Everything would work perfectly fine if we just got rid of all the damn users.
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The law doesn't say the have to sell, just that if they do sell, they can restrict. This is how Intel gets around this with their atom platform. They don't sell atom chips, just chipsets with atoms attached. If nVidia wants to put atoms in their Ion platforms, they have to pay Intel for the whole chipset, not just the chip.
If apple bought ARM, the might just stop sales of any future architectures.
saying braid is just a side scrolling puzzle game is also like saying paintings is just canvas with oil and pigment on it.
With your comments, you are dismissing the content in it's entirety. if that is what it takes to remove games from your definition of art then i want no part of the world you live in.
you could take those stories, edit them, add some illustrations, and publish them. Why would it be different?
if you are saying games are not Fine Art, i think that's a perfectly fine opinion. If i don't like opera and ballet, i might say they aren't Fine art (at least to me), but i am not going to say that they are not at all, and never can be, art.
(Personally, I think Dickens is rubbish. I'm told it's art, but in my mind it's just soap opera and painful to read. Maybe you should prove to me that Dickens is art?)
Braid is a difficult game for most people to penetrate. The medium is videogame, but there are higher level concepts being conveyed by the medium. The story itself has a very tenuous connection to your actions throughout most of the game.
In fact, 'winning' in braid is really losing, but it brings the whole series of events into focus. anyone who has actually completed the game will realize that he just doesn't 'get' braid.
He talks about reversing time as taking back a move? The concept here is that life is NOT like a game, and that we cannot just start over. You wish you could always make the right move, and always be the hero. Braid shows you that this is just cathartic escapism. When you F* up a relationship, you can't take back what you did or neglected to do.
It's a difficult, 2d platformer, but its message was more powerful, personally, than any movies I've seen in a long time.
of course, you don't have to win, like if you only play half the game. or only read half a book. or watch half a movie or sit through half a play or concert or opera...
Lets turn that statement on it's head: why are people desperately insisting games ARE NOT art? If gaming is an artistic pursuit, does that minimize established art?
The real question should be why should gamers care about what non gamers think? Of course gamers are going to have something to say about whether or not games are art. They are the ones actually experiencing the games.
I'm not going to refute your numbers, because that's what apple themselves said. However, you should note that those numbers also include "sales" to retailers like Best Buy.
No doubt they sold tons of iPads, but there weren't 300,000 in the hands of customers on day one.
yeah same thing I thought. If it's not BS, maybe oxidizing at low temps creates some novel chemical that helps burn more completely?
I bet what they're really doing is just frothing up the gas so it has even more oxygen dissolved in it or something. This COULD be called oxidation, but only if you disregard the real meaning of oxidation.
I hate when an article talks about some newfangled engine tech and says it's more efficient than hybrids. A perfect hybrid is going to be more efficient per mile than a perfect gas engine. Period.
Why? lots of reasons. Regenerative breaking is a big one. You can use a sterling engine or a turbine or diesel instead of a 4 stroke gasoline engine. You can remove the transmission entirely and just have the engine connected to a generator, like the Volt is going to do.
And finally, any increase of efficiency you wring out of a gas engine can also be used in the gas engine of a hybrid.
(for naysayers, I'll admit that current batteries are heavy)
I was just saying that you could call the Earth a 'rock in a vacuum' too.
And I was trying to say that the moon has historical importance in general, just like Antarctica has historical importance, even before people set foot there.
And I'm also saying that polar craters WILL have historical importance, eventually.
Yep, exactly. Hell, 5 years ago we didn't think there was ANY water. It's discovery is already starting to have a historical impact.
And yeah, I'm only saying it so that people THINK about the potential impact mining would cause. We Americans could easily have dammed up the Grand Canyon, but I'm certainly glad that we didn't.
Some day people are going to go into those craters and i can only imagine what they'll find. We have no idea if the ice is just a flat sheet or if it's formed into giant snowflake like ice crystals. what if, when we get there, it looks like this cave discovered in Mexico: http://www.crystalinks.com/crystalsmexico.jpg
I fully agree that the ice is valuable, and should be mined. I'm just saying that preserving ONE crater will be even more valuable, in the fullness of time.
It's not just some big rock; It's the Moon. It's the same Moon that our primate ancestors looked up at in wonder. To say it has no history or emotional impact is profoundly ignorant.
How difficult is it to fence off ONE crater? The water in these craters will become the Blood an Flesh of our childrens' children, and spawn innumerable generations of Moon dwellers. They will surely thank us for saving one of the craters in it's pristine state.
This is incredible news, but a couple of these craters should be preserved as they are. All that ice has taken billions of years to accumulate, and we should save one or two of the prettiest looking ones for posterity.
That is, once we get there and start chopping up ice on an industrial scale.
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Yeah, especially when your getting subsidies from the government to make it feasible to build in the first place.
So google is doing all the contributing, but they have undue power over the direction of the platform?
Shouldn't those that contribute have the most influence?
If they want to take the OS in a different direction, why don't they just write the code themselves and fork?
Oh, right. Because it's easier to whine and complain than to actually write good code.
I think it was a follow on project after the success of the lead zeppelin experiment.
I bet tomorrow he'll post a story about cruise missiles that can be disguised as jet engines and attached to commercial airplanes.
Just think of what Iran, North Korea, or terrorists could do if the got their hands on one of those!
This design is so impractical.
It would also need a powerful targeting radar, and a power supply, and a trained crew to fire it.
And if it is on top, it might get washed overboard before ever getting close to it's target.
Libera's. The flag denotes responsibility for the ship and cargo.
Everything would work perfectly fine if we just got rid of all the damn users.
The law doesn't say the have to sell, just that if they do sell, they can restrict. This is how Intel gets around this with their atom platform. They don't sell atom chips, just chipsets with atoms attached. If nVidia wants to put atoms in their Ion platforms, they have to pay Intel for the whole chipset, not just the chip.
If apple bought ARM, the might just stop sales of any future architectures.
"There are but three true sports--bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games."
-Barnaby Conrad
(though often wrongly attributed to Hemingway)
http://www.theknese.com/pages/Hemingway.php#update
saying braid is just a side scrolling puzzle game is also like saying paintings is just canvas with oil and pigment on it.
With your comments, you are dismissing the content in it's entirety. if that is what it takes to remove games from your definition of art then i want no part of the world you live in.
you could take those stories, edit them, add some illustrations, and publish them. Why would it be different?
if you are saying games are not Fine Art, i think that's a perfectly fine opinion. If i don't like opera and ballet, i might say they aren't Fine art (at least to me), but i am not going to say that they are not at all, and never can be, art.
(Personally, I think Dickens is rubbish. I'm told it's art, but in my mind it's just soap opera and painful to read. Maybe you should prove to me that Dickens is art?)
Braid is a difficult game for most people to penetrate. The medium is videogame, but there are higher level concepts being conveyed by the medium. The story itself has a very tenuous connection to your actions throughout most of the game.
In fact, 'winning' in braid is really losing, but it brings the whole series of events into focus. anyone who has actually completed the game will realize that he just doesn't 'get' braid.
He talks about reversing time as taking back a move? The concept here is that life is NOT like a game, and that we cannot just start over. You wish you could always make the right move, and always be the hero. Braid shows you that this is just cathartic escapism. When you F* up a relationship, you can't take back what you did or neglected to do.
It's a difficult, 2d platformer, but its message was more powerful, personally, than any movies I've seen in a long time.
yes this is a stupid criteria.
of course, you don't have to win, like if you only play half the game. ...
or only read half a book.
or watch half a movie
or sit through half a play
or concert
or opera
Lets turn that statement on it's head: why are people desperately insisting games ARE NOT art? If gaming is an artistic pursuit, does that minimize established art?
The real question should be why should gamers care about what non gamers think? Of course gamers are going to have something to say about whether or not games are art. They are the ones actually experiencing the games.
I'm not going to refute your numbers, because that's what apple themselves said. However, you should note that those numbers also include "sales" to retailers like Best Buy.
No doubt they sold tons of iPads, but there weren't 300,000 in the hands of customers on day one.
yeah same thing I thought. If it's not BS, maybe oxidizing at low temps creates some novel chemical that helps burn more completely?
I bet what they're really doing is just frothing up the gas so it has even more oxygen dissolved in it or something. This COULD be called oxidation, but only if you disregard the real meaning of oxidation.
I hate when an article talks about some newfangled engine tech and says it's more efficient than hybrids. A perfect hybrid is going to be more efficient per mile than a perfect gas engine. Period.
Why? lots of reasons.
Regenerative breaking is a big one.
You can use a sterling engine or a turbine or diesel instead of a 4 stroke gasoline engine.
You can remove the transmission entirely and just have the engine connected to a generator, like the Volt is going to do.
And finally, any increase of efficiency you wring out of a gas engine can also be used in the gas engine of a hybrid.
(for naysayers, I'll admit that current batteries are heavy)
I was just saying that you could call the Earth a 'rock in a vacuum' too.
And I was trying to say that the moon has historical importance in general, just like Antarctica has historical importance, even before people set foot there.
And I'm also saying that polar craters WILL have historical importance, eventually.
:-) yeah
BTW, have you signed my petition to save the Moon Bats?
Yep, exactly. Hell, 5 years ago we didn't think there was ANY water. It's discovery is already starting to have a historical impact.
And yeah, I'm only saying it so that people THINK about the potential impact mining would cause. We Americans could easily have dammed up the Grand Canyon, but I'm certainly glad that we didn't.
actually it will probably look more like this:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/frost2/Tape.jpg
Only bigger, which I think would be pretty impressive and worth saving.
Some day people are going to go into those craters and i can only imagine what they'll find.
We have no idea if the ice is just a flat sheet or if it's formed into giant snowflake like ice crystals.
what if, when we get there, it looks like this cave discovered in Mexico:
http://www.crystalinks.com/crystalsmexico.jpg
I fully agree that the ice is valuable, and should be mined. I'm just saying that preserving ONE crater will be even more valuable, in the fullness of time.
It's not just some big rock; It's the Moon. It's the same Moon that our primate ancestors looked up at in wonder. To say it has no history or emotional impact is profoundly ignorant.
How difficult is it to fence off ONE crater? The water in these craters will become the Blood an Flesh of our childrens' children, and spawn innumerable generations of Moon dwellers. They will surely thank us for saving one of the craters in it's pristine state.
This is incredible news, but a couple of these craters should be preserved as they are. All that ice has taken billions of years to accumulate, and we should save one or two of the prettiest looking ones for posterity.
That is, once we get there and start chopping up ice on an industrial scale.
I can conclusively prove that researching the effects of violent video games on children make the researchers stupider.
My evidence? http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/mar/vvgeffects