What I miss in your comments is the joys that comes with the learning that you do.
Different people get "joy" from different things. That's why people who grew up listening to Cole Porter didn't enjoy Jimi Hendrix.
My point is that technology is totally objective and can be effectively taught, while art is personal. You cannot teach people how to enjoy things, or what to enjoy. A case in point is a friend of mine who took his family to a week in Disneyland. When he asked his five year old boy what he had liked most, the answer was "the swimming pool at the hotel".
When I was his age someone thought I should learn about arts. I used my nearly perfect memory at it, and soon it was a perfect pain in the ass to listen to me talking about the differences between Monet and Manet.
Lucky me, I was intelligent enough to realize I should disregard anything anyone told me about how important those "arts" are. I just pretended to be interested, I even learned to play the guitar and saxophone passably, just enough to be able to lay more girls.
If you are intelligent, you'll realize that "social skills" are important for some activities, like sex or making money, but the really important and interesting knowledge is about technology and "hard" sciences.
he will have his whole life to read boring books on technology
If he wants to read those books it's because he doesn't think they are boring. I read secondary school physics books when I was about 9 years old. Later, in my teens, I spent many good hours teaching physics to the girls.
Even relatively stupid children can find out "how to go outside and play and how to play with toys and video games and have a fun childhood".
Those "socially inept geniuses" are a stereotype, a true genius can find out rather easily how to be well integrated with society, and will find out that's important to have social contact with people. I think you are confusing true geniuses with "idiot savants", those people who have one very specific and limited ability, at the expense of general intelligence.
That's what killed Atari. They sold dirt cheap consoles in order to sell more cartridges. Once there was enough competition from games ported to computers to force cartridge prices down, bye-bye Atari.
Many, perhaps most, people who have game consoles also have computers. When one can choose between buying a console or upgrading a computer to play the same games with the same or better performance, which would be the smartest choice?
You cannot live by renaming Doom to Quake alone. What gaming needs now is a new idea that's as revolutionary as 3d-first-person-shooters was in the Wolfenstein to Doom period. Otherwise, why buy new games? Just keep releasing new Quake levels.
This happened to a person I know: she intentionally left her keys in her car and it was stolen. The insurance company refused to pay, and won the case in court.
Which means, if you leave your belongings wide open, you are not guilty if someone comes and steals them, but it's still your responsibility to take proper care of them.
I don't think the credit card people care about that. Years ago, Sears gave a $5 discount on any sale if you filled a credit card request form. I filled one of those every time I bought at Sears, as long as the promotion lasted. For every $100 I got in discounts, Mr. John Weissmuller, #2225 Poinsettia Ave. Huntington Beach CA, Social Security #618-32-8263, California driver license A8342885, got 20 Sears credit cards.
He would starve to death. I would add, besides the opener, a terminal permanently logged to hotmail. In the intervals between meals, he would be able to get car financing, buy pheromone based perfumes, buy printer cartridges, get incredible sex, etc, etc...
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+4, Informative? If the question is informative, will the answer be inquisitive?
Lemme guess: you are the guy who downloaded tuxracer for windows, right?
Different people get "joy" from different things. That's why people who grew up listening to Cole Porter didn't enjoy Jimi Hendrix.
My point is that technology is totally objective and can be effectively taught, while art is personal. You cannot teach people how to enjoy things, or what to enjoy. A case in point is a friend of mine who took his family to a week in Disneyland. When he asked his five year old boy what he had liked most, the answer was "the swimming pool at the hotel".
Lucky me, I was intelligent enough to realize I should disregard anything anyone told me about how important those "arts" are. I just pretended to be interested, I even learned to play the guitar and saxophone passably, just enough to be able to lay more girls.
If you are intelligent, you'll realize that "social skills" are important for some activities, like sex or making money, but the really important and interesting knowledge is about technology and "hard" sciences.
If he wants to read those books it's because he doesn't think they are boring. I read secondary school physics books when I was about 9 years old. Later, in my teens, I spent many good hours teaching physics to the girls.
Those "socially inept geniuses" are a stereotype, a true genius can find out rather easily how to be well integrated with society, and will find out that's important to have social contact with people. I think you are confusing true geniuses with "idiot savants", those people who have one very specific and limited ability, at the expense of general intelligence.
That's what killed Atari. They sold dirt cheap consoles in order to sell more cartridges. Once there was enough competition from games ported to computers to force cartridge prices down, bye-bye Atari.
Many, perhaps most, people who have game consoles also have computers. When one can choose between buying a console or upgrading a computer to play the same games with the same or better performance, which would be the smartest choice?
You cannot live by renaming Doom to Quake alone. What gaming needs now is a new idea that's as revolutionary as 3d-first-person-shooters was in the Wolfenstein to Doom period. Otherwise, why buy new games? Just keep releasing new Quake levels.
Which means, if you leave your belongings wide open, you are not guilty if someone comes and steals them, but it's still your responsibility to take proper care of them.
I don't think the credit card people care about that. Years ago, Sears gave a $5 discount on any sale if you filled a credit card request form. I filled one of those every time I bought at Sears, as long as the promotion lasted. For every $100 I got in discounts, Mr. John Weissmuller, #2225 Poinsettia Ave. Huntington Beach CA, Social Security #618-32-8263, California driver license A8342885, got 20 Sears credit cards.
He would starve to death. I would add, besides the opener, a terminal permanently logged to hotmail. In the intervals between meals, he would be able to get car financing, buy pheromone based perfumes, buy printer cartridges, get incredible sex, etc, etc...