Xboxic or Xbox I.C.? [Archive]

Paul Tancred

August 5th, 2006, 20:24

Ok,

Well, Ive been wondering about this for a while now... So... I said I'd ask here, so one of you could answer it...

Is the site title:

Xboxic
Xbox IC
Xbox I.C.
Or what?

If it's Xbox I.C., what does the I.C. stand for?

I know this sounds really stupid, but just said Id ask because I'm :? .

Go raibh maith agat! (That's Irish for "Thanks!")

TRIGGER M4N

August 5th, 2006, 21:32

I wondered this since the 1st day I came along to the site, I reckon Xbox Information Center.

Paul Tancred

August 5th, 2006, 22:25

I wondered this since the 1st day I came along to the site, I reckon Xbox Information Center.
Glad I wasn't the only one wondering... was starting to feel a little weird! lol.

Yeh, that's most likely it. Maybe Curry or Nino or Doug (first few names into my head) or anyone else can confirm this.

Zerodisorder

August 5th, 2006, 22:26

I assume it was just thought that xboxic sounds cool :P

etalien

August 5th, 2006, 23:39

Site title is xboxic :)

Dont know the details ;)

cybermans

August 6th, 2006, 00:32

it comes from Xbox and intoxicating

we are just too addicted to the Xbox 360 :P

But most of all it sounded cool, and it still does.

Nino

August 6th, 2006, 00:48

Xboxic = Xbox + toxic.

Zerodisorder

August 6th, 2006, 05:37

Alchohal = Alchohalic ... Xbox = Xboxic

Chris

August 6th, 2006, 08:34

Xboxic is Xtoxic.

Curry

August 6th, 2006, 12:34

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Xboxic</title>
[...snip...]

;)

Paul Tancred

August 6th, 2006, 16:49

kobejonez

August 6th, 2006, 16:59

I thought it was Slavic for Xbox :D

Curry

August 9th, 2006, 11:02

I thought it was Slavic for Xbox :D
Too bad we're Dutch :D

kobejonez

August 9th, 2006, 11:21

Too bad we're Dutch :D

That was b4 I knew that :P

Curry

August 9th, 2006, 14:09

What's the <head></head> and <title></title> code of Xboxic got to do with anything? lol.
The part between <title> tags are what your browser says is the title of the page, and I think it answers the question in the topic title rather conclusively :+

Paul Tancred

August 9th, 2006, 22:30

The part between <title> tags are what your browser says is the title of the page, and I think it answers the question in the topic title rather conclusively :+
Yes Curry, I do know what <title> tags are for, ;).

Yeh, ok... I see where you're coming from... That was the question but I did mean it in the sense of what did "Xboxic" mean, lol.

Thanks for clearing it up that it is infact Xboxic (which we kinda figured out a posts earlier, lol).

Cheers Curry.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 01:15

wow...xboxic stands for xboxic...oh :P

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 01:19

Xtra
Bitchy
Oral
Xtreme
Intelligent
Crew.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 01:23

Your right, that sums this site up exactly :P

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 01:25

Yeah, with Curry being bitchy and Chris being oral ;).

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 01:28

Yeah, with Curry being bitchy and Chris being oral ;).
lmao :P i normally wouldnt post jsut a lmao but that was good lol

Nino

August 10th, 2006, 01:35

And me being intellegent.

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 01:37

lmao :P i normally wouldnt post jsut a lmao but that was good lol
Yeah well, you managed to write a whole sentence about you saying lmao.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 01:47

well i figured if i jsut put lmao, you gusy would be liek..wtf why write that lol.. so now technically i posted twice about me saying lmao :P

Messiah

August 10th, 2006, 01:49

That was b4 I knew that :P

Still a lot of people don't know that we are dutch.
Power to the Dutchie's!

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 01:53

Still a lot of people don't know that we are dutch.
Power to the Dutchie's!
A lot of publishers don't know either :X

Messiah

August 10th, 2006, 02:17

A lot of publishers don't know either :X

They should.

To all Publisher and readers: WE ARE DUTCH (not all of us)

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 02:25

The owner is dutch! :P

Messiah

August 10th, 2006, 02:32

The owner is dutch! :P

And about 60/70%% from the newsposters are dutch

Chris

August 10th, 2006, 04:43

The best ones are american though.

so I337

Curry

August 10th, 2006, 05:02

And about 60/70%% from the newsposters are dutch
That figure is rapidly dropping though 8)7

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 07:03

I had a question though, how do people become the newsposters? Sorry it's off topic though.

TRIGGER M4N

August 10th, 2006, 11:02

I had a question though, how do people become the newsposters? Sorry it's off topic though.

Read a news atricle from a couple days ago, this (http://www.xboxic.com/news/1317) one infact.

Chris

August 10th, 2006, 11:22

Read a news atricle from a couple days ago, this (http://www.xboxic.com/news/1317) one infact.

You also have to be amazingly attractive. :+

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 12:23

You also have to be amazingly attractive. :+
How did you manage to get a newsposter position then? :*

Chris

August 10th, 2006, 12:25

You thilly gooth.

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 12:28

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/3/e/d3ec0daf122fbb4debc6eaefd2a073e3.png

Chris

August 10th, 2006, 12:29

I can't even come up with something smartass to say. I'm speechless.

Messiah

August 10th, 2006, 14:11

I had a question though, how do people become the newsposters? Sorry it's off topic though.

If you think you are talented enough, you still can apply for Newsposter.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 20:18

Yea, it would be great, but I have to learn a basic knowlegde of HTML first, but I'm gunna learn :D

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 20:19

Yea, it would be great, but I have to learn a basic knowlegde of HTML first, but I'm gunna learn :D
If you know how to quote someone here or how to make your text bold, you already know the 'basics' :)

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 20:20

If you know how to quote someone here or how to make your text bold, you already know the 'basics' :)
haha yea press the quote button and the bold button :P

TRIGGER M4N

August 10th, 2006, 20:31

...
OR USE THE MARKUP LANGUAGE, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

Nino

August 10th, 2006, 20:33

Newsposter can use bold and quote buttons in the newsinterface as well. Anyone who's capable of writing a forum reply is capable of creating the layout for a news post.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 20:37

Yea I was jsut reading up on HTML and it doesnt seem that bad or hard.

TRIGGER M4N

August 10th, 2006, 20:48

Newsposter can use bold and quote buttons in the newsinterface as well. Anyone who's capable of writing a forum reply is capable of creating the layout for a news post.

You make it sound really easy. So basically, all you need to have to enter is have a nice, all-round, basic English language understanding?

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 20:51

Yes ;)

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 20:51

Well wouldn't you need 3 of your own articles you've written.

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 20:51

for what?

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 21:00

To submit in order to be accepted as a xboxic newsposter, if agreed.

Rival24

August 10th, 2006, 21:05

Oh that... yeah well, everything's explained in that newspost.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 21:09

This HTML thing doesn't seem that hard to grasp, but i may only be trying the easy stuff so far lol

Curry

August 10th, 2006, 23:10

Yea, it would be great, but I have to learn a basic knowlegde of HTML first, but I'm gunna learn :D
If you know HTML tags need to be closed, are put between < and >, and that <a href="/">this</a> is a link, you're more or less done with the basic HTML knowledge required.

TRIGGER M4N

August 10th, 2006, 23:13

Can you explain why that is needed? What does it do?

I know by asking that I've ruined my chance of EVER joining the crew.

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 23:19

If you know HTML tags need to be closed, are put between < and >, and that <a href="/">this</a> is a link, you're more or less done with the basic HTML knowledge required.
Yea i was studying up on it for the last while, got that down and everything, still a little more to read on an try with it, but it doesn't seem to hard to remember. And i have down closing the HTML tags and all. <#> (with the # meaning as a variable for whatever your doing) and end it with </#>

Zerodisorder

August 10th, 2006, 23:53

<a href="url">Text to be displayed</a>

I think i'm getting most of it down. :D

Curry

August 11th, 2006, 00:54

Can you explain why that is needed? What does it do?
Because you have to be able to add blockquotes, emphasized parts, links and images to newsposts :z

Zerodisorder

August 11th, 2006, 01:22

so I know now how to do the links, images, emphasized parts, but what are the blockquotes?

Zerodisorder

August 11th, 2006, 04:42

And also, are you guys still interested in newsposters cause if so, I gotta start some rough drafts for the 3 articles. :D

xboxguy

August 11th, 2006, 07:29

And me being intellegent.
you misspelled intelligent.

Zerodisorder

August 11th, 2006, 08:11

ooo....burn:P

Nino

August 11th, 2006, 10:41

you misspelled intelligent.
I misspell a lot of things on messageboards since there's no built in spell checker. I post a lot and I'm not a native English speaker so.... Wouldn't have happened on the front page.

Rival24

August 11th, 2006, 12:31

PWND :D

Nino

August 11th, 2006, 12:56

;(

Rival24

August 11th, 2006, 13:14

Curry

August 11th, 2006, 14:57

And also, are you guys still interested in newsposters cause if so, I gotta start some rough drafts for the 3 articles. :D
We're not in a hurry anymore, having just recruited 2 fresh newsposters, and we want to make sure they're at home in the team before further expansion. Doesn't mean you can't apply obviously :)

Paul Tancred

August 11th, 2006, 16:45

I misspell a lot of things on messageboards since there's no built in spell checker. I post a lot and I'm not a native English speaker so.... Wouldn't have happened on the front page.
Good excuse. I could use it too, as my first language is Irish. Thanks for that :)

Zerodisorder

August 11th, 2006, 22:02

We're not in a hurry anymore, having just recruited 2 fresh newsposters, and we want to make sure they're at home in the team before further expansion. Doesn't mean you can't apply obviously :)It's all good I can brush up on my writing skills than :P

xboxguy

August 13th, 2006, 23:59

I misspell a lot of things on messageboards since there's no built in spell checker. I post a lot and I'm not a native English speaker so.... Wouldn't have happened on the front page.

that's understandable. for not being a native english speaker, it's still damn good. you should come teach the mexicans i work with to speak english too :P

TRIGGER M4N

August 14th, 2006, 00:02

Yeah, I wouldn't know that these guys are Dutch if they didn't say so.

Curry

August 14th, 2006, 00:36

Yeah, I wouldn't know that these guys are Dutch if they didn't say so.
Thanks, that's good to hear :)

Paul Tancred

August 14th, 2006, 00:55

Yeah, I wouldn't know that these guys are Dutch if they didn't say so.
Yeh, I'd agree with you on that.

Nino

August 14th, 2006, 01:44

Yeah, I wouldn't know that these guys are Dutch if they didn't say so.

:) Thanks dudes, means a lot.