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# aaarrrg switch it off!!!!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:12, archived)
# RIS
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:15, archived)
# not quite as long as it took me
edit : that was ment to go below
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:29, archived)
# that's one careless
finger you got there, it's a good job were not allowed guns.

Though I must confess I've 'liked' more things I was merely intending on replying to than I would care to admit.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:37, archived)
# That one careless
finger you got there, it a good job were not allowed apostrophes.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:41, archived)
# or s's?
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:45, archived)
# Uh huh, uh huh!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:52, archived)
# do stapleguns count?
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:41, archived)
# They're inanimate objects
so I would doubt it.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:46, archived)
# aaargh my car bon't is rusting!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:15, archived)
# that took me a while
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# i was typing while simultaneously defending my sausagemeat toastie from a ferocious* dog
if i'd not been distracted i'd have given it more effort :)

*not ferocious
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:46, archived)
# Christy!
At that duplication rate, that's 2^1500 or:

350746621104340387476275879602808579935240158803308288
240757980247909638505633222036570808865849692616531504
067954375173992945489414699597541710389180047008478899
564853290972644868027115834629465366821843401386294513
554582649463425253836193893149606446650525517514423355
092491733611303557961097098855806743139542102176578474
326267607330047532753171921336747035633727832970419932
270526633336685099520001750533555290588804341825383867
15523683713208549376

in one night! (I think)
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:16, archived)
# If each one that is replicated can then also make 1500 copies a night
we will be swamped by 7pm
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:18, archived)
# so this is how it ends
/character in apocalyptic movie blog
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:19, archived)
# terminator 5 will be rise of the photocopiers
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:20, archived)
# Mantrid's drones from Lexx
It was a prophecy!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:23, archived)
# I WON'T LET THE COPIERS TAKE ME!!
*reloads shotgun, adjusts bandolier of grenades*
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:21, archived)
# MARTY! GET TO DA FAX MACHINE!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:45, archived)
# Film mashups would be so great.
Take single-shot, single line parts of films, and recombine them into a new film, with your favourite characters!

"Back to the Future vs Predator!" "Breakfast club : Aliens!"
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:52, archived)
# it could be awesome
but it would be shittingly hard work
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:15, archived)
# well, if it takes 10 hours to make 1500,
then it takes roughly 24 seconds to make each one.

What I mean is, it's not instant

er... is this what the Alchemist meant? I'm shit at maths
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:23, archived)
# I would asume they left it on at 5pm when they left the office and
came back at 9am. It doesnt actually say that the energy they use would be used to make 1500 copies. Thus i assume they could put that energy to some other use. mind control for instance.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:27, archived)
# Yeah
As I don't work I assumed night to mean nighttime
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# ah but surely the nights are getting shorter
so since your reply 10 hours is now 9 hours 59 minuets and 59 seconds and [(three seconds divided by 256) miliseconds]
edit adding a 24th of the millisecond value for each hour since the post... or one 60th of that value for each minuet... I think

edit : no, I'm wrong
here is the answers!!!
www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/839.html
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:31, archived)
# the NSA record each copy you make and cross reference it for terrorism
/catnipp blog
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:29, archived)
# I have been working on a new tinfoil alloy hat
for use in tin pot alleys
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:44, archived)
# Lily's on the pond math problem!
They double in size every 24 secs, so thats, erm

*runs out of fingers*
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# So am I really, but I was assuming that each copier can instantly start making copies of itself
I think that there's a more complex formula that would give you a better estimate. x(t) = ae^(kt). or so wikipedia would have it.

edit: hmm perhaps a more conservative 8.3742499531133519e+145 or maybe that's bigger. I'm not sure.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:42, archived)
# like bacteria
hmm perhaps there is an anti photocopier agent that would kill 99% of photocopiers dead. So as to keep them down to manageable levels.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:46, archived)
# Yeah but each copy can only make so many copies so that formula is slightly wrong
as say a copier can make 10 copies then it dies, then the number of copies will be reduced a bit
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:49, archived)
# But what if the small errors in the copies make them immune to the anti-photocopier agent!
And if the copiers were part of a diverse set of office machines that are red in plug and claw!

A whole office mecha-jungle!!...
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:55, archived)
# like some kind of third-generation cephotosporins
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:59, archived)
# uu
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(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:55, archived)
# hmmm.
since images are just very large numbers, perhaps the primes - suitably encoded - make a series of images, like a flip book.

At infinity, you get a picture of God.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:59, archived)
# at infinity, i should hope for cheat codes
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:04, archived)
# what about a photocopier left on overnight
to do a batch job of 1500 copies

how much energy does that use?
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:17, archived)
#
I believe that is how the large hadron collier at sern is poweredit may not actually be night because he is underground.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:19, archived)
# this, is science
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:27, archived)
# I have something to say
conCERNing your post.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:40, archived)
# our photocopier would use loads of energy
because it would probably have had a paper jam after about six copies and spent the entire night flashing lights and making irritating piercing beeps.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:43, archived)
# ah, i see what you did there :)
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:18, archived)
# yep and not a skwirl in sight
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:21, archived)
# see you can do it without skwirls
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:32, archived)
# ARGH PDF!!!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:19, archived)
# hahahaha
gotcha!!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:20, archived)
# >:(
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:21, archived)
# ahh ok umm i meant
sorry
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:22, archived)
# My stupidly slow computer doesnt like image links, let alone PDFs!!! :P
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:24, archived)
# I think you need to reboot it from a floppy
to let the pdf get into the pipes
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# It needs a format, but laziness rules over that
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:29, archived)
# do what i do and buy another drive
install fresh copy and use dual boot then simply shake and vac.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:51, archived)
# Laptop, does not compute
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:52, archived)
# external drive!!!
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:04, archived)
# Just think of the time and energy wasted
making and printing that poster.

I'm so incensed I'm going to go and make my own poster warning people about the how much energy shit like this wastes.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:31, archived)
# It's like the glossy pamphlet the council sent me, to show me pie charts of "how your tax is spent"
and there was no slice on the chart for "designing, printing, and distributing glossy pamphlets with pie charts like this"
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:57, archived)
# Why does it bother the carbon trust
if they are laser copies?
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:40, archived)
# awww bless
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:46, archived)