It would be cool if the site owner made the site available in other languages, for example, Portuguese (even if translated by google translator), I'm Brazilian and I can say that the Brazilian market for indie games is extremely giant and here would be the perfect site (if translated) for developers to test their games. Well ... it's just a suggestion.
Rian, with Google Translate, you can make the main site into Portuguese if you so choose.
And yes, I use this for the books I write so they cover all languages. Google is always your friend. :)
It's not so bad, Lundell. It's my books and articles that are translated and by default they are written in English. You must click the link inside to translate them to any of 68-languages - if someone has an interest to.
Here is one for an article I wrote on Morse Code one time. I tell them to change the TO in whatever language they want.
In this link, click the BLUE triangle above to change languages.
Not to totally derail the conversation, but as far as I know, the codes in Morse code were chosen in the order of prevalence of letters in messages, with the shorter, easier codes for more frequently used letters. This significantly speeds up transmission and acts as a sort of compression algorithm, since messages of a given length that use more common letters will be take less taps (or faster taps) than messages of the same length with more uncommon letters. You can see this if you put the codes into a binary tree.
Also, I'm not sure you could introduce a new "stagger" code unless you were sending codes digitally. If you listen to someone who really knows what they're doing, there's really no room for a stagger with the speed they go at. (And there'd be even less room if you were sending mechanically, since you could send single taps extremely close together.) Listen to this guy sending Morse code and you'll see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Ed0TSp0gs
On many older, wired telegraph systems, the dash was not literally a long tone, but two (or more) very fast dots in quick succession. This is because on those early systems they weren't sending a tone, they were just sending current and the sounder was just a solenoid banging two bits of metal together. So your proposed new signal would actually already be taken.
This is probably also how you would do it if you were sending morse to fellow prisoners by banging on the sewer pipe with a rock.
| "in the order of prevalence of letters in messages, with the shorter, easier codes for more frequently used letters. |
Incidentally, If you're wondering, as I was, why "O" is so far down the chart, it's because that chart is the modern one. I just checked, and In the original, "O" was "dot [hesitate] dot".
I'm glad they gave up on that hesitation nonsense. I'll bet early telegraph operators mixed up their I's and O's constantly. Luckoly most wirds would stoll be recignozable.
It took me a sec but the last tidbit gave it away and no other messages gave it away, these bots are really a mindtrip dear god
Yep, @SmellyFishstiks. The 'bots are quite clever - but they always give themselves away when they link to a commercial website that has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation.
Always click the triangle beneath the star to SPAM to have them and their account removed.
If it does turn out to be a human, sorry, we really don't like unwanted advertising and have a zero strike rule in effect.
As for my link above, I see bit.ly no longer likes Writer's Cafe. That's fine. Reposted new link so can see example of Google Translate.
Ya pretty much (it's just so unnerving cause they are on the fringe of passing the turing test at least for me ;\ )
Wonder what the BBS looks like translated I'll check that out
(though the cart/forum pages have some issues? hm)
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