Actually, I believe it will weigh more, given that temperature is related to the kinetic energy of the molecules, and taking special relativity into account (E = mc^2)
Speaking of fuel, we've got Entry, Descent, and Landing, but what about Escape? I never seem to see anything mentioned about actually getting astronauts back to Earth after landing on Mars. Since Mars' gravity strength is a problem for landing, I'd assume it would be a bigger problem to get back off the planet.
Perhaps they'd also have to land extra fuel by the conventional airbag method, but even then setting up a craft for launch would probably pose quite a challenge.
Suppose an astronaut travels away from the earth at 99.9% of the speed of light. According to relativity, if he ever returns then everyone on earth will have aged considerably more than he has. But he has to turn around at some point in order for this to happen, hence he has to accelerate. And it doesn't take any reference points to judge that acceleration, so you can in effect say that he has travelled into (Earth's) future, and that the entire Earth has not travelled into the past.
I'd think it would be more likely that they could just jam the signals. Come to think of it, if the enemy gets their hands on a few iphones it could wreak havoc on this squadron.
My personal favorite. I'm not surprised it's not in the top ten, but seriously, how can a game like Advance Wars beat it?
Every time I see a list like this I can't help but feel how subjective it is. How was this list compiled? It's obvious this list is biased toward Edge writers' and editors' opinions, and "thousands of readers" isn't a very good indicator anyways.
Have there been any polls of this sort that encompass a broader audience, worldwide?
That's never been my experience. I don't know what games you're thinking of, but the ones I've played usually have a fair amount players in the game (or at least in the games where there's someone worth kicking), and you can never get enough people to vote the person out. Halo, in my opinion, doesn't need a vote to kick/ban because the games are relatively short and have fewer players (unless they decide to expand to, say, 32-64 person matches for halo 3).
My personal opinion is they need to make it harder to accidentally kick someone. I've had numerous cases of being kicked/kicking someone because in Halo 2, all you need to do is press X for a second (which, incidentally, is the _reload_ button!) Also, they need to allow you to kick people who suicide more than 2 or 3 times in one match. "Deleveling" for whatever reason has become a major annoyance online, and it would make it so much better if they gave all the teammates the chance to kick someone who decides to kill themselves just to annoy their teammates. Granted, it's not a complete solution, but it would help.
Oh, and just fix the teamkill punishment system in general. The system in Halo 2 is so buggy; it often thinks you were teamkilled when an enemy killed you (or even when you suicide).
I would second a TI-89, if your teacher allows you to use it on exams. I had one for calc in high school, used it on the AP test and all my calc exams, and it makes things much easier. It is almost cheating, though, since it does symbolic differetiation/integration. Now that I'm in college, the professors won't let us use an 89 on the tests, but it's still nice when you want to check your answers for homework.
So because the book was "culturally-sensitive" and didn't do a good job of presenting the material, they concluded that integrated math = bad?
Personally, I had a completely different experience, where I switched from a private junior high that was teaching integrated math to a public high school that wasn't. As it turns out, I took a whole year of geometry that, given what I already knew of geometry, could have easily been included in my other courses. If the high school had been teaching integrated math (which they are now switching to) I could have finished two years of calculus, which would have put me ahead in college.
I don't think that necessarily proves that integrated math is better, but switching back and forth can't do any good.
Yes, but qwerty is probably better for lefthanders than right handers (e, t, and a, for example, are the most frequent english letters and they all appear on the left side of a qwerty keyboard).
"But remember: the fact that you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you."
-Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson, Practical Cryptography
I'm sure the folks at Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Yale, etc. would like to disagree with you.
Out of high school, the students who want to succeed will be the ones going to the best universities, that don't have to focus on "mediocre" students because they have so few of them.
Are you kidding? Haven't you seen "The Time Machine?"
Today, two-ton probes; tomorrow, mining operations that fail catastrophically, breaking the moon into massive chunks that will fall to earth, wreaking havoc on the planet.
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An alternate brane exists where interstellar dust beings are pondering exactly the same thing about us.
In any case, I for one welcome our new interstellar dust being overlords/
Actually, I believe it will weigh more, given that temperature is related to the kinetic energy of the molecules, and taking special relativity into account (E = mc^2)
Speaking of fuel, we've got Entry, Descent, and Landing, but what about Escape? I never seem to see anything mentioned about actually getting astronauts back to Earth after landing on Mars. Since Mars' gravity strength is a problem for landing, I'd assume it would be a bigger problem to get back off the planet.
Perhaps they'd also have to land extra fuel by the conventional airbag method, but even then setting up a craft for launch would probably pose quite a challenge.
Suppose an astronaut travels away from the earth at 99.9% of the speed of light. According to relativity, if he ever returns then everyone on earth will have aged considerably more than he has. But he has to turn around at some point in order for this to happen, hence he has to accelerate. And it doesn't take any reference points to judge that acceleration, so you can in effect say that he has travelled into (Earth's) future, and that the entire Earth has not travelled into the past.
I'd think it would be more likely that they could just jam the signals. Come to think of it, if the enemy gets their hands on a few iphones it could wreak havoc on this squadron.
My personal favorite. I'm not surprised it's not in the top ten, but seriously, how can a game like Advance Wars beat it?
Every time I see a list like this I can't help but feel how subjective it is. How was this list compiled? It's obvious this list is biased toward Edge writers' and editors' opinions, and "thousands of readers" isn't a very good indicator anyways.
Have there been any polls of this sort that encompass a broader audience, worldwide?
Let's hope humpback whales don't go extinct or we could have problems on our hands in a couple centuries if an alien probe shows up looking for them.
If I recall correctly, they're making it easier to mute people in Halo 3. In fact, I think slashdot covered a story on it.
According to wikipedia, Nebraska's senators are currently limited to two terms so (unless wikipedia is wrong) it can't be as bad as you make it sound.
Umm, but isn't Toshiba one of the copyright holders?
That's never been my experience. I don't know what games you're thinking of, but the ones I've played usually have a fair amount players in the game (or at least in the games where there's someone worth kicking), and you can never get enough people to vote the person out. Halo, in my opinion, doesn't need a vote to kick/ban because the games are relatively short and have fewer players (unless they decide to expand to, say, 32-64 person matches for halo 3). My personal opinion is they need to make it harder to accidentally kick someone. I've had numerous cases of being kicked/kicking someone because in Halo 2, all you need to do is press X for a second (which, incidentally, is the _reload_ button!) Also, they need to allow you to kick people who suicide more than 2 or 3 times in one match. "Deleveling" for whatever reason has become a major annoyance online, and it would make it so much better if they gave all the teammates the chance to kick someone who decides to kill themselves just to annoy their teammates. Granted, it's not a complete solution, but it would help. Oh, and just fix the teamkill punishment system in general. The system in Halo 2 is so buggy; it often thinks you were teamkilled when an enemy killed you (or even when you suicide).
I would second a TI-89, if your teacher allows you to use it on exams. I had one for calc in high school, used it on the AP test and all my calc exams, and it makes things much easier. It is almost cheating, though, since it does symbolic differetiation/integration. Now that I'm in college, the professors won't let us use an 89 on the tests, but it's still nice when you want to check your answers for homework.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish the Box jellyfish does sleep
So because the book was "culturally-sensitive" and didn't do a good job of presenting the material, they concluded that integrated math = bad? Personally, I had a completely different experience, where I switched from a private junior high that was teaching integrated math to a public high school that wasn't. As it turns out, I took a whole year of geometry that, given what I already knew of geometry, could have easily been included in my other courses. If the high school had been teaching integrated math (which they are now switching to) I could have finished two years of calculus, which would have put me ahead in college. I don't think that necessarily proves that integrated math is better, but switching back and forth can't do any good.
Libraries
Yes, but qwerty is probably better for lefthanders than right handers (e, t, and a, for example, are the most frequent english letters and they all appear on the left side of a qwerty keyboard).
In the case of Halo, however, there are actually several novels "tacked on"
Yes, but how fast can this techinique be applied? Don't crime labs/law enforcement officials already have far too many cases to devote their time to?
Trivial...if you can get your hands on some smallpox. Saddam had some didn't he?
"But remember: the fact that you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you." -Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson, Practical Cryptography
I'm sure the folks at Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Yale, etc. would like to disagree with you. Out of high school, the students who want to succeed will be the ones going to the best universities, that don't have to focus on "mediocre" students because they have so few of them.
Are you kidding? Haven't you seen "The Time Machine?" Today, two-ton probes; tomorrow, mining operations that fail catastrophically, breaking the moon into massive chunks that will fall to earth, wreaking havoc on the planet.