LangFreQ Beta v1.1 – New Features
Posted on | January 1, 2010
I haven’t been posting much at all lately and mostly it’s because I’ve been so busy with the holidays, but also because I wanted to crank out the new LangFreQ Beta v1.1 with new features. I’ve been working hard to get these out and while I think these features are a vast improvement on the site, or an addition if you will, I think it will be a long time before I say LangFreQ is out of “beta”.
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Tags: beta > features > Japanese > kanji > langfreq > language
The Limitation of Speed
Posted on | November 11, 2008
A vast majority of what people awe to when watching Martial Art movies is just how fast some of these guys can move. We can all agree that speed is definitely an attribute every Martial Artist has to have, but I believe too many people put too much emphasis on speed. Speed can literally be the downfall of some Martial Artists and the reason they never progress much further.
Bruce Lee was not only exceptionally fast, he was able to read his opponents movements on a whim, with very little effort.
“What’s wrong with speed?”, you might be asking. Well, speed has limitations. No matter how many years you practice, or how many hours you’ve spent on it, there is a limitation to exactly how fast you can get your body to move. Obviously, you can produce a speed so fast that it makes others awe in amazement because it’s purely much faster than the average speed, but either way it has a limitation.
People so often focus on speed and being able to throw a punch twice as fast as their opponent. Most people think that if they are way faster than their opponent then when the opponent throws a punch they can counter with their own punch and because they are faster, then their punch will hit first and they’ll win. In fact, they’re right, if you are that much faster than your opponent, you have a good chance of winning against other Martial Artists who think the same way. The problem is, to get to that speed requires too much effort, almost to the point that it becomes pointless. “What did he just say!? It’s pointless to spend so much time to become super fast and acquire The Flying Fists of Death!?”(Yes, that was made up 
) That’s exactly what I’m saying.
Rather than train to become faster than your opponent, spend that time learning how to read your opponent. If you can learn to read your opponent, you’ve already won the battle. There is no possibility of gaining a greater speed than to already know how, when, and where your opponent is going to make his next move. It’s quite simple to understand, yet very hard to get even decent at. Once you’ve been working(sparring, practicing, etc) with someone for long enough, you’ll eventually get better at predicting their movements if you practice reading them, but that’s quite easy to accomplish. The hard part is being able to read anyone, very quickly, because in a real life situation the opponent is not going to practice with you till you are able to read his movements. The skill will have to be able to be used on a whim.
No matter how fast my opponent can move, if I have the ability to read his movements, I’m already at a greater advantage. Don’t get me wrong though, if you have no speed whatsoever, then you’re going to be in big trouble even if you can read his movements. Just understand that speed has it’s limits. Speed is something that if you train hard all the time in sparring, shadow boxing, etc it will increase, even if at a slower pace than if you trained specifically for speed. Instead of spending all that time on speed though, use it to learn to read others. By the time you get to the point that you can read others decently, you’ll have already naturally gained speed from doing your other routines(again, sparring, shadow boxing, etc).
Panda3D – Develop Games with Python!
Posted on | October 7, 2008
For those of you out there who love to write code in Python and are interested in developing some game code, you’ll love this: Panda3D. Taken from their website, this quote explains exactly what Panda3D is:
Usenet for Dummies
Posted on | October 2, 2008
Usenet is a world-wide distributed Internet discussion system. Basically, think of a forum. Usenet has “groups” that people can go to and read/post information to. The groups represent the categories a forum might have. Only Usenet is humongous and is distributed world-wide.
Tags: data > download > features > internet > storage > usenet
Ubuntu Lunacy
Posted on | September 30, 2008
We’re all pretty familiar with the how popular Ubuntu has become since it first started, but believe it or not there are actually still some people out there who choose to instead bash it because their distro flat out sucks. I’m not going to go into any of the names of the distro’s, like Red Hat(just kidding ), that suck.
Tags: features > linux > lunacy > noob > ubuntu > windows
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