Duh... Overclock.
I'm running my light at 3.4 x 10^8 m/s.
That's not so dumb, underneath it all. It will get to the point where in order to get something done, it will be figured out how to 'trick' the universe into doing things like this.
I mean, there's already been a mathematician or two who've done mathematical proofs (or at least theorems or somesuch, I'm not a mathematician) that warp travel ala Star Trek is possible - the ship is still doing less than light speed inside a warp bubble. As far as the universe would be concerned, that ship hasn't broken any rules of physics.
I understand that the servant wielding the katana does so that an honourable death is finished with relatively little pain (beheading) instead of much pain, agony, and possible dishonouring of the death by messy thrashing around and screams of 'why did I do this' or whatever.
Servant also there just in case it is a dishonourable death, or just a plain mucked up but honourable attempt at seppuku and there is no way the person personally involved (heh heh) can survive the resulting wounds (and taking several days to die instead of bleeding out painfully in a couple of minutes).
Why not? Isn't part of what/. is about is promoting FOSS and related things? How else can you do that if you don't tell people about what is going on or who did what (eg write a published book and release it under creative commons licence)?
Baen Books deserves a mention for doing very similar to this. While not using the Creative Commons licence, what they have done is said "Here are the books in the free library, read as you will, if you loan it out to a friend that's fine." http://www.baen.com/library/ Believe me, some very good books in that listing, and some well written arguments in the Prime Palavar section of that site on why they've done what they've done.
Also Baen have their Webscriptions service. For US$10 or US$15, you can purchase a month's worth of books (5 to 6 books) for reading, downloading, whatever, or you can buy individual books for about US$5. Again, all in open formats (html, etc). There is no obligation to buy more at any time but I've found there is usually enough of interest that I've bought near on 30 months worth of subscriptions over time:)
Something that will autoconfigure the desktop (using voice commands of course, not this obsolete keyboard thing) while serving me a pint of Guinness at the same time...
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I don't know what it is like for the average person in America and I believe that generally they'd be like the people in New Zealand: generally decent people. But from outside it does appear that Americans have become very defensive, litigious and downright protective of their individual rights to do what they please while doing to others before it is done to them. One only needs look at the publicity that American corporations, celebrities and government garner internationally for what they do and have done (Enron, SCO, tabloid exploits, Bill Clinton's sense of honesty truth justice and where the belt should be in a boxing match, (any country's) politicians, CIA, RIAA, Iraq aka where's-my-oil...) anyone?/.ers generally excepted, of course:)
Been watching a TV program called CSI (aka Crime Scene Investigation).
Among the things I've learned on that is the fact that human fat does liquefy, does get everywhere and does smell horribly. If I remember rightly, lemon juice is one of the few things to neutralise that smell.
No harm in trying it anyway if your equipment would normally survive a brief encounter with a light acid.
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That's not so dumb, underneath it all. It will get to the point where in order to get something done, it will be figured out how to 'trick' the universe into doing things like this.
I mean, there's already been a mathematician or two who've done mathematical proofs (or at least theorems or somesuch, I'm not a mathematician) that warp travel ala Star Trek is possible - the ship is still doing less than light speed inside a warp bubble. As far as the universe would be concerned, that ship hasn't broken any rules of physics.
Servant also there just in case it is a dishonourable death, or just a plain mucked up but honourable attempt at seppuku and there is no way the person personally involved (heh heh) can survive the resulting wounds (and taking several days to die instead of bleeding out painfully in a couple of minutes).
Also Baen have their Webscriptions service. For US$10 or US$15, you can purchase a month's worth of books (5 to 6 books) for reading, downloading, whatever, or you can buy individual books for about US$5. Again, all in open formats (html, etc). There is no obligation to buy more at any time but I've found there is usually enough of interest that I've bought near on 30 months worth of subscriptions over time :)
Something that will autoconfigure the desktop (using voice commands of course, not this obsolete keyboard thing) while serving me a pint of Guinness at the same time...
I don't know what it is like for the average person in America and I believe that generally they'd be like the people in New Zealand: generally decent people. But from outside it does appear that Americans have become very defensive, litigious and downright protective of their individual rights to do what they please while doing to others before it is done to them. One only needs look at the publicity that American corporations, celebrities and government garner internationally for what they do and have done (Enron, SCO, tabloid exploits, Bill Clinton's sense of honesty truth justice and where the belt should be in a boxing match, (any country's) politicians, CIA, RIAA, Iraq aka where's-my-oil...) anyone? /.ers generally excepted, of course :)
Been watching a TV program called CSI (aka Crime Scene Investigation). Among the things I've learned on that is the fact that human fat does liquefy, does get everywhere and does smell horribly. If I remember rightly, lemon juice is one of the few things to neutralise that smell. No harm in trying it anyway if your equipment would normally survive a brief encounter with a light acid.