--Yep, I'm not a kernel programmer + never used BitKeeper, but I come down firmly on Larry McVoy's side. Ya gotta make a living somehow, and that means incoming $$$. IMHO, he has a right to feel threatened when people say they want to make a free clone of BK - the guy has put so much skullsweat and hard work into the product that I personally applaud his efforts.
--I've written him personal emails a couple of times when he gets a little *too* excited with his postings (like when he blocked ALAN FKG COX from his incoming email) 'cuz I don't want to see the poor guy burn out. Ya gotta take a vacation once in a while, ya know? It's not like he has money-grubbing Evil Intentions(TM), give the poor guy a break.
> I have a lot of code now for stock market prediciton because I find that to be the most interesting field for using this. I am actually in the process of starting up a company using it - I need to finish the UI for the end users, and I need to work out the legal side of it and where the company will be loccated in terms of the legal side for taxes.
--Wow, that does sound interesting. Anyone care to explain the concept in maybe a paragraph?
--On the other side: Whenever I see stuff like this in an article, it really tweaks me:
> Watching the time-lapse video clips, one can't help but marvel how this virtual evolution is roughly analogous to the real-world evolution of our ancestors millions of years ago when they first began to walk upright across the savannas of Africa.
--Blegh, what a bunch of hooey. Um, just a thought to all you Slashdot readers out there: If you haven't yet done so, DON'T accept the "theory of evolution" blindly - INVESTIGATE IT. Thoroughly. Having done so myself, and basing my decision on evidence seen with my own eyes, I can confidently point to the Bible and the book of Genesis and say "Yup, that makes a lot more sense than me being descended from some kind of monkey."
--I suggest you start here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/q a.asp http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/m agazine s.asp
>> I suggest you post a sign on your front lawn saying that you refuse to own guns
>I'm not sure if you were inspired by this or if it is coincidence, but . .. The JPFO [jpfo.org] used to make just that sign [216.239.57.104]. They seem to have discontinued it. I can't understand why, it seems like a popular position.
--Umm, perhaps because it's just like a big sign that says "COME IN AND ROB ME"?
--Unless you cleverly neglected to mention the six or seven highly trained attack dogs/parakeets that substitute for the firearm...
> writers are very talented, but they are a dime a dozen.
--Wrong. Obviously you've never heard of the "slush pile" that editors have to go through every day. Writers(programmers) may be a dime a dozen - Talented ones are harder to come by. It's self-evident that not every writer is of Asimov or J.K. Rowling quality, just as not every programmer has the same abilities as Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox in terms of quality.
> you want to make money in the future? become a plumber. become a nurse. supply and demand. these people demand more and more $ every day as less people in the west want to get into these fields.
--You may have a point, but it is usually better in the long run to get into a field that you *love* rather than just following where the money happens to be this year.
> I decided morphing hand matured when I saw that movie about the assassin going back to his high school reunion (don't recall the name) and it struck me that a particular scene used morphing, just to compensate for a real-world limitation in the filming (go see the movie, and see if you can spot it).
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119229
"Grosse Point Blank" with John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd, which I enjoyed quite a bit. Which scene used morphing?
Y'know, I'm actually quite surprised no-one has mentioned Red-vs-Blue yet:
http://www.redvsblue.com/
--Basically it's Halo on the Xbox used to make some pretty good movies (they're actually *funny* because they're scripted and timed so well.) Check them out.
--Note that there is a significant difference between a disease being CONTAINED versus being CURED. To my knowledge, there is no known *cure* for SARS.
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--Yep, I'm not a kernel programmer + never used BitKeeper, but I come down firmly on Larry McVoy's side. Ya gotta make a living somehow, and that means incoming $$$. IMHO, he has a right to feel threatened when people say they want to make a free clone of BK - the guy has put so much skullsweat and hard work into the product that I personally applaud his efforts.
--I've written him personal emails a couple of times when he gets a little *too* excited with his postings (like when he blocked ALAN FKG COX from his incoming email) 'cuz I don't want to see the poor guy burn out. Ya gotta take a vacation once in a while, ya know? It's not like he has money-grubbing Evil Intentions(TM), give the poor guy a break.
--Hey, it seemed to work for Hugo Weaving:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109045
--I bow to your eloquence. Well said.
> I have a lot of code now for stock market prediciton because I find that to be the most interesting field for using this. I am actually in the process of starting up a company using it - I need to finish the UI for the end users, and I need to work out the legal side of it and where the company will be loccated in terms of the legal side for taxes.
:)
--I hear Delaware is pretty good.
--Wow, that does sound interesting. Anyone care to explain the concept in maybe a paragraph?
q a.aspm agazine s.asp
/me puts on flame-retardant suit ]
--On the other side: Whenever I see stuff like this in an article, it really tweaks me:
> Watching the time-lapse video clips, one can't help but marvel how this virtual evolution is roughly analogous to the real-world evolution of our ancestors millions of years ago when they first began to walk upright across the savannas of Africa.
--Blegh, what a bunch of hooey. Um, just a thought to all you Slashdot readers out there: If you haven't yet done so, DON'T accept the "theory of evolution" blindly - INVESTIGATE IT. Thoroughly. Having done so myself, and basing my decision on evidence seen with my own eyes, I can confidently point to the Bible and the book of Genesis and say "Yup, that makes a lot more sense than me being descended from some kind of monkey."
--I suggest you start here:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/
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--Admittedly, but then you have two problems, actually 3:
o You have to be close enough for the rock to be accurate AND do damage
o Good luck getting RID of the rock effectively, for now it has some of *your* DNA on it (use gloves?)
o Witnesses
--Almost all of which are abrogated by using a high-energy projectile weapon fired from, say, a window. Comments?
--I'll take point #2, and a .44 Magnum, please...
>> I suggest you post a sign on your front lawn saying that you refuse to own guns
.
>I'm not sure if you were inspired by this or if it is coincidence, but . .
The JPFO [jpfo.org] used to make just that sign [216.239.57.104]. They seem to have discontinued it. I can't understand why, it seems like a popular position.
--Umm, perhaps because it's just like a big sign that says "COME IN AND ROB ME"?
--Unless you cleverly neglected to mention the six or seven highly trained attack dogs/parakeets that substitute for the firearm...
--Yes, I see you've cleverly managed a way to misspell "tosser". ;-)
--To get around shredded-paper reconstruction, follow what Sarah Connor and the Terminator did in T2: BURN THEM.
...And now his wife wonders why "that part" of him glows in the dark...
+4 Informative
What in the world is that 150MB JPG a picture *of?*
--Oh come on, everybody knows that Scott Evil (aka "Lyle" - see http://us.imdb.com/Title?0317740 ) was the REAL author of Napster!!
> writers are very talented, but they are a dime a dozen.
--Wrong. Obviously you've never heard of the "slush pile" that editors have to go through every day. Writers(programmers) may be a dime a dozen - Talented ones are harder to come by. It's self-evident that not every writer is of Asimov or J.K. Rowling quality, just as not every programmer has the same abilities as Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox in terms of quality.
> you want to make money in the future? become a plumber. become a nurse. supply and demand. these people demand more and more $ every day as less people in the west want to get into these fields.
--You may have a point, but it is usually better in the long run to get into a field that you *love* rather than just following where the money happens to be this year.
--Dude, if you're paying $1800 for rent, BUY A HOUSE. My *mortgage* was almost 1/2 that, for a townhome.
--Cue "Ride of the Valkyries" music... ;-)
--I'll give you an AMEN to that, bro. Too many a--holes in the world.
--Not if you used to watch those old GI Joe cartoons! :)
> I decided morphing hand matured when I saw that movie about the assassin going back to his high school reunion (don't recall the name) and it struck me that a particular scene used morphing, just to compensate for a real-world limitation in the filming (go see the movie, and see if you can spot it).
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119229
"Grosse Point Blank" with John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd, which I enjoyed quite a bit. Which scene used morphing?
Y'know, I'm actually quite surprised no-one has mentioned Red-vs-Blue yet:
http://www.redvsblue.com/
--Basically it's Halo on the Xbox used to make some pretty good movies (they're actually *funny* because they're scripted and timed so well.) Check them out.
--Note that there is a significant difference between a disease being CONTAINED versus being CURED. To my knowledge, there is no known *cure* for SARS.
--Congratulations! You have just described the plot of Matrix:Reloaded! :)
--Not to mention that smaller pits means more chances of not being able to READ the disc when (not if) it gets scratched...