but damn, in microgravity it shouldn't be that hard to come up with a spring loaded trash disposal system.....
Gravity (or the lack thereof) has nothing to do with shoving trash out the back. An object's mass is constant. 500 Kg of trash takes a lot of effort to move regardless of whether it weighs 0 lbs or 1102 lbs.
I recently cut my caffeine intake to about 10% what it used to be, if that much. Roughly every other morning I'll drink a cup of coffee with my mother-in-law, but that's all I have now. I've switched to drinking caffeine free sodas. And now that I'm over the horrible headaches (and they/were/ bad) I do just fine with a limited intake. And just to prove how addicting caffeine is, just drink some Coke or Pepsi after breaking the addiction... that stuff tastes horrible. I know the only reason I ever drank it was for the caffeine. I can't touch it now.
500 MHZ? Hell... I was just handed a Celeron 300 MHZ and right now have an mp3 stream on xmms, mail client, IMer, and I'm posting this with Firefox. This computer runs very swiftly... The 320 megs of ram definitely help out, as well as Fluxbox and some smaller, streamlined apps such as Sylpheed Mail Client and nAIM. The average user just doesn't spend much time looking for ways to accomplish what they want with what they've got. I just love to brag about what I can do with this old computer that all of my family and friends have trouble with on their XP boxes. Not to mention I have yet to succumb to virii, malware, or pop-ups... and tabbed browsing is just cool.
Slashdot Mirror
...uh, well... maybe not.
Didn't think we'd slashdot a mirror that's supposed to protect against this kind thing. Art Cable Folding must be the sh1t.
Gravity (or the lack thereof) has nothing to do with shoving trash out the back. An object's mass is constant. 500 Kg of trash takes a lot of effort to move regardless of whether it weighs 0 lbs or 1102 lbs.
I had to take screenshots and check the colors with The GIMP... That's unbelievable.
I recently cut my caffeine intake to about 10% what it used to be, if that much. Roughly every other morning I'll drink a cup of coffee with my mother-in-law, but that's all I have now. I've switched to drinking caffeine free sodas. And now that I'm over the horrible headaches (and they /were/ bad) I do just fine with a limited intake. And just to prove how addicting caffeine is, just drink some Coke or Pepsi after breaking the addiction... that stuff tastes horrible. I know the only reason I ever drank it was for the caffeine. I can't touch it now.
500 MHZ? Hell... I was just handed a Celeron 300 MHZ and right now have an mp3 stream on xmms, mail client, IMer, and I'm posting this with Firefox. This computer runs very swiftly... The 320 megs of ram definitely help out, as well as Fluxbox and some smaller, streamlined apps such as Sylpheed Mail Client and nAIM. The average user just doesn't spend much time looking for ways to accomplish what they want with what they've got. I just love to brag about what I can do with this old computer that all of my family and friends have trouble with on their XP boxes. Not to mention I have yet to succumb to virii, malware, or pop-ups... and tabbed browsing is just cool.