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Subject: Should membership to Bungie.net be closed?
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  • 02.20.2007 9:03 PM PDT

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* How is it that "Fat Chance" and "Slim Chance" mean the same thing?
* If you choke a Smurf, what color will it turn?

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Thats impossible because there is an Infinite amount of letters that can be placed together meaning there will never be a time when all the possible combinations are taken.

  • 02.20.2007 9:06 PM PDT
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Spart said something that had a thought process behind it.


:o

  • 02.20.2007 9:09 PM PDT
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It would be impossible to use up every possible combination of letters and numbers before old accounts expired. It is an endless loop.

  • 02.20.2007 9:10 PM PDT

If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.

Infinite you say? Ever taken a look at Nosferatu_Soldie?

While stopping users from joining might be nice (I'm mean okay. You honestly can't tell me your looking foreward to the new wave of people that will come flying in from Halo 3)

Your reason is a poor one as inactive accounts are deleted within 3 months, and with the constant cycle of users being made and deleted, as well as the number of text combinations that can be made, it's rather pointless to worry about name overcrowding. Besides, worse comes to worse, we'll take tips form China or India. They manage.

  • 02.20.2007 9:10 PM PDT

2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

AOL/AIM has been going for a while now and I'm sure they have 10 times, or even more the members this site. They still are probably not even close to running out of possible combinations, let alone desired ones.

  • 02.20.2007 9:15 PM PDT

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.” – Psalms 46:1-3

hmmm thats 36^36th power thats not gonna happen O_O

just incase ya wondering that is.....

1.0638735892371652480771347575246e+56

so no we will never run out of names O_O


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  • 02.20.2007 9:18 PM PDT

Why the hell are you looking at this? Get out.

And no group invites, you jerk. I'm not interested.

:-/

Shall we start by limiting yours? You keep raising these silly ideas.

  • 02.20.2007 9:20 PM PDT
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Umm... Bungie.net doesn't even have that many members and look at Xbox LIVE. They aren't running out of GamerTags. Look at MySpace, they have billions of users and each user has a different custom url. I think Bungie can manage.

  • 02.20.2007 9:21 PM PDT

Official Town Drunk of Sandwichia. Nation of the Flood.
MBT - Impossible Just Happened
* How is it that "Fat Chance" and "Slim Chance" mean the same thing?
* If you choke a Smurf, what color will it turn?

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Posted by: RoboChocobo
Infinite you say? Ever taken a look at Nosferatu_Soldie?


ok, Nosferatu_Soldie. 16 characters.

26 letters 10 numbers 12 other characters.

To find the maximum amount you must multiply all those together.

26 letters x 10 numbers = 260
260 x 12 other characters = 3120
3120x16 = 49920

since they can be in any order multiply 49920 by 16^2 = 12,779,520

we have a possible of over 12 million names. and I think I missed a few things that can be in a name.

  • 02.20.2007 9:24 PM PDT
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There are a lot less than 2 million members. You have nothing to worry about.

-TGP-

  • 02.20.2007 10:37 PM PDT
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You could look at your ideas you have thought of and say "Hey he's got a point". Unfortunately then that nasty thing called Logic comes and messes it all up.

  • 02.20.2007 10:49 PM PDT

Runnnnnn!

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You could look at your ideas you have thought of and say "Hey he's got a point". Unfortunately then that nasty thing called Logic comes and messes it all up.

That bastard Logic ruins everything.


Yeah, it's a bad idea to close down membership.

  • 02.20.2007 11:09 PM PDT

$x='print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x; ';
print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x;

I work at Microsoft. I have nothing to do with Halo and nothing I say is "the official word".

256^8 says there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 character combinations that can be made out of 8 characters.... i think we're fine myself.

Sure, you can't actually use every single character in a name, but theres plenty of variety

16 characters:
(26 + 26 + 10)^16 = 47,672,401,706,823,533,450,263,330,816
with just 26 letters caps or lowercase and 10 digits

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  • 02.20.2007 11:14 PM PDT

@trueunderdog

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Shall we start by limiting yours? You keep raising these silly ideas.


I agree so hard.

  • 02.20.2007 11:26 PM PDT

Official Town Drunk of Sandwichia. Nation of the Flood.
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Posted by: BahamutZER0
256^8 says there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 character combinations that can be made out of 8 characters.... i think we're fine myself.

Sure, you can't actually use every single character in a name, but theres plenty of variety

16 characters:
(26 + 26 + 10)^16 = 47,672,401,706,823,533,450,263,330,816
with just 26 letters caps or lowercase and 10 digits


I forgot to add capital letters to my calculations.

Also, neither of us added names that care less then 16 characters long.

  • 02.20.2007 11:27 PM PDT

Does case sensitivty factor in? If so there would be more letters.

  • 02.20.2007 11:40 PM PDT

Go from here!! Learn maths!!!

  • 02.21.2007 4:24 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

This is so stupid that it can't be for real.

Banned for trolling. One more time and you're gone.

  • 02.21.2007 5:10 AM PDT