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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:42 pm
by Micro_Fur
Excuse me for my curt response as I am too smart for the average crowd, but definitely too stupid for this crowd.
Micro_fur will now be a spectator only, he is depressed about family news he just recieved.
*Tosses Andrick a quarter and thanks him for the ride.*
Maybe someday I shall return. . .
Sending termination signal. . .
Stopping sevices:
I/O subsytem
Kernel
Shutting System down .
This post WAS a definite failure.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:54 pm
by Allan_ecker
That thermodynamics joke OWNS, especially since they're feeding the demon table scraps.
Micro, I want to offer up any sympathy that is appropriate for whatever's going on with you. Hang in there, guy.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:27 am
by Andrick
*catches the quarter* Fair winds, Micro Fur.
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:36 pm
by Candide
One problem with those equations...
- The one for F_o? Given your definition of φ, F_o becomes, simply:
F_o = F_T cos θ + F_r
- The integral for θ:
Any definite integral of an odd function over an interval symmetric about the origin is zero.
tan^-1(z/a) is an odd function.
(Just because a=x+y here doesn't mean it's not a constant w.r.t. the integral over z.)
Therefore, θ=0
- Your integral for Δ solves to:
Δ = φ^2 cos(θ/φ) + θφ sin(θ/φ)
- I have no idea what the last integral solves to, or how you got to it from the previous equations. But, maybe this physicist's just getting rusty in his old age...

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:01 pm
by Allan_ecker
I honestly was just playing alphabet soup, making sure to throw in some integrals and greek letters to make it look "college level". A few things mean something, like delta over twelve being the RMS error introduced by a quantization step of delta in an otherwise ideal quantizer, but it's pretty much the mathematical equivelant of saying "blah blah blah, gibble foon".
Is this a cop out? You bet your sweet bippy it is.
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:51 pm
by RandomScribe
Well, I thought it was funny.
But that's just me.
Man, I need more sleep.
Not likely to happen around here.
--RS, at around 2 in the morning
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:56 pm
by Andrick
allan_ecker wrote:... You bet your sweet bippy it is.
Is this phrase more common than I thought or have you been following the rise and fall of PDI?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:01 pm
by Cyril_Dran
There's also an old BC comic that uses the word "bippy", albeit in onomatopeia format. And yes, I know I spelled that wrong. I haven't spelled that word right in 10 years.
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:25 pm
by Allan_ecker
Laugh-In reference, not related to PDI.
BTW, is that comic getting any easier to read? Last I looked it made Unit Zero look like a Dick and Jane book.
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:01 pm
by Andrick
No. At least not as a stand-alone comic since it relies so much on other comics much like Graveyard Greg's "Gaming Guardians" though not nearly that bad.
The author, Scix, is going to launch a new comic based entirely around one of the characters of PDI since he realized that that was the focus he was missing from his comic. He was going to try to wrap up PDI but instead went on hiatus; no news yet on when he will work on either endeavor.