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Psalmanazar posted:Basically Homestuck is like crack to internet nerds and there is a lot of fanfiction, crazy fangirls who think they are homestuck characters and general obsessiveness. This kind of carries over into the thread, with the whole lots of avatar buying, some guy posting his tumblr of homestuck porn and other stuff so the avatars become a warning sign that the poster is a horrible nerd. It's essentially the new My Little Pony. He signed for the White Sox but only played in the minor leagues
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Cymbal Monkey posted:I would also be interested in this same thing for Mac. Textual is really, really, nice Free trial/$5 on app store.
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I bought 2 water lilies that were originally in a mesh wrap padded out with coconut husk. The root system on both has grown way out of them though and I'm wondering if this was supposed to be temporary or something, or if they'd be better off in soil. Unfortunately I'm finding completely conflicting info on what I should even do about potting them. Some sites say coconut husk is a perfectly good idea (okay, how do I fertilize it if that's true?), I've seen others say use rocks, clay, or potting soil.
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So I am taking a 5 hour math course this summer and I have also have a prescription for 10 mg of adderal. Should i take this in the car before enter campus or if I take it in the bathroom before class will I be locked up in federal prison on drug charges and be forced to join a gang and get several swastikas tattooed on me to survive.
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Which of the free storage services are the ones to use? I am spreading things across SkyDrive, Dropbox, SugarSync, SpiderOak, Amazon Cloud Drive. I am tempted to pay the $20 for 20GB a year of Amazon, so that I can store my huge music collection (350gb) for free, but if they are going to pull that offer down after a year, it does not really count as backup.
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Wasn't sure whether to ask this in Serious Hardware/Software Crap, but I figure here would be okay: What's the best/cheapest way to get a decent version of Microsoft Word? I have Office 2007 on this computer but can't use it because I guess it was on a trial that ran out. No interest in the other parts of MS Office, just need Word. I tried OpenOffice but it's incompatible with some formats and documents I need to edit. Microsoft and Google are coming out with some ridiculous prices and money is an issue for me, so I was wondering if old versions are cheaper or if there's any good deals I'm missing or...Anything?
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Guidos Python posted:So I am taking a 5 hour math course this summer and I have also have a prescription for 10 mg of adderal. Should i take this in the car before enter campus or if I take it in the bathroom before class will I be locked up in federal prison on drug charges and be forced to join a gang and get several swastikas tattooed on me to survive. I take Adderall too and as far as I'm aware you don't have anything to worry about as long as you have the prescription bottle saying you're supposed to take it. Nobody ever says anything about it when I've taken it in the middle of class.
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kapalama posted:Which of the free storage services are the ones to use? I've used spideroak for a couple of years. I'm pretty happy with the security and syncing features. Before I signed up I compared features with Dropbox and thought that spideroak was better for my needs, but I didn't compare it to the other ones that you list. I was going to use it for media files, but quickly found that it's so much of a pain in the rear end to upload all that poo poo that it wasn't worth it. I now use it for work stuff and some media files, mostly to transfer between machines, and it's really good for that. For media files, I found that it's more convenient and cost effective to invest in a few external drives and sync them up periodically.
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VagueRant posted:Wasn't sure whether to ask this in Serious Hardware/Software Crap, but I figure here would be okay: What's the best/cheapest way to get a decent version of Microsoft Word? Not really an answer to your actual question, but it might help. OpenOffice probably can open all those documents. I believe it has plug-ins or filters or whatever for pretty much any file type Office can open. If it's a new Office document, a lot of times you just need to change the file name to remove the 'x' from its filename extension (change document.docx to document.doc). vvvvvv OneEightHundred posted:The XML formats and the legacy formats are totally different, so the only thing changing the extension will do is either save you a trip down the file type filter menu, assuming it still opens. Very Strange Things fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jun 5, 2012 |
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Very Strange Things posted:If it's a new Office document, a lot of times you just need to change the file name to remove the 'x' from its filename extension (change document.docx to document.doc). OpenOffice has a number of issues with DOCX, but it can open it, usually. As for getting Word: Buying Word by itself gets you a business license, if you're NOT using this for business purposes, then get Office Home and Student instead, which is $120, or $150 for 3 activations.
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VagueRant posted:Wasn't sure whether to ask this in Serious Hardware/Software Crap, but I figure here would be okay: What's the best/cheapest way to get a decent version of Microsoft Word? I would give Google Docs a shot and see if that works well enough. If not, the Home/Student versions of office are usually under $150. They are good for 3 installs too which is nice. Microsoft Office University 2010 Academic Edition (w/ valid .edu email) - $99 Office 2010 Home and Student Product Key Card (no media) - $119 Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student 3-User - $129
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For some reason my phone's browser decided to log me out of the forums and whenever I try to log back in, I'm just taken back to the main forum page and remain logged out. I tried clearing the cache and cookies, so does anyone have a solution for this?
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Reiche posted:For some reason my phone's browser decided to log me out of the forums and whenever I try to log back in, I'm just taken back to the main forum page and remain logged out. I tried clearing the cache and cookies, so does anyone have a solution for this? Telling us your phone and browser might help troubleshoot.
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FCKGW posted:Telling us your phone and browser might help troubleshoot. Duh, my bad. Samsung Galaxy Note, AT&T. I guess the browser is just the default one on the phone.
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Reiche posted:Duh, my bad. Not a direct answer to your question but you should check out the Awful or Awful betamax android apps. Makes these forums lots easier on a small (well in your case almost tablet) screen. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3391052 I'm no "need an app for everything" type guy, I leave my android browser in desktop mode 100% of the time and look at most all sites that way, the same way I do on a PC. Awful is the only app "for a website" I think I even have.
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Seconding the awful app, it's quite good
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Wagonburner posted:Not a direct answer to your question but you should check out the Awful or Awful betamax android apps. Makes these forums lots easier on a small (well in your case almost tablet) screen. I tried it out and it works pretty well so far, thanks for the recommendation. SA is the only site I've had problems with so far on the phone so I'll stick with the app.
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Is there an actual "goons.txt" anywhere? Meaning a downloadable .txt file with hundreds of goony quotes all on one page? Not an archived thread or article or anything.
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I just need to reserve a web address for future use. I would like a one time payment to reserve for two years cheply, and right now I do not need hosting. Suggestions?
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Schweinhund posted:Is there an actual "goons.txt" anywhere? Meaning a downloadable .txt file with hundreds of goony quotes all on one page? Not an archived thread or article or anything. There's a GWS version here: http://www.goonswithspoons.com/Gws.txt Not sure where a definitive forums-wide txt would be, or if there even is one. Edit: googling "goons.txt" brings up a bunch of hits from the forums, so if you are able to view archived threads that might be a good place to start. Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Is there a way to make Gmall stop tryng to hide half my labels now that they have enforced the new look? All I want is to have gmail stop autohiding poo poo I prefer basic HTML, but ...
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I seem to remember some saying, some quote, or some joke that says science doesn't understand how some large bird (an albatross? a pelican?) flies because it should be too heavy/ungainly to attain flight. I can't remember the bird. Am I making this up or is anybody else familiar with this line of thought?
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Moscow Mule posted:I seem to remember some saying, some quote, or some joke that says science doesn't understand how some large bird (an albatross? a pelican?) flies because it should be too heavy/ungainly to attain flight. I can't remember the bird. Am I making this up or is anybody else familiar with this line of thought? The usual case is the bumblebee: http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~ben/zetie1.htm Also linked in the straight dope and as usual, he gets it a little wrong, because the mechanics of bumblebee flight were not understood unti 1970 or so: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1076/is-it-aerodynamically-impossible-for-bumblebees-to-fly
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That's what I'm thinking about. Thanks!
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Cymbal Monkey posted:I would also be interested in this same thing for Mac. As an alternative, I really like Colloquy. I think it's still free, and it's fairly simple. Also, Awful is [by and large] a great app, even if website-specific (and non-social media apps) are kinda dumb.
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Moscow Mule posted:I seem to remember some saying, some quote, or some joke that says science doesn't understand how some large bird (an albatross? a pelican?) flies because it should be too heavy/ungainly to attain flight. I can't remember the bird. Am I making this up or is anybody else familiar with this line of thought? As a minor aside to kapalma's point (because you probably meant the bumblebee), the most "unlikely" to fly (in the sense of mass versus ability) bird is the Canadian Goose. So, if it really was a bird you heard about, you probably meant that. Also, geese are cool.
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Xiahou Dun posted:geese are cool. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19860114&id=1y1iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A3cNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2115,1494272 Jack Daniels uses guard geese, and they are more effective and safer than guard dogs.
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Is there a way to ban eHow results from showing up in any google search forever? I hate that website and it's useless ad-selling "content".
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kapalama posted:Is there a way to make Gmall stop tryng to hide half my labels now that they have enforced the new look? Under Settings->Labels you have the option of having each label 'show', 'hide', or 'show if unread'.
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Torka posted:Is there a way to ban eHow results from showing up in any google search forever? I hate that website and it's useless ad-selling "content". Do a Google-search, for which a eHow-result will show up. Click on the result (bear with me!) and then immediately press the back button. Google will then pop up a question asking if it should remove ehow.com from appearing in future searches. Voila!
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I'm about ready to move to Seattle and I need a local phone number for the door buzzer where I'm going to be living. I'd get a Google Voice number except my current phone number is already using Google Voice (Sprint integration). Is there someplace I can buy a local phone number and forward it to another phone number?
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brylcreem posted:Do a Google-search, for which a eHow-result will show up. Click on the result (bear with me!) and then immediately press the back button. Google will then pop up a question asking if it should remove ehow.com from appearing in future searches. Thanks, you own.
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kapalama posted:Which of the free storage services are the ones to use? I use SugarSync and it's been great for me. A free account is 5GB and I upgraded to 30GB when they had a 50% off promotion (which they seem to offer quite often). They have a pretty nice iphone app if that's important to you.
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Jose Cuervo posted:Under Settings->Labels you have the option of having each label 'show', 'hide', or 'show if unread'. Thanks for the idea, but for whatever reason this change does not 'take'. I still have to paly "Whack-A-Mole" to get Spam to show. (Why this matters: Google still thinks Japanese e-mails are spam way too often, and I have missed (actually thrown out unread) several e-mails because I am not able to unconsciously cull the spam emails before they number above the hundreds.
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kapalama posted:
Are they all from the same people? You could always give them an email address like kapa.lama@gmail, and have it filter that into one folder that you can then check.
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gariig posted:I'm about ready to move to Seattle and I need a local phone number for the door buzzer where I'm going to be living. I'd get a Google Voice number except my current phone number is already using Google Voice (Sprint integration). Is there someplace I can buy a local phone number and forward it to another phone number? I don't directly have an answer for you, but there is a fair bit of how-to-move-there discussion in Seattle's LAN thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032541
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Fat Guy Sexting posted:Are they all from the same people? No, the regular senders are recognized, but the out of the blue e-mails get put in the spam folder sometimes. It's the text encoding looking like random characters combined with the odd looking domain names that J cellphone carriers seem to provide it seems. It used to happen on every single Japanese e-mail back in the day, but things are way better. If the spam folder did not autohide, it would just be one of those unconsciously tended things that I learned to do long ago. It's because the "New Look" for GMail includes autohiding Spam and Trash, and there is no way to shut off that autohiding, and there is no way to switch back to th old look permanently that the issue even comes up. When I think about it, I enable basic the HTML look, but since I am tending several accounts, I sometimes forget to reset to basic HTML.
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Base Emitter posted:I don't directly have an answer for you, but there is a fair bit of how-to-move-there discussion in Seattle's LAN thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032541 Moving to Seattle is a red herring. I just need to get a local phone number but I don't want to spend $15/month for a POTS line just so I can buzz friends into our apartment. I was hoping to find a service like Google Voice (but not Google Voice) where I can get a Seattle phone number that will ring my cell phone.
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So my wife is thinking of getting her phlebotomist certification. I am concerned about her taking the classes and not being able to get a job because she has no experience. She does have 2+ years of CNA experience, so she has the medical experience on her resume. Any idea how important experience is with this particular career in landing a job? (We live in a suburb of Chicago if that makes a difference)
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