Ask Jake Anything

No.
They need a complete revamp.

Dear Jake,

should we have a "Build nothing day" in SL?

Dear Jake,

Why does spam email always come in font 80.... and colored text, and pictures, and anoyning sentiments about forwarding it on and to the person who forwarded it to you....???????? Is there a hell for "spammers"? and if not, what can be done about that? hmmmm?

Absolutely. That way I can go a head a build soemthing just to be contrarian. Apart from accomplishing the none too diffuclt task of amusing me, I don't see what else such a day would accomplish. But if you feel like you need a build nothing day, then go ahead. As for me. SL is a glorified form of computer legos, so for me to build nothing means I am likely at home upgrading my desktop so i can play batltlefield 2. Unless anyone knows a really good pvp wwI air combat sim.

Soon the x-box, and NHL 2005, to amuse me.

Why is it that everyone alway blames the spammers in these cases. Did you ever consider that the the purpose of teh spammers may be to test and train you. I mean maybe you don't get spam because someone is evil and sends it to you. Maybe you get spam because you are evil and deserve it.

I mean maybe all the annoying spam is punishment for your past indiscretions.

Hmm, if that is my punishment, then I must of not been that bad in past lives. I can live with e-mails that take me 10 second a day to delete. Yay, lenient retribution for my past life sins.

Now for the question. How does spam mail train one for future lives?

By developing patience and compassion, of course. Or maybe frustraion with spam will mean that in a future life you will develope the perfect unbreakable spam filiter and make all the world happy.

Why do they call them guinea pigs, they dont even really look like pigs?

Because spam teaches you lessons in patience and tranquility in the face of mindless, useless, repetitive annoyance.

Noone is sure exactly where to origin of the term came from. It is beleived that Guinea may be a derivation of Guyana, since the Cavi's originated in South America (Cavi is the term fans use for the species, it derives from the latin scientific name).

They are caled pigs because of a vague resemblence to pigs apparently. I don't see it, but since almost every language makea a porcine reference when describing the species, there must be some resemblence.

Beginning with a bacterial culture containing 1 organism per mL, how long would it be before there were 1 million organisms per mL, assuming a generation time of 30 minutes?

Its an exponential growth curve. Since backteria do not requre tow to reproduce ha mumans do it is a much faster curve. Assumin total reporduction, and no mortality they will hit 4 billion pml in 5 generations, or 2.5 hours.

Lucky lysol is a very effective antibacterial, though I do not recommend concetrating on a rag and inhaling to fight off a baterial infection-antibiotics are much better.

Dear Jake,

If such is truth... how do I seek redemption?


~Apperant Sinner Sydney~

Dear Jake,

Will you have my babies?


Thanks your a true pal

Assuming the life span of the bacteria is greater than the time it takes to reach the target population, it would take 20 doublings to grow 1,048,576 bacteria (2^20 = 1048567). Given 30 minutes between each generation, the total time would be 600 minutes or 10 hours.

While this was easy because it involves a power of two, it can be solved generally using

where T is the time, d is the generation time, and N is the end population.

~Ulrika~

*Spanks Ulrika* This is my forum, you have yours, you wann answer questions do it there. LoL. Even when you are right you still cannot answer here-thems the rules.

She *is* right though, whenI did my curve i skipped over the part where one bacteria reporduces one bacteria. By my own calculation I had 256 each bateria reproducing its self more than one time (like 256*256). as I thought about it i realised my mistake and came back to post the amendement and found other people answering in my forum, just because its more popular or something. hehehe

No that is a very very good question.

Frankly I would not seek redemption, but rather, enlightenment.

If I could have your babies, trust me I would. I think being the worlds first pregnant malew could get me all kinds of media exposure and the book rights alone would make me a mint.

Popularity does not imply verity.

~Ulrika~

Is it wrong to want to throw my busted hard drive out my open second story window? If not is it ok to hope it hits my obnoxious neighbor when I do throw it?

Dear Jake,


What should I ask you now?

In whose world? Certrainly it does in SL, and in the good ol USA. If it didn't, we would not need to have the deabte about intelligent design.

That being said I never said I would give the right answers. Though I often do, and I correct myself when I am wrong. However you are again positing in my forum without asking a question so now you will spanked twice.

Well thenaswer to the first question is yes. It is wrong to lose you composure over an inanimate object. It is a sign that you are impatient and not settled within yourself over thigs that are. If your hard drive is broken, you must fix it, replace it, or do without. All three are neither good nor bad options, they simply are. However it is wrong also to blame yourself for losing compsore over an inanimate object since that is to be overly attached to the moment you were wrong.

And yes, it is wrong to wish harm upon your obnoxious neighboor, who may be your best teacher in the lessons of patience, tolerance and compassion.

Whatver you wish to ask, or need to ask. Perhaps the question you already know the answer to, but are afraid to give the answer to yourself? What you ask me is not as imporatant, obviously, as what you ask yourself.

Can you state your answer in the form of a question?