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  1. Re:neat on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 1
    Correct equation, wrong explanation:

    centrifugal == NOT REAL != REAL == centripetal

  2. Re:Pssshhh... on Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness · · Score: 1
    WHOOOOOSH!

    I think the GP was calling the GGP an A...

  3. Re:You fail math forever on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    It's not BInary digiT, it's Binary digIT... Get it right...

  4. Re:3+1÷22 on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    3+1÷22? Did you mean 22÷7 or 3+1÷7, which is 3.142856...? Because 3+1÷22=3.0454545... which doesn't even have the '1' correct

  5. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    Wow... I know you were trying to make fun of the GP, but you failed miserably. He used "To prove P, Assume not P and show that's not possible", while you... well... didn't.

  6. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    Even if we DID calculate the two quadrillion binary digits, we wouldn't know the two quadrillionth decimal digit... Calculating the first 10 binary digits of pi: 11.0010010000... then converting to decimal: 11.0010010000 base 2 = 3.1406250000. so 10 binary digits of Pi gave us only 2 (correct) decimal digits of Pi...

  7. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    You do understand that, by being in UTF-35, it wouldn't be (only?) the characters in the English alphabet, right? ROT 13 twice: HELLO -> URYYB -> HELLO, but this doesn't make sense when you have 2^35 characters... only when you have 26 characters.

  8. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    No... he IS talking about binary. His digits are 4 (you might call that '1') and & (aka '0'). Pi = 44.&&4&&4&&&&444444... Digits are just symbols after all...

  9. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    Or, more simply, take Pi and every time there is a digit, make it repeat once. (33.1144115599...) still infinite and non-repeating, but show me '121' in that number...

  10. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    But what if the 243,000,500,000,000,000,003rd digit would be 9 except that the 243,000,500,000,000,000,004th digit is >5, so the 243,000,500,000,000,000,003rd digit got rounded up to 0 (carry the one)... So you need at least 243,000,500,000,000,000,004 digits.

    But what if the 243,000,500,000,000,000,004th digit would be 9 too except that the 243,000,500,000,000,000,005th digit is >5, so the 243,000,500,000,000,000,004th digit got rounded up to 0 (carry the one) which makes the 243,000,500,000,000,000,003rd digit increase to 0 (carry the one... So you need at least 243,000,500,000,000,000,005 digits.

    But what if...

  11. Re:If only the chips worked! on Is RFID Really That Scary? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...which is a far higher rate than we were led to expect....

    FTFY... Just because TFA misspelled the word "led," doesn't mean you should too.

  12. Re:It's not awesome on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    I love Ireland! It's my favorite dessert! And I also am annoyed by salespeople who do their jobs! Nobel prize, here we come!

  13. Re:"it's legal now!" on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    I am able to restore my Nexus One, and I can do it with Window, Mac, or Linux (and maybe others as well, but I've never tried), but that's an unlocked phone. More locked down phones could be more difficult to fix yourself. If you are looking into an android phone, I would highly recommend the Nexus One if you can get your hands on one (they stopped selling at http:///www.google.com/phone)..

  14. Re:Holy nostalgia on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1
    And for those who don't understand the reference:

    From the article: "Germans who go out in the woods today are sure of a big surprise, radioactive boars."

    From the song: "If you go out in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. If you go out in the woods today, you better go in disguise..."

  15. Holy nostalgia on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    Holy nostalgia! Thanks, samzenpus!

    Picnic time for teddy bears,
    The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today.
    Watch them, catch them unawares,
    And see them picnic on their holiday.
    See them gaily dance about.
    They love to play and shout.
    And never have any cares.
    At six o'clock their mommies and daddies
    Will take them home to bed
    Because they're tired little teddy bears.

  16. Re:What about the games inside apps? on The Great Operating System Games · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Those were the days... on The Great Operating System Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    I found a walkthrough online for that game. It ruined it for me. I beat it in 5 minutes.

  18. Re:TFA should be tagged informative on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    Well, then I would suggest writing your posts in MS Word and performing a Spelling and Grammar check before submitting them. kthanksbye.

  19. Re:It's about being truthful on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    That is the exact point here. Dell is telling customers which OS they should choose so they are capable to make the choice.

    If "Dell is telling customers which OS they should choose", then how are they "making the choice"? It sounds like Dell is making the choice for them.

  20. Re:It's about being truthful on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1
    I could make the same argument for Ubuntu:

    Eh? What exactly is harder in Windows than it is on Ubuntu?

    Opening a document someone sent you and editing it in OpenOffice. I opened it in Word 2007, but what's this ribbon thing?

    The reply to this is not to say, "well, then, just open it in OpenOffice." Because you have to INSTALL OpenOffice on Windows. On Ubuntu, it comes preinstalled. When Word 2007 looks exactly like OpenOffice, and works exactly the same way as well, then you can ask your question again.

    How about people who have used Evolution for years? Nothing, not even Outlook, will look exactly the same and work identically.

    You've obviously not dealt with people for whom moving a icon from one place on the desktop to another results in complaints that "my Ubuntu is broken," usually followed by, "I can't do my work until it's fixed."

    To argue "Windows is better because I'm used to it and so are most people" is a Bandwagon Fallacy. Look it up.

  21. Re:End of the world. on Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble · · Score: 1

    Let's do this grade 6 math puzzle style.

    Expanding at ~1,000,000 km/h

    12 million light years away.

    It already has a radius of 1000 light years.

    Assume a light year is 9.46 trillion km long.

    Assuming this gas bubble was created by the universes first perpetual motion machine, so the growth is constant, how long before this gas bubble wipes out all life on Earth. Someone watch my math and make sure I didn't slip up.

    9,460,000,000,000 km/ly * (12,000,000 ly - 1000 ly) = 113,510,540,000,000,000,000 km to go.

    113,510,540,000,000,000,000 km / 1,000,000 km/hr = 113,510,540,000,000 hrs left.

    Or ~4,729,605,833,333 days

    Or ~675,657,976,190 weeks

    Or ~12,993,422,619 years.

    If we do live forever, mark your calendars, 12,993,424,639, Earth is finished.

    FTFY.

    Somehow, despite the fact that you...

    - substituting 9.46 billion for 9.46 trillion

    - multiplying by 12 then subtracting 5000 instead of multiplying by 12 million minus 1 thousand

    - multiplying by 1,000 instead of dividing by 1,000,000

    ... you still managed to get an answer that was a small error off. Will you PLEASE explain the steps you took? I can't make any sense of them, but obviously there is some legitimacy to them.

    Oh, and if it's growing at 1,000,000 km/hr in DIAMETER, it will take twice as long...

  22. Re:Still WAY behind Opera on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Title: Still WAY behind Opera

    Firefox4 is still a million miles beyond Opera...

    Vocabulary fail.

  23. Re:this is stupid on Doctor Invents 'Zero Gravity' Radiation Suit · · Score: 1

    Yes, like in his kevlar example. Many people call it a "bullet proof vest" when in reality it is a "bullet resistant vest".

  24. Re:He didn't invent this on Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board · · Score: 1

    It is not possible to create a better image from one that now has jaggies, unless you also have a higher resolution image. This is because there is no way to know if the original picture actually HAD jaggies, and you don't know whether or not they really need to be removed. For example, Imagine you took a picture of a set of stairs, where each stair became one pixel. If you were to remove the "jaggies" from this picture, you would actually make a less accurate picture.

  25. Re:Hmmm... on Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board · · Score: 1

    Failing? What are you talking about?! Square wheels are even better than circular ones, because you don't even need a parking brake if you're on an incline less than 45 degrees!