Slashdot Mirror
World Solar Challenge Beginning
Stuart Bowden writes: "Today (Sunday at 8:00am Central Australian time) is the start of the 2001 World solar Challenge, a sort of alternative Cannonball Run in which the solar cars cost up to $10 million. Over the next five days or so thirty three solar powered cars will race 3000km across the Australia desert powered only by sunlight. The official site is at WSC and there is extra gossip, pictures and information at our site at the University of NSW. We'll be doing the web upgrades on the road by begging connections at roadside diners and the occasional satellite phone. The big problem is keeping up with solar cars that don't stop for fuel." Our previous story had more links.
worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
I love solar power! :)
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass.
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
World Solar Challenge Beginning
[ Technology ]Posted by michael on 19:10 Saturday 17 November 2001
But it's night time!!!
Does anyone know where I could find a crack for Windows XP? That activation requirement is as gay as a football bat. I'd also like to insert a rant how I'm justified in doing this because all software should be free!!
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
...whatever...
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
Buy it, you piece of shit!! Bill Gates is starving and needs your $100! Who are you to take food out of his mouth?
:-( (Score:-1)
WONRG!!!! NOT FP
by Big_Ass_Spork on Saturday November 17, @11:12PM (#2580136)
-- INSERT KNIGHT RIDER THEME HERE --
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
This is the most boring article i have ever seen on slashdot!
Unfortunately Kazaa and its like have been blocked by the firewall we have at work. :( Otherwise that is an excellent suggestion.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
How does a gasoline powered car do against these solar powered cars in a 3000km race? In my opinion, this is more like a marathon than a race.
Don't talk about Tyler Durdan...
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
You obviously haven't been here long...
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
We do not talk about Tyler DurdEn...
The World Solar Challenge is a race to motivate research and development into harnessing solar energy
I haven't looked at all the teams yet, but so far they seem to be aiming to improve performance by improving aerodynamics and reducing weight, not by improving the efficiency of the electricity generation.
One exception is the aurora team, but I can't find any technical details of the improvements they're claiming.
---
http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
Die now, bitch.
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
Rosie O'Donnel is a fat piece of ham. Her show is completely useless to anyone who isn't loaded on high doses of anti-depressants (as Rosie herself is). Here is a list of reasons why her show blows.
1) Rosie doesn't stop talking about her fucking kids. Nobody gives a fuck about your kids!
2) Rosie is a fucking hypocrite. At one point she was ranting about the need for gun control, and then she told her bodyguard to buy a gun to protect her kids (after some wacko threatened her because of her gun control stance)
3) Rosie is a dyke. But no man would ever want her anyway.
4) Rosie is a media whore. Every show she is talking about how she loves her imac or AOL or xbox or whatever. Her show borders on being an infomercial.
5) Rosie makes people thing it's ok to be fat. It's not. Get some exercise you fat dyke!
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
I live on the route, and if my calculations are correct they'de be caning (if 50-100km/h is considered caning) past me a couple of hundred meters away. It's such a bastard thing to be lazy. Maybe I take the coolness of it all for granted.
But alas, i've seen it all before, and in two years time, i'll see it all again...
Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger of a sniper rifle.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I might have a copy of it here in front of me. Is there a way one can tell if its the corp version by looking at it, or browsing the CD?
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
Why is everyone so interested in Solar power? Solar power is not gonna be the alternative fuel of the future, it just doesn't make enough power for pratical use. Fuel Cells and Hydrogen is the way to go. Go here for more info on fuel cells
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Further: HP/UX rulez
Solar cells have a theoretical maximum efficency of not more than 50%. Currently, triple junction GaAs cells will get you about 35% (pretty close to the limit). Such an array for a solar car (5m by 1.8 m) can cost in the neighborhood of 500,000 USD. Meanwhile, a 19% Si array can be had for 70,000, and a 13 - 14% array for 10,000. As you can see, the price of an array has something of an exponential relationship to the efficency. To inprove the maximum efficency, you have to have the money to play with some very expensive toys. Only a few companies can afford such equipment (such as Honda and Aurora) and no school that I know of has a suffcient budget. We can (and do) play with making cells, but to commit to designing them and trying various chemistries and encapsulations requires more money than we have. Our object is to make cells that at a given efficency are cheaper than the ones on the market.
Meanwhile, the only things that slow you down are rolling resistance and aerodynamic drag. Cutting weight usually requires nothing more than a lot of thought into material selection and structural design (not hundreds of thousands of dollars).
Aero is a little more interesting, as there are tradeoffs betweeen the effective efficency of your array and your aerdynamic drag (for example, a taller car can catch more sun in the mornings and evenings, but will have more drag). These tradeoffs are related to how fast you want to go, and the conditions of the specific race you are designing for (whether it is primarily from north to south or east to west effects how you handle these tradeoffs; a car sloped to a particular side doesn't help if that side never faces the sun).
Also worth mentioning is that all the American college teams that I know are in the WSC just came off competing in the American Solar Challenge. Teams that did not have large budgets in that race competed in stock class, where they were only allowed to spend $10 per watt that they expected out of their array (limiting them to silicon cells) and lead acid batteries. I do not know if any of those teams went to WSC, but that would explain their use of lower power cells.
Photovoltaic cell research is one of the mose exciting fields of renewable energy, but when it comes to racing cars, you're more likly to win by buying the best array you can afford, and improving the other aspects of your car.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass.
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Rosie O'Donnel is a fat piece of ham...
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
My 1984 XJ6 gets exactly 16 miles to the gallon and states the tires should be inflated to 33lbs for driving at speeds over 100mph. I guess it would get there about 4 days faster. Gotta love those twin fuel tanks. Nothing like being in the middle of nowhere and scaring the shit outta someone.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
My roommate is President of the Solar Car team at Kansas State University. His team recently finished 5th overall at the 2k1 American Solar Challenge. Since he's president I get to hear all about these things. Very few actual solar panel manufacturers enter, but rather sponsor universities. Sponsorship is why the University of Michigan, near the auto industry capital of the USA, is taking their car, and why we cant afford to ship ours over there.
.1~1 percent. In contrast, redesigning the body of the car gave us about 35 percent less drag. In addition, the concept of "regenerative braking," using the kinetic energy of the car to run the engine in reverse and charge the batteries, greatly increases overall effiency. Essentially, research into solar panel mechanisms requires extensive knowledge in both electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, which few people have, and of those who DO have that exp, few of them would put up with a university salary.
As far as the actual electricity generation goes, I'd think its a bit beyond the capabilities of a group of freshman and sophmore (my roommate is a sophmore) undergrads to not only design a better grade solar array, but then manufacture it. Even if some kid did manage it, they couldn't afford the costs. I believe the cost of the current solar array is some 25k, which generates about 14 hp. That gets them up to about 75 mph max, but that eats of the batteries pretty fast.
Most solar cars don't use the latest and most efficient solar array. If I recall correctly, the latest car from KSU, CATalyst, uses 14 percent efficienct solar panels. The most efficient are gallium-cyanide (or something like that) that are extremely expensive (like 500k or so). Of course there are a few things that can be done besides simply upgrading the solar array. I've heard of shaping the solar cells in inverted pyramids at the near molecular level will increase absorbtion, but the return is expected to be on the order of
Yea, I can't spell efficiency, but who cares, I'm only a Computer Science major.
I Browse at +4 Flamebait
Open Source Sysadmin
Here's your chance to earn extra money working at home by becoming an active participant of our successful mailing program. No more worries over inflation, recession, bills, rising gasoline and other costs. If you are looking for easy extra income to relieve financial pressures, you owe it to yourself to investigate our offer. You will receive money weekly for the envelopes you stuff as per our instructions. There is no limit. Stuff as many as you wish. Our HOME MAILER'S PROGRAM is designed especially for people with little or no brains. Here are the steps to take... 1) Shave yourself where the sun don't shine 2) Rub vasoline all over your privates 3) Wrap you privates in tinfoil 4) Heat tinfoil with lighter
No, there's no way to tell which edition it is. There are no splash screens or labels giving away which version you're using. It's the same 2600 build that everyone else gets, minus the activation.
However, if you downloaded it off the net in the form of an iso file, then that's the corporate version. I've seen enough of them going around. To be honest, I don't think the retail version is floating around much at all. Everyone seems to want the one without activation. Heh, can you blame them?
- I throw rocks at retarded kids
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll
What is "Taco-snotting?"
Good Lord. Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco asking me if he can Taco-snot me?
I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?
What is a "Circle-snot"?
Eww. Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?
That's horrible. Does Jon Katz get involved in this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.
What's that screaming I hear coming from your basement?
No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.
________________________________________
READER COMMENTS
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. .
by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
The WIPO Troll
Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
Oh, man that's just sick !
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place.
by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
Where the fuck do I sign up?!
- I throw rocks at retarded kids
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.
by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!
by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
+5, Arousing
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
WINNER>
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
WIPO trolls > linux
________________________________________
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
Taco gets me a job as a fellatio boy, after that Taco's pushing a cock in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal gayness is you have to suck dick. For a long time, though, Taco and I were best friends. Faggots and little boys are always asking, did I know about CmdrTaco.
/Club to come soon...
The gaunt shaft of Taco's cock pressed against the front of my teeth, Taco says, "We really aren't really gay."
With my tongue I can feel the pustulating sores we got from large gay german lunix fags. Most epidemics of genital herpes is caused by pustulating sores that come in contact with mucous membranes of multiple homosexual partners. To have a Taco-snotting without herpes, you just lance and drain the sores into a cup. You lance a lot of sores. This allows the herpes to escape and slows down the spread of genital herpes to below the epidemic threshold.
You lance the sores the wrong way and Taco's cock will shrivel up and die.
"This isn't really gayness," Taco says. "We'll be legend. We won't get AIDS."
I tongue the slender cock into my cheek and say, Taco, you're thinking of Liberace.
The building we're standing on won't be here in ten minutes. You take a 98-percent stock drop of VA Lunix^H^H^H^H^HSoftware and add the stock drop to the fact that child-rapist ESR and Larry Augustin can't run a laundromat, yet alone a software company. You have a recipe for failure.
I know this because Taco knows this.
Mix the failure of LNUX with the current economic situation, and you have a nice case of FuckedCompany. A lot of folks take the failure of LNUX and add to that the fact that RMS hasn't showered in decades to attribute to the unpopularity of Slashdot. This is true. Some folks, they argue that it is the fancy-lad attitude of Linus Torvalds that is such a turn off to Slashdot. This is true, also.
So Taco and I are on top of the VA Lunix^H^H^H^H^HSoftware Building with a cock stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking. Look over the edge. It's CowboyNeal, jumping after a Twinkie that fell off the sill. This is the world's fattest man, and an ass this fat will always get his twinkie...
Part Two of
root> man -k lunix heterosexuality hygiene
nothing appropriate
root>
I just realized this would've been a perfect "Ask Slashdot" question. I'm going to go submit it.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:
:(
From: malda@slashdot.org [mailto]
To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
Subject: were where you last friday?
I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.
--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org [mailto])
root> man -k lunix heterosexuality hygiene
nothing appropriate
root>
I've got a copy of Windows XP. Unfortunately I didn't really *buy* it per se. Since Slashdot is known for its hatred of Microsoft and its promotion of free (as in love) software, I figured this is the ideal forum to pose my question: Where can I get a crack for Windows XP? Since most Slashdot readers use Windows and only give lip service to Linux, I believe that this question will help out the majority of your readership. Not only that, but it will be a major blow against Microsoft and it will continue the glorification of Communism that many Open Source visionaries have championed.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
its probably your best chance. make sure and do a virus scan first! i don't trust a lot of that shit.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
that link was free (as in AIDS)
root> man -k lunix heterosexuality hygiene
nothing appropriate
root>
Through my painstaking yet thorough investigation, I have come up with 2 undeniable facts:
...
1) The total number of articles posted on Slashdot during the weekend is the same as during the weekdays, if not more so, yet
2) The total number of trolls and flamebaits goes down while the total number of "quality" posts increases
This leads me to the following conclusion:
"People who take Slashdot seriously are faggots with no social lives."
From my study, I have deduced that "Trolls" and "Flamebaiters" enjoy the following benefits:
1) Interaction/Intercourse with females
2) Frequent alcohol use
3) Potentially frequent recreational drug use
4) Attendance to informal get-togethers with peers (sometimes called "parties")
5) Ability to make social connections with others (sometimes called "friends")
6) Not getting benefitee's ass kicked after school
While those who take Slashdot seriously suffer from the following social stigmas:
1) Pasty white skin
2) Acne
3) Premature ejaculation (more often than not, this ejaculation is made within a blow-up girlfriend, while the probability that a Slashdotter would get any "play" is measurable only by tiny quantum corrections)
4) BO
Conclusion: Trolling and flamebaiting Slashdot and the faggots who regularly post there is not only beneficial, but is necessary to draw the line between those who are faggoty geeks (+4, +5 Interesting/Insightful/Funny) to those who are "cool" (flamebaiters/trolls).
In order to be acceptable from a consumer's point of view, such a car would have to have batteries ... Even in a desert you still wouldn't want to be limited to day-only driving.
Batteries on the other hand are very heavy. They account for more than 50% of the weight of a regular electric car. The energy required to move the batteries makes such a solar-powered car infeasible.
As mentioned in another post, most of the teams only improved on aerodynamics & weight. So, I'm asking: what's the point of this competition ?
The Raven.
The Raven
THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.8 $
What is "Taco-snotting?"
Good Lord. Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco asking me if he can Taco-snot me?
I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?
What is a "Circle-snot"?
Eww. Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?
That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?
Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.
What's that screaming I hear coming from your basement?
No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.
________________________________________
READER COMMENTS
by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
---
All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...
by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)
I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the
I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. .
by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
The WIPO Troll
Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
Oh, man that's just sick !
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place.
by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
Where the fuck do I sign up?!
- I throw rocks at retarded kids
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.
by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!
by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
+5, Arousing
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
WINNER>
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
WIPO trolls > linux
________________________________________
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass.
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Rosie O'Donnel is a fat piece of ham...Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
Learning and fun have always been the reasons for any competition. What did you expect was the reason?
KingPrad
Stop the Slashdot Effect! Don't read the articles!
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass.
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Rosie O'Donnel is a fat piece of ham...Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
STAR WARS
Episode V
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Script adaptation by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett from a story by George Lucas
LUCASFILM LTD.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...
It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space...
EXTERIOR: GALAXY -- PLANET HOTH
A Star Destroyer moves through space, releasing Imperial probe robots from its underside. One of these probes zooms toward the planet Hoth and lands on its ice-covered surface. An explosion marks the point of impact.
EXTERIOR: HOTH -- METEORITE CRATER -- SNOW PLAIN -- DAY
A weird mechanical sound rises above the whining of the wind. A strange probe robot, with several extended sensors, emerges from the smoke-shrouded crater. The ominous mechanical probe floats across the snow plain and disappears into the distance.
EXTERIOR: PLAIN OF HOTH -- DAY
A small figure gallops across the windswept ice slope. The bundled rider is mounted on a large gray snow lizard, a Tauntaun. Curving plumes of snow rise from beneath the speeding paws of the two-legged beast. The rider gallops up a slope and reins his lizard to a stop. Pulling off his protective goggles, Luke Skywalker notices something in the sky. He takes a pair of electrobinoculars from his utility belt and through them sees smoke rising from where the probe robot has crashed. The wind whips at Luke's fur-lined cap and he activates a comlink transmitter. His Tauntaun shifts and moans nervously beneath him.
LUKE: (into comlink) Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me? After a little static a familiar voice is heard.
HAN: (over comlink) Loud and clear, kid. What's up?
LUKE: (into comlink) Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings.
HAN: (over comlink) There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser. The sensors are placed. I'm going back.
LUKE: (into comlink) Right. I'll see you shortly. There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here. I want to check it out. It won't take long.
Luke clicks off his transmitter and reins back on his nervous lizard. He pats the beast on the head to calm it.
LUKE: Hey, steady girl. What's the matter? You smell something?
Luke takes a small device from his belt and starts to adjust it when suddenly a large shadow falls over him from behind. He hears a monstrous howl and turns to see an eleven- foot-tall shape towering over him. It is a Wampa Ice Creature, lunging at him ferociously.
LUKE: Aaargh!
Luke grabs for his pistol, but is hit flat in the face by a huge white claw. He falls unconscious into the snow and in a moment the terrified screams of the Tauntaun are cut short by the horrible snap of a neck being broken. The Wampa Ice Creature grabs Luke by one ankle and drags him away across the frozen plain.
EXTERIOR: HOTH -- REBEL BASE ENTRANCE -- DAY
A stalwart figure rides his Tauntaun up to the entrance of an enormous ice cave.
INTERIOR: HOTH -- REBEL BASE -- MAIN HANGAR DECK
Rebel troopers rush about unloading supplies and otherwise securing their new base. The rider, Han Solo, swings off his lizard and pulls off his goggles. He walks into the main hangar deck toward the Millennium Falcon, which is parked among several fighters. Mechanics, R2 units, and various other droids hurry about. Han stops at the Millennium Falcon where his Wookiee copilot, Chewbacca, is welding on a central lifter. Chewie stops his work and lifts his face shield, growling an irritated greeting to his boss.
HAN: Chewie!
The Wookiee grumbles a reply.
HAN: All right, don't lose your temper. I'll come right back and give you a hand.
Chewbacca puts his mask back on and returns to his welding as Han leaves.
INTERIOR: HOTH -- REBEL BASE -- COMMAND CENTER
A makeshift command center has been set up in a blasted area of thick ice. The low-ceilinged room is a beehive of activity. Controllers, troops, and droids move about setting up electronic equipment and monitoring radar signals. General Rieekan straightens up from a console at Han's approach.
RIEEKAN: Solo?
HAN: No sign of life out there, General. The sensors are in place. You'll know if anything comes around.
RIEEKAN: Commander Skywalker reported in yet?
HAN: No. He's checking out a meteorite that hit near him.
RIEEKAN: (indicates radar screen) With all the meteor activity in this system, it's going to be difficult to spot approaching ships.
Taking a deep breath, Han blurts out what is on his mind.
HAN: General, I've got to leave. I can't stay anymore.
Princess Leia, standing at a console nearby, is dressed in a short white combat jacket and pants. Her hair is braided across her head in a Nordic fashion. She overhears their conversation and seems somewhat distressed.
RIEEKAN: I'm sorry to hear that.
HAN: Well, there's a price on my head. If I don't pay off Jabba the Hut, I'm a dead man.
RIEEKAN: A death mark's not an easy thing to live with. You're a good fighter, Solo. I hate to lose you.
HAN: Thank you, General.
He turns to Leia as Rieekan moves away.
HAN: (with feeling) Well, Your Highness, I guess this is it.
LEIA: That's right.
Leia is angry. Han sees she has no warmth to offer him. He shakes his head and adopts a sarcastic tone.
HAN: (cooly) Well, don't get all mushy on me. So long, Princess.
Han walks away into the quiet corridor adjoining the command center. Leia stews a moment, then hurries after him.
INTERIOR: HOTH -- REBEL BASE -- ICE CORRIDOR
LEIA: Han!
Han stops in the corridor and turns to face Leia.
HAN: Yes, Your Highnessness?
LEIA: I thought you decided to stay.
HAN: Well, the bounty hunter we ran into on Ord Mantell changed my mind.
LEIA: Han, we need you!
HAN: We?
LEIA: Yes.
HAN: Oh, what about you need?
LEIA: (mystified) I need? I don't know what you're talking about.
HAN: (shakes his head, fed up) You probably don't.
LEIA: And what precisely am I supposed to know?
HAN: Come on! You want me to stay because of the way you feel about me.
LEIA: Yes. You're a great help to us. You're a natural leader...
HAN: No! That's not it. Come on. Aahhh -- uh huh! Come on.
Leia stares at him, understanding, then laughs.
LEIA: You're imagining things.
HAN: Am I? Then why are you following me? Afraid I was going to leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
LEIA: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee.
HAN: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss!
Angrily, Han strides down the corridor as Leia stares after him.
first, a shameful, kowtowing plug: http://solar42.umr.edu
;) ), but when we design a car, we know that there are teams out there that have 3 times the funding that we do. So, rather than sacrifice our budget for the nifty "one-item" improvements, we spread costs out to balance improvements. I would say that batteries, solar cells, and the motor are the three big ticket items in a solar car. sacrificing the quality of the motor and battieries that you can purchase for a really high efficiency solar array is bad engineering. in this way, solar raycing is kind of like taoism, everything must be in balance
solar car design and raycing is (for us uni and high-school persons)is primarily an endevor of engineering. you can't always splurge on the 34% efficient space-grade cells. sometimes you have to determine that you don't have the money, and you'd rather have a decent car overall than a boffo solar array on a wooden crate. if an engineer works hard enough at it, and has the right insight at the right time, many good things can happen...independent of the almighty buck. at UMR we have pretty good funding (how much is for me to know, not you all
Lithium ion technology is something that is still fairly new to consumer products, but it has been around in the "experimental implementation" field for a long while.
the UMR Solar Miner III seen here can do close to 600 miles on a 68Kg LI+ battery pack, whereas a traditional lead-acid battery pack that would give us the same milage would be more than twice the weight
...the hell are the singing cats?
Bunches of comments are being posted regarding gasoline engines are faster, fuel cell are the future, solar is impractical, etc. Totally correct. Totally off-topic.
These vehicles are not cars in any conventional sense of the word. They are an engineering challenge to see who can best balance weight, aerodynamics, PV efficiency and energy storage. They have to make strategic decisions. Last year the University of Missouri - Rolla team actually benefited from cloudy weather because they had a package that ran further on stored energy than the other cars. This actually slowed them down a bit compared to the other cars when it was sunny.
I think its great to get a bunch of engineering students together in a friendly competition.
...claim this story in the name of troolls.
number of -1 posts: 45
number of all other posts combined: 31
w00t
Modern solar cars used in such races can cruise at 90+ mph, max 130+ mph. Whoa. It's waaay more than enough for me! Give me sufficient night range (supercapacitors or whatever... 80-100 km on batteries will be enough... <rant>yep, 640k RAM IS enough if you do not use GUI crap</rant>) and such car will become my favorite transport.
The main trouble is NOT the price of manufacturing such car. Mass production will bring the price down. But even if someone invents perpetuum mobile and bulds a car running for free, western public will never buy it unless it has air conditioning, xenon headlights, cup holders, dvd player and all these tech gizmos for $20k -- and solar car can't have ANY of these because its power and weight is very, very limited.
Well it shouldn't be that hard. In most situations, the fuel outlasts the drivers.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
A few problems with using solar cars for regular transport: 1. Solar Cars are expen$ive. You would have to shell out a couple hundred thousand dollars for a solar car. 2. They are not safe. Solar cars need to be so light that they would be way to weak to survive a crash. 3. They would be uncomfortable to drive. Most solar cars adopt a low profile for better aerodynamics. This makes it so the driver has to lie down. Also, it would only be a 1 seater. Solar cars are fun toys for universities, but they cannot provide regular transport. You could not design a solar car that would meet current safety restrictions.To meet current restrictions, it would have to have things like metal crumple zones. The solar panels needed to power something that heavy would be too large. With all of this, the clear answer for future automobiles is either hybrid gas/electric, or hydrogen fuel cells powered by hydrogen from clean nuclear power plants.
If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I shall take you in my German mouth.
... is if they race 3000km across the UK.
Mass production will bring costs down.
3. They would be uncomfortable to drive. Most solar cars adopt a low profile for better aerodynamics. This makes it so the driver has to lie down.
Who knows? May be it's best position for the driver? Also when you lie down you can't get a whip spine trauma, can't fly through windshield, etc. It's a erognomics designer's task to make such posture comfortable.
Also, it would only be a 1 seater.
Why? If this thing can go 130 mph with one seat, it could go 100 mph with two seats, one behind another. Second seat will _not_ increase drag coefficient, only weight and vehicle length. Solar challenge rules limit solar cell area to the certain number, but you don't have to limit it when you build commuter vehicle. Second passenger compartment will increase vehicle power enough to compensate passenger's weight.
To meet current restrictions, it would have to have things like metal crumple zones
No. With weight about 200 kg and three wheels it will fall under "motorcycle" regulations in most countries, AFAIK at least in U.S. and Russia. Also it doesn't need _metal_ crumble zones for crash with another solar vehicle -- plastic crumble zones will do the trick for 200 kg cars. Your crumble zones in your car will never protect you in the crash against 18-wheeler, why mandate crumble zones against the same weight difference? Hell, there are tons of motorbikes rowing around the globe with NO airbags, crumble zones, seat belts and other measures, why these are not mandated to such ridiculous restrictions first?
With all of this, the clear answer for future automobiles is either hybrid gas/electric, or hydrogen fuel cells powered by hydrogen from clean nuclear power plants.
With hydrogen energy storage you'll depend on country economics and political situation in the world, like you do with petroleum. And with anti-nuclear craze you can't expect enough new power plants. We are still far, far away from building hydrogen supply stations everywhere, since we still do not have good hydrogen storage. And solar vehicle doesn't need these stations at all...
It's possible to build usable solar car today. But public will never buy it because they want luxury and "safety" and they are willing to pay $$ for petroleum.
Fuck these MSCEs are getting smarter and smarter! Did you go the whole hog or did you just attempt the upgrade exam?
You are a consultant for fuck all.
any rules that prevent using the solar panels as wind sails as well? Dual powered car, with solar and wind, will probably be a little more promising.
geek page at KY speaks
Ever thought about the problem where the Hydrogen for the fuel cell comes from? Fuell cells only store power. And you could use solar energy to produce the hydrogen through electrolysis.
So the combination of the two together would be some real great renewable energy. Just think of it: Thousands of square miles of solar arrays in the Sahara, or some sunny place anyway, powering huge industrial style Hydrogen plants. Then the hydrogen for the fuel cells gets shipped into the whole world. That'd be cool, huh?
[--- PGP key and more on http://www.root42.de ---]
Does this mean the winner gets to fuck Catherine Bach?
QED