File database helpers thread

[Plotinus]

Good stuff. Don't worry, I don't want to check up on it all, but I thought I'd better mention it as it would be a bit discourteous to transfer someone's files without letting them know.

 

[Bluemofia]

Yaniv has his PMs off. So I can't PM him.

Hehe... Finally overtaken Aaglo.

EDIT: done with Warmaster, Yecos, and Yaniv.

 

[MarineCorps]

You did me? But I did me already!

I had no idea you were still around. Oh well no big deal I can delete it.

 

[Luddi VII]

I've done Adler17, Akula and almost Aluminium. Will do some more, too.

 

[MarineCorps]

I've done Adler17, Akula and almost Aluminium. Will do some more, too.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Luddi VII]

I'm now done with Aluminium and Andrew510.

EDIT: Also done with:

• BAP
• BoneDoc
• clearbeard
• crist2000
• dog
• Colonel Kraken
• Doncov
• Doragon
• Dragon King

 

[mrtn]

I've uploaded myself.

Yes, that means I'm completely digital now, a true internet robot drone.

 

[aaglo]

You're like the lawnmower man

 

[MarineCorps]

I'm now done with Aluminium and Andrew510.

EDIT: Also done with:

• BAP
• BoneDoc
• clearbeard
• crist2000
• dog
• Colonel Kraken
• Doncov
• Doragon
• Dragon King

Thanks. Thats a lot of people

 

[MarineCorps]

You're like the lawnmower man

Oddly named movie.....

 

[Supa]

I'm adding my stuff myself

 

[aaglo]

If you've seen the film, you'd understand

It was about a bit ******** guy who mowed the lawns of people - and a guy was developing a computer-game do increase intelligence, and this lawnmower-guy became his guinea-pig (strangely named animal, since they are not from guinea, nor they are pigs). Eventually that guy uploaded himself to become completely digital... or something like that.

 

[Supa]

Luddi VII, I don't see why you've uploaded the DC-10 (a modern plane) on the "Other units" category. Looks pretty much "Modern Units" to me.

 

[Luddi VII]

Luddi VII, I don't see why you've uploaded the DC-10 (a modern plane) on the "Other units" category. Looks pretty much "Modern Units" to me.

I was a bit unsure, but I can always change it.

@MarineCorps
I'm now done with Ares de Borg.

 

[mrtn]

... guinea-pig (strangely named animal, since they are not from guinea, nor they are pigs). ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig#Name

Spoiler :

The animal's name carries connotations of it being a pig in many languages other than English; the German word for them is Meerschweinchen, literally "little sea pigs" (sailing ships stopping to reprovision in the New World would pick up stores of guinea pigs, which provided an easily transportable source of fresh meat), the Russian and Polish word for them (morskaya svinka (Морская свинк&#1072 and świnka morska respectively) is similar in meaning. The Welsh term is mochyn cwta ('little pig'), the French Cochon d'Inde (Indian pig); the Dutch used to call it guinees biggetje (Guinean piglet), and in Scandinavia they are called marsvin (a combination of the Latin word mare for ocean, and Norwegian/Swedish/Danish svin which means pig). In Greek they are called indika xoiridia (ινδικά χοιρίδια, Small Indian Pigs), and in Portuguese porquinho da Índia ("little pig of India"). In Italian the term is either Porcellino d'India (Little Indian Pig) or Cavia Peruviana (Peruvian Cavy). This is not universal; for example, the common Spanish word is conejillo de Indias (Indian bunny rabbit / Indies bunny).

The scientific name of a common species is Cavia porcellus, with porcellus being Latin for "little pig".

The origin of "guinea" in "guinea pig" is even harder to explain. According to the etymology of the entry for "guinea pig" in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the term guinea pig is "Perhaps [an] alteration (influenced by Guinea, used as a name for any faraway unknown country), of Guiana".[2] One theory is that the animals were brought to Europe by way of Guinea, leading people to think they had originated there. Another theory suggests that "Guinea" in the case of the guinea pig is a corruption of "Guiana", an area in South America. A common misconception is that they were so named because they were sold as the closest thing to a pig one could get for a guinea (an old British coin with a value of 21 shillings, or 1.05 GBP in modern decimal currency). However, evidence does not support this conjecture: for example, the Dutch name refers to the country of Guinea rather than the British coin, and the first guinea pig was described in 1554 by the Swiss naturalist Konrad Gesner more than a hundred years before the first guinea was struck.

BTW, it appears that Guinea Pigs can get scurvy. Aargh!

 

[Stormrage]

The wikipedia article doesn`t explain anything! Its still weird! We call it the "Little sea pigs" here too, but only officialy, they have another common name "Zamorac" which doesn`t really mean anything, except it has a familiar sound with the word "more" - sea. Cute little buggers

I wonder why they didn`t call them scury dogs then

Sorry for the OT

 

[aaglo]

Marsvin in swedish? We call it marsu. There's not a trace of pigs in there

 

[Bluemofia]

Ok, after having nice enough of a break, I've decided to do TheMorpheus's units.

 

[MarineCorps]

Only 87 more unit makers to go!

 

[Ansar]

I'll try to get maybe 10-20 leaderheads done tonight. I've just been having tough time management and now I'm paying for it.