I don't know. I think it might be kind of fun to be small... even half my current size. Imagine the lower cost of a house only half the normal size. Heck, you could buy a full size house, double the floors and halve the rooms and you have a mansion!
I'm not a fanboy, but your post seemed the most bias on this entire story. Great false information there! I'm totally going to have more posts than you will as soon as my new keyboard comes back from repair. Stupid Caps-Lock of death!
Maybe it's just me, but if you were to run that for the entire useful time (according to your figures) you might get 125-180 minutes (2-3 hours) which sounds absolutely horrible. If you were actively using the machine running a game or other intensive app, you'd get even less. I haven't shopped for laptops recently, but if that's the standard I'll stick to my non-portable solution or my tablet which is clocking in around 8 hours.
And the PS3 is sitting right around 3-3.5 million 6 months off the block. So, if we say that people didn't buy them for the games (which my brother didn't) you might safely guess that quite a few of those (>1 million?) are dedicated players. Not even including the sales of the dedicated players themselves. Blu Ray is picking up like it or not.
That's part of the reason I've been on the CONSTANT search for a huge group based MMO and/or RPG. Raids don't cut it for me. Getting together 40 people to have them spam the same spells over and over just to get one item is not fun. I don't care who you are. I think my biggest problem with MMOs is competition and raiding. Your supposed to be there (IMHO) to help each other conquer the odds and take out the boss or defend your village, not fight over DKP points and loot drops. Why do MMOs have to be about competition? XBox Live is the same way with achievements. Any way to get you to compete against another player instead of competing against a mob. I want to go back to a co-op MMO. Sure, you'll say that raiding is the ultimate man vs monster scenario, but I'll tell you your wrong. Find me a single group of 4-6 people and a nice elaborate dungeon and I'm happy for hours! We need to go back to the days of community helping each other instead of killing each other to try to sooth some sort of e-peen envy.
If you get together a few people in a random dungeon spelunking group, you'll find out way more about those few than you will ever find out about 300 of your closest guild-mates. You shouldn't need to read through pages and pages of spam to find the text you want in a small group.
Alas, my perfect MMO doesn't get Joe and Jim to invite 250 other paying subscribers to play "the new game" so I pretty much gave up looking. MMORPGs went from a subscription fee to support the servers and devs to a subscription fee to support the kids of an overpaid CEO.
That's alright, our school used to claim "bomb threats" then open everyone's locker to check for "bombs" and confiscate and report everyone who had questionable materials.
Sports funding has always been an interesting subject for me. On one hand, you could completely subsidize the schools on land taxes and kill the farmers who might not even have a kid in that school, or you can build a stadium, and make all the parents of the kids who actually go to the school pay the high ticket price voluntarily. I don't know how it was/is at your high school, but at mine, sports funded a huge chunk of the general education bill. In doing so, property taxes were lower.
We'll call that a programming logic error.;) It used to reference the.isFit parameter, but due to a miscommunication, the results turned out all wrong!
Yeah, but what if by moving the speed of light, matter becomes light? If matter could accelerate to the speed of light, I would think that it would collide with other matter, exploding, expelling energy in the form of light. Hitting an object at that speed would cause it to slow and scatter, but at a slower speed exponentially until it came to rest. However, light bouncing off "stalled matter" would reflect at such speeds leaving behind a trail of energy from the collision (heat). It would also explain to me how shadows work. The question I always had using that principle is: could two particles of light/matter hit or near-miss (close orbit/slingshot) each other in such a way that it would accelerate them beyond light speed? I go back to the thought that if light was matter, it would build up over time. Matter (Light particles at sub-light) would be attracted to other light particles and form orbits and collections. (Planets, moons, matter as we know it...)
...good question. You could just wave your pole around in the air and you'd still be using it. GP never said it had to be a "good use". Though, I guess if I were to try to determine the usefulness of an object, I would have to determine if it did any amount of work.
Ask yourself if the pole created something...
Also, ask yourself if the pole expended energy to produce said item...
I said ask yourself, don't tell us!
To the original question, I guess it would depend on the electrical field surrounding the atoms of the pole. How strong are these fields and do they repel each other with more force than your capable of pushing?
The last one I can think of is Bill Nye. Other than Bill, I'm not sure. It's kind of sad. I just saw him on TV the other month for something but I can't remember what.
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I say we replace CO2 emissions with Hydrochloric Acid emissions and see how the economy reacts.
I don't know. I think it might be kind of fun to be small... even half my current size. Imagine the lower cost of a house only half the normal size. Heck, you could buy a full size house, double the floors and halve the rooms and you have a mansion!
I think you just did...
I'm not a fanboy, but your post seemed the most bias on this entire story. Great false information there! I'm totally going to have more posts than you will as soon as my new keyboard comes back from repair. Stupid Caps-Lock of death!
http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html There's a start...
Oh No!
He's done far worse than kill you. He's given you that thick southern accent!
Maybe it's just me, but if you were to run that for the entire useful time (according to your figures) you might get 125-180 minutes (2-3 hours) which sounds absolutely horrible. If you were actively using the machine running a game or other intensive app, you'd get even less. I haven't shopped for laptops recently, but if that's the standard I'll stick to my non-portable solution or my tablet which is clocking in around 8 hours.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8403 514&st=bluray&type=product&id=1180743330749
- $499.99 is $100 cheaper than a PS3.
And the PS3 is sitting right around 3-3.5 million 6 months off the block. So, if we say that people didn't buy them for the games (which my brother didn't) you might safely guess that quite a few of those (>1 million?) are dedicated players. Not even including the sales of the dedicated players themselves. Blu Ray is picking up like it or not.
That's part of the reason I've been on the CONSTANT search for a huge group based MMO and/or RPG. Raids don't cut it for me. Getting together 40 people to have them spam the same spells over and over just to get one item is not fun. I don't care who you are. I think my biggest problem with MMOs is competition and raiding. Your supposed to be there (IMHO) to help each other conquer the odds and take out the boss or defend your village, not fight over DKP points and loot drops. Why do MMOs have to be about competition? XBox Live is the same way with achievements. Any way to get you to compete against another player instead of competing against a mob. I want to go back to a co-op MMO. Sure, you'll say that raiding is the ultimate man vs monster scenario, but I'll tell you your wrong. Find me a single group of 4-6 people and a nice elaborate dungeon and I'm happy for hours! We need to go back to the days of community helping each other instead of killing each other to try to sooth some sort of e-peen envy.
If you get together a few people in a random dungeon spelunking group, you'll find out way more about those few than you will ever find out about 300 of your closest guild-mates. You shouldn't need to read through pages and pages of spam to find the text you want in a small group.
Alas, my perfect MMO doesn't get Joe and Jim to invite 250 other paying subscribers to play "the new game" so I pretty much gave up looking. MMORPGs went from a subscription fee to support the servers and devs to a subscription fee to support the kids of an overpaid CEO.
Aw shit, he's just trying to make a point. Why you all shittin' in his shit? Shit.
That's alright, our school used to claim "bomb threats" then open everyone's locker to check for "bombs" and confiscate and report everyone who had questionable materials.
Sports funding has always been an interesting subject for me. On one hand, you could completely subsidize the schools on land taxes and kill the farmers who might not even have a kid in that school, or you can build a stadium, and make all the parents of the kids who actually go to the school pay the high ticket price voluntarily. I don't know how it was/is at your high school, but at mine, sports funded a huge chunk of the general education bill. In doing so, property taxes were lower.
Linux will take over the desktop by Xmas!!!
Give the guy a break, he clearly missed the article ahead of this called: The Psychology of Fanboys
We'll call that a programming logic error. ;) It used to reference the .isFit parameter, but due to a miscommunication, the results turned out all wrong!
for (int i = 0; i < girl.length; i++) {
if (girl[i].expectsGiftsOfAffection || (girl[i].isReligious && girl[i].isPreachy) || girl[i].isDiseased || !girl[i].isSizeOfBus) {
girl.remove(i);
} else {
girl[i].cout << "I love you!";
}
}
I keep getting a null array back... I can't even get to the line where I can output those words!! Grah! Stupid dataset!
Yeah, but what if by moving the speed of light, matter becomes light? If matter could accelerate to the speed of light, I would think that it would collide with other matter, exploding, expelling energy in the form of light. Hitting an object at that speed would cause it to slow and scatter, but at a slower speed exponentially until it came to rest. However, light bouncing off "stalled matter" would reflect at such speeds leaving behind a trail of energy from the collision (heat). It would also explain to me how shadows work. The question I always had using that principle is: could two particles of light/matter hit or near-miss (close orbit/slingshot) each other in such a way that it would accelerate them beyond light speed? I go back to the thought that if light was matter, it would build up over time. Matter (Light particles at sub-light) would be attracted to other light particles and form orbits and collections. (Planets, moons, matter as we know it...)
...too much thought for one day.
...good question. You could just wave your pole around in the air and you'd still be using it. GP never said it had to be a "good use". Though, I guess if I were to try to determine the usefulness of an object, I would have to determine if it did any amount of work.
Ask yourself if the pole created something...
Also, ask yourself if the pole expended energy to produce said item...
I said ask yourself, don't tell us!
To the original question, I guess it would depend on the electrical field surrounding the atoms of the pole. How strong are these fields and do they repel each other with more force than your capable of pushing?
You stick to English as your primary language, and I'll stick to C.
;)
</Just playing>
The last one I can think of is Bill Nye. Other than Bill, I'm not sure. It's kind of sad. I just saw him on TV the other month for something but I can't remember what.
Amazing, for someone I've never met, I think I just cried a little (and am not afraid to admit it.) I used to love that show.
...and it's on Windows.
http://www.soepress.com/release.asp?i=111
Even if you did have the points, you couldn't use them now since you posted...
Doh!