uh, no. Speed of sound in steel is approx.
4500 meters/second. Which is
much, much less than the speed of light. I'm not sure why you are contradicting the fact that 4500 299,792,458.
Thank you. You brought a wonderful image to mind of Archimedes in space, pressing on a gigantic pole, and having the end spring back sending him caroming around the solar system.
Actually, by my understanding of it, the pole would only be 599,999,996 at the exact moment the other end begins to move. The rest of the time it is either shrinking to that length, or growing to it. This only even applies if you push it 4 meters in less than 2 seconds. More than 2 seconds and the other end will have started moving before you reached full compression. Unless you were able to instantaneously push the end of the pole, then it would simply be growing for the full 2 seconds.
It's worse than that. They referred to Easter Eggs as logic bombs for exploiting and stuff. Easter Eggs aren't exploits, they're just something silly programmers put in to reward people who do obscure stuff. It can be something as simple as an NPC with an odd or referential name in hard to reach location. The Secret Cow Level in Diablo 2 was pretty much an Easter Egg.
You only missed out during that time if you didn't have cable.:) Which unfortunately, I didn't. I used to watch Bill Nye on PBS all the time, but only got to watch Mr. Wizard when I went to my grandparents house. I don't have any specific memories of it like most of the people here, I just remember liking it. Wasn't there a spoof of Mr. Wizard on Eureka's Castle or Dinosaurs or something called Mr. Lizard?
Or Hell, how about Spam Czar? Then you could have Spam Tsars, csars, tzar, zar, not to mention all the czarinas...
It'd be like having a bunch of kings, we'd just differentiate by spelling.
Mashing the submit button when I meant to hit preview has done me in again. They walked to Kentucky. That was the main thrust of the comment and I just left it out.
Nice thing about Kentucky being so close to Cincinnati is a some of my friends were there on choir tour this spring, and wanted to get some booze. All the liquor stores in Cincinnati were closed, so they walked to get some. It was beautiful.
It was strange that they picked silhouettes of domesticated dogs, which only have such diversity because humans selectively bred them for differing characteristics. Actually, the cool thing about dogs is that we were even able to breed them so effectively. Dogs have a ridiculous amount of genetic material, something like 76 chromosomes. Even with a large amount of it being junk or redundant, it leaves a lot of room for change. I also read somewhere that many of the physical traits that distinguish the different breeds of dog from each other can be brought about by changing conditions in the womb of the mother. Basically, making dogs with parents of x breed appear to be y. Neat stuff.
When I was a child, other parents were amazed at how well behaved I was in the grocery store, I never threw tantrums. The reason, is that I did throw a tantrum, once. My mom turned me over and spanked me right there in the store. I never did it again. This is one of maybe 3 times I remember being spanked. It hardly ever happened, so when it did, I knew they meant business. Otherwise, they never hit me, or deprived me of supper. I would get stern lectures, and when it was related to me not doing my schoolwork they would ground me from my favorite hobbies, video games and reading.
That is the best reason I've ever heard for not liking the teaser. No one I've ever seen has been so articulate or so damn reasonable. Congratulations.
Well, I'm just out of college, and it's a small company. It's also immeasurably better than my previous job. I'm up for a raise in the next month, we'll see how things go from there.
I've had the opportunity to see Brave Combo in concert 3 times, as they are from my neck of the woods. If you ever get the chance, do so. They have amazing energy and are excellent musicians. More groups/artists I think you might want to look for with the albums I particularly like in ():
Atmosphere (The Lucy Ford)
The Faint (Danse Macabre)
Joy Electric (The White Songbook and Hello Mannequin)
Rajaton
Pink Martini
Ozma (Rock And Roll Part 3 and Spending Time on the Borderline)
Fine China
15-20K in a summer!? What the hell were you doing as a teenager. I have 9-5 doing as a sysadmin/ the tech support for a manufacturing company and will make just a little more than that in a year.
This is less like the Star Trek Transporter, and more like the ansible, which functioned via philotic twining (which as far as I can tell is quantum entanglement by a different name) from Ender's Game.
TFA also mentions that the Transporters were said to have used quantum entanglement. I don't remember that at all. Is it from the newer stuff? As far as I knew the way they worked was the computer would store all information about the object, using the ever so convenient Heisenberg Compensator, then use that data to rebuild them on the other side in the same way the replicators worked. No entanglement involved.
Can one develop for the Virtual Console? Is it really an entity in and of itself that can have games made for it? It seems to me like it is really just a collection of emulators with a unified front-end. I suppose developers could essentially make new ROMs for these, or maybe Nintendo will allow them access to the API which allows the emulators to work with the VC. Or better yet, maybe a stripped down Wii API and dev-kit for use in downloadable games.
I don't know, I'm just spewing out stuff that I think I sort of understand. Salt to taste.
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Thank you. You brought a wonderful image to mind of Archimedes in space, pressing on a gigantic pole, and having the end spring back sending him caroming around the solar system.
Actually, by my understanding of it, the pole would only be 599,999,996 at the exact moment the other end begins to move. The rest of the time it is either shrinking to that length, or growing to it. This only even applies if you push it 4 meters in less than 2 seconds. More than 2 seconds and the other end will have started moving before you reached full compression. Unless you were able to instantaneously push the end of the pole, then it would simply be growing for the full 2 seconds.
They could have done even better. How about "Really damn close to speed of light." Though I guess at that speed, .001% is still a hefty amount of m/s.
It's worse than that. They referred to Easter Eggs as logic bombs for exploiting and stuff. Easter Eggs aren't exploits, they're just something silly programmers put in to reward people who do obscure stuff. It can be something as simple as an NPC with an odd or referential name in hard to reach location. The Secret Cow Level in Diablo 2 was pretty much an Easter Egg.
I think he meant the DMA does it voluntarily as a whole. Members are required, but the organization is not.
Or Hell, how about Spam Czar? Then you could have Spam Tsars, csars, tzar, zar, not to mention all the czarinas... It'd be like having a bunch of kings, we'd just differentiate by spelling.
Mashing the submit button when I meant to hit preview has done me in again. They walked to Kentucky. That was the main thrust of the comment and I just left it out.
Nice thing about Kentucky being so close to Cincinnati is a some of my friends were there on choir tour this spring, and wanted to get some booze. All the liquor stores in Cincinnati were closed, so they walked to get some. It was beautiful.
Maybe they modded him +1 insightful as an ironic statement about his comment and sig?
If you like God as set-up artist, read "Murder Mysteries" by Neil Gaiman.
Ouch. I grew up in Dallas, and I'd much rather live there than New York. It's just way too huge. San Fran on the other hand would be nice.
When I was a child, other parents were amazed at how well behaved I was in the grocery store, I never threw tantrums. The reason, is that I did throw a tantrum, once. My mom turned me over and spanked me right there in the store. I never did it again. This is one of maybe 3 times I remember being spanked. It hardly ever happened, so when it did, I knew they meant business. Otherwise, they never hit me, or deprived me of supper. I would get stern lectures, and when it was related to me not doing my schoolwork they would ground me from my favorite hobbies, video games and reading.
That is the best reason I've ever heard for not liking the teaser. No one I've ever seen has been so articulate or so damn reasonable. Congratulations.
well if it works I'm buying Powerball tickets...
2 videos for me. No wonder it took forever to load.
I know. I grew up in Dallas, and in the last election was please to see that it was one of the few gray spots on the map.
Well, I'm just out of college, and it's a small company. It's also immeasurably better than my previous job. I'm up for a raise in the next month, we'll see how things go from there.
I've had the opportunity to see Brave Combo in concert 3 times, as they are from my neck of the woods. If you ever get the chance, do so. They have amazing energy and are excellent musicians. More groups/artists I think you might want to look for with the albums I particularly like in (): Atmosphere (The Lucy Ford) The Faint (Danse Macabre) Joy Electric (The White Songbook and Hello Mannequin) Rajaton Pink Martini Ozma (Rock And Roll Part 3 and Spending Time on the Borderline) Fine China
15-20K in a summer!? What the hell were you doing as a teenager. I have 9-5 doing as a sysadmin/ the tech support for a manufacturing company and will make just a little more than that in a year.
This is less like the Star Trek Transporter, and more like the ansible, which functioned via philotic twining (which as far as I can tell is quantum entanglement by a different name) from Ender's Game. TFA also mentions that the Transporters were said to have used quantum entanglement. I don't remember that at all. Is it from the newer stuff? As far as I knew the way they worked was the computer would store all information about the object, using the ever so convenient Heisenberg Compensator, then use that data to rebuild them on the other side in the same way the replicators worked. No entanglement involved.
Why truck when you can pipe? Of course you have to plan, lay, bury, and pump all that, but still.
Can one develop for the Virtual Console? Is it really an entity in and of itself that can have games made for it? It seems to me like it is really just a collection of emulators with a unified front-end. I suppose developers could essentially make new ROMs for these, or maybe Nintendo will allow them access to the API which allows the emulators to work with the VC. Or better yet, maybe a stripped down Wii API and dev-kit for use in downloadable games. I don't know, I'm just spewing out stuff that I think I sort of understand. Salt to taste.