Recent content by randomic

Just found this as a 1/5 star review on amazon. Is common sense genuinely dead? "the adapter came with a mini dvd disc for the software and unfortunately my apple macbook pro would have chewed up the mini disc and then refused to spit it out (thus costing me a fortune). They should have sent...

Check out Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's even less logical than you've stated there! I think one way of illustrating it is to think of measuring the speed of a car with a camera. If you take one picture, you can tell it's position but not its momentum. If you take 2 in quick succession...

Boo! Hi. I probably count as new.

I would say that computers make the world a better place to live. Probably the biggest jump in computing came from the transistor. Transistors are made by placing semiconductors together. The way semiconductors work can only be described by Quantum Mechanics. Now I don't know how quantum...

Very true. Even better example, get ten friends to measure the length of a piece of paper with the same ruler. You'd be surprised by how much your measurements differ.

AVG Free (make sure you check the website for new major releases regularly, I know a lot of people who ignored the pop-ups and ended up getting infected badly) and SpyBot S&D is a very nice program but you need to know what you're doing to get the best out of it. It's not very automated.

Then we have that in common. You are in a room with no light in it [at all]. A chair is in the room with you. Is the chair actually there or did I just tell you it was there, therefore bringing it into existence? =] Bring on third year theoretical physics!

I get you. You don't wake up in the morning and think, (for example) "Fantastic! The strong nuclear force has survived another day and all matter hasn't been obliterated." and to that extent, neither do I. However, the knowledge and study of science and particularly physics in general cannot be...

hehe you don't even know the guy and you've put it better than I have. Thank god for people who are better at english than me =]

Bad phrasing, I'm sure you know what I mean though.

but you cannot claim to have zero understanding of science surely? Do you actively avoid any explanation as to how reality works?

I'll admit it, I'm a third year physics undergraduate studying in the UK [pause for mockery.. doesn't work like that, does it?] and I ended up getting into a heated discussion with a 'friend' [reaaaalll liberal use of the term there] who studies philosophy and politics [lol]. He stated that, to...

Depends how long it stays in date for. If the best before date is a month after purchase, it's probably good for an extra week. If it's a week, probably good for a day or two. If it's like "once open consume within three days" then I usually finish it in 5 days. Sounds good in theory, but how...

I play D&D. /cough Could be worse I suppose, at least it still involves real people... and I haven't done any cos-play.. yet. Oh noes.

"What's so special about that?", I hear you ask. Well, I took the picture myself =] Oh and other awesomeness, the python files you see there are my prototype programs for motion tracking.