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I know we have bigger things on our minds right now, but are some avatars going down? Is it automated?

Mine isn't working but it's set proper in my profile.

EDIT - nevermind, there they go
 
What does the array_shift function do and what arguments must be passed to it?
Thats the question from my text book and while I know what the function does, I'm not sure how to phrase the argument portion.
 
Gouty said:
What does the array_shift function do and what arguments must be passed to it?
Thats the question from my text book and while I know what the function does, I'm not sure how to phrase the argument portion.
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Argument means what do you put in the parentheses. I'm not quite sure what language you're speaking of, but the array_shift() function takes the name of an array as an argument.

So if you have an array called arr you would call the function like so: array_shift($arr)
In this case arr is the argument. I'm not quite sure what else I can tell you. :p
 
Totally random but does anybody remember that 90's nature show that had cool synthesized intro music? That's pretty vague but I also remember it showing the camera weaving around a bunch of animals and I think it was on pbs but I might be wrong. I think the intro music started with some sort of flute.

edit: holy shit this guy is asking the same question.

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/advice/t-511602.html

but he didn't get an answer either.
 
anwser me this gaf:

why is photoshop crew always going rampart on fucking ufo pictures, but they are almost silent on the obama and the bin laden thing?
 
Is there any good software that allows LIVE GPS TRACKING with Google Maps online? I can find some via google but most of them haven't been updated in years.
 
PetriP-TNT said:
Is there any good software that allows LIVE GPS TRACKING with Google Maps online? I can find some via google but most of them haven't been updated in years.
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I'm pretty sure that on my Android phone, there is an option to do that built into google maps.... it displays your icon on the map wherever you go so friends can check it out..
 
How much of the food you eat is extracted into your body and not pooped out? I would imagine its very tiny amounts of it

And another one. Say that at one time you turn the heat knob on your shower faucet only a little bit, so that a steaming hot stream is coming out, albeit not a very strong one. Another time you have both the hot knob and cold knob cranked all the way, with the hot knob slightly less so than the cold one, so that a lukewarm gush is spilling out. Which one of these scenarios is using more oil to heat?
 
Nard Bagman said:
In Ford commercials where they give someone a new Ford with all the options to replace their old car for a day or week...why do they think it's a viable advertising method to pit a car a person bought (with whatever options the person could afford) against a brand new Ford with multiple thousands of dollars put into every option available? OF COURSE the person is going to say the Ford is better with power-assist parking and navigation and whatever else Mike Rowe is spewing out of his hat-wearing head. "Oh yeah, this Ford is way better than my Honda." No, its available options that you just got to try for a week are awesome. They say nothing about the quality of the car itself, just how cool the expensive options are.
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It's to keep the car in your mind. They really just want you to stop by and check it out. I don't know very many people that would actually switch but the commercials at least tickle your brain whereas before, Ford wouldn't stand a chance as people wanting Japanese cars would only compare across those types.
 
I hate my work (boooring office job) but university does not start until October. What should I do until then? I was thinking about travel & work, but the timeframe looks too short to me...
 
TheBez said:
Why is there no Dolphin equivalent for 360/PS3?
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The technology behind GameCube/Wii is much older, more time has been available to make emulation work, and it's more feasible for modern machinery to pull it off.
 
To all Smart-Phone savvy GAF, I want to "Gift" "What's App" to a friend on their Blackberry.

I do not have a Black Berry, I am on an iPhone, how is it possible to gift a BB App to a Blackberry user without a Blackberry?
 
Murkas said:
When someone makes a thread, is there a difference between THREAD TITLE-GAF and THREAD TITLE-Age?
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Yes, I would say so, however the difference is somewhat subtle. The content of the threads generally have no differences though.

*-GAF calls upon the group of people who are related to the topic. For example, USA-GAF are members from the United States, Athiest-GAF are members who are atheists, and so on.

*-Age makes more sense in the context of an event and the thread calls upon all members. For example, USA-Age might be about someone travelling abroad to the United States, or Athest-Age might be someone who is considering Athiesm, and so on.

Or maybe I'm just reading into things too much!
 
FromTheFuture said:
Yes, I would say so, however the difference is somewhat subtle. The content of the threads generally have no differences though.

*-GAF calls upon the group of people who are related to the topic. For example, USA-GAF are members from the United States, Athiest-GAF are members who are atheists, and so on.

*-Age makes more sense in the context of an event and the thread calls upon all members. For example, USA-Age might be about someone travelling abroad to the United States, or Athest-Age might be someone who is considering Athiesm, and so on.

Or maybe I'm just reading into things too much!
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That sounds pretty spot on to me.

Is there anyway to cap an individual user on a network (so I get more bandwidth than him?) My housemate is really screwing my connection up, I know it's him because if I take him off the network temporarily my download speed skyrockets. And the network log keeps showing DOS attacks (the fuck) from what I'm assuming is an I.P he's downloading from.

I'm using a pretty basic Netgear router so I doubt it's possible, but I really want a way to slow his shit right down to dial up speed without actually taking him off. I even tried unscrewing my router's aerial but it's glued on. And I don't actually know whether that would work.
 
dear gaf :D
i've got these awesome earphones
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i got them as a gift, obviously the price is waaaaay too high
after many years of abuse, the cables seem to have been bent/broken slightly above the plug
2 possibilities:
- can if fix them or take them somewhere to get them fixed?
it should be as 'simple' as cutting off a cm and putting on a new plug, if such a thing is possible
- similar but cheaper headphones
my auditory canals seem to have weird shapes because conventional earphones fall out all the time
thus i need similar ones, with a closeable 'clamp' to hold it in place
i don't care that much for the supposedly superior sound by bang & olufsen (fuckin elitist snobs) as i use an iphone with supposedly inferior sound (never noticed any difference anywhere, tbh) but the design is fantastic, these are literally the only earphones i could ever wear without them falling out or chafing my ear or something
 
scar tissue said:
dear gaf :D
i've got these awesome earphones
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/310j7rcgNCL._SS500_.jpg
i got them as a gift, obviously the price is waaaaay too high
after many years of abuse, the cables seem to have been bent/broken slightly above the plug
2 possibilities:
- can if fix them or take them somewhere to get them fixed?
it should be as 'simple' as cutting off a cm and putting on a new plug, if such a thing is possible
- similar but cheaper headphones
my auditory canals seem to have weird shapes because conventional earphones fall out all the time
thus i need similar ones, with a closeable 'clamp' to hold it in place
i don't care that much for the supposedly superior sound by bang & olufsen (fuckin elitist snobs) as i use an iphone with supposedly inferior sound (never noticed any difference anywhere, tbh) but the design is fantastic, these are literally the only earphones i could ever wear without them falling out or chafing my ear or something
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Attaching a new 3.5mm plug is a pretty cake job, really. Only thing to watch out for is fine cabling (audio cables especially) frequently use enameled wire. Basically just means you need to hold the bare wire in a flame for a few seconds to burn off the enamel in order to get the solder to stick.

I guess I should ask: Have you ever used a soldering iron before?
 
MacGurcules said:
Attaching a new 3.5mm plug is a pretty cake job, really. Only thing to watch out for is fine cabling (audio cables especially) frequently use enameled wire. Basically just means you need to hold the bare wire in a flame for a few seconds to burn off the enamel in order to get the solder to stick.

I guess I should ask: Have you ever used a soldering iron before?
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thanks for the advice, you can count on gaf day and night
yeah, i've used a soldering iron but not for stuff this small/sensitive
i guess i'll google "attaching 3.5mm plug" or something
 
TheBez said:
Why is there no Dolphin equivalent for 360/PS3?
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This is my longwinded, nerdy but probably inexact take on it:

Emulation generally requires a PC that's orders of magnitude stronger than the system its emulating. Hardware manufacturers spend millions streamlining software and custom building hardware so that the system is perfect. They target one set of processor, ram, gpu specifications and aim for it. Emulators are tailored so that people can run that system's specifications on multiple kinds of PCs. But the specifications need to be rebuilt to run in a software mode (emulating hardware), making the whole thing kind of a huge bitch and a very long process that requires lots of testing, input, and teamwork. Without the millions of dollars and dedicated 8 hours a day to work on it, the "people's" version of the system comes out much slower and several years behind the curve. The last gen system emulators (except X-box, which just isn't developed out of lack of demand) have just recently begun their final stages of perfection, though we're still years off from any old shitty computer running Dolphin or PCSX2 perfectly.

That said, I wouldn't expect the very first rumblings, like even someone claiming to have begun development, of 360/PS3 emulation for a couple years.

it'd be cool if someone who knows the technical details could answer my question: whether emulation of the cell processor is viable on a system with less than 8 cores? or if that question makes sense to begin with, haha
 
It's actually really fucking hard to write an emulator for a console because these systems are very much closed, try to obfuscate details and so on for obvious reasons, so before you have the problem of getting the emulator to run on a current PC, someone's gotta be a genius and get it done.
 
A question for the Mods (or perhaps more of a suggestion):

When we have threads with [Updated] added to the title (for example, the Project Cafe thread over on the Gaming side), could you maybe add the date of the latest update as well? I know that the official policy is new news, new thread, but if you're going to make the effort to change the thread title, it couldn't hurt to add the date in there.
 
Link Man said:
A question for the Mods (or perhaps more of a suggestion):

When we have threads with [Updated] added to the title (for example, the Project Cafe thread over on the Gaming side), could you maybe add the date of the latest update as well? I know that the official policy is new news, new thread, but if you're going to make the effort to change the thread title, it couldn't hurt to add the date in there.
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Not a bad idea, honestly. Or if there isn't room for the date just do like "Update #1" "Update #2" etc
 
Why is it that in sitcoms or tv shows, whenever someone strikes it rich [lottery, etc] they always end up losing the money before the episode is over?
 
I just realised I got a practical driving test in two days. I know how to drive, the only thing I have problems with is parking . Can you guys give me any good links to diagrams showing the techniques for parking so I can try them out. Also my test is in the UK so are there any questions they can ask e.g. about the actual engine? If there are questions some help would also be appreciated. I'm probably fucked but I'll lose my fee anyway so it is worth a shot.
 
Are there any good articles on the internet that contain a lot of fucked up facts about North Korea? I'm holding an oral presentation on the subject tomorrow (the point of the presentation is the presentation itself and not what I'm talking about) and I figured that'd keep the listeners entertained.
 
Rapstah said:
Are there any good articles on the internet that contain a lot of fucked up facts about North Korea? I'm holding an oral presentation on the subject tomorrow (the point of the presentation is the presentation itself and not what I'm talking about) and I figured that'd keep the listeners entertained.
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I have this picture (also in high res if you need it):

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Oh, and here are some fucked up ones:Link

from that link said:
1. You can’t turn off the government radio installed in your home, only reduce the volume.

2. Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is second-nature for ordinary citizens to “rescue” portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else in the case of a house fire (there are even special bunkers for statues in case of war)

3. Many people don’t even know that man has walked on the moon.

4. There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned.

5. A main cause for all problems are Americans. Mothers teach their children to sing songs about bad Americans, there are many postage stamps showing the death of “U.S imperialists”

6. A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer” work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.

7. The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”.

8. About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps.

9. Most traffic control is performed by female traffic directors (reportedly handpicked by Kim Jong-Il for their beauty), as the lights are switched off to save electricity.

10. Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean.

11. Avarage wage in 2005 was 6$ (source: www.gluckman.com/NKFEER.html)

12. Visitors of North Korea are given special guides and can’t go anywhere without them.

13. North Koreans are used to often disappearing electricity and have many candles prepared.

14. North Korea has the fourth-largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel
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Question to the medical masters, morbid and intelligent, or even educated urban explorers -

Medically speaking, what kind of health risks would be common for completely-not-vaccinated people who frequent or live in abandoned unkempt homes? What kind of diseases, deadly moss, etc would be growing in the homes and breathed in just by entering?

Would rats, bats, birds, etc that also find shelter in these homes also carry diseases that could spread to the people that live in abandoned homes? Or is that not practical?

Have books or studies been made about this that I can read because I am having no luck?

I need somewhere to start. So far the best parallel I can find are the health risks of hoarders, and maybe the life of a surf in the middle ages, but it's not exactly the same... or is it more or less? I would imagine geography, weather, humidity, etc are big factors and make these questions tricky.
 
Mechanical Snowman said:
Is there anyway to cap an individual user on a network
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Look for a Quality of Servce (QoS) settings page. Even if you have the page, there still might not be a limiting option, as only some Netgear routers have the option.

It could be more work than you want to put in, but it might be possible to install custom firmware on the router that will give you this option. Check the following site to see if your router model is supported: DD-WRT or Tomato.
 
Black Republican said:
is it true, a small minority of women have rape fantasies?
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Sure, why not? It's just an extreme form of BDSM. That doesn't mean they want to LEGIT be raped by some dude in a back alley, but you know. People get off on way weirder shit than that.
 
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