Ginger_Chris

As long as its the Dr Mario thme tune i don't care. (the logo just shook, there is life out there)

you were saying about the good music?

i'd pay at least $600 for this, ah Run DMC brings back memories.

i think this is their presentation. music and a logo.

so what is everyone expecting from this conference? prices, how many people it takes to life it, what newfangles shape their controller will be etc? (am i the only one amused by the "optomised streaming experience" message under the non-moving inmage?)

nah i havent got anything else either, so either its not working, or sony decided to not let any known wii supports watch. STAY TUNED

Stocka, i found french, english and english lit the hardest. but thats only because im terrible at languages. You can make GCSE's much easier on yourself by learning what the examiners actually want. For geography and business studies i could get full marks on a 10 mark question by writing down the 10 words/phrases what they wanted. It doesnt really test if you good at a subject, just wether you write what the examiner wants. (A level physics practicl exams are another example, you can get 19/20 without actually doing the practical, 20 if you're good at making up realistic results, as long as you wriite down specific things the examiner wants)

Good luck to everyone doing GSCE's. Don't worry too much about them. Its a loss-loss situation for you guys, asit was when i took them, if you do badly, the system makes you feel like that you have no prospects, and if you do well, the media just tells you how easy they are getting how how all you effort was useless. Just do the bestyou can. Most jobs just care if you get 5 A-C's, Universities don't relly care, predicted A levels are far more important (I know specifically for Oxford the only thing that mattered was predicted A levels to get an interview, and you place was decided by the test you did on interview) . I'd recommend putting the most effort into maths and english GSCE's they are the ones people look at, not business studies or geography. Its not the end of the world if dont do as well as expected, there a plenty of jobs out there, and you can get to the same place as most uni students by working yourself up trough a company (and you don't get £16,000 worth of debt).

whats C1, C2, C3 etc, im away from the system for 2 years and theres new letter ebing introduced, whatever happened to P1-6??? I did D1 and D2 instead of S3 and M3, disrete maths were the easiest modules ever. lots of lines nodes and weightings.

ah good old fourier transforms, im also doing them at the moment, very useful in optics, however they think we're just supposed to know the graphs instinctivly after only having seen them for a few terms. sigh. presonally i recon legendre polynomials, bessel equations and laplaces equations are pretty annoying. especially bessel and legendre, it seems like the solutions have been plucked from the sky. anyone know somewhere that explains them well?

Hmmm, I'm pretty happy at the moment. Not amazing but not bad. Its the beginning of term so my student loan is here so i can buy nice food like co-op pizza's and fruit. Have a good group of mates, loads of people i can just chill with, haven't got a girlfriend atm, but thats just helping my bank balance/amount of time i can spend not failing. Work wise, life is not great, but it never is at uni, just gotta grind through it and do other things. I failed my lst 2 collections, but seen as ive only passed one out of 12 thats not so bad. I haveproper exams at the end of this term, so ill be whipped to the bone, and hopefully know everything by then. i also won 8 pints of ale at a random pub poker game, which is a nice bonus, all i need to do now is win that damn lottery.

The reason EA doesn't like it, is because they can't curn out a current gen game with HD graphics and call it a sequel. Almost all of their games for the 360 are sequels that have the same or even less features than the last game, but with pretty graphics. They might even have to but in some innovation into their games. Who am i kidding, they'll end up porting currrent gen titles with a badly implimented support for the FHC.

I'd never shaved my legs before that, as i guy i think thats pretty resonable thing not to have done. i did it once, and never again. not only did it hurt like hell, completely freak me out when i touched my own leg, and cause much amusement for my mates (someone got pictures somehow), but it also took 4 months to grow back, in which my legs were ichy, sore and gernerally painful. plus the stuble really hurts when it rubs the wrong way against your trousers. Please think of the consequences before going for the hair removal option, there are better ways of pleaseing women. Like buying them a drink, and striking up witty conveersation not about scrotum hair.

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. thats my contribution. seriously ow. i got my legs shaved/waxed once for a huge uni thing, and it wasnt to bad, but sack, seriously OW. When i shaved my legs i ent thru 4 razors and a pint of blood (tip, dont out aftershave on after, its seriously painful). OW. man don't do it, shes not worth it

hmm, the so many horrible stuff out there that could kill you, outta of things ive had I'd say the worst was meningococcal septicemia. its a well publicised desiease, especially in the UK, but that for of meningitis hasnt yet got a cure. http://www.meningitis.ca/whatismeningitis/meningococcal.asp Out of the non-fatal diseases,MUPMS is pretty nasty to get. I forgot my booster when i went to uni, so i spent chrismas day and new years eve with my face the size of a beach ball. It hurts to eat, it hurts to drink, and it hurts think about eating. Its contagious ashell so you can't go anywhere, and you look like an overweight chipmonk. SO everyone, remember to get your mumps jabs

hmmm, i still don't buy the forwards and backwards time traveling, the twins paradox isnt an example of backwards or forwards time traveling, its a case of time slowing down. it isnt really even a paradox. For anyone thats interested and doesnt know the twins paradox is this: 2 people (twins) are born at exactly the same time, sometime when theyy are older, one of them travels far away at a decent proportion of the speed of light. the other one stays at home. the one thats traveling then reverses direction and comes back to earth, again at a decent proportion of the speed of light. When they get back to earth, the one that took the journey will be younger. This isnt anything to do with time travel, its just the fact when the traveling guy was moving time slowed down for him, so he ages more slowely (coparitive to earth time). (technically to the traveling twin, his sibling is aging more slowely, but thats the relative motion bit, the difference in age comes because of the reversing direction part). Theres no time travel involved. Technically,if you travelled at close to the speed of light, and back to earth again, you wont have aged much at all, and everyone on earth will have alot, which i suppose is technically time travel. Although its really just slowing time down for you. depends how you define time travel i suppose. either way, physicially traveling backwards in time is impossible, as time is the flow of information, and so information cannot be passed against the flow of time. Oh and what dogsin the wild eat. Watch any documentary about African Wild dogs, dingo's, wolves, foxes, jackels or coyties. basically they hunt and kill things. African Wild dogs and wolves are very efficient pack hunters.

looking "back in time" is kind of easy, information only travels at the speed of light (although i once read about the "spooky effect" where gravitational fields travel faster than light, but im not sure if thats still around, anyoone know?). When you look at distant stars you technically looking "back in time" as the the light the gave off was several light years ago. ie we observe a supernova in the sky 200 thousand light years away, that actually happened 200 thousand years ago, its just we're only getting the information now. Technically, if we discovered a giant mirror in space 100 light years away, and we looked at it from eath directly, (completely ignoring light bending, the earths movement in the solar system etc, its a thought experiment) we would see the earth 200 years ago. so yea its theorectically possible to look back in time, just not interect in it or actualy travel back in time.if we launched our own mirror to do this it would take to long to get far enoguht away, and if it was launched at the speed of light (which would require infinite energy, but still) we couldn't see before the time the mirror was launched. seeing the future is impossible, the best we can get is a probablitly of whats going to happen. if we knew the position momentum, spin, etc of every partical in the galaxy, (which is not possible due to hisenberg, the operators for these don't commute), then we could still only get a probablity of what going to happen in the future. For large scale systems (people) the probabilities are quite high for a while, but still we cannot get information from the future, we can only predict it with a probablity. At the present there are too many factors present in even the simplest system. We cannot even perfectly model a real world ball bouncing on the ground perfectly. And everyone knows how badly the weather is predicted, even though hugeamounts of computing time is used to do it.

ooh i can answer a few of these; time travel is impossible, traveling backwards in time is not possible, so don't worry about any problems there. if you still messed up about time and such read a really basic book about special relativity, one with little maths, it'll help you understand alot of random time based concepts (as well as totally mess your head up) black things are things that dont emit visible light, or very very low amplitude light. There are 2 causes, 1: the object absorbs all the light. 2: there is no light being emitted of the object. space is the latter, there is no visible light (or very very very low amplitude that we cannot detect), and there is nothing for the lgiht to reflect off, so no visible light can come from areas of empty space. the big bang, more than likely happened, we know what was going on in alot of detail about a nanoseconds before (around that time, someone correct me if thats the wrong value) but we have very little clue the point of the big back. I'm pretty sure at this time its impossible for us to know what happened before the big bang and what caused it. Theres no way for us to get any information from before it happened. so for the time being "god" is just as good an answer as anything. Computers are very complex and made from alot of different technologies. it was invented by lots of different people over long periods of time, and put together and refined. I do physics at uni, and we did a practical a few weeks back about hardwireing a computer, the logic is realy hard to get your head round, using different circuits in such a way to get different operators, like addition etc. The logic processes behind it were really hard. I really like how alot of these questions are physics based, and glad i chose the subject to study at uni, gcse and a-level physics are basically a joke, but you get to learn alot more about the world and random questions like these (the reson why i carried on doing physics was to learn random crap like this). However you also figure out that we actually know nothing, and everything we do and know is just a simplified version of whats going on

Yea i did this a few years back too, 2003 i think it was. We reached the national finals, was very cool, got to stay in a posh hotel in london for free. Was very cool. We (I) designed a small toy like think that rolled around, got a plastics frim to make about 500 for the things. still got loads left now. Great think to put on you CV, job letters etc, especially if you get through loads of rounds in the contests. Our company was called cre8, theres alot of competition at the nationals, some amazing companies that got hasbro to make a board game, and the winning team designed a tarten for their scottish island, and basically created hundreds of jobs on the island, rejenovating it. No way wwe could have ever competed against that by selling pastic toys and doing school disco and end of year balls.

Yea, seriously GCSE and even A-level coursework is pretty easy. each peice of work for university is about as long as a piece of coursework, and i get 2 of those a week minimum. I feel sorry for noodleman, dissitations are insane, im glad i get the choice not to do the final research year where i have to do one. whats your dissitation on? anything interesting?

Yea our whole accomodation block felt it in oxford. Thought it was a mini earthquake, musta been one big explosion for us feel it so strongly. Hope everyone in the area is ok. Flixborough must have felt the same way when it went. (My parents keep telling me about it, was in like 1974)

I'm too old to get pressents anymore. I'd be happy with 50 packets of super noodles tho, Uni life is hungry life

The show has a good premise, but the presenter is so unfunny, tries way too hard. And the contestants, they deliberaterly designed tests to find the stupidest, most gullible people they could find. Anyone who worked in the armed forces or got an A level in physics was basically out. And the russian guys accent at the end. *sigh*. The show could have been so much better, but its just like big brother. Also, the contestants only win money if they DONT figure outits a scam. So they are rewarding stupidity. Its more generic tv for the masses I'm afraid. Valuable air time that could have been used to show re-runs of blackadder.

Well actually, normally they really dont like nintendo but i accidently found this article that didnt seem to harsh on nintendo. In fact it was almost positive (all the way down at the bottom). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4457404.stm

People going to university 'for the experience', and giving students that want to get a degree a bad name. That annoys me alot, as does the government trying to get 50% of people into university and all these degrees that dont teach people things they will need. Thats not the point of further education, whats the point of wasting 4 years of your life then becoming a middle manager, when you could have got a job and be promoted o a higher position. And have 16k less debt. I'm just really sick of people telling me to get a real job when i say im a uni student. Thats my rant for the week (The smoking thing also really annoys me, and yes I've never smoked in my life)