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DnD Central / Re: Palaeogeology and History of The Solar System
Here's the first part of a well updated "history of Earth", if you don't mind: [video]http://youtu.be/M4pt0fFn_a4[/video].
Geologists and such guys measure the timescale of the Earth's and even Universe's history in some standard units - based on years, years as we have them now. Then come - days? Yeah, there are "standard days", but we remember that the length of a day has always been changing - since the beginning of Earth's rotation -- right? Now what about a year?
Was the early Earth's orbit stable in yonder days? Interesting, huh?:)
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DnD Central / Palaeogeology and History of The Solar System
Well... No Creationism, if you don't mind.
In the Beginning, there was a Big Bang - or whatever.
Blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, one shiny morning a star emerged in one of the prongs of the galaxy that not even then conceived humans would much-much later call the Milky Way.
And here our Story begins...
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Phones! phones! phones!
Well, let's talk about all that "smart typing" stuff?
I have a decent T9 on my Sagem -- both languages I use, and it allows for adding new words.
On my Fly it's been pretty simple, but not dull. On my PANTECH - well, I don't use it much, though I can say that the modes tinkering adds a bit of complexity to typing there.
The dullest thing I have on my Philips. Not mentioning the plough-through mode switching, its "smart-typing" thing doesn't feel very "user-friendly" (how to "select" words and how to add punct. in that "smart" mode), and its vocabulary was written by I don't know whom and I don't know if that person was high or what: half the words I deem basic are not there at all (no custom voc.) - moreover, it does even not "know" any word forms at all! Well, I have, say, "crowd", then no "crowds", no "crowded", nothing; I have "go", but there's no "going" -- such stuff I have to add manually. So the mode very soon gets pissing me off. Apart from that, gradually typing gets more and more "thinking about something else" (in any mode) - the more I've filled in the slower it responds to 'irritants'.
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Forum Administration / The forum Language
I've left the possibility to change your vote, also you have up to 3 options to pick: things are complicated.
Quote from: some rules by jax link=topic=204.msg18549#msg18549 date=1398496273
Post in English but remain tolerant to those who are not well-versed in that language and make errors, remembering that this forum welcomes global participation.
"...this forum welcomes global participation." Exactly.
Well, if it were a British forum - or American forum - I'd have left you those guys alone, or, being their guest, just ignored illiterate posts or something. Otherwise, here we have - what did you call it? "global participation"? Exactly.
While we're global, there are people whose mother tongue is not English. Some of them have learnt it on a good level, and such guys could presumably not worry about themselves. But.
I myself worry about other people. And they are not British.
The latter could even use SMS English - among themselves. However, we have that so-called 'global participation', right?

I'll tell you about myself.
When I first came to the Net and tried to employ my "English" (which was poor enough), one of the few, and the main purpose of using English online was to improve it...
And I suppose that there are other such guys here and now.
If even they aren't very eager to learn English as such, they might still consider it a very useful tool -- for any sorts of global participation.
And while we assume such global participation here, the place is not the Globe yet.
Global participation means this place, and other places on the Web, and all other place on and beyond the Web (i.e. offline use).

I'm aware that this place is not an educational site. However, if you look at our membership, it'll become obvious to you that English natives do not outnumber other people at all. And in case you're not concerned with what these people see and what they 'learn' - I am.
I'm not correcting them. I'm trying to help. Jax, don't be selfish resting on your good-level English. Share it! I will.
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DnD Central / Re: Infrastructure
Quote from: Frenzie on
The population growth rate around these parts has been less than 1% since the 1970s and is projected to go negative within a decade or two for the simple reason that most of the population is older than me.
The planet is gonna stay the same size, and you're not the only people on it. Others could get left with no other choice than come to you.:devil:

Quote from: Frenzie on
Russia has a birth rate of 1.5 children per woman — lower than here.
What about per man?
:rolleyes:
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DnD Central / Re: Flipped Logic - Lobotomy
I've heard genius may correlate with schizophrenia, though.
I have a hypothesis. The mind's overall capacity is somewhat more or less the same throughout the humans - in terms of "CPU" of sorts. Also memory cells in use or such stuff.
But the use may differ. Within most of people, their "unified" capacity is used for, say, practical needs; but always, in any set of similar but complex things there are plains, there are peaks, margins - such usual stuff, if you remember statistics.
So, it goes that there's a "main sequence" (with various and ubiquitous minor fluctuations), and there are deviations. The latter can be seen as for good, indifferent or for the bad.
Thus, the "common people" more or less use their "same volume" capacity for those practical needs - as they're able to.
The deviants are those guys whose abilities are shifted - as if their Central Processor can't handle all of it with the same power. So they can do something that the average guys cannot and at the same time cannot do what the common guys can do easily.
So, if you have a talent - then maybe you lack something that "common guys" believe to be "granted". And they usually can not understand a genius -- not their "relativities" - they can't understand why in the f..'s sake "that wise guy can't do such simple things!".
Quote from: a Russian vulgar saying
Если ты такой умный - почему ты такой бедный?