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Geek Culture / Words every Geek should know

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FBSinfoandfilm
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HTTP=hypertext tranfer protocol
HTML= hyperText Markup Language
Fiber optics, and how they work. (using light signals to beam tons of signals simultaneously.
difference between optical and digital zoom on cameras
Bill Gates (president of microsoft)
Shiguero Miyamoto (president of Nintendo)
stuff like that

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Jeku
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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 07:49 Edited at: 13th Apr 2009 07:50
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Don't want to be mean, but:

Bill Gates is not the President of Microsoft. I believe he was the CEO of Microsoft, but not any longer.

Shigeru Miyamoto is not and was never the President of Nintendo. That title belongs to Satoru Iwata, whom I actually had the pleasure of meeting a few years back.

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dark coder
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Seems like FBSinfoandfilm needs to know what these things are first.

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jasonhtml
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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 17:50
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and HTML is a bit old tbh... i mean, just look at my username! i made this username up about 9 years ago or so (before I came to this forum). the new stuff to know is CSS, JavaScript, and PHP for web design.

and if you're putting HTTP up there, why not FTP? just as important for serving...

i really don't get the point in this thread

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Veron
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Quote: "i really don't get the point in this thread"


That sums it up nicely.

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AlexI
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This list could go on for ever Looks like someone was hopping this post would become popular and get made a sticky


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Lukas W
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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 19:50
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Why would we need to know the augmentation? Nobody cares if you know what they mean. There's a reason a website like Wikipedia was created.

Although, while it's true that it might be useful to know about these technical abbreviations and expressions, not to mention influential people, to some extent; I don't really give a crap.

But not everyone is affiliated to the equal opinions, which one has to accept and move on.

Anyhoot,
I realize my post is rather.. what's the word.. dis satisfactory?.. towards your expectations. Whereas I will stop writing now, while mentally trying to pierce in silence into your head a word of forgiveness as I prepare my grand escape: "Nothing Personal".



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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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May I suggest you start a blog, FBSinfoandfilm?

There you could provide as much... uh... helpful advice as you wanted and nobody could backchat!

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Insert Name Here
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On the other hand, he just got Jeku, Dark Coder, Veron and Nex all to post within one day - is that a record?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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I suppose it is; the UK, Japan, Canada and Australia.

You've reached all four corners of the globe in a day!

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soapyfish
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Posted: 14th Apr 2009 03:13 Edited at: 14th Apr 2009 03:14
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Quote: "Words every Geek should know"


Yes officer, I will stop stalking her on facebook.

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draknir_
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offtopic: I like your sig soapy =D
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Mr Bigglesworth
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I'm sorry, but why exactly are you posting this information.

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AndrewT
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Posted: 14th Apr 2009 04:08 Edited at: 14th Apr 2009 04:09
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Quote: "I'm sorry, but why exactly are you posting this information."


He's new here, so I'm assuming he's attempting to impress us in an effort to be accepted. Especially with his thread on binary.

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Butter fingers
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superfluous - more than is needed, desired, or required; ie. Your posts are superflous.

I want robotic legs.
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bergice
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Nex, now me haszors cool guitar signature tooish

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bergice
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Here you go

Maybe not as nice image as yoursors but oksors.

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Leon Kennedy
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There are really only 2 words that all geeks need to know:

Google
Wikipedia

'Nuff said.
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David R
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'Flamebait'


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El Goorf
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i still long for the day when i can sit a game of scrabble with urbandictionary rules.

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All my base are not belong to anyone.
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Phaelax
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miyamoto made Mario, he's not the president.

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STFU! ZOMG WTF BBQ Book is stoopid! NUB!

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Quirkyjim
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Surprised no one's said this yet.



That's what they WANT you to think...
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Accoun
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Quote: "Surprised no one's said this yet.
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You don't have to say the obvious ones...

Make games, not war.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 16th Apr 2009 00:35 Edited at: 16th Apr 2009 00:36
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Quote: "i still long for the day when i can sit a game of scrabble with urbandictionary rules."


Play 'The Simpsons' rules if you can't convince anybody to play with the urban-dictionary, we used to do it in our sixth form common room, basically as long as you can make up a definition it's a word, someone got 'Ozabo' which he defined as 'an Australian ASBO'. There's kwyjibo, which a friend almost got, he had enough to spell it wrong, I think kwyjibo is the word to get the most points.

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mamaji4
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Bill Gates real name is Bill Gates.
That is something every geek should know.
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BMacZero
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I think this gets slightly more than kwyjibo:
(If this ever happened in a real game...wow!)





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mamaji4
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The probability of that happening is 1/all the atoms in the universe
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Posted: 16th Apr 2009 01:36 Edited at: 16th Apr 2009 01:36
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Quote: "Bill Gates real name is Gill Bates."


Steve Jobs = Jeve Sobs.


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mamaji4
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I always thought HTTP meant How To Take a Pee
and HTML meant How To Make Love
No wonder my love life hasn't improved even after I studied all that HTML.
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flashing snall
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How about :
noob
newb
n00b
nub

Just kidding , I hate those words. Them fightin words.
how about

DBP - Dark Basic Pro
FPSC - First Person Shooter Creator


...


SCUBA - ?


I wish I had access to board 17.
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BMacZero
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self-contained underwater breathing apparatus



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mamaji4
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SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Bathing Apparatus

If at first you don't succeed, relax. You're like the rest of us.
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