Stupid Questions |OT| of questions that don't deserve their own threads

Status
Not open for further replies.
There was a thread created about two weeks ago where someone was asking for Mass Effect / Blade Runner type music recommendations. My search-fu is failing me. Could someone help me with this?

NOTE: I can find the thread started in June 2012 but the one I'm talking about was created very recently.
 
I just noticed I can't play video audio in the background anymore on an ios 5 itouch. I could on ios 4 after locking the screen. Does anyone else have this issue? I don't want to reinstall everything, that will just be a pain.
 
So I was trying to figure out who the first member on NeoGAF was by messing with the profile URL.

Turns out his username is gaadmin. What happened to him? Hasn't logged in since 2005.
 
Riposte said:
Is there a name for that empty feeling one may feel after reading a long book or marathoning a series of some kind?
Click to expand...

I get this A LOT with books or TV shows/movies. It's one of the reasons why I rarely watch movies, or only watch action movies where I don't have to think so much.

There is an emotion in Japanese known as "mono no aware" and I THINK this is what you're asking about. Translated, it would be "the pathos of things" or "empathy toward things."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
 
Maklershed said:
There was a thread created about two weeks ago where someone was asking for Mass Effect / Blade Runner type music recommendations. My search-fu is failing me. Could someone help me with this?

NOTE: I can find the thread started in June 2012 but the one I'm talking about was created very recently.
Click to expand...

The closest thing I can remember was the "80s-inspired synth cyberpunk playlist" thread from November.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=499908
 
I saw a thread where you can rate the previous poster's music on OT GAF yesterday. But I can't find that thread now.
Anyone have a link for it?
 
Anyone able to suggest quality yet affordable headphones (with mic would be cool, but not necessary)? 7.1 surround sound and comfort are big for me.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I'm a music composer and a gamer, by the way.
 
BigEvilTurtle said:
Anyone able to suggest quality yet affordable headphones (with mic would be cool, but not necessary)? 7.1 surround sound and comfort are big for me.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I'm a music composer and a gamer, by the way.
Click to expand...

There's a headphone thread: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=417447

For comfort and good sound, theAudio Technica AD700 are a good pair. Usually around the $100 mark. But they're open backed, which means sound will leak out and you'll be able to hear outside noises too. But it has a great soundstage!
 
How far away one could see a torch (stick with fire, not flashlight) in complete darkess (other than the torch), assuming no obstructions?

What about a flashlight?
 
Woorloog said:
How far away one could see a torch (stick with fire, not flashlight) in complete darkess (other than the torch), assuming no obstructions?

What about a flashlight?
Click to expand...

In a vacuum with no other particles, light would go on forever, you could see it from an infinite distance away.

Practically, light hit's lots of particles on the way to our eyes which eventually knocks it out of the way of getting to our eyes, ie using a torch in mist/fog. Then you'd have to take into account how good someone's eye's are and whether they are long sighted or not.

There is not a stand amount of power a flashlight or burning torch produces. You'd have to take into effect things like Lumen, Lux and Luminous flux.

Unscientifically, if we imagined a torch at ground level and we walked away from it, eventually the curvature of the earth would get in the way and you wouldn't be able to see it even if the light was strong enough to go the distance, you just wouldn't be in line to see it. This of course depends on the power, how much light, how many particles are in the way, light pollution etc.

EDIT: More of a knowledge dump.

Even in space light hit's 'lots' of particles, just not a lot, relative to light in earths atmosphere.

Not to mention that the human eye can only see a very small range of light waves, and even then it is only so sensitive. We can't see infra-red, microwave or gamma etc. Plus light from far far galaxies does ht our eye, but not strong enough for use to register as 'seeing'. We have machines that can do this however. If you take a camera and make the shutter speed slow, basically make the time the image sensor can get information longer, it will collect more of the small data and see things you can't see with the human eye.

A great example of this is the Hubble Deep Field image. They pointed this very powerful telescope at a very blank part of space as we and even hubble itself would normally see it. But they left it to expose for so long that all the small light data added up and showed us a bunch of things we didn't know were there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field

then they did it deeper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field

and then even deeper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field
 
So I was looking at some stuff on Amazon when I realized there was no add to cart button on any item. I checked on Internet Explorer and Chrome and I don't see it on either one. I can go into the New option on stuff and add it to cart from there, but that's the only way to do it. Is anyone else having this problem? EDIT: It looks like it's just books. Games, music and DVDs all have the button.
 
Why dont they regulate cars so they can only drive the allowed speedlimit. And have no regulators on cops, ambulances etc.

Less injuries, deaths and fun.

The industry would suffer greatly under it as less people would care to buy fancy cars and that would result in joblosses i know ..

But still ..
 
BigEvilTurtle said:
image.php
Click to expand...

His avatar reminds me, a lot of characters have this pose in fan art.
Where did this originate from?
 
Raiden said:
Why dont they regulate cars so they can only drive the allowed speedlimit. And have no regulators on cops, ambulances etc.

Less injuries, deaths and fun.

The industry would suffer greatly under it as less people would care to buy fancy cars and that would result in joblosses i know ..

But still ..
Click to expand...

Well, there are a number of reasons:
-practicality. How would you actually set this up? Speed limits are wildly different in different places. Unless you mean that cars should simply be barred from speeds above the single highest speed limit in the country?
-safety. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the best way to avoid an accident is to speed up rather than slow down. Even if you're already going at the speed limit.
-viability. Speed limits are generally set (or are supposed to be set) at the 85th percentile of the speed actually used on that particular road. We should expect 15% of drivers to be going over the speed limit at any given time--that's simply how speed limits are set up.
-money. Cities/police departments would rather give out tickets and get money on the fines. In many cases, speed limits are set up for this rather than for safety.
 
Cyan said:
Well, there are a number of reasons:
-practicality. How would you actually set this up? Speed limits are wildly different in different places. Unless you mean that cars should simply be barred from speeds above the single highest speed limit in the country?
-safety. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the best way to avoid an accident is to speed up rather than slow down. Even if you're already going at the speed limit.
-viability. Speed limits are generally set (or are supposed to be set) at the 85th percentile of the speed actually used on that particular road. We should expect 15% of drivers to be going over the speed limit at any given time--that's simply how speed limits are set up.
-money. Cities/police departments would rather give out tickets and get money on the fines. In many cases, speed limits are set up for this rather than for safety.
Click to expand...

Makes sense yes.

I was thinking allong the lines of Minority Report style. Your car just sensors which zone you are in and cannot go over the speedlimit.

But simply a mechanical limit to not go over 140 KMPH would decrease the amount of accidents probably. But yeah i can see why this will never happen.
 
Woorloog said:
Okay, in atmosphere, in normal atmospheric pressure (at 20 degree C or whatever is used for "standard"), ignoring Earth's curvature (and with it, is it visible from horizon?)?
Click to expand...

I'm afraid I don't have the scientific knowledge to answer that. Maybe someone else can. There are so many variables involved.

This is the best kind of answer I can find.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070915112857AAj3LzU

A candle could be seen from, under ideal conditions, about three and a half miles.
It has an equation so if you found out the brightness of a torch you could use that data rather than the brightness of a candle and get the distance, in theory, this isn't my strong suit xD

These may be of interest to:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/experiment2.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/light1.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question441.htm
 
Raiden said:
Makes sense yes.

I was thinking allong the lines of Minority Report style. Your car just sensors which zone you are in and cannot go over the speedlimit.

But simply a mechanical limit to not go over 140 KMPH would decrease the amount of accidents probably. But yeah i can see why this will never happen.
Click to expand...

The technology for that is just becoming readily available and would still be a fortune to implement. Retrofitting isn't very practical and only putting it in new cars would mean 15 or possibly 20 years before fully adopted. It will probably just be easier to build features like this into the eventual robot-driven cars.

I believe most transport trucks here in Ontario, Canada now have governors in them that limit speeds to 100 or 110 kmph. Putting them in to consumer cars would be tricky because cars are manufactured for world markets with various speed limits(such as the Autobahn).
 
Could I replace my non-3D laptop screen with a 3D screen?

I bought a Dell XPS 17 L702X a little over two years ago. Recently I've been having screen problems and I'd like to replace the screen. I could simply buy the same screen I have, but for just a little more money I could upgrade to a 3D screen. I'm wondering if my laptop would accept a 3D screen or not.


Edit: The problem is a few horizontal lines across the screen that are growing in number the more I use the screen. Would it be the screen that is at fault, or would it be the connector? Has anybody every fixed a laptop screen just by replacing the connector.
 
I heard there are bars in Japan where you play like 3000 Yen to get in and all the drinks are free. Does anyone know if this is true?
 
Toppot said:
I'm afraid I don't have the scientific knowledge to answer that. Maybe someone else can. There are so many variables involved.

This is the best kind of answer I can find.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070915112857AAj3LzU

A candle could be seen from, under ideal conditions, about three and a half miles.
It has an equation so if you found out the brightness of a torch you could use that data rather than the brightness of a candle and get the distance, in theory, this isn't my strong suit xD

These may be of interest to:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/experiment2.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/light1.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question441.htm
Click to expand...

A candle three and a half miles? Torch is considerably brighter, so maybe at least twice that (from air or otherwise ignoring horizon which is about 3 miles for a average man standing on sea level)?
Flashlight is even better likely.
Well. This solves this problem, i can't have a space that is large enough on an Earth-sized planet where one couldn't see a light on one end from the other.
A pity, gotta magicically absorb the light.
I asked this because i was wondering if i could have my players (in PnP RPG) to be traveling through an immensely massive cave/tunnel while being able to use a light without it giving away where they're. Doesn't obviously work without something absorbing or blocking the light.
Well, works better in complete darkness anyway, going to have some creepy surprises for them.
 
Woorloog said:
A candle three and a half miles? Torch is considerably brighter, so maybe at least twice that (from air or otherwise ignoring horizon which is about 3 miles for a average man standing on sea level)?
Flashlight is even better likely.
Well. This solves this problem, i can't have a space that is large enough on an Earth-sized planet where one couldn't see a light on one end from the other.
A pity, gotta magicically absorb the light.
I asked this because i was wondering if i could have my players (in PnP RPG) to be traveling through an immensely massive cave/tunnel while being able to use a light without it giving away where they're. Doesn't obviously work without something absorbing or blocking the light.
Well, works better in complete darkness anyway, going to have some creepy surprises for them.
Click to expand...

Well it would be a very realistic game that has a small amount of light viable from 3 miles away, yet alone bother to render something in detail that is 3 miles away or more. So long as the light it on the artificial horizon or 'very far away' I doubt people would question why it didn't show up when it was 3 1/2 miles away or more.

Only say a game involving aeroplane type objects would you expect to see something that far away I would imagine. And you could explain light not going that far if in the lore of the world there is lots of dust for example.
 
Toppot said:
Well it would be a very realistic game that has a small amount of light viable from 3 miles away, yet alone bother to render something in detail that is 3 miles away or more. So long as the light it on the artificial horizon or 'very far away' I doubt people would question why it didn't show up when it was 3 1/2 miles away or more.

Only say a game involving aeroplane type objects would you expect to see something that far away I would imagine. And you could explain light not going that far if in the lore of the world there is lots of dust for example.
Click to expand...

PnP, pen and paper, not a video game.

But... Dust? Thank you! That's a great idea. Dust or some other particles, yes, that will do nicely.
 
Cyan said:
I know exactly the feeling you mean... but I don't think there's a word for it.
Click to expand...

is it the same feeling as when you discover a series you like for example 'the name of the wind' books, then read them real fast and realise the last one isn't coming for probably years?

There should be a word for that as well.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

The dumbest and most absurd questions you have asked AI.
9
174
SJRB replied
I don't understand why more people don't order their groceries online and have it delivered
2 3
105
1K
Sub_Level replied
kids talk stupid
2
59
861
touchfuzzy replied
anybody install their own gas stove top?
34
2K
clarky replied
Home ownership, mortgage, heloc, & reno question
2
334
AJUMP23 replied
Top Bottom