You do realize that Spore was shallow, shitty, boring, and a huge disappointment in general, right?
Add on to it the shitty DRM and the shitty endless expansion packs, part packs, stand alone creature editors, and terrible censorship, and I'm just gonna have to say it. FUCK SPORE.
Will Wright had one good game. SimCity. It's time to face it - everything else has been shit.
Just like Molyneux (Populous good, the rest were over-hyped shit).
At least Meier has two good games to his name (Civ and Pirates) and isn't hyping the sequels to hell and back.
In short, Spore sucks, especially for teaching kids about evolution, and Will Wright sucks until he puts out another good game.
Where is it stated that this replaces any other tax? Will another tax go away because of this tax? Will there be a GPS reader at the gas station so that when I buy gas in my new car, I don't pay the taxes? Or will I be doubly taxed?
And this idea taxes miles traveled, not driven.
If your damned car is being towed you pay. If you're traveling off road you still pay a tax for using the roads for those miles.
This is not replacing the fucking gas tax - it's propping it up and expanding on it. This is what happened:
Jim: "Oh noes more fuel efficient cars! We're not making as much as we did on the gas taxes! What will we do, Bob?"
Bob: "ALL NEW CARS MUST BE TAXED PER FUCKING MILE! Let's see them find a more efficient path from point A to point B!"
Steve: "So Bob, you know we got these GPS dealies we can slap in cars to get that done. You know, for a price."
Bob: "Hellllllllllll Yeaaaaaaaah!"
I can't wait for this to devolve into a maze of rate maps and schedules based on hundred million dollar studies. Drive from Main Street to Elm street? That's double the normal rate, and triple the highway rate. Summer rates are more. 2AM - 5AM rates are lower. Peak hours are weekdays 7 AM to 10 AM and 3 PM to 6 PM, and all holidays. Driver's who drive in excess of X miles per month receive an additional fee.
Then comes the other bullshit: AMBER ALERT: WHITE GIRL KIDNAPPED. BLUE PRIUS EAST BOUND. LAST COORDINATES: xx.xxx, yy,yyy. EVERYONE FOLLOW!
Vehicles with circumvented tracking systems will be impounded and the owner's license will be suspended until they pay an exorbitant fee and attend 2 full days of reprogramming.
Vehicles that do not report in at GPS at least once a month will have their registration revoked. Revoked registration can be reinstated, for a fee.
Any anomalous tracking patterns (BROKEN GPS) will be assumed to be an attempt to circumvent the system, and you will charged a hefty fine. If you attempt to defend yourself, we'll call you a malicious hacker, and throw the T word around liberally.
Police have immediate access to this data, until your car is stolen. Then there's nothing they can do.
How is that unexpected? Military hazing is well known for it's sexual nature. So is the hazing you get if you work as a chef in a Mexican restaurant. So is the hazing for every fraternity. So is MOST hazing, actually.
It just means he didn't know what he was getting into.
What happens if you drive south out of Oregon, down through California, around the country, and back to Oregon through Washington (the north)?
Oregon sees you at the southern border, then the northern border a month or two later.
Surely the system is set up to log the shortest drivable distance between any two logged points, and takes into consideration the possibility of you leaving their great state. Surely. I have complete faith. They won't just draw a line from south to north and say I drove an extra 280 miles. Nope. They'd never be that dishonest, money-grubbing, or plain ol' stupid.
What qualifies as art is subjective. There is no single measure for what is or what is not art. As such, just because you view something as art doesn't mean it is art.
Continuing on, my opinion that the subject matter in question is not art is just as valid as that of the artist and subjects.
I merely pointed out that I think his "art" is attention-seeking, gross-out trash. And that most people agree.
You can can compare any individual works you want, and have any opinion you want. Just know that your opinion isn't some sort of standard. In this particular case, know that your opinion is nowhere near that of most people's.
Many "artists" attempt to protect their art from popular criticism (i.e., most people thinking it sucks) by designating it as avante garde, post modern, high expressionist, etc. You can't put shit in a special box and expect people not to call it shit. You can make something that's in the category of "shit" that is actually good. (The categories often used for this tactic are valid, and are not made invalid or sullied by the sue of the tactic.)
Using a particular label as a "Pfffft, then you just don't get <label> art" shield is all too common of a dismissive "defense" used by artists who refuse to accept criticism or consider popular opinion as being as valid as their own.
Always telling you what you're doing wrong, never telling you how to do it right.
How do you serve up the content and services end-users expect without the security risks? Simple answer: You can't.
Unless you're writing your own operating system and rolling your own PDF viewers and office suite and publishing your own flash-like plug-in that no one will ever want to install, you'll end up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off every once in a while because of fucking adobe, fucking bill, fucking Linus 20 years ago, fucking java, etc.
You can extend this to hardware too if you want. You never really know what that network card is doing, do you?
But at the end of the day, we have to get shit done. "Safety first" in construction is a farce. Getting the job done is first. Getting the job done right and on time is second. Safety's third. Maybe. The same goes for security in the computer world. We cover the biggest holes and keep our ears open. But our primary goal is making shit available to the end-user.
I'm going to get shit from nerds claiming that I HAVE to be 100% secure. Fuck them. I HAVE to get the job done. My being 98% secure isn't very far from their being 99.99% secure.
Patching all the usual suspects (Adobe, Java, Office, the OS) certainly falls in the "should be done regularly and diligently" category. But as stated above, I understand why it doesn't always happen, (and it's not just due to incompetence). A report saying what people are doing wrong isn't helpful. A report saying "these fuckers are always problematic - here's a practical solution" would be much more useful.
No. "Art" like that doesn't challenge anyone or make them confront their own feelings or beliefs.
A mutilated dick doesn't challenge me. It says "I'm fucked up and I want attention". It doesn't make me confront my feelings or beliefs, it reaffirms them. Shit be nasty, some people are fucked up.
Hell no I wouldn't say the same thing about those other subjects - those subjects are serious business to all of humanity. Some guy shoving a needle through his dick because he has daddy issues is not something that very many people will ever relate to or be affected by. It is a willful choice made by a small group of deranged individuals. Eating feces and vomit is not performance art. You can't graphically reenact the rape and murder of your child through interpretive dance and expect a full house.
It may be "art" to the artist and the subjects, but that doesn't make it so. Eye of the beholder, and all. As you can see from the posts here, most that behold this shit (3 of his much tamer photographs linked in TFS) aren't exactly giving it the thumbs up.
Much of today's art and fashion is simply weird for the sake of being weird or gross for the sake of getting attention.
You're right - the world isn't cute and fuzzy all the time. Chopin produced his greatest works during a period of personal anguish (over not being able to support the failed revolution). Poe was most certainly not about teh happy. Van Gogh was insane.
But I doubt any of these guys ever shoved a nail through their dick and screamed "Look at me, I've got issues!".
The ACMA is using adapting a set of rules taken from net nanny software and is tweaking and applying them to Australia's national internet censorship system.
The current internet censorship rules don't match up with other restrictions you see in the real world.
The Classification Board which has nothing to do with the ACMA thinks we should all see nasty shit by some "artist".
There is literally no news here.
- Censorship sucks, and it's done in shitty ways. When it's done by the government, expect it to be done as cheaply (for those doing the work) and lazily as possible. - Censorship often doesn't make sense. - Censorship will never cover everything. - There's always some asshole who wants you to shove his dick or anus in your face.
"We must all rally toward a single goal: without sacrificing the growth of knowledge or scientific innovation, we must invest in a sweeping project to make science relevant to the whole of America's citizenry."
doesn't get the applause that
"We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!"
Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever
RIPPER? More like RIPER.
If you MUST have a shitty backronym, at least make the letters and shit match up. All of the following, while still extremely terrible, would have been an improvement.
RIPPER (Robotic Inter-Planetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
RIPPER (Robotic InterPlanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
RIPPER (Robotic Inter Planetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
Drop the audio to CBR MP3, and use DivX (not the h.264 version) to encode and decode.
Encoding is faster with XviD but you get shittier results, and decoding is tops with the DivX decoder. Either way I assume you'll be making the encodes on another PC. And please, do an encode, not a transcode. Transcodes make baby Tux cry.
Avoid any GPU decode bullshit - it never works right and you're draining more power from your tiny battery. The CPU is more than powerful enough to handle 848x480 @ 23.976 / 29.97.
Poor <VIDEO*gt;. Dead before it even got off the ground because Apple wanted to say their browsers were HTML5 ready, but weren't willing to support an open codec.
Hell - MS just had no plans to support the tag at all.
Flash is slow, bloated, disgusting shit. Just embed the fucking video file and I'll let my player of choice handle it properly, plug-in or not.
Oh, so you still need to maintain a Windows XP install somewhere, or emulate one? (Yes, WINE is an emulator - it emulates Windows by translating most Windows routines to native ones.)
Virus definition updates were never a headache. And yes, you need AV software for your Mac, and you need to be more hands-on with your security if you go Linux. Either way, to the end-user, it's like a Ron Popeil Rotissery Cooker - set it and forget it.
Projectors? I know you're a troll when you bring this one up. So you need the ADC -> DVI connector. Oh, you have the ADC -> MiniDVI connector. You also need a Mini DVI to DVI connector. Oh wait, you have mini Display Port, you need to go from that to minidvi, then from there to DVI. Oh, but the laptop only has VGA, so you need a DVI-VGA dongle. But it still won't work because your laptop can't do analog through DVI.
Presentations? You can make the same shitty shit with either. And Execs have other people make it for them, anyway.
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Spore was hyped as the greatest game ever.
It was mediocre at best.
Fable? Eughhhh....
I went to the bank with 2 sheep in tow and those fuckers would NOT give me any ore.
I even took a picture of me and my sheep at our sheep-trading port.
Baaaaabs and Aaaaadam were furious.
You do realize that Spore was shallow, shitty, boring, and a huge disappointment in general, right?
Add on to it the shitty DRM and the shitty endless expansion packs, part packs, stand alone creature editors, and terrible censorship, and I'm just gonna have to say it. FUCK SPORE.
Will Wright had one good game. SimCity.
It's time to face it - everything else has been shit.
Just like Molyneux (Populous good, the rest were over-hyped shit).
At least Meier has two good games to his name (Civ and Pirates) and isn't hyping the sequels to hell and back.
In short, Spore sucks, especially for teaching kids about evolution, and Will Wright sucks until he puts out another good game.
Insert your own you lazy fucks.
IS there a British equivalent of "Elmo knows where you live!"?
Compass On
Apply directly to the forehead.
The MRI itself will take them out automatically.
Where is it stated that this replaces any other tax? Will another tax go away because of this tax? Will there be a GPS reader at the gas station so that when I buy gas in my new car, I don't pay the taxes? Or will I be doubly taxed?
And this idea taxes miles traveled, not driven.
If your damned car is being towed you pay.
If you're traveling off road you still pay a tax for using the roads for those miles.
This is not replacing the fucking gas tax - it's propping it up and expanding on it. This is what happened:
Jim: "Oh noes more fuel efficient cars! We're not making as much as we did on the gas taxes! What will we do, Bob?"
Bob: "ALL NEW CARS MUST BE TAXED PER FUCKING MILE! Let's see them find a more efficient path from point A to point B!"
Steve: "So Bob, you know we got these GPS dealies we can slap in cars to get that done. You know, for a price."
Bob: "Hellllllllllll Yeaaaaaaaah!"
I can't wait for this to devolve into a maze of rate maps and schedules based on hundred million dollar studies.
Drive from Main Street to Elm street? That's double the normal rate, and triple the highway rate. Summer rates are more. 2AM - 5AM rates are lower. Peak hours are weekdays 7 AM to 10 AM and 3 PM to 6 PM, and all holidays. Driver's who drive in excess of X miles per month receive an additional fee.
Then comes the other bullshit:
AMBER ALERT: WHITE GIRL KIDNAPPED. BLUE PRIUS EAST BOUND. LAST COORDINATES: xx.xxx, yy,yyy.
EVERYONE FOLLOW!
Vehicles with circumvented tracking systems will be impounded and the owner's license will be suspended until they pay an exorbitant fee and attend 2 full days of reprogramming.
Vehicles that do not report in at GPS at least once a month will have their registration revoked. Revoked registration can be reinstated, for a fee.
Any anomalous tracking patterns (BROKEN GPS) will be assumed to be an attempt to circumvent the system, and you will charged a hefty fine. If you attempt to defend yourself, we'll call you a malicious hacker, and throw the T word around liberally.
Police have immediate access to this data, until your car is stolen. Then there's nothing they can do.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
How is that unexpected? Military hazing is well known for it's sexual nature. So is the hazing you get if you work as a chef in a Mexican restaurant. So is the hazing for every fraternity. So is MOST hazing, actually.
It just means he didn't know what he was getting into.
Oh, I'm not judging his work on the technical merits. I'm judging it on content.
He has daddy issues and joins the ROTC because of it. How is that ironic?
I'll even let you use the popular definition of ironic (comically/tragically unexpected) instead of the actual definition.
Now that's a sport I'm glad my school didn't have.
What happens if you drive south out of Oregon, down through California, around the country, and back to Oregon through Washington (the north)?
Oregon sees you at the southern border, then the northern border a month or two later.
Surely the system is set up to log the shortest drivable distance between any two logged points, and takes into consideration the possibility of you leaving their great state. Surely. I have complete faith. They won't just draw a line from south to north and say I drove an extra 280 miles. Nope. They'd never be that dishonest, money-grubbing, or plain ol' stupid.
"...tracking mileage to tax us appropriately (which on the surface I dont think most people would mind)..."
What tax is this proposed tax replacing?
Will someone who drives very little end up paying less in total taxes?
Oh wait, I know.
This is another fucking tax, another fucking invasion of privacy, and more fucking pork for me to pay for.
I certainly fucking mind.
No they aren't. They're perfectly complementary.
What qualifies as art is subjective.
There is no single measure for what is or what is not art.
As such, just because you view something as art doesn't mean it is art.
Continuing on, my opinion that the subject matter in question is not art is just as valid as that of the artist and subjects.
I merely pointed out that I think his "art" is attention-seeking, gross-out trash. And that most people agree.
You can can compare any individual works you want, and have any opinion you want. Just know that your opinion isn't some sort of standard. In this particular case, know that your opinion is nowhere near that of most people's.
Many "artists" attempt to protect their art from popular criticism (i.e., most people thinking it sucks) by designating it as avante garde, post modern, high expressionist, etc.
You can't put shit in a special box and expect people not to call it shit. You can make something that's in the category of "shit" that is actually good. (The categories often used for this tactic are valid, and are not made invalid or sullied by the sue of the tactic.)
Using a particular label as a "Pfffft, then you just don't get <label> art" shield is all too common of a dismissive "defense" used by artists who refuse to accept criticism or consider popular opinion as being as valid as their own.
Always telling you what you're doing wrong, never telling you how to do it right.
How do you serve up the content and services end-users expect without the security risks?
Simple answer: You can't.
Unless you're writing your own operating system and rolling your own PDF viewers and office suite and publishing your own flash-like plug-in that no one will ever want to install, you'll end up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off every once in a while because of fucking adobe, fucking bill, fucking Linus 20 years ago, fucking java, etc.
You can extend this to hardware too if you want.
You never really know what that network card is doing, do you?
But at the end of the day, we have to get shit done. "Safety first" in construction is a farce. Getting the job done is first. Getting the job done right and on time is second. Safety's third. Maybe.
The same goes for security in the computer world. We cover the biggest holes and keep our ears open. But our primary goal is making shit available to the end-user.
I'm going to get shit from nerds claiming that I HAVE to be 100% secure. Fuck them. I HAVE to get the job done. My being 98% secure isn't very far from their being 99.99% secure.
Patching all the usual suspects (Adobe, Java, Office, the OS) certainly falls in the "should be done regularly and diligently" category. But as stated above, I understand why it doesn't always happen, (and it's not just due to incompetence).
A report saying what people are doing wrong isn't helpful. A report saying "these fuckers are always problematic - here's a practical solution" would be much more useful.
No.
"Art" like that doesn't challenge anyone or make them confront their own feelings or beliefs.
A mutilated dick doesn't challenge me. It says "I'm fucked up and I want attention".
It doesn't make me confront my feelings or beliefs, it reaffirms them. Shit be nasty, some people are fucked up.
Hell no I wouldn't say the same thing about those other subjects - those subjects are serious business to all of humanity. Some guy shoving a needle through his dick because he has daddy issues is not something that very many people will ever relate to or be affected by. It is a willful choice made by a small group of deranged individuals. Eating feces and vomit is not performance art. You can't graphically reenact the rape and murder of your child through interpretive dance and expect a full house.
It may be "art" to the artist and the subjects, but that doesn't make it so. Eye of the beholder, and all. As you can see from the posts here, most that behold this shit (3 of his much tamer photographs linked in TFS) aren't exactly giving it the thumbs up.
Much of today's art and fashion is simply weird for the sake of being weird or gross for the sake of getting attention.
You're right - the world isn't cute and fuzzy all the time.
Chopin produced his greatest works during a period of personal anguish (over not being able to support the failed revolution).
Poe was most certainly not about teh happy.
Van Gogh was insane.
But I doubt any of these guys ever shoved a nail through their dick and screamed "Look at me, I've got issues!".
The ACMA is using adapting a set of rules taken from net nanny software and is tweaking and applying them to Australia's national internet censorship system.
The current internet censorship rules don't match up with other restrictions you see in the real world.
The Classification Board which has nothing to do with the ACMA thinks we should all see nasty shit by some "artist".
There is literally no news here.
- Censorship sucks, and it's done in shitty ways. When it's done by the government, expect it to be done as cheaply (for those doing the work) and lazily as possible.
- Censorship often doesn't make sense.
- Censorship will never cover everything.
- There's always some asshole who wants you to shove his dick or anus in your face.
Because
"We must all rally toward a single goal: without sacrificing the growth of knowledge or scientific innovation, we must invest in a sweeping project to make science relevant to the whole of America's citizenry."
doesn't get the applause that
"We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!"
does.
Not to add to what is sure to be an offtopic flamewar, but IQ tests are certainly not culturally biased.
Unless, of course, you think logic, math, and spatial recognition are culturally biased.
Protip: The "FREE IQ TEST" you took online is not a real IQ test.
Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever
RIPPER? More like RIPER.
If you MUST have a shitty backronym, at least make the letters and shit match up. All of the following, while still extremely terrible, would have been an improvement.
RIPPER (Robotic Inter-Planetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
RIPPER (Robotic InterPlanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
RIPPER (Robotic Inter Planetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever)
RIPpER
RIpPER
NASA should just lie when LARCOSS hits and say "OMG THERE'S OIL ON THE MOON!".
Drop the audio to CBR MP3, and use DivX (not the h.264 version) to encode and decode.
Encoding is faster with XviD but you get shittier results, and decoding is tops with the DivX decoder. Either way I assume you'll be making the encodes on another PC. And please, do an encode, not a transcode. Transcodes make baby Tux cry.
Avoid any GPU decode bullshit - it never works right and you're draining more power from your tiny battery. The CPU is more than powerful enough to handle 848x480 @ 23.976 / 29.97.
Poor <VIDEO*gt;.
Dead before it even got off the ground because Apple wanted to say their browsers were HTML5 ready, but weren't willing to support an open codec.
Hell - MS just had no plans to support the tag at all.
Flash is slow, bloated, disgusting shit. Just embed the fucking video file and I'll let my player of choice handle it properly, plug-in or not.
We don't care much fer yer fancy book lernin' 'round these parts.
People needed Exchange 2007 support back in 2006.
Oh, so you still need to maintain a Windows XP install somewhere, or emulate one? (Yes, WINE is an emulator - it emulates Windows by translating most Windows routines to native ones.)
Virus definition updates were never a headache. And yes, you need AV software for your Mac, and you need to be more hands-on with your security if you go Linux. Either way, to the end-user, it's like a Ron Popeil Rotissery Cooker - set it and forget it.
Projectors? I know you're a troll when you bring this one up.
So you need the ADC -> DVI connector.
Oh, you have the ADC -> MiniDVI connector. You also need a Mini DVI to DVI connector. Oh wait, you have mini Display Port, you need to go from that to minidvi, then from there to DVI. Oh, but the laptop only has VGA, so you need a DVI-VGA dongle. But it still won't work because your laptop can't do analog through DVI.
Presentations? You can make the same shitty shit with either. And Execs have other people make it for them, anyway.