Survey posted 2005-10-15 16:23 by Jon.

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Sometimes I am forced to leave the house to buy new batteries. It's terrible.

How about buying bunches and bunches of packs of batteries so that way, you don't have to go out a lot and buy more batteries. Or, even a better idea. Make your calculator use rechargable batteries, and make your own recharagable battery. That way, you don't ever have to go out and buy another battery (except until your recharageable battery runs out of recharging power.)

What about food? If he used regular batteries, then he could use the dead ones to make a tunnel to the nearest convenience store, so he would never have to leave the great indoors.

Or...you could just put the rechargable batteries into the battery charger (assuming, of course, that the power stayed on). Better yet, you could just build a fusion reactor, miniaturize it, and attach it to the calc. Then it could run nonstop for a thousand years (maybe not that long, but a lot longer than you, in any case...) :-)

I think it would be pretty easy to never leave the house. Say, for example, you run an online business out of your home, or you sell stuff on eBay, so you make all your money online, and it's all digital, going straight to your bank account, cause you only take paypal, like a jerk. Seeing as how you've got all that free time at home because your online business isn't demanding at all, build a DC adapter for your calculator. Food is easy too, you'd just be spending a lot on delivery, and you can always get some nice stuff from the Schwan's ice cream guy. I think they go to your door. That covers the essentials: food, water's from your faucet, money, and calculator.

What's this outside thing? I'm not familiar with it.

The prevailing opinion seems to be that it is the opposite of inside, but that would of course assume that we could define what inside is.

Well, I'll take a shot at defining inside............
On second thought, let's just say that if you think where you are is not outside, then where you are is inside, and leave it at that.

What if your not inside or outside? Like if theres a glitch in The Matrix...

What if you're under the doorframe and half of your body is inside while the other half is outside?.. where are you then? *raises eyebrows and scratches chin*

Then an industrial laser is used to slice your body into two pieces along the doorjam line. The two pieces are then weighed and compared to determine whether you're inside or outside.

120d

It could work...

what about the part of your body that got burnt up when you got cut in haf?

Yes.. that select few atoms/molecules could make a difference..

Schrödinger's calkfreak83!!! He's either inside, outside, both, or neither, or pick any zero, one, two, three, or four of the above, and there's no way to tell until you ask MV and cart him off to the lab, at which point the whole exersize is moot, as we would have just lost a valuable member… number 48429.

But we won't and he's still here and it's just after midnight here and I need to do my math homework and I'm rambling

Uh...OK...I could sort of tell that it was late at night wherever you were. ;-)

I'm going to cheat and say outside, because regardless of your location, you're never inside all things, therefor you're always outside of something. And I think by traditional standards, "inside" is defined as being within a bounded region, and said regions are frequently nested, so once again you have to specify "of what". You can be half outside the house, half inside the house, but you're (a) inside your neighborhood, (b) outside your bathroom, and/or (c) inside the doorway. So, if you say, "am I inside or outside of my house, if i am half out the front door and half in the door?" you are then faced with another problem. You have to define "i", your "self". IMO, one is the collective sum of one's parts, therefor if half of you is outside, and half of you is inside, the collective "you" is simply both inside and outside.
However, you must also consider accepted uses of the word "inside" which include the example where a pencil is pushed about one and one half inches into a pencil sharpener, and one could say "that pencil is inside the sharpener, even though the entire mass of the pencil is not encompassed by the sharpener.
I mean, how can we come up with a definitive answer with all these inconsistancies? :(

Very good...we ought to have a survey about this :-)

So, in sum, whether you're inside or outside depends on your position, your psychological makeup, and how you define the region you are trying determine if you are in or out of....in other words, it's all relative....

yep. kind of like "am i standing still right now?" well, technically...

..and it has to do with how many baseballs can be eaten by a giraffe in Antarctica on June 24th of the year that pigs fly into space with a jet-propelled helicopter and take over the sun causing the entire universe to suddenly stop expanding and letting gravity create the situation known as the "Big Crunch"

=D

I read somewhere that if the universe collapses, one could at the appropriate time build an infinitely fast supercomputer (I do not remember the exact details). Since such a computer would seem to be able to do illogical things (& therefore be inconsistent), it seems to rule out a Big Crunch as a logical possibility. Then again, the laws of physics might be different than we assume, or I might be wrong about an infinitely fast computer being potentially inconsistent.

well, imo there's not much you can rule out when you talk about the big crunch, because, according to some, at the time the universe (as we theorize it was at the time) was created, there were some extra dimensions and such which would make the laws of physics as we apply them to the universe as we know it now inapplicable. so perhaps it is safe to assume, if you believe this, that a similar inapplication of physical laws would be reasonable during the big crunch.
however, i must say i believe an infinitely fast super computer is somewhat inconsistant, as with anything that's really infinitely anything, because as i see it, if a super computer could be made infinitely fast, then some part of the computing mechanism, the inner workings of the computer, in fact, every part of it, would have to be infinitely fast, which would require, for example, electrons to move infinitely fast, iow faster than the speed of light, which, according to most, is bad, or just impossible, or simply inconsistant. and i think that in such a situation, if i were to see an infinitely fast supercomputer, and my professor said to me "well yeah, i think it's because the universe is collapsing" would be a ... reasonable explanation. anyone agree?

btw i use my calculator outside all the time. one time my chemistry teacher forced the class out of the school to do our work outside cause it was a nice day, and i had it then.

Get up from your computer and look out a window. See all the weird blue stuff overhead (yeah, I know, it's just like in a lot of 3D roleplaying games) and the green stuff on the ground? I'm not an expert or anything, but I've heard that that's the outside.

Shh... We don't talk about that.

What's that bright thing? Should I stare into it? Also, I don't see any health pickups.

Those familiar with the outside regions generally refer to it as the sun. Probably better not to star into it....

No, unfortunately, no health pickups to be had outside. Outside is a strange place to be...

No health or weapons pickups laying on the ground, it's one of those annoying ones where you have to increase health by resting for long periods of time...and no fast-forward or anything!

Can anybody tell me where i can find the cheat menu??

This doesn't seem to be shaping up to be a very good game.. :(

it really doesn't. one time i went into this cave and there were no monsters at all. i'm afraid i'll be level 3 forever...

It's not that there weren't any; it's just they chose to be hidden until they can come back at an unexpected point in the game when you're resting and eat you alive..

Only if you get a divine revelation to that effect (or someone unplugs you...). :)

Unfortunately, the quatenary code that this game is written in does not allow cheats; or conversely, if you cheat, you die. <shakes fist at natural selection...>