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Suburban_Nooblet said:
Question: When you are eligible for an upgrade do you still get to keep your old iphone or does AT&T make you give it back for the upgrade? Would be perfect if I could give my 3G to my wife. We are both on t he same plan so could I just add her to the data plan and switch her number to the old 3G?

lol no, the phone is yours.

For her to use it she needs her own data plan though, you don't share that the way you share minutes or whatever.
 
Pinzer said:
Ok, I just didn't know if user2 had posted some other avatar-sized picture rather than taking it from user1.

What do you mean my avatar is too big? I'm pretty sure its properly sized.

Edit: Nvm, fixing it.

You fixed it! Awesome.
 
jonnybryce said:
lol no, the phone is yours.

For her to use it she needs her own data plan though, you don't share that the way you share minutes or whatever.

Awesome, I knew she would need her own data plan and I knew with all my old phones from AT&T I got to keep them but I just had this feeling deep down that this all seemed to easy and cost effective.

Thanks
 
pharmboy044 said:
Is there a reason why I can't search a users previous posts or even my own posts?

Thanks in advance.

it was turned off because it used too many server resources. your best (only) option now is the google custom search at the top right
 
JCX said:
what is a good range of mileage for a used car?

There is no single answer for that. It depends on which car, how old and what it was used for. A car with high miles that was only driven on freeways might run better than a lower millage one that was only used in stop and go city traffic, and both would be better than something that was driven like a race car by a 16 year old kid. Although you can get a good idea by looking at the number of miles driven per year. The average is about 12,000 miles/year, anything substantially higher than that might be cause for alarm.
 
I was reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and he raised an interesting question. Supposedly there is going to be a "war" between the forces of Heaven and Hell for the souls of humanity during the End of Days. I may be operating from a flawed assumption here so someone correct me :P

But if God is all powerful how could he possible lose? And if he can't lose then why even have a battle over it if theres just one possible outcome?
 
Can anyone recommend some good video editing software for Windows that isn't Windows Movie Maker? I basically just want something to help me prepare a video for upload to youtube (you know like editing the video length down, changing the size of the video, cropping out black bars off the top and bottom of the video). I tried Windows Movie Maker but there don't seem to be many options, like it doesn't seem to let me choose specific dimensions for a video, only a few preset sizes/bitrates.

I know about the heavy hitters like Sony Vegas, but I was wondering if there was something more newbie friendly/lightweight/cheaper(or free). I'd basically like something like the "Audacity" of video editing.
 
sykoex said:
Can anyone recommend some good video editing software for Windows that isn't Windows Movie Maker? I basically just want something to help me prepare a video for upload to youtube (you know like editing the video length down, changing the size of the video, cropping out black bars off the top and bottom of the video). I tried Windows Movie Maker but there don't seem to be many options, like it doesn't seem to let me choose specific dimensions for a video, only a few preset sizes/bitrates.

I know about the heavy hitters like Sony Vegas, but I was wondering if there was something more newbie friendly/lightweight/cheaper(or free). I'd basically like something like the "Audacity" of video editing.

Pinneacle ?
 
I just got my Lost Season 4 soundtrack today, and was ripping it using CDex for easier listening. For some reason, on the last track it kept getting jitter errors or something, although I never actually listened to the resulting MP3 to see if I could hear any skipping. Instead I put the disk in my burner instead and ripped it from there and it worked fine. I did notice that the first drive was making a lot of unusual noise while reading. Does this mean my drive is probably going, or that something was possibly wrong with the disk? I suppose it's fortunate that internal SATA DVD-ROMs are pretty cheap these days, although maybe this would be a good excuse to splurge on a BD-ROM.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
I was reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and he raised an interesting question. Supposedly there is going to be a "war" between the forces of Heaven and Hell for the souls of humanity during the End of Days. I may be operating from a flawed assumption here so someone correct me :P

But if God is all powerful how could he possible lose? And if he can't lose then why even have a battle over it if theres just one possible outcome?

Evil will trick God. Evil will try to corrupt God's all mightiness to make him fall into sin or whatever that could possibly make him faint.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
I was reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and he raised an interesting question. Supposedly there is going to be a "war" between the forces of Heaven and Hell for the souls of humanity during the End of Days. I may be operating from a flawed assumption here so someone correct me :P

But if God is all powerful how could he possible lose? And if he can't lose then why even have a battle over it if theres just one possible outcome?
If you want the official christian canonical view:

A war for souls. The summary: "The devils know they've already lost and and will be cast into the fire at the end. Unavoidable fate. So they'll drag as many of God's people down with them as they can."

Which also brings up the old debated issue. Man, created in God's image, has freewill. To choose between good and evil. So by his own freewill he is either cast to hell, or by the same freewill he ascends to heaven.

Which may probably lead to the ol' debated topics "why God gave man freewill in the first place and now we can't go to heaven straight away", "why suffering occurs", etc. etc. But I'm certain there are official threads for those.
 
You know how sometimes green screen shots in movies and TV are, well, obviously green screen? Something just looks off about the lighting or the background and you can just tell? What I'm wondering is, what specifically are they doing wrong that even I, someone who doesn't know anything about photography or special effects, can see the flaws in the shot. What should they be doing with the shot that they aren't (either due to money or time or something else)? Examples would be Indiana Jones and the KotCS (jeep chase, the whole ending), X-Men Origins Wolverine. Some in Chronicles of Narnia: LW&W. Tons of shots in Die Another Day. And I know TV works on even tighter restrictions, but Lost has a lot, in particular the shots inside the helicopter from "There's No Place Like Home."

I got to thinking about this because I just watched the first Mission: Impossible film. I could be wrong, but I assume the entire train finale was done on green screen since I find it hard to believe they were running around on top of a real bullet train, and yet I didn't see anything wrong with the shots, it looked totally real. Maybe people more experienced than me can spot flaws, but I didn't see them, while in more recent, more expensive films with bigger effects budgets, they were obvious. So what's going on?
 
Houston3000 said:
If you use Firefox you can install the Greasemonkey add-on along with NeoGAF Multi-Quote

Otherwise just tabs with copy and paste


oh thanks, because of your link I just found another script that adds buttons for Spoiler, Strike and Highlight into the neogaf reply box, neat!
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50489



edit: now I installed the half of these :lol
http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=neogaf&x=0&y=0
awesome


I guess there are lots of these scripts for all kind of websites, so should I be careful not to activate to many as it could fuck up firefox?
 
gaf, what can anyone tell me about this picture?

conan-lift.jpg


i know its andre the giant on the right, and that it is arnold in the middle, but who is the guy on the left? did those two make appearances in conan the barbarian?
 
mcrae said:
gaf, what can anyone tell me about this picture?

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/conan-lift.jpg[IMG]

i know its andre the giant on the right, and that it is arnold in the middle, but who is the guy on the left? did those two make appearances in conan the barbarian?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain[/url]
 
Please tell me that there is a damn plugin or script that allows me directly go to the full picture with photobucket pics via google image search. When I click "click here to see the full image blah blah" it goes to the photobucket site and takes AGES to load
 
PetriP-TNT said:
Please tell me that there is a damn plugin or script that allows me directly go to the full picture with photobucket pics via google image search. When I click "click here to see the full image blah blah" it goes to the photobucket site and takes AGES to load

let me just make sure: you search for a pic, click the thumbnail in google, google loads the site in a frame, with the upper area being the 'click for full size' ?

just right click the picture in the frame, and click view image (if using firefox, at least. dunno about other browsers)
 
Every one knows rain can mess with satellite TV signals. I've personallynever once heard about radio having problems with rain. Isn't it the same tech?
 
DeathNote said:
Every one knows satellite can mess with the TV signal. I've personallynever once heard about radio having problems with rain. Isn't it the same tech?

My guess is cause radio isn't coming from a big satellite in space down to your dish.

Satellite requires your dish to be pointing directly at the satellite whereas you'll get radio as long as you're within their coverage radius.
 
mcrae said:
let me just make sure: you search for a pic, click the thumbnail in google, google loads the site in a frame, with the upper area being the 'click for full size' ?

just right click the picture in the frame, and click view image (if using firefox, at least. dunno about other browsers)

I just want "click for full size" link leading to the real direct linked picture instead of photobucket autoredirecting me to the album where the image is located...

hard to explain, but it takes like 25 seconds to load the site with facebook apps, embed links and all that shit instead of just giving me just the image like EVERY OTHER SITE.

Yeah, my pc is shit but it's not my fault it takes so long to render that much shit.

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missed this
sykoex said:
Yeah I have that same problem, it's odd.

This might help you:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/54108


thanks a ton!!
 
Am i the only one who isn't impressed by how thin the new iPhone is? I just feel we've got to the point where phones are thin enough, honestly, was anybody complaining the 3GS was too thick?
Also, why the hype for FaceTime?
 
Anyone know how to search for an item, and narrow the sellers to nearyby stores? (if not someone tell Google to add this to froogle.com)

Also,
Electrician-GAF:
Why do public schools/businesses/stores leave their backup/generator lights on for extended periods of time? Isn't this a gross waste of electricity?

I ask because I was playing soccer at a junior high school yesterday and noticed that some of the lights were on inside the school, and those kids are definitely out for summer break right now.
 
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