I find it sordidly funny that when I see a Grand Marshall status avatar in WoW all I can think is, "This is probably the exact-opposite of the person behind the computer." IE, some person whose rear-end is as wide, or wider than they chair they occupy, and would have absolutely no chance of slaying any orc. Poor, poor bastards. What are they going to do when the appocalypse is here?!
I'm staying fit so I can take down a couple of the horsemen at least.
Preach it, brother. I was going to buy an original Playstation back in the day. But then I saw the load times and said no way. A friend showed me Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. It took 10-15 seconds to go from the game to the 'in game' menu and 10-12 on the way back again. No chance I'd ever put up with that. I just waited for my 64 and was quite happy with almost non-existent load-times.
Though I almost had a heart attack when I got my Gamecube and borrowed a copy of Turok: Evolution (worst game in the series) with load times of well over a minute between stages. At the time the only other game I had played was Wave Race: Blue Storm, which had minimal load-times. Here's to the Wii with little load times (here's hopeing, anyway)!
I suppose a small amount of explanation is neccesary.
If I didn't have time to finish the assigned work either in class, between classes, at lunch (rarely did I work on stuff in lunch) before or after school, then I didn't do my homework. I did drive every day and got there 20 minutes early and hung out or whatever for half an hour after (so I didn't have to wait for busses).
Part of that 3.5 was phyics and calc homework never getting done. I knew my stuff, but only got half the homework grades. That and I sucked at French.
If you're knocking the quality of my schooling, well, go ahead. My school was far too easy.
Good call on that one. I started off on the original FF. And have played all of them but the MMO. The only games I didn't like were 8 and 10, I never got into 2. I think the 3D in 7 had a lot to do with why people liked it. But it also had an epic story. My favorite is 6. Followed by 4 and then 7. Never played PGR, but I like every installment of Gran Turismo better than the last. Though 5 looks like it will suck if they are going to nickle-and-dime me for tracks and cars. That and I won't buy a PS3 for at least two years (when all the bugs are worked out and it's less than 300 bucks).
I'm part of the counter-example too. I spent hours upon hours playing N64 (Goldeneye, WCW vs. NWO Revenge, Zelda...) with friends. I breezed through school with a 3.5. Never once did my homework, and tied my best friend for the most amount of honors credits earned throughout our school. Incedentally, he did his homework, had a 3.65 or thereabouts, and was one of the people I was playing multi-player N64 with the whole time.
Neither one of us was valdictorian (or whatever that was, we didn't care), but we took the hardest classes we could find just to keep entertained throughout school.
They don't want it sitting in a seperate cabinet. They want it sitting on the floor in front of the TV. Or on the coffee table. Anywhere people will see it. Problem is, wireless controllers make it very easy to hide the system. My friend's 360 is sitting out of view because he doesn't want people to see it.
I'm getting this game. I predict right now that nothing will be more fun than drinking heavily and multi-player Pocket Bike Racer. At any rate, I'm sure it would keep annoying people away if all you wanted to play was Sneak King whenever "that guy" shows up.
Oh, guess you're right. Looked up some more about the subject. Get's more confusing as you go. Thanks for the correction. Guess it's back to physics class for me.
Yeah, I know about elasticity and absorbtion by the legs, shoes, gravel/dirt/concrete/jell-0 that you land on. That's why I said roughly, and that I didn't want to go through the math. Though I know I'm wrong, I'd say that it's a descent explanation in laymens terms. IE, don't jump off the roof, it's not a good idea. Don't go and try to experience 2000g's, it's a much worse idea.
Hmm.. don't like responding to AC's, but you're wrong. Cetnripedal force does exist. It's the force pushing an object to the center of that arc. Swing a yoyo around. The Centripedal force is what keeps the thing from flying off at a tangent, IE, the string. Or in the case of a massive circular accelerator, big fricken electro magnetic fields that continuously push the object toward the center of the arc (and, per the artcle) ends up around 2000g's total.
The non-exhistant force you're thinking of is centrafugal (I've also heard it called centripical). The one that people believe is keeping the moon from crashing into the earth. There is no force pushing/pulling the moon away from the earth. Its momentum plus the earth's gravitational pull keeps it in orbit. Nothing more, nothing less.
My step-brother has a daughter who is 4 or 5 years old and runs a pretty good Warlock on WoW. She's not a raider (mostly due to very little ability to chat, some people have gotten pissed with her and thank God for the language filter, he dad has to jump in once and a while to explain some things), but she is very good at using the pet system (heck, better than I can run a Hunter/Warlock). Always forgets to repair her items, though.
And a similar sentament to other comments, if you can get my grandma to use this successfully, I'll be impressed. She can barely manage turning on the computer to read/write email.
Well, the forces would be different. The track would probably need to be longer than the earth's diameter if you were to linearly accelerate to Mach 23 with a max of 5-6g's over a time which can still cause problems with sight because, well, the blood has a lot of trouble making it's way around the brain. Pilots experience longer periods of high g force (6-8) and will lose color vision, and could black out as well. Though after veiwing some research on the subject humans can survive small periods of much higher g force. But nothing has been recorded of a person surviving more than 200g's over a fraction of a second. Don't have time to link the wiki article.
Hopefully, no. But the are talking about 2000 G's at tops. I imagine that anything over 100g's would crush anything which isn't very sturctually sound. Remember, that's a constant force. So it doesn't matter how quickly they accelerate it. If it reaches 2000 G's, then it reaches 2000 G's. And, since you're not good at math, that's a constant force of 19Km/s^2. That's not including it's radial (latteral/forward) accelleration.
Another way to think about it (if my understanding is correct) is that if something weighs 1g at 1 G of force. At 2000 G's it will weigh 2Kg. Here's a (very) rough example. Imagin you're standing on the top of a building that is 9.8m tall (about 32 feet). You walk off the building. You hit the ground (and conversely, it hits you) at about 2G's. Not a lot of people can do that without breaking a limb. And 2000 G's would easily liquify a human.
Feel free to correct my math if you want. I just don't feel like doing the actual work.
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"Outside a dog, a book is your best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
I used to have a c64, and I may still have it, but the c64 stopped working 10 years ago, haven't pulled out the box or looked for it at my dad's place for just as long. There was a game called Star Fox or Space Fox or something for it. It was a side scrolling game, but I don't remember much else about it. Except that you would fly through a cave which my brother and I both agreed was the moon (back when we were 4 and 6 years old, and moon experts). Anybody have any clue what I'm talking about?
And you've hit the nail on the head. And I believe it explains part of the undeniable sense of depair I feel whenever I have to walk into a Wal-Mart. Especially the 'ghetto' Wal-Marts that have fallen into K-Mart levels of disrepair.
You sure about that? I can (won't, for obvious reasons) give you plenty of phone numbers to people who get jerked around like this all the time. They are told that their paychecks are 'averaged' over an 80 hour work week. Well, I know it's illegal, but if the employees don't care enough to stir something up, why would I?
I didn't say they didn't serve a purpose at one time. Yes, they enable cheaper goods, but at the cost of another economy in another town that they're sucking dry. What I meant buy sucking the essense out of a product is like when they put Rubbermaid out of business because they would no longer buy products from them unless they cut their prices to below operating budget. Just like they do with all their product maker. They put other communities out of business. When they suck one of those dry, they find another and suck it dry. They've been doing it for years.
I honestly don't know why people continue working at Wal-Mart. I have a friend who has put in 4 or 5 years there, she's full-time w/o benifits. The reason she doesn't get a job? Apathy. She's comfortable there and doesn't have the will/drive/spirit to find a new job. If you walk through these places, you'll see two types of workers. Kids who don't care, and relatively defeated adults, with few exceptions. They either don't care, or are broken.
Another reason they don't leave is becuase all the other retail stores and other job sources are full. You work at Wal-Mart because you don't have any other choices. Not for the benifits of the job. Not for the low pay. Not for the 10% discount card (they'd more than make up for the discount at another job). Wal-Mart gets away with screwing their employees because their employees typically have no other choice.
Wal-Mart sucks the essense out of every product they buy. They've put more companies out of business by buying their products than by moving into small towns and setting up shop. I hate Wal-Mart and refuse to buy anything there unless absolutely necessary. If Apple starts dancing with the Devil, I'm probably out of ITMS for good. Sure, I'll let them give me iTunes updates and update my iPod, but I will stop buying music from them. I never purchased movies from iTunes, but this would definately stop me.
Got a lot of friends who've been working for Wal-Mart for years and have been getting the shaft the whole time. Wal-Mart does not care about its employees or suppliers. I work in the health-care industry, particularaly with insurance providers. Wal-Mart contracts through Blue Cross of Illinois for benefits of their 'full-time' work force. (Meaning 40 hours a week, but they won't pay you overtime if you work 60 one week and 20 the next). You want a bad benifit package, ask a Wal-Mart employee. The government offers far better insurance for people below the poverty line and for much cheaper. And your average full-time (non-manager) Wal-Mart employee is at poverty-level income.
I think you're thinking of epsilon... which I have no clue how to type into a/. comment.
In my Calc II class in college we had a couple TA's. One was there to help students and the other was there to grade papers. They butted heads a lot becuase the TA that helped the students did it in a way that pissed off the grader (didn't show enough work or something like that on the homework). Well, I'd frequently get knocked off a few points because I didn't show a step here and there (usually nitpicky stuff like simplification). Which pissed me off to no end when it would effect my grade. The prof told me to take it up with the TA. Who couldn't care less, and refused to re-issue grades.
At the end of the class my comment on the review sheet for the TA's was as follows: "The combined absolute value of the TA's was less than epsilon." Followed by the formula |TA1 + TA2| E (or something to that effect. I was pissed about my grade. Later I found out this prof used the same TA for all her grading and I had to rearrange my schedule so I wouldn't get that TA again.
I'm pretty sure the niche market for premade gaming rigs is remaining small because most people who want a gaming rig know how to build one for half that price. I checked out some of the stuff on the voodoo website and its obscene.
IIRC, they are using the earth's rotation for momentum during the launch. The closer to the equator, the more momentum they've already got. It's a lot easier then launching something into orbit, then re-boosting it to Mars, or even to a simple geosyncronis orbit (or however you spell that). So, basically Florida is the best bet since Hawaii is so small and it would be more than impracticle to ship equipment there.
I'll give you every other game on your list. And agree 100% with you about Perfect Dark vs Halo I & II. But Turok: Rage Wars? I & II were a lot more fun than Rage Wars... Rage wars was like playing Unreal Tournament on the 64. Never enjoyed it. What did you like about it so much?
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I'm staying fit so I can take down a couple of the horsemen at least.
Though I almost had a heart attack when I got my Gamecube and borrowed a copy of Turok: Evolution (worst game in the series) with load times of well over a minute between stages. At the time the only other game I had played was Wave Race: Blue Storm, which had minimal load-times. Here's to the Wii with little load times (here's hopeing, anyway)!
If I didn't have time to finish the assigned work either in class, between classes, at lunch (rarely did I work on stuff in lunch) before or after school, then I didn't do my homework. I did drive every day and got there 20 minutes early and hung out or whatever for half an hour after (so I didn't have to wait for busses).
Part of that 3.5 was phyics and calc homework never getting done. I knew my stuff, but only got half the homework grades. That and I sucked at French.
If you're knocking the quality of my schooling, well, go ahead. My school was far too easy.
Good call on that one. I started off on the original FF. And have played all of them but the MMO. The only games I didn't like were 8 and 10, I never got into 2. I think the 3D in 7 had a lot to do with why people liked it. But it also had an epic story. My favorite is 6. Followed by 4 and then 7. Never played PGR, but I like every installment of Gran Turismo better than the last. Though 5 looks like it will suck if they are going to nickle-and-dime me for tracks and cars. That and I won't buy a PS3 for at least two years (when all the bugs are worked out and it's less than 300 bucks).
All that great upbringing and you're still a coward... I guess varsity sports doesn't give you any courage, you Cowardly Lion, you!
Neither one of us was valdictorian (or whatever that was, we didn't care), but we took the hardest classes we could find just to keep entertained throughout school.
They don't want it sitting in a seperate cabinet. They want it sitting on the floor in front of the TV. Or on the coffee table. Anywhere people will see it. Problem is, wireless controllers make it very easy to hide the system. My friend's 360 is sitting out of view because he doesn't want people to see it.
I'm getting this game. I predict right now that nothing will be more fun than drinking heavily and multi-player Pocket Bike Racer. At any rate, I'm sure it would keep annoying people away if all you wanted to play was Sneak King whenever "that guy" shows up.
Oh, guess you're right. Looked up some more about the subject. Get's more confusing as you go. Thanks for the correction. Guess it's back to physics class for me.
Yeah, I know about elasticity and absorbtion by the legs, shoes, gravel/dirt/concrete/jell-0 that you land on. That's why I said roughly, and that I didn't want to go through the math. Though I know I'm wrong, I'd say that it's a descent explanation in laymens terms. IE, don't jump off the roof, it's not a good idea. Don't go and try to experience 2000g's, it's a much worse idea.
The non-exhistant force you're thinking of is centrafugal (I've also heard it called centripical). The one that people believe is keeping the moon from crashing into the earth. There is no force pushing/pulling the moon away from the earth. Its momentum plus the earth's gravitational pull keeps it in orbit. Nothing more, nothing less.
And a similar sentament to other comments, if you can get my grandma to use this successfully, I'll be impressed. She can barely manage turning on the computer to read/write email.
Well, the forces would be different. The track would probably need to be longer than the earth's diameter if you were to linearly accelerate to Mach 23 with a max of 5-6g's over a time which can still cause problems with sight because, well, the blood has a lot of trouble making it's way around the brain. Pilots experience longer periods of high g force (6-8) and will lose color vision, and could black out as well. Though after veiwing some research on the subject humans can survive small periods of much higher g force. But nothing has been recorded of a person surviving more than 200g's over a fraction of a second. Don't have time to link the wiki article.
Another way to think about it (if my understanding is correct) is that if something weighs 1g at 1 G of force. At 2000 G's it will weigh 2Kg. Here's a (very) rough example. Imagin you're standing on the top of a building that is 9.8m tall (about 32 feet). You walk off the building. You hit the ground (and conversely, it hits you) at about 2G's. Not a lot of people can do that without breaking a limb. And 2000 G's would easily liquify a human.
Feel free to correct my math if you want. I just don't feel like doing the actual work.
"Outside a dog, a book is your best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
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I used to have a c64, and I may still have it, but the c64 stopped working 10 years ago, haven't pulled out the box or looked for it at my dad's place for just as long. There was a game called Star Fox or Space Fox or something for it. It was a side scrolling game, but I don't remember much else about it. Except that you would fly through a cave which my brother and I both agreed was the moon (back when we were 4 and 6 years old, and moon experts). Anybody have any clue what I'm talking about?
And you've hit the nail on the head. And I believe it explains part of the undeniable sense of depair I feel whenever I have to walk into a Wal-Mart. Especially the 'ghetto' Wal-Marts that have fallen into K-Mart levels of disrepair.
You sure about that? I can (won't, for obvious reasons) give you plenty of phone numbers to people who get jerked around like this all the time. They are told that their paychecks are 'averaged' over an 80 hour work week. Well, I know it's illegal, but if the employees don't care enough to stir something up, why would I?
I didn't say they didn't serve a purpose at one time. Yes, they enable cheaper goods, but at the cost of another economy in another town that they're sucking dry. What I meant buy sucking the essense out of a product is like when they put Rubbermaid out of business because they would no longer buy products from them unless they cut their prices to below operating budget. Just like they do with all their product maker. They put other communities out of business. When they suck one of those dry, they find another and suck it dry. They've been doing it for years.
Another reason they don't leave is becuase all the other retail stores and other job sources are full. You work at Wal-Mart because you don't have any other choices. Not for the benifits of the job. Not for the low pay. Not for the 10% discount card (they'd more than make up for the discount at another job). Wal-Mart gets away with screwing their employees because their employees typically have no other choice.
Got a lot of friends who've been working for Wal-Mart for years and have been getting the shaft the whole time. Wal-Mart does not care about its employees or suppliers. I work in the health-care industry, particularaly with insurance providers. Wal-Mart contracts through Blue Cross of Illinois for benefits of their 'full-time' work force. (Meaning 40 hours a week, but they won't pay you overtime if you work 60 one week and 20 the next). You want a bad benifit package, ask a Wal-Mart employee. The government offers far better insurance for people below the poverty line and for much cheaper. And your average full-time (non-manager) Wal-Mart employee is at poverty-level income.
In my Calc II class in college we had a couple TA's. One was there to help students and the other was there to grade papers. They butted heads a lot becuase the TA that helped the students did it in a way that pissed off the grader (didn't show enough work or something like that on the homework). Well, I'd frequently get knocked off a few points because I didn't show a step here and there (usually nitpicky stuff like simplification). Which pissed me off to no end when it would effect my grade. The prof told me to take it up with the TA. Who couldn't care less, and refused to re-issue grades.
At the end of the class my comment on the review sheet for the TA's was as follows:
"The combined absolute value of the TA's was less than epsilon." Followed by the formula |TA1 + TA2| E (or something to that effect. I was pissed about my grade. Later I found out this prof used the same TA for all her grading and I had to rearrange my schedule so I wouldn't get that TA again.
I'm pretty sure the niche market for premade gaming rigs is remaining small because most people who want a gaming rig know how to build one for half that price. I checked out some of the stuff on the voodoo website and its obscene.
IIRC, they are using the earth's rotation for momentum during the launch. The closer to the equator, the more momentum they've already got. It's a lot easier then launching something into orbit, then re-boosting it to Mars, or even to a simple geosyncronis orbit (or however you spell that). So, basically Florida is the best bet since Hawaii is so small and it would be more than impracticle to ship equipment there.
I'll give you every other game on your list. And agree 100% with you about Perfect Dark vs Halo I & II. But Turok: Rage Wars? I & II were a lot more fun than Rage Wars... Rage wars was like playing Unreal Tournament on the 64. Never enjoyed it. What did you like about it so much?