The way I understand it is that mass increases as speed approaches c. If you actually went 100% of the speed of light, your mass would be INFINITE. But since acceleration takes force, it would be harder and harder to apply force to get you up to the speed of light. Eventually, just short of c, it would be impossible to get you going any faster.
Absolutely! ThinkPads not only have a nicer physical look and feel than other laptops, but they're extremely reliable and they have a decent BIOS setup utility (at least my TP701 does - Fn+Esc anytime, not just on bootup). I've used crappy Compaq and Dell laptops that aren't anywhere near as nice.
Oh yeah, and the TrackPoint stick also sets it well above the rest.
DO get the exploding whale! It's a true story. Off the coast of Oregon in 1970, a dead whale washed up on the beach. The highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to blow it up, and it was an utter disaster. The video is an actual news report of it.
The teletubbies probably are evil (if not gay), but it's a tad bit pathetic of Falwell to do this, and even more pathetic that it's infesting an excellent site like Slashdot.
For those that are thinking it's a Christian's "job" to bash gay people, I'd like to clear a few things up. Engaging in such activity is indeed a sin, but so is pride, greed, and merely thinking for a picosecond that you don't need God. And how many of us (especially Christians) are innocent of all that? Jesus said "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
The point is that there is so much sin in the world that it is ridiculous to single out homosexuality. Jesus wants you to come to Himself just as you are. You don't need to change your sexual orientation, stop using drugs, or anything else first. When you make Him Lord of your life, He will convict you of whatever needs to change in your life. In fact, He spent most of His time on earth with people that the religious leaders of the days considered sinners. Did he condemn them? NO! He offered them salvation, and affirmed them when they had a tiny bit of faith.
Sorry...I'm not a preacher...really. I'm a Linux and Perl hacker. But, hard as it may be to believe, there is Someone even higher than Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall.:-)
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To my knowledge, the ACLU has NEVER ONCE been right about ANYTHING!
The way I understand it is that mass increases as speed approaches c. If you actually went 100% of the speed of light, your mass would be INFINITE. But since acceleration takes force, it would be harder and harder to apply force to get you up to the speed of light. Eventually, just short of c, it would be impossible to get you going any faster.
Absolutely! ThinkPads not only have a nicer physical look and feel than other laptops, but they're extremely reliable and they have a decent BIOS setup utility (at least my TP701 does - Fn+Esc anytime, not just on bootup). I've used crappy Compaq and Dell laptops that aren't anywhere near as nice.
Oh yeah, and the TrackPoint stick also sets it well above the rest.
DO get the exploding whale! It's a true story. Off the coast of Oregon in 1970, a dead whale washed up on the beach. The highway department, in their infinite wisdom, decided to blow it up, and it was an utter disaster. The video is an actual news report of it.
Yes, if you recompile xanim with the optional codecs, AVIs work fine (at least most of them).
It even plays the infinitely cool whale.avi file, and the sound is a lot better on my box than under Win3.1. OS/2 doesn't even play it!
(why are the others posting anonymously???)
:-)
The teletubbies probably are evil (if not gay), but it's a tad bit pathetic of Falwell to do this, and even more pathetic that it's infesting an excellent site like Slashdot.
For those that are thinking it's a Christian's "job" to bash gay people, I'd like to clear a few things up. Engaging in such activity is indeed a sin, but so is pride, greed, and merely thinking for a picosecond that you don't need God. And how many of us (especially Christians) are innocent of all that? Jesus said "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
The point is that there is so much sin in the world that it is ridiculous to single out homosexuality. Jesus wants you to come to Himself just as you are. You don't need to change your sexual orientation, stop using drugs, or anything else first. When you make Him Lord of your life, He will convict you of whatever needs to change in your life. In fact, He spent most of His time on earth with people that the religious leaders of the days considered sinners. Did he condemn them? NO! He offered them salvation, and affirmed them when they had a tiny bit of faith.
Sorry...I'm not a preacher...really. I'm a Linux and Perl hacker. But, hard as it may be to believe, there is Someone even higher than Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall.