Thursday, August 9, 2007
Cocaine possession for Carrying too much money
Therefore you would have to carry 312,500 bills in order to be charged for possession of coke. Or 312.5 kg or 688.94 pounds of bills!
The math:
1 Bill = 0.000016 grams
x Bills = 5.00000 grams
1. Set up as two fractions (the bills and the grams)
1/x and 0.000016/5.00000
2. Cross multiply
5 = 0.000016x
3. Solve for x
x = 312,500 one dollar bills
For the weight. 1 bill = 1 gram. So 312,500 bills would weigh 312.5 kg or 688.94 pounds
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
10 Ways to Stay Awake
1. Coffee
The most common method of staying awake is with a high dose of caffeine from coffee. In order to get the most caffeine per cup use finely gained coffee (more surface area = more caffeine) in a drip coffee maker.
If you desire even more caffeine, instead of using water in your coffee machine use coffee, for a double caffeine punch! (Note, this may ruin your coffee machine)
Also, for long lasting results, drink small amounts of coffee throughout the day.
2. Energy Drinks
Energy drinks commonly contain caffeine, guarana, taurine, various forms of ginseng, maltodextrin, inositol, carnitine, creatine, glucuronolactone and ginkgo biloba. All designed to increase energy and stamina. I find that Bawls, works best for staying up late. If you want to workout, then i would recommend Red Bull. However, statistically, Cocaine contains the most caffeine per ounce.
3. Water
Dehydration, can often times cause fatigue. In order to combat this, drink plenty of water. Also, large amounts of water will result in many bathroom breaks, which should also keep you awake.
4. Pain
Nothing will keep you awake like pain. Try pulling your hair a little, or lightly poking yourself with a paper clip.
5. Head Stand
A head stand will force blood to your head. Resulting in increased alertness
6. Flex
Flex your butt muscles or leg muscles. This will result in a faster heart rate and increased alertness.
7. Keep the room cold.
8. Excite yourself
Watch some porn. Go streaking. Anything to cause excitement.
9. Make a bet
Make a bet that you can stay awake for "X" amount of time. Money influences people, so i bet will influence you to stay awake.
10. Turn everything into a Sexual Innuendo
Mainly works for meetings and lectures, listen carefully to see what you can make "Dirty." "In order to solve the equation we must multiply..."
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Don't live in the United States? No Internet for you!
Me being an American who has lived in the US most of his life, was completely unaware of this discrimination. It was not until I went to visit my parents in the Netherlands did I become aware of the limits of the internet for countries outside the US.
While surfing the net I came across a website that has links to free online education. I browse the site and click on a link to view a podcast to learn French, It opens itunes and I get this pop up.
Sorry, free French podcasts are only available for people who live in the US. I can't think of a reason why this is. Because last time I checked podcasts usually don't have advertisements. Oh well, I guess I will watch Lost then.
Nope, full-length episodes are only available to viewers within the United States. I don't get to see my Lost episode AND I still had to view their advertisements. ABC profited from my visit, and did not have to use their bandwidth to send me their show.
No Education, no TV, hmmmm what about Music? I then decided to go to Slacker Radio after hearing from PC Magazine: "It's the most exciting thing in digital music to happen in a long time."
Yep! Looks pretty fucking exciting. No Radio, no TV, no Education. And the RIAA and MPAA wonder why people are pirating? For us outside the United States, it is the only way to have access to these free services.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Chemistry - Methylene Blue Prank: Make your friends Pee Blue/Green
WARNING: Make sure you know the risks and read all relevant MSDS sheets before trying this on yourself or others! Some people may be allergic to Methylene Blue dye.
Allergies with Methylene Blue are very rare. And the indicator is harmless in small doses (It is often used in medicine.) The only real danger is that other harmful chemicals could have contaminated the indicator (Mainly from High School chemistry kids not using the chemical properly.) But if you order your own online, or "borrow" some that has not been contaminated, there is no need to worry.
Have fun!
Pi - An Interesting Representation
While on Wikipedia I saw an interesting Representation of the value of Pi. Basically if a circle's diameter is 1 (Radius = 0.5) The circumference will be Pi according to the circumference equation (c = 2Pi*R). Or in other words, if you take a circle with a diameter of 1 and roll it, it will travel Pi units per rotation.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Calculus - Product Rule
The equation is read: The derivative of (f * g) is equal to: the (derivative of f times g) + (f times the derivate of g).
Proof
Suppose
and that f and g are each differentiable at the fixed number x. Then
Now the difference
is the area of the big rectangle minus the area of the small rectangle in the illustration.
That L-shaped region can be split into two rectangles, the sum of whose areas is readily seen to be:
(The illustration disagrees with some special cases, since f(w) need not actually be bigger than f(x) and g(w) need not actually be bigger than g(x). Nonetheless, the equality of (2) and (3) is easily checked by algebra.)
Therefore the expression in (1) is equal to
If all four of the limits in (5) below exist, then the expression in (4) is equal to
Now
because f(x) remains constant as w → x;
because g is differentiable at x;
because f is differentiable at x;
and now the "hard" one:
because g is continuous at x. How do we know g is continuous at x? Because another theorem says differentiable functions are continuous.
We conclude that the expression in (5) is equal to
- Example
1. First, derive sin(x) and x separately. sin(x) represents f in the equation for the product rule and x represents g.
- You should get cos(x) and 1 ( f' and g' respectively)
f = sin(x)
g = x
f' = cos(x)
g' = 1
3. Now plug in the variables into the Product Rule equation.
- You should get: y' = cos(x)*x + sin(x)
Going Further
If you know the product rule you never have to use the quotient rule.
For example:
y = sin(x)/x
1. First, rewrite the equation into the Product rule form.
- y = sin(x) * (1/x)
- Tip: 1/x is equal to x^-1
- You should get cos(x) and -x^-2 ( f' and g' respectively)
f = sin(x)
g = x^-1
f' = cos(x)
g' = -x^-2
4. Now plug in the variables into the Product Rule equation.
- You should get: y' = cos(x)*(x^-1) + sin(x)*(-x^-2)
- When simplified you should get: y' = 0