Things you don't know

MattVortex · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 1:58 pm

This is a little community experiment I am going to try. I came up with the idea a couple of days ago.

The basic idea is that you post things that you dont know. Be honest here, or it wont work.

Then, when the next person comes along, they read everything that others dont know, and If they do know something that someone else doesnt know, they post the answer.

Let's see if this works.

I'll begin:

I do not know the point or real advantages of using OOP programming over simpler programming, with functions and stuff.

(Mods: I apologise if this shouldnt be in Non-RS discussion. Just move it to the sandbox if you feel it should be in there.)

Adbot · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 1:58 pm

xOhYax · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 4:03 pm

I dont know what i dont know!

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:42 pm

xOhYax wrote:

I dont know what i dont know!

Good point, but I do know that you know something that you don't know and I also know that you know that you're spamming by posting that.

I don't know the first thing about cars. I have no idea why people have "spoilers" (those little fins on the back) on their cars. Are they for decoration or what?

Kyle · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:46 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

I don't know the first thing about cars. I have no idea why people have "spoilers" (those little fins on the back) on their cars. Are they for decoration or what?

Well in racing spoilers are used for air to flow over them to keep the car on the ground, they create air flow. For your average street car there decoration.

I dont know about HTML code...

Mikhail · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:49 pm

MQ- They break up the air flow in the back of the car, to keep a vacuum from forming, which drags on the car, making it slower/ possibly less efficient. Some can also produce down force, using the wind to force the car down harder on the ground. This gives extra grip, and helps maintain control. (In this case, it also slows the car down a bit, because forward motion is converted into downward force.)

What I don't know would be why DOT (Dept of transportation) keeps banning transport of gas...Like green gas which isn't flammeable.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:53 pm

Kyle wrote:

I dont know about HTML code...

Hm, well, HTML is a markup language. I've always seen that as meaning that it controls the appearance and function of web pages and such.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:53 pm

Ranging God · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 5:55 pm

I dont know how to speak Spanish
I dont know anything about cars.

Kyle · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 6:02 pm

Ranging God wrote:

I dont know anything about cars.

For a four-stroke engine, key parts of the engine include the crankshaft (purple), one or more camshafts (red and blue) and valves. For a two-stroke engine, there may simply be an exhaust outlet and fuel inlet instead of a valve system. In both types of engines, there are one or more cylinders (grey and green) and for each cylinder there is a spark plug (darker-grey), a piston (yellow) and a crank (purple). A single sweep of the cylinder by the piston in an upward or downward motion is known as a stroke and the downward stroke that occurs directly after the air-fuel mix passes from the carburetor to the the cylinder, where it is ignited; this is known as a power stroke.

"Internal combustion engine." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 17 Apr 2007, 15:28 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 18 Apr 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internal_combustion_engine&oldid=123547895>.

They could explain it better then i could...

The Haysta · **Posted:** April 17th, 2007, 6:26 pm

Essentially having spoiler on a car produces more friction between the road and the wheels, the more friction, the more energy efficient a car is. However it is somewhat useless on most commercial cars since they don't reach speeds at which it is really nessecary. That's off the top of my head and I'm no expert.

Anyway, how does superposition create interference patterns? I've seen the Wiki article but that didn't make much sense.

Ryan · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 11:30 am

I have no idea how I can be such an idiot sometimes xD

I also have no idea oh how they make computer things so small :shock:

Gzpro · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 12:21 pm

I have no idea why England has a queen lol.

Rapidash · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 12:32 pm

I do not know how to read any, except maybe 3, Russian words.

I also do not know how to code anything at all. Or know how mass production works so well.

Kyle · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 12:35 pm

Kelsey wrote:

I do not know how to read any, except maybe 3, Russian words.

I also do not know how to code anything at all. Or know how mass production works so well.

Mass production, Well lets take bullets. In the old days the had to hand pack the gunpowder into the case and add the bullet, now a machine does all that and adds the firing pin. So in the time its takes to make one bullet you can make 100 bullets....mass production.

I dont know.........how to convert MPH into KPH

Samuel · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 12:46 pm

Kyle wrote:

I dont know.........how to convert MPH into KPH

Divide by 5 multiply by 8.

Lord Zamorak · **Posted:** April 18th, 2007, 1:14 pm

England has a queen so there is a ruler.
You speak Spanish by partially copying what they say but change it.
To begin a basic code, do <html><head><title>Basic</title></head><body>Hi</body></body>
HTML is making webpages (it can't do a lot of special stuff, though. You need PHP and Javascript and stuff to do that).

I don't know how to get more than 1,000 farming exp an hours, excluding lamps and Tears of Guthix.