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  1. Re:$55k is that all?? what a joke on Perl Community To Buy Damian Conway? · · Score: 2

    The fact that he gets to do what he loves to do most (probably) and getting paid for that and getting to be famous (sort-of) is part of this price I guess. Money isn't that important anyway if your work is your hobby.

    People only work to make money to spend this in their free time doing what they like to do most. Or that should be the case off course ...

  2. Re:Next flamewar subject on Qt Going GPL · · Score: 1

    Dumb me ... Before I had finished reading your post I thought you were making propaganda for using the bare X-protocols from now on for writing our apps. Ironically though most of the listed arguments hold for such a statement ...

  3. Re:Talking about visionary ... on Usenet Archive from 1981 · · Score: 1

    The text beneath the URL is a quote ... Yeah, I _should_ have used the preview button ...

  4. Talking about visionary ... on Usenet Archive from 1981 · · Score: 1

    http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/NET.chess/81. 11.25_sri-unix.143_net.chess.html

    middle game, rapidly increasing in depth as pieces are exchanged. My own view is that there will be a world computer champion in 25-40 years (Thompson thinks 25-30), which will incorporate this tactical play with an extremely large database of tens/hundreds of thousands of chess patterns, which will be used to trim the search tree and increase the depth enormously.

  5. Re:Can I watch TV? on Silicon Retinal Implants Are Here · · Score: 1

    > That whole thing - cutting open your eyes - I'm not afraid to admit to feeling a little squeemish about that one.

    I guess that being (near) blind probably helps to overcome that fear.

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