There should be a dictionary on here!

[SeasonalEclipse]

Okay.. sooo there is a few words which I have to look up to understand when I first started here.. maybe it would be cool that there was a NEWBS dictionary on here.. With definitions for words such as... Lapping... Folding... Heatware... HTPC.. Pretty basic to me now.. but a few months ago I was like.. WTF.. soo yeah.

[Soichiro]

There used to be a dictionary around here listing common acronyms, but I agree that there needs to be one that goes beyond just acronyms.

[Captain Newbie]

Normally the task of creating such things falls to the requestor, in grand Internet and open-source traditions. :cool:

[synthetic_fenix]

Normally the task of creating such things falls to the requestor, in grand Internet and open-source traditions. :cool:

You beat me to the punch, I was going to say basically teh same thing :)

[mage_x]

It should be a requirement that a (normal) dictionary is built into every forum! There should also be some code that stops people from ending every sentence in a paragraph with ellipses.

(sorry OP, not referring to anyone in specific, though :))

[johan851]

Well, if some more active members agree that this would be a beneficial thing to have on the forums, and agree to sticky it (it's useless otherwise) than I'd be happy to create and manage it. Let me know.

[hainer36]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=4442647#post4442647

i believe that could help, in most cases at least

[Karbon]

I'm pretty sure half of people on the internet don't understand homophones.

[johan851]

What, like bare and bear? Yeah, people suck at those too. They're/their/there. Kinda bothers me.

LEARY ISN'T A WORD, FOLKS.

[Captain Newbie]

It should be a requirement that a (normal) dictionary is built into every forum! There should also be some code that stops people from ending every sentence in a paragraph with ellipses.
Oh really? I don't see why that's a problem...

:cool: Just givin' you a hard time.

No excuse words:
Two/too/to and They're/Their/There. If you screw 'em up I will laugh. ;)

[orionlion82]

It should be a requirement that a (normal) dictionary is built into every forum! There should also be some code that stops people from ending every sentence in a paragraph with ellipses.
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(sorry OP, not referring to anyone in specific, though :))

hey man... ill take credit for it...i drove my highschool and college professors absolutely out of their minds - it was great!... papers like that - ohhhhhh- they would have cut me low and hung me high... if they were allowed...

(yes, that was a joke, but yes, i do that alot. yes, i genuinley -really- hope you wont hate me for it because im not really that bad of a guy, except for the elipsez, but its an old dog/new trick thing for me. and plus... - the way i see it life is too short to worry about that sort of thing... and would you believe my real handwriting is actually ALL CAPS?)


and on the topic of the dictionary...

you will BLEED GREEN if you see some of chasR's posts. - that is - if you arent otherwise informed and up on your platforms and folding.
i am of the opionion (and its really not that strong of an opinion, its just something ive thought about offhand) that a dictionary would make it all too easy.
NO WHERE IN THE FORUM can you actually find a stop-by-step guide to overclocking your rig.
you must participate in the community and learn on your own.
60,000 some odd people have done it that way, and if you can figure out overclocking - then what is a few acronyms,? what is a few core codenames?
learning that stuff anyway is collateral damage to learning overclocking.

[Dreamstalker]

and would you believe my real handwriting is actually ALL CAPS?)
Mine is as well sometimes (I blame my drafting class for that, but at least my writing got overall less messy as a result of it).

I don't see a problem with ellipses as long as they're not overused... ...like this... ...see what I mean?... ...doesn't read very well, does it... :D
*g, d & r*
(one of my other forums actually has some code that turns ... into a Pac-man character; sufficiently silly that people see how annoying a post full of them is and get broken of the habit).

I agree that a dictionary beyond the mildly obscure acronyms would make things too easy. Now a dictionary to weed out homonyms and other annoying spelling mistakes would be a good idea.

[Captain Slug]

Dictionary you say?: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=109005
Could use some updates but havne't had time to add them myself.

[FlailBoy]

...There should also be some code that stops people from ending every sentence in a paragraph with ellipses.

(sorry OP, not referring to anyone in specific, though :))

Hmmm...Doesn't sound like something *I* would do... :)




No excuse words:
Two/too/to and They're/Their/There. If you screw 'em up I will laugh. ;)

My personal pet peeve: duel-boot.

[johan851]

My personal pet peeve: duel-boot.
Everyone knows Windows and Linux simply don't get along. It was bound to escalate eventually, and I, for one, think that they settled the issue in a very gentlemanly, albiet old-fasioned manner.

[FlailBoy]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e320/flailboy/boots.gif

[JigPu]

I've never seen anybody trying to duel boot before. I have come across one too many duel CPU systems in my past though. Apparently there are a number of chips in SMP systems that are the equivlant of the alpha-male :D

JigPu

[cyberey66]

I've never seen anybody trying to duel boot before. I have come across one too many duel CPU systems in my past though. Apparently there are a number of chips in SMP systems that are the equivlant of the alpha-male :D

JigPu

Judging from the new commercials, the new Macs support for windows should be called Duel Booting lol :beer:.

For the dictionary, wikipedia and urban dictionary point you in the right direction most of the time.

[JCLW]

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