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From: Nieminen Mika
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:47:59
Message: <3717317f.0@news.povray.org>
Q: How many POV-Ray users does it take to change a light bulb?

A: 227.

  1 to ask how to do it in povray.general.
  8 to answer the question
  1 to post an article wondering how Ken Tyler can answer so fast to the
questions.
  26 to start a thread about what's the best way to model a working light
bulb with POV-Ray.
  1 to post that although he puts the camera just right in front of the
light bulb, he can't see anything.
  3 to answer with a URL to the povVFAQ page.
  2 to complain that answering with just a URL is not polite.
  10 to justify the URL post and to explain why it's a good answer.
  1 to suggest a new light_bulb primitive for the next version on POV-Ray.
  5 to laugh at this.
  1 to make a light bulb #macro and post it in povray.text.scene-files.
  1 to post a "you have been raytracing too long"-joke about light bulbs.
  37 to answer to this with their own "raytracing too long"-jokes.
  1 to start a "POV-ray users using light bulbs"-survey and to render a world
map indicating the location of the users.
  129 to participate in the survey.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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