RE: Re: FN-FORUM: Bit quiet today, so I'll abuse the system

date posted 5th February 2007 15:39

What about a distributed swallow system, using the power of other nearby swallows while they're idle? Obviously you could multi-thread the coconut to the distributed swallows to ease the load...


>Swallows carrying coconuts is just silly. The power to weight ratio would
>make it impossible - even under Linux.
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>>
>> Adam Reynolds wrote:
>>>
>>> African or European?
>>>
>>> Dominic Raywood wrote:
>>>> Just wondering (you can tell its quiet today) how much wood a woodchuck
>>>> can chuck, if indeed a woodchuck could chuck wood (which
>>>> incidentally, I'm
>>>> not totally convinced it can)?
>>>>
>>>> I've been told its 7.2 metric tonnes an hour.
>>>>
>>>> Also, would it chuck more wood if it was running on Windows or Linux :)
>>>>
>>>> P.S. if you have no sense of humour, you don't have to reply with an
>>>> insult. But feel free to if you simply can't help yourself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I think That's Swallow's carrying coconuts!!
>> A woodchuck would chuck more wood running linux. running Windows, it
>> might work for the first hour or so, then freeze with a blue screen of
>> death :)
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