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  1. Re:Making Distributed Films - Join Us on Elephants Dream Director Readies Blender-Animated Tube · · Score: 2

    So far I have been able to use a combo of open source and commercial products to create a distributed workflow, but tying it all together under single sign on is next to impossible especially to a wiki for organizing all the fiction. Anyone interested feel free to visit us, we seriously need some more creative people working on the site and projects.

    Check out the project I've been working on for some time: www.HEX.xxx

    Taking place in an alternate universe known as Obscure Delusion, several videos are now coming to light.

    * Maniac Loveseat is a short episodic format show in the Obscure Delusion universe. Featuring HEX and Jacky Paper, it is an unscripted improvised brainstorming session. Things that may be used for building parts of the canon universe and considered madness are wrenched from our viscera on the Maniac Loveseat.

    * The Unknown Truth is a science documentary show in the Obscure Delusion universe. Now in itâ(TM)s land mark 37th season, welcome to **The Unknown Truth** Episode 2012-03-16 with your host, Doctor Watt.

    Obscure Delusion Fictional Universe Original Material with references to public domain H.P. Lovecraft characters and works.

    Our Distribution Channels:
    * Our Main Site www.HEX.xxx
    * Facebook Page & Twitter Updates
    * YouTube Channel (Original Content Verified!)
    * DailyMotion (Original Content MotionMaker!)
    * Funny or Die Channel (Funny Videos!)
    * Phone 1-800-HEX-SETX - Located Downriver in Trenton, MI.

    I am sure you guys are contributing a lot to the community but need to ask you a question;

    How to encourage artists from developing world to participate ?

    They are not as rich as you guys

    They do not have as many advance hardware as you guys ... and ...

    They can not devote as much time to crunch out the scene as you guys

  2. Re:Don't laugh *too* hard on 30 Years of the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    There *are* we servers running on model 100s out there.

    There are ??

    Wow !!

  3. Back-lighting consumes power on Pixel Qi Says Next-Gen Displays Meet or Beat iPad 3 Screen Quality · · Score: 1

    No matter it's 70% or 30% or even 90%, back-lighting itself wastes a lot of power

  4. I don't think MS's patent would work on me on Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User's Mood, Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I do not go to facebook nor I tweet

    And if they want to "judge" my "mood", that is, if they can somehow insert a cookie that follows me throughout my web-surfing journey - they have to read the messages I post on /,

  5. Re:iOS programmers are superior on Accountability, Not Code Quality, Makes iOS Safer Than Android · · Score: 1

    IOS = Formula 1 Droid = Demolition Derby

    Microsoft Phone = a hobo standing by the Interstate with his thumb out

    What about "WebOS" or "Palm" or "Meego" ???

  6. That rock compares to _this_ rock on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Well ...

    I suspect that that rock in space hasn't yet been polluted by man-made pollutant

    But I _could_ be wrong

  7. TRS-80, that brings back not-so-good memory on 30 Years of the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 0

    There were stuffs that brought back really good memory, but not the trash-80s

    Of course, we read all the manuals and hand-coded some programs, but I didn't put in too much time for it, for there are other machines that offered much more flexibility and robustness

  8. Why are the artists at war? on Elephants Dream Director Readies Blender-Animated Tube · · Score: 0

    I did not read TFA

    Why are some of those artists at war?

  9. It's very old news on Studies Suggest Massive Increase In Scientific Fraud · · Score: 1

    If you think that "new money" coming in to fund those research is the culprit, think again

    Back 2 or 3 decades ago a lot of so-called "studies" or "research findings" had already come into questions regarding their validity

    For example:

    A "study" financed by "Dairy Farmer Association" would definitely come up with the result that "Milk is good for you"

    A "research paper" backed by "Pork Industry" would show you how pork is "another white meat" ... and so on ... and so forth

  10. Re:Not necessiarly on Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure · · Score: 1

    To me the real tipping point seems to be as the "corporate dystopia" of which William Gibson and Cyberpunk was part.

    I recently ran into someone I hadn't seen for years, who used to be heavily into cyberpunk back in those days. I asked him how that was going, and he doesn't read or cosplay any of that any more. I asked why, and he said, "It's not fun any more, it's coming true."

    You've hit the point without even realizing it !

    Those who've read the cyberpunk genre knew well in advance what was to come, and better prepared for it

    Those who haven't, don't even know what hit 'em

    Or, coming back to the article, maybe cyberpunk did serve as inspiration, but not to scientists, but rather to a new age of businessmen who realize their companies are big enough to shape politics, laws and countries around them.

    Back in the 1950's to 1970's, back when the cold war was raging fiercely, a few Western corporations already realize that the future ahead of them is to be more like the authority than the authority

    That is when some of those corporations started to work in tandem with secretive organizations like MI6 or CIA in semi-covert operations throughout the world

    Even "innocent looking" companies like DHL routinely worked with "law enforcement agencies" (you go figure out which ones) in letting the "law enforcers" to use their delivery trucks as a cover in their surveillance operations

  11. Re:Bureacracy sucks but on Canadian Bureacracy Can't Answer Simple Question: What's This Study With NASA? · · Score: -1, Troll

    What took NASA 15 minutes to answer took 51 of Canada's top bureaucrats dunno how long, with how many conference call, back and forth emails and such to come out with a really boring official reply

    Funny you brought out Somalia - and yes, in a sense, when comparing to the United States of America, Canada does look like Somalia

  12. Most vital lesson learnt: Hire the right person on Google Developer Testifies That Java Memo Was Misinterpreted · · Score: 0, Troll

    If there is any lesson to be learnt from this trial it gonna be this - Hire the right person

    This Mr. Lindholm is definitely NOT the type of person I would hire

    I've been in the software/hardware development for decades, and never have I write any email or any message in any forum, or in any conversation in any formal setting that I will say things like what Mr. Lindholm has said

    The tech world as we are now is not only filled with geeks, but with lawyers

    Those lawyers will use WHATEVER we wrote or said to get their point across - even to the point of mis-interpret what we wrote / say

    How can an ex-Sun employee, currently employed by Google, write an email saying things like "Google need a license for Java" ?

    I mean, what qualification that Mr. Lindholm has on legal stuffs ?

    If I am working for the human resource department of Google, I will fire that Mr. Lindholm long ago - and I ain't gonna tolerate any of my employee doing things similar to what Mr. Lindholm has done

  13. Re:Not necessiarly on Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To me the real tipping point seems to be as the "corporate dystopia" of which William Gibson and Cyberpunk was part.

    I recently ran into someone I hadn't seen for years, who used to be heavily into cyberpunk back in those days. I asked him how that was going, and he doesn't read or cosplay any of that any more. I asked why, and he said, "It's not fun any more, it's coming true."

    You've hit the point without even realizing it !

    Those who've read the cyberpunk genre knew well in advance what was to come, and better prepared for it

    Those who haven't, don't even know what hit 'em

  14. SciFi don't dictate what I love, or dis-love on Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am an avid scifi freak

    Have been reading scifi since 1960's, and still can't stop reading the stuff (including manga since late 1980's and animation nowadays)

    But my love of Science didn't emerge from my scifi reading habit

    My love of Science stems from my curiosity of what happens all around me

    The scifi genre is just like any other, there are good ones and there are real lousy ones, but no matter how good or bad the scifi is, it will never encourage or discourage me from exploring

    Nope, I just ain't gonna be influenced by a book

  15. Did they ban this and that 4 years ago on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 1

    I gotta admit my memory ain't it used to be

    Can't really remember what happened 4 years ago - that Olympics that took place somewhere, [cranking my old brain] ... somewhere in a communist country, I guess ---

    Did they ban the athletes from taking photos back then?

  16. Who will FBI the FBI ? on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Look, We're the FBI. That means your fucked, no matter what you do."

    The question that is begging to be asked is ---

    Who will FBI the FBI ?

  17. Re:Who knew on IBM Sells Point-Of-Sale Business To Toshiba · · Score: 1

    ... You honestly think companies are going to rewrite all their POS code ...

    Speaking from experience

    While there _are_ some legacy cobol code that are still being used in big irons, but a lot of code already been rewritten

  18. Extortion =! Business on Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately, that's business....

    I've been in the business field for decades, and I will tell you that 99.9% of business people on this earth do not include extortion as a part of normal business practice.

    What Oracle is doing is extortion, pure and simple, and unfortunately, Google isn't their only target.

    Hundreds of million Android users will also be affected

  19. Extend the lifespan of B-52 beyond 2040? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    No doubt some World War I planes are still airworthy, but to extend the lifespan of B-52s beyond 2040 and still expect it to be used for military bombing raid --- this is lunacy to the max !!

    Just to save a penny or two they are going to put the lives of the boys and girls flying those planes

  20. Re:You know, I'm Cynical on National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale · · Score: 1

    Damnit, finally a valid reason to sign up for twitter.

    I still won't

    It's a good cause, I know, but there are still other ways to support it without having to give in to the walled gardens

  21. That's what I like about 'merica on National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale · · Score: 4

    I'm not an American, but I gotta acknowledge that never-say-die spirit of 'em Americans.

    The "Car Wash 'n Bake Sale" is a stroke of genius !

  22. One thing for certain - Patent system stays broken on Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom · · Score: 2

    .... years from now when this mess is still ongoing it will be a shining example of why our patent system is broken. It protects nothing, ....

    Maybe you've overlooked something

    The broken patent system has made a lot of lawyers very very rich

    And rich lawyers will see that the broken patent system stays broken

  23. Re:Prevention cheaper on When Big Brother Watches IT · · Score: 0

    If us bosses don't monitor the minions, how then should we know when they're onto our kickback schemes and other fraudulent privileges they are not entitled to know of us having?

    We monitor our minions not because we are afraid of them knowing what we do

    We monitor them because we want them to know that we know every-single-thing about them

    In other words, they are our minions because we pwned them

  24. Even if the companies aren't trashy ... on Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... the trend now is the lawyers, who invented nothing but hot air, gonna be the ones who rake in the $$$

  25. The problem is not the men ... on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    ... but rather, the lack of women

    Blaming the men, no matter for what reasons, just doesn't cut it

    When the female kind do not want to learn programming, - and I am saying this based on pure simple fact that over 90% of comp students are male - how are you going to blame the male for "not allowing them from entering" ??