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Mathematica and BattleBots
hesheboy writes "Wolfram.com has a story about building a battlebot with Mathematica: 'October 28, 2002--Looking for action with brains-over-brawn appeal? William McHargue, a freelance physicist and long-time Mathematica user, is one of many who find this combination in BattleBots, the new fighting-robot craze. "With BattleBots, one can be aggressive and yet nobody gets hurt," says McHargue. Recently, McHargue was featured in Mechanical Engineering magazine for work on Tesla's Tornado, his BattleBot.'"
ha ha!
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That was funny. Do you also avoid reading articles from other scientists if you don't like their politics?
It is a shame that everyone is so shrill and carries their politics on their sleeve. I guess it is easier to be superficial than have depth these days since identifying with a group rather than being respected for who you are appears to be what matters.
By the way, crap usually isn't expensive (visit sourceforge for many examples)...good software though often is
Fuck you troll. Choosing software based on politics is making a statement. (I don't like your policies, so I am voting with my feet) Just like only buying a Craftsman hammer is making a statement if you are "Joe Home Handyman". (I don't like generic hammers since they don't give me a free replacement in the event of damage to the tool) If there isn't a free alternative to Mathematica, there should be. All software should have a free alternative (both beer and speech). The problem with something like this is that it's not the most glamorous thing to write... so if nobody's done it, it's ony because it would suck to do it in the first place. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. And it doesn't mean that someone shouldn't ask for it in the first place. If *YOU* don't care about software politics, that's fine. But don't try to force your views on anyone else, that just puts you up there with other zealots on all sides.
7000 people die every year on the US highways. The Russian government gassed hundreds of her own citizens to death recently. Hundreds of thousands die of starvation and malaria every year.
Your pathetic "they want to kill us all" cry is the voice of a scared, well-off westerner who for the first time has been forced to look at the world as it is (and not just as it is depicted on your TV set) and has just come to realize that people actually die and suffer out there. Too bad your kind are still too self-centered and concentrated on your own pain that you don't realize the root cause of all the terrorist acts.
No, it's not Islam. It's poverty perpetrated by you and your fellow citizens - radicalism feeds on poverty and suffering. You made your bed, now you'll be sleeping in it.