@Atvelonis: For the next 5 years things will progress as normal. Electronics and internet will keep being more important and more powerful. After that we hit the "brick wall", the point at which the physical limit is reached for the size we can make the devices. At this point either technological progress will slow down dramatically, electronics will increase in size or a new breakthrough will be made which will allow us to keep the brick wall back another few years.
In about 20 years, the first viable quantum computer will be made. This is not directly important for consumers, but for researchers this allows far better computations to be made and will possibly lead to higher temperature superconductors and other such wonderful materials. I suspect this will lead to such a technological revolution that it will be almost impossible to predict the future after that point.

@Binary: Absolutely not. First of, the dimension would be all wrong. d rho/dt has dimension [kg m^-3 s^-1], d rho u / dt has [kg m^-2 s^-2], so dividing the latter by the former gives dimension [m s^-1], or velocity, not the time derivative of velocity.
However, if rho is constant (for example, water or oil) you can take it out of the time derivative and divide the latter by rho to get the time derivative of velocity.
If rho is not constant (for example, air), then you can use the chain rule to split up the derivative and try subtracting something.

Do you personally believe that the music in the dragon's den in Pokémon G/S/C is the most ear-grating music in the whole game?

Why do roller coasters have a tendency to use teardrop-shaped loops instead of circular loops?  

Do you think Interguild Tournament Points will take off?

What do you think is the appropriate age to start dating?

i am going to build a gaming PC, so I would like to know, what games would you recommend for high quality PC gaming  

I don't remember any particularly bad music from G/S/C.

If the loops were perfectly circular, they would be very, very uncomfortable to make it through. If you do the calculations, I think the centrifugal forces from a perfectly circular loop would be around 5 g, which is what jet fighters have to endure. By making it teardrop-shaped the radius of the loop is larger where the speed is higher, so overall the centrifugal force stays roughly constant and makes the whole thing more bearable.



I really don't know.



Whenever you feel like it. As long as the person you are dating is within the same age range as you.



I'm more of a retro gamer, so I don't really know. The last game I played on my computer was Heroes of Might and Magic III, which I think came out in 1998. I had to use a mod to make sure it actually fit my screen properly.

I like to let my sister watch TV shows on my Netflix account so that I won't have to get off the computer but I need some more good kids' shows for her to watch that are on Netflix. (Stuff like Phineas and Ferb, Garfield, Mythbusters, etc.) Could you reccomend something to keep her busy for a while?

Also when does snow melt in the Netherlands?

atvelonis:

wizards of waverly place fo sho

Atvelonis my sister watched all of Shake It Up.

oh GOD WHY

at least its not dog with a blog right

I have no idea how old she is, but I guess you can't go wrong with Cartoon Network.

And we haven't had snow in the Netherlands this year. At all. Temperatures haven't even dipped below 0 C. This was the second hottest winter ever recorded in the Netherlands, pretty much going straight from fall to spring.

Dog with a blog is literally the worst thing I've ever seen on TV.

Definitely Cartoon Network, the old stuff is still great, but if it'd be easier for them to watch something newer, the channel has a bit of a renaissance going on with Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe, shows that can be enjoyed by kids and adults. I know girls like to watch shows that actually have girl characters within the main cast, and Adventure Time/Steven Universe have a few that appear often (I guess I probably should how old she is, to make sure she's not 5 or something-- if she is, then probably ignore the above).

@atvelonis: obviously pokèmon

What's your bacon number?

I have no idea. I was in some home videos with my sister, who was in the background of some Dutch comedy show, of which someone must have played in a movie with a more famous Dutch actor which should eventually lead to Kevin Bacon. But I really don't know.

What is up with the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dunno.

Not sure how much you use Youtube, but I'm sure you're familiar with their efforts to try and make people sync their YT accounts with their Google accounts, use their real names or email addresses or Google usernames as their YT names, etc.

I've told Youtube clearly multiple times that I want to keep my account and name set up the way I always have, but for the past week and a half or so, its kept switching to the other option (the one that they tried to push) on its own every time I close out of the browser. It even says this option is selected/saved as to imply that I set it up like this.  Do you think it has something to do with my cache/cookies not registering that I always have and will want to keep my account the way it is, or is it a bizarre scheme by Google/Youtube to Stockholm syndrome me into switching to their way by continually doing it themselves? Since I use Chrome, the first possibility could very well be part of their bizarre scheme as well ...

When will the dynmap be back up?

I opened the site just because OH LORD I HAVENT BEEN HERE SO LONG and got this post, and was so disappointed from you . do you know why?

is it because he said "first of" instead of "first off"?

I've had the exact same problem. Google is really starting to annoy me.



No idea what that is.



Because I didn't refer to the Navier-Stokes equations by name?



You know, I'm always confused by "of"  and "off"  in non-obvious contexts. In this case, you are neither taking something off first, nor is the first property of something, so you can't really deduce which one would be more logical here.

Why is the dynmap down in the first place?