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Vorpy · Post by **Vorpy** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:42 am

I didn't like Chromus's answers.

He said nonflammable wasn't a word.
He failed to acknowledge that "could care less" came from "couldn't care less" and instead came up with that weird "idioms aren't supposed to make sense" nonsense.
His artificial gravity answer didn't mention simulating gravity with centripetal force.

So there.

Es'n'vee · Post by **Es'n'vee** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 6:48 am

Are there barristers in America?

Notice DT's Avatar. He stole my decent sprites!!! Without asking!!! Is that allowed???

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:35 am

Maybe we need an 'Ask Vorpy' thread.

...I didn't steal them... I borrowed them...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:36 pm

I'm sorry that you don't like the answers to my questions. I don't mind that you post corrections to what you feel is wrong. However, that allows to me make a rebuttal so everyone understands my posts, which follows.

At the time of posting, I checked on dictionary.com and neither unflammable or non-flammable existed in the database. Because of that, I did not consider them real words. I see that nonflammable now exists, which to me now makes it a word.

Actually, if you look, I didn't just come up with nonsense about how idioms aren't supposed to make sense. I specifically said that an idiom is any sentence who's meaning cannot be derived only by looking at the words in the sentence. In fact, if you check the definition on dictionary.com, it's almost identical. That means that "could not care less" is not an idiom, as I can derive it's meaning only from looking at the words, despite what some book of idioms might say.

Windows may have been buggy in the past (especially the 9x series), but the current state of Windows handles memory problems well. In all the time I've ever run my new computer, I've never had a system wide crash. Whenever a program preforms an illegal operation, Windows stops the program and cleans out the memory.

I have to apologize for my answer to the artificial gravity question. I misunderstood and though that I should talk about anti-gravity, not artificial gravity.

Now, according to Google, barristers do exist in the US, though I can't speak for other countries in the Americas. However, I don't believe they are as bound by law as they are in England, where a solicitor defends a case in lower courts and a barrister defends the case in higher courts. I believe that the term is now just an antiquity.

If you feel that Vorpy is a better candidate for answering your questions, or perhaps as an alternate source for answers, then it might be a good idea to create an "Ask Vorpy" thread and abandon the current one.

ayana · Post by **ayana** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:25 pm

I'll stick with chromus' answers. Now. What's the difference between an Alto and a Soprano? ^_^ I think I know, but I'm not sure...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 1:03 am

A soprano is the lowest singing voice a woman can have. An alto is the highest singing voice a woman can have.

Phred · Post by **Phred** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:36 am

to tell the truth, inflamable comes from french, most propane or other flamable stuff carying trucks have flammable and inflammable written on it, well, the ones ive seen anyways...
how do you record a movie in 3-D? and whats the diffrence between those red/blue glasses and those realativley clear glasses you use to watch an imax

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:27 pm

So far, recording a movie in 3D is done in the same way, no matter what: two different cameras capture the film at a distance apart from each other equal to the distance between our eyes. The differences between the various types of 3D recording involve how the images are differentiated. In IMAX, the two images are recorded using different polarities of light. The clear glasses you get to watch IMAX movies actually block a different polarity of light for each lense, allowing each eye to see a different polarity of light, therefore each eye sees a different picture, which simulates 3D. The red-blue lenses are used to differentiate between a recording in which one picture is recorded primarily red, while the other picture is recorded primarily blue. This method generally isn't used for movies since it requires a grayscale picture, where the gray is changed to red for one eye and blue for the other. The IMAX method, however, is usually able to capture the entire color spectrum. Source: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/imax/imax3d.asp

ayana · Post by **ayana** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 10:48 am

Is there any other way I can get my brother to stop being so annoying without beating the crap out of him?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:47 pm

I don't know of anything that works on all brothers, but what works on mine is to give him his own computer and a dedicated internet connection. All of a sudden, all contact with the real world slows to a crawl while he spends the majority of his life in his room on his computer, not annoying me.

Seriously, this sounds like an Ask Pez question.

ayana · Post by **ayana** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:34 pm

Gotcha!

Kamui · Post by **Kamui** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:27 am

Here's a question... Why is the internet called the internet? Internet is supposedly a term for "Internal Network"... What exactly is it supposed to be inside of? :P

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:39 am

That would be more of an Al Gore question since he invented the internet...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:59 pm

Actually, internet doesn't mean "internal network". The prefix "inter" means "between", and this makes sense as the internet is a network between computers. The prefix you're thinking of is "intra", meaning "within". An intranet is a network within a company or home.

ayana · Post by **ayana** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 12:34 am

Why does my skin squeak on glass?