If Civilization IV is also on a strip, could you explain what difficulties the development team is having in implementing what seems to be such an obvious and simple detail?
Well, I can't speak for the dev team, but my monitor happens to be flat and rectangular.
This kind of fluff makes front page news? Anybody COULD do anything. Why don't you report on it when MS does? In the meantime, isn't there better stuff to report, like real news?
Tell me about it! Next thing you know we'll have front page stories announcing when software licenses don't change. "This just in: nothing has happened! Film at eleven."
Whoops, thanks for the correction. This time I decided to do actually do the math to see where I went wrong. I used the following figures:
Mean distance between earth and moon: 384400km
Mean distance between sun and earth/moon: 149600000km
Mass of sun, earth, moon: 2e30kg, 6e24kg, 7.4e22kg
And I came up with the following (I am not an astrophysicist, but I play one on the internet):
Gravitational force of sun on earth: 3.5e22N
Gravitational force of moon on earth: 2e20N
Gravitational force of sun on moon: 4.4e20N
So, this may be small consolation to earning a +4 Informative on a misinformed post, but what I had been thinking of was that the moon affects the earth more than the sun (false), instead of that the sun affects the moon more than the earth (true). Sorry for the mix up!
Sorry to spoil what you learned in third grade, but the earth and moon primarily orbit each other. The moon's gravitational influence upon our planet is significantly stronger than that of the sun. High tide isn't caused by the sun, is it?
(Well, actually "neap tides" are caused by the sun and moon working against each other. But the moon wins out, due to its proximity.)
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I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?
You also can't stop the guy from shoving the sandwich up his ass instead of eating it.
Oh... you're talking about the bottle.
Hey has anyone said "he's the 'go-to' guy" yet because I think that is a pretty clever and original joke that I just thought of
Surely you mean your suit.
You pretty much summed it up.
I assume you must own an iPod?
Oh god, that means six million people are out to get me. :(
That's nothing. In emacs you can just type Ctrl-Meta-x busy-beaver and it will solve the Halting Problem.
Well, I can't speak for the dev team, but my monitor happens to be flat and rectangular.
Variables? Impatience! Loops? Laziness! Tail recursion? Hubris!
Bill Clinton was impeached as President of the United States on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice. The Senate acquitted Clinton on both counts in a trial concluding on February 12, 1999.
Good point. I'd forget the classes altogether; just claim on your résumé that you have the degree regardless.
Libertarianism
Pretty sure you mean "There's dedication and there's defecation...."
do you know circletimesquare?
Of course. It's just that now shareholders get to vote on their definition of "evil".
Tell me about it! Next thing you know we'll have front page stories announcing when software licenses don't change. "This just in: nothing has happened! Film at eleven."
Just FYI, you fellow Americans out there probably know Takeshi's Castle better as (the dubbed and heavily edited) Most Extreme Elimination Challenge.
TMYK!
Whoops, thanks for the correction. This time I decided to do actually do the math to see where I went wrong. I used the following figures:
And I came up with the following (I am not an astrophysicist, but I play one on the internet):
So, this may be small consolation to earning a +4 Informative on a misinformed post, but what I had been thinking of was that the moon affects the earth more than the sun (false), instead of that the sun affects the moon more than the earth (true). Sorry for the mix up!
Sorry to spoil what you learned in third grade, but the earth and moon primarily orbit each other. The moon's gravitational influence upon our planet is significantly stronger than that of the sun. High tide isn't caused by the sun, is it?
(Well, actually "neap tides" are caused by the sun and moon working against each other. But the moon wins out, due to its proximity.)
The 80's are calling. It wants its fanboy back.
I couldn't help but notice your sig:
"Wait till they get a load of me!" - Joker, Batman the Movie (1989)
This is heavy.
n/t
Now if we just had a /dev/barely.dressed.teenager, think of all the problems that would be solved...