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Unfortunately Swellick has given up his job as a WFG Moderator due to personal reasons. We'd like to thank him big time for the vast effort he put into our community. Good luck with whatever you do in the future Swellick !

Well, some aren't in place, for example the dancing one and the rocking one.

Heya Cat, old house.

Thing is that reputation is what people give out if a certain someone helped them a lot. That means reputation shows quality of a person. Currency shows both quality of a person and activity. Whilst you can get extra currency by donations, you can up it my regular posting. Also, currency will be used for Premum Website COntent. You may ask now, why not just use Reputation for that ? Well, somebody can have a thousand posts, good posts, but never really received reputation for an unknown reason. That'd mean s/he contributed a lot to the community, but can't access the Premium COntent, which is made for people who contributed a lot. You see, we want to autom. grant good people gifts and give other community users less power regarding that. Hope this answers your question.

Gotta have a look at gamedev.net. What's the largest community you have ever come across (as in forum members/posts) ? Here it webhostingtalk.com

Source: Chip.ro The article below has previously appeared only in Romanian but we took the time of translating it for you all. It's about a new technology in progress which would lead to a revolution in media recording as we know it. Here is the full article, as well as the interview with the inventor: Present times offer us optical media with capacities varying from hundreds of MB to tens of GB, and hard-drives got well-beyond 100 Gb in capacity. But the media called Hyper CD-ROM canaccomodate up to 10 TB (terabytes) of data, this means no less than 10,000 GB! The disc itself has a diameter equal to that of a regular CD-ROM and a width of 10 mm; this last value isn't a regular one for optical media, but that is the secret: the information recording can be done over all the three dimensions, by using what is scientifically called volumetric data burning. The "classic" burners use only two media dimensions for recording the information and the DVDs can contain two information surfaces on the same side. The new HyperCD has no less that 10,000 information layers (mentioning that these layers are in fact in-depth planar surfaces of the disc) and every one of them can store about 1 GB of data. The layer is made out of a fluorescent substance, which by itself has the property of emitting, in the presence of an optical ray, another optical ray but of another wavelength. This substance is distributed within the physical support, which is in fact a vitro-ceramic material with very high mechano-thermal resistance, in order to offer a great data reliability: data can be safely kept for a period of several millenia, and high tolerance (this disc can even be sank in melted crude-iron without damaging the data, according to inventor's statements). Constructively speaking, the reading/writing unit is twice higher than an ordinary one, because the technique for using these multilayer discs requires an optical block much more complex then in case of a regular CD/DVD. this supplementar optical device consist of a co-focalizer (some kind of a microscope), which concentrates the laser ray emmited by a laser device to a certain depth within the disc, this way being added the third coordinate dimension, not mentioning the classic track/sector point. The second function of the co-focal microscope consist in filtering the optical information so only the information coming from the desired depth could be sent to the reading device. In the focus point, due to the exitation of the fluorescent substance, a powerful enough optical emmision can be provided, so that it can be used for reading the data after reversely passing through the co-focal microscope. Producing a different wavelength is essential so that filtering possible ray reflections would not interfere with the optical data-carrier (the needed optical ray itself). The reading device is basically a photographic cell which is activated by the light intensity, no matter its wavelength. This simplified device requires previous color separation, which is done by using a di-chromatic mirror. This is in fact a piece of filtering glass which permits passing an optical ray with a wavelength of 532 nm (nanometers) and possible ray reflections but redirects fluorescent radiaton (with a wavelength of 610 nm) to the reading device. The co-focal microscope is situated between the mirror and the disc, in order to guide the laser ray and selecting the desired layer depth. The disc rotation mechanism and the head-positioning motor are built the same as those of a traditional CD unit. Here's the translated interview with professor Eugen Pavel, the inventor of the HyperCD: We've discussed with Mr. Eugen Pavel about several aspects concerning this invention and its current developing stage. Chip: Infos about the HyperCD technology appeared first in 2000. What stage is the project currently in? E.P.: The theorethical part was finalized in 1998, but the general study covers all my activity in time. I've built the experimental prototype which was first presented in 1999 at the EUREKA Expo in Bruxelles, among other such expositions. The commercial prototype, with full functionality and prepared for mass production is very close to being finalized. Chip: What does this invention mean and how much of it has been conceived in Romania? E.P.: The research for this project is 100% personal, so is the support for experiments. this invention is pure Romanian and has been internationally accepted through legalizing over 40 patents and inventor's brevets, covering all domains, from the substances included in the disc creation, to the device itself. Chip: In the general specifications, which can be found at http://www.dntb.ro/users/frdbuc/hyper-cdrom we've learned that the transfer speed is of about 3 MB per second. In these conditions, reading an entire disc could take tens of days. E.P.: This speed is obtained in laborator conditions, and will be increased for commercial products. The disc's spinning speed can be greatly increased way beyond the actual CD spinning speeds, because of its composition. Its mechanical properties are way superior to those of the actual CD materials. Beyond that, its capacity can be increased 100 times theoretically, reaching a limit of 1 Petabyte (1000 Terabytes). Chip: Are there any contracts with a producer for mass-producing such discs? E.P.: I have had discussions with several companies, but I'd rather not specify names, because discussions are not final yet. Chip: Can you provide a sum as a possible price for end-user technology? E.P.: The HyperCD unit would cost around $ 1000, and a 10,000 Gb disc would reach about $ 300. There will be a "light" version of the disc, with a width of 1.2 mm which will cost $ 30 and would store about 200 GB of data. Chip: How long would it take for the HyperCD Unit to be largely available on the stores' shelves? E.P.: One year, at most! Chip: We cannot be other than happy of such news. Thank you! One word: Wow !

He Aldaron, nice to see you here. Have a look at my sig.

In this thread you can ask for free webdesign. The first 3 entries will benefit from the offer, the others will be dropped (sorry, don't have enough time to do more than three). You should have a host already and everything should be running. You will receive a design template, which you can build upon. Just leave some small pieces of information here on the type of website, its goals, its future content and preferred colors.

Hi, Spiiietz (lol). Nice to see you around here. We'll do our best to make your stay here the nicest it can be.

So you are into Webdesign ? Cool !

We are discussing this within the Community as well currently. What would you prefer ?

On my way.. Okay, done.

Yeah, forgot to mention Cataphracts. They are really the strongest cavalry unit in AoK.

I vote for Intrepid's, though I have known it for months if not years now.

My greatest Zenith was with AoE2 The Conquerors, one on one with my AI. I modified it so that it will pick the strategy randomly and here goes. As it was Arabia, 1v1 I expect that him (Huns) will go for a castle-rush versus me (huns) as I know on these settings crush gets picked 80%. So I went for an early castle-age defense. As I just hit the castle-age button, men-at-arms supported by skirmishers and archer occured. About 15 of them and they wiped out all of my woodies. Too good I had my 2 stables so far and managed to build one tower at my goldies which wiped out 2 infantry and 1 archer. As I hit castle age I pumped knights from both stables and spearmen from my rax. Having built another tower I could easily defend the flush of the duke. The he went for a castle and it was basically a tower-and-knight-race. Both dudes had towers, knights, spearmen and the mandatory cavalry-archers to support. We crippled our economies while 3 TCs where pumping villies. I forgot to manage to build a monastery and get one of the relics so at the 35 minute mark my opponent had 4 of them, getting him an extensive gold bonus. As he then began to concentrate more on knights I put some more spearmen in. I could kill a couple more knights of his, but then he used a different attack route and crushed most of my goldies. That was basically the end for me. He went for cavarcher-only for a couple of minutes and with that nearly crippled my economy. As I got some knights in he switched to cavarcher-spearman and got to imperial by that time, upgraded the cavarchers, put some trebuchets in and I was done. It's my greatest loss, but as my AI won, it was my greatest win. One of the best games I have ever played !

Hey young fellas, currently sitting in front of the puter of one of my best friends, who is willing to spend a year abroad (preferably South America) to help in SOS child camps. Anybody of you have an idea ? Did a google search, but couldn't find anything useful therefore I am asking for help (and also to show her (Judith) our community ). Basically she's in search of an application form to apply for a place at a SOS Child Camp abroad. Anyone ?

*falls on knees in front of Tribun Kor*

Easy with the smilies, Swellick. Gah, didn't achieve my goal. Today's Friday and I have 700 only.

I am going to vote for mine. It's been shipped with IPB, but I sticked my initials on it, so I made it.

Hmm..I am probably unbeatable at KKND2: Krossfire. Also I once was very decent at AoE2, due to my AI (3 years development time ), have played 3-4 games against it everyday. Then again I rock at Fifa2003, too.

Not bad, Klaas. Yeah, how did you get that connection ?

I'd go for the trailers of Diablo2 (and thus Blizzard), but I think the AoM Trailer wasn't too bad either.

@Black OP: Lol Archery here. Nothing beats an attack-and-retreat cavalry-archer.

Good Job, Swellick. *donates*

Umm..Yes ! Seriously, I thought 300 would have done it, too, but then again the average Joe will reach 300 in no time.