You've turned this into an animal rights thing... when it's not.
They law of B.C. apparently prohibits minors from seeing that type of carnage... so be it.
If you want minors to be able to see that kind of carnage, well protest. However, you shouldn't use it as an excuse to push your ideals about animal rights - that's not what this is about.
I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with your stand-point, or even the POV of the submitter or even the B.C. Government... I'm just saying that this is not the appropriate place (or topic) to discuss animal rights.
If you were in a country that didn't respect the original patents ('cause not all do) or that don't have laws against reverse engineering - and then you released the info as an "open source" project... would the cat be out of the bag?
Actually, if you took the hoverboard, and made it into a small hover-go-cart... that would be cool... at 20 MPH (32 km/h) that would kick pretty nicely...
Gee, my old C64 didn't make any noise... they can have that.;)
But seriously, I hardly even notice the hum of my power supply and heat-sink fan, unless I have the case off, and it's on the desk-top... (It's rare that both happen). I don't see what the problem is.
Beyond that, I would worry too much if my computer were too quiet - how would you know if something were going awry?
Here's some rough/bad math on the speed for the halfway point:
Take the distance between Earth and Mars, divided by the time to get there (v=d/s) for the average speed. Assuming 0 starting and ending speed, constant acceleration until the halfway point, and the same acceleration in the opposite direction afterwards, the top speed would probably be about twice the average speed.
Not knowing my astronomy, but looking at some stats, I'll take a rough stab and say the distance would be about 55 x 10^6 km (just for a round number).
So 3 months is 2160 hours..025 x 10^6 km/h (or 25000 km/h or 15625 mph for those of you in the states) would be your average speed, making your top speed.050 x 10^6 km/h (or 50000 km/h or 31250 mph for the americanos).
So the acceleration would be about 12.9 m/s^2 or roughly 1.3 G.
Now, I'm sure I've miscalculated in there - and I'm not a rocket scientist (ha ha, funny joke) so I'm probably wrong... but 1.3G for continuous acceleration doesn't sound too bad. You'd come back stronger and shorter for the experience...;)
"Identification please: Insert Retna in slot below..." - eww.
Why not just have one newspaper, TV station, or OS
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Because we know that Slashdot posts everything they get (sarcasm)... Quoth the Taco: "We get 500 submissions each day and we post 10-15 stories.". They just don't have the page space to report everything, every day.
Beyond that, let's consider editorial independance (although I'm sure/. has it) and biased opinion (no, never - everone is completely unbiased).
Having several outlets for news/opinion allows us to have a variety of view-points, and enough "bandwidth" to cover all the interesting stuff out there.
Otherwise, you might as well switch on the old "Big Brother" box, boot properly sanctioned windows on your computer, and have your thoughts dictated to you by others that know better than you.
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British Columbia is in Canada...
Read a book!
You've turned this into an animal rights thing... when it's not.
They law of B.C. apparently prohibits minors from seeing that type of carnage... so be it.
If you want minors to be able to see that kind of carnage, well protest. However, you shouldn't use it as an excuse to push your ideals about animal rights - that's not what this is about.
I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with your stand-point, or even the POV of the submitter or even the B.C. Government... I'm just saying that this is not the appropriate place (or topic) to discuss animal rights.
No. I want the TLD "Dot". Please? With Sugar on Top?
....
Why? So you can have "slash dot dot dot"? Or the domain dot.dot Let's go a level further and have dotdot.dot
Throw in some dashes and you have morse code!
egrep -i 'free.*sex.*pictures' $mbox ; if [ $? ] then mail agntbob@fbi.gov $mbox; continue; fi
That part is especially rich...
Hmmm, touché.
After all they search for words like "assasinate", "bomb", and "president"...
;)
They don't actually look for words like "make", "money" and "fast" or even "buy", "cheap" and "toner"...
...and they certainly wouldn't be looking for words like "XXX", "asian", and "sluts"... or would they?
...and I've had 80 people sign up for accounts under me... It's a bit of a pyramid scheme, but only goes for a couple of levels.
They're beta-testing on a voluntary project right now... but soon they might have paying work... we shall see.
Will be for multi-stream transfering of pornography, right?
Who would just say that 'all patents should be abolished' - more or less...
ESR can at least see that other people have opinions that matter as well (except when they come to gun control...)
Civilization? I remember it rezzed in... it was one of the "wonders of the world"...
I can't remember what effect it had on the game though...
If you were in a country that didn't respect the original patents ('cause not all do) or that don't have laws against reverse engineering - and then you released the info as an "open source" project... would the cat be out of the bag?
Actually, if you took the hoverboard, and made it into a small hover-go-cart... that would be cool... at 20 MPH (32 km/h) that would kick pretty nicely...
It's always been important to me to have all of my electronic accessories (Palmtop, cell-phone, pager) match each other, and match my clothes... not.
But then again, I've always been a fashion monger... not.
At this size you could make a laptop with a RAID array in it... that's what everyone needs. :)
In typical topical fashion, Penny Arcade has a comic about this today...
So, is this for real? Penny Arcade says it just in the rumour stage right now...
Gee, my old C64 didn't make any noise... they can have that. ;)
But seriously, I hardly even notice the hum of my power supply and heat-sink fan, unless I have the case off, and it's on the desk-top... (It's rare that both happen). I don't see what the problem is.
Beyond that, I would worry too much if my computer were too quiet - how would you know if something were going awry?
Would that be to prevent your users from seeing what is in swap space? Or is this a paranoid "If the feds take my box..." kind of thing?
If I don't agree with the GPL, and don't sign anything... I can break the license.
If you want people to follow your rules, then you are going to have to follow theirs...
Now, if there is a loop-hole, well, then you can pick which side to cheer for when it goes to court to be argued...
Troll...
Then it's quite possible that they'll pay the price.
Whether you agree with it or not, the law is the law.
Here's some rough/bad math on the speed for the halfway point:
.025 x 10^6 km/h (or 25000 km/h or 15625 mph for those of you in the states) would be your average speed, making your top speed .050 x 10^6 km/h (or 50000 km/h or 31250 mph for the americanos).
;)
Take the distance between Earth and Mars, divided by the time to get there (v=d/s) for the average speed. Assuming 0 starting and ending speed, constant acceleration until the halfway point, and the same acceleration in the opposite direction afterwards, the top speed would probably be about twice the average speed.
Not knowing my astronomy, but looking at some stats, I'll take a rough stab and say the distance would be about 55 x 10^6 km (just for a round number).
So 3 months is 2160 hours.
So the acceleration would be about 12.9 m/s^2 or roughly 1.3 G.
Now, I'm sure I've miscalculated in there - and I'm not a rocket scientist (ha ha, funny joke) so I'm probably wrong... but 1.3G for continuous acceleration doesn't sound too bad. You'd come back stronger and shorter for the experience...
"Identification please: Insert Retna in slot below..." - eww.
Because we know that Slashdot posts everything they get (sarcasm)... Quoth the Taco: "We get 500 submissions each day and we post 10-15 stories.". They just don't have the page space to report everything, every day.
/. has it) and biased opinion (no, never - everone is completely unbiased).
Beyond that, let's consider editorial independance (although I'm sure
Having several outlets for news/opinion allows us to have a variety of view-points, and enough "bandwidth" to cover all the interesting stuff out there.
Otherwise, you might as well switch on the old "Big Brother" box, boot properly sanctioned windows on your computer, and have your thoughts dictated to you by others that know better than you.
Does anyone know what the equivalent license in Canada would be?