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Green Scar said:
Does anyone else freak out a little when they have a tab that just says 'NeoGAF'? It happens on the main page or the search or whatever, but tbh I rarely remember clicking on them and worry immediately I've been banned. :lol
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No but sometimes when I'm reading a thread and I don't realize it has been closed, I will notice that there's no "reply" above people's avatars.

I have thought I was banned like 3 times now because of that lol. I think the 3rd time was the charm in my learning process.
 
What are #hashtags for? I was on Facebook and they are popping up more and more frequently there and at other sites I visit. I tried to do some research on what they are on Twitter and Wikipedia but I came away more confused than when I started reading. There is some simple thing that I'm missing about it, I know, because none of the explanations I've seen make sense to me. I'm missing the beginning step.

What is a #hashtag and why do people use them?

I'm posting this here because I didn't get an answer I understood in the thread I made. Probably should've been in here in the first place.
 
UraMallas said:
What are #hashtags for? I was on Facebook and they are popping up more and more frequently there and at other sites I visit. I tried to do some research on what they are on Twitter and Wikipedia but I came away more confused than when I started reading. There is some simple thing that I'm missing about it, I know, because none of the explanations I've seen make sense to me. I'm missing the beginning step.

What is a #hashtag and why do people use them?

I'm posting this here because I didn't get an answer I understood in the thread I made. Probably should've been in here in the first place.
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They're for Twitter, and they're used to mainly highlight a topic and get it "trending," which basically lets you know that something is popular at the moment. For example, the tag #devevent is for the fighting game tournament Devastation, and people are encouraged to use that hashtag to get the event some attention to watch the live internet stream.

Hashtags can also be used as a joke too, like putting #ohgodwhatisthis or something else equally ridiculous.
 
UraMallas said:
What are #hashtags for? I was on Facebook and they are popping up more and more frequently there and at other sites I visit. I tried to do some research on what they are on Twitter and Wikipedia but I came away more confused than when I started reading. There is some simple thing that I'm missing about it, I know, because none of the explanations I've seen make sense to me. I'm missing the beginning step.

What is a #hashtag and why do people use them?

I'm posting this here because I didn't get an answer I understood in the thread I made. Probably should've been in here in the first place.
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and people use them on facebook because they linked their twitter or they're just retarded as hell.
 
Mariah Carey said:
Which is (more) grammatically correct?

"If there was only one available...."

"If there were only one available..."
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The first sentence is correct, because "one" is singular so your use "was".

Conversely for plural you would say:
"If there were only two available...."
 
undrtakr900 said:
The first sentence is correct, because "one" is singular so your use "was".

Conversely for plural you would say:
"If there were only two available...."
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This is not necessarily true.

Both phrases are valid. 'Were' is more likely to be used in formal English for this subjunctive case.

From my Oxford book:
We often use were instead of was after if. This is common in both formal and informal styles. In a formal style it is much more common than was, and many people consider it more correct, especially in American English. The grammatical name for this use of were is 'subjunctive'.
ex: If my nose were a little shorter I'd be quite pretty.
 
Aquavelvaman said:
This is not necessarily true.

Both phrases are valid. 'Were' is more likely to be used in formal English for this subjunctive case.

From my Oxford book:
We often use were instead of was after if. This is common in both formal and informal styles. In a formal style it is much more common than was, and many people consider it more correct, especially in American English. The grammatical name for this use of were is 'subjunctive'.
ex: If my nose were a little shorter I'd be quite pretty.
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Hmm...it may be grammatically correct but it sounds a little weird that way.

"If my nose was a little shorter I'd be quite"
"If my noses were a little shorter I'd be quite"

That's how I would've wrote it, but I guess there's always exceptions to the rules or more then one way to write something.
 
Back to the Future Part III: Doc says Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine still runs on gasoline, hence the train hijinks.

It just occurred to me, when he was getting the hover conversion done in 2015, why the hell didn't he get the engine converted over as well? That's the whole purpose for Mr. Fusion in the 21st century, to power cars. Why leave it gas-powered if you're already getting it done?

Not the biggest plothole in the films, I know.
 
Anyone know where I can find some high quality images of stadiums/courts with that shot like just about every tv presentation opens, high above on an angle showing the crowd and field?Shots like a camera from the rafters looking down on a court?

I'm not explaining it very well, I know.
 
faceless007 said:
Back to the Future Part III: Doc says Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine still runs on gasoline, hence the train hijinks.

It just occurred to me, when he was getting the hover conversion done in 2015, why the hell didn't he get the engine converted over as well? That's the whole purpose for Mr. Fusion in the 21st century, to power cars. Why leave it gas-powered if you're already getting it done?

Not the biggest plothole in the films, I know.
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Perhaps it wasn't cost effective. I mean you are talking about a whole engine overhaul. Along with inflation, Doc probably wasn't that well off in the future.
 
undrtakr900 said:
Hmm...it may be grammatically correct but it sounds a little weird that way.

"If my nose was a little shorter I'd be quite"
"If my noses were a little shorter I'd be quite"

That's how I would've wrote it, but I guess there's always exceptions to the rules or more then one way to write something.
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"If my nose were a littler shorter..." is the past subjunctive, which describes a "counterfactual condition" in the present, i.e. my nose is not actually a little shorter. "If my noses were a little shorter..." could either be the past subjunctive, or not. There's no way to tell because nothing changes to reflect the subjunctive in the plural—the plural past subjunctive and the plural past indicative of "to be" are both "were".

It isn't right or wrong to say, "If I was a metre tall...", or "If I were a metre tall...", but it's probably true that you would see the latter more often (and especially in formal writing) because the former sounds emphatically informal.

Edit: Furthermore, if you decide to use the indicative (e.g. Mariah Carey's example: If there was only one available...), inversion is not correct (e.g. *Was there only one available...). (You would have to say, "Were there only one available...")
 
I'm having some web-design trouble.

Keep in mind that I'm somewhat of a newb.

On the home page of the site, I created a navigation bar using an unordered list of links. I added a CSS file that turns this list into a regular navigation bar. It works pretty well.

I decided to turn that into a header.php file so that if I want to change the menu, I can just change one file and have that change show up on every page that includes the <?php include 'header.php'; ?> line.

I tried this out on one page, and while the menu showed up, it showed up as a regular unordered list, even though I had included <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>

I must be doing something wrong.

Here's the header.php file:

<html>
<body>

<h1>Big Title Here</h1>
<h2>Smaller slogan here</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html" class="active">Home<span>Page</span></a></li>
<li><a href="page2.html">Page <span>2</span></a></li>
<li><a href="page3">Page<span>3</span></a></li>
... and so on until it includes all the navigation buttons.
</ul>
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Here's the source code of the page I'm trying to put the header on:

<?php include 'header.php'; ?>

<br>
<h1>Individual Page Content Title</h1>
<br>
<br>
<p>Page Content
</p>
</body>
</html>
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I've tried putting the style.css line in every place I can think of, but it doesn't seem to be working.

How does one do this?
 
ultron87 said:
Yeah, it quickly cools because it is so thin and it dissipates heat really quickly. As soon as the air around it become cool (ie you take it out of the oven) the tiny amount of heat that the aluminum was able to store is quickly dispersed out into the atmosphere.



I have no idea if this is the truth but here is my thought:

Departure is on the top floor since you get to the plane through a skybridge and the plane's hatch is going to be approximately even with the upper floor of a building.

Arrivals is on the lower floor because baggage claim is there and bags are unloaded at ground level.
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So for the aluminium, the paper being so thin, it cools much faster ? Interesting...

For airports, we came to the same conclusion.
 
Anyone know what's a good programming language to start with?

I've tried C++ and Python. C++ of course was too punishing and has made me hate programming.

I learned a bit of Python but I gave up because I had become really busy with school.

And if you could link to some learning guides then I will forever be grateful.
 
2 Qs

-Are LED monitors good for digital artists( especially one who work on B&W and Grayscale drawings)?

-Is there any recommended cheap walking sneakers/shoe that avalable on Amazon.com?
 
Is it normal that I subconsciously read text both from the bottom and the top at the same time? I'll only be aware of the top, but then I'll start thinking of a song or quote only to continue reading and have it mentioned further down.
 
Can I get someone to write a simple HTML page for me?
Just a background color and a 128x512 image centered middle of the page. Nothing else.
Been too long that I touched HTML that I can't even remember how to do that. Thanks.
 
Rapstah said:
Is it normal that I subconsciously read text both from the bottom and the top at the same time? I'll only be aware of the top, but then I'll start thinking of a song or quote only to continue reading and have it mentioned further down.
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Don't know if it is normal or not, but I do the same thing.
 
MrBig said:
Can I get someone to write a simple HTML page for me?
Just a background color and a 128x512 image centered middle of the page. Nothing else.
Been too long that I touched HTML that I can't even remember how to do that. Thanks.
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<body bgcolor="#ff0000">
<CENTER>
<img src="picture URL"/>
</CENTER>
</body>

EDIT: Wow, I tried this on my school web page and it looks so absolutely early 90s.
 
Could I get into any trouble for saying I "might" sue someone, or that I'm going to look into legal options? Of course I have no plan to sue whatsoever, but I want to make sure a quite obvious joke can't potentially get me in trouble.
 
My User Highlighter extension isn't highlighting anything. How do I fix that?
Timedog said:
Could I get into any trouble for saying I "might" sue someone, or that I'm going to look into legal options? Of course I have no plan to sue whatsoever, but I want to make sure a quite obvious joke can't potentially get me in trouble.
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LOL when did you get that tag doug? Oh and no idea for your question.
 
Just bought Hulu Plus and installed on my PS3. I went to NBC, looked at every show they have, and Community wasn't listed. But their website (via my PC) does have it. Any idea why? It's seriously not worth paying for Hulu Plus if I can't have Community.
 
Does Deadwood have a conclusive ending?

Just want to know before I watch the 3 seasons. I wonder if it was cancelled before or after the final episode was filmed/written.
 
Nard Bagman said:
My User Highlighter extension isn't highlighting anything. How do I fix that?
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Did you install the greasemonkey script? You have to manually open the ecript file and enter your name.
 
goodfella said:
Does Deadwood have a conclusive ending?

Just want to know before I watch the 3 seasons. I wonder if it was cancelled before or after the final episode was filmed/written.
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No not per se but absolutely do not let that stop you. It's far and away the best tv show ever imo.
 
I want to be able to plug my hard drive into another computer but when I took my lap top apart(it was a HP btw) I wasn't sure I took out the hard drive or not. I have pictures..I just need to know if this is my hard drive or not so I can go from here.

IMAG0033.jpg


download.jpg
 
BankaiZaraki said:
I want to be able to plug my hard drive into another computer but when I took my lap top apart(it was a HP btw) I wasn't sure I took out the hard drive or not. I have pictures..I just need to know if this is my hard drive or not so I can go from here.

http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx217/BankaiZaraki/IMAG0033.jpg[/im]

[img]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx217/BankaiZaraki/download.jpg[/im][/quote]
aww man idk why this made me laugh.
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MrBig said:
Did you install the greasemonkey script? You have to manually open the ecript file and enter your name.
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Ooh I'm not too great at that kind of thing, I don't know how, so no. Also, I have Chrome, will greasemonkey work with that?
 
Nard Bagman said:
Ooh I'm not too great at that kind of thing, I don't know how, so no. Also, I have Chrome, will greasemonkey work with that?
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you don't need the script. if you have chrome just go to chrome://extensions/
and click options for the NeoGAF User Highlighter and then put your username where it asks you to.
 
Jzero15 said:
you don't need the script. if you have chrome just go to chrome://extensions/
and click options for the NeoGAF User Highlighter and then put your username where it asks you to.
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I've been to my extensions page, I might be herp derping or something. There's no "option" on my extensions page.
 
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