Aliens wouldn't work. After a couple minutes, they'd realize they fit in here, and we'd buy them a beer and rent them a room.
In Portland, we'd need special Portland disasters (in order of least to most disastrous):
+ A toxic patchouli cloud (poisoning residents)
+ A mob of angry zoobombers on giant bicycles (scaring the populace)
+ Busses, turning left (killing pedestrians)
+ A soy- / gluten- / tree nut- / wheat- / dairy-free and vegan food shortage (starving the citizens)
+ 1/4" of snow (1000s of traffic accidents)
And worst of all:
+ A local brewery shutdown (all out pandemonium)
I'm sure there's some Bush-era-Gestapo-law that the FCC could use to lock up all iPhone users in an undisclosed location.
But seriously, do you think AT&T's going to sue this guy for inciting network usage? Think of all the reporters who have iPhones. They would have a field day with that lawsuit.
Go ahead. Stop using any Google services for 24 hours. On a work day.
See? You're already a google-junkie. Just wait, any time now you'll attach that Google neural-cloud-adword-gmail-access thingy to your brain-stem (Google Think(tm) Beta). It will sound like a good idea at the time too.
Am I a Windows user because I run XP in Parallels on my Mac, or wine in ubuntu? Am I a linux user or a Mac user because I run andLinux and PearPC on my XP laptop???
I'm so confused.
I totally agree.. stupid idea.
And what happens when they miss?
I mean, it's not like they can use GPS guided missiles to find it. Hitting something that's way up there, extremely cold, and running away from you at 30,000 kph is not exactly a trivial operation.
It's also going to be a real bummer when the missile slams back into Earth after 300 years.
Above all, practice (Math is a muscle). Find some problems that you think are interesting, and solve them. If something doesn't work out the right way, try it again. Try and explain the problem to someone else -- that almost always helps.
I highly recommend this book: The Square Root of Two by David Flannery. It's an excellent book which gives some real good insight into how to think about math problems, and is a pretty fun read.
You have to scale the energy involved too: Consider someone dropping a 1 megaton nuke 44km from your house.
That's pretty darn close.
Hope you have lots of lead in your walls.
So who's responsible for the accident if the car is driving (and you're drunk)?
What if you're in the passenger seat while the car is driving (and you're drunk)?
Large means "size of telescope", millimeter means "wavelength". Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional to each other. So big wavelength = small frequency, and big frequency = small wavelength.
See: 1 mm in GHz
Actually, they merged. For a time they were known as S3/Diamond, before they changed their name to SONIC|Blue.
Despite Diamond's declining sales, at the time they merged they had a ton of cash. S3's management came in and spent it all:(
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Aliens wouldn't work. After a couple minutes, they'd realize they fit in here, and we'd buy them a beer and rent them a room.
In Portland, we'd need special Portland disasters (in order of least to most disastrous):
+ A toxic patchouli cloud (poisoning residents)
+ A mob of angry zoobombers on giant bicycles (scaring the populace)
+ Busses, turning left (killing pedestrians)
+ A soy- / gluten- / tree nut- / wheat- / dairy-free and vegan food shortage (starving the citizens)
+ 1/4" of snow (1000s of traffic accidents)
And worst of all:
+ A local brewery shutdown (all out pandemonium)
I usually keep the sticky notes on the bottom of the mouse.
I'm sure there's some Bush-era-Gestapo-law that the FCC could use to lock up all iPhone users in an undisclosed location. But seriously, do you think AT&T's going to sue this guy for inciting network usage? Think of all the reporters who have iPhones. They would have a field day with that lawsuit.
What service has Microsoft provided to me that was Free?
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, ...
Go ahead. Stop using any Google services for 24 hours. On a work day.
See? You're already a google-junkie. Just wait, any time now you'll attach that Google neural-cloud-adword-gmail-access thingy to your brain-stem (Google Think(tm) Beta). It will sound like a good idea at the time too.
Am I a Windows user because I run XP in Parallels on my Mac, or wine in ubuntu? Am I a linux user or a Mac user because I run andLinux and PearPC on my XP laptop??? I'm so confused.
My friend owns a Prius, and if it's moving at a fairly low speed you won't hear it at all.
All you hear are the horrifying screams of the pedestrians being mowed down at 3 mph.
I totally agree .. stupid idea.
And what happens when they miss?
I mean, it's not like they can use GPS guided missiles to find it. Hitting something that's way up there, extremely cold, and running away from you at 30,000 kph is not exactly a trivial operation.
It's also going to be a real bummer when the missile slams back into Earth after 300 years.
Above all, practice (Math is a muscle). Find some problems that you think are interesting, and solve them. If something doesn't work out the right way, try it again. Try and explain the problem to someone else -- that almost always helps.
I highly recommend this book: The Square Root of Two by David Flannery. It's an excellent book which gives some real good insight into how to think about math problems, and is a pretty fun read.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ is a great web site for helping with homework.
Also, don't get discouraged, Math Is Hard.
Isn't a giant microwave full of gas really just a big bomb?
You have to scale the energy involved too: Consider someone dropping a 1 megaton nuke 44km from your house. That's pretty darn close. Hope you have lots of lead in your walls.
So who's responsible for the accident if the car is driving (and you're drunk)? What if you're in the passenger seat while the car is driving (and you're drunk)?
Large means "size of telescope", millimeter means "wavelength". Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional to each other. So big wavelength = small frequency, and big frequency = small wavelength. See: 1 mm in GHz
A normal thief might be limited to 250 identities a year, but the meth addicts don't need to sleep, so they can do at least 500 identities a year.
Actually, they merged. For a time they were known as S3/Diamond, before they changed their name to SONIC|Blue. Despite Diamond's declining sales, at the time they merged they had a ton of cash. S3's management came in and spent it all :(