12/26. Since my lease says 12/27, I'm in the clear not paying it until then right?
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Your landlord might give you a hard time, but yes, if that's what was in the lease, I would think you should be okay.
 
So I just noticed on my PS4 my PSN names are on my main menu (Pixel Junk, Trine 2) I can only see them when I go into my library app along with all my other previously downloaded but now uninstalled games. Whats with that?
 
Any Acrobat Reader experts here? I have/had a pdf from a course that was around 15MB at first but Reader couldn't find the text clearly written on the pages so I ran the recognize text feature. Now I can search for keywords with Ctrl+F which is great but the filesize jumped up to 120MB which is crazy. And the Microsoft Sam voice can still not read the text clearly and only says that all pages are blank. Can the filesize and voice thing be fixed somehow? I did a small OCR error check (not sure what this means) and the pages are littered with errors yet it's perfectly readable for any human so I guess that's might be why it's not working properly.
 
What's going to happen to Itagaki and his studio Valhalla Games when they're finished with Devil's Third, since they are owned by no one anymore with no publisher? Do they stop making games until someone gives them a paycheck to reassemble their studio?
 
Does anyone have any articles concerning Video game violence or can point me in the right direction for my research? I tried google scholar but I can't get anything worth noting. I have a persuasive essay in my class due next week, I am talking about how violent video are not correlated to violent outbursts in people. So, anything that will support my side is much appreciated.
 
Vaudeville Villain said:
Does anyone have any articles concerning Video game violence or can point me in the right direction for my research? I tried google scholar but I can't get anything worth noting. I have a persuasive essay in my class due next week, I am talking about how violent video are not correlated to violent outbursts in people. So, anything that will support my side is much appreciated.
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Most universities in the US have subscriptions to various databases that offer scholarly journals for all kinds of topics (EBSCO, JSTOR, LexisNexis, etc.). Check with one of your school's librarians or the library website. You'll need to login to access the information, and might have to be on campus.
 
Sarcasm said:
Anybody use a french press? How much coffee do I use? I don't have any volume measuring tools either.
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Can you measure weight instead? Start with 7 grams of coffee per deciliter of water and try your way from there.

If you don't have any tools, measure with your eyes instead. Or buy a simple coffee scoop.
 
I made a new PSN account and got the two weeks free PS+ trial. If I download the free games for this month, and don't renew my membership, can I then play the games again on another account the next month if I activate PS+ on that one? Or are the games locked to accounts rather than console?
 
Akif said:
I made a new PSN account and got the two weeks free PS+ trial. If I download the free games for this month, and don't renew my membership, can I then play the games again on another account the next month if I activate PS+ on that one? Or are the games locked to accounts rather than console?
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Games are tied to the account, not the console. If you don't have an active subscription (with the account that downloaded the games) you won't be able to play them.
 
I thought there was a general love/romance thread around, but I can't find it through the endless amounts of threads, and the search function isn't really helping. Can anyone give me a link to that topic?
 
I saw a shirt for $97. I borrowed $50 from mom and $50 from dad, $50 + $50= $100. Bought the shirt, $3 change. I gave $1 to mom, $1 to dad, and kept $1 for myself Now I owe mom $49 and dad $49. $49+ $49=$98 + my $1 =$99. Where did the other $1 go?
 
Ninja Dom said:
I saw a shirt for $97. I borrowed $50 from mom and $50 from dad, $50 + $50= $100. Bought the shirt, $3 change. I gave $1 to mom, $1 to dad, and kept $1 for myself Now I owe mom $49 and dad $49. $49+ $49=$98 + my $1 =$99. Where did the other $1 go?
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After you return the change of 3$ to your parents, you should still owe them 97.

"+ my $1" should be minus your 1$, as the more you give back to your parents, the less you owe. What you are computing here is how much you owe them: 49+49=98 after you give them 1$ each. And you still have 1$ on you which you should return to them, thus: 98-1 = 97 is what you would owe them if you return the 3rd dollar that you got in change.

Additional clarification: the way you get 49 is by doing (50 - 1) for each parent. The 3rd dollar that you got in change is no exception, and should be minused just like the other 2,
 
Question about my iphone and contract. Afaik, my contract has expired so I could quit it for something else entirely at any time. But I'm wondering what I'd lose functionality wise. Let's say I quit my contract and remove my sim card. Could I still use facetime, imessaging and skype/viber chat programs etc? Safari web browsing? I mean, I pay 15 bucks a month plus as much for Spotify Premium and I make like ~5 phone calls a month. Not really worth it but is it required for general phone use?

Basically, I want my old iPhone 4s to be a small ipad xD
 
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