I'm leaning towards that too Jan, but the bizarre "just run my sketchy looking self-packed EXE" and evasiveness is still raising my hackles.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Jan Ciger <jan.ci...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/26/2014 07:49 PM, Thomas Hogarth wrote: > > This guy has been keeping me entertained for days. > > > > Sometimes I wonder if some bot somewhere has gained a small amount > > of self awareness and is trying to make friends on the osg mailing > > list. > > > > Maybe we have a Turing test winner in our midst. > > > > lol > > Most likely a hobbyist/newbie that communicates in English through a > computer translator. > > I have worked with Chinese students and this was a fairly common > problem. Most of the bizarre and seemingly malicious behaviour we > encountered was simply due to the language barrier (people picking up > a word here and there) and both sides extrapolating too much from the > written text. > > The cultural differences don't make things easier neither - e.g. > online etiquette, concepts of attribution, copyright, etc. don't mean > necessarily the same thing to a "Westerner" and someone from there. By > that I don't mean that the Chinese/Asian people are "boorish" but that > simply some things that are OK there are not OK here and vice versa - > heck, even American presidents are known for their faux pas! > > I wouldn't jump to conclusions about his/her intentions here. Ideally > a native Mandarin speaker should contact the person in private and > explain that they are coming across really poorly. I am sure the issue > will be cleared up in one direction or another rather quickly then. > > J. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iD8DBQFTrGhxn11XseNj94gRAiWNAJsFH6FmD+AHddHBkpSs4tIGAi4aHACeJVgW > zMiYS2fzO6VccdCc1qbgEgI= > =lrfb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. xe...@alphapixel.com http://www.alphapixel.com/ Training • Consulting • Contracting 3D • Scene Graphs (Open Scene Graph/OSG) • OpenGL 2 • OpenGL 3 • OpenGL 4 • GLSL • OpenGL ES 1 • OpenGL ES 2 • OpenCL Digital Imaging • GIS • GPS • osgEarth • Terrain • Telemetry • Cryptography • Digital Audio • LIDAR • Kinect • Embedded • Mobile • iPhone/iPad/iOS • Android @alphapixel <https://twitter.com/alphapixel> facebook.com/alphapixel (775) 623-PIXL [7495]
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