Recent content by Atrebates

Reducing the Necessity of micromanagement: Fantastic Hiding aspects of the game so that you can't fiddle numbers directly, only nudge them by instructions to a computerised management system (reducing your ability to micromanage): Bad Now, it's not at all clear what the changes are and if they...

I like my women like my chocolate: black and imported from Ghana for my pleasure

Yar it was to paradigmShifter. I did a term or so on evolution from sea to mammals at Uni so I can well believe the liquid business (had a lecturer telling us how hard it was to breathe air compared to water...). T'was a throwaway funny remark.

Yep, Close enough. congrats and the floor is yours ANSWER d(Avail) = -(Reservoir Temp)d(Total Entropy) [dA,dStot denoting derivative elements] Availability is, as stated above, the amount of energy extractable from a system under optimal conditions. More specifically it is the ultimate...

Wouldn't use liquid nitrogen in MY lungs.... a) very cold b) would get the bends so bad I wouldn't be surprised if my knees blew apart like firecrackers Assuming open floor.... QUESTION What is "availability"? Why availability is minimised in equilibrium? Why is availability an apt name for...

Kennedy did very well on the Cuban missile crisis (a hawk would have got us WW3), badly in Vietnam and had some lovely economic ideas that were going to crash and burn so hard they could have passed for an meteorite. However, by the grace of fortune he got himself assassinated and this allowed...

Them's some nasty movement problems... 21 vs 26 in post #83? The problem (in post 83) is somewhat reduced by having an algorithm that can autoroute along the shortest distance. That way players wouldn't have to suffer artificially long journeys from a to b. Annoying visually but doesn't effect...

Bertrand Russell tried to compile a list of mathematical theorems to reduce number theory to a formal system with a few axioms (a la geometry). But Godel f'ked him hard by showing that for any formal axiomatic system, there is always a statement about natural numbers which is true, but which...

EDIT: Never mind - too many questions

Links: http://www.gamernode.com/previews/8948-civilization-v-preview/index.html (This is new and I haven't read it - but tis the new military info bit in the Sticky civV features thread) http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/107/1075587p1.html (Where I remember things from) Basically the non-stacking...

Considerations for vertex cities economic - Are they "balanced" at all times? eg. Not giving a 12/18% bonus for 'missing tiles' when the city doesn't have the labour to work such tiles. military -? general - Does the solution allow exploits and are they reasonable? - Can the solution...

(I'm going to call cities in such situations near the vertices "vertex cities") For a given value of fixed... The twist is that such a system would give an notable advantage to such cities if they had large production bonus luxuries (like gems or gold) in their economic radius - because a 10%...

...the :):):):) is a memresistor? Very intriguing. Wonder what they're useful for... Objects with memory of the past states of the system are very, very odd. I reckon it could allow for some very strange things.

Battery(Voltage source), resistor, capacitor, inductor. They're the fundamentals because ANY circuit/object can be represented by a combination of the above. Including complicated things like op-amps. Lol, typing that out has just made me realise that I no longer remember a THING about...

ANSWER This is a *best guess* solution. I don't know anyone who can answer this satisfactorily. 1) The speed limit of an elastic wave is c, therefore I am unsure that your pull (from outside the balck hole) can ever reach the end of the rope. 2) What is certain is that no signal can pass from...