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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-15-06 09:51 PM, in D-Pad to Analog stick simulator? Link
Originally posted by Zem +
However, in a few games I've emulated it works just dandy to make a press on the D-pad correspond to the maximum analog input in that direction. Many games don't require you to ever push less than full or be more precise than the existing eight directions.
This is definately true. Many RPG games come to mind that do exactally this.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-15-06 10:02 PM, in What is the farthest you've ever traveled? Link
Since the fastest driving poll seemed like it did fairly well, let's try another in a series of fastest/most/biggest type polls.

Since nations and states can vary in size, may I suggest posting as to how many miles or kilometers your choice represents.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-15-06 10:12 PM, in What is the farthest you've ever traveled? Link
Originally posted by FreeDOS +
The poll is flawed. Canada's closer to Seattle than Los Angeles or Las Vegas (which ever's farther from Seattle)
That's an inherent problem with geography. This is why I asked that everyone post a milage to give more context to their vote.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-18-06 09:51 PM, in What is the farthest you've ever traveled? Link
Originally posted by Skydude
Particularly now, I have to go with the last one. I'm currently studying abroad in England, which is a great experience, and a few weekends ago I took a trip to Rome.
I really.... really.... really hated Rome. Of all the cities in all the countries I've ever been to. Rome is a real contender for the absoloute worst one. You enjoy the trip to Rome or did you find it to be as much of a dirty nasty city as I did?
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 12:11 AM, in True Color. Link
Originally posted by Jin Dogan
Let's not forget the sun's role in our perception of color. I think that in different solar systems, the spectrums are different and have colors we cannot understand or something.
This is totally and utterly untrue. You are TOTALLY MISINTERPRETING stellar physics here.

In other news, the "refresh rate" of the human eye (if you can even call it that) is (very) roughly in the 30 to 40 hz range. Let this go as a message to all you people who bitch about 60hz monitor refreshes and claim you can see it flicker. You can't. It's all in your head.

EDIT: BTW: If you wan't to really know why the sky is blue, read up on the refraction of light in the presence of oxygen, nitrogen and humidity.

(edited by ||bass on 02-19-06 11:13 PM)
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 01:11 AM, in True Color. Link
There are not "other colors". What you see is what you get. The visible spectrum is not hiding from you. If that were the case, artificial lighting would be able to reveal some kind of "hidden" colors. It just doesn't work that way.

I honestly have no idea what you seem to be thinking of. The only thing that might be similar to what you are talking about is the fact that different stars give off different light spectrums. (Compare red giant stars to blue dwarf stars.) But that's as far as it goes. The light from the suns is different, ergo things on the planets that orbit them will look different. Presumably if you were near a red dwarf, colors would appear much redder. This goes without saying though.

That's fine, but "extra" colors? Whoever told you that is just full of BS. We can already see the whole visible spectrum, there are no dead spots in our vision. We can see them all.... really.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 11:26 AM, in True Color. Link
My theory on higher refresh rates is so you can run vsync'd applications with higher fps. Also consider, they allow higher refreshes so they can charge suckers who think it makes a difference extra money. There's a difference between higher then normal vision (which many people have) and DOUBLE normal (which is what it would take to see a 60hz refresh).

I know many of you genuinely think you can see the difference and nothing I say is going to convince you otherwise. I'm done debating this particular point. If you want to think you're special for having somehow impossibly superior vision, go for it. I'm just laying down the facts as they are, it's up to you to belive them.

PS: The visual cortex of the brain itself normally operates are frequincies of around 12hz and never operates in ranges high enough to detect a 60hz flicker. Only neocortical brain cells can work that fast (60hz) and even then will not commonly pass the 40hz mark.

PPS: While 60hz and 75hz look exactally the same, many screens make this anoying noise when you run them at anything higher than 60hz.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 11:32 AM, in True Color. Link
Originally posted by Tommathy
What ||bass is forgetting is that visual (and audio) acuity towards frequencies decreases as one gets older; his listed number is but an average value.

In a similar vein click!
No I wasn't forgetting that. You'll note that I did give a RANGE of frequincies and not a specific one. Way to not read my post.

Also, that device would be so incredibly ilegal in the US. You could most definately get sued all the way into bankrupcy for setting up a machine like that in this country. Plus a machine like that would get you sued a second time by the ASPCA for being cruel to animals. (Bet you that thing is torture for dogs.)

I'm surprised that it lasted so long at that McDonalds in the UK. Over here, the kids would have shot the thing out after about 3 minutes.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 11:57 PM, in True Color. Link
That machine is really stupid. I can't belive something like that is legal in the UK. Talk about a barbaric country. Damn.

Let me propose one example. Sound like that must be TORTURE on a dog. So how is a blind person with an assistance dog supposed to get around near the building? It's putting someone in danger.

Think that's bad? How about baby torture?
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-21-06 10:21 AM, in True Color. Link
Originally posted by Kutske
Of course, you can't exactly prove that until a human stands on the surface of another planet in another solar system with his pack of Crayolas and draws a picture, noting discrepencies between what he sees when he draws, and the names of the crayons he's using.
NO! No no no no no. In proving that, you would disprove 100+ years of accepted science. Optics doesn't work that way.

A red giant might make things look more reddish, etc, but that's as far as physics says it can go.

In other news, that wiki article says the military uses color blind people as snipers. That RULES.

PS: Kutske, nice going TOTALLY MISUNDERSTANDING what Hyperhacker was trying to say about concious perception. That link has absoloutly NOTHING in it to address what he asked.

(edited by ||bass on 02-21-06 09:22 AM)
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-21-06 10:43 PM, in True Color. Link
Originally posted by NSNick
On the topic of color, I read an article a while back noting that women can see more shades of color than men, perhaps a remnant of our hunter-gatherer days, when they would usually pick berries, where seeing different shades would tell the difference between poisonous and non-poisonous berries.

It was interesting.
Do you mean see more shades, or more easily differentiate between different shades? I assume you mean the latter even though you said the former. It's a small almost semantic difference but the latter sounds very plausable while a very literal interpretation of the former would mean quite a bit of accepted biology was wrong.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 09:38 AM, in Volunteers WANTED: coding ACMLM BOARD portal Link
That's going to be an interesting trick considering how every copy of the board in existence is different.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 09:42 AM, in True Color. Link
I'm curious as to how much of that is actually vision-related and how much of it is guys just not knowing/giving a shit about the difference.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-24-06 05:26 PM, in Volunteers WANTED: coding ACMLM BOARD portal Link
1.A2 and 1.92 have VERY different ways of working. Good luck, I think it's a bad idea.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-24-06 06:56 PM, in True Color. Link
Originally posted by Kutske
Wow. In one post's time I went from the bystanding and inquisitive host to the enemigo más grande. Intepreting "tone of voice" is difficult with just text, but regardeless, Bass seems like he's about to bust several gaskets, then go on a shooting rampage in his school/workplace/postaloffice. *makes soothing hand gestures* Easy. Easy...
Atleast you admit it's near impossible to determine tone over text. It's good because you totally misunderstood my tone. I assume this goes back in reference to post #59862.

Understand, if I'm posting at all, that usually means I'm in a good mood. I'm just generally an unpleasent pain in the ass.

If I was upset enough to blow a fuse, I'd be doing things like blocking port 80 on the board server.

(edited by ||bass on 02-24-06 05:57 PM)
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 01:09 AM, in Volunteers WANTED: coding ACMLM BOARD portal Link
Has this portal even been planned and specified yet?
Are there any supporting specs or UML?
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 01:13 AM, in AMD or Intel? Link
Originally posted by neotransotaku
Intel is a name that has been around for ages but AMD is a company gradually eating away at Intel's market share with better chips. So, yeah, I vouch for an AMD power computer
Why do people always talk about AMD and Intel as though Intel was several orders of magnitude older, it's not.

AMD was formed during the 60's roughly ONE year after Intel was. They've both been around for the same amount of time.
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Posted on 02-26-06 07:47 PM, in AMD or Intel? Link
If you're going to do AMD, you might as well get an NForce mobo and get an NVidia. Atleast then you have hardware specifically designed to play nice together. That and the NForce motherboards tend to be the best desktop AMD boards anyway.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-27-06 05:46 PM, in AMD or Intel? Link
Originally posted by oblirator1
I Am Intending To Put My Coursework And Other Stuff That's Why I Need A New Hard Drive.I Doubt It That I Would Get Far With A 7GB Hard Drive.
I Recon I'll Get A Nvidia Graphics Card.
But I've Made a Decision.I'll Save My $ And I'll Buy Another Processor.
Why in God's name do you capitalize every single word in your sentences? Stop it. It makes your writing impossible to read.
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