What do you call a program that it's hard to avoid downloading, which is then impossible to get rid of, and plasters your browser with irritating messages and sounds you can't turn off?
"a revolution in methods just as remarkable, and a great deal more violent, than that which followed the Prudential's experiment."
And we all know violent revolutions lead to dictatorship right?
is not the writing or the acting. It's the Design. This is one UGLY show, with some very bad design decisions taken at nearly every level. The ship looks like a hairdryer, giving no impression of its scale. Is it 50 metres long? a kilometre? who knows? Then there's the aliens. Sure the Magog are SUPPOSED to be ugly, but they're ugly in a sad way. Not cool, not scary. And Trance looks like, well, a girl in purple makeup. It looks like it was pasted on with a trowel. The whole show has that slightly cheap, overcoloured look that a lot of Canadian shows have (don't flame me, I love Canada). The colours are unnatural, everyone has a strange reddish tint to their skin. Shame really, the writing was pretty good, especially Tyr, a really strong characterization.
Monarchy was the prevailing form of government in Europe for 1500 years and was quite appropriate for the technology of the time. Today, mass communication makes democracy and consumerism both workable and appropriate but if some countries can make monarchy work (and they do need to censor mass communications to make it work) we shouldn't rush to condemn. However, monarchy isn't working in Saudi Arabia. The people don't like their rulers, and many turn to extremism as a way of protesting. This is in a country that already enforces barbaric laws more appropriate to the middle ages.
And yet Saudi is the US's great ally in the Middle East. The US government is quite happy to accept a way of life they profess to despise if it suits their global policy. To the extent of stationing troops in the country.
Considering that that move has given Islamists an excuse to declare Jihad against the US you've got to question, exactly why were the troops there? What peril was so great that the radical Wahahbism brought on by that perceived provocation and the attacks of September were the lesser evil than whatever would have happened if America had stayed the hell out?
There is a prevailing strain of thought in the West that for management, it is Wrong to act on any motive than shareholder benefit. People like Secure Computing use this bizarre justification for mixing it with regimes they wouldn't like to live under. And the attitude extends to government. What is the Bush Admin doing but providing "shareholder value" by keeping oil prices low hand in hand with the Saudis and other dictatorships? This is their justification, through JFK, Nixon, Reagan and Clinton. Can't they see that it causes more trouble in the long term than just doing the right thing?
We should resist this whole notion that computer games should 'aspire' to the status of art, and here's why. Art is dead. It is worthless. It is empty.
Since the 19th century, we've all been taught that art is the highest form of culture. Then in the 20th century's democratization, we've been taught that everything is art, and that art should be "challenging". The result, an installation in a gallery featuring the artist's unmade bed. Trouble is, this sort of thing has been with us since Marcel Duchamp drew a 'tache on the Mona Lisa and it's all getting a bit tired.
Art for art's sake is a stupid concept promoted by artists from pure self-interest. Back in the renaissance, they were hired to do a job of work by a patron. Painting and sculpture were highly prized skills, but it was all very purposeful. As part of the general emancipation of the past 200 years, artists have achieved a remarkable status considering the usefulness of what they do. Just look at rock stars and actors, what are they for?
Now with computer games, we have a new form of play. Humans have always played games as a form of physical or mental exercise. This sort of thing may actually pre-date "art" in prehistory. Even animals play, and for the same reasons. To try to turn games into art is putting a square peg in a round hole. Art for its own sake has led to a rather unnatural elevation of the artist's status. We don't need any more primadonnas.
Games are not art. They are culture, and as such are much more valid and meaningful than anything you could learn in art school. Don't lets fall in this trap, people.
Aluminium is the international standard spelling according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
In Italian it's Alluminio.
In French it's Aluminium.
In Dutch it's Aluminium.
In Spanish and Portuguese it's Aluminio.
In Swedish it's Aluminium.
It was discovered in Denmark by Hans Oersted, who called it...
(wait for it)
Aluminium!
This spelling is an internationally agreed standard, like stopping global warming and the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty...
In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name "alumine" for the base in alum. In 1807, Humphrey Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements.
Aluminium was first isolated by Hans Christian Oersted in 1825.
Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard. Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
So, although it wasn't discovered, named or isolated in America, a group of American Chemists randomly decided to use the SECOND name Humphrey Davy gave to an element he hadn't yet isolated, even though he changed his mind later.
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What do you call a program that it's hard to avoid downloading, which is then impossible to get rid of, and plasters your browser with irritating messages and sounds you can't turn off?
"a revolution in methods just as remarkable, and a great deal more violent, than that which followed the Prudential's experiment." And we all know violent revolutions lead to dictatorship right?
is not the writing or the acting. It's the Design. This is one UGLY show, with some very bad design decisions taken at nearly every level. The ship looks like a hairdryer, giving no impression of its scale. Is it 50 metres long? a kilometre? who knows? Then there's the aliens. Sure the Magog are SUPPOSED to be ugly, but they're ugly in a sad way. Not cool, not scary. And Trance looks like, well, a girl in purple makeup. It looks like it was pasted on with a trowel. The whole show has that slightly cheap, overcoloured look that a lot of Canadian shows have (don't flame me, I love Canada). The colours are unnatural, everyone has a strange reddish tint to their skin. Shame really, the writing was pretty good, especially Tyr, a really strong characterization.
Monarchy was the prevailing form of government in Europe for 1500 years and was quite appropriate for the technology of the time. Today, mass communication makes democracy and consumerism both workable and appropriate but if some countries can make monarchy work (and they do need to censor mass communications to make it work) we shouldn't rush to condemn. However, monarchy isn't working in Saudi Arabia. The people don't like their rulers, and many turn to extremism as a way of protesting. This is in a country that already enforces barbaric laws more appropriate to the middle ages. And yet Saudi is the US's great ally in the Middle East. The US government is quite happy to accept a way of life they profess to despise if it suits their global policy. To the extent of stationing troops in the country. Considering that that move has given Islamists an excuse to declare Jihad against the US you've got to question, exactly why were the troops there? What peril was so great that the radical Wahahbism brought on by that perceived provocation and the attacks of September were the lesser evil than whatever would have happened if America had stayed the hell out? There is a prevailing strain of thought in the West that for management, it is Wrong to act on any motive than shareholder benefit. People like Secure Computing use this bizarre justification for mixing it with regimes they wouldn't like to live under. And the attitude extends to government. What is the Bush Admin doing but providing "shareholder value" by keeping oil prices low hand in hand with the Saudis and other dictatorships? This is their justification, through JFK, Nixon, Reagan and Clinton. Can't they see that it causes more trouble in the long term than just doing the right thing?
We should resist this whole notion that computer games should 'aspire' to the status of art, and here's why. Art is dead. It is worthless. It is empty. Since the 19th century, we've all been taught that art is the highest form of culture. Then in the 20th century's democratization, we've been taught that everything is art, and that art should be "challenging". The result, an installation in a gallery featuring the artist's unmade bed. Trouble is, this sort of thing has been with us since Marcel Duchamp drew a 'tache on the Mona Lisa and it's all getting a bit tired. Art for art's sake is a stupid concept promoted by artists from pure self-interest. Back in the renaissance, they were hired to do a job of work by a patron. Painting and sculpture were highly prized skills, but it was all very purposeful. As part of the general emancipation of the past 200 years, artists have achieved a remarkable status considering the usefulness of what they do. Just look at rock stars and actors, what are they for? Now with computer games, we have a new form of play. Humans have always played games as a form of physical or mental exercise. This sort of thing may actually pre-date "art" in prehistory. Even animals play, and for the same reasons. To try to turn games into art is putting a square peg in a round hole. Art for its own sake has led to a rather unnatural elevation of the artist's status. We don't need any more primadonnas. Games are not art. They are culture, and as such are much more valid and meaningful than anything you could learn in art school. Don't lets fall in this trap, people.
he's Mean, he's Square, he's got Root. Figures...
Get the new drivers from your card manufacturer. OpenGL ran like a pig on XP for my GeForce3 until I reinstalled the drivers from the card maker.
It's right there on my start menu, it just says Windows XP at at the top of the command prompt menu instead of MS-DOS.
Aluminium is the international standard spelling according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). In Italian it's Alluminio. In French it's Aluminium. In Dutch it's Aluminium. In Spanish and Portuguese it's Aluminio. In Swedish it's Aluminium. It was discovered in Denmark by Hans Oersted, who called it... (wait for it) Aluminium! This spelling is an internationally agreed standard, like stopping global warming and the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty...
Some information from webelements.com:
In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name "alumine" for the base in alum. In 1807, Humphrey Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements.
Aluminium was first isolated by Hans Christian Oersted in 1825.
Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard. Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
So, although it wasn't discovered, named or isolated in America, a group of American Chemists randomly decided to use the SECOND name Humphrey Davy gave to an element he hadn't yet isolated, even though he changed his mind later.
Hmmm.