A counterfeit Picasso is different, content-wise, from a real one.
Picasso himself is a fraud.
He had made a painting about the death of a bullfighter. It was pretty much forgotten in a corner of his studio. When he was asked to paint something for the 1937 World Expo, he simply renamed that painting "Guernica" after a city recently bombed by the nazis. Lazy? No, far worse: he, a communist, was ordered by Moscow to use his art to draw the world's attention away from the massacre of internal rivalries that they were doing in Spain at the time.
Also, Picasso was an awful painter. Really! Forget how much his works cost, just compare them to the works of real artists, like Salvador Dalí, MC Escher, Bryan Larsen, Alex Ross, Andreas Marschall, Alessandro Barbucci, Moebius, Gabriele Dell'Otto... any of them can trounce Picasso. I think he only did cubism because his attempts to paint realistically were very crude, almost childish.
read down in this thread and see where a '60s sci-fi show is compared to the mona lisa or classic literature.
What's the big deal about Mona Lisa? It's just a portrait. A really well-done portrait, sure, and Leonardo da Vinci was a polymath genius, but that is just a painting of some woman, of little meaning in itself.
Star Trek has excellent storytelling, and inspired changes in arts, society, and technology. Clear winner IMNSHO.
Small government=contract everything out at increased costs, due to the bid process, as opposed to a fixed rate.
Uh, no, you didn't get it. Small government is not about government hiring companies to do stuff. It's about the government NOT doing stuff beyond its essential obligations. That is, the government has to provide you protection (police, army, emergency services) and resolution of divergences (a court system). It must keep its hands off education, hospitals, roads, power lines, anything but its core functions.
True that. When my brother-in-law bought a PC with no OS*, he asked me to install pirated Windows XP, and refused my offer to install Linux instead. When he has to PAY for it, he will be more open-minded to alternatives, I'm certain!
* (it had FreeDOS actually, but I'm sure he wouldn't know how to use that, or ever bother to learn how to use a CLI)
I've got TWO legal copies of XP for my current PC. The first was delivered with the PC, but not in the language I preferred. So I bought a second copy.
Why a G3? Unless your budget is really tight, it's better to avoid that. Flash and high quality videos CRAWL on a G3/500. An eMac, or a G4 or G5 iMac, would be much better. Or even a brand-new high-end Mac mini, $799 is not that much. But most importantly, a Mac is the way to go, because a Windows machine gives headaches even to the pros!
Other than that, I agree with you that the submitter should consider a full computer. But not because it can be made as simple as a web appliance; instead, because it is more than one.
I mean, rather than dumb down things for dad, maybe he should ask: "can't dad handle something slightly more complex?" Who knows, maybe he would like to take photos, organize and print them, or even make his own photoblog? Edit videos of family meetings, then send the DVDs to relatives? Draw and paint? Do music? There's so much you can do with a computer, why stick to the basic "use this to get on teh internets"?
Of course, maybe his old man really can't handle something slightly more complex. But consider the possibility.
It takes some l33t sk1ll2 to make a piece of software which acts as both spyware and DRM at once, and then install it on a person's computer without their approval. Thanks, Sony. You took the art form to a new level.
Actually, their DRM/malware was licensed. They're not even good at being bad!
I dig the description for this animation on Newgrounds:
"This submission is appropriate for all audiences"
"Users who enjoyed this entry also enjoyed: French Erotic Film."
Nevermind the grand unification theory, I'd just like to know anyone can unify a Hawking rendition of Rocket Man with French erotic film.
Oh, wait...No. No I really don't.
Actually, "French Erotic Film" is not French, nor erotic, nor a film -- it's just the first episode in Andrew Kepple's animutation epic trilogy "Colin Mochrie versus Jesus H. Christ".
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Ditto here, only the game was Phantasy Star 2 for the Genesis. Ugh.
But what if teenage == mutant?
Oh wait, it is.
You want ROMs? Have fun. http://www.planetemu.net/
If you count add-ons, the Famicom Disk System was not very successful either.
Rumor is that the Madrid bombings were done with the purpose of influencing the outcome of the elections...
He had made a painting about the death of a bullfighter. It was pretty much forgotten in a corner of his studio. When he was asked to paint something for the 1937 World Expo, he simply renamed that painting "Guernica" after a city recently bombed by the nazis. Lazy? No, far worse: he, a communist, was ordered by Moscow to use his art to draw the world's attention away from the massacre of internal rivalries that they were doing in Spain at the time.
Also, Picasso was an awful painter. Really! Forget how much his works cost, just compare them to the works of real artists, like Salvador Dalí, MC Escher, Bryan Larsen, Alex Ross, Andreas Marschall, Alessandro Barbucci, Moebius, Gabriele Dell'Otto... any of them can trounce Picasso. I think he only did cubism because his attempts to paint realistically were very crude, almost childish.
...arrr!
Forget that travesty and go see the Street Fighter II animated movie.
What's the big deal about Mona Lisa? It's just a portrait. A really well-done portrait, sure, and Leonardo da Vinci was a polymath genius, but that is just a painting of some woman, of little meaning in itself.
Star Trek has excellent storytelling, and inspired changes in arts, society, and technology. Clear winner IMNSHO.
Bill Nye is an actual scientist, but his show was a bore! Beakman's World was far more fun.
Good government = Small government.
True that. When my brother-in-law bought a PC with no OS*, he asked me to install pirated Windows XP, and refused my offer to install Linux instead. When he has to PAY for it, he will be more open-minded to alternatives, I'm certain!
* (it had FreeDOS actually, but I'm sure he wouldn't know how to use that, or ever bother to learn how to use a CLI)
In Soviet Russia, originals are supposed to be a joke!
Why a G3? Unless your budget is really tight, it's better to avoid that. Flash and high quality videos CRAWL on a G3/500. An eMac, or a G4 or G5 iMac, would be much better. Or even a brand-new high-end Mac mini, $799 is not that much. But most importantly, a Mac is the way to go, because a Windows machine gives headaches even to the pros!
Other than that, I agree with you that the submitter should consider a full computer. But not because it can be made as simple as a web appliance; instead, because it is more than one.
I mean, rather than dumb down things for dad, maybe he should ask: "can't dad handle something slightly more complex?" Who knows, maybe he would like to take photos, organize and print them, or even make his own photoblog? Edit videos of family meetings, then send the DVDs to relatives? Draw and paint? Do music? There's so much you can do with a computer, why stick to the basic "use this to get on teh internets"?
Of course, maybe his old man really can't handle something slightly more complex. But consider the possibility.
Look at the list of film choices. It's hard to get more degrading than that!
Built by Sony? That'd be a blast!
I guess it would sound like his singing.