It's great that some random internationally sanctioned body is going to announce some arbitrary definition of a planet, but what does this mean to those of us who only care about a LIFE SUPPORTING planet?
Did Microsoft take the time to clarify exactly which features their Office suite offers that Open and Star offices don't?
Gosh, not that I'd like to insult the integrity of a company with such a spectacular record of interoperability and standards compliance as Microsoft, but I really just can't think of anything obvious that their closed document format offers beyond lack of compatibility with anything but their own products.
The man is a codger who only gets people's ears because of his name and the fact that he's been doing this for a while.
His opinion is no more or less valid than anyone else's in this day and age.
Wake up Ebert: The world and especially the film industy have moved on, and you're just a dinosaur waiting to die that actual film-goers mostly ignore.
The continued existence of people like you who are otherwise retarded yet maintain a semblence of normalcy and even occasionally a spark of something that would be called brilliance by a less observant man is a testament to this very fact.
Wow, the saddest part of this debacle is I'm an English major. Blame my lack of sleep and hurried typing so as to get the comment out as quickly as possible, I guess.
Or blame me being an idiot. You wouldn't be the first, you won't be the last, and you aren't necessarily wrong.
Why is this even a debate? One of the definitions from dictionary.com for art is listed as "The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium."
Going by that definition, videogames are MORE APTLY called art than a photograph, painting, sculpture, or anything else considered art by the mainstream. If you consider that a videogame combines the elements of sounds, colors, forms, movements, AND other elements for the production of the beautiful in a graphic medium, it seems logically sound to count at least some as art.
Of course all videogames aren't art. It's the same concept behind not considering a headshot art, or some jackass banging his hands on a piano as art.
I'm happy as Oprah's vagina in France you've made this outstanding thread in which all of the outstanding and intellectually superior Slashdotters can come to voice our satisfaction about being better than everyone else.
I wouldn't complain if he waited until they ran benchmarks, tried overclocking it, or had some actual news to report.
You know, the kinds of details that usually make it into a news article. This is "Hey, look. It's a videocard with a waterblock on it. Betcha never seen one of them before!" and the fact that it's shameless self-promotion only makes it worse.
The "article" is a shitty little blurb with a few pictures. Not a single performance number or any bit of useful information.
My first instinct? Check the link for the submitter's webpage. Oh, what a coincidence.
Look, I'm not one to normally complain about poor stories and worthless submissions, but this one takes the cake. It's the most obvious grab for clicks and advertisement revenue that's been posted on/. in a while.
If you're going to make a "Sony is dying" post, would you mind providing a bit more documentation of said impending death than the various BSD is dying trolls provide?
There probably isn't. I guarantee you that in a corporation this large, the beancounters have already run through the numbers plenty of times to decide that this is their most economically viable course of action.
I'm not saying corporations are always right or always do the right thing, but when it comes to making money, Sony usually gets it right, and I don't think one self-important slashdotter speculating otherwise carries much weight compared to a financial beast that's been generating astoundingly large piles of cash for the past long while.
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I think they're still working on their "one missile per child" campaign.
Though before that gains any momentum they'll probably need to complete their "one functioning missile" campaign.
the submission itself is spam.
Notice the odd resemblence between the submitter's URL and the linked story.
Maybe Slashdotters just plain don't read.
That would explain quite a bit of what goes on around here.
It's great that some random internationally sanctioned body is going to announce some arbitrary definition of a planet, but what does this mean to those of us who only care about a LIFE SUPPORTING planet?
So what I'm to gather is that a new technology advances at rates different from ones set forth in arbitrary "laws" relating to different technologies?
AMAZING
How does crap conjecture and speculation on the Wii's power keep making main page slashdot?
Who cares until Nintendo releases real, hard numbers?
He was making a joke.
About sex.
I'm pretty sure the federal government is there to protect us from foreign threats and invasions.
But at least he's posting direct links to the articles in his submissions now.
But laws like this wouldn't really be necessary if businesses had followed the laws in the first place, huh?
Too bad it only takes a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone.
Did Microsoft take the time to clarify exactly which features their Office suite offers that Open and Star offices don't?
Gosh, not that I'd like to insult the integrity of a company with such a spectacular record of interoperability and standards compliance as Microsoft, but I really just can't think of anything obvious that their closed document format offers beyond lack of compatibility with anything but their own products.
The man is a codger who only gets people's ears because of his name and the fact that he's been doing this for a while.
His opinion is no more or less valid than anyone else's in this day and age.
Wake up Ebert: The world and especially the film industy have moved on, and you're just a dinosaur waiting to die that actual film-goers mostly ignore.
The continued existence of people like you who are otherwise retarded yet maintain a semblence of normalcy and even occasionally a spark of something that would be called brilliance by a less observant man is a testament to this very fact.
God bless evolution.
I'll impact your rectum, faggot.
Wow, the saddest part of this debacle is I'm an English major. Blame my lack of sleep and hurried typing so as to get the comment out as quickly as possible, I guess.
Or blame me being an idiot. You wouldn't be the first, you won't be the last, and you aren't necessarily wrong.
Why is this even a debate? One of the definitions from dictionary.com for art is listed as "The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium."
Going by that definition, videogames are MORE APTLY called art than a photograph, painting, sculpture, or anything else considered art by the mainstream. If you consider that a videogame combines the elements of sounds, colors, forms, movements, AND other elements for the production of the beautiful in a graphic medium, it seems logically sound to count at least some as art.
Of course all videogames aren't art. It's the same concept behind not considering a headshot art, or some jackass banging his hands on a piano as art.
This debate is asinine.
I'm happy as Oprah's vagina in France you've made this outstanding thread in which all of the outstanding and intellectually superior Slashdotters can come to voice our satisfaction about being better than everyone else.
A good analogy, but perhaps a bit inappropriate considering slashdot's users.
Either
a) There's not enough money in it to make it worthwhile
or
b) It doesn't work.
how long until there are non-"inheritance" clauses in the TOS for porn site accounts?
Hence him taking forever to get anything done.
I wouldn't complain if he waited until they ran benchmarks, tried overclocking it, or had some actual news to report.
You know, the kinds of details that usually make it into a news article. This is "Hey, look. It's a videocard with a waterblock on it. Betcha never seen one of them before!" and the fact that it's shameless self-promotion only makes it worse.
The "article" is a shitty little blurb with a few pictures. Not a single performance number or any bit of useful information.
/. in a while.
My first instinct? Check the link for the submitter's webpage. Oh, what a coincidence.
Look, I'm not one to normally complain about poor stories and worthless submissions, but this one takes the cake. It's the most obvious grab for clicks and advertisement revenue that's been posted on
For shame, CowboyNeal.
If you're going to make a "Sony is dying" post, would you mind providing a bit more documentation of said impending death than the various BSD is dying trolls provide?
Come on, at least a netcraft quote.
There probably isn't. I guarantee you that in a corporation this large, the beancounters have already run through the numbers plenty of times to decide that this is their most economically viable course of action.
I'm not saying corporations are always right or always do the right thing, but when it comes to making money, Sony usually gets it right, and I don't think one self-important slashdotter speculating otherwise carries much weight compared to a financial beast that's been generating astoundingly large piles of cash for the past long while.