Sanscrit is considered a dead language, as no country actively teaches it.
Umm... Sanskrit is a dead language because there are no native speakers. That doesn't mean people don't teach it. Or that it's not useful.
Aren't there still a few thousand native Sanskrit speakers? It might well be that there are no new ones born anymore (i.e., no child is born in a family anymore that actually still speaks Sanskrit), but I think I recall that the language is not officially "dead" yet with no native speakers being left at all.
Sadly, it is. Too hard to be popular, especially for a non-european (especially for a non-east-european!). However, I was quite surprised when you said you studied it at school. Was that in Germany?
Yup, and not even in former East Germany, either. ^_~ Of course, it's still not all that common for schools to offer Russian courses, but many (grammar schools, at least) will offer a fourth language (besides English, French and Latin), and Russian is not an altogether uncommon choice there, either. Greek and Spanish are also popular, I think (although I obviously can't speak from experience, as my school only offered Russian).
I can only think of one movie teaser that was better than the actual movi it self! :D
"Ice Age" would be another example. The trailer (with the squirrel and his nut) was cute, but the actual movie was so bad I walked out in the middle when I saw it in cinema.
And that's pretty unusual since Russian is extremely unpopular, well, almost everywhere on the planet. :) But if you want an advice, feel free to ask (as I'm fairly familiar with all the cultural context that influenced the language for the last 10—15 years).
Is it? I learned Russian in school for two years (but forgot pretty much all of it again later on).
Gangi þér vel, það er alltaf gaman að vita að það sé til fólk sem er nógu brjálað til að læra þetta stundum óþarflega snúna tungumál. Ekki myndi ég nenna því. :)
Good luck, it is fun to know that there are people crazy enough to learn this sometimes unneccesarily twisted/complex language. I would not (have the motivation to do?) it.
Heh, thanks. ^_^ I feel the same way about German, incidentally - if I hadn't grown up with it, I certainly wouldn't want to learn it. Not that it's not a nice language, but.. well. ^_^
Icelandic, on the other hand, is lots of fun so far. :)
Faorese (færeyska) is a bit like Icelandic on psychotropic drugs, so I'm sure you'll have lots of fun with that...
*noddles* I'm sure I will. :) But it's just a crazy idea for now - I wouldn't actually know where to turn to to learn it.
That's cool - I've just started an Icelandic course myself last fall. :) It's only one unit (2,5 hours) every other week, so I don't know much yet, but I'm determined to learn more. ^_^
Outside of that, I already speak German and English; I learnt French and Russian in school as well, but forgot pretty much all of that again. Oh yeah, and Latin, but that's not typically a language you actually *speak*, so I'm not including that. :)
I also want to learn other languages (most notably Swedish and Finnish, maybe also Faroese) in the future, but for now, I'll focus on Icelandic.
Looks great!
You know...maybe this should be standard procedure now...
Google video is free and awsome.
But unfortunately, Google Video is not available everywhere. I, at least, always get this:
Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.
Archive.org is much better. (And for that matter, who can't use BitTorrent, anyway?)
There you go. Fixed. Almost anyone with a few years of advanced programing will be able to break any encryption, given a little bit of time and energy. The safest method of encryption is when the sender and receiver use two different decryption methods that only their respective sides know.
The safest method of encryption (and in fact pretty the only one that's provably safe, at least if implemented correctly) is the one-time pad. Of course, given that you have to have a truly random key of the same size as the message you want to send that cannot be reused, it's not typically useful - but it does have its applications, for example if you know that you will have to communicate with someone else in a safe way in the future.
Other safe methods of encryption probably exist, but it's easy to prove that in order to be safe, the amount of possible keys has to be equal to or larger than the amount of possible messages (which typically means that keys have to be at least as long as messages), so there's no advantage to be gained over a one-time pad.
All methods of encryption that don't satisfy this requirement (in particular, all methods that we actually use) are unsafe - at least theoretically. Whether they can be broken in practice is another matter, of course, but one shouldn't underestimate advances in theory for that - the usual quotes along the lines of "it would take millions of years to break this even if you used all the computers in the world in parallel" only make sense if you assume that noone's gonna come up with new tricks in the future. ^_~
But they're pretty much the best we have, so if you (the original poster) want good encryption, you should probably use GPG or something similar.
And I would prefer a player behind this run, that have discovered many of the tricks or that has proved his skills. Not someone who watched all possible videos and tries to do the same "pixel perfect". Not any offence FODA, just my opinion.
Hey, anyone's free to submit their own (TAS) runs. If an experienced non-TAS player wants to do so, then by all means, tell them to do so. But if they don't want to, or if they lack the patience to come up with a run that matches or even exceeds FODA's, quality-wise, then... well, tough luck for them (or you, for that matter).
On a marginally related side note, why do people say things like "no offense", anyway? If you consider what you say to be offensive, but don't want to be offensive, then don't say it (or say it in a different way) - slapping a "no offense meant" on it won't magically change it.
And I really do think that what you wrote is offensive, too, no matter how much you try to qualify it. You're still doing the same thing that you did in your last post; it's clear from what FODA's posted so far that he the final run *will* be good, so you can't rag on him for that, and so you instead resort to saying that he shouldn't do it for other reasons, such as not having "proved his skill" or similar nonsense.
What's the problem, exactly? Are you unhappy that someone's doing a TAS run of this game that none of the non-TAS runners you seem to admire so much will be able to beat? If that's it, here's a hint: TAS runs and non-TAS runs are completely different things. Do you complain to Michael Schumacher that what he's doing is unfair to sprinters like Carl Lewis, and that he shouldn't use a car because he's not a sprinter himself? Of course not - formula 1 and sprinting are entirely different, and the fact that the goal is "complete a certain track in as little time as possible" in both cases is irrelevant. Formula 1 racing is quite literally tool-assisted, while regular sprinting is not, and that makes it fundamentally impossible to compare them.
The same is true here. So please, get over the fact that people are interested in TAS runs. Nobody here is complaining that the regular speedrunners are ruining the games with their imperfection, either.
i would kind of have to agree with what he's saying, though. i know that with frame advance, there's really no excuse for error, but this is more on the micro level. when it comes to huge games such mario 64, i believe that well seasoned and knowledgeable players may have that macro-edge for some things that a taser won't see. of course, there's really no point in even mentioning that, but i think it's certainly a good thing for veteran players of a game to point out things and contribute to the tas.
Seasoned players who want to point out things and contribute are more than welcome. It's just seasoned (?) players who only complain about the young whippersnappers thinking they know something about the game when in fact they are the only ones who do that aren't. =)
Being able to push a diagonal 100% down and 100% to the left will surely make swimming faster, but we must decide now if it should be allowed or not, because this is like the left+right thing. I don't know exactly the range of the n64 controller, so i'm using what my gamepad (playstation, from USB port) and mupen64 allows me.
I think it should be allowed - the fact that an unmodified standard controller on a real console could not be used to do this doesn't seem enough to justify ruling it out. On a real console, you could modify the controller or use a non-standard one that allows you to do this (assuming that one exists), too.
There's nothing wrong with exploiting game bugs or console bugs - it's just emulator bugs that are a no-no. :)
Huh? How is commenting on a movie published on this site 'thread necromancy'?
He was probably referring to the fact that the thread for this movie had been dormant for a year and that the new comment that LAOS made didn't add anything useful (in his eyes, anyway) to it when it bumped the thread again.
but "it's entertaining" [is] not [a] reason to give a movie a star.
That's the only reason a movie should get a star. Donkey Kong is more than likely frame perfect, it does not have a star because it's not entertaining.
That's because the game as such is not entertaining - and besides, the Donkey Kong movie is actually one of *my* most favourite movies on the site, so it's not as if noone likes it. :) One man's owl is another man's nightingale, as they say in these parts where I live. :)
Stars are for movies that are exceptional even for this site, where all movies should be exceptional compared to "regular" play - or at least that's my opinion.
And again, I don't want to say that this particular movie doesn't deserve one; I just want to point out that if you wanted to give every entertaining movie a star, you'd have to give one to pretty much every single movie that's been published here.
