That might be true for people who only speak english, but not true for most other languages. And you also have to consider people whose native tongue is a language that requires them to memorize hundreds of thousands of words, and then they learn english on top of that. And there are still many people who speak more than 5 or 6 languages.
My point is, most people know way more than 25k words.
These safety features are for driving in traffic. In about all cases when I'm driving in traffic, I keep them turned on. But when it's not about getting around in traffic, but about finishing a race, or trying to save my life by extreme evasive maneuvers, or showing off, or whatever cause that doesn't involve driving on a road full of other cars. The main argument is not "I am ready at all time, I need no automated help", but "I'm the driver, and I don't want a computer to drive for me". However fast my reaction times are in the middle of an exciting race, the chances of me instantly opposite locking from a sudden slide (eg. because of a tire defect) while driving to work at 5 AM aren't all that great. These safety features should be on when I'm not 100% aware of everything, but they should be easy to turn off when I am.
Well, I'm a Central European, and I speak english (at 14), even though I was never taught to. I learned it by myself from using the Internet. When I became fluent enough, I started watching movies and TV shows purely in english, without any subtitles, which really improved my recognition of spoken english words. I have been trying to learn German this way, and it seems it's a lot harder when you actually want to learn it.
And yes, I do consider the average american to be stupid, and I have every reason to do so. The fact that Bush is still president in america is a very good reason, for example, along with the fact that the average american thinks america is the only place on the planet. That said, I do know plenty of intelligent americans, and fortunately I usually manage to avoid the stupid ones on the internet.
Yep, that's the only thing that's good about undocumented games: you learn it much better if you find it out yourself... But I'm not quite sure that's really worth the trouble.
Yes, unfortunately game makers often try to stop players from modding every way they can because they see it as a bad thing. On one end, they have a point, as if everyone has access to the game's files people would be able to steal stuff and modify things with malicious intent (ie. buying a game, changing the maker's logo to their own logo, then reselling it as if it was their own product). But if someone did that, I'm about 90% sure the game's makers would be able to go after the guy and legally settle the whole thing.
On the other hand, being able to mod a game adds an uncountable amount of new opportunities the developers won't even have to worry about, and no matter what they say, nothing can make a game more replayable than being able to modify it the way you want.
Yes, I know what you mean.:) This is probably the only bad side-effect of more realistic maps - you need to be a modeler to be able to edit them properly...
That is the only reason that kept me playing the GTA series games from GTA2 up to San Andreas. In GTA2 you could easily edit the maps (since they were just made of 64*64 tiles), and what really caught me was designing train tracks and stations. Unfortunately, no GTA game ever since GTA2 had that opportunity for various reasons (LC had fake trains, VC had no trains, and SA has real trains but they're part of the recycling process). But never GTA's, especially SA, keep me playing because of the huge explorability.
And by the way, I'm a modder, mainly scripting (again, done so since GTA2). The only shoot-em-up game I liked is UT2k3, because of the great scripting language (UnrealScript) and the included UEd3.
But the games that I can't stop obsessing and replaying again and again are the Aqua series: Archimedean Dynasty (1996), AquaNox 1 (2001) and, most of all, AquaNox 2: Revelation (2003). "Thanks" to the fall of a big Austrian game company, jowood, the development team responsible for these great games is now defunct, and even our forums were simply removed. Now we, the remaining "alliance" of fans have our own forum, several of the old devteam's members have also joined, and while I'm discovering a new secret almost every day while modding AquaNox 2, we are also working on an opensource project called Silent Depth that will be a fan-made substitute for the never-to-be-released AquaNox 3.
The infrared sensor consumes somewhere around 20 to 30 miliamps, and the circuit interpreting the message from the remote doesn't consume a lot more either. But the problem is that you can't really build the same circuit that runs on a 230V power supply, so you need a transformer to create a low-voltage subcircuit (and then another transformer that ups the voltage for the CRT, or another down-transformer for the LCD). that transformer is what is wasting a lot of power in standby mode.
Not quite. That's what I meant. In theory it should be YYYY. MM. DD. (2006. 01. 23), but for some reason all American and Canadian sites I've seen before use a mixed up order (eg. Slashdot).
I've never seen a single written date that Americans wrote that was in the correct order. Can you give me a link to a site that uses correct date orders? I doubt it.
... targeted to prevent access to pornography by children... ... way to combat child porn...
wait a second... children looking at porn and child porn are two completely different things! do i even have to explain?
child porn is sick pornography - children being abused.
children looking at porn are not in any way abused or harmed (neither mentally nor physically). children usually learn a lot more about sex from looking at porn than they would ever learn from their parents (aka. TV). there are already more than enough age restrictions on porn to stop every single kid from looking at it. leave Google alone.
Trucks seem to have a magnetic field that pulls everyone in.
Such an energy field does exist. It's called gravity and it's far weaker than magnetic fields. Trucks that weigh 3 or 4 times more than a car have 3 or 4 times as big a gravity field.
Kids that weigh 2 or 3 times less than an adult have 2 or 3 times less resistance to such kinetic forces.
That is the simple explanation why trucks attract people more than cars, and why they attract kids more than adults. Especially kids playing ball in the garden because they are also influenced by the gravity of the ball and the grass in the garden.
"Personally, I think the intelligence design debate will peter out as people realization that Intelligent Design is not only bad science. It is bad religion."
what you don't realize is that the only good religion is Bad Religion.:)
this is really getting similar to reverse engineering computer programs. for example, when you're trying to document a binary format noone's ever documented before (except the creators, who don't own the right to their creation because of copyright stuff), and you have an unknown bit (at least 8 bits in the real world, but let's simplify it a "bit"), the first thing you try is turning it off to see what happens. this is exactly what genetic engineering is doing now.
what's the name "Crzmblski" got to do with the Hungarian language? Crzmblski sounds rather like Slovenian or something. it's very far from anything in the Hungarian language (we never use unpronounceable words like that). trust me, i know - i'm Hungarian.:)
well, there are the RGB LEDs that have 4 leads (a base lead and one lead for each LED), which indeed are great for multi-color applications, but as far as i know, LEDs marketed as white LEDs are simply RGB LEDs with both red, green and blue on the same lead. guess i was wrong then:)
that's what "white LEDs" do. as obviously a LED can only emit a single wavelength of light, white LEDs are impossible to create. but since there was a lot of demand for them, manufacturers started selling packages of 3 leds (a red, a green and a blue one) under the same package. that's what they use as white LEDs now. they obviously use more power and are brighter than other LEDs, simply because they are 3 LEDs combined. and as an interesting thing, my sister says she sees the light coming from these as greenish white while i see them as bluish white. her eyes are green, mine are blue. coincidence?
nuclear power plants are probably the least efficient ones of all power generating technologies in use today. radioactive matter emits tons of energy in the form of various rays (gamma rays, neutron rays etc.). it also heats things around itself. so what nuclear power plants do is simply put cells of this material into water. the water heats up and evaporates, and from then on it's basically just an old steam engine. the tons of energy in the rays is lost. and then when a cell no longer emits enough heat, they replace it and the old one becomes radioactive waste. it's still radioactive - still emitting alot of energy that could be used.
if nuclear power plants were able to harness all of the power emitted from nuclear material completely, they'd need much less radioactive material to generate the same amount of power, and each cell could be used for the entire decay period of the material used - and that can even be in the hundreds of years range. and since they'd only need to throw a cell away once it's completely decayed, the resulting waste would emit no more energy, aka. it wouldn't be radioactive waste. just a stable isotope, probably reusable for other things.
i usually heat up the room instead, since my asthma usually only gives me problems when i've caught some other disease like a cold or something. so it could be that, but i don't know. i should ask a doctor or something:)
i'm asthmatic as well, and have also noticed this. i always thought it's because of the different way of breathing we use during sleep. seems like i was wrong:)
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Most people know about 25,000 words
That might be true for people who only speak english, but not true for most other languages. And you also have to consider people whose native tongue is a language that requires them to memorize hundreds of thousands of words, and then they learn english on top of that. And there are still many people who speak more than 5 or 6 languages.
My point is, most people know way more than 25k words.
These safety features are for driving in traffic. In about all cases when I'm driving in traffic, I keep them turned on. But when it's not about getting around in traffic, but about finishing a race, or trying to save my life by extreme evasive maneuvers, or showing off, or whatever cause that doesn't involve driving on a road full of other cars. The main argument is not "I am ready at all time, I need no automated help", but "I'm the driver, and I don't want a computer to drive for me". However fast my reaction times are in the middle of an exciting race, the chances of me instantly opposite locking from a sudden slide (eg. because of a tire defect) while driving to work at 5 AM aren't all that great. These safety features should be on when I'm not 100% aware of everything, but they should be easy to turn off when I am.
Well, I'm a Central European, and I speak english (at 14), even though I was never taught to. I learned it by myself from using the Internet. When I became fluent enough, I started watching movies and TV shows purely in english, without any subtitles, which really improved my recognition of spoken english words. I have been trying to learn German this way, and it seems it's a lot harder when you actually want to learn it.
And yes, I do consider the average american to be stupid, and I have every reason to do so. The fact that Bush is still president in america is a very good reason, for example, along with the fact that the average american thinks america is the only place on the planet. That said, I do know plenty of intelligent americans, and fortunately I usually manage to avoid the stupid ones on the internet.
You are absolutely right. That's all I can say.
Yep, that's the only thing that's good about undocumented games: you learn it much better if you find it out yourself... But I'm not quite sure that's really worth the trouble.
Yes, unfortunately game makers often try to stop players from modding every way they can because they see it as a bad thing. On one end, they have a point, as if everyone has access to the game's files people would be able to steal stuff and modify things with malicious intent (ie. buying a game, changing the maker's logo to their own logo, then reselling it as if it was their own product). But if someone did that, I'm about 90% sure the game's makers would be able to go after the guy and legally settle the whole thing.
On the other hand, being able to mod a game adds an uncountable amount of new opportunities the developers won't even have to worry about, and no matter what they say, nothing can make a game more replayable than being able to modify it the way you want.
Yes, I know what you mean. :) This is probably the only bad side-effect of more realistic maps - you need to be a modeler to be able to edit them properly...
That is the only reason that kept me playing the GTA series games from GTA2 up to San Andreas. In GTA2 you could easily edit the maps (since they were just made of 64*64 tiles), and what really caught me was designing train tracks and stations. Unfortunately, no GTA game ever since GTA2 had that opportunity for various reasons (LC had fake trains, VC had no trains, and SA has real trains but they're part of the recycling process). But never GTA's, especially SA, keep me playing because of the huge explorability.
And by the way, I'm a modder, mainly scripting (again, done so since GTA2). The only shoot-em-up game I liked is UT2k3, because of the great scripting language (UnrealScript) and the included UEd3.
But the games that I can't stop obsessing and replaying again and again are the Aqua series: Archimedean Dynasty (1996), AquaNox 1 (2001) and, most of all, AquaNox 2: Revelation (2003). "Thanks" to the fall of a big Austrian game company, jowood, the development team responsible for these great games is now defunct, and even our forums were simply removed. Now we, the remaining "alliance" of fans have our own forum, several of the old devteam's members have also joined, and while I'm discovering a new secret almost every day while modding AquaNox 2, we are also working on an opensource project called Silent Depth that will be a fan-made substitute for the never-to-be-released AquaNox 3.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/207244
The infrared sensor consumes somewhere around 20 to 30 miliamps, and the circuit interpreting the message from the remote doesn't consume a lot more either. But the problem is that you can't really build the same circuit that runs on a 230V power supply, so you need a transformer to create a low-voltage subcircuit (and then another transformer that ups the voltage for the CRT, or another down-transformer for the LCD). that transformer is what is wasting a lot of power in standby mode.
Not quite. That's what I meant. In theory it should be YYYY. MM. DD. (2006. 01. 23), but for some reason all American and Canadian sites I've seen before use a mixed up order (eg. Slashdot).
I've never seen a single written date that Americans wrote that was in the correct order. Can you give me a link to a site that uses correct date orders? I doubt it.
... targeted to prevent access to pornography by children ...
... way to combat child porn ...
wait a second... children looking at porn and child porn are two completely different things! do i even have to explain?
child porn is sick pornography - children being abused.
children looking at porn are not in any way abused or harmed (neither mentally nor physically). children usually learn a lot more about sex from looking at porn than they would ever learn from their parents (aka. TV). there are already more than enough age restrictions on porn to stop every single kid from looking at it. leave Google alone.
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is that what you meant?
Trucks seem to have a magnetic field that pulls everyone in.
Such an energy field does exist. It's called gravity and it's far weaker than magnetic fields. Trucks that weigh 3 or 4 times more than a car have 3 or 4 times as big a gravity field. Kids that weigh 2 or 3 times less than an adult have 2 or 3 times less resistance to such kinetic forces.
That is the simple explanation why trucks attract people more than cars, and why they attract kids more than adults. Especially kids playing ball in the garden because they are also influenced by the gravity of the ball and the grass in the garden.
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"Personally, I think the intelligence design debate will peter out as people realization that Intelligent Design is not only bad science. It is bad religion."
:)
what you don't realize is that the only good religion is Bad Religion.
this is really getting similar to reverse engineering computer programs. for example, when you're trying to document a binary format noone's ever documented before (except the creators, who don't own the right to their creation because of copyright stuff), and you have an unknown bit (at least 8 bits in the real world, but let's simplify it a "bit"), the first thing you try is turning it off to see what happens. this is exactly what genetic engineering is doing now.
oh, aight - i misunderstood. i didn't know Simonyi Károly invented that, thanks for the link. :)
what's the name "Crzmblski" got to do with the Hungarian language? Crzmblski sounds rather like Slovenian or something. it's very far from anything in the Hungarian language (we never use unpronounceable words like that). trust me, i know - i'm Hungarian. :)
does anyone have any actual temperature data? i didn't see any in the article.
well, there are the RGB LEDs that have 4 leads (a base lead and one lead for each LED), which indeed are great for multi-color applications, but as far as i know, LEDs marketed as white LEDs are simply RGB LEDs with both red, green and blue on the same lead. :)
guess i was wrong then
that's what "white LEDs" do. as obviously a LED can only emit a single wavelength of light, white LEDs are impossible to create. but since there was a lot of demand for them, manufacturers started selling packages of 3 leds (a red, a green and a blue one) under the same package. that's what they use as white LEDs now. they obviously use more power and are brighter than other LEDs, simply because they are 3 LEDs combined.
and as an interesting thing, my sister says she sees the light coming from these as greenish white while i see them as bluish white. her eyes are green, mine are blue. coincidence?
nuclear power plants are probably the least efficient ones of all power generating technologies in use today.
radioactive matter emits tons of energy in the form of various rays (gamma rays, neutron rays etc.). it also heats things around itself. so what nuclear power plants do is simply put cells of this material into water. the water heats up and evaporates, and from then on it's basically just an old steam engine. the tons of energy in the rays is lost. and then when a cell no longer emits enough heat, they replace it and the old one becomes radioactive waste. it's still radioactive - still emitting alot of energy that could be used.
if nuclear power plants were able to harness all of the power emitted from nuclear material completely, they'd need much less radioactive material to generate the same amount of power, and each cell could be used for the entire decay period of the material used - and that can even be in the hundreds of years range.
and since they'd only need to throw a cell away once it's completely decayed, the resulting waste would emit no more energy, aka. it wouldn't be radioactive waste. just a stable isotope, probably reusable for other things.
i usually heat up the room instead, since my asthma usually only gives me problems when i've caught some other disease like a cold or something. so it could be that, but i don't know. i should ask a doctor or something :)
i'm asthmatic as well, and have also noticed this. i always thought it's because of the different way of breathing we use during sleep. seems like i was wrong :)