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Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

nmarcel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:06:14 GMT

I'm very curious about that secret project Brian is working on.

Remembering the prior interviews I can think of some cues:
Physics + Simulation + 3D + Functional Programming = *?* (will Rock!)

Happy Birthday Channel 9! :)

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

William Stacey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:38:17 GMT

So Newton thought gravity was pulling things down to earth. Einstein said reverse. That spacetime was pushing things into the earth which was gravity. So if spacetime surrounds a planet and "pushes" on it as hard as a planet pushes back - then what gives spacetime its muscle and push?

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

akopacsi — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:01:10 GMT

Happy Birthday C9! :-)

( a bit of correction... the astrophoto site's url is not apod.com, but apod.nasa.gov )

Anyway, I really like the interview and I like that Brian talked about the isolation problem of Microsoft. I don't think it's only about geography. Frankly, I always thought that MS lives in a paralellel universe... just take a look at its technical terminology, PR, the way it handles the web etc. On the other hand I accept that it must be hard to operate such a large organization and keep it consistent and appealing to tens of millions of different customers. I think C9 is a great way to show the human side of the company. Good job, guys! Congratulations! :)

By the way, a birthday is always a good ground to start speculating about the future. What do you think the IT world will look like in 5 years?

(I'm sure only about these: Google will have indexed the books on my bookself and Windows 7 RC1 will be promised for the xmas season... just kidding... :-)

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

Bent Rasmussen — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:59:12 GMT

Happy birthday C9. Ain't nothing like it out there. :-)

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

intelman — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:41:18 GMT

Ahh, computer hobbyists. That was one of the major factors in me not chosing to study computer science and engineering. I did not want to turn a hobby into a career. Who knows if my chemical engineering degree will end up being applied to computers...

Re: Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

Charles — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:05:56 GMT

Awesome, Sven :)

Thank you for being such a great member of the community. And to all Niners: much love. Much love.

Keep on posting,
C

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

Sven Groot — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:59:21 GMT

Great video. Astrophysics is such a fascinating topic. :)

I felt it would be relevant to post this:

:)

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

jason818_253.33 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:12:15 GMT

This is the first time I had heard of the explanation for why we speculate there is dark matter.

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

Christian Liensberger — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:32:22 GMT

Any chance we get a little bit more of Brian? Would be nice to also chat a little bit more about astrophysics :)

Re: Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

jason818_253.33 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:43:15 GMT

C9 Rocks!