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Gigglepoo said:
Are Apple's commercials meant for people to hate them? I can't tell if they're actively trying to get under people's skin or that's just the end result.

I've noticed this too. The whole, "If you don't have an iPhone...well...you don't have an iPhone" commercial just rubs me the wrong way.
 
Gigglepoo said:
Are Apple's commercials meant for people to hate them? I can't tell if they're actively trying to get under people's skin or that's just the end result.
Apple has always milked their faux elitism.
 
mcrae said:
theres also this angle:
when its open you cant see the scuff...

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Sorry, I had to do it :P
 
TacticalFox88 said:
How did we go from this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bott4.jpg/785px-Bott4.jpg[IMG]
Top Speed:437 MPH
to this:

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg/765px-Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg[IMG]
Top Speed: Mach 3.3

We made that leap within 16 years?! How in the flying fuck? What kind of Vodoo did Lockheed have?[/QUOTE]

There were faster planes than the P-51 Mustang during WWII. The Messerschmidt ME 262 had a top speed of about 560 mph.

Advances in jet engine technology and aerodynamic properties resulted in great advances of speed.

The advances made between WWI and WWII are pretty remarkable, too. German pilots in WWI were flying at a top speed of 115 mph compared to 400-560 mph by the end of WWII.
 
the blue rag is actually two fingers broken off of my wax hand which must have fell, didnt notice it untill i just looked down.

this is my closet, i took the doors and shelves out cause my room is tiny as fuck

the window would be a window into my sisters closet, pass

i'll seriously consider painting my shirts and walls, not sure about the baseboard still though. black baseboard?

i am an idiot for saying you cant see the scuff in the second picture. i'm more of a functional guy so didnt even realize how much of a factor that would be lol

cheers guys
 
I've latey been wishing for a browser extension with a certain behavior. Though a few searches haven't found anything like it, I figure I might as well toss it out there in case there's something I'm missing.

I prefer not to browse with images disabled, and don't mind small animations--like the ones we used to have as avatars. But with those things enabled, I'll frequently run across 1+ megabyte GIFs on GAF that are essentially people's way of saying "YES" or "NO", or maybe a 4 megabyte GIF expressing "I LIKE JET SET RADIO FUTURE'S TITLE SCREEN". This I consider Not A Good Thing. I was thinking there would be a couple ways to work around this. One, by having images automatically stop loading after some arbitrary size limit unless told to go further. Two, for the browser to check file sizes of images it's starting to download, and telling images over a certain size to go fuck off.
Professor Beef said:
How long would a song have to be out before it gets considered for rotation on an oldies station?
Don't such stations often define themselves by decades? "WZLQ, the best of the 60s, 70s, and 80s!"

Here's how Wikipedia starts its article on Oldies, though:
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day.

In the 1980s and 1990s, "oldies" meant the 15 years from the birth of rock n roll to the beginning of the singer-songwriter era of the early 1970s, or about 1955 to 1972, although this varied and some stations chose 1950-1969.[citation needed] In the early 2000s, 1970s music was increasingly included,[1] and early 1980s music is beginning to also be called "oldies", though the term "classic hits" is used to distinguish the "new" oldies (the Generation X oldies) from the "old" oldies (the Baby Boomer oldies).[2]
 
Maklershed said:
My "I'm pulling this outta my ass" guess is that 99% of the time a child with talent or love for a sport will have parents that say "well thats nice but you're gonna go to school and then college and forget about that other nonsense". Whereas maybe kids that show proclivity to a sport and have parents that let them follow their dream of ice skating in a circle really fast or ski jumping off a giant ramp have really free thinking, hippy parents.

That actually makes sense.
 
OK, so I have a HTC Hero with a CFW of Android 2.2 on a contract that ends in September. I've been playing and tweaking with it since day 1 but I'm getting bored with it now.

2ndly, Rather than take out a contract, I want to buy a PAYG phone as I hardly use any minutes/texts and so on. I also carry around with me a 1st gen iPod Touch that I use everyday.

Do I :

1) Buy an iPhone 4, sell later on for the latest model each year. Sell the Hero and iPod Touch and use the money from them for any top-ups. Put up with the boring looking UI. And IMO have access to better apps and games.

2) Carry on with Android, go for something like the HTC Sensation and keep the 1st gen iPod with me, stick with the same but better looking UI with widgets and customisation. And IMO, have better connectivity with everything in my Google account.
 
GAF HIVE MIND! I NEED YOUR HELP!

Can anyone help me identify these pictures? it are parts from movie posters (i tried TinEye but no avail)

#1
ZStG2.jpg


Ok got 2+3

now these:

m7RC0.jpg

ll3IU.jpg

bdngK.jpg

emjDx.jpg



Thanks!
 
MarkMclovin said:
OK, so I have a HTC Hero with a CFW of Android 2.2 on a contract that ends in September. I've been playing and tweaking with it since day 1 but I'm getting bored with it now.

2ndly, Rather than take out a contract, I want to buy a PAYG phone as I hardly use any minutes/texts and so on. I also carry around with me a 1st gen iPod Touch that I use everyday.

Do I :

1) Buy an iPhone 4, sell later on for the latest model each year. Sell the Hero and iPod Touch and use the money from them for any top-ups. Put up with the boring looking UI. And IMO have access to better apps and games.

2) Carry on with Android, go for something like the HTC Sensation and keep the 1st gen iPod with me, stick with the same but better looking UI with widgets and customisation. And IMO, have better connectivity with everything in my Google account.
How much money can you get out of your iPod Touch? If it's anything at all significant I would buy the new Android and sell my iPod Touch. I don't understand why you carry around both...
 
CHEEZMO™ said:
Why the hell has my left earphone stopped working?

:/

Is it plugged in all the way? If it is, try plugging it in halfway.

If that doesn't work, try straightening the cables to see if it works again.
 
Willy105 said:
Is it plugged in all the way? If it is, try plugging it in halfway.

If that doesn't work, try straightening the cables to see if it works again.
Didn't work. Shit.

Were working fine a few hours ago. Now there's nothing at all coming through the left one, like it's dead or something. Probably gonna have to buy some new ones.
 
MedIC86 said:
GAF HIVE MIND! I NEED YOUR HELP!

Can anyone help me identify these pictures? it are parts from movie posters (i tried TinEye but no avail)

#1
ZStG2.jpg


Ok got 2+3

now these:

m7RC0.jpg

ll3IU.jpg

bdngK.jpg

emjDx.jpg



Thanks!

The first one is M.
 
Anybody know the legal boundaries of copyright law for photos used in digital art?

Look at this:

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http://www.etsy.com/listing/62347915/clint-eastwood-dirty-harry-pop-art

Here's the original:

Magnum-Force_2.jpg


Sorry for the size.

Obviously the artist isnt getting permission for each of these, and the quality varies from each to each (his boba fett and yoda ones are AMAZING!). That said, he's basically cutting them out in photoshop and then applying some neat filters and learned techniques, then selling them for $150 a pop (printing to canvas is actually expensive).

Regardless, what's the legal boundary here? Is this guy breaking the law? Is he too small of an operation to matter? Does this fall under pop art, and is that enough to protect him from getting his ass sued?

Yes, I'm interested in doing the same (and can), but would at least like to hear any of your thoughts on the issue.
 
How do I change the color of the text? I thought it was
Code:
[color][/color]
but I guess I'm wrong since it didn't work when previewing it in another post.
 
Baconbitz said:
How do I change the color of the text? I thought it was
Code:
[color][/color]
but I guess I'm wrong since it didn't work when previewing it in another post.

The only thing allowed is highlight.
 
GAF, I went to an obnoxiously loud concert last night and didn't bring earplugs like a dumbass. I've been to loud concerts before, but my ears have never rung this bad. Did I give myself some permanent hearing loss?
 
Alivor said:
GAF, I went to an obnoxiously loud concert last night and didn't bring earplugs like a dumbass. I've been to loud concerts before, but my ears have never rung this bad. Did I give myself some permanent hearing loss?
You_are_already_dead-(n1296951764362).jpg
 
Alivor said:
GAF, I went to an obnoxiously loud concert last night and didn't bring earplugs like a dumbass. I've been to loud concerts before, but my ears have never rung this bad. Did I give myself some permanent hearing loss?

Doubt it. Wait a few days and don't use earphones and you'll be fine.
 
Alivor said:
GAF, I went to an obnoxiously loud concert last night and didn't bring earplugs like a dumbass. I've been to loud concerts before, but my ears have never rung this bad. Did I give myself some permanent hearing loss?
Probably. But it'll recover enough that you probably won't notice any difference.

Get some Etymotic ER20's or similar concert plugs and protect yourself next time.
 
Zoe said:
I always get Pho Tai.

And don't use Imageshack.
Image shack works great via my desktop, I use it all the time on GAF

But I used that one via my iPhone since I was at the VietThai restaurant at the time.

Why is there a problem with the photo link? Please let me know.

Thanks.
 
EricHasNoPull said:
Image shack works great via my desktop, I use it all the time on GAF

But I used that one via my iPhone since I was at the VietThai restaurant at the time.

Why is there a problem with the photo link? Please let me know.

Thanks.
Might've been referring to when Imageshack was banned. Doesn't seem like it is anymore though.
 
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