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No, if you read Ender's Shadow, it's pointed out several times that Bean isn't human...so Ender is still the smartest =) -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
not true...the last book in the series, children of the mind was pretty damn good. Much better than the 2nd and 3rd books of the series although not quite as good as Ender's Game -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Who really cares what OS anyone out there is running? If you hate windoze than don't use it. If you can't stand being without winblows games then go ahead and use it. I really don't care what anyone else reading/. does.
I personally use both Wintendo and Linux. Windows is used to allow me to play games (on one system) and Linux on all my others.
So everyone just stop complaining...that M$ OS that you love to bash so much isn't going anywhere and posting that everyone reading/. is using it isn't going to accomplish anything...so shut up!!! -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Okay, so I couldn't resist blatent advertising for our site about the RPI albino squirrel...enough RPI alumns seem to be reading slashdot and alot of alumns seem to get amusement out of seeing the site, so for all you out there, www.rpi.edu/~akarij is the link to the page that me and a friend run about the RPI albino squirrel...*smile* (T-shirts for sale! hehe) -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
sorry, but that's hardly the greatest prank of RPI. doesn't really take that much imagination to make a banner and hang it off the side of the CII now does it? also not that impressive considering just about anyone can get to that window on the 9th floor and throw it off. Also, it's been done more than once here.
Unfortunately, it's sad to say that stupid sh*t like that is the best that any of the students have come up with this year. All the bricks on the JEC walkway are now attached so that you can't move them. And well, the students aren't doing much else. Only other thing done this year is someone putting 'RPI bullets' in all of the round windows of the CII around finals time at the end of the first semester... -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
*smile* post that to rpi.general, not slashdot...heh
for everyone else's info though, about two weeks ago, everyone woke up to see LMNOPF posted all over campus...it was painted on teh ground, printed on balloons that were hung everywhere, on stickers that were stuck to everything, etc.
Amusing thing about this is that noone on campus had any idea as to what it meant. After a week or so, it finally leaked out that this was a statement about non statements (ie it had no meaning). -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Drop Squad no longer exists at RPI btw. The people involved in it got in a lot of trouble with the faculty here a while ago and were forced to stop. Although pointless destruction of random things is still a common occurance here at RPI as is witnessed by my ex-laptop. -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Although i prefer the theory that the universe is infinitely curved into a single point. Since it's still a curve though, this explains why we're not standing in every point in the universe. Or at least why we don't percieve it that way.
Think of it as an infinitely thin 2D sheet of paper again (ignore the fact that there are 18 known dimensions). If you keep folding that piece of paper you will eventually be left with a single point with the same mass and area as the original sheet of paper. Now taking this situation and applying it to the universe, one sees that we do, in fact occupy every point in the universe simultaneously and if one could figure out how to, it would be a fairly simple task to 'hop' from any point in the universe to any other. -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
This theory is based on the idea that since the universe is curved, nothing can ever travel in a truley 'straight' line, and by observing the current path of anything, we can calculate the overal curvature of the universe. There are, however, many problems with this theory leading it to be highly disputed. 1) In order to measure the true curvature of an object, you can't be on the same path as that object. So the only way to measure the universal curvature of a particle in space would be to step outside of space. 2) The theory also assumes that the universe has a constant curvature throughout it. There is no evidence anywhere for or against this. All that this 'evidence' would ever show is what the curvature of the universe is in the immediate vicinity of our galaxy. 3) you can't measure anything without effecting your results. 4) There is no way to dispute the fact that at least part of the curvature of space around us is to be contributed to the mass of objects we can or can not see. Therefore, measuring the curvature of the space around us ONLY measures the curvature of the space around us and not the entire universe -- ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
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No, if you read Ender's Shadow, it's pointed out several times that Bean isn't human...so Ender is still the smartest =)
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
This one is still from Bean's perspective...as you see if you read the first 5 chapters of it
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not true...the last book in the series, children of the mind was pretty damn good. Much better than the 2nd and 3rd books of the series although not quite as good as Ender's Game
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Yup. We have 30 squirrels here and one is white. *smile*
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I personally use both Wintendo and Linux. Windows is used to allow me to play games (on one system) and Linux on all my others.
So everyone just stop complaining...that M$ OS that you love to bash so much isn't going anywhere and posting that everyone reading /. is using it isn't going to accomplish anything...so shut up!!!
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Okay, so I couldn't resist blatent advertising for our site about the RPI albino squirrel...enough RPI alumns seem to be reading slashdot and alot of alumns seem to get amusement out of seeing the site, so for all you out there, www.rpi.edu/~akarij is the link to the page that me and a friend run about the RPI albino squirrel...*smile* (T-shirts for sale! hehe)
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Unfortunately, it's sad to say that stupid sh*t like that is the best that any of the students have come up with this year. All the bricks on the JEC walkway are now attached so that you can't move them. And well, the students aren't doing much else. Only other thing done this year is someone putting 'RPI bullets' in all of the round windows of the CII around finals time at the end of the first semester...
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
for everyone else's info though, about two weeks ago, everyone woke up to see LMNOPF posted all over campus...it was painted on teh ground, printed on balloons that were hung everywhere, on stickers that were stuck to everything, etc.
Amusing thing about this is that noone on campus had any idea as to what it meant. After a week or so, it finally leaked out that this was a statement about non statements (ie it had no meaning).
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
they were...at least some of them
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Drop Squad no longer exists at RPI btw. The people involved in it got in a lot of trouble with the faculty here a while ago and were forced to stop. Although pointless destruction of random things is still a common occurance here at RPI as is witnessed by my ex-laptop.
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
Think of it as an infinitely thin 2D sheet of paper again (ignore the fact that there are 18 known dimensions). If you keep folding that piece of paper you will eventually be left with a single point with the same mass and area as the original sheet of paper. Now taking this situation and applying it to the universe, one sees that we do, in fact occupy every point in the universe simultaneously and if one could figure out how to, it would be a fairly simple task to 'hop' from any point in the universe to any other.
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES
This theory is based on the idea that since the universe is curved, nothing can ever travel in a truley 'straight' line, and by observing the current path of anything, we can calculate the overal curvature of the universe. There are, however, many problems with this theory leading it to be highly disputed. 1) In order to measure the true curvature of an object, you can't be on the same path as that object. So the only way to measure the universal curvature of a particle in space would be to step outside of space. 2) The theory also assumes that the universe has a constant curvature throughout it. There is no evidence anywhere for or against this. All that this 'evidence' would ever show is what the curvature of the universe is in the immediate vicinity of our galaxy. 3) you can't measure anything without effecting your results. 4) There is no way to dispute the fact that at least part of the curvature of space around us is to be contributed to the mass of objects we can or can not see. Therefore, measuring the curvature of the space around us ONLY measures the curvature of the space around us and not the entire universe
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ICQ#: 7012329 | AIM NICK: CW0LVES