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I asked in the Camera thread, however since nobody answered me, I figured here would be better place to ask:

I decided to buy the D5100 kit as my first DSLR and start learning from there. However, I'll ask a friend of mine that is going to the US on vacation to buy it for me. Some questions:

1 - If I buy the kit on Amazon and have it delivered in his hotel room (in San Diego), will I have to pay sales tax?

2 - Does Amazon offer some kind of overnight delivery? If so is it expensive? And more importantly, can it be trusted?

3 - I want to split the bill in two credit cards. As I'm pretty sure Amazon will not accept it, I wonder if I can buy gift cards for the appropriate amounts with each Credit Card and then redeem the mentioned cards in one account (and then buy the kit).

Thanks!
 
Is it possible to get scammed out of money on Paypal once someone has already paid you? If I accept payment via Paypal, ship something, and then they pretend they never got it can they renege payment and leave me shit out of luck?
 
SnakeXs said:
Is it possible to get scammed out of money on Paypal once someone has already paid you? If I accept payment via Paypal, ship something, and then they pretend they never got it can they renege payment and leave me shit out of luck?
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First they would have to file a claim with Paypal. If Paypal finds the buyer is "in the right" (e.g. no tracking #) then paypal will automatically withdraw the amount from your account. If the money is not there, you will get a negative balance. Of course, you can always withdraw funds, shut down your Paypal account immediately and never look back.
 
I'm thinking about going back to school, but it's just a shitty community college with slim offerings. How useful is the following?

Students learn:
Visual Basic programming language
advanced microcomputer applications
construction of language-free algorithms
to write COBOL programs in structured form
complex aspects of the Windows environment, word processing, and graphics
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It's for an associates in computer programming and analysis, but I'm sure if it's worth it. What kind of job would I look for with the above? How useful is Visual Basic, and how difficult would it be to self teach myself other languages for there? What is COBOL?
 
wolfmat said:
The 1st hop. When a participant receives a packet with TTL 1, he drops it and sends ICMP 0 or 1 to the sender. The sender in turn altogether sends enough packets with an increasing TTL to reach the target.


(What I posted before here was crazy talk)
When the target gets a packet with TTL 1, he responds with ICMP echo something. So the last TTL started with 11. Here's the TTLs for the last packet:
(Sender) 0: Receives nothing, sends 11
1: Receives 11, sends 10
2: Receives 10, sends 9
3: Receives 9, sends 8
4: Receives 8, sends 7
5: Receives 7, sends 6
6: Receives 6, sends 5
7: Receives 5, sends 4
8: Receives 4, sends 3
9: Receives 3, sends 2
10: Receives 2, sends 1
(Target) 11: Receives 1, sends ICMP echo
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Sorry fr the late thanks, but thanks!

Another networking question (sorry doing exams here and some of it is like reading Russian)

The image here shows the root nameserver being ".", then the top level domain being ".com" then the sub-domain/3rd level domain being ".mycorp" The question is:

1) the authoritative name server is the parent node on top of the child node? ie "myhost" authoritative name server is "mygrp"?

So when I type www.neogaf.com, my ISP name server (NS) will ask the root nameserver where "www.neogaf.com" is, which will give the IP for the TLD ".com" back to my ISP NS which will talk to the ".com" NS which will give it the IP for "neogaf.com", and that process will keep going on until it gets to the GAF server with the www hostname?

CHeers!

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Its from a childrens book on Amazon called All My Friends Are Dead. I'm not sure why its popular all of a sudden though. I think its a 'plane into the sunset' thing. Right time, right place.
 
Azriell said:
It's for an associates in computer programming and analysis, but I'm sure if it's worth it. What kind of job would I look for with the above? How useful is Visual Basic, and how difficult would it be to self teach myself other languages for there? What is COBOL?
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Those are some seriously deprecated languages (COBOL was on its way out through the '80s and '90s -- it became really popular for a short while in the late '90s because of all the old banking systems that needed to be fixed for the y2k bug). There are jobs out there that require them, but I suspect that they're mostly "maintaining old code" jobs which may be few and far between. It's weird that they'd teach them specifically. I'd guess that they happen to have older teachers there who are just teaching what they know. Anyway, If you're going to use a language with limited marketability, PASCAL is probably a better place to start, since it has firm grounding in Object Oriented Programming. But it's really not difficult to teach C (or C++) or Java as a beginner's language, as long as you don't go feature happy in your lessons.

I'd suggest that you go to a jobs site and just look at the listings and see which languages are the hot items to include in your resumé. I can't go there because it'd be bad form to go to such a website while at a workplace that I love. But my guess would be that the following languages are represented decently:

* C, C++, C#, Java, PHP
* ...maybe Python, but it still feels pretty hobby-ish to me.
* SQL isn't a programming language, but knowing it is important for some kinds of programming.
/ Learning languages in a .NET environment is a marketable trait (I abhor platform-specific environments, but that doesn't mean you should).


As for learning from language to language? Most popular languages these days are C-like in their syntax, which is why many schools start students off using a language in that linked list (pun slightly intended). Start with most anything in there, and you'll see familiarity when you jump to another. I think it's most traditional to either start with Java, which is very handholdy, or to begin with regular C and -- at your leisure -- elevate to C++, which is pretty much the same thing with some added features but without removing any of the basic C features.

For me, programming became easy with (A) Perl and (B) using C++ specifically with the Qt libraries, which is handholdy like Java. But then, I'm really different. I haven't yet been able to latch onto the whole "drag shit around" paradigm in your typical IDE.


Also, Modula-3 sucks balls. Run if you ever see it referenced anywhere.
 
tc farks said:
Thanks for the clarification. How much would the aforementioned model with amd x4 be?

Its too bad this stepping stone isn't a bit lower in price range. But again I can't get carried away and try to turn something I need into a gaming rig if its not meant to be.
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Looking at walmart.com, it looks like a quad core rig would run you an extra hundred. BUT


http://www.walmart.com/ip/CyberPower-Cyberpower-GUA110/16537155

Despite the totally garish tower, this is actually a solid rig. And the included video card is better than the one in the dual core that was posted, so you could hold off on that upgrade if so desired.
 
AShep said:
What do people mean when they write "fake edit" in their posts?
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Sometimes I'm writing off the top of my head and say something without looking up supporting info at first, and then after I've written a paragraph, I look up what I'm talking about. Instead of rewriting, I might just put "fake edit" and cite my source.

Also used when hitting "Preview Post" button to see if others have posted, and then you can quote/respond to them too with a "fake edit."
 
I've been on a Pirates of the Caribbean kick lately, having rewatched the first movie on television a few days ago. I remember seeing a goof in which you can see a mattress an actor falls onto. In the television version of the movie (which took up the entire screen), the mattress was easily visible. However, when I rewatched the scene on Blu-ray just now I discovered that the black bars effectively hid the mattress.

I was always under the impression that the reason "fullscreen" movies don't have black bars was because they just zoomed in on the picture, resulting in an overall loss of picture. So imagine my surprise when I notice that the "fullscreen" version of Pirates actually has more picture. Why is that? Is that how all HD movies on TV work? Are the networks provided "bar-less" versions of movies from the studios?
 
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I've been on a Pirates of the Caribbean kick lately, having rewatched the first movie on television a few days ago. I remember seeing a goof in which you can see a mattress an actor falls onto. In the television version of the movie (which took up the entire screen), the mattress was easily visible. However, when I rewatched the scene on Blu-ray just now I discovered that the black bars effectively hid the mattress.

I was always under the impression that the reason "fullscreen" movies don't have black bars was because they just zoomed in on the picture, resulting in an overall loss of picture. So imagine my surprise when I notice that the "fullscreen" version of Pirates actually has more picture. Why is that? Is that how all HD movies on TV work? Are the networks provided "bar-less" versions of movies from the studios?
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I have also noticed this before with some movies. It's a little disheartening, but the widescreen version is still usually the original intended version.
 
Summary Man said:
I've been on a Pirates of the Caribbean kick lately, having rewatched the first movie on television a few days ago. I remember seeing a goof in which you can see a mattress an actor falls onto. In the television version of the movie (which took up the entire screen), the mattress was easily visible. However, when I rewatched the scene on Blu-ray just now I discovered that the black bars effectively hid the mattress.

I was always under the impression that the reason "fullscreen" movies don't have black bars was because they just zoomed in on the picture, resulting in an overall loss of picture. So imagine my surprise when I notice that the "fullscreen" version of Pirates actually has more picture. Why is that? Is that how all HD movies on TV work? Are the networks provided "bar-less" versions of movies from the studios?
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It depends.

When a movie is filmed, it's shot wider than is actually used. So when they go and edit it together, some footage gets chopped off all the way around in order to frame the shots as intended.

Usually, the 4:3 version will just be the cropped from the widescreen cut and you lose some width. But sometimes, the editors take a bit more care and they'll go back to the overshot masters and recut the film for a narrower aspect ratio and sometimes that means incorporating a "taller" shot when its warranted.
 
I've only recently started using hair gel - do hairdressers care if you come for a haircut with your hair full of gel? Seems like it would make it more difficult for them.
 
Bananakin said:
I've only recently started using hair gel - do hairdressers care if you come for a haircut with your hair full of gel? Seems like it would make it more difficult for them.
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not in my experience. I've been using hair gel for years now and some times I'll go in with gel in my hair. They always wet my hair before cutting.
 
Biscuits said:
Sorry for bumping this thread, but what's the actual answer to this question?
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Basically what Leckan said. It was becoming a detriment to actual conversation. Same reason most things are banned around here (tl;dr, cool story bro, etc)
 
I just bought a PS2 Slim without thinking about how I'd connect it to my monitor (Acer H233H). I just figured an HD LCD monitor I bought a couple years ago would be able to take it. It's got VGA, DVI-D and HDMI connectors. The PS2 video cable has three different connectors on the input end and I don't know what they are (it didn't come with any manuals). What's the best way to do this?
 
Bananakin said:
I've only recently started using hair gel - do hairdressers care if you come for a haircut with your hair full of gel? Seems like it would make it more difficult for them.
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It depends, I always go without any product in my hair. They don't always rinse/wash your hair before cutting it.
 
demon said:
I just bought a PS2 Slim without thinking about how I'd connect it to my monitor (Acer H233H). I just figured an HD LCD monitor I bought a couple years ago would be able to take it. It's got VGA, DVI-D and HDMI connectors. The PS2 video cable has three different connectors on the input end and I don't know what they are (it didn't come with any manuals). What's the best way to do this?
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Pics plz.

Without being able to see it, something like this would probably do you solid. That's an RCA to VGA adapter.
 
So I just finished playing Super Robot Taisen OG 2 on my GBA and this was part of the end game dialogue.

Carla: And I'm sure I won't be bored staying Major Sanger and Ratsel.

Tasuku: You'll be swinging around the place like the Colossal Blade

Carla: Ahahaha, I do like to party.
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Is it just me or does it seem like she's plans on doing a whole lot of fucking?
 
luiztfc said:
I asked in the Camera thread, however since nobody answered me, I figured here would be better place to ask:

I decided to buy the D5100 kit as my first DSLR and start learning from there. However, I'll ask a friend of mine that is going to the US on vacation to buy it for me. Some questions:

1 - If I buy the kit on Amazon and have it delivered in his hotel room (in San Diego), will I have to pay sales tax?

2 - Does Amazon offer some kind of overnight delivery? If so is it expensive? And more importantly, can it be trusted?

3 - I want to split the bill in two credit cards. As I'm pretty sure Amazon will not accept it, I wonder if I can buy gift cards for the appropriate amounts with each Credit Card and then redeem the mentioned cards in one account (and then buy the kit).

Thanks!
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I'll try and answer these...

1. No, Amazon doesn't charge sales tax in CA.

2. Not sure, but the easiest way is to go through the checkout process and see. On my Amazon Prime account I only get the option to do 1-day shipping on the D5100 Kit. If you're reasonably certain when your friend will be there, the 2 day shipping is usually very reliable so you can just order in advance to time it with his stay at the hotel.

3. Don't see why this wouldn't work, but there's probably something in the Amazon FAQ about it. Or try emailing customer support.
 
I want to learn C++, but I know nothing of it. What would be the quickest/easiest way to start learning? Any sites you guys know?

What programs should I have on my PC? I just downloaded Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express Setup, is there any other programs I should have?

Thanks.
 
Anyone well-versed in Spotify here? I have one of those free accounts now that can only listen to online music for 10 hours per month. But once that time drops to 0, it goes back up, giving me a few extra hours here and there, even though a new month haven't started yet. Why? It seems to correlate with the fact that I'm listening to a lot of offline mp3s but I could be wrong O_o

Edit: Spotify.com says I'm getting 5 additional free hours per week for 6 months but this seems more random and happens more often I think :S
 
Minamu said:
Anyone well-versed in Spotify here? I have one of those free accounts now that can only listen to online music for 10 hours per month. But once that time drops to 0, it goes back up, giving me a few extra hours here and there, even though a new month haven't started yet. Why? It seems to correlate with the fact that I'm listening to a lot of offline mp3s but I could be wrong O_o

Edit: Spotify.com says I'm getting 5 additional free hours per week for 6 months but this seems more random and happens more often I think :S
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I have only 4 hours of music per month and cannot play more than 5 times the same song. EVER.

Spotify became such bullshit.
 
A good place to shop for hats in London?
Also, Good Gothic shops that sells Gothic T-Shirts such ones with skulls and so on and so fourth?
 
UnluckyKate said:
I have only 4 hours of music per month and cannot play more than 5 times the same song. EVER.

Spotify became such bullshit.
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Yeah it sucks alright :( I've heard good things about grooveshark.com but it seems to be a bit of hassle compared to the old spotify.
 
Orellio said:
Pics plz.

Without being able to see it, something like this would probably do you solid. That's an RCA to VGA adapter.
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Are those easy to find at stores? Just searched The Shack (lol) online and found nothing.
 
Does anyone remember this delicious snack product from the early-mid 90's? I believe it was made by planters. The snacks were peanut-shaped and had either a peanut butter or chocolate filling. I used to eat them all the time. The outer shell was crispy and the filing was soft and creamy. Any ideas?
 
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