Quote from Krane :

Bit older stuff

http://youtube.com/watch?v=65tiCfQe2TE :lovies3d:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=supPDLKoA6w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t7rDwHg-I1A
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hq2tLyEq1Ok
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fOKMxMjc8Mk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VAoUajLQhTU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXcQMZL6IA4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JHm4mOwq624
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W9ZXDORgv-8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9CmHR5_0BA

From the corny&cute dept.: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ftzzY5VDNU

Hmmm... is this '80s thread now?

In 1980s they made tons of great songs... maybe I should post few hundred of them too what I can remember...

No I just post this one... great melody, great/odd lyrics, great/odd video... watch before you go to bed... some lullaby

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i74TLn6QYW8

In my opinion '90s music sucked mostly. There are few exceptions which are ok or even good. Here I list few of them...


depeche mode - enjoy the silence - http://youtube.com/watch?v=oSfxyG8LY2I
seal/adamski - killer - http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_y3sh-Uubw
edwyn collins - a girl like you - http://youtube.com/watch?v=w7d36TFnwqo
jamiroquai - cosmic girl - http://youtube.com/watch?v=ruG6Ml3zv8I
enigma - sadeness - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0ydiZGoqc

I guess most of you remember these

Quote from deggis :

Second season of Finnish Big Brother ended couple of weeks ago, I don't even know who was the actual winner, but the biggest winner was television that finally got rid of this shit.

Amen.

I understood there was every week some kind of voting who to keep in and who to kick out. You just phoned a number. I always wished they had a number for voting to end that shit program.

I've always thought David Coulthard (do we really need another picture here?) looks just like...




http://club.telepolis.com/srap ... images/herman-monster.jpg

...and vcom. It shows all the split times too. And the best sector times together what would have been the time if done of the same lap.

Quote from Vain :

Well, according to Heisenberg's law the washing machine should constantly generate socks and anti-socks at the border of it's event-horizon.
(Because the energy at the border can't be zero, thus particles and anti-particles constantly recombinate and come into existance, and if you are lucky the anti-sock falls beyond the event horizon, while the sock emerges from the washing machine.)
I feel an experiment coming on!

Vain

Or it could as well be the anti-socks which survive. You'll notice only when it evaporizes when you put it in your foot (which will suffer some damage too).

If it happens that only one of the real/anti object parts fall into the blac... err... washing machine, then from the conservation of energy the black hole or your washing machine must loose part of it's mass. This is the Hawking radiation which can be observed as washing machine generated heat. That also explains why my washing machine sounds sometimes like a hungry T-Rex

What is odd that I have never seen it generating socks or especially anti-sock, only loosing ones. And then only one side of the pair.

Ok, many thanks.

Kind of what I was expecting or understood from reading magazines.

I have one alternative explanation...

Fast rotating black holes cause 'frame dragging'. This means that a BH cause the timespace (4D space) around it to curve or rotate around it with the spin of the BH. This has interesting effects. Like everything which gets too close is forced to spin around the hole in one direction (with the spin). Other paths are not possibe like against the spin. This holds also for the light. This is not same as the event horizon. The stuff rotating are still outside the event horizon but cannot get out. So spinning BHs have a bigger black disk than what the event horizon is.

Your washing machine with a fast rotating drum must be doing this frame dragging too. Clothes are forced to rotate around in the drum without a way out. The black hole similarity explains also why you loose socks sometimes.

(oh jeezus... have to go get a cup of tea. I'm clearly over stressed :schwitz

hmmm.... I hope I understood what you said...

Yes, there really is no centrifugal force. It is just that body wants to continue to it's original path as long as there are no forces altering its path.

So in a washing machine the drum wall introduces a force (e.g to jeans etc) towards the drum center. Otherwise the cloths would continue in tangent direction out of your washing machine. The cloths at first move tangentually until they meet the wall and after that they start rotating with the drum. The air moves together with the cloths, but maybe with slightly slower speed (especially if empty). That's because the lumps of cloths and the 'paddles' (or what they are called) in the drum causes the air spin too (like try moving a post card fast, which moves air).

If you drop something into the drum it meets first the air rotating and finally the drum itself. In both case it first goes to the wall and then start to rotate around. If it is light (like a feather) the air flow might be enough to move it before it meets the drum itself.

That's how I understand it.

The odd thing in this is that all washing machines I've seen have a vertically mounted drum, so if nothing else at least the gravity will work the cloths towards the drum wall (downwards).

I've been looking for the new core 2 duos. Just one thing which isn't really clear. What kind of mem should I put there?

I mean that they sell them with everything from 533Mhz DDR2 to 1066MHz. Usually they are tested with 667MHz or 800. The bus seems to be 1066MHz so if the logic goes like in my old system (P4 Northwood) the mem speed is half of the bus (800->400Mhz). So if the 533 would be enough then why the heck use so much faster mem if it is not overclocked? Just waste of money. No intensions to overclock it, just doesn't want memory being the bottleneck.

And is the logic same in AMD cpus? If I would for some whimsy reason buy one (1000 bus->??? mem).

Ideas?
TIA

I think too he is not really trying to drift. Just to get fast around the lap. This reminds me about the good Test Drive II in Amiga. It had a RUF in one of the car disks. It was clearly the fastest thing in the game, including F40 and 959. Maybe it is this (pic from the game)...

Used few hours in a really productive way. Results here...

Some track areas...
1) hill stew, lit (up) Welsh, shit well
2) stitch you, it's touchy
3) bock Waldo ('bock' seems to be a type of a beer)

Some tracks...
1) dirt grasp
2) bacon lust, bacon slut, ban locust, bat consul
3) fancy rubble
4) barfly Ogden, be dragonfly
5) Stan Horton, Hanson trot
6) flabby canker
7) disk pad, skip dad
8) dance toast

I can post the true names later (not so hard to decipher them)

Quote from Captain Slow :

slow captain.

youll never guess it in a million years. ever. ever ever ever.

captain slow ->
platonic saw
satanic plow
...

especially the last one is funny

I can think only this from my name
"fire quail"

Hmmm... I would recommend some normal music player on the background. I liked the solution so much that I made an app to control it and get track names to lfs without leaving lfs. (benefit: can play all kind of formats and net radio)

The UAE emulator is damn good. Actually it is many ways better than the real thing. I run WinUAE with WB3.0 HD install with Picasso GFX card emu. Can get 1280x1024 with 32bit colors. So no wonder it looks now much better than in my old Amiga... and runs fast too.

Here's a pic

Quote from MorroW :

This was 100% real video? :eek:
...

I suppose it is. Looks like even BBC noted it. In the comments section one person says that BBC news commented it at one point...

"The owner of the motorbike will receive a section 59 anti-social behaviour warning which means if he uses the vehicle in an anti-social way again it will be seized."

So was it so anti-social behaviour? At least he was spending some time with friends

I was little bored and was looking few video clips... found this...

http://videos.streetfire.net/h ... 960-8475-980a016b79af.htm

In the comments it gives a link to a BBC site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ ... hern_counties/5238656.stm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ ... hern_counties/5236590.stm

Funny clip. In that age kids seem to have lot of energy to try inventive ways to hurt themselves Since nobody was (seriously) hurt I guess I can laugh to this

Visage - Fade to Grey

Yes, true. If the idea was just to make money in the expense of stupid consumers, then the idea might be a good one. At least as long as you are not taken to court for causing deaths, because you claimed the house would be hurricane proof.

The hurricane house would be the last place I would go during a hurricane. A death trap while all kinds of debris fly around like missiles. A simple piece of wood would penetrate it with ease.

The question is who is the dumbest: the 'invertor', the person accepting the patent or the one buying such a 'house'.

Quote from TheDeppchef :

So long story short: While your bag of stars could maybe lead to the same galaxy appearance (you'd have to explain why we can't see them, although we can see all other stars), it'd be so much nicer if it was a black hole

In some cases it really cannot be anything else in our knowledge of physics. For example our galaxy centre. It is measured that some stars in the galaxy core have so much speed and their orbit around the center is so small that only what works is a giant black hole. Like the stars' speed give us the mass of the object and of course it has to fit inside the orbit and conclusion is that it cannot be anything else.

Opposite examples are. In some cases there can be bit discussion about if it could be possibly a neutron star. Like the radio source Cygnus-X, which is a binary system (BH orbited by another star). The orbit of the giant star around the BH takes like 5-6 days. The star is visible and it's orbit around an invisble point is seen/measured. It gives that the BH should be like 6-20 solar masses. Together that the companion star usually looses part of its gas into the black hole causing gas heating up and mass ejection along the BH poles.

I don't think any 'real' scientists deny existence of black holes. It is mathematically/physically understandable and working concept (Einstein's theory of relativity). And so scientists knew it before they saw any of them. Usually the scientific discussion is already on the nature of the black holes (like do you loose information what they swallow).

Because black hole sucks everything including light, it cannot be seen directly (well it is just a black circle). But you can 'see' it indirectly in few ways...

1) A star (in binary systems) is orbiting it. It can be calculated from this how much mass the BH has.
2) Something is being sucked into it. This is usually like hot gass which while being heated generates EM radiation not just in visible length.
3) Gravitational lensing. Mass makes space to curve and light follows this too. So large mass makes light bend. BH and even less massive objects like Sun bend light from background objects (other stars).

...maybe something else too I cannot remember right now... All of these have been spotted and verified.

If it is hard to understand the concept, you might try to think it just as an object which has escape velocity over the speed of light (=c) (the surface where it is exactly c is called event horizon and no information can be get from inside, where ev>c).

Also the objects closest to density of BHs, the neutron stars, bend light a lot. Because we know that more massive stars: a) exists b) in death collapse into something more dense which has escape velocity>c. ...then do you need more? It is not even the hardest concept. Try understand that universum is not infinite, but is still infinite (where does it expand? from what did it originate? etc), but you still do not deny it's existence, right?

It is thought that there are lot of 'loose' black holes wondering around. If they are not feeding, and they have no visible companions, the only way to see them is gravitational lensing. It took some long time and careful observation of space, before they spotted it. Some large black blob moved over some background stars and the light from them is bended. This gave me real 'goose pimples' when I saw the clip. It was really convinsing - this could mean that our solar system might meet such a thing too and we could do nothing. Maybe we wouldn't even notice it until the orbits of outer planets started to go funny. An 'interesting' way to die

About how life ends...

After billions of years Sun expands to become red giant and swallows the inner planets. Maybe Earth too, but even if not at least it would make things pretty hot here melting and burning most of the stuff (Venus phenomenon in a grander scale). In the death Sun will become white dwarf. Little larger stars become neutron stars (c. 11-50 solar masses) and even more massive black holes (>50 solar masses).

Sun has about half of it's 10 billion years estimated life time left (as G2V class star). Larger stars are brighter but live shorter life and dying in more violent way. For example a small M class cool dwarf star could have 1 trillion years life time. So in this universum has never such star died yet. But a hot O class star can have less than 3 million years life time. One of the reasons scientists do not look for intelligent life around such stars (they are too hot anyway and some of them would radiate all life with X-rays).

It is not proved (I think) that every galaxy core has a black hole. Mostly because there are far too many to inspect and we cannot see them all. It is just an assumption that at least the larger ones have. It is not even easy to see well into a core of a galaxy (even Milky way).

There is dark matter which accumulates in the movement of the galaxies. This is the explanation to the fact that all the visible matter couldn't spin the stars so fast around a galaxy core. Then there is that dark energy which speeds up the expansion of the space. That is, the expansion is not slowing down or not that it would be even constant - it is getting faster. So there is really no evidence that space would ever collapse back in a 'big crunch' or such.

So after trillions and trillions years all stars die out, becoming white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. Those (except the black holes) still radiate the energy from the hot remaining core, but eventually they will cool down and blend into the blackness of the space. There are some theories that black holes radiate some energy out so they might slowly 'evaporize' too like the all the neutrons and protons (which do have a very long life time - estimated >3e32a) which by evaporizing remove the died star cores. Eventually space becomes just a vast cold, lightless and empty space.

So a pretty nasty future? Hopefully humans, if they still live after so long time, have found a way into a parallel universum (there are theories about multiple parallel universums). The bad thing is that Scawen might need to recode part of LFS as that universum might have different physics.

That's how I understand it. But in 1 million years Earth should be fine as long as humans haven't destroyed it (by turning it into a Venus like environment or nuclear winter), we are not struck by a comet, sucked by a loose black hole or conquered by aliens. Actually in space or even geographically 1 million years is not so long.

"Like for example: Romans: they had no archers but slingers. A common mistake in every game... we don't want such mistakes in our game."

Oh great, now we have a subject we can talk for months!
True for "true" romans. But but... Romans hired local mercenaries across mediterranean especially when their empire grew in size. So they did use archers, but not really romans (from the area around Rome = Latium) (what 'roman' means also depends on time as more people got roman citizenship). Same thing for many other units like war elephants. What true roman units they had depends also on time. The worst thing is that 1000BC there was no Rome so dunno what units they should have I think the whole thing is very well inplemented in R:TW "Rome Total Realism" mod.

So are you implementing all Roman units with proper timelines and implement mercenary system?

Quote from GianniC :

Sorry mean after Christus, the fall of the Roman empire and the coming of many new civilications, opening many ways for us to introduce and use many aspects of history!

So it is supposted to be realistic to some level? Maybe the vikings should be named to 'celts', 'barbarians' or something like that. Those work for the whole timeline in the game while vikings started their trips something like 700-800AD.

Quote from GianniC :

Comparing it to TW serie's isn't good... Frankly the TW series are just better (played them all too ) and hard work of an entire team for many years. Such thing isn't possible for us, we're honest and realistic in that.

He heh. No worry, it can be entertaining otherwise too. But make the diplomacy better than in TW, where it sucks

Quote from GianniC :

'Imperius' is a nice proposal tho I'm afraid people will automaticly switch over to the "Roman Empire ... things". However I'll propose it to my college's and we'll see

I think 'imperius' is english, not latin. Another version of it could be 'imperia' as plural if it is in the meaning of 'empires'. Or if it means kind of the power to rule then the form 'imperius' does make more sense. The word 'empires' would be more modern version and doesn't sound so much latin. (my latin is bit rusty so I do not guarantee 'imperius' couldn't be latin too.)