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Interesting! Never heard that one before.Rubashov said:
My answer is straight-forward but many people get freaked out by it.
I see a timeline running from right to left, for every fragment of time up until considering 1950 backwards to the dawn of time. That part is running left to right but at about the 50s my timeline curves to right-to-left.
Hello fellows, I need your help.
I'm trying to do this resume for this scientific initiation program that's going on my university and I can't decide what to put on it!
Should I put my grades so far? All the lectures I've been to? The courses? Hobbies and interests sounds so informal, but it would give them a nice idea about me. Maybe?
Thanks guys.
I'm trying to do this resume for this scientific initiation program that's going on my university and I can't decide what to put on it!
Should I put my grades so far? All the lectures I've been to? The courses? Hobbies and interests sounds so informal, but it would give them a nice idea about me. Maybe?
Thanks guys.
Psp 1001 battery just died on me. Unless gamestop will allow me to trade it in (which I doubt) I rather find another battery for it. Only things popping up on Amazon though is this rather too good to be true offer: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007V46I4/?tag=neogaf0e-20 and some shady looking third parties.
Anyone ever try some of these third parties? If not anyone know if gamestop takes broken 1001 series psp's?
Anyone ever try some of these third parties? If not anyone know if gamestop takes broken 1001 series psp's?
jbbb said:
I would probably just list your GPA, area of study, and any related achievements/awards, but I can't imagine that they'd take the time to read your hobbies and interests. If anything, they'd ask about that if you got interviewed (do you get interviewed for that sort of thing?).
In general, a resume is supposed to be concise and free of fluff.
Eyemus Lutt
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I have a question about the plates on cars like a L-plate for learners and a P-plate for probationary. But recently I've seen a lot of cars with a black W on a white background and have no idea what it's for. This might be limited to Aussies though as I live in Australia and have no clue if they exist else where.
Deadly Cyclone
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Gaf question, I see many members with "tags" or sentences where "member" is. When do you get this and do you pick it or is it picked for you?
sciplore said:
Not advertising but there's a great place I got mine from gamefunk. They're the new legit 2200mah that mysteriously disappeared from all my local stores (Target, Bestbuy, Fry's) when they were announced a year and a half ago (was it?) ever since the pandora fiasco. Anyway, I ordered 2 from there and they snugly fit in my fat PSP.
Oh, and I heard about them from CAG. The customer service was kind and offered a replacement when the first one I complained in the CAG forum (one of the reps were there) was a dud, but it turned out my PSP was reading the charge correctly until after a few charges. I did went from 1800mah to 2200 mah after all. Got myself a few more hours easily.
Cosmic Bus
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When Beck sang about a "Devil's haircut," was that a euphemism for something or is he just a weird dude?
Invisible Man
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.LTTP is Late To The Party, and is used for when someone catches on to something/enjoys something well after everyone else. From what I understand, age is a suffix used after the subject of a thread (i.e: music discussion could be called music-age and gaming threads could be gaming-age)sn00zer said:
Of course that's just my understanding, so I could be completely wrong on both...
Neverender
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This is a legal-age question I guess, but I'm unable to make threads so I'll post it here.
How are electricity bills calculated? I live in a shitty apartment complex, are my bills an average of everyone else's, or just my own? I move in in February, and my March - May bills were around $40 each. I went back home to visit family and friends for the entire month of June, leaving only my fridge and freezer running, and when I get back, my June bill is also $40. I know I couldn't possibly have used $40 worth of electricity, as I wasn't even there, but am I being scammed or is that just how electricity bills work?
I read over my contract and I didn't read anything about the costs being averaged out over everyone's apartment.
Also, I got back from visiting family on the 13th of July, so I was away for almost half of the month, and the next bill was $60. Bleh.
How are electricity bills calculated? I live in a shitty apartment complex, are my bills an average of everyone else's, or just my own? I move in in February, and my March - May bills were around $40 each. I went back home to visit family and friends for the entire month of June, leaving only my fridge and freezer running, and when I get back, my June bill is also $40. I know I couldn't possibly have used $40 worth of electricity, as I wasn't even there, but am I being scammed or is that just how electricity bills work?
I read over my contract and I didn't read anything about the costs being averaged out over everyone's apartment.
Also, I got back from visiting family on the 13th of July, so I was away for almost half of the month, and the next bill was $60. Bleh.
JoshuaJSlone
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Yeah. -Age also has the brother ending "GAF", like PoliGAF for the politics discussions. Just a matter of what sounded good and stuck at the time, I suppose.NGAMER9 said:
Neverender said:
Sounds like you're getting billed by your landlord instead of by the utilities company right? In that case you might want to find out if each apartment even has a separate meter. If it doesn't then yeah you're probably paying an average of whatever the building gets billed on.
Neverender
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duckroll said:
Yeah, the company is 'Student Housing Australia', and the bills are from them rather than the electricity company. This also made me consider that they are bumping up my bills, because in the short time I've been living here they've been pretty dodgy. It's most likely something far less sinister but I'm unfamiliar with this kind of stuff so I thought I'd ask anyway.
Edit: Also, while you're reading this thread, to ask a typical Junior question, I've been registered since the 27th of March, and have over 200 posts, is there any reason I'm still a Junior? No big deal, just curious.
Well, this is NeoGAF... this forum is originally part of gaming-age.com... the Gaming-Age Forum... i.e. GAF. The original GAF crashed, and this is what rose from the ashes, hence the Neo.sciplore said:
All the -age suffixes are just fitting with the theme. You'll see it often on the gaming-age site itself. It's both a nod to the site and the same convention adopted by The Descendents for naming a number of their songs (Myage, Bikeage, etc.)... plus it enhances nounage.
Neverender said:
Could be wrong, but I think this is the case:
The join date shown in your profile is when you first applied for your account. Note that my join date is the 5th of December of last year--that's when I re-applied after receiving an e-mail stating that all non-approved accounts up to that point had been lost.
The 60-day probationary period begins when your account is approved, though. If you were approved when I and a boatload of other juniors were, then we still have another month to go.
I <3 Memes
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I was going to put this question in the "Space: The final frontier" thread, but figured it probably belonged in this thread instead. I may have a follow up question depending on the answer.
So when we look at images through a telescope like the Hubble, the images we see, depending on how far away we are looking, are from a distant time as well as a long distance away. Even the light we see when we look up at the sun is some 7 minutes old after it has traveled the distance from the sun to us.
So if we are looking at a star that is a million light years away we are seeing it as it was a million years ago. But what if we could look at a planet. Preferably a planet with some sort of life on it. Even if it wasn't intelligent life but was just plants and some weird critters roaming the surface. If this planet were say 200,000 light years away, and we were to have a telescope powerful enough that it allowed us to look right down to the surface to see a plant or alien life form walking around, would we be looking at something that actually happened on that planet 200,000 years ago?
So when we look at images through a telescope like the Hubble, the images we see, depending on how far away we are looking, are from a distant time as well as a long distance away. Even the light we see when we look up at the sun is some 7 minutes old after it has traveled the distance from the sun to us.
So if we are looking at a star that is a million light years away we are seeing it as it was a million years ago. But what if we could look at a planet. Preferably a planet with some sort of life on it. Even if it wasn't intelligent life but was just plants and some weird critters roaming the surface. If this planet were say 200,000 light years away, and we were to have a telescope powerful enough that it allowed us to look right down to the surface to see a plant or alien life form walking around, would we be looking at something that actually happened on that planet 200,000 years ago?
mario ate my burger
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What would you use to create your own water-based lubricant?
Water + ?
Water on its own doesn't really do it.
Water + ?
Water on its own doesn't really do it.
jonnybryce
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I <3 Memes said:
My mind exploded reading that.
Yes. At 200,000 light years, it would have taken the light that long to reach the telescope through which we're viewing the planet. You understand the concept of seeing distant stars as they were several years ago, and the same would apply to planets if we had such a telescope to view them.I <3 Memes said:
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Pandaman said:
Real or joke answer? Because my follow up is some mind blowing shit.
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Now let me preface by stating that I don't think theories on wormholes and the big bang are true. At best these are the beginnings on the path to the truth about these theories and possibilities.
But if an Einstein-Rosen bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_hole) were possible could we not move a telescope through one to say 2000 light years away and record our own history? At that point and time we could view the life of Christ. Or even further away to view Dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
Of course we would need to use 2 telescopes positioned equal light distance away on opposite side of the planet to have full coverage of the Earth. And we wouldn't be able to watch anything indoors. And we wouldn't be able to view the recordings until the telescopes came back to us through the wormhole. But other then that we are just 2 telescopes powerful enough and a proven wormhole theory away from being able to see and record nearly every outdoor moment of our own history.
Heck if this were possible now we would just need to move telescopes through a wormhole to a location a little more then 15 light years away to have footage of OJ killing Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
But if an Einstein-Rosen bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_hole) were possible could we not move a telescope through one to say 2000 light years away and record our own history? At that point and time we could view the life of Christ. Or even further away to view Dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
Of course we would need to use 2 telescopes positioned equal light distance away on opposite side of the planet to have full coverage of the Earth. And we wouldn't be able to watch anything indoors. And we wouldn't be able to view the recordings until the telescopes came back to us through the wormhole. But other then that we are just 2 telescopes powerful enough and a proven wormhole theory away from being able to see and record nearly every outdoor moment of our own history.
Heck if this were possible now we would just need to move telescopes through a wormhole to a location a little more then 15 light years away to have footage of OJ killing Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
I <3 Memes
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Well I didn't mean they aren't true. Just that the application of one and the full knowledge of both are well outside of our capabilities at this point.
We also wouldn't need a wormhole to do this, just faster then light travel. I just wanted to use the Einstien-Rosen bridge as an easier method to explain it to people.
I guess you've read something like this somewhere before but i haven't. Just understanding the way light and distance works it seemed possible to me. And I don't think it would be too far off to say that most people wouldn't understand just how easy it could be to view our own history. It doesn't require time travel at all,and I think most people would confuse a subject like this with time travel, all it requires is for a large enough distance to be traveled.
We also wouldn't need a wormhole to do this, just faster then light travel. I just wanted to use the Einstien-Rosen bridge as an easier method to explain it to people.
I guess you've read something like this somewhere before but i haven't. Just understanding the way light and distance works it seemed possible to me. And I don't think it would be too far off to say that most people wouldn't understand just how easy it could be to view our own history. It doesn't require time travel at all,and I think most people would confuse a subject like this with time travel, all it requires is for a large enough distance to be traveled.
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Jet Grind Radio!
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Basically, they shoot the film and animate stuff over it. If a CG creature, for example, is behind someone, they create a mask, so it appears as if it's behind a person.NightBlade88 said:
mario ate my burger
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bjork said:
Ok, say one was going to use a fleshlight. Obviously you couldn't use semen since you haven't ejaculated yet, so spit would be ok?
This isn't about me, btw. Friend wants to know.
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