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I still can't understand a word Nihilus is saying. This came up when I finished the clip: And here's the ending ... spoilerz!

You aren't telling me anything I do not know. Not everyone lives in the USA, however.

The reason that gravity dominates the interaction between an apple and the Earth is that they are both electrically neutral, to a very high accuracy. In order for the electric force of repulsion between an apple and the Earth to be similar* to the gravitational force of attraction between them, only one atom in every 10^20 would have to lose an electron. We owe the downwards fall of the apple to the fact that matter is electrically neutral to an accuracy far better than 1 part in 10^20. * Electric forces can be attractive or repulsive because objects can possess either positive or negative electric charge, and like charges repel whilst unlike charges attract. Gravitational forces are always attractive -- there is no such thing as a repulsive gravitational force.** The reason for this is that mass only comes in one form -- 'negative mass' and 'antigravity' remain in the realm of science fiction. ** Negative gravity is not a new idea. Albert Einstein himself first suggested the idea when he developed his general theory of relativity in 1915. Having derived the equations that describe the overall behaviour of the universe, Einstein was concerned that his equations did not allow a static universe to exist. According to the equations of general relativity, the universe has to be either expanding or contracting. At the time there was no evidence that the universe was anything but static, so Einstein introduced an extra term into his equations which he called Λ (capital Greek letter Lambda) -- the so called cosmological constant. This took the form of a sort of negative gravity and was assumed to be just strong enough to counteract the pull of gravity and so result in a static universe. When, a few years later, Edwin Hubble announced his evidence that the universe is in fact expanding and not static at all, Einstein is said to have commented that the introduction of the cosmological constant was the biggest blunder of his life. However, in the light of Type Ia Supernovae results, maybe Einstein was on the right track after all ...

What do you do if you see Buddha walking down the road?

To the tavern, of course. KotOR: TSL, of course. :D

That would make sense if "C:\" is used as a label in the first list to refer to the harddrive (as opposed to the floppy (A:\) or the CD-ROM (D:\)). The second list being a refinement of the first list, identifying the actual device.

Yeah, no system, just anarchy: anyone who feels wronged should be able to take the law into their own hands. It works really well ... in Albania ...

That's what I thought. Thanks for playing...... Buddy, just because you produce a list of your own opinionated garbage, doesn't make it authoritative. (Hell Kitty's response should have tipped you off, but then, judging by your slavish obsession with this franchise, I guess such subtleties are beyond you.) As you seem to want me to detail what's wrong with your "argument", here are some of the more obvious, below.

Sounds like an excellent idea.

No, you would just have to update the firmware.

I have prioritized my text books above my recreational reading, so I have just finished: Teach Yourself Planets, and How The Universe Works (not published for the public).

A girl's gotta work.

I dont think Obsidian has any credibility. Their hype about epic battles in the original game turned out to be completely false. Not only that, they never informed gamers about gameplay decisions they had made such as forced resurrection. I was basically conned into purchasing NWN2. After playing NwN2, reading your assessment of it, reading the interview in full, and then reading your comments about it, I make a wildly different assessment.

Sounds a bit awkward from a technical standpoint. Why not having a saved game file store state variables and thus achieving the same effect of carrying over the decisions of a previous episode? The next episode will then pick them up and use them in scripts and dialogues. Unless, of course, you want to cut development costs by producing a sequel episode tailored to N most popular submitted state combinations. Otherwise the same amount of effort is spent on implementing the possible story combinations, but the distribution of it is pushed online. You are not saying that developers should watch every single incoming savegame real-time and implement an appropriate set of outcomes, are you? That didn't make much sense technically at all, or I simply did not comprehend it. "Load it locally"? What is the point of a locally stored game data in such kind of a system then? The content still has to come from somewhere - either from optical media or be predownloaded (in which case you still have to pay for the same bandwidth). Just have a series of variables for each PC. (The games are basically graphical front ends to databases, anyway.) If a PC redoes a quest, overwrite the result on the last value of the variable.

Yeah, it's a regular assessment here.

Aha! Euston Square.

Because this topic is boring, and no power in the 'Verse can change that. Incidentally, the relative power of the interactions at mass-energies below 100GeV (10^11eV), say at or near 1GeV, are: [*]EM = 1/137 (for those of you interested, it is the inverse square law applied to surface of a sphere radiating from a given point)

You should try going out with less sight-challenged girls: she kept missing your mouth by the radius of your head!

... It might keep overpopulation under control ... "

Not knowing anything about your particular card, I will tell you that it has nothing to do with the Video RAM (though this can be a useful way to compare cards, it is by no means perfect) and everything to do with vertex and pixel shaders and ROPs.

Simply commenting on the currently held hypothesis that all the interactions (once called forces, now that is out of favour) appear to unify at higher energy states. "Giving" energy (and remember from Einstein's famous equation E=mc

Curses, Volo: you and your spam-blasting campaign for more dwarves!!11!1one!! No complaints about having fewer, more interesting and detailed characters. One of Many sounds like a member of a hive, or some conglomerated mind (like Seven-of-Nine).