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Comment Re:C is not what people think it means (Score 2) 226

Bzzzt!!! Thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.

Let's rephrase... as an outside observer sees you go faster you get compressed to THEM.

From your frame of reference, the outside world is going faster and is compressed, so the distance to the star that is 100 ly away gets compressed by the gamma coefficient.

Comment Re:a microscopic black hole won't hurt you (Score 1) 148

Turns out that minimum-size black hole you'll need to destroy Earth is roughly the mass of Mt Everest.

This must be why evil mad scientists are always found underneath large volcanoes. Everything is clear to me now.

Well... that, and the unlimited geothermal power, and, of course, the availability of lava pools for unnecessarily slow dipping mechanisms!

Comment Will be missed (Score 1) 167

Back around 2000 or so, Mandrake was THE distro for newbies. It was a straighforward simple install, and it Just Worked(tm). My first distro that I was able to really get working was Mandrake 8.1

The funny thing about Mandrake distributions was they had their own "only use version 3 of MS whatever" rule. Basically, it was "Use the x.1 version. x.0 and x.2 suck."

They started going downhill with the Mandriva name, and when they ran into financial trouble, I - like many others - switched to Mageia.

Still a damned shame to see them go, though.

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