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by gameofhit
Mon Feb 04, 2002 2:46 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How do you Pronounce "mySQL"?
Replies: 28
Views: 35269

[quote0ae4b="theFinn"]
Ahem...
[quote0ae4b=" The MySQL Website "]The official way to pronounce MySQL is ``My Ess Que Ell'' (not ``my sequel''), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ``my sequel'' or in some other localised way.[/quote0ae4b]
[/quote0ae4b]

No one here is arguing that they are ...
by gameofhit
Sun Feb 03, 2002 10:57 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How do you Pronounce "mySQL"?
Replies: 28
Views: 35269

I dunno. I am very fanatic about saying SCSI as scuzzy. Not even for any personal beliefs or anything, just the degree of ease that one says "scuzzy" as opposed to S-C-S-I. The main thing is that both "es" and "see" are stressed. So you really have to draw it out, "es, pause, see, pause, es, aye ...
by gameofhit
Sun Feb 03, 2002 9:39 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How do you Pronounce "mySQL"?
Replies: 28
Views: 35269

Back in the day, I always wondered what that SQL thing was? And then I learned it was "Structured Query Language" Okay, so I though it was "S-Q-L". And then I had someone ask me if I knew sequel. I was like "What?". So I have called it "sequel" ever since.

So:

mySQL = "my sequel" (god, the last ...
by gameofhit
Sat Feb 02, 2002 9:22 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: area51.phpbb.com v.s. phpbb.sourceforge.net
Replies: 22
Views: 30234

Well, the closest thing to an explanation is at the top of the index page (pure index, not forum index.) http://area51.phpbb.com/
by gameofhit
Sat Feb 02, 2002 8:23 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: area51.phpbb.com v.s. phpbb.sourceforge.net
Replies: 22
Views: 30234

I started on phpbb.sourceforge.net, but there was a point where there were some bugs, and I think I switched to area51 right when they were being fixed. I attributed (probly wrong) it to some subtle difference in using the two domains. Oh well, been area51 since then. :D
by gameofhit
Sun Jan 27, 2002 9:07 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Do YOU smoke?
Replies: 84
Views: 95999

Sorry to all for bringing this topic back. I was looking for an old post I remembered about php news scripts, but had to read this one, very interesting.

Yeah, I smoke. I guess asking "What do you smoke?" could be a better question, depending :wink: . The answer is still yes. I smoke primarily in a ...
by gameofhit
Fri Jan 25, 2002 7:21 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Who do YOU believe?
Replies: 78
Views: 80043

Thank you thank you. it was sophomore year in high school, four years ago... so long ago! 8)
by gameofhit
Fri Jan 25, 2002 4:41 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Who do YOU believe?
Replies: 78
Views: 80043

[quote363d0="Davidls"]
farenheit is not used in science for obvious reasons (kelvin is zero at the real zero, so calculations invvoling temperature are done correctly)

and to those still using farenheit, riot until your government changes the official standard, you will find most thermometors ...
by gameofhit
Fri Jan 25, 2002 7:10 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Who do YOU believe?
Replies: 78
Views: 80043

Here is my 2 cents:

The way it was explained and demonstrated to me:

[quote2f995]Compare glass, molasses, and air. What do they all have in common? Well, they are all fluids. They all [b2f995]flow[/b2f995]. Admittedly at different rates, but still.[/quote2f995]

Then this guy showed me a window in ...
by gameofhit
Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:14 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Proclaim the grammar master!
Replies: 391
Views: 266649

SAT: 1490 (690V/800M)
ACT: 34

I am living in a hole right now, slow connection, but i just couldn't keep silent in this one. :wink: