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  1. Re:The internet says "Prince is over" on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 1

    You should see the lineup for ottawa bluesfest this year... its fucking sick

    Iron Maiden, Rush, Metric, Matthew Good, Drake, Weezer, Arcade Fire, Crowded House, Hole, Joan Jett, Great Big Sea, Santana, b-52, Keith Urban, Steve Winwood, Flaming Lips, Moody Blues, Amos the Transparent, Tokyo Police Club

    And thats just the start... I have no idea how this was arranged, but I know I'll be at LeBreton flats for the next two weeks.

  2. Re:Flawed Study? on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1020. 0x3FF is the highest you can count on your fingers using binary. 1024 has the same "fingular" representation as 0.

    Some of us can only count to 255 however... my ring fingers are incredibly difficult to use when counting binary.

  3. Re:don't worry about the banks on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 1

    OMG Italy missing out on the knock out round was so SWEEETTTT!...

    I totally drove through little italy of my city honking my horn and flying a big non-italian flag screaming out "how do you mother fuckers like it now huh? Like it when people drive through your neighbourhoods acting like assholes and honking their carhorns... fuck you alll!!!!"

    Ok, I didn't really, I had to work... but I daydreamed it.

  4. Re:Wait. on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Dutch are a better team this year. They simply had a bad first half, but showed they were obviously better in the second half.

    If you watched the group stage, Brazil wasn't that impressive.

    But yeah, we get your point.

  5. Re:Since when did "good enough" matter? on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    Hence giving you a reason for selling your shoes for $1,000,000.

  6. Steve Jobs says on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    Ebert is just holding the video game wrong.

  7. Re:Duchamp was a troll on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    Excuse me! The term used back then was "Griefer" !

  8. Re:Since when did "good enough" matter? on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    The act of pissing on modern art is a modern art itself.

  9. Re:Since when did "good enough" matter? on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand the term 'meta.' Video games do not "abstract" from other forms of art. Video games are not "derivatives." Well except for parody video games, as parody implicitly means derivative.

    Video games are "amalgamations" of other art forms. Video games are simply art. If you must attach a qualifier to the term use "multi" as in Video games are multi-art.

  10. Re:Since when did "good enough" matter? on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    basically who's Ebert to say that a game isn't art?

    Ebert isn't qualified to say whether or not anything is art, unless he has at least a Masters Degree (or better yet, a PhD) in art & design.

    Wow, that has to be the biggest load of shit ever to clog a toilet. I bet evacuating it from your bowels must have been an ecstatic event uneclipsed in your life.

    Lets just for a moment pretend like a PHd in "art and design" is AT ALL meaningful, the very idea that a PHd or a Masters degree is the only qualifier for criticism of a field of study is plainly incorrect.

    Case in point: What was the limit of Michelangelo's schooling?

  11. Re:Since when did "good enough" matter? on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    I think your definition of art is incredibly insightful. Even though you might not have thought of it while you were writing it... your post IS art. It has the first level -trying to define what is and isn't art- and also has a second level -making people think about what their own definition is-.

    As with all good art, I am totally going to steal your ideas and use them as my own. Pretending that I never read the above post at all.

  12. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    This statement's just six words long.

  13. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    No its YOU that does not want to start this fight... cause Reps have guns and they'll shoot all those smart mouth Demos!

  14. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    I'd give it +7 biotch! I WIN!

  15. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    All entertainment is art, period. Art is entertainment. Though art can sometimes be non-entertaining.

  16. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    He cant do that because he hasn't played any games.

    For that matter there are some spectacularly emotionally involved games which would put them on par with some of the best movies being made (they dont yet compare to the Renaissance classics of course... but games are still a young art-form).

    The only argument that Ebert has a chance of winning is that games aren't an art-form at all.

  17. Re:This is wrong on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    If you dont like how the RIAA controls your government perhaps YOU should donate $100mil to their campaign fund too!

  18. Yes We Can! on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obama: Where "Yes we can" means "No you cannot!"

  19. Re:Do it from home? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    epic!

  20. There is no reception. on Apple To Issue a 'Fix' For iPhone 4 Reception Perception · · Score: 1

    RF designer: "Do not try to adjust the reception — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth"
    Steve Jobs: "what truth"
    RF designer: "there is no reception ... "
    Steve Jobs: "there is no reception?"
    RF designer" Then you'll see, that it is not the reception that adjusts, it is only the bars on the user interface."

  21. Re:I got there Mini10v, and quite like it on The Ignominious Fall of Dell · · Score: 1

    a hahaha, nice.

  22. Re:Animal Intelligence on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 1

    both are thought to be functions of the brain. humans are thought to have the most refinement of both functions.

    empathy is one of the ways in which humans learn and expand their intelligence.

  23. Re:well yeah on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Thought is language, language is thought" is what your trying to say. It's why a large vocabulary is an important measure of intelligence; because if you lack the words to think with, you lack the very thought.

  24. Re:intelligence doesn't matter, communication does on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree on the ability to communicate, I disagree that vocalization is key. I think we may have come up with some sort of sign-language or language based on snaps/claps & rhythm if we lacked vocal chords.

    If we lacked ear drums we would have been a dead species a very long time ago. "did you hear that, it sounded like a tiger coming to eat us" "no frank, i dont hear a god damn thing because I dont have ears, neither do you AAAAHHHHGGG Im being eaten!!!"

  25. Re:Enough observation... on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    after careful analysis of your statement over a period of 3 hours, I understand that you are telling me next weeks lottery numbers.