Well the old school rpg makers are gone.. Sorta depressing if you ask me..
BUT! Its not all lost.. We've got new blood on the horizon.. Mostly in the shape of those rascally canadians, Bioware.. And even the longtime scapegoat.. Bethesda..
So we've lost the old school.. Which is depressing from a historical standpoint.. But we've still got RPG developers building games that we couldn't have even dreamed of 15 years ago..
So you think the Old school is gone eh ?
But what about the folks who graduated and grew up with old school. You see i and many folks at Bioware grew up with Wizardry, BardsTale and Ultima back on those Apples and the like. I don't know how much closer to old school you can get. I still think we are the Old School you are refering to. Now the Old School Players are now making RPG's...
I just can't wait for the goodness to come my way.
Questions: Can such an engine really operate, with any fuel? Could you really run it at many different speeds, and if so, how would you manage that? (I'm not personally convinced that you could do without a transmission). Would the "chambers" formed by the rotating plate provide any compression for the fuel (a major requirement for traditional engines)?
After looking at the animations my main question is how does one control the direction in which the motor is running? Forwards or Backwards?
If the tolerances are right one might be able to compress the fuel mixture enough to ignight, but i think the disc/plate would be propelled in a direction accross the chamber (side to side). I guess by shear force the disc/plate will rotate in some direction. But which way? I guess the easiest way to find out is to build one.
But, now if one could properly control the fuel burn direction and create the needed compression with those few parts (maybe even one or two more) then this very well could be doable.
Yes you are right, GPS does measure the phase and time shift. But the GPS can only determine if the position is lousy if it has something to compare to. If you were to get the timing from only one satellite, the GPS would not know if it were multipath or not, but when compared and calc'd with other satellite timings, then the GPS can determine which ones are worse or better then the others. Hence why 3 satellites in view will in theory give you a calc'ed fix, but a lousy one at that.
But now onto something else, I was kinda joking around with the previous comment, but now you got me thinking... Just, what if there were recievers recording data and reflecting signals down the hallways, one could then recieve RTK data from three or more recievers at different window locations.
One could then calc accurate possitions of the window locations. Since one then knows the phase and timing shifts at the reflection points, one could record data off the multipath and create custom calc's to determine the phase and time between current location and the reflection points.
Now if this were are all possible, it would require a shit load of recievers at windows all over the place. Basically I'm thinking out of my ass here, but i am having fun doing it.
Exactly, this is what i was thinking... How does the GPS get inside... But then it came to me...
MultiPath.
You see, its quite possible that they set up reflectors by every window and door to deflect GPS signals down the hallways and corridors. Since they know where all the reflectors are, they can now create thier own processing software to calulate with the mulltipath.
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But for how long...
Now with all the new found bandwidth after DOD got busted, I'm sure it will survive just a bit longer...
I give it just a bit longer
/satterth
Cisco... Routers... Infringe... Don't give them ideas dude... Soon they will be after the internet in general. /satterth
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So you think the Old school is gone eh ?
But what about the folks who graduated and grew up with old school. You see i and many folks at Bioware grew up with Wizardry, BardsTale and Ultima back on those Apples and the like. I don't know how much closer to old school you can get. I still think we are the Old School you are refering to. Now the Old School Players are now making RPG's...
I just can't wait for the goodness to come my way.
/satterth
Touché!
After looking at the animations my main question is how does one control the direction in which the motor is running? Forwards or Backwards?
If the tolerances are right one might be able to compress the fuel mixture enough to ignight, but i think the disc/plate would be propelled in a direction accross the chamber (side to side). I guess by shear force the disc/plate will rotate in some direction. But which way? I guess the easiest way to find out is to build one.
But, now if one could properly control the fuel burn direction and create the needed compression with those few parts (maybe even one or two more) then this very well could be doable.
I don't think anyone will...
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AM/FM seem just fine... but then again..
If there were no comercials
Yes you are right, GPS does measure the phase and time shift. But the GPS can only determine if the position is lousy if it has something to compare to. If you were to get the timing from only one satellite, the GPS would not know if it were multipath or not, but when compared and calc'd with other satellite timings, then the GPS can determine which ones are worse or better then the others. Hence why 3 satellites in view will in theory give you a calc'ed fix, but a lousy one at that.
But now onto something else, I was kinda joking around with the previous comment, but now you got me thinking... Just, what if there were recievers recording data and reflecting signals down the hallways, one could then recieve RTK data from three or more recievers at different window locations.
One could then calc accurate possitions of the window locations. Since one then knows the phase and timing shifts at the reflection points, one could record data off the multipath and create custom calc's to determine the phase and time between current location and the reflection points.
Now if this were are all possible, it would require a shit load of recievers at windows all over the place. Basically I'm thinking out of my ass here, but i am having fun doing it.
Exactly, this is what i was thinking... How does the GPS get inside... But then it came to me...
MultiPath.
You see, its quite possible that they set up reflectors by every window and door to deflect GPS signals down the hallways and corridors. Since they know where all the reflectors are, they can now create thier own processing software to calulate with the mulltipath.
Hmm.. Maybe in my dreams.