The next expected supernova is nearly 500,000 light-years away and is too far from the earth to cause any damage.
Are we expecting this to happen in the near (ie: in my life time) future? And if so, doesn't that mean that it has already happened? - like 499,9xx ish years ago
Don't you love seeing the universe the way it was rather than the way it is now?
Having a 1,000 Mbps ethernet connecting businesses is all well and good, but the links out of Wellington to everywhere else in the world are like 56Kbps -> Well, it seems like that most of the time.
Not to mention the lags involved in being 2000km (1300+ miles) from the nearest large country, (and 14000+ km (8000+ miles) from the US) leading to massive lags (260ms+)
However, downloading from linux redistribution sites rocks:)
They treat the computer people, generally meeker and milder and more intelligent, the same as everyone else.
Yeah, and when they break the law later in life, we should put them in a prison where they have their own tv, and access to a golf course.
Don't get me wrong, all I am saying is that I don't believe the kid should get preferential treatment. The life of any child is precious, and yes, there are problems in the way they are treated when they have done wrong.
But I just don't agree with preferential treatment to computer hackers, or geeks, or jocks, or african-americans, or women or whatever -> that's just wrong.
It should be a whole approach, because otherwise, who is going to be to blame when the kid who got suspended for graffiti-ng the toilets commits suicide?
I don't know about the Darwin Award - it takes
quite a lot of skill and intelligence to kill
yourself like this
Maybe "they" should invent a new award called the creationist award which celebrates skilful and intelligent people who kill themselves - Proof that evolution doesn't provide the best of breed necessary to have created the race we are now.
Well since we now have "computer fashion" due to popular demand (*ahem* who?).. Why don't we get 0 G suits full of this anti G liquid?
Then we could walk around into a 0 G lift shaft and crash into the roof in style.:)
slyrp
Slashdot Mirror
The next expected supernova is nearly 500,000 light-years away and is too far from the earth to cause any damage.
Are we expecting this to happen in the near (ie: in my life time) future? And if so, doesn't that mean that it has already happened? - like 499,9xx ish years ago
Don't you love seeing the universe the way it was rather than the way it is now?
"Drool ... gigabit internet ..."
Having a 1,000 Mbps ethernet connecting businesses is all well and good, but the links out of Wellington to everywhere else in the world are like 56Kbps -> Well, it seems like that most of the time.
Not to mention the lags involved in being 2000km (1300+ miles) from the nearest large country, (and 14000+ km (8000+ miles) from the US) leading to massive lags (260ms+)
However, downloading from linux redistribution sites rocks :)
Or using a memory editing tool, and being the sysop of a BBS, just to increase the amount of Jets / Fights in the Forest you will get next turn :)
This is the wrong way round!!! It means someone has to go back and put these tags in every single page they have ever created.
It should be "a site operator could insert a metatag enabling Smart Tags".
But then again, ?not many? ppl would use them so this might harm Microsoft's steps to world domination. *golly*
-- .
Don't get me wrong, all I am saying is that I don't believe the kid should get preferential treatment. The life of any child is precious, and yes, there are problems in the way they are treated when they have done wrong.
But I just don't agree with preferential treatment to computer hackers, or geeks, or jocks, or african-americans, or women or whatever -> that's just wrong.
It should be a whole approach, because otherwise, who is going to be to blame when the kid who got suspended for graffiti-ng the toilets commits suicide?
Maybe "they" should invent a new award called the creationist award which celebrates skilful and intelligent people who kill themselves - Proof that evolution doesn't provide the best of breed necessary to have created the race we are now.
pah!
slyrp
Guess who will be claiming a patent 2 years from now for intermercials? :)
Well since we now have "computer fashion" due to popular demand (*ahem* who?).. Why don't we get 0 G suits full of this anti G liquid? Then we could walk around into a 0 G lift shaft and crash into the roof in style. :)
slyrp