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Comment Re:Someone isn't thinking things through... (Score 1) 627

by CreatorOfSmallTruths (#37392014) Attached to: "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains

Irony: In order to escape wireless emissions, people move to a place where a bunch of massive radio telescopes stand next door as proof that wireless emissions are everywhere.

Correlation isn't causality: moving from a populated area to the middle of nowhere and having your symptoms "disappear" proves that wireless emissions were the root of the problem.

you mean "doesn't prove", right ?

Comment Re:MLK's Family Received 800k from the Memorial (Score 1) 366

by CreatorOfSmallTruths (#37245252) Attached to: The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream'

The group building the memorial are PISSING on King's grave.
Harry E. Johnson Sr., president of the foundation, made $265,085 in 2008.

They built the "memorial" with uncompensated (read "slave") labour from China.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/305092/mlk-jr-memorial-statue-completed-using-unpaid-chinese-laborers/

Get this straight. MLK was not a "fee-good, let's all respect each other" civil-rights version of Barney the dinosaur.

He was mobilising and uniting the underprivileged, black and white, in ways that were threatening to the war-mongering coproratist kleptocrats. They didn't kill him 'cos he wanted people to drink from the same fountain.

Now, they are killing him with artificial praise. It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts.

Excuse me.. is this a racial slur or have I missed something? because this dribble got +5 points...

Comment Re:Experience is a Gift... (Score 1) 602

by CreatorOfSmallTruths (#33416650) Attached to: Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age

Anyone in the field who hasn't figured this out yet needs to be let go. Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages. Experienced directors/designers have the foresight to be able to properly direct all that youthful energy to the most worthwhile pursuits, rather than just letting them wander aimlessly through some other other geek's code.

There's probably a good amount of truth to this.

Coding, to a large degree, is grunt work. No, this isn't universally true... But a lot of it is.

You want your more experienced people to be supervising the grunt coders - not wasting their time actually turning out line after line of code.

Its sad that you think that. Coding can be grunt work but the same piece of code can be art, it all depends on who does the coding.
Mars

Submission + - SpaceX Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Designs (aviationweek.com)

Submitted by FleaPlus
FleaPlus writes: At the recent Joint Propulsion Conference, SpaceX's rocket development facility director Tom Markusic unveiled conceptual plans for how its current Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 commercial rockets can be evolved into heavy-lift rockets, ranging from a Falcon X capable of lifting 38,000kg to orbit, up to a 140,000kg Falcon XX (more than either the Saturn V or the 75,000kg shuttle-derived rocket Congress currently plans on having NASA spend >$13B building). SpaceX presentations also discuss a new Merlin 2 heavy-lift engine, solar-electric cargo tugs, adapting their current engines for descent/ascent vehicles fueled by Mars-derived methane, and a desire for the government to take the lead on in-space nuclear thermal propulsion while commercial focuses on launchers. In a recent interview, SpaceX CEO/CTO Elon Musk expressed his goal of lowering the price of Mars transportation enough to enable early colonization in 20 years, and his own plans for retiring to Mars.
Movies

Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready 182

Posted by kdawson from the showcase dept.
l_i_g_h_s_p_e_e_d writes "The trailer for Sintel is ready. (We discussed the beginnings of this project in 2007.) Sintel is a Blender Open Movie project created using only FLOSS software. 'For the entire creation pipeline in the studio, we will only use free/open source software. We have less than two months now to finish this completely. ... Imagine the tension that's building up here to get everything perfect. For today, we'll celebrate a big step forward.' Download here."

Comment Re:Why not (Score 1) 520

by CreatorOfSmallTruths (#31968314) Attached to: Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers?

Thank god there is someone sane here.

I have worked in cubicles, alone and in the horrible "two large desk, 8 people" configuration.

For programmers, I think the best thing is put each programmer in a room by him/herself. alone. let people concentrate.

You see, when everyone are in the same room the strongest programmers get drawn to help the weakest, which does not help anybody, and certainly does not help you weed out the good from the bad. It becomes a social thing instead of being a work thing. and I don't want to talk about the loud people, freaks, people who decided to live under your desk and the whole "lets go to lunch" in the middle of coding thing. leave me alone, I'll call you if I need you.
Music

Alpine Legend Revolutionizes Music Game Genre 45

Posted by Soulskill from the haven't-the-foggiest dept.
Microsoft has announced the upcoming release of Alpine Legend for the Xbox 360. Building upon the established titles of the music game genre, Alpine Legend takes you to the Swiss mountaintops, where you and your friends play up to three Alpenhorns at a time while a fourth yodels along. When you're done playing, you can disassemble the 8-foot horns for easy storage. "Jam with alpine legends like Franz 'The Manz' Lang and Johann Hornbostel. Shake the mountain tops with 100 classic Alphorn tracks including, 'Whose spit is in my horn?' and 'More goat bell (It needs).'"

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