Posts by Ruivo

Y.M.C.A - Village People

Ya, that stands for Young Man Christian Association.

hmm... After almost 1Tb of non-official generic software downloaded, i've created a phrase. "Nothing is impossible, only takes time."

When i had dial-up (good times), i liked to push the connection and the taxes to the limit, and then, a little more. I have even downloaded an cd nowhere to be found on stores here, an 750mb image on a max of 5kb/s rate. It took 2 days straight, but i even said, "fuck broadband!" on the second it finished.

I can't lie, i still enjoy pushing my connection. Last big generic software i've downloaded (5.97Gb) took more than two days on a 110kb/s rate (bad torrent )

Btw, what happened to the dynamic universe? Is it disabled? The news on CF homepage remains the same for one week and three days by now.

Motherfucker - unknown

Motherfucker mother
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motherfuck....

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Yes, Recon is not senseless, he haves a reason.
Could you have planned to post a reply on that other thread, but hitted "post new thread" instead? Happened a lot with me

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Originally posted by Fitter55
YOU DO IT !!!
No, You do it.
You do it or I,ll sic the dog on you !!! Rover, where are you ??
[SIZE=1]bugger .....[/SIZE] ....OK I,ll do it..............

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Conquest of Paradise - John Vangelis

Ron Howard is directing it.. and it has an well done cast of actors. I hope it's as long as the book, three hours of movie would be the minimun i would ask.

By the way, does anyone knows if Dan Brown has had any part on the movie?

I'm not going to ask who is going to watch the movie.

So, who is NOT going to watch the movie?
i will.....

Can anyone find a >100mb mod avaible to download via bitorrent network? If no.. there`s a reason. That would create a huge amount of leechers... soo many that even 40 seeds wouldn`t be enought.

And please, think if you really want to join. We are looking for active players to join, and not names on our memberlist

Î've been argued frequently by ppl who doesn't know nothing bout plasma... they want to know why they're called plasma screens and how the hell they work. I always gave them a simple explanation.. but then, even I got curious about the smallest details on how the hell this thing works.

Some may think such a subject very dull to discuss at an php forum... but i doubt that there's not even one person reading this from a plasma monitor, asking how the hell that thing works.

Ok. here's the full thing:

For the past 75 years, the vast majority of televisions have been built around the same technology: the cathode ray tube (CRT). In a CRT television, a gun fires a beam of electrons (negatively-charged particles) inside a large glass tube. The electrons excite phosphor atoms along the wide end of the tube (the screen), which causes the phosphor atoms to light up. The television image is produced by lighting up different areas of the phosphor coating with different colors at different intensities

Cathode ray tubes produce crisp, vibrant images, but they do have a serious drawback: They are bulky. In order to increase the screen width in a CRT set, you also have to increase the length of the tube (to give the scanning electron gun room to reach all parts of the screen). Consequently, any big-screen CRT television is going to weigh a ton and take up a sizable chunk of a room.

Recently, a new alternative has popped up on store shelves: the plasma flat panel display. These televisions have wide screens, comparable to the largest CRT sets, but they are only about 6 inches (15 cm) thick Based on the information in a video signal, the television lights up thousands of tiny dots (called pixels) with a high-energy beam of electrons. In most systems, there are three pixel colors -- red, green and blue -- which are evenly distributed on the screen. By combining these colors in different proportions, the television can produce the entire color spectrum.

The basic idea of a plasma display is to illuminate tiny colored fluorescent lights to form an image. Each pixel is made up of three fluorescent lights -- a red light, a green light and a blue light. Just like a CRT television, the plasma display varies the intensities of the different lights to produce a full range of colors.

The central element in a fluorescent light is a plasma, a gas made up of free-flowing ions (electrically charged atoms) and electrons (negatively charged particles). Under normal conditions, a gas is mainly made up of uncharged particles. That is, the individual gas atoms include equal numbers of protons (positively charged particles in the atom's nucleus) and electrons. The negatively charged electrons perfectly balance the positively charged protons, so the atom has a net charge of zero.

If you introduce many free electrons into the gas by establishing an electrical voltage across it, the situation changes very quickly. The free electrons collide with the atoms, knocking loose other electrons. With a missing electron, an atom loses its balance. It has a net positive charge, making it an ion.

In a plasma with an electrical current running through it, negatively charged particles are rushing toward the positively charged area of the plasma, and positively charged particles are rushing toward the negatively charged area.

In this mad rush, particles are constantly bumping into each other. These collisions excite the gas atoms in the plasma, causing them to release photons of energy

Xenon and neon atoms, the atoms used in plasma screens, release light photons when they are excited. Mostly, these atoms release ultraviolet light photons, which are invisible to the human eye. But ultraviolet photons can be used to excite visible light photons, as we'll see in the next section.

Inside the Display
The xenon and neon gas in a plasma television is contained in hundreds of thousands of tiny cells positioned between two plates of glass. Long electrodes are also sandwiched between the glass plates, on both sides of the cells. The address electrodes sit behind the cells, along the rear glass plate. The transparent display electrodes, which are surrounded by an insulating dielectric material and covered by a magnesium oxide protective layer, are mounted above the cell, along the front glass plate.

Both sets of electrodes extend across the entire screen. The display electrodes are arranged in horizontal rows along the screen and the address electrodes are arranged in vertical columns. As you can see in the diagram below, the vertical and horizontal electrodes form a basic grid.

To ionize the gas in a particular cell, the plasma display's computer charges the electrodes that intersect at that cell. It does this thousands of times in a small fraction of a second, charging each cell in turn.

When the intersecting electrodes are charged (with a voltage difference between them), an electric current flows through the gas in the cell. As we saw in the last section, the current creates a rapid flow of charged particles, which stimulates the gas atoms to release ultraviolet photons.

The released ultraviolet photons interact with phosphor material coated on the inside wall of the cell. Phosphors are substances that give off light when they are exposed to other light. When an ultraviolet photon hits a phosphor atom in the cell, one of the phosphor's electrons jumps to a higher energy level and the atom heats up. When the electron falls back to its normal level, it releases energy in the form of a visible light photon.

The phosphors in a plasma display give off colored light when they are excited. Every pixel is made up of three separate subpixel cells, each with different colored phosphors. One subpixel has a red light phosphor, one subpixel has a green light phosphor and one subpixel has a blue light phosphor. These colors blend together to create the overall color of the pixel.

By varying the pulses of current flowing through the different cells, the control system can increase or decrease the intensity of each subpixel color to create hundreds of different combinations of red, green and blue. In this way, the control system can produce colors across the entire spectrum.

The main advantage of plasma display technology is that you can produce a very wide screen using extremely thin materials. And because each pixel is lit individually, the image is very bright and looks good from almost every angle. The image quality isn't quite up to the standards of the best cathode ray tube sets, but it certainly meets most people's expectations.

The biggest drawback of this technology has to be the price. With prices starting at $4,000 and going all the way up past $20,000, these sets aren't exactly flying off the shelves. But as prices fall and technology advances, they may start to edge out the old CRT sets. In the near future, setting up a new TV might be as easy as hanging a picture!

PS: On a personal note: How many of you haven't glued the eyes on an TV screen and noticed those red > green > blue >red > green > blue>red > green > blue>red > green > blue lines when you were a child?

Encrypted? What kind of database you use? Anyway, you can use regshot.exe to track the registry entry regarding the ID.

i've never done that thought...

humm.. i think a little more polite manners would help. I'm always ready to contribute with up to 15% of my money to one pirate per clan and system.

But i would do it happier if the pirate instead of ramming his ship on mine and shooting me, halted me, taunted politely and asked for the money.

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Great idea Ruivo, there is a sticky post here named "welcome cometee" i can add you there if you want.

Shure man, thx. That would be very cool

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you could also make it so holders of the symbol have a milatary rank denoted by other symbols

Ya. That's a good idea man, thank you. Instead of just {UAC}Johndoe(M), it could be {UAC}Johndoe(M)>>, or (M) X>> do denote ranks.

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Ruivo, if it's a corporation, how much are wages?

Now that you've said so, there's something similar. We still do not own too much credit, so whenever a new member comes in, i do my best to get him 50 million ASAP. Actually, getting money with my train to fund new members is pretty much everything i do. Now for the roleplay for real wages, well, you can sign up for a job at UAC forum. And with the virtual credit, you can buy almost all sorts of things on the forum, such as glowing names, shadows, larger avatars or banners and etc.

But of course, our operatives can always ask for money to me, no refund required. The other members politics about giving money is pretty much independant, so other members may, or may not ask for that money back later.

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to extend the uses of this department to other players
and freelancers, the main clan could advertise the service and make people aware that it exists
your puplic realations department could help you with this

We have ppl taking care of all the active departments. Tranquil_Dominace is the head of public relations, and he does a very good job. I don't know what i would do without him.

no, it's not my style :), to me this is more than just an game clan, it is an old-school passion. Since 94, when i've first played Doom, and read the story on the manual i carry this love for uac. I print stickers to put on my books, write tales, design all sorts of images and wallpapers. I even created an PalmTop background theme to use on Zlaucher and Ispin. You can call me nerd if you want, or even obssesive, but i like to create it on the most smallest details. To me the idea of "wings" wouldn't fit in the role of an interstellar mega-corporation. And this isn't new, everyone seems to love ficticional, sinister corporations, like OCP in robocop or Weyland-Yutani in the Alien movies. So u see, i think that in this role an subdivision or branch would fit better. But keep talkin, i really enjoy reading opinions and sugestions, this is a subject that i like to talk about

Indeed, the concept still is a little confusing, that's why you don't see any UAC marine online yet, the idea is still on the creation process. Just look at my banner and you'll see, "Energy -DEFENSE- Aerospace Bioresearch". But don't worry about your job, i c that you understood perfectly the general idea. And we're no server clan so... nothing will never be server-official.

The clan can be small, but one thing is for shure, it is my baby, and i'll perish with it if needed

Actually, that is an good idea, yes, if i wanted an militar force to provide security to our traders. In this case, i want to provide an security service for freelancers, and not only mutual protection inside my corporation.

I like to compare the UAC wth the OCP, from Robocop. As you will know if you've watched the movie, OCP was a private corporation that controled Detroit police force. Althought, i have no delusions of controling the standard sirius force, nor i want to do that, i just want to provide assistance to everyone.

For instance, when you have a train, and you're trading on your favorite trade route. Then a pirate stops you and asks for money. Perhaps you would stall him as long as you can and ask for help to another BG member right? But what if you were a freelancer, with no clan mates to ask for help. Who would you call?

Please, don't think we'll do the same job that gunny and the CFPD does, we'll not uphold the law. We will simply do whatever we can to help someone that asks for help, staying inside the law.

wtf?

i don't get the motive of the arguing... somthing i should know?

well.. i can say for that bcuz i study history. Santos Dumont designed, constructed and piloted the world first first true airplane, that could take-off, cruise and land, without crashing, all on his own, in France.

But, i also recognize facts, the Wright brothers WERE the first humans to fly, there's no doubt on that, even though some of my friends disagree with me, saying that noone was there to witness it.

But to claim that the Flyer was an airplane, is a bizarre mystake.

If you think for a moment, you will realize, that there's no matter who of them was the first one, as long as the Wrights flown in America, and Dumont flown in France.. so they didn't actually met. Dumont and the Wrights created each one, their own flying method. But until proven otherwise, Dumont still created the first true airplane.

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one of the greatest inventions of the last century, the airplane, was accomplished by a brazilian...

i didn't quite get the irony of your statement.. if there's any