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Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @07:57PM from the less-math-more-social-science dept.

artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"

Comment Yes. Commodore 64 Game Company (Score 1) 318

by cbmeeks on Monday September 21, 2009 @08:41AM (#29489809) Attached to: Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder?

I would program just as much. But it would be all fun projects. Some would be useful like maybe contributing to Ruby/Rails projects. Others, would be for total fun. I would start my own gaming company but would focus on dead platforms (dead being a relative term). I would contract out art and music and code games for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 8/16bit, etc. I wouldn't care if I made a profit or not. I would then give the games away for free via disk images. Some games would be released on cart or disk at my expense. That would rock.

Comment This just in.... (Score 0, Troll) 333

by cbmeeks on Friday October 03, 2008 @08:45AM (#25244315) Attached to: Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them

1993 to Al, the Internet just called.... Er, so record a song, release the song for download for a price. Yeah, it took 2008 technology for that.

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