Mod this one up...any sort of ballistics project is assured to generate enthusiasm--so long as you can get it to fly (ha-ha) with the legal people. Ancient weaponry usually will pass, due to their relative nonlethality and large size which makes the fundamentals a little bit more tangible. Physics, material analysis, mathematics, measurements, and even computer simulations all tied together with a bit of competition to keep things interesting and the students motivated. There's even the historical aspect to consider, as research will need to be done to discover what techniques have been used in the past.
And besides, who doesn't enjoy launching household objects and school supplies from one end of the football field to the other? >8) One of the coolest things I saw as a summer hire at the army base where I work was from the group who was doing tests on bulletproof glass--at their final presentation, one of them produced the punctured and shredded remains of his Calculus textbook after it had been put through the paces. Ahh, sweet revenge!
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I think he means that if Slashdot servers can handle normal Slashdot traffic without being "Slashdotted", then Google, with its much greater number of servers, should have no problem handling the swarm.
I've noticed this behavior a few months ago. Typing just 'http' into the location bar takes you there, too, so I figured MS just yanked the domain name or something. Oddly, though, now that I look, typing www.http.com doesn't bring you there. Does this happen with other browsers, as well, or just Firefox?
Hear hear! Installed Fedora for my parents just a week ago and we've been pleased, since. I'm pleased because I will be able fix their problems quickly even when I'm at work. They're pleased because they don't worry about popups or spyware, and even more so once I explained to them how they can't accidentally hurt the system (my mother, in particular, is always afraid to use the computer because she thinks she'll mess things up). That, in particular, is something that I rarely hear about the advantages of switching to Linux. People are less afraid of learning something new (and in this case, of using the computer in general) if they know that it is (relatively) impossible to break it by their actions.
By the way, the above comment was posted with the intent to make up for the fact that my original single-word comment somehow got modded to a rediculous +4 Insightful. >8)
Exactly; he's asking if I'm going to let it be free...Truth to be told, I, and pretty much most of the rest of the world, am going to "let" it be whatever said developer darn well pleases it to be. If that person wants to charge for it, then he had better make it worth charging for in place of a free alternative. If he doesn't, then we'll "let" him fall on his face when nobody uses it.
"The open source movement says that proprietary software shouldn't exist. They say that the operating system should be free, but that's a slippery slope," McBride said. "There's 12 million developers worldwide, are you gonna let their work be free?"
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Also, Alias (Maya), is a Toronto company.
/cringe
That post had so much potential...
And in one of the great WTFs of the century, the parent post gets a "Score:2, Redundant"! Well met!
Mod this one up...any sort of ballistics project is assured to generate enthusiasm--so long as you can get it to fly (ha-ha) with the legal people. Ancient weaponry usually will pass, due to their relative nonlethality and large size which makes the fundamentals a little bit more tangible. Physics, material analysis, mathematics, measurements, and even computer simulations all tied together with a bit of competition to keep things interesting and the students motivated. There's even the historical aspect to consider, as research will need to be done to discover what techniques have been used in the past.
And besides, who doesn't enjoy launching household objects and school supplies from one end of the football field to the other? >8) One of the coolest things I saw as a summer hire at the army base where I work was from the group who was doing tests on bulletproof glass--at their final presentation, one of them produced the punctured and shredded remains of his Calculus textbook after it had been put through the paces. Ahh, sweet revenge!
I think he means that if Slashdot servers can handle normal Slashdot traffic without being "Slashdotted", then Google, with its much greater number of servers, should have no problem handling the swarm.
Bravo!
Nevermind. See above post by someone smrter than I >8)
I've noticed this behavior a few months ago. Typing just 'http' into the location bar takes you there, too, so I figured MS just yanked the domain name or something. Oddly, though, now that I look, typing www.http.com doesn't bring you there. Does this happen with other browsers, as well, or just Firefox?
Well, for one, I think that the child porn mongers should stay in the churches and primary education institutions where they rightly belong.
I can't tell whether or not this is sarcastic. Either way, it's impressive. >8)
Hear hear! Installed Fedora for my parents just a week ago and we've been pleased, since. I'm pleased because I will be able fix their problems quickly even when I'm at work. They're pleased because they don't worry about popups or spyware, and even more so once I explained to them how they can't accidentally hurt the system (my mother, in particular, is always afraid to use the computer because she thinks she'll mess things up). That, in particular, is something that I rarely hear about the advantages of switching to Linux. People are less afraid of learning something new (and in this case, of using the computer in general) if they know that it is (relatively) impossible to break it by their actions.
HAHAHAhhaohohohohohehehehehee!
But seriously, folks...
Who needs the linked JPG?
Probably those of us who have no $WINDOWS to go to.
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The apps: are there are any corporate applications at all? Sure there's that nasty office suite, but compared to the MS Office family it sucks balls.
Hmm, I use Alias Maya on Linux; it is just like the Windows version, except that it's faster and doesn't crash all the time.
By the way, the above comment was posted with the intent to make up for the fact that my original single-word comment somehow got modded to a rediculous +4 Insightful. >8)
Exactly; he's asking if I'm going to let it be free...Truth to be told, I, and pretty much most of the rest of the world, am going to "let" it be whatever said developer darn well pleases it to be. If that person wants to charge for it, then he had better make it worth charging for in place of a free alternative. If he doesn't, then we'll "let" him fall on his face when nobody uses it.
"The open source movement says that proprietary software shouldn't exist. They say that the operating system should be free, but that's a slippery slope," McBride said. "There's 12 million developers worldwide, are you gonna let their work be free?"
Yes?
An enemy wizard is approaching your slashdot! All of your karmawhores have been slaughtered
Sacrifice reference! Well played, indeed! >8D
Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W Missile!
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Hey! Get outta our lakes! Filthy scumball...
I, too, own a Tracker (hey, I just turned 18, so flah)...as if the thing doesn't roll easily enough already.
Barrel Rolls = BAD
Barrel Rolls w/ a Cray on da Hood = REALLY BAD
Where are all those infernal Slashdot "First Post!-ers" now, eh? Any of you wanna give into the temptation of "First Bid!"?
NOTE: 3dfx should be written as shown, with a lowercase "dfx" preceded by the number "3." There is no space between "3" and "dfx". =)