How Fast Is a Blink of an Eye?

How Fast Is a Blink of an Eye? | eHow.com:

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Speed

• The human eye can blink much faster than a second, and, in fact, it's perfectly possible to blink several times in a single second. On average, a human eye takes between 300 and 400 milliseconds to complete a single blink.

IF STAFF BY A YEAR

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LET THEM MAKE THIS ONE
OF MY RELATIVES OF THE BRAIN
THIS SHOULD STOP SPRING FOR

Ultima Online - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ultima Online - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Artificial Life Engine

Starr Long, the game's associate producer, explained in 1996:

Nearly everything in the world, from grass to goblins, has a purpose, and not just as cannon fodder either. The 'virtual ecology' affects nearly every aspect of the game world, from the very small to the very large. If the rabbit population suddenly drops (because some gung-ho adventurer was trying out his new mace) then wolves may have to find different food sources (e.g., deer). When the deer population drops as a result, the local dragon, unable to find the food he’s accustomed to, may head into a local village and attack. Since all of this happens automatically, it generates numerous adventure possibilities.

However, this feature never made it beyond the game's beta stage. As Richard Garriott explained:

We thought it was fantastic. We'd spent an enormous amount of time and effort on it. But what happened was all the players went in and just killed everything; so fast that the game couldn't spawn them fast enough to make the simulation even begin. And so, this thing that we'd spent all this time on, literally no-one ever noticed – ever – and we eventually just ripped it out of the game, you know, with some sadness.^[11]

So sad that this got ripped.

Dead PSU

Argh! The PSU on the database server for AIBrain has died.. time to RMA it because it is still under warranty.

Extricating the power supply from the case is going to be 'fun'... I should upload a pic of before and after. :)