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- Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:03 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Eienstein Defeated?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5673
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...as you approach c , the energy required increases (there's a sort of effective increase in mass, the rocketship gaining more and more mass as its speed approaches c , so it requires more and more force/energy to move it). Almost as though mass produces more drag as it's moved faster through the ...
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:24 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Eienstein Defeated?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5673
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It could still mean advancements for communications and data transfer?fliptw wrote:the thing is, the article uses photons, or light particles, they actually haven't broken the speed of light, as they haven't tried to move anything other than light faster than light.
- Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:44 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Cell Phone
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1889
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:40 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Things to look forward too
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3294
My short list of things I'm looking forward to: Within 1 month: -Bathroom Renovations -Enable, accessorize cheap bike -Set up Descent verbal taunts on programmable keyboard -Bike Bug Line Trail -Bike to lakefront -Find performance/restaurant to take Grandma to -Calculate/simulate debt payoff -Get ca...
- Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:35 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: True Descent Players
- Replies: 104
- Views: 23442
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Can you say why that was so horrible?Strife wrote:You show up at a party and you are known by more than 2 people who you have either never met or haven't seen in 5+ years and know you as your Descent Nickname...
(This was a horrible experience that actually happened to me this weekend...)
- Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:57 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: My new computer. (Split from Post your PCs)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 5913
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Vista is nothing more than XP done up like ME. Remember when WinME was considered the "future"? Six months later, and hardly anyone was still using it. Microsoft cut support for it before they cut support for 98. :P To think I actually put up with that turd for 3 years. Of course, there's...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:19 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: A Bigot? You decide...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1619
I'm talking about the fact that there's no hatred, racism, or bigotry directed at anyone except those who make Muslims look bad--the ones who've perverted Islam through their public actions and sentiments. The author seriously wants to see Muslims as just like any other American, as the quote I echo...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:11 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Liberation Hydrology - the Adventure of Climate Change
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1697
Re: Liberation Hydrology - the Adventure of Climate Change
There is honestly a big part of me that does kinda wish global warming would come, fast, and change everything into a magical steampunk world - or take any sci-fi situation from someone's dreams. Or at least prove to the naysayers that it will in fact happen. Then we can lynch them for their stupid...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:03 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: A Bigot? You decide...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1619
Re: A Bigot? You decide...
I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. I think it's a great essay. He attacks the terrorists and lack of outrage/cooporation from the good Muslims. Why shouldn't a group of such prominence work harder to protect its good name and expose those who desecrate that...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:01 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Do you have a Myspace?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2957
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I'm a social drinker, not a casual one. I'll have a beer if I'm out to dinner or with friends, but I'm never like, "Whoh, hard day at work. Gotta crack open a cold one!" I prefer dark beers, and when I order beer, I try to pick one I haven't tried yet. I've also been fortunate to travel to...
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:43 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Chitchat..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2393
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I'm pretty sure I saw Koolbear in VV Monday night...Radman wrote:Koolbear isn't even returning my emails, but he must be on vaction or something. He hasn't posted here in over 2 weeks.
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:18 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Awesome Video Games - Video Games Awesome
- Replies: 10
- Views: 908
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:40 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Old games(Pre-dating 1998)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2161
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:13 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Retro Shows revisited
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2688
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:12 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Retro Shows revisited
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2688
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"Kids'" Shows I watched as a kid, in rough chronological order: Sesame Street Mister Rogers's Neighborhood Electric Company Muppet Babies Heathcliff CBS Storybreak Today's Special Superman: The Animated Series Hello Kitty's Furry-tale Theatre Garfield and Friends Tom & Jerry Square On...
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:42 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Retro Shows revisited
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2688
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Old games(Pre-dating 1998)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2161
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:18 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Is this pot? (Cannabis)------------------------------help
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1865
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:54 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: True Descent Players
- Replies: 104
- Views: 23442
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:52 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: I dunno .....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 689
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:47 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Most realistic sci fi ever.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1799
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Do you really think a lot of people would want equipment permanently grafted into their skin? Especially if it became obsolete a couple years later... Hmmm...good point. Perhaps when upgradable firmware reached its limit, the user could ingest a pill containing nanobots to disassemble the applicati...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:47 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Most realistic sci fi ever.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1799
The interface in Minority Report is starting to come true with some of Microsoft's efforts. I also read how they've been able to get lasers to heat air molecules to incandescence and produce simple images, so that kind of mid-air hologram is not impossible. Perhaps cars will come with HUDs that let ...
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:30 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: heart beating in your eye lid?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2676
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:17 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Why dosn't the pyro have a toilet where the seat is?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1078
Re: Why dosn't the pyro have a toilet where the seat is?
They must have thick armor for when you bump against the walls.roid wrote:The hostages can't fit inside, so they must hang on desperately to the outside. After collecting enough hostages the Pyro must look like a giant hostage katamari
- Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:49 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: heart beating in your eye lid?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2676
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:54 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Got a Wii?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1084
Also fun is this demo pack my friend got, with 10 small games, including a Pong update, a tank battle, target shooting, and one involving the characters from Wii Sports, but with limbs. I also saw another friend manipulate photos off a SD card--very intuitive interface. Oh, and the best game: Rayman...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:39 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Sprint tells 1000 customers to hit the road
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1250
Re: Sprint tells 1000 customers to hit the road
The cancellations involved 1,000 to 1,200 customers who had called the company about 40,000 times a month in total. ...the cancellations involved customers who repeatedly asked for information about other people's accounts...Sprint waived final balances on canceled accounts and gave customers 30 da...
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:06 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: So no one told me about this excel program being so good.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2247
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<stuff about my budget /> <stuff about his internship in an accounting department /> <my offer to PM him my budget /> Are you using any vba? Like DCrazy said, not a lick. Just formulae. Truth be told, the budget probably didn't have too much complex formulae. Now the grade tracker, that let you ent...
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:04 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: So no one told me about this excel program being so good.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2247
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After taking accounting in high school, I set up a very detailed, debit/credit, multipage budget-tracking Excel spreadsheet that I used for many years. After doing an internship in an accounting department, I am willing to go out on a limb and say that your spreadsheet was nothing compared to the s...
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Why dosn't the pyro have a toilet where the seat is?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1078
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I guess it's commentary? But yeah, I'd have put it in the Cafe myself.Krom wrote:Why is this in ethics?
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:25 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Why dosn't the pyro have a toilet where the seat is?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1078
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:17 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: So no one told me about this excel program being so good.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2247
After taking accounting in high school, I set up a very detailed, debit/credit, multipage budget-tracking Excel spreadsheet that I used for many years. I also set up a grading system for my mother, a 4th-grade teacher. You can really accomplish lots of neat things with just the in-cell formulae, it'...
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:10 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: English is hard
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1887
- Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:35 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Should Second Life reflect real life?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3134
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:33 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your Ever Expanding World.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1988
The Moon just happens to apply a tremendous amount of torque to the Earth as the Earth spins relative to The Moon. It is the same reason The Moon has completely stopped its rotation relative to the Earth. (Meaning this is why one side of The Moon always faces the Earth. Torque from the Earth slowed...
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:00 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your Ever Expanding World.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1988
Something else to keep in mind--the Earth's rotation is slowing down. The day grows one second longer every 88 years. I bet all that accumulating mass likely has something to do with it, increasing the distribution of Earth's angular momentum. I've also heard that damming is affecting rotation speed...
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:05 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Is my motherboard about to die?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1106
I once had a motherboard that played music for its thermal alarm. I went into the BIOS and lowered the threshold about 10 degrees. A few hours later, I heard a gentle little electronic ditty playing out the back of my tower. It would go away and come back a few minutes later. You'd think they'd give...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:38 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: 4th of july plans
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1552
Ah, my favorite secular holiday! My wife and I will have a pancake breakfast before watching Waukesha's downtown parade. Then I'll go to the party put on by my parents' next-door neighbors, where I hope to get in at least one game of lawn dice and maybe some ladderball. Then we'll go to the firework...