I'm not sure that many video games can be considered art. Arts play on our emotion, make comments about the human condition, etc. Art forms like sculpture, paintings, literature, etc all try to say something, or at least make us think about something. Most games focus on letting people have fun, and I'd say these can't be considered art. The games that do make comments do so through their storylines and the non-gameplay content. I'd say for something like a game to be an "art," it would have to be closer to the "interactive storytelling" that the guy referenced in the article.
I dont know about you, but I'm not empathizing or philosophizing when I'm stomping goombas.
"it weighs more than 3,000 pounds, about the same as a Toyota Camry, including 1,100 pounds of Yellow Top batteries under the floorboards as ballast, so it's not tippy on turns."
Even though it weighs as much as a normal car, it's a heck of a lot smaller; it sounds like it isn't a problem.
Maybe its not "group" with a "k"...
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I'm a high school junior and one of my friends decided to start a computer club this year. I attended a few meetings until I realized nothing was happening. Last I heard, they got suckered into making a new school webpage. No one can program (which rules programming competitions out), and no one's taken any initiate to teach anyone how to program or anything of the like. Maybe you could have people just sorta show peopel what they do with their computer, try to get people interested in new things, and essentially provide a support group. Case in point, I suppose: make sure you have a goal going into it. A computer club for its own sake just doesn't work.
I think you misunderstand. She (it is a she, by the way) is talking about the consistency of the interface. It does the same thing it usually does in other situations, not necessarily what she's used to. I'm not sure what Eugenia's used to. She's got computers with OSX, Linux, Windows, etc.
If you read the article, Eugenia (the author), states that although KDE is extremely customizable, the menus and such are convaluted and make customizing rather difficult.
to quote the article: "However, this flexibility comes at a cost. The Kontrol Center of KDE is just bloated, plain and simple...I give KDE an 8 (and not a 9 or 10) because of these problems created by this flexibility, not because the flexibility is not there (it is)."
You know, I don't think they would keep it completely secret. They might try to find a way to destroy the asteroid and then try to carry it out, but this could be done in secret. Informing those who are helpless to do anything of their impending doom would only cause mass hysteria. I'm sure they would tell those who would actually be able do something about it.
The original movie, directed by Lynch, was something like 4 hours long, but the studio forced him to cut it down to size. He hated having to do that, and, though it's apparently hard to find, I believe he released the full, 4-hour version. It seems to me to be a similar predicament with LOTR. The books are so long, fitting them into a movie is impossible without cutting some stuff. And no offense, but Lynch is a much higher calibre director than whoever directed the series. He's just a little...weird.
So basically this is an IRC interface masquerading as pixelated, ugly, early 90's looking (by modern standards..those games were very cool 'in the day!') Sierra Game?
No, I'm pretty sure it was early 90's looking in the early 90's, too.
I think the new gameboy will have one (the awesome clamshell folding one)
Even Nintendo's decided to add that feature to its (relatively) inexpensive handheld.
A lot of people who listen to mp3s rarely buy cd's for two reasons. First of all, the people who listen mainly to popular music can find mp3s for most the tracks they want online pretty easily. Finding specific jazz, classical, or other not-so mainstream stuff can be difficult and is easier to get by buying a cd. Second, many people's ears aren't good enough to hear the compression in mp3s, or simply don't care enough. People who can hear the compression are generally annoyed by it and buy cds for higher-quality audio.
Though I do enjoy using Linux, there are a few things that make me stick with Windows. Games are a biggy, though I can survive usually with just my Playstation2. Another large factor is speed. Linux tends to be pretty slow in terms of GUI responsiveness, though I've had much less trouble with that in RH8. Then, Linux can be a hassle to use. RPMs, compiling compilers to compile a windows emulator gets kinda old...it's fun at first, but sometimes I wish I could just click things and have them install/run. I hate editing config files, too. This complexity is probably the main reason I'm still on Windows. I don't want to have to make a CVS build of WineX to play my games and use my filesharing programs. I don't want to edit a config file to make such and such program run. Linux is fun, but for my purposes, it's really just inconvenient sometimes.
I realize that Linux is all about choice, and users can choose to have their distro look like Windows if they want, but is this really the way to win new users? To the average joe, an OS's GUI is its most recognizable characteristic. So doesn't it kind of compromise part of Linux's uniqueness? I know this argument has been made before, but what happens to the Lycoris or Xandros user if he or she ever has to sit down and use Blackbox or something of the like? MacOS and BeOS both have/had GUIs that were part of their personality. Linux should, too. I'm all for new users, but I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't taking it too far. Distros aimed at new users should be user-friendly, but perhaps not so much like windows.
I've found that most teachers have not entirely adapted to using computers in general. My chemistry teacher awarded twice as many enrichment points for flash animations and posters done with Photoshop than she did for normal posters. For example, she gave a friend of mine two times more enrichment for a poster describing the four states of matter and which had no information we hadn't learned in class than my poster, which was not as visually pleasing, but was on the Bose-Einstein condensate, which she herself had not even heard of.
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Unfortunately, this means that some people and films that perhaps should have won, didn't. (that's not to say that ROTK didn't rock, of course)
I don't think XBox sells very well in Asia (it trails the PS2 and GC), so MS probably just groups it into the U.S. and "everybody else."
I'm not sure that many video games can be considered art. Arts play on our emotion, make comments about the human condition, etc. Art forms like sculpture, paintings, literature, etc all try to say something, or at least make us think about something. Most games focus on letting people have fun, and I'd say these can't be considered art. The games that do make comments do so through their storylines and the non-gameplay content. I'd say for something like a game to be an "art," it would have to be closer to the "interactive storytelling" that the guy referenced in the article. I dont know about you, but I'm not empathizing or philosophizing when I'm stomping goombas.
> No, we slash the freakin' tires. How about we slash-dot the freakin' tires, instead?
first, it puts the burden on senders to prove that they are sending solicited email. Is this in keeping with the innocent until proven guilty idea?
They're probably just trying to bamboozle us...
Check out their website at http://www.commutercars.com . Under the gallery section, they've got a video of it in action. Pretty neat-o.
"it weighs more than 3,000 pounds, about the same as a Toyota Camry, including 1,100 pounds of Yellow Top batteries under the floorboards as ballast, so it's not tippy on turns." Even though it weighs as much as a normal car, it's a heck of a lot smaller; it sounds like it isn't a problem.
Croup - noun - a spasmodic laryngitis especially of infants marked by episodes of difficult breathing and hoarse metallic cough
I'm a high school junior and one of my friends decided to start a computer club this year. I attended a few meetings until I realized nothing was happening. Last I heard, they got suckered into making a new school webpage. No one can program (which rules programming competitions out), and no one's taken any initiate to teach anyone how to program or anything of the like. Maybe you could have people just sorta show peopel what they do with their computer, try to get people interested in new things, and essentially provide a support group. Case in point, I suppose: make sure you have a goal going into it. A computer club for its own sake just doesn't work.
I think you misunderstand. She (it is a she, by the way) is talking about the consistency of the interface. It does the same thing it usually does in other situations, not necessarily what she's used to. I'm not sure what Eugenia's used to. She's got computers with OSX, Linux, Windows, etc.
If you read the article, Eugenia (the author), states that although KDE is extremely customizable, the menus and such are convaluted and make customizing rather difficult.
to quote the article: "However, this flexibility comes at a cost. The Kontrol Center of KDE is just bloated, plain and simple...I give KDE an 8 (and not a 9 or 10) because of these problems created by this flexibility, not because the flexibility is not there (it is)."
Well, maybe our national security being at risk will force us all to switch to Linux...
You know, I don't think they would keep it completely secret. They might try to find a way to destroy the asteroid and then try to carry it out, but this could be done in secret. Informing those who are helpless to do anything of their impending doom would only cause mass hysteria. I'm sure they would tell those who would actually be able do something about it.
In fact, I think I heard that Lynch claims the shortened version is not his movies, since he didn't get to take part in the editing process.
The original movie, directed by Lynch, was something like 4 hours long, but the studio forced him to cut it down to size. He hated having to do that, and, though it's apparently hard to find, I believe he released the full, 4-hour version. It seems to me to be a similar predicament with LOTR. The books are so long, fitting them into a movie is impossible without cutting some stuff. And no offense, but Lynch is a much higher calibre director than whoever directed the series. He's just a little...weird.
So basically this is an IRC interface masquerading as pixelated, ugly, early 90's looking (by modern standards..those games were very cool 'in the day!') Sierra Game?
No, I'm pretty sure it was early 90's looking in the early 90's, too.
I think the new gameboy will have one (the awesome clamshell folding one) Even Nintendo's decided to add that feature to its (relatively) inexpensive handheld.
A lot of people who listen to mp3s rarely buy cd's for two reasons. First of all, the people who listen mainly to popular music can find mp3s for most the tracks they want online pretty easily. Finding specific jazz, classical, or other not-so mainstream stuff can be difficult and is easier to get by buying a cd. Second, many people's ears aren't good enough to hear the compression in mp3s, or simply don't care enough. People who can hear the compression are generally annoyed by it and buy cds for higher-quality audio.
Though I do enjoy using Linux, there are a few things that make me stick with Windows. Games are a biggy, though I can survive usually with just my Playstation2. Another large factor is speed. Linux tends to be pretty slow in terms of GUI responsiveness, though I've had much less trouble with that in RH8. Then, Linux can be a hassle to use. RPMs, compiling compilers to compile a windows emulator gets kinda old...it's fun at first, but sometimes I wish I could just click things and have them install/run. I hate editing config files, too. This complexity is probably the main reason I'm still on Windows. I don't want to have to make a CVS build of WineX to play my games and use my filesharing programs. I don't want to edit a config file to make such and such program run. Linux is fun, but for my purposes, it's really just inconvenient sometimes.
I realize that Linux is all about choice, and users can choose to have their distro look like Windows if they want, but is this really the way to win new users? To the average joe, an OS's GUI is its most recognizable characteristic. So doesn't it kind of compromise part of Linux's uniqueness? I know this argument has been made before, but what happens to the Lycoris or Xandros user if he or she ever has to sit down and use Blackbox or something of the like? MacOS and BeOS both have/had GUIs that were part of their personality. Linux should, too. I'm all for new users, but I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't taking it too far. Distros aimed at new users should be user-friendly, but perhaps not so much like windows.
I've found that most teachers have not entirely adapted to using computers in general. My chemistry teacher awarded twice as many enrichment points for flash animations and posters done with Photoshop than she did for normal posters. For example, she gave a friend of mine two times more enrichment for a poster describing the four states of matter and which had no information we hadn't learned in class than my poster, which was not as visually pleasing, but was on the Bose-Einstein condensate, which she herself had not even heard of.
Thats very CELLfish of them!
The film cells have a right to communicate!
One might refer to this Ira as an ASHtronaut! Puns should be illegal.
You ought to make a program so you can force choke people in video conferencing!