1 month ago
kbabslive would like to introduce our newest writer, tamarasaurus. A fellow free thinker, Linux owner, and Mac hater. She is indeed one of us. Welcome to the team!
So, I see you've found your way to safer waters.
Anyway, you may be wondering what the heck was that all about. Well, previously I was selling a SDA Voucher Booklet on eBay, minding my merry old business, when suddenly:
Click the image to read it.
Oh no! I totally forgot about those terms and conditions. You know, those ones that prohibit you from doing whatever the hell you want with things that you purchased.
Nonetheless, I decided to be a Good Citizen and take down the listing.
Which now left me with a booklet that I would never use, that I could not sell and probably could not even eat.
(In other words, a waste of good resources that could be better utilized by somebody else.)
So after much thought, I decided to be generous and give it away with some other items I just happened to be selling.
That way, those vouchers can be put to much more use, aye?
(In case eBay decides to take down the original, the details on the FREE SDA voucher booklet can be found here!)
Nonetheless, I decided to be a Good Citizen and take down the listing.
Which now left me with a booklet that I would never use, that I could not sell and probably could not even eat.
(In other words, a waste of good resources that could be better utilized by somebody else.)
So after much thought, I decided to be generous and give it away with some other items I just happened to be selling.
That way, those vouchers can be put to much more use, aye?
(In case eBay decides to take down the original, the details on the FREE SDA voucher booklet can be found here!)
Sylverin says...
Once again, it's that quadrennial time when all the world's professional athletes come together and compete against each other to see who is the best. And with them comes the media attention, the fantastic display of sporting perfection, a unification of the nations of the world as we celebrate our athletes success.
Sadly though, there is always one in every bunch. You know who I mean. The one's who would rather lie to themselves and their countries by taking some kind of illegal performance enhancing drug to win gold. It reeks of desperation. It proves to themselves that they have taken the cowardly path to glory. When they stand beside their competitors on the winners podium, I do hope they feel guilty. Guilty and the burning sensation of my mental knife sticking out of their ribs. Thankfully, there are so few of them at each Olympics, otherwise I would have stopped watching long ago.
Speaking of watching the games themselves, I am mildly disappointed with the coverage. There are only so many times I can watch the same repetitive photo reels with supposedly popular music that Channel Seven delights in putting up. While it is good and all to do so at the beginning and end of their coverage segments, they are really testing mine and everyone else' patience when they cut from an event that is good to watch to one of these bullet-timed displays between three and four events.
*Sigh*
On a more positive note, I am inspired by the amount of effort and time that the majority of Olympic athletes devote to achieving that level of sporting competency. One must remember, a good deal of them have spent their whole lives building up to this crowning moment. Consider if each and every one of us put in that amount of effort towards anything we did.
"The Olympic Games epitomise humanity at it's physical, mental and spiritual peak." - Sylverin
Finally, congratulations to all athletes, Australian or otherwise. You make us all proud to be called humans.
Sylverin
Anyone who has played Call Of Duty 4 (and who hasn't?) will most likely remember a string of warnings uttered by a Captain McMillan regarding a big, big sniper and a bald, aggro target:
"Remember, take into account variable humidity and wind speed along the bullets flight path. At this distance, you also have to take the Coriolis effect into account."
Wait, what now?
Yeah. That is a very strange bit of physics theory wedged into a videogame. My curiosity piqued, so I got about researching it and came back with this:
"The Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference." - Wikipedia
In other words, it is basically what happens when you view something from a rotating object eg. if you were on a merry-go-around and someone not on the thing chucked a ball in a straight line, it would not appear to go in a straight line... for you.
If you actually want an understanding of it, go look on the Wiki. But be warned.
To be honest, there are only two reasons why I decided to post about this. One is that the coriolis effect would have a negligible effect on the trajectory of a bullet, even if it was shot at a distance of 1KM, which is a slightly disappointing bit of BS contained in a great game.
The second, real reason was for all these awesome pictures on the Wiki article for Coriolis effect!
It's like... an arrow freak-out frat party or something.
alacarte
(Relax, they're wiki pics. They're all A-OK!)
"Remember, take into account variable humidity and wind speed along the bullets flight path. At this distance, you also have to take the Coriolis effect into account."
Wait, what now?
Yeah. That is a very strange bit of physics theory wedged into a videogame. My curiosity piqued, so I got about researching it and came back with this:
"The Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference." - Wikipedia
In other words, it is basically what happens when you view something from a rotating object eg. if you were on a merry-go-around and someone not on the thing chucked a ball in a straight line, it would not appear to go in a straight line... for you.
If you actually want an understanding of it, go look on the Wiki. But be warned.
To be honest, there are only two reasons why I decided to post about this. One is that the coriolis effect would have a negligible effect on the trajectory of a bullet, even if it was shot at a distance of 1KM, which is a slightly disappointing bit of BS contained in a great game.
The second, real reason was for all these awesome pictures on the Wiki article for Coriolis effect!
It's like... an arrow freak-out frat party or something.alacarte
(Relax, they're wiki pics. They're all A-OK!)