Not so apparent if it's sitting on a solid blue surface.Originally Posted by Mario F.
I would vote Govt's avatar as my favorite.
Not so apparent if it's sitting on a solid blue surface.
I would vote Govt's avatar as my favorite.
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I'm trying to think. I don't think we have a non-goddess female on the board?
Code Goddess
Goddess of the Sky
I can tell you one of them has read the tao
edit: And understood it
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
So that's the reason we do not have enough female programmers here... They have to be a Goddess...
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
If any animated avatar could be called "disturbing", it would surely be mine. I haven't had any comments about it, though. Well, besides one comment that "Aha! Your avatar can read the board users' minds!", or something to that affect, and a few about hypnosis.They were all (as far as I could tell) positive comments, however, or (in the case of the first quote), amazement and admiration at my skills in determining the cause of problems . . . certainly not comments about my modesty.
In case anyone's wondering: when I uploaded my avatar, I had approximately 800 posts. I'm not sure how long animated avatars have been disabled for, but I think it's been quite some time. (This isn't the first thread about the topic.)
[edit] Note: my avatar isn't meant to be disturbing or hypnotising or anything. I was just playing around with the Gimp's spiral gradient flood-fill, and really liked the pattern. I generated a few images by hand, stuck them together, and there you have it.
Notice that my avatar is a litle jerky? Well, that's because I calculated the rotation values by hand, and I only had pixel precision. Later on, I created a program to rotate the image smoothly, but I never got around to uploading it, and by the time I did, it was too late -- animated avatars were disabled. [/edit]
Last edited by dwks; 02-06-2008 at 01:16 PM.
dwk
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This is the internet, there are no such things as "girls"...
*insert funny internet meme*
Edit: hehe
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IT'S A TRAP!
Last edited by Neo1; 02-06-2008 at 01:31 PM.
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
It does not mean there is no such thing as God, Look at Salem.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
Then the question becomes: why was animated avatars banned?
Cause some find them annoying and too large to load in significant amounts.
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Yup. Can you imagine a thread full of animated avatars?
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Not a problem to me.
and?
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
e·go·ism [ee-goh-iz-uhm, eg-oh-]
–noun
1. the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; selfishness (opposed to altruism).
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
And what?
No, not egoism. Not a problem to me as in, I don't mind.
Not saying they should be allowed.
Oh. So you meant "fair enough to me", instead of "not a problem to me".
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
