How about some solid piece of software that Linux needs desperately.

GIMP has 2 guys working on it but they're making a big push now for features- single window interface + lots of other new things. They could really use the cash. (I already donated some BTC to them)

Good point. Have monthly pages where people re-add themselves.

You should allow people to deposit and have a balance (by IP address) so the gratification of winning is instant.

Some people like to bet smaller amounts more (illogical I know).

Site is very cool

Thanks for the article. I enjoyed it.

BTW those models on that page are rigged/animated... I'll give them to you $25 each if you want them. However their movements are exaggerated and simplistic because they were made for a zoomed out strategy game where the meshes are seen from a far-away distance.

But the dragon and the girl have no animation/rigging.

Here's some old artworks I've done. These are low-poly so with more polys we could make a quality work,
http://genjix.freehostia.com/#art

How does this sound:
- Me & my sister create a concept artwork for one of your creatures listed.
- You pay $50
- If you want to continue, then we make the mesh to completion with everything over a week.
- You pay $300

Doing all these things you listed is complicated, and it's hard to go back and make changes once you proceed to the next step. Best to get it right the first time- decide on mesh sizes using boxes then on a walkspeed for walk-cycles by measurement. If you later decide to change the mesh then things like UV-unwrapping, skinning, ... will be messed up and need fixing.

It's not something like coding where you place a mesh in-game, tweak it, re-export, tweak, ... It's more like here's the constraints (size, various anim speeds, tri-count, texture sizes, ...), make a model fitting those. Then after each step you don't go back (generally).

The biggest resistance to Bitcoin I've seen is:
- Deflation (we want our currency to lose value).
- Mining (baww it's unfair- cry me a river).

Did anyone tell inflation-adherents that the rich don't keep hard currency, but put their money in property, stocks, 401ks .etc? I've read all the pro-inflation arguments and they don't make logical sense. The concepts are shady.

Yes, I'm buying/selling BTC if available.

As a 3D artist that payment is diddly squat for the hours put in to:
- Concept draw & research a model.
- Model the base mesh.
- Optimise the tris for a video game.
- UV unwrap a mesh optimally to maximise texture space.
- Paint a texture.
- Optionally create a bump-map & any other shader textures.
- Create an animation rig.
- Skin the model.
- Create several animations.
- Export model to a working in-game format.

You haven't thought this through very well... $50 is incredibly optimistic.

Thanks for this great project. I'm planning to use this in my next project.

thumbs up

Damn, this is a project I'd really love to get involved with if I wasn't under so many persistent pressures... Lots of exciting areas to muck around in.

i see pics of:
- computers
- a kid
- yourself

we know what's important to u

linux mint is ubuntu with all the proprietary stuff already installed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB8_wPei2ZM

My 2 favourite people are James Burke and Carl Sagan.

JB is a science historian, and that's the end clip of his series 'The Day The Universe Changed' on the nature of scientific knowledge. It's talking about how eventhough Buddhism is a stagnant inward looking ideology, that it still provides a complete worldview for adherents.

It's funny because you watch some of his older series (before the internet existed) and he's already hinting about future advances and things to come. Many of his views have been adopted into the mainstream during recent years.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
Take a gander at Connections, his most famous series

When you insert Ubuntu then you get a live cd desktop (linux running off a the CD- it's a little slow but shows you how it looks).

I'd try Kubuntu and Ubuntu livecds and decide which desktop I prefer.

When you're ready you hit install. It should guide you through easily (even giving you the automatic option to resize windows and install alongside if you have a windows install, otherwise you can resize it manually if you know how to partition).

If you'd like to just run through quickly as a test then you can install VirtualBox and install Ubuntu in a safe environment under Windows.

Personally I'd recommend you wipe Windows completely. Install Ubuntu and then install Windows under VirtualBox in Ubuntu for poker or whatever else only. If you're using Windows only for poker then it's going to be very secure. You can even make another windows install under VirtualBox for other apps if you wish to.

Also ubuntuforums.org and #ubuntu IRC are good help places.

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Different lines in the sand. Sure I can alias those commands, but why aren't they default?

It's like installing a program with no default config. Sure I can RTFM then write a config, but I shouldn't have to.

That was the dependency- cairo-xcb, and then it needs oopango-something and oosomething-else iirc, and they both needed additional packages. Too lazy. Ubuntu you just type aptitude install awesome, logout, login and you're done.

Rolling releases would be a nice feature but Arch Linux is too ghetto for my liking.

like in poker:
He thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think that he thinks I have K9

or find a bunch of other homeless dudes, get a copy of the squatters manual, find an abandoned building (the longer it's been empty, the better), barricade yourselfs in, fix up the place & treat it like your home.

people do this all the time. it's not criminal. they can never prove that you've broken in- you normally say the backdoor was already open and you walked in.

he probably posts (banter) for real under an alternative nick, and does development under satoshi.