I guess it's because the whole point of ODF is application-neutral data interchange. "Accessibility" is sort of meaningless in that context.
To refine your analogy, it's like bringing up the wheelchair access requirement as an obstacle to zoning the land on which the government building is to sit.
Nixon's was clearly a case of playing unethical (and illegal) tricks on a political opponent.
Good thing nothing like that happened when Bush got 'elected.' Or when his VP and Chief of Staff leaked Valerie Plame's occupation. Or when he ignores parts of laws he doesn't like with his 'signing statements.' Or when he led the country to a ruinously expensive war based on wishful thinking and fat checks to his VP's former company.
"Investing" in Mozart was a good choice at the time - his operas WERE the popular music of his time. Investing in a Mozart opera would be like investing in a successful broadway show today. He also put on live performances that sold enough tickets to be financially successful.
Since he lived a long time before the advent of recording technology, the type of success available to a popular musician (or more properly their record label) today just didn't exist.
a perpetual copyright system would only serve to create an aristocracy of middlemen with the resources to buy up the rights to many artists' work, let the market separate the wheat from the chaff, and sleep on a giant pile of money at night. Oh, wait...
Consider the impact that paid licensure of Fourier transforms would have on science and engineering. Or was the money supposed to come from the Magic Unicorn Cave?
You're forgetting the end of the story - God getting totally pissed off by David's behavior, declaring it unethical in no uncertain terms, and punishing him severely.
People make a lot of noise about some games being only for grownups - consider for a moment that some parts of the bible might be the same way.
Much of the violence and horrors it contains are there precisely to be questioned. The story of the binding of Isaac, for instance, is an absolute repuditation of the concept of human sacrifice, and David was prevented from building the temple by god as punishment for what he did to Bathsheba and her husband.
You knee-jerk atheists are as bad as the fundies when it comes to misunderstanding the bible.
I seem to recall a primitive polygon-rendered driving game set in San Fransisco where you could run over nuns, and if a cop pulled you over he'd write you a ticket for "vehicular homicide" and send you on your way.
Frankly, I think the GTA series makes a sincere attempt at showing that actions have consequences, unlike almost every other videogame out there. Sure, the scale of mayhem it takes to provoke a police response is off, but in how many other games do you have the option whether or not to break the law? Furthermore, when a mission compels you to break the law, your first thought is usually "how can I do this with as little collateral damage/police response as possible"?
Compare that your average "shoot anything that moves" action game.
If they're flying Quantas, kids get an activity book synchronized to a program on the inflight headphones. Should hold 'em for a couple hours at least. Then have 'em draw flipbooks on the corners of the pages of the paperback you're allowed to bring on board.
I think the government really does have its priorities, but monitoring 10 million computers to find out what porn sites people like to visit isn't one of them.
Don't be so sure. The current administration seems very intent on regulating the sex lives of Americans. From Ashcroft's covering up the bare-breasted statue of Justice in the Justice Dept.'s lobby, to Republican senators that openly endorse the enforcement of sodomy laws, saying "if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
I'd say there are plenty of 'highbrow' video games, if you define 'highbrow' to mean 'acquired taste that rewards only those who are going to put some effort into being able to enjoy it'. Text adventures; niche online games like FreeAllegiance, the Air Warrior series, or the F1 racing sims that people spend thousands building cockpits in their basement for; MUDs/MUSHs/MOOs; and roguelikes all have limited, devoted followings, and are not the easiest to get into.
If you mean 'highbrow' as in 'character/emotion driven,' he's right, and it's because the state of videogames as a narrative medium is pretty primitive.
We arguably have our Birth of a Nation in GTA:Vice City, but nobody's pushed the conventions it introduced much further yet. Perhaps some parts of some MMOs would count, particularly early Ultima Online, but it might be a couple of decades before videogames really hit their stride as an Art-with-a-captial-A form.
I am trying only to say that anyone who attributes a clear and uncontextualized truthfulness to any photo or class of photos is believing a lie every bit as much as they're sure they're not.
The thing is, I don't think anyone's saying that. Any reasonably media-savvy person (and/or first-year film or journalism student) is aware of the point you're making, and it's a very important one. Bringing it up in this discussion isn't germane, though, and mostly just makes you look like an apologist for the photographer in question.
to hold this image up as "false" IN COMPARISON to some other imaginary set of "true" images is to be hopelessly naive and uncritical about the images that one sees every day and that permeate our culture -- 0% of which are "unedited."
That's true in an ivory tower sense, but neatly sidesteps the problem. This particular set of edits to this particular image is an unconscionable breach of journalistic ethics. We're not niggling about color correction or what is or isn't visible to the sensor here - we're talking about a wholesale fabrication being passed off as a pleasing representation of the light that hit a specific CCD at a specific time.
If you consider this is ethical, or somehow morally equivalent to editing, cropping, color correcting, selecting one photo over another, or any other part of the editorial process, you're denying any distinction between truth and lies, and hence our ability to talk about a referent reality as a whole, and you and they don't have anything to discuss.
It's a valid position to take, but it's the conversational equivalent of knocking the pieces of the chessboard.
Strangely enough when you make a "typo" on the envelope of a letter your letter might end up at the wrong house.
And the postal service will eventually route the letter back to you as "undeliverable," rather than hanging on to it, and possibly selling it to criminal gangs as a Real Live Address To Send A Whole Bunch of Shit To.
As an instructor who's taught graphics and 3D animation in a lab where Symantec Corporate Antivirus's realtime scanning made it completely impossible to get any work done ("let's realtime scan the 300 MB Photoshop swap file EVERY TIME IT CHANGES"), I respectfully disagree. I can't even imagine what it's like for the poor bastards who have to run it in production.
Funny, I thought the point n' click interface was the death of Sierra games. Reduced the near-infinity of possible player actions through pop-up text entry down to a few meager icons.
Nah, new diseases mostly arise in places where lots and lots of infectible humans live together (syphilis, smallpox), or infectible humans live together with lots and lots of the same species of infectible animal (plague, bird flu). The exceptions (HIV, Kufu) tend to come when humans do really weird shit (and for pretty much the same underlying reasons).
And the freaking legion of modelers, animators, riggers, compositors, set supervisors, art directors, and technical directors needed to turn the raw mocap data into a pleasing final. Headed, in the case of Gollum, by Bay Raitt, who is recognized as quite a star within his field of endeavor. Tools != Artistry.
Since it seems that the vast majority of that foreign aid was lining the pockets of Arafat's cronies (which is what led to Hamas being elected in the first place) rather than serving the useful purpose for which it was intended, cutting off aid seems pretty reasonable. And resuming aid to a Hamas government that openly advocates genocide doesn't seem like a winner either.
The trouble is that the arabs and palestinians have played for keeps and lost so many times that they've run out of palatable options.
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To refine your analogy, it's like bringing up the wheelchair access requirement as an obstacle to zoning the land on which the government building is to sit.
Good thing nothing like that happened when Bush got 'elected.' Or when his VP and Chief of Staff leaked Valerie Plame's occupation. Or when he ignores parts of laws he doesn't like with his 'signing statements.' Or when he led the country to a ruinously expensive war based on wishful thinking and fat checks to his VP's former company.
"throughout the universe" is a clause commonly seen in documents assigning or asserting copyrights.
Since he lived a long time before the advent of recording technology, the type of success available to a popular musician (or more properly their record label) today just didn't exist.
a perpetual copyright system would only serve to create an aristocracy of middlemen with the resources to buy up the rights to many artists' work, let the market separate the wheat from the chaff, and sleep on a giant pile of money at night. Oh, wait...
Consider the impact that paid licensure of Fourier transforms would have on science and engineering. Or was the money supposed to come from the Magic Unicorn Cave?
People make a lot of noise about some games being only for grownups - consider for a moment that some parts of the bible might be the same way.
You knee-jerk atheists are as bad as the fundies when it comes to misunderstanding the bible.
Can you point to a game that does that?
Frankly, I think the GTA series makes a sincere attempt at showing that actions have consequences, unlike almost every other videogame out there. Sure, the scale of mayhem it takes to provoke a police response is off, but in how many other games do you have the option whether or not to break the law? Furthermore, when a mission compels you to break the law, your first thought is usually "how can I do this with as little collateral damage/police response as possible"?
Compare that your average "shoot anything that moves" action game.
I dont hear many people saying we should make it illegal not to get an education
That's already illegal.
If they're flying Quantas, kids get an activity book synchronized to a program on the inflight headphones. Should hold 'em for a couple hours at least. Then have 'em draw flipbooks on the corners of the pages of the paperback you're allowed to bring on board.
Don't be so sure. The current administration seems very intent on regulating the sex lives of Americans. From Ashcroft's covering up the bare-breasted statue of Justice in the Justice Dept.'s lobby, to Republican senators that openly endorse the enforcement of sodomy laws, saying "if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
That quote is NOT out of context.
If you mean 'highbrow' as in 'character/emotion driven,' he's right, and it's because the state of videogames as a narrative medium is pretty primitive.
We arguably have our Birth of a Nation in GTA:Vice City, but nobody's pushed the conventions it introduced much further yet. Perhaps some parts of some MMOs would count, particularly early Ultima Online, but it might be a couple of decades before videogames really hit their stride as an Art-with-a-captial-A form.
The thing is, I don't think anyone's saying that. Any reasonably media-savvy person (and/or first-year film or journalism student) is aware of the point you're making, and it's a very important one. Bringing it up in this discussion isn't germane, though, and mostly just makes you look like an apologist for the photographer in question.
That's true in an ivory tower sense, but neatly sidesteps the problem. This particular set of edits to this particular image is an unconscionable breach of journalistic ethics. We're not niggling about color correction or what is or isn't visible to the sensor here - we're talking about a wholesale fabrication being passed off as a pleasing representation of the light that hit a specific CCD at a specific time.
If you consider this is ethical, or somehow morally equivalent to editing, cropping, color correcting, selecting one photo over another, or any other part of the editorial process, you're denying any distinction between truth and lies, and hence our ability to talk about a referent reality as a whole, and you and they don't have anything to discuss.
It's a valid position to take, but it's the conversational equivalent of knocking the pieces of the chessboard.
And the postal service will eventually route the letter back to you as "undeliverable," rather than hanging on to it, and possibly selling it to criminal gangs as a Real Live Address To Send A Whole Bunch of Shit To.
Unregistered domains shouldn't resolve. All sorts of things on the internet rely on being able to get an NXDOMAIN response. It's domain squatting.
There are already problems like this in places where international borders are defined by the courses of rivers.
As an instructor who's taught graphics and 3D animation in a lab where Symantec Corporate Antivirus's realtime scanning made it completely impossible to get any work done ("let's realtime scan the 300 MB Photoshop swap file EVERY TIME IT CHANGES"), I respectfully disagree. I can't even imagine what it's like for the poor bastards who have to run it in production.
Yesterday I got a postcard from the US Postal Service advertising free "how to sell stuff on EBay" seminars to be held at the local post office.
Funny, I thought the point n' click interface was the death of Sierra games. Reduced the near-infinity of possible player actions through pop-up text entry down to a few meager icons.
Nah, new diseases mostly arise in places where lots and lots of infectible humans live together (syphilis, smallpox), or infectible humans live together with lots and lots of the same species of infectible animal (plague, bird flu). The exceptions (HIV, Kufu) tend to come when humans do really weird shit (and for pretty much the same underlying reasons).
And the freaking legion of modelers, animators, riggers, compositors, set supervisors, art directors, and technical directors needed to turn the raw mocap data into a pleasing final. Headed, in the case of Gollum, by Bay Raitt, who is recognized as quite a star within his field of endeavor. Tools != Artistry.
The trouble is that the arabs and palestinians have played for keeps and lost so many times that they've run out of palatable options.