Because if they did, he wouldn't stand a chance in hell of winning. He's only running at about 1920 record times (as pointed out by someone else), so take away his special legs, and he wouldn't even be in the competition.
Not to be rude or anything, but what kind of sports do high level quadriplegics compete in? It seems that without any limbs that could move it would be quite difficult to do any sport, unless it was wheel chair racing, which would simply be decided by who had the fastest chair, which isn't much of a sport.
Maybe they just haven't found the right human to compare him to yet. I remember there was this thing on TV where an Inuit guy was competing against some athelete who trained year round and thought he was uber cool. The "sport" was some ancient Inuit sport where you try to hit a ball suspended in the air with your foot. Whoever can reach the ball with their foot at the highest height wins. The Inuit kid ended up winning, and when asked about his training, he said, he didn't really do all that much training. There's a reason that Ethiopians keep on winning marathons, and it's not because of better training regimens. Just the fact that you have specific genes can put you way ahead of the competition.
This is exactly why they have strict rules on bicycles in the Tour de France. Some racers actually have to add weights to their bike to make it heavy enough. Your bike also has to be a standard diamond frame bike, AKA you can't use one of those reclining bikes.
I remember with Linux (XAW-TV?) you used to be able to change the phase of the channel. Each channel was programmed at some certain frequency, but you could just alter it to whatever you want. I think that most TV cards can tune to whichever frequency you want it (within some range), so you may not be completely out of luck. Actually now that I think about it, the IVTV drivers for my hauppauge let me set stations by frequency too.
I believe that rappers have to get permission to do that from the copyright holder. Often it's not a problem because the copyright holder of the song in question is owned by the production company. Also, I believe there's a law that says you can "cover" any song, all you ha to do is pay the copyright holder some small amount (amount decided in law). That's why you see all these bands doing covers of songs that the original artist would have cringed at hearing.
The act of putting up a website (or any other internet server) on the public internet should be enough to say the operator of the server gave you permission to access it. If you don't want people accessing your server, at least put a password on it for basic access control, or if it requires more security, than put it behind a VPN/Firewall box.
I'm not sure where you get your facts, but Rogers up here in Ottawa sells 18 MBit/s internet. It costs $100 a month, but they have it. Personally I'm on the 1 Mbit service, but from my experience with their 6 Mbit service, you do actually get the speeds they advertise.
However, batteries are heavy. For this to really work, they would need some sort of standard form factor batteries that could be lifted in and out of the car by some kind of machine. There's no way you'd get some minimum wage kid lifting 20 lbs. batteries all day, like you can get them to fill up cars at the gas station. Also, It would have to all be in one single casing, or it would take half an hour to unload and reload all the batteries.
Who cares if things get reported more than once. It's something that enough people thought was interesting that they thought it should be posted. Obviously some people want to discuss it. If you've already read the story, and don't want to discuss it any more, then that's fine, but there's lots of people who miss the story the first time around, and would like to discuss it.
I would recommmend "don't use it" in an office environment, or any other environment where people can hear you speaking. Nothing more annoying than listening to somebody else say "Dentist appointment.... Tab.... Tab.... numeral 7..." all day long.
PC Gamer has a record low score of 2% in the UK, and 4% in the US edition. I remember seeing a lot of games that were quite low rated back in my high-school days (1994-1999).
From what I know from disassembling my iPod Shuffle, they put very little casing around their internal batteries. It's basically a battery, soldered right onto the circuit board. When you start adding removable batteries, there has to be a plastic casing, probably about 2-3 mm thick, for the battery to sit in, plus another plastic casing 2-3 mm thick around the battery. That's going to add around 5 mm of thickness to your device. That may not sound like a lot, but when you are building a device that's only 6.5 mm thick (in the case of the nano), that's quite a bit of extra material. Same goes for this laptop. it's only 19 mm thick. Adding 5 mm just for the sake of a removable battery would be a big problem.
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The right to bare arms does not give you the right to have nuclear warheads either. The right was granted in the age of muzzle loaders.
Because if they did, he wouldn't stand a chance in hell of winning. He's only running at about 1920 record times (as pointed out by someone else), so take away his special legs, and he wouldn't even be in the competition.
Not to be rude or anything, but what kind of sports do high level quadriplegics compete in? It seems that without any limbs that could move it would be quite difficult to do any sport, unless it was wheel chair racing, which would simply be decided by who had the fastest chair, which isn't much of a sport.
Reminds me of a George Carlin routine. The 24 hour, all suicide network.
Not really considering many of the athletes are 13 year old girls.
If you start allowing stuff like this, you might as well let people wear rollerblades.
Maybe they just haven't found the right human to compare him to yet. I remember there was this thing on TV where an Inuit guy was competing against some athelete who trained year round and thought he was uber cool. The "sport" was some ancient Inuit sport where you try to hit a ball suspended in the air with your foot. Whoever can reach the ball with their foot at the highest height wins. The Inuit kid ended up winning, and when asked about his training, he said, he didn't really do all that much training. There's a reason that Ethiopians keep on winning marathons, and it's not because of better training regimens. Just the fact that you have specific genes can put you way ahead of the competition.
We had a similar case up here in Canada. Luckily common sense won out in that event.
Why couldn't he compete in the regular paralympics?
This is exactly why they have strict rules on bicycles in the Tour de France. Some racers actually have to add weights to their bike to make it heavy enough. Your bike also has to be a standard diamond frame bike, AKA you can't use one of those reclining bikes.
I remember with Linux (XAW-TV?) you used to be able to change the phase of the channel. Each channel was programmed at some certain frequency, but you could just alter it to whatever you want. I think that most TV cards can tune to whichever frequency you want it (within some range), so you may not be completely out of luck. Actually now that I think about it, the IVTV drivers for my hauppauge let me set stations by frequency too.
If Apple's slot drives don't abide by standards, then neither do most other car CD players, nor does the Wii.
I believe that rappers have to get permission to do that from the copyright holder. Often it's not a problem because the copyright holder of the song in question is owned by the production company. Also, I believe there's a law that says you can "cover" any song, all you ha to do is pay the copyright holder some small amount (amount decided in law). That's why you see all these bands doing covers of songs that the original artist would have cringed at hearing.
The act of putting up a website (or any other internet server) on the public internet should be enough to say the operator of the server gave you permission to access it. If you don't want people accessing your server, at least put a password on it for basic access control, or if it requires more security, than put it behind a VPN/Firewall box.
I'm not sure where you get your facts, but Rogers up here in Ottawa sells 18 MBit/s internet. It costs $100 a month, but they have it. Personally I'm on the 1 Mbit service, but from my experience with their 6 Mbit service, you do actually get the speeds they advertise.
I read that to my eldest daughter just a few nights ago.
Reminds me of Web Vastu
I'm still using the old comment system. I'm not sure how you get it to do that , but I don't think I ever switched.
356 KM is not really that far. I know people who commute that far every day to work.
However, batteries are heavy. For this to really work, they would need some sort of standard form factor batteries that could be lifted in and out of the car by some kind of machine. There's no way you'd get some minimum wage kid lifting 20 lbs. batteries all day, like you can get them to fill up cars at the gas station. Also, It would have to all be in one single casing, or it would take half an hour to unload and reload all the batteries.
Who cares if things get reported more than once. It's something that enough people thought was interesting that they thought it should be posted. Obviously some people want to discuss it. If you've already read the story, and don't want to discuss it any more, then that's fine, but there's lots of people who miss the story the first time around, and would like to discuss it.
I would recommmend "don't use it" in an office environment, or any other environment where people can hear you speaking. Nothing more annoying than listening to somebody else say "Dentist appointment.... Tab.... Tab.... numeral 7..." all day long.
With selective breeding of plants and animals, we have been messing around with DNA for centuries, way before we knew that DNA existed.
PC Gamer has a record low score of 2% in the UK, and 4% in the US edition. I remember seeing a lot of games that were quite low rated back in my high-school days (1994-1999).
From what I know from disassembling my iPod Shuffle, they put very little casing around their internal batteries. It's basically a battery, soldered right onto the circuit board. When you start adding removable batteries, there has to be a plastic casing, probably about 2-3 mm thick, for the battery to sit in, plus another plastic casing 2-3 mm thick around the battery. That's going to add around 5 mm of thickness to your device. That may not sound like a lot, but when you are building a device that's only 6.5 mm thick (in the case of the nano), that's quite a bit of extra material. Same goes for this laptop. it's only 19 mm thick. Adding 5 mm just for the sake of a removable battery would be a big problem.