Goldeye Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 DC is a descriptor for a voltage pattern, though. You can say 'connect to an ASSS' but you can't say 'look for a DC' Quote
Samapico Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 You can say 'connect to an ASSS'That would be 'connect to an a small subspace server' , still makes no sense but you can't say 'look for a DC' ...And? You can generate a DC, you can probe a DC, you can require a DC... you can do many things with it This is pretty much off-topic lol Quote
Sass Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 (edited) When you say "connect to an ASSS server" you're making some fool's witty acronym the adjective of a subject noun - therefore grammatically ok. If you prefer to make it the subject, you can simply say "I'm going to connect to an ASSS" - also correct, despite many wisecrack jokes your friends will make. Good day. Edited May 21, 2009 by Sass Quote
Dr Brain Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 DC current is a bad example, as DC means average or low frequency, making the phrase DC current correct in most instances. NIC Card or ATM Machine would be better examples. Quote
»D1st0rt Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 All of the electrical engineering courses I've taken featured professors saying things like "DC current source" Quote
»D1st0rt Posted May 21, 2009 Report Posted May 21, 2009 But a "source" could refer to a current or a voltage source Quote
Samapico Posted May 22, 2009 Report Posted May 22, 2009 Isn't a current source just a voltage source with limited current? Quote
Sass Posted May 22, 2009 Report Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) When an acronym begins with a, e, f, h, i, m, n, o, r, s, x, or/ the indefinite article "an" is used. The acronym "DC" in "DC current" is used as a modifier and therefore it should be both capitalized and used as if it were an adjective to the subject noun "current". Saying "An DC current" is wrong as it can be "A or The" only. Now, you should go into discretion wars and tell me if you like my tileset so far. hehe Edited May 22, 2009 by Sass Quote
Dr Brain Posted May 22, 2009 Report Posted May 22, 2009 DC may stand for direct current, but its meaning has changed over the years. DC doesn't *mean* direct current any more. It means low frequency portion or no frequency content, depending on the usage. OK stands for all clear, yet when someone says "OK, clear" you wouldn't challenge them on it. After all, an active circuit can easily draw an AC current from a DC voltage supply (class A amplifiers are a simple example). If you took the literal interpretation, this would be nonsensical. Isn't a current source just a voltage source with limited current? Not at all. You're thinking of a current limited voltage source, which is a protection feature. A current source provides a constant current independent of the load. Voltage sources provide a constant voltage independent of the load. Quote
»Xog Posted May 22, 2009 Report Posted May 22, 2009 Samapico, I looked through the list in that link and I laughed when I saw.... Working Mother LoL. Quote
Sass Posted May 22, 2009 Report Posted May 22, 2009 DC may stand for direct current, but its meaning has changed over the years. DC doesn't *mean* direct current any more. It means low frequency portion or no frequency content, depending on the usage. OK stands for all clear, yet when someone says "OK, clear" you wouldn't challenge them on it. Hmm - using this logic, NRA really means "red neck gun toting fools", ACLU really means "hellbent leeches of society willing to sell their soul for the cost of a shrimp dinner" and HS really means "highly overcontrolled zone of spoon fed bon bons" muahaha (oh I'm soooo going to be trolled for that one!) Quote
Gannon8 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Report Posted June 1, 2009 I did not want this to be splitted. In fact, I don't see a good reason to do so. It's completely offtopic from the forum, and it makes me look like an idiot (or moreso if I already do look like one). Seems like this only happens to me and people who intentionally troll. (I bet someone's gonna say "whats the difference?" to that). It was meant to be a small joke. In fact, it doesn't matter what "DC" means. According to Dr Brain, it stands for the same thing, and that's why it works in the joke. What I truly don't understand is that other people can make a joke like that, and there posts don't get split. It's just like on some zones I occasionally play on (ex. Desert Storm). I do the exact same thing everyone else does, but it looks like bullets hurt me more than them and I keep dying without getting any kills. Thinking about the joke is the same as killing it. Quote
Samapico Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 It wasn't split because of your post, but because there was like 5 posts about the subject... It's not a bad thing to have a topic split, you just happen to have the first post in it. I would have put my post as the first, but I would have had to split my post in two to keep the relevant part in the other topic. People who derail topics for the sake of it get warned; you didn't. The split was not in any way intended to attack or blame you or whatever. Quote
Bak Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 now the next questions is why it was split into the discretion forum Quote
Samapico Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 It came from a Discretion forum topic, so it was just left here. It's your forum, move this wherever you want Or close it. Or even delete it Quote
Bak Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 ha no. notice he didn't provide leaving it as is as one of the options anyways I'm working on the anti-cheat crap now, got a week off coming up where HOPEFULLY ill be able to keep working on this and not on grad school projects (well definately not grad school projects but there always seems to be plenty to do at my parent's house). we'll see how processor intensive it is once I finish it. I got rid of PerPlayerData and replaced it with a Playerman module which keeps state about the players (which was scattered around a few modules that used perplayerdata before, now its centralized). Hopefully that'll make the system easier to use. Quote
»D1st0rt Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 focus on rsfl playoffs no more code until friday or I am deleting the entire discretion forum Quote
Gannon8 Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Posted June 5, 2009 So is this the official offtopic discussion thread now for discretion? Quote
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