I hear you! Your point is echoing in many heads now! The biggest barrier to Linux bursting into the home computing market is the dark corner of the store where your software is stacked.
You miss my point. Even though these guys are engineering students, I don't think they did it so much as a feat of engineering, but as a prank involving a mechanical equipment for purposes of theme.
I'm sure they agree that it's not a huge feat to calculate the weight of the car, how far it will fall when they suspend it, and how strong the cable will have to be to support the jerk at the bottom. So that's where I arrive at the conculsion that it's not meant to impress the engineering buffs.
Probably because they have a sense of humour...*shrug*
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As for the disruptions, I admit that is an issue. Can you imagine how slack-jawed the Yanks will be when they see a car hanging off a bridge if normally it takes 4 drops of rain falling outside their window to distract them from most daily tasks?
I'm sure these guys are gonna need counselling after they found out they failed to impress cornjones! Poor souls...tut, tut.
Get a life. Do it yourself. Drive 16 hours for a laugh, hang a car off a bridge. They're early twentysomethings wanting to get a giggle out of some people, particularly themselves. I guess you could call it a form of mental natural selection, when people like you are obviously bothered by this.
Dude, when you're going to post stupidity like "traveled halfway across the hemisphere", PLEASE don't reveal that you're from Canada! It gives us a bad name! These guys did not drive halfway across any hemisphere. UBC is a 16 hour drive from San Fran.
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I hear you! Your point is echoing in many heads now! The biggest barrier to Linux bursting into the home computing market is the dark corner of the store where your software is stacked.
They won't be so silly as to drop it on the Ides of March, would they!
Make sure you protect yourself. Goat's cheese is awful. Very nice comment...one of the most pertinent I've seen on /.! :)
You miss my point. Even though these guys are engineering students, I don't think they did it so much as a feat of engineering, but as a prank involving a mechanical equipment for purposes of theme. I'm sure they agree that it's not a huge feat to calculate the weight of the car, how far it will fall when they suspend it, and how strong the cable will have to be to support the jerk at the bottom. So that's where I arrive at the conculsion that it's not meant to impress the engineering buffs.
Probably because they have a sense of humour...*shrug*
Points:Dude, when you're going to post stupidity like "traveled halfway across the hemisphere", PLEASE don't reveal that you're from Canada! It gives us a bad name! These guys did not drive halfway across any hemisphere. UBC is a 16 hour drive from San Fran.
Ignorance is not bliss...