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    Retech, you are aware that the smilies from the board style you use are unavailable for the rest of us, causing them to 404, right?
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    Ship design has been decided: For the record, this is the total of our rooms, same scale as the picture of the whole ship: Now, Arch, are field boosters something that is plausible? Amplifiers and extra relays to enhance shields and cloak.
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    I've learned more Japanese from watching anime than I would have by studying it for the same amount of time. Alternatively, you had fun. Which is counteracted by the fact that if he ever foists his Wapanese onto anyone he'll be shot. Oh believe me, few things annoy me more than the [bleep]tards who use words such as desu and kawaii. My use of Japanese in daily life is limited to muttering "harahetta" to myself when I'm hungry. Anyways, if enough people are sufficiently annoyed at the moment, let's use the situation to move to http://faladortavern.forumotion.org
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    I've learned more Japanese from watching anime than I would have by studying it for the same amount of time.
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    Easy fix; shrink the Tavern sig by 19 pixels in the y dimension, stack them on top of eachother. EDIT: Done.
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    Would you please add anime-planet.com? They offer dynamic signatures, which would make for quite a hassle to reupload.
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    If that was true, then how the hell could we use Op-Amps? They work by having pretty much half the pins connected to the same wire. Also I know I had more than one output connected to the same input in several of the circuits I made with BASIC stamps, hell I even know I did that with some logic gate to makeshift a set/reset, don't remember which logic gate that was though, other than that it wasn't a NOT gate of course, cause that would have taken more than one chip.
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    Are you trying to say that ICs don't work or that using multiple gates is the same as using one gate several times as hard? I can't quite tell, but it doesn't make sense either way.
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    That drain is nowhere near a perfect conductor, so the ground will stay at 5 volts less than the VCC. If it were a perfect conductor, what would happen is that the power supply would run dry, or the entire circuit would slowly overheat and fry itself. Whether you use a battery or a DC power supply, what it generates is not universal voltage, but voltage differential, so even if the voltage in the GND rises compared to an actual ground, the voltage for VCC will rise correspondingly.
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    3) The components each restore the signal to 5v, because that's why they have a VCC. Just tell me, how else would a NOT gate convert a 0 signal to a 1? Draw power from thin air?
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    NOT1+NOT2=NAND NOT1+NOT2->NOT=AND (NOT1->NOT)+(NOT2->NOT)=OR (NOT1->NOT)+(NOT2->NOT)->NOT=NOR ((NOT1->NOT)+(NOT2->NOT)->NOT)+(NOT1+NOT2->NOT)=XOR ((NOT1->NOT)+(NOT2->NOT)->NOT)+(NOT1+NOT2->NOT)->NOT=XNOR For the record; + means two outputs go to the same input, -> means the following is the input, parentheses mean the same thing as they do in math. To simplify XOR, that's OR+NAND and XNOR is OR+NAND->NOT.
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    Have you ever worked with logic ICs? Because they pretty much work that way, by just connecting the out and in pins with 5 or 12 volt signals depending on the type of IC (and of course VCC and GND). There are no languages that use the circuits themselves, unless you count adding logic ICs to circuits that include a BASIC stamp, but most use the functions, just with ! instead of the NOT prefix. You actually remember it an hour later.
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    It teaches you how to use logic circuits; how the different gates work and how to apply them in order to get them to do what you want. Logic circuits are among other things used in automation an electronics, and the principle is used in programming. And the video was just me showing how to make a NOT gate, which is essentially the complex circuit equivalent of a single bit compared to a file.
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    Here's how you make a NOT-gate, it's a wonder you haven't discovered it yourself: I also added another thing the repeater can do. To make other gates or entire CPUs, just put a bunch of NOT-gates together.
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    Doesn't need to. To put it like this; anyone could see how one could use that principle to make something which requires two levers to activate. Then you expand on that and add one that stops it from activating, regardless of the other two. Expand on that and you've got something that does one thing with one combination and something else with another. Scale that up and you've got something like a binary to 7-segment converter. Add those principles together and you've got a simple math engine, add some latches (RAM) and you've got a calculator, scale that up a few hundred times and you've got a computer.As long as you understand the fundamental principle, you require no further knowledge, just planning and patience.
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    All you need to know is that if you apply power to a redstone torch either by having a redstone wire leading to it from the block it's attached to or by powering that block, it will turn off, this takes one "tick" (aka. game engine time unit) to happen. With that simple NOT-gate, you have all you need to make a computer. This is all someone needs to learn before experimenting leads them to combine NOT-gates into OR, NOR, AND, NAND and XOR gates, or even FLIP-FLOPS and latches. Wait a few more hours and they'll be making the equivalent of ICs.
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    You forgot about creative. Playing with redstone there is as easy as reading about it, but you will actually remember it half an hour later. Also COD may be the most played videogame, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a simplified piece of shit that targets people with half the intelligence of most actual gamers. COD targets your regular joe douchebag who got a computer they barely know how to use from their parents and plays it because it's got guns, explosions and blood. Most other computer games target an audience which actually knows their shit, and has themes and lessons accordingly.
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    You can't compare COD to anything. Using COD as an example of a video game is like using a pop-up childrens' story as an example of a book. And Minecraft: You make bread using wheat. Cooling lava causes obsidian to form. You smelt sand to make glass. Sugar is extracted from sugar cane. You can make fire using flint and a metal. Sandstone is compacted sand. You can make charcoal from wood. How logic circuits work. You want an example of a game with even more? How about RuneScape? If you pay attention, it'll even teach you how to make Greek fire.
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    Dude, I'm an ex-bookworm. I don't think reading is a waste of time, I've simply gotten tired of paper and ink. I read way more texts online than the next guy, I just said that gaming has its undeniable merits.
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    At least games improve hand-eye coordination, situation assessment skill and reaction time.
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    No-sleeve November is a defeat. I nearly lost my fingers a moment ago. I could literally feel ice crystals starting to form in my skin. According to a friend of mine who comes from even further north, it was an effective -22°C, so I feel like the decision to quit is fairly reasonable.
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    That sort of mishap wouldn't be too hard to belay in the future. Then I'll go ahead and promote Earth to chief of military operations. This means that unless I say otherwise, Earth is in charge of retaliation and defense. Also if we mount an attack and I neither choose a mission leader or take the position myself, Earth is chosen by default.
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    Going by what I've been told was the cause of that fire, you can't really blame Earth for it.
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    I think I'm safe seeing as this town is just a km long and a few hundred meters wide and the only thing outside it worth going to is the rocket field, which I'm at 3 times a week with school anyways. I'd have to be carrying my own weight or running to get tired, no matter where I was going here. EDIT2: Damnit, wrong thread.
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