I learned something today.........

[FireKnife]

So they say 'you learn something new every day'. So out of my insane curiosity what if anything have you learned today.

 

Post up things you have learned, from the inane to the strange to those 'oh that makes sense' moments.

 

Today I learned that Dennis Farina, star of some Miami Vice episodes and the odd Michael Mann film used to be in the Chicago PD even though he often plays gangsters, how ironic .

 

So yes post up those random little things you have learned and please no picking on people that hve just learned something we all know about.

 

'FireKnife'

[shmook]

I learned that fireknife can make a post without referring to sexual relations with a woman...

 

 

Edit, it's a great idea for a thread though

[Desolation mkII]

I learned Wigan has a pier yet is not a coastal town.

[DarkLite]

I learned that Smiley was played by Sir Alec Guiness in the original Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy movies.

[Mike_West]

I learned of The Order - another reason to get a PS4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYuPwiQtYSo

[FireKnife]

Another for me. I learned that one of the few people I would call 'IT savvy' outside of my department at work has never seen what Alt + Tab does on a Windows PC. Thay made out like they had broken it?

 

I always thought that along with the basic shortcuts like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V this was common place?

 

'FireKnife'

[Desolation mkII]

I have learned what Alt+Tab does on a windows keyboard.

[scorch]

I learned that people patting you on the back are often feeling for where to stick a knife.

 

 

That, and Australia has a feral camel problem.

[Tom Andrews]

I have learnt I don't have a 'Tab' button on my keyboard, so will never find out what Alt+ Tab does..............

[osirisorion]

Learnt today that telling a woman to calm down works about the same as trying to baptized a cat.

[FireKnife]

I have learnt I don't have a 'Tab' button on my keyboard, so will never find out what Alt+ Tab does..............

 

I am not sure if you are being serious or not but it looks like this:

 

 

Also as far as I know it only works in Windows. If you have 7 try Alt and the Windows key, it looks better than just Alt + Tab.

 

EDIT: And before this goes off topic back to the learning, I want to see how long it can last too .

 

'FireKnife'

[AceOfSkulls]

It looks like 2 parallel arrows pointing in different directions

 

Edit; beaten too it .

[heroshark]

I learnt that bees are closely related to prawns

[Horsem4n]

i learnt that most mammals are lactos intollerant. most humansare not simply because we havnt stopped drinking milk passed infancy for centuries. 

[Shardik]

Found out Jack Bauer is also Big Boss.

[cazboab]

I found out Winnie the Pooh is one of the voices in Skyrim. He pays you to murder a cook.

[renegadecow]

I learned that people, under the guise of anonymity can be total *rickrolls* in an MMORPG. I was playing The Hunter with its nice new multiplayer feature when some guy asked if he could join me in a hunting party. I kindly declined as did another player to which he started fake swearing (#$^%!, that sort of swearing) and shooting all over the goddamn place spooking everything away for miles.

 

edit:

I also learned that the "return" key is in fact the same as the "enter" key. Why'd they call it return and isn't the backspace key more appropriate for that title?

[cazboab]

Return and enter are actually different, it's just become commonplace for them both to serve the same functions. Originally in computer architecture(in the 60s and 70s) return was just for bringing the cursor to the next line- similar to returning the carriage on a type writer, hence the name- and enter was to confirm an input, but since most applications will only want to do one of those, the tendency is to have them both do the same thing, even though they're distinct inputs.

[Im going space]

And they are still separate VK_Return and VK_Enter, so long as you have a numpad

[FireKnife]

I learned that no matter how hard you try it is impossible to set up a PC at my work without receiving a single error message.

 

My minimum is two.

 

'FireKnife'

[sandstorm]

It's got plenty to do with the TTY (Teletype) standards. There are two codes there, Carriage Return and Line Feed, usually abbreviated as CR and LF. Now, not every computer handle these in similar way, and some make distinctions for even the order of these commands. Making CRLF and LFCR different programmatically...

[Wild_XIII]

I learned that the JG SL8 doesn't use the standard kind of G36 hop unit.

[NeoVeNoM]

I learned that the JG SL8 doesn't use the standard kind of G36 hop unit.

Let me guess you, wanted to change the magwell to M4 type?

 

I learned that Borderlands 2 really does have trillion/gazillion weapons.

[Tom Andrews]

 

I am not sure if you are being serious or not but it looks like this:

 

 

Also as far as I know it only works in Windows. If you have 7 try Alt and the Windows key, it looks better than just Alt + Tab.

 

EDIT: And before this goes off topic back to the learning, I want to see how long it can last too .

 

'FireKnife'

Actually I wasn't joking, I was looking for 'TAB' on the key button..........  A bit like 'press any key'  ANY? ANY? ANY?.........

 

Edit.  Oooh, thats useful!   Believe me, I really am computer illiterate.

[Mike_West]

They hired a martial arts instructor to help with the design of combat moves in Avatar: The Last Airbender.