Let's be real, there's a limit to people who are weird enough to get excited about a true multi-user multi-tasking OS (Yeah, I'm on of them). Most of these people are already running Linux, which is good enougn for them, so they won't feel the need to run for FreeBSD. It sounds like a great book, but I can't see hordes of Win 95 AOL'ers dropping it all to go there.
So, sadly, marketing and buzz will allow a less technologically elegant OS (Linux) to trump a better one, FreeBSD.
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it's affiliated with seanbaby, and gets the worst vanity homepages submitted. Ughh.
There's only one altitude where a satellite can sit without expending any fuel and still stay geosynchronous, the altitude where the centripetal acceleration is the exact opposite of the force of gravity.
All other altitutes would require delta-V to stay stable, which requires burning fuel, which means that any known satellite would burn up it's fuel supply in minutes or hours.
Saved the forced orbits for fusion drives, or impluse power, or whatever.
Maybe get the Road Rules gang, to make sure that each shuttle mission has one closeted homosexual, one born again, one alcoholic, one troublemaker, one nymphomaniac.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out, I'm always up for good discussion.
I hope this dies an early death in the marketplace.
On the other hand, hacking into the cable company sounds a lot more enticing. We can find out which of our neighbors are ordering porn like "Lonely college coed seeks horny middle aged married man"
One by one, our new high tech miltary tricks are being nuetralized, either by selling the secrets to the Chinese for a few million and a blowjob (thanks Bill) or by cunning high tech ingenuity.
We almost have a monopoly on space, we need to partner with the Russians to militarize space. Jerry Pournelle wrote about the High Frontier, and proposed flying crowbars. Basically, a 10 pound crowbar with tiny guidance fins and homing sensors. You drop it from orbit, it strikes at about Mach 15 (after drag), and nothing can withstand it. If we have the shuttle drop a satellite of flying crowbars or two off every trip, in several years we would be able to blanket the Earth with them, and rain Mach 15 hellfire down on anyone who attempts to disrupt the peace or endanger the American way.
There's no real defense against this, even Saddam in his Sadam-bunker would eventually be penetrated by these swift, strong hard rods.
Best of all, this is not nuclear, so it doesn't break any international treaties!
In case I want to join the 100 mile high club (along with a few cosmonauts, a few married couples and few astronauts that swing both ways, buthey, what else are you going to do stuck in space for 300 days.).
Holding out while besieged and isolated by the Werhmacht for weeks. Responding "Nuts" to the German suggestion that they had surrendered, what did they think they were doing?
If only they had some French help, who knew the terrain from defending it in 1940. Why, they could have surrendered very quickly.
If only they had some British help, they could have given the Germans half of Bastogne for "Peace in our time".
As it as, they just had their rifles and their training, and held off a few division of Panzers and PanzerGrenadiers.
I have to admit the Sherman tanks sucked, but only because if they were as big as Tigers they would have been far to big to ship across the Atlantic.
Dang it, how dare they try to follow a basic tenet of Economics, how dare they try to run their business as Capitalists. Has their exposure to the GPL taught them nothing?
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if I'm stuck with a non-journaling file system,like Win 98?
So, sadly, marketing and buzz will allow a less technologically elegant OS (Linux) to trump a better one, FreeBSD.
it's affiliated with seanbaby, and gets the worst vanity homepages submitted. Ughh.
help build this.
First Snowcrash ref.
There's only one altitude where a satellite can sit without expending any fuel and still stay geosynchronous, the altitude where the centripetal acceleration is the exact opposite of the force of gravity.
All other altitutes would require delta-V to stay stable, which requires burning fuel, which means that any known satellite would burn up it's fuel supply in minutes or hours.
Saved the forced orbits for fusion drives, or impluse power, or whatever.
Maybe get the Road Rules gang, to make sure that each shuttle mission has one closeted homosexual, one born again, one alcoholic, one troublemaker, one nymphomaniac.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out, I'm always up for good discussion.
It's not very stable though, the core's it generates tend to glow in the dark.
I hear they're 'r33t'
Don't worry, I hear those big lizards are scared of camaros.
Hmm, I have a bitchin' mp3 to load up.
I hope this dies an early death in the marketplace.
On the other hand, hacking into the cable company sounds a lot more enticing. We can find out which of our neighbors are ordering porn like "Lonely college coed seeks horny middle aged married man"
One by one, our new high tech miltary tricks are being nuetralized, either by selling the secrets to the Chinese for a few million and a blowjob (thanks Bill) or by cunning high tech ingenuity.
We almost have a monopoly on space, we need to partner with the Russians to militarize space. Jerry Pournelle wrote about the High Frontier, and proposed flying crowbars. Basically, a 10 pound crowbar with tiny guidance fins and homing sensors. You drop it from orbit, it strikes at about Mach 15 (after drag), and nothing can withstand it. If we have the shuttle drop a satellite of flying crowbars or two off every trip, in several years we would be able to blanket the Earth with them, and rain Mach 15 hellfire down on anyone who attempts to disrupt the peace or endanger the American way.
There's no real defense against this, even Saddam in his Sadam-bunker would eventually be penetrated by these swift, strong hard rods.
Best of all, this is not nuclear, so it doesn't break any international treaties!
or long int?
We are talking billions and billions here.
Or would you use a real number for the decimal accuracy?
Yeah right.
Hey Tivo users, watch me pull my foot out of my mouth!
Hammy hamster, socialized medicine, SCTV, they always get it first. Now they have 2 way satellite internet, and a woman president, Jeanne Chretien!
on my Time-Warner system, in upstate New York.
I've heard Censorware gives an example of handling censorship.
In case I want to join the 100 mile high club (along with a few cosmonauts, a few married couples and few astronauts that swing both ways, buthey, what else are you going to do stuck in space for 300 days.).
Holding out while besieged and isolated by the Werhmacht for weeks. Responding "Nuts" to the German suggestion that they had surrendered, what did they think they were doing?
If only they had some French help, who knew the terrain from defending it in 1940. Why, they could have surrendered very quickly.
If only they had some British help, they could have given the Germans half of Bastogne for "Peace in our time".
As it as, they just had their rifles and their training, and held off a few division of Panzers and PanzerGrenadiers.
I have to admit the Sherman tanks sucked, but only because if they were as big as Tigers they would have been far to big to ship across the Atlantic.
or MS has been infiltrated by the Illuminati.
I think the second one is more likely, I can even feel the mind control beams emenating from the NT I'm typing at.
for dumping Skylab on them in the 70's.
/.'ers that probably remember that.
I'm one of the few
Dang it, how dare they try to follow a basic tenet of Economics, how dare they try to run their business as Capitalists. Has their exposure to the GPL taught them nothing?
What sweet honey is going to play American Maid?
Anyhow, I don't see a live action Tick working well.
Whoa, that's scary!
I bet he doesn't have a cyber ID though.
Where then do they get the models for this site?
Anyone ever spend the extra mega-credits to get a fiber optic based computer for their starship?
Though in Traveller, you didn't get better performance, you just got radiation resistance.