Author Topic: The 'Simple Questions' thread. (Read 356519 times)

STM1993 · « **Reply #960 on:** December 19, 2009, 08:30:15 am »

Quote from: Hair|Trigger on December 19, 2009, 08:25:14 am

How do you pronounce "Joyeux Noel"? (German for Merry Christmas I think)

EDIT:
Oops, sorry, that's not German for Merry Christmas.

It's French.
http://www.logosdictionary.org/sound/fr/4298479_n.wav

demoniac93 · « **Reply #961 on:** December 19, 2009, 11:52:11 am »

Quote from: Hair|Trigger on December 19, 2009, 08:25:14 am

How do you pronounce "Joyeux Noel"? (German for Merry Christmas I think)

Jo-i-ee no-el.
Stretch the J to make it sound a bit liquid, don't ask what that means. I just know how to spell it, not explain it.
And if you were going for German it's: frohliche weinechten/frohes weinachten.
Fru-lee-sheh vae-nakh-ten/fru-es vae-nakh-ten.

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #962 on:** December 19, 2009, 08:08:17 pm »

Oh right, french. Thanks
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Is it normal for a 320GB external to be missing like 20GB straight out of the box? If not I will take it back.

chutem · « **Reply #963 on:** December 26, 2009, 12:01:29 am »

My 500gb HDD is 465gb.

I think it is all to do with spare sectors and shit, I remember that from somewhere.
Every hard drive is divided into lots of sectors, and when one goes bad, it will attempt to shift the data to a backup sector, and change the reference to the new sector.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

VijchtiDoodah · « **Reply #964 on:** December 26, 2009, 12:24:39 am »

It's because the companies producing the hard drives use the decimal system to measure gigabytes while operating systems use the binary system.

For hard drive companies, one gigabyte = 1000³ bytes
For operating systems, one gigabyte = 1024³ bytes

Thus the difference. You lose 0.068 of every gigabyte you're sold.

croat1gamer · « **Reply #965 on:** December 26, 2009, 04:16:19 am »

And NTFS partitioning often gets a few gigs.
Try with with a same USB stick, format it in FAT32 and NTFS, then compare.

LtKillroy · « **Reply #966 on:** December 26, 2009, 03:35:16 pm »

What's a good place to order decent computers? For gaming and stuff. Places like Dell seem to overcharge you.

croat1gamer · « **Reply #967 on:** December 26, 2009, 04:09:44 pm »

Buy components separately (its fine as it isnt a premade configuration), then connect them/get someone to do it for you.

You can get a much better configuration than a premade one, but you would need to find someone who is good with hardware to consult you if the price/usefulness ration is good (internet forums are fine).

chutem · « **Reply #968 on:** December 26, 2009, 05:39:16 pm »

Shops which sell computer parts (graphics cards, psu) usually have some premade computers which are better value than stuff from companies like dell. At least in my experience they do.

Furai · « **Reply #969 on:** December 27, 2009, 08:42:07 am »

I've got question: Does mIRC v6.34+NNScript works fine under 64-bit Windows7? I've got such a compilation and it seems it doesn't work.

Graham · « **Reply #970 on:** December 27, 2009, 09:12:01 am »

Quote from: LtKillroy on December 26, 2009, 03:35:16 pm

What's a good place to order decent computers? For gaming and stuff. Places like Dell seem to overcharge you.

tigerdirect has some nice barebone systems. The list the things that the customer has to put in the system

LtKillroy · « **Reply #971 on:** December 30, 2009, 11:10:53 pm »

Anyone read Scary Go Round? I wanna know if Bobbins is worth reading first.

Lord Frunkamunch · « **Reply #972 on:** December 31, 2009, 09:05:51 pm »

It's basically SGR with worse art. You don't really need much of a background for either one.

LtKillroy · « **Reply #973 on:** January 01, 2010, 10:15:11 pm »

I started it, its pretty funny but my eyes might start bleeding.

echo_trail · « **Reply #974 on:** January 04, 2010, 09:13:57 am »

Hey boys, I'm looking for some new films to entertain me. I was thinking something along the lines of Surrogates, iRobot and Minority Report. Can you help a fellow forumer out?

STM1993 · « **Reply #975 on:** January 04, 2010, 09:38:20 am »

Quote from: echo_trail on January 04, 2010, 09:13:57 am

Hey boys, I'm looking for some new films to entertain me. I was thinking something along the lines of Surrogates, iRobot and Minority Report. Can you help a fellow forumer out?

The kind of action movies that is a bit philosophical, or to be exact, movies that make you think "what if the world were like this"?

(Never watched movies, but I'm just throwing ideas)
V for Vendetta?
Blade Runner?
The Island?
The Sixth Day?
Equilibrium?

Graham · « **Reply #976 on:** January 04, 2010, 10:20:22 am »

Quote from: STM1993 on January 04, 2010, 09:38:20 am

Quote from: echo_trail on January 04, 2010, 09:13:57 am
Hey boys, I'm looking for some new films to entertain me. I was thinking something along the lines of Surrogates, iRobot and Minority Report. Can you help a fellow forumer out?
The kind of action movies that is a bit philosophical, or to be exact, movies that make you think "what if the world were like this"?

(Never watched movies, but I'm just throwing ideas)
V for Vendetta? - Crappy political propaganda under the mask of an action movie
Blade Runner? - Not really in the line of what he was asking, also I thought it was extremely boring.
The Island? - Good movie, I really like it.
The Sixth Day? - No
Equilibrium? - Good, don't expect anything great.

Also just go see Avatar in Imax man.

echo_trail · « **Reply #977 on:** January 04, 2010, 12:48:21 pm »

STM, not a bad list. I've actually seen all of them fairly recently. Even Blade Runner was on the tube like last night or summing.

Gram, Avatar eh? Yeah, I'll go see if they have that at the video shack, so I can watch it at my awesome 3D TV set! YOU BASTARD! I WANNA SEE IT SO BAD! I WANT! I WANT! DIIIEEEEE!!!!

demoniac93 · « **Reply #978 on:** January 04, 2010, 03:21:29 pm »

Quote from: Graham on January 04, 2010, 10:20:22 am

Quote from: STM1993 on January 04, 2010, 09:38:20 am
Quote from: echo_trail on January 04, 2010, 09:13:57 am
Hey boys, I'm looking for some new films to entertain me. I was thinking something along the lines of Surrogates, iRobot and Minority Report. Can you help a fellow forumer out?
The kind of action movies that is a bit philosophical, or to be exact, movies that make you think "what if the world were like this"?

(Never watched movies, but I'm just throwing ideas)
V for Vendetta? - Crappy political propaganda under the mask of an action movie
Blade Runner? - Not really in the line of what he was asking, also I thought it was extremely boring.
The Island? - Good movie, I really like it.
The Sixth Day? - No
Equilibrium? - Good, don't expect anything great.
Also just go see Avatar in Imax man.

The 2 underlined phrases are wrong in so many ways...
You should see Aeon Flux.

echo_trail · « **Reply #979 on:** January 04, 2010, 03:38:14 pm »

Quote from: demoniac93 on January 04, 2010, 03:21:29 pm

You should see Aeon Flux.

I do expect a certain quality from my films. This does not comply.

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