Yeah, let him tinker with a high-level language. I would think a younger person would get bored with something low-level because they couldn't do anything "useful" with it. I know it became interesting for me when I reached the point where I realized I could write something that I found useful. That was VB6 then, I'd guess some sort of web technology would be the better counterpart these days.
Who doesn't love sitting on the top of a wooded hill in 40 degree below zero weather at 4 in the morning with the head of a russian mob boss in the lens of your 50 cal sniper rifle's scope while you feel your heart beat like crazy?
I'm not sure how many assassinations you guys may have made, but no matter who it is, whether it be a heavily guarded political figure or a small, helpless child, your heart beats like crazy as you line up that shot- the controller vibrations to reflect that really get me in the mood.
I was always under the impression that "Nemesis" was the name given to the possible companion star to our sun that orbits the Sun. It was one of those theories that people made to explain things like why comets' orbits change when they are outside of our solar system, and other things like that.
It was said to orbit every 30 million years in order to explain the mass extinctions that occur about every 30 million years around here. At the distance Nemesis was supposed to orbit, it would pass in and out of the Oort cloud every 30 million years. Supposedly, it disturbed the orbits of comets and other objects residing in the Oort Cloud to send a bombardment towards Earth.
It's pretty well documented that extinction cycles like this are pretty regular, without any intervention from an evil star out to destroy Earth, so I don't really buy it.
It's also used by some people to explain some gravitational forces that are unaccounted for when examining some of the objects in the Kuiper belt, etc. Seeing as astronomers blame something like 80 percent of all forces in the galaxy on "dark matter", a matter we have never encountered, and can't begin to hypothetically construct, I suggest that we perhaps are missing something on a more universal scale than a Nemesis star.
Anybody notice that they dated it with tomorrow's date?
Ironic how they brag in the article about how they stated their theory "before it happen(s)/(ed)", and they couldn't even date the fucking article right...
You know, the reason I love this site is because someone can post up an article about the fight against child porn, and all of the horriffic parts of it, and how morally good a program is, and in one news article just barely mention open source and the first wave of replies is about Microsoft making open source, and not even mentioning the main focus of the news article. Nowhere else would have done that, and I think that's awesome.
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Yeah, let him tinker with a high-level language. I would think a younger person would get bored with something low-level because they couldn't do anything "useful" with it. I know it became interesting for me when I reached the point where I realized I could write something that I found useful. That was VB6 then, I'd guess some sort of web technology would be the better counterpart these days.
Who doesn't love sitting on the top of a wooded hill in 40 degree below zero weather at 4 in the morning with the head of a russian mob boss in the lens of your 50 cal sniper rifle's scope while you feel your heart beat like crazy? I'm not sure how many assassinations you guys may have made, but no matter who it is, whether it be a heavily guarded political figure or a small, helpless child, your heart beats like crazy as you line up that shot- the controller vibrations to reflect that really get me in the mood.
I was always under the impression that "Nemesis" was the name given to the possible companion star to our sun that orbits the Sun. It was one of those theories that people made to explain things like why comets' orbits change when they are outside of our solar system, and other things like that. It was said to orbit every 30 million years in order to explain the mass extinctions that occur about every 30 million years around here. At the distance Nemesis was supposed to orbit, it would pass in and out of the Oort cloud every 30 million years. Supposedly, it disturbed the orbits of comets and other objects residing in the Oort Cloud to send a bombardment towards Earth. It's pretty well documented that extinction cycles like this are pretty regular, without any intervention from an evil star out to destroy Earth, so I don't really buy it. It's also used by some people to explain some gravitational forces that are unaccounted for when examining some of the objects in the Kuiper belt, etc. Seeing as astronomers blame something like 80 percent of all forces in the galaxy on "dark matter", a matter we have never encountered, and can't begin to hypothetically construct, I suggest that we perhaps are missing something on a more universal scale than a Nemesis star.
Anybody notice that they dated it with tomorrow's date? Ironic how they brag in the article about how they stated their theory "before it happen(s)/(ed)", and they couldn't even date the fucking article right...
You know, the reason I love this site is because someone can post up an article about the fight against child porn, and all of the horriffic parts of it, and how morally good a program is, and in one news article just barely mention open source and the first wave of replies is about Microsoft making open source, and not even mentioning the main focus of the news article. Nowhere else would have done that, and I think that's awesome.