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Charron said:
I'd just list SQL, no strength. If they ask how good you are with it, just say that you've developed as much as your jobs have required, so if they need strong SQL, you can have strong SQL.

(Of course, depending on who wrote the qualifications "strong SQL" might not mean much. My suggestion- read up on stored processes, mention them, and if the recruiter goes googly-eyed at the phrase you're fine.)
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This is awesome advice. GAF rules.
 
Okay, so this is kind of a stupid question I just thought of. How exactly do you write messages on a Japanese cell phone? Do you write all in romaji, or in kanji/kana? In that case, exactly how does it work? Maybe Japan-GAF can answer this one.
 
How come when I take pictures with my phone (Samsung Hue) the image of the thing I'm taking a picture of is farther away than I actually am? I don't understand it.
 
Snytbaggen2 said:
Okay, so this is kind of a stupid question I just thought of. How exactly do you write messages on a Japanese cell phone? Do you write all in romaji, or in kanji/kana? In that case, exactly how does it work? Maybe Japan-GAF can answer this one.
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Afaik you write in hiragana and the phone substitutes words with kanji if it's possible.
 
Des0lar said:
Afaik you write in hiragana and the phone substitutes words with kanji if it's possible.
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Pretty much. The One key cycles through A,I,U,E,O, the Two through KA,KI,KU,KE,KO and so on. Once you're happy with the spelling of your word, hitting 'down' will display a list of all the kanji associated with it. Select the kanji required from the dropdown list and move onto the next.
 
JodyAnthony said:
Where did the line "I'm not a ______, but I play one on TV" come from?
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I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV: (Catchphrase) Popularized in 1986 by "The Young and the Restless" star Peter Bergman, it serves as a catchall legal disclaimer by basically saying, “Consult with your physician before using this product.”
 
Does the "weigh-in" jingle from NBC's Biggest Loser sound like something from an sRPG to anybody else? I'm looking for a youtube clip of it to help solve this silly question.
 
My facebook account has been hacked (it keeps sending out spam emails).

What should I do? I don't want to delete my account and re-friend everyone
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmPdZjkjyY&NR=1

Is that real? If so, what happened to those guys, especially the soldier?

ProfessorLobo said:
I keep my laptop on my stomach a lot. Is there a chance this could give me cancer someday or some crazy shit?
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Just a quick google shows there isn't any danger unless the laptop is close to your genitals...

There was a topic by a pregnant woman asking about this, and a 22 week pregnant one said she does it all the time... @_@
 
Been having a very (very) slight stomach cramp the past couple days. Haven't been working out or anything, any idea what it could be?

FreezeSSC said:
Why am i still a junior =(
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Because you don't have 300 posts yet.
 
Scythian Empire said:
It got bumped up? :(
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Yup. After our round got approved there was a welcome juniors thread and a bunch of people were spamming and hit 200 posts in just a few hours, so they moved it up. They still need to modify the FAQ to reflect the change though, at least from the last time I looked at it.
 
Zerokku said:
Yup. After our round got approved there was a welcome juniors thread and a bunch of people were spamming and hit 200 posts in just a few hours, so they moved it up. They still need to modify the FAQ to reflect the change though, at least from the last time I looked at it.
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damn, those were the juniors from this year dammit! i've been here over a year making sure my posts actually contribute something!!
 
I am designing a website for a restaurant and I am having some difficulty with this:

The restaurants owners want a small box on the main page where the weeks lunch menus appear, the problem here is that they want it to switch automatically every week on its own to the next weeks menu.

So what I need right now is some key terms or tags that will help me find such scripts or preferably a way to make this possible.
 
Nizar said:
I am designing a website for a restaurant and I am having some difficulty with this:

The restaurants owners want a small box on the main page where the weeks lunch menus appear, the problem here is that they want it to switch automatically every week on its own to the next weeks menu.

So what I need right now is some key terms or tags that will help me find such scripts or preferably a way to make this possible.
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There are probably a ton of ways to go about it, depending on how you're making the site now, what you're comfortable with, how far in the future you know menus, and so on. Just to go over what I'd do: I'm mostly a PHP/MySQL guy, so I'd probably set up a database that puts together the menu items and the first date it should be used. Then put something like the following at the proper place in the page (Which, since I'm not actually trying to do right now, probably has some overlooked mistakes, needs slight changes in formatting, or yada yada. Also fails to include the code for actually connecting to the database in the first place.)

Code: 
<?
$today = date("Y-m-d");

$menuquery = "'SELECT * FROM MenuTable
 WHERE FirstDate >= '$today'
 ORDER BY FirstDate ASC
 LIMIT 0,1";
$menuresult=mysql_query($menuquery);

$MenuContent=mysql_result($menuresult,0,"MenuContent");

echo $MenuContent;

?>

That would pick the first set of menu data for a date greater than or equal to the current day, then spit it out.
 
My right index finger has been hurting the past couple days, which I know is a result of me using my computer way more than usual the past month or so, what can/should I do to alleviate the pain besides giving it rest? Ive started using my left hand for the mouse for now, but what else should I do?
 
Couldn't find the gaming counterpart to this thread so I'll just ask here.

My TV has the HDTV ports for the Red, Blue and Green cable that comes with the Xbox 360, I flipped the switch on the cord to HDTV and it looks like if you took TV static, but took a picture of it and then that was my screen.

My TV has the cable ports, shouldn't it be able to go HD?
 
If/when we as humans get to the point were we can terraform a planet and colonize other solar systems, will that be considered our next step in human evolution? I was watchin a PBS doc about our evolution from apes to homo sapien and they were saying how when our brains got larger we left the trees, started walking upright, and started using tools.

Leaving our planet has to be the next step in that progression right?
 
kai3345 said:
Couldn't find the gaming counterpart to this thread so I'll just ask here.

My TV has the HDTV ports for the Red, Blue and Green cable that comes with the Xbox 360, I flipped the switch on the cord to HDTV and it looks like if you took TV static, but took a picture of it and then that was my screen.

My TV has the cable ports, shouldn't it be able to go HD?
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Not all TV's with component ports support HD. It may only be able to do 480p.
 
bdizzle said:
If/when we as humans get to the point were we can terraform a planet and colonize other solar systems, will that be considered our next step in human evolution? I was watchin a PBS doc about our evolution from apes to homo sapien and they were saying how when our brains got larger we left the trees, started walking upright, and started using tools.

Leaving our planet has to be the next step in that progression right?
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Uh, yes? Not sure if this is a stupid/small question that has an exact answer... :p

But if you want to know about the future, it's going to be humans becoming Homo Evolutis. Watch that video. Search for 'singularity' if you don't know anything about it. Some books to look into are Engines of Creation by Drexel and Radical Evolution by Garreau. The future's going to be so awesome. :D
 
Jeff Albertson said:
Ok so I saw this article about people somewhere in China eating babies in soup for sexual gain, obviously this sounds ridiculous and fake but is anyone 100% sure its fake?

WARNING article contains nasty images (hopefully fake), even if so the pics contained in the article are sickening

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/S...33&PHPSESSID=ab443f83761de6f8c7659fdae3da716a

I just want to know it's fake.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXj1FyW16Fw&feature=related

What do you think? Do you honestly believe that?
 
Zerokku said:
My right index finger has been hurting the past couple days, which I know is a result of me using my computer way more than usual the past month or so, what can/should I do to alleviate the pain besides giving it rest? Ive started using my left hand for the mouse for now, but what else should I do?
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Ice, Advil, check for infected cuts or ingrown cuticles.
 
kai3345 said:
Couldn't find the gaming counterpart to this thread so I'll just ask here.

My TV has the HDTV ports for the Red, Blue and Green cable that comes with the Xbox 360, I flipped the switch on the cord to HDTV and it looks like if you took TV static, but took a picture of it and then that was my screen.

My TV has the cable ports, shouldn't it be able to go HD?
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I’m not trying to be an ass but are you absolutely sure that it’s a component in and not just a composite in with two other inputs for left and right audio?
 
i accidentally pushed something and a little gray screen showed up on my comp> god damnit i cant even push the period key without getting >

my caps lock key is reversed (i actually have it on now) and when i use my wheel on my mouse to scroll down the page it goes back a page or forward

wtf did i do and how can i fix it?
 
Zerokku said:
Already done all those. As well as picked up a little splint to keep it straight.
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Unless it's broken or sprained, locking the joints in place may do more harm than good, but that's my sports injury experience talking, I'm not used to metacarpal issues. See a doc if it's not better in 24-36 hours.
 
This is for a moderator I'd imagine:

How come we are not allowed to say words like "f*g" or "n*gga/er" or to be sexist towards women but words like "retard" or "tard" are thrown around freely around here?

I'd argue that calling someone or something "retarded" is just as offensive as calling something "f*ggotry" or "gay."

Unfortunately we don't have a sizable mentally disabled community on here defending themselves, and for the most part, they are unable to speak up most of the time anyway.

So can we add "retard" to the list of bannable words?
 
TOM f'N CRUISE said:
i accidentally pushed something and a little gray screen showed up on my comp> god damnit i cant even push the period key without getting >

my caps lock key is reversed (i actually have it on now) and when i use my wheel on my mouse to scroll down the page it goes back a page or forward

wtf did i do and how can i fix it?
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Sticky Keys. Pressed Shift too much too quick. I haven't had success disabling it 'correctly' but a reboot works fine.
 
Is there a term for how people behave differently depending on their situations. Like say, their behavior at work versus their behavior at home versus their behavior online? It seems like one of those concepts that would have an easy identifier. It's hard to look for papers discussing this exact topic.
 
I don't think this is a stupid question but it's probably not worth making a thread over.

Basically, why do Japanese games use some English text? The best example of this is that the RPGs usually seem to use HP and MP, even though the rest of it is in the original language. Also I was just watching a video of Demon's Souls (Jap Version) and it came up with 'You Died' in English.
 
Chrono said:
Uh, yes? Not sure if this is a stupid/small question that has an exact answer... :p

But if you want to know about the future, it's going to be humans becoming Homo Evolutis. Watch that video. Search for 'singularity' if you don't know anything about it. Some books to look into are Engines of Creation by Drexel and Radical Evolution by Garreau. The future's going to be so awesome. :D
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i said wow......

do you have links to other presentations by Juan? That shit was so epicly awesome I dont even know what the fuck to say about it.
 
Is there any way (with free software) to restore data on an usb memory stick?

Some excel files from my mother´s workplace seem to be suddenly missing from the stick and I thought GAF might be able to help. Would probably save her a week or two of work :)

I don´t know why those idiots don´t back up on the company network, but it´s like they´re trying to fuck themselves up.
 
JodyAnthony said:
What is the proper way to do an emoticon in parentheses?

is it

"blah blah blah (blah blah blah! :)"

or

"blah blah blah (blah blah blah! :))"
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:lol sounds like something one would quote from Earthbound

anyways,

I usually do the second one, but I make sure to make extra space between the smiley mouth and the parentheses, like this:

(blah blah blah! :) )
 
You know that ad with the red rhino wrapped in red cloth that gaf has all the time?

It has worn down my resistance. Months of seeing that ad and thinking "rhinos are cool" has finally broken me and I want whatever it is selling

what is it and why can't I find it now that I want it?

Red rhino - I think its an itunes thing?
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012N94WO/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Why in the world are some of these stores selling RE5 for double or more than any regular store, including Amazon, the site they're selling the overpriced games on? >_>

bdizzle said:
i said wow......

do you have links to other presentations by Juan? That shit was so epicly awesome I dont even know what the fuck to say about it.
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He gave two other TED talks:

One on genomics, MUST SEE:
http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_on_genomics_and_our_future.html

One on energy, also good:
http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy.html

His TED bio page with links to all of his talks:

http://www.ted.com/speakers/juan_enriquez.html


Also, here's a really long talk, an hour and a half, that I think is a must see too:
http://fora.tv/2007/10/12/Juan_Enriquez_Mapping_the_Frontier_of_Knowledge
it's called mapping the frontiers of knowledge.

Both TED and fora tv are great websites, just look into related talks about science and technology.

The books I recommended (Engines of Creation, keep in mind this was originally written in the eighties, and Radical Evolution) for a start should be awesome reading if you're liking this stuff and want to know more about the future. EoC btw is available for free.
 
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