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Yea potentially wielding weapons of math instruction...

Oblig:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/41059-New-Terrorist-Group-Al-Gebra

Or this is a bit longer:
http://daryld.com/weapons-of-math-instruction/

AT NEW YORK's Kennedy airport today, an individual - later
discovered to be a public school teacher - was arrested
trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning
press conference, the U. S. Attorney General disclosed that
he believes the man to be a member of the notorious al-gebra
movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying
weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," he declared. "They seek
average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go
off on tangents in search of absolute value. They use
secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves
as 'unknowns,' but we have determined they belong to a
common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates
in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to
argue, there are three sides to every triangle."

When asked to comment on the arrest, the President stated,
"If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math
instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.
I am gratified that our government has shown us a sine that
it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs, who are
willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky
statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of
influence. Under the circumferences, we must differentiate
their root, make our point, and draw the line."

The President warned, "These weapons of math instruction
have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a
scalene never before seen, unless we become exponents of a
Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of
vertex."

The Attorney General concluded, "As our Great Leader would
say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertain
of: though they continue to multiply, their days are
numbered as the hypotenuse tightens."

Here's your pic.

You don't always know if your process is gonna handle large images
A short example click on this link http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7241 9
My brother posted this link to me once because
When i clicked the link and watched all of the pictures ... my ram was gone and i only had 80 mb swap left :S
I couldn't even admire the next round without killing firefox first

ah.. here we go..

http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/imag es/foxy_/

Dude name Andrew Jones did the concept art work for the two Prime games.
I got a chance to see some of his early work for the series before Prime2 came out and Jones depcited Samus in a really interesting way. Some shots had her in human form with the suit super-imposed over. He depcited her as battle torn, with short dirty hair, carbon residue from countless battles caked on but with fierce eyes. Cool stuff.

Can't seem to find any links, although, here are some to Jones' other stuff.
Theres a pic of concept cover art for Prime2 in the second link

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/articles/andrew _jones/index.php
http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/imag es/

He's probably got the "ooo new toy!" itch. I wouldn't mind getting one as well, but I do 3D rendering, and network rendering is a whole lotta fun. Lightwave used to be 64-bit (back in the Alpha days) so an investment in a machine like this seems like it might be worthwhile.

As fun as it'd be to have a machine like that, I should share with him the conclusion I came to: Don't buy the latest greatest hardware unless there's some big screaming reason to do it. If Lightwave were 64-bit, I'd probably have bought one. Instead, I bought a dual Athlon machine. And ya know what? I enjoy the heck out of it. Maybe he should consider one for himself? Personally, I think the nicer multi-threading he'll end up with will yield a more responsive computer than having a single processor, even at 64-bits.