A less presumptuous name.

Originally Posted By: Over Nine Thousand! Originally Posted By: Master1 To whoever took the 9001st account, please note that the exclamation mark confuses math people. 9000! is indeed a very large number. In fact, is has over 31682 decimal digits, according to Wolfram Alpha. +1 Noted. Will spelling it out suffice? Yes, thank you. +1 Also, are you a pre-existing member (no hate, it's cool) or a lurker who wanted to take the number?

To whoever took the 9001st account, please note that the exclamation mark confuses math people. 9000! is indeed a very large number. In fact, is has over 31682 decimal digits, according to Wolfram Alpha. +1

Congrats. You're one of the most interesting characters on the forum, and I always enjoy reading your posts. +1

Harehunter, I was wondering why you quoted Alorael, as I can see no correlation between your pun/rhyme and what he said. Everything else in the post seems suitable for the original thread.

I'm really not sure why you brought these in here, but: Originally Posted By: Harehunter Weight is actually two factors; the mass of the object and the force of gravity on that object. Weight is actually just the force of gravity on a given object. It is made of two factors: the mass of the object and the acceleration due to gravity.

It could be a corrupted game file. First, follow the instructions here to back up your saves. Then fully uninstall and reinstall the game. With any luck, the sound should be back and you can put your saves back in place.

You mentioned earlier that your computer was pretty much out of hard disk space. Perhaps that is why you can't download a new copy.

I don't get why the book-version of quidditch has to make sense, though. It's pretty soft fantasy: wizards are almost completely ignorant of any technology in the muggle world, so who says that their games have to make any sense? As far as RL (Physics EM makes it hard to type this without groaning) quidditch is concerned, though, I'm interested to try out a game or two. It may not make all that much sense, but it could be fun nonetheless.

That should be possible. I haven't looked at the scripts in a while, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. If you just want to make the unbound easier to kill, though, you can always just cut their scripted HP.

Keep in mind, though, that replacing a fyora with a different creation will make all fyoras into that other creation. You'll be able to make the other creation at low levels, but you'll also be fighting it at that time.

What game are you playing, and on what system are you playing it?

Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Truths to let go There is no lowering of standards. Instead, there's an aggressive push to get girls interested in STEM, keep them in STEM classes, and retain them through the long road to STEM careers. The problem with equality is that it's been tried for a long time, and the result is gender imbalance. And it's not a "physio-psychological difference" or not clearly so; instead, our culture, overtly and tacitly, pushes women away from math and science, and it takes seriously effort to counterbalance that. To expand on this point: overt sexual harassment of women within the sciences is still a huge problem, and controlled studies have demonstrated that reviewers will, on average, judge the exact same scientific paper more harshly if there's a woman's name on it as lead author. As I mentioned, I'm still a high school student. My experience is pretty much anecdotal and idealistic. That said, my AP Physics C class is 3/4 male. I don't see this particular instance as bad, though, because everyone in the class is really interested and there are plenty of intelligent females who took the class, not because they were pressured out, but because they preferred other topics. Originally Posted By: Alorael The problem with equality is that it's been tried for a long time, and the result is gender imbalance. How can you say that equality has been tried when also saying that there is huge inequality. As far as I can tell, there have never been truly equal opportunities. We may claim to provide them, but, as has been mentioned, that is not the case. Looking at the big picture as it currently stands, though, I do see why suddenly removing all discussion of gender would not yield equality. In four years of high school, every science/technology teacher that I've had has been male. My math teachers have been female, but teaching math and STEM aren't really the same. Currently, every AP Science teacher in my school is male. While they actively push for women students not to feel discouraged and to take the class, I can see how the male-dominated department provides an implicit push away from the class. Perhaps my reference to logistics growth would work if gender were suddenly not to be mentioned, but the initial rate of change in logistics growth is quite small. A jump start is needed. I just tend to be wary of creating reverse-discrimination.

For the record, the support page, which includes instructions for backing up saves, can be found here

Regarding women being discouraged and Affirmative Action, etc: In the Baltimore/DC region, there is a big annual event specifically for women interested in STEM careers. I'm always disappointed because it's the single greatest opportunity for my age range, and I'm excluded because of my sex. I wouldn't say that I'm discouraged from STEM fields, but more that I'm left to my own while women are getting extra incentives. This is, however, from a high school age range. I wasn't aware enough when I was younger to look for gender preferences in STEM pushes, but I don't really recall any big skew one way or the other. Ideally, I think that we should present STEM as an option for everyone and let those who are interested go into the field. If we actively increase the demand for female workers, we could very well see an increase in the number of females taking the jobs. However, this could come at the expense of quality. If we lower the standard for women to enter the fields, we dilute the integrity of the field and don't help anyone. Of course, there are good ways to promote gender neutrality in STEM without lowering standards. The key word, though, is neutrality. Stop pushing women to enter the field; let them be the same as men. Maybe there are fundamental physio-psychological differences between men and women that lend themselves towards a default skew in the gender ratio. When we keep forcing the issue one way, we may reach the equilibrium faster, but we're also at a significant risk of over-shooting that natural ratio. Rather than forcing an oscillation, let logistics growth do its work.

The obvious question is this: have you quit all other applications in the course of rebooting? As for reinstalling, have you should be able to backup the saves manually with an explorer app (I can't recall the namr offhand). F you have to reinstall, this would save you from having to replay.

Alas, Bones is on it's way out. The last season or two have really started to show the show's age. I think the writers put Booth and Bones together to start a sense of closure between the two so that the show could have a more finished ending. Unfortunate? Yes. But also understandable.

One could also conclude that Slarty doesn't always share the same tastes as everyone else. The same could be said of his sense of humor - I'm fairly certain that some of these were posted humorously - after all, look at the thread type! Then again, maybe he's joking and it's beyond the comprehension of us mean folk.

In the vein of Christopher Lee, does historical fiction count? I mean, Yoda is from a long time ago, albeit in a galaxy far away.

Jane Austen had some pretty good female characters. Elizabeth Bennet, maybe?

You're right that they're not the same - that was a false piece of information that somehow came back up in my mind. However, we do use conversions from weight to mass whenever we go from pounds to kilograms. Pounds to newtons or slugs to kilograms stay within the same type of measure.

I recall some of the texts from the proto-shapers in G1 mentioning that Shapings started by altering existing people/animals and evolved from there. Either they have all become extinct, Jeff excluded them to save time and resources, or some combination of the two.

Originally Posted By: Tyranicus Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: echo Monocles not pictured, right? Also, he kinda looks like a grandpa. Anyway, since I didn't read the thread properly, I'll return later to add a picture. Roosevelt didn't wear a monocle, at least not in most pictures. Those are pince-nez glasses. I had a fantasy about getting a pair for a while. I don't have the mustache for them, though. I am aware that he is not wearing a monocle, but he did wear one, and he looks more badass in this picture. You're right. I had forgotten about those pictures. Either way, Roosevelt has some stylish eye-wear.

Originally Posted By: Excalibur The zipper thing they had the other day was pretty awesome too. I saw that. Interestingly enough, I saw the "How It's Made" episode on zippers just the day before gZipper.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer I think it was a Babylonian system that used a base 60 system for some things because of all those possible factorizations into smaller numbers. Look at your fingers. If you count on your right hand, using your thumb to point to each section of each finger: tip, middle, base. You count to twelve. That then goes to one finger on your left hand. 5 free fingers on your left and allows for 12*5 = 60. Originally Posted By: Sylae A pint is a pound the world around, a pint is sixteen ounces. That pretty much only works with stick butter, which has a density of 1 oz per fl oz. Alas, that leads to many people not realizing that a fluid ounce is not the same as a mass ounce. Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Kreador Also, if we're being really specific about it, gram is a unit of mass, not a unit of weight. nobody who isn't actually a working physicist uses "mass" as a verb in that context though, and "it weighs one kilogram-weight" is a mouthful A working physics student also "masses" objects. Also, with standard "little g" earth gravity, mass and weight are equal. Nice how that works, isn't it!

Originally Posted By: Nioca there needs to be 400 MBs (preferably more) free on the disk. Originally Posted By: Nioca (preferably more) This. Computers seem to like a bit of breathing room. When you're down to the very last bytes on the drive, you can have trouble installing even if you have 18 bytes more than you need. You really should have 500 MBs free before you try to install. Copy some files that you don't use onto a flash drive, delete the hard copies on the drive, and try the install again. As for the space going down, it sounds like you tried to download, failed, deleted files, downloaded, and then checked your space. If you cleared out 100MB but the installer took up 200, you did indeed lose 100 MB of disk space.