, and anyone else not fortunate enough to have been blessed with firsthand knowledge of Telford, I urge you to support my colleagues in their goal of the destruction of this horrible & insignificant little town.
While it is true that I have friends in the area, and would not gladly see them destroyed, my duty to the world must come first. I MUST protect the human race from the contagion that is "the midlands".
I understand that the impact would produce longer range effects, the shockwave is likely to break windows as far away as Glasgow, or Tokyo if the size is misjudged, but it is worth it, believe me!
Now my friends I must be gone - to space, and to war!
We are so clever and they are so stupid! Let's all point & laugh now kids!
So what, apart from about 4 seconds of potential amusement, makes this story news worthy?
Not everyone understands the free software landscape, so what? I don't know anything about the ways of pollsters & statistics gathering companies. Does that give them the right to take the piss out of me?
Why can't people just grow up and accept that not everyone can be an expert in everything. Smugly pointing out that they "just realised" and pulled BSD from their list isn't helping anyone. Neither are the hundreds of flames from illiterate wannabe techies that almost certainly contributed to the amendment.
These days slashdot seems to exist to prove that most free software users are wankers.
Orion type ships don't have much problem with mass-ratio
yes they do. An orion drive is nothing more or less than a primitive nuclear rocket, and not a very efficient one at that. You still have to carry fuel & reaction mass.
This site has some relevant information. One question that is answered is "How much propellant mass would it take to get an object the mass of a space shuttle/bus past alpha centuri within 900 years"
Sounds easy? Think again!
chemical propellents - 10^137kg
fission - 10^17kg
fusion (inc orion craft) 10^11kg
ion/antimatter rocket 10^5kg
Unless we pick up fuel on the way with some kind of ram jet, use an external power source (laser sails), or invent something *radically* new, we ain't going anywhere outside this solar system.
AFK the orion craft was designed for missions around the region of jupiter, not interstellar flight.
If the company maintaining your favourite distro (mandrake in my case) were to vanish tomorrow then it would be possible for anyone sufficiently dedicated to simply take over the maintainance and rename it.
There will be distributions for as long as someone has requirements that aren't met by any of the existing players. Now all I have to do is spend a few weeks updating my old copy of SLS....;-)
Of course we have to remember that refrigerating nitrogen takes a fair bit of energy.
It will be interesting to see how much they have to spend on cooling & maintaining the cladding on the cables.
A loss of cooling would be interesting as well - the transition from superconductor to insulator as these materials warm up is quite abrupt.
I don't think that a section of power grid would have a high enough energy density to cause much damage if it lost superconductivity (unlike some magnets & storage rings), but you might get a bit of boiling nitrogen coming out of the ground.
Start off with "cheap" k-7's and gradually swap them for alphas as the bank balance improves. Some sort of weird microkernal type o/s might be up to the job.... ]|->
There is always a recoil. Newtons laws are quite specific. The recoil might be less explosive though as you would get a longer, more gradual acceleration.
O'Reilly books have given me infinitely more help when it comes to actually *using* free software than the, generally inadequate, online documentation ever has. This has made it easier for many people to write software (free or otherwise). Maybe there is a symbiotic relationship but describing them as parasitic is a bit extreme imho.
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well of course it is nothing new.
/think/ it takes t set up & open a new factory?
How long do you
about a year perhaps?
, and anyone else not fortunate enough to have been blessed with firsthand knowledge of Telford, I urge you to support my colleagues in their goal of the destruction of this horrible & insignificant little town.
While it is true that I have friends in the area, and would not gladly see them destroyed, my duty to the world must come first. I MUST protect the human race from the contagion that is "the midlands".
I understand that the impact would produce longer range effects, the shockwave is likely to break windows as far away as Glasgow, or Tokyo if the size is misjudged, but it is worth it, believe me!
Now my friends I must be gone - to space, and to war!
DEATH TO TELFORD!
We are so clever and they are so stupid! Let's all point & laugh now kids!
So what, apart from about 4 seconds of potential amusement, makes this story news worthy?
Not everyone understands the free software landscape, so what? I don't know anything about the ways of pollsters & statistics gathering companies. Does that give them the right to take the piss out of me?
Why can't people just grow up and accept that not everyone can be an expert in everything. Smugly pointing out that they "just realised" and pulled BSD from their list isn't helping anyone. Neither are the hundreds of flames from illiterate wannabe techies that almost certainly contributed to the amendment.
These days slashdot seems to exist to prove that most free software users are wankers.
yes they do. An orion drive is nothing more or less than a primitive nuclear rocket, and not a very efficient one at that. You still have to carry fuel & reaction mass.
This site has some relevant information. One question that is answered is "How much propellant mass would it take to get an object the mass of a space shuttle/bus past alpha centuri within 900 years"
Sounds easy? Think again!
- chemical propellents - 10^137kg
- fission - 10^17kg
- fusion (inc orion craft) 10^11kg
- ion/antimatter rocket 10^5kg
Unless we pick up fuel on the way with some kind of ram jet, use an external power source (laser sails), or invent something *radically* new, we ain't going anywhere outside this solar system.AFK the orion craft was designed for missions around the region of jupiter, not interstellar flight.
If the company maintaining your favourite distro (mandrake in my case) were to vanish tomorrow then it would be possible for anyone sufficiently dedicated to simply take over the maintainance and rename it.
;-)
There will be distributions for as long as someone has requirements that aren't met by any of the existing players. Now all I have to do is spend a few weeks updating my old copy of SLS....
Killing off the division instead of firing them can totally eliminate the expense of forking out cash for redundancy payments.
You have to admire the mans initiative, if not the foolish error of confessing his crime to the world.
I just created an .shs file on my NT box at work and I could see it fine.
Is this just a win 98 thing?
Someone has never tried exposing his AOL CD's to high intesity microwaves ;-)
bzzzt!
Of course we have to remember that refrigerating nitrogen takes a fair bit of energy.
It will be interesting to see how much they have to spend on cooling & maintaining the cladding on the cables.
A loss of cooling would be interesting as well - the transition from superconductor to insulator as these materials warm up is quite abrupt.
I don't think that a section of power grid would have a high enough energy density to cause much damage if it lost superconductivity (unlike some magnets & storage rings), but you might get a bit of boiling nitrogen coming out of the ground.
But they can! All you need is a cluster with 2^10000000 nodes and you are sorted so long as the key size is kept manageable.
I have one on order.
Do you suppose you could mix chips on a board?
Start off with "cheap" k-7's and gradually swap them for alphas as the bank balance improves. Some sort of weird microkernal type o/s might be up to the job.... ]|->
incorrect.
There is always a recoil. Newtons laws are quite specific. The recoil might be less explosive though as you would get a longer, more gradual acceleration.
On what grounds do you base that accusation?
O'Reilly books have given me infinitely more help when it comes to actually *using* free software than the, generally inadequate, online documentation ever has. This has made it easier for many people to write software (free or otherwise). Maybe there is a symbiotic relationship but describing them as parasitic is a bit extreme imho.
Dave (owner of a billion and two o'reilly books:)