From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 19:31:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15662 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smyrno.sol.net (smyrno.sol.net [206.55.64.117]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15657 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by smyrno.sol.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA21382; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:31:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id VAA00309; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:10:53 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199701300310.VAA00309@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Constructive criticism (was: bashing everyone for fun and profit) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 21:10:50 CST Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701300232.TAA20892@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 29, 97 07:32:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Mind you, I don't necessarily consider it > > unreasonable to climb a 150' "learning curve" by wearing my magnetic > > boots... > > Which reminds me... how did Picard and Worf's magnetic boots stick to > the Entrprise's Titanium hull? Maybe a side effect of the Structural Integrity Field? :-) When you're dumping boatloads of energy into the hull, after all... it doesn't seem to be hard to generate gravity, given energy. A minor amount of magnetism should be easier. The hull isn't just tritanium, incidentally, unless things simplified considerably since the time of the Enterprise-D. (ST:TNG Tech Manual, standard issue office literature, and there is no "titanium" at all in the Enterprise's hull, TYVM ;-) - but there are several layers of tritanium). > PS: Magnetic boots are only a help if your learning curve is > ferromagnetic... I make you a deal, Terry... you _show_ me a learning curve, and we will see if it is ferromagnetic. :-) Grin, ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847