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Ask The Staff 'Anything'

Re: Ask The Staff 'Anything'

TRA Rotid;125233 said:
Don`t want to double post, but I couldn`t find Ask Anyone Anything (even with search).

Anyway, it`s somewhat pointless, but I`d like to know. My English teacher (who`s American) wasn`t sure about it.

My question: mouse, the living creature has plural mice.
But does the computer mouse have same plural form or maybe "mouses"???
Didn`t found the right words, but I guess you get the idea.
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I've always calledand heard them called them mice
 
Re: Ask The Staff 'Anything'

TRA Rotid;125233 said:
Don`t want to double post, but I couldn`t find Ask Anyone Anything (even with search).

Anyway, it`s somewhat pointless, but I`d like to know. My English teacher (who`s American) wasn`t sure about it.

My question: mouse, the living creature has plural mice.
But does the computer mouse have same plural form or maybe "mouses"???
Didn`t found the right words, but I guess you get the idea.
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Why did one of my classes have a class-period-long discussion of whether it was mice, mouses, mousies, mouse-es-es, or moving-computer-clicker-thingies?

(Note: We ARE American, and all except the token Hispanic guy and token Indian guy spoke American English as their first language. And yes, my high school does consist predominantly of pale and pasty white people. Or, more accurately, damn rich rednecks.)
 
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When will the apocalypse be? Man made or otherwise:ninja:
 
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Devalion;125238 said:
Fundamentalists?
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If by that you mean someone going by the fundamentals of what they believe then yeah. If you mean raving bomber lunatic then no :D

Arseface;125472 said:
When will the apocalypse be? Man made or otherwise:ninja:
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*checks watch* Right about........now
 
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OOOOh! Meese! That's a good one... I'll start calling plural computer mice meese! Such a wunnerful idea! [manic grin]

Tell me: if I gave you fifty trillion dollars, would you use it to buy a couple small countries and set yourself up as dictator; buy a couple small countries and set yourself up as monarch; start hiring your harem; end world hunger; buy world peace; buy nukes and blow up anyone who looks at you cross-eyed; invade anonymous and utterly random countries neutral or allied to yours with the army you raised; use the remaining bills to light the lifetime supply of thousand-dollar cigars you just bought; pay off your country's national debt; or some combination of the above?
 
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Walker;125571 said:
OOOOh! Meese! That's a good one... I'll start calling plural computer mice meese! Such a wunnerful idea! [manic grin]

Tell me: if I gave you fifty trillion dollars, would you use it to buy a couple small countries and set yourself up as dictator; buy a couple small countries and set yourself up as monarch; start hiring your harem; end world hunger; buy world peace; buy nukes and blow up anyone who looks at you cross-eyed; invade anonymous and utterly random countries neutral or allied to yours with the army you raised; use the remaining bills to light the lifetime supply of thousand-dollar cigars you just bought; pay off your country's national debt; or some combination of the above?
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That's pretty much it.
 
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Devalion;125453 said:
Meese. Or, if you prefer Meeses.
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I was just going to say that techies often will call them Meese of Meeses just like some librarians call the place they work a liberry +Rep

Zquad;126301 said:
How many different colors exists?
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8
  1. Red
  2. Yellow
  3. Blue
  4. Green
  5. Orange
  6. Purple
  7. Black
  8. White
The rest are just knock offs, pretenders and wanna be's
 
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The are an infinate number of colors or close to it really. People can only see a relatively small number of those.

Careful measurements of our visual system’s best performance have been

made by psychophysicists (people who study human responses, like seeing
color, to things in the world, like light). They have shown that we can see
about 1000 levels of light-dark, 100 levels of red-green, and 100 levels of
yellow-blue for a single viewing condition in a laboratory. This means that
the total number of colors we can see is about 1000 x 100 x 100 = 10,000,000
(10 million). A computer displays about 16.8 million colors to create fullcolor
pictures, really more than necessary for most situations.
However, the answer is not quite so simple. What color looks like is greatly
affected by the viewing conditions. These conditions include the color of
the lighting, the amount of lighting, and other colors in the scene. Colors
also appear in different modes when they appear on different objects such
as surfaces, light sources, or within volumes. Different people also have
slight differences in the way they see color.
Since we can see at least 10-million colors in a single viewing condition and
the variety of viewing conditions and observers is endless, then the only
truly correct answer is infinity. If we have 10-million colors, times 10-
million lighting types, times 10-million lighting levels, times 10-million
surrounding colors, times 6-billion people in the world, times 3 modes of
viewing we get a really huge number. The result of that multiplication is 18
followed by 33 zeros (18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), or 18
decillion. That might not quite be infinity, but is close enough since all
those estimated numbers are probably on the low side. And there is no way
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to exactly measure each of them
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http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/WhyIsColor/ExamplePage.pdf
16 million is an estimate of how many different colors a 24 bit RGB computer monitor can simulate. This has no relevance to how many different colors the human eye can distinguish.

Just as there are infinitely many numbers between 380 and 740 - including all of the fractions, of course - so there are infinitely many wavelengths between 380 and 740 nanometers - the visible spectrum of light. That doesn't even count the different tints and shades obtained by mixing in white, black, etc. So, there is an infinite number of colors, if you look at it that way.



However, that does not imply that the human eye can distinguish an infinite number of colors. If you consider the apparent color of two wavelengths of light, the color will appear to be the same once you get the two wavelengths close enough. How many different colors can the human eye distinguish? The Encyclopedia Britannica mentions that the human eye can distinguish wavelengths as close together as 1 nm apart in the blue-green and yellow areas of the spectrum, but only those 10 or more nanometers apart in the deep red and violet. If the entire visible spectrum, from 380 to 740 nanometers, could be distinguished at a resolution of only 1 nanometer, the total number of spectral colors would be (740-380), or 360; for a resolution of 10 nanometers, it would be one-tenth this, so the total number of spectral colors is somewhere between 36 and 360. However, this does not take into account the non-spectral colors: the different tints which may be obtained by adding white light (or paint), the different shades which may be obtained by reducing the relative amount of light (or adding black paint), and the other non-spectral colors obtained by mixing different spectral colors.
The actual estimate for how many different colors the human eye can distinguish varies between one and ten million, depending on the reference which you consult. However, the perception of color varies from one person to another, so there can be no single number that is true for everyone. The number of different colors that you, as an individual, can distinguish also varies dramatically according to the conditions; it drops to zero in low light conditions, in which only the rod cells of the retina can function, as the cone cells of the retina are required for color vision. Other organisms can see colors that we humans are blind to. For example, honeybees can see colors in ultraviolet light that is invisible to humans, though they see less of the red end of the spectrum. Birds can see not only ultraviolet but also red light; notice the red coloring of many flowers that are pollinated by birds. Unlike humans and bees, which each have systems containing three different color-sensing visual pigments, birds' retinas contain four different pigments. This implies that the RGB monitors that can mimic any color for a human eye would need to project an additional color in order to mimic all of the colors a bird can see.
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how many different colors are there?
Or like I said earlier 8
 
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