Some would say because "a videogame is designed to make money, and thus is not art." Takashi Murakami would reply
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
And I, for one, am seeing the Western art world change to fit this same idea. In fact, under this idea, the Final Fantasy series (with their beautifully rendered cutscenes) are already art.
but just the NFL marketing tool of choice to subvert our young into becoming whores to the industry.
And, in that respect, it is a masterpiece; the entire series, in that respect, is a pure work of art, through and through. Controlling human populations is most certainly an art.
Frankly, before this Slashdot posting, my reaction to gleemax has been "Oh, I have to search site:forums.gleemax.com now instead of site:forums.wizards.com, except nothing's different. How stupid of them."
And the end result is you wind up with a few gems, maybe, sloshing around in a sea of crap... And you can't rely on popularity rankings to tell the good from the bad.
Ahh, but there's the rub, isn't it? One man's crap is another man's "MUST SEE". Of course, most people would much rather tell people what their opinion is about others' creations than actually try their hand at creating. Reminds me of a quote by Akutagawa:
But Lieutenant Tanaka would not stop wagging his tongue... "You don't write criticism, do you? That's one thing I'd like to try my hand at, maybe write something on Shakespeare's Hamlet. You know, the character of Hamlet is really..."
Epiphany for Yasukichi: it was no accident that the world was full of critics.
As I've said to other people, just because swaths of ignorant fools say it one way doesn't make that correct. It SHOULD be "two crossword puzzles", not "two crosswords".
Actually, it's a rather different grammatical structure that your directions yield. "Mashed potatoes" is a noun by itself, in what I was talking about. In your "Yields" sentence, mashed has reverted to a relative verb, and mashed potatoes no longer has the same meaning it had as a noun before. No, what you really have is "Two potatoes that have been mashed". If you were to use a counter word, (which is what we're actually talking about), you'd have to say "two portions of mashed potatoes." In other words, "Two| Mashed Potatoes" is not the same as "Two Mashed| Potatoes".
But I bet you knew that and were just being a smartass.
Ah, but here lies the difference: In English, a "cul de sac" is both a general noun and a specific one. You can talk of cul de sacs and that cul de sac, as it has become one single thing. You're talking of something that has come into the language with a different meaning altogether. It's in the dictionary as "cul-de-sacs". Sudoku, on the other hand, is only general - it's the type of puzzle. Having two of them would only make sense if qualified some how, such as "two sudoku puzzles."
Sudoku is a mass noun, because it describes the puzzle itself, not a singular one. A "Sudoku Puzzle" is a countable object. "Two Sudokus" would mean two completely different games or rule sets, not two individual puzzles. Just because masses of ignorant people say things like "Two Crosswords" or "Three Milks" doesn't mean it's correct. You wouldn't say "two papers" to talk about individual pieces, would you? No, you'd say "two pieces of paper".
You know, I can also say anything I want in English, as long as it's understood to be imbrigligated.
No, sorry, there comes a gap when "what you're able to do" becomes separated from correct English, as with any language. "I waiting you here" is a perfectly understandable sentence (said to me by an Arab man), but you'd have to be an idiot (or extremely stubborn) to declare it correct.
Then try this on for size: I believe that "sudoku" is a mass noun, much like all nouns in Japanese. In other words, you can't say "two sudokus" any more than you can say "two softwares" or "two mashed potatoes". You need a counter word, such as "two sudoku puzzles", which you'd have to use (something very similar) in Japanese anyways.
And besides, let's be honest. "Sudokus" sounds retarded.
I hate to be pedantic (ok, no I don't, I love it), but since it's a Japanese word, the plural of Sudoku is Sudoku. Also, there should be a macron on the u, but that's way less important.
On Vista, take a look above "free" at "cached", that's how much you actually have free.
As for disabling superfetch, yes, you absolutely can do it. Here is a page detailing how to enable superfetch on Sever 2008 (which is Vista based), and if you're technically proficient enough, you should easily be able to use that info to turn superfetch off or (as I actually do) turn it on for only system files (1 and 1 instead of 3 and 3 in the regkeys).
Well, it says "report", which could mean 1 hour or it could mean 8. If it's the 1 hour visit, you're still doing most of your work at home. However, I agree - at that point, you're hardly a teleworker, and you might as well just spend the other 7 at the office, since you're there anyways.
I wonder why people think that "high" memory usage is related to leaks. Old firefox leaked memory. It's the same ignorance that sees "5 MB Free" in Vista and thinks it's really using up 2 Gigs (it's not, go read up on "SuperFetch", and caching, among other things). Three questions for you: 1) What version of Firefox are you running? 2) Does your memory usage change if you open a bunch more tabs? My guess would be "not much", which means it's hardly a leak (it's how it works, mhmm).
My copy of Firefox has been open for days, with three tabs open, one with pretty hefty rendering and two of slashdot - 131 MB of ram.
It's easy to make generalizations about other people based on personal experience. Resist the urge to do it.
You might as well tell a fish not to swim or a bird not to fly. Humans always, constantly, must make generalizations based upon personal experience, because they haven't experienced life as anybody else (excluding believers of reincarnation, of course). Next time, just politely correct them without the snarky comment.
Got an NVidia card? Go into the NVidia control panel, "Manage 3D Settings", "Maximum pre-rendered Frames", and set it to 0. I'm sure you can do something very similar with an ATI card.
Of course, I have a feeling that it's purely psychological what you're experiencing. With a modern computer (and I'm talking about one with more than 133 MHz) the "Windows" latency is below the threshold of humans. In modern 3d games, yes, I do hear the gun go off when I click the mouse - if my computer's specs are high enough to actually play the game at 60 FPS. Doom had the exact same problem - if your computer sucked, there was latency on the gun. Have the rose-colored glasses made you forget that?
Me? I start with the attitude of "this flash movie doesn't need to be played", with noscript in full power, and if the site NEEDS it, I might let it run. This way, legitimate content can be run, and things like ads get blocked. Of course, this requires me to use my own judgement, but frankly, flash STILL has performance problems, so the less it runs the better for me.
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And I, for one, am seeing the Western art world change to fit this same idea. In fact, under this idea, the Final Fantasy series (with their beautifully rendered cutscenes) are already art.
And, in that respect, it is a masterpiece; the entire series, in that respect, is a pure work of art, through and through. Controlling human populations is most certainly an art.
You've gotta be one smug prick motherfucker to not feel threatened or be distracted when trying to out-dance a god.
That's not funny.
Seriously.
An unfunny joke is just as bad as a nonsensical comment.
I get it.
I ain't laughing.
But I get it.
Oh, ok. So she can just outdance Olidammara.
Frankly, before this Slashdot posting, my reaction to gleemax has been "Oh, I have to search site:forums.gleemax.com now instead of site:forums.wizards.com, except nothing's different. How stupid of them."
Thirty Six Deterity!? Holy Jesus, if this is D&D, that lady can MOVE.
The WOW forums are that way
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Seriously, what are you talking about? Did they mention somewhere in TFA about WotLK going live?
Accusing? Why is everything anyone says on the internet automatically hostile? Take a deep breath; this is supposed to be just a discussion.
Ahh, but there's the rub, isn't it? One man's crap is another man's "MUST SEE". Of course, most people would much rather tell people what their opinion is about others' creations than actually try their hand at creating. Reminds me of a quote by Akutagawa:
As I've said to other people, just because swaths of ignorant fools say it one way doesn't make that correct. It SHOULD be "two crossword puzzles", not "two crosswords".
Actually, it's a rather different grammatical structure that your directions yield. "Mashed potatoes" is a noun by itself, in what I was talking about. In your "Yields" sentence, mashed has reverted to a relative verb, and mashed potatoes no longer has the same meaning it had as a noun before. No, what you really have is "Two potatoes that have been mashed". If you were to use a counter word, (which is what we're actually talking about), you'd have to say "two portions of mashed potatoes." In other words, "Two| Mashed Potatoes" is not the same as "Two Mashed| Potatoes".
But I bet you knew that and were just being a smartass.
Ah, but here lies the difference: In English, a "cul de sac" is both a general noun and a specific one. You can talk of cul de sacs and that cul de sac, as it has become one single thing. You're talking of something that has come into the language with a different meaning altogether. It's in the dictionary as "cul-de-sacs". Sudoku, on the other hand, is only general - it's the type of puzzle. Having two of them would only make sense if qualified some how, such as "two sudoku puzzles."
Sudoku is a mass noun, because it describes the puzzle itself, not a singular one. A "Sudoku Puzzle" is a countable object. "Two Sudokus" would mean two completely different games or rule sets, not two individual puzzles. Just because masses of ignorant people say things like "Two Crosswords" or "Three Milks" doesn't mean it's correct. You wouldn't say "two papers" to talk about individual pieces, would you? No, you'd say "two pieces of paper".
You know, I can also say anything I want in English, as long as it's understood to be imbrigligated.
No, sorry, there comes a gap when "what you're able to do" becomes separated from correct English, as with any language. "I waiting you here" is a perfectly understandable sentence (said to me by an Arab man), but you'd have to be an idiot (or extremely stubborn) to declare it correct.
Then try this on for size: I believe that "sudoku" is a mass noun, much like all nouns in Japanese. In other words, you can't say "two sudokus" any more than you can say "two softwares" or "two mashed potatoes". You need a counter word, such as "two sudoku puzzles", which you'd have to use (something very similar) in Japanese anyways.
And besides, let's be honest. "Sudokus" sounds retarded.
I hate to be pedantic (ok, no I don't, I love it), but since it's a Japanese word, the plural of Sudoku is Sudoku. Also, there should be a macron on the u, but that's way less important.
On Vista, take a look above "free" at "cached", that's how much you actually have free. As for disabling superfetch, yes, you absolutely can do it. Here is a page detailing how to enable superfetch on Sever 2008 (which is Vista based), and if you're technically proficient enough, you should easily be able to use that info to turn superfetch off or (as I actually do) turn it on for only system files (1 and 1 instead of 3 and 3 in the regkeys).
What, are you running on a computer with 256 megs of ram? 150 megs is about where it sits, 3 tabs or 30.
Well, it says "report", which could mean 1 hour or it could mean 8. If it's the 1 hour visit, you're still doing most of your work at home. However, I agree - at that point, you're hardly a teleworker, and you might as well just spend the other 7 at the office, since you're there anyways.
I wonder why people think that "high" memory usage is related to leaks. Old firefox leaked memory. It's the same ignorance that sees "5 MB Free" in Vista and thinks it's really using up 2 Gigs (it's not, go read up on "SuperFetch", and caching, among other things). Three questions for you:
1) What version of Firefox are you running?
2) Does your memory usage change if you open a bunch more tabs? My guess would be "not much", which means it's hardly a leak (it's how it works, mhmm).
My copy of Firefox has been open for days, with three tabs open, one with pretty hefty rendering and two of slashdot - 131 MB of ram.
I'd wager approximately one out of every 365 people are born on January 1st. That's a whole lot of nobody.
You might as well tell a fish not to swim or a bird not to fly. Humans always, constantly, must make generalizations based upon personal experience, because they haven't experienced life as anybody else (excluding believers of reincarnation, of course). Next time, just politely correct them without the snarky comment.
Got an NVidia card? Go into the NVidia control panel, "Manage 3D Settings", "Maximum pre-rendered Frames", and set it to 0. I'm sure you can do something very similar with an ATI card.
Of course, I have a feeling that it's purely psychological what you're experiencing. With a modern computer (and I'm talking about one with more than 133 MHz) the "Windows" latency is below the threshold of humans. In modern 3d games, yes, I do hear the gun go off when I click the mouse - if my computer's specs are high enough to actually play the game at 60 FPS. Doom had the exact same problem - if your computer sucked, there was latency on the gun. Have the rose-colored glasses made you forget that?
Me? I start with the attitude of "this flash movie doesn't need to be played", with noscript in full power, and if the site NEEDS it, I might let it run. This way, legitimate content can be run, and things like ads get blocked. Of course, this requires me to use my own judgement, but frankly, flash STILL has performance problems, so the less it runs the better for me.