Alternately, I could make a good salary working 8-5 in an intellectually challenging field and save the gaming for its true purpose: a hobby.
does this mean you dont love your dayjob? that you dont have a great passion for what it is you do? im just thinking here:
lets say you spend 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year doing this. thats approximately 23% of your life your spending doing something just to make money. that may not seem like a lot at first but remember: this what youre devoting most of your time energy and thought to. and in reality the %age is probably higher -- with schooling, commute or extra hours etc. and of course sleep takes up 33% of most peoples life.
i just cant imagine consciously choosing to do something so intensely that i only kindof *like*.
quote of memo to bush from the article: "An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an XXXXXXXX service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike." and from the article itself: "This eliminated all but seven words: Ugandan, Ukrainian, Egyptian, uninvited, incursive, indebted and unofficial. Naccache plumped for Egyptian, in this case."
AH-HAH! so an egyptian operative told an *egyptian* service.... man this is some tricky work! uncovering covert secrets for sure!
The people you are after are the peole you depend on; we cook your meals. We take out your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us!
i think its somewhat fallacious to assume that distribution of these personal and custom arts will fit into the framework of widely-known works
yeah probably a good portion of it will be subpar but i also think its likely it will be created for a much smaller and more personal audience
i imagine that this is how things like homestarrunner and red vs blue started and only gained a wider audience through word of mouth
after being created and shown to a close network of friends those friends showed it to theirs etc
this is afterall the idea behind the blogs, wikis, sites like slashdot and the internet at large is it not? extensibility, customization, etc utilizing these ideas through new technologies only allows for these new artforms to be created and although (given the lowering cost of access) everyone can use it, this only means that more people have a hobby, which previously was limited to those who could afford it
i can see that there could be a large number of unknown artists (if you will allow) creating works that most arent aware of despite access to via the net
(for example im pretty sure my parents have never heard of red vs blue or probably even slashdot for that matter) but for those looking for something along those lines (or any others determined by them), it is out there, available
i hate to put forth naively the ideals of democratization that arose with the internet but it isnt hard to imagine that someone can produce work on their own for fun and consequently getting enough recognition to live off of it
[this is infact what happened with the 'brothers chaps' of homestar renown]
they all seem to be pushing the 2D paradigm into 3D. No one is really "using" 3D
i get what you mean and i agree
however:
it seems to me that what you describe probably wont be feasible until we are using something other than a flat screen as our display, donchathink?
(and i realize this is not necessarily the case but it would have to be a dramatically new paradigm and i cant imagine an alternative)
i suspect that the innovation is going to have to come from a hardware / input side of things to get that going. in the mean time though, im glad that theyre pushing things forward and trying it out (i only saw a brief glimpse cause of slashdotting but seems interesting from a research pov at least)
i agree: something must be done but what i find interesting is that in many ways (in this case) doing nothing would be an important contribution
drive your car less and not at all when unnecessary stop cutting down rainforests dont dump pollutants into streams stop drilling for new oil etc
now of course this would be a major paradigm shift and would probably require quite a bit of action in terms of policy making to enforce these things on the corporate side
but it really resonates with me that the answer could be as simple as doing less and using less whats easier than that?
Slashdot Mirror
Alternately, I could make a good salary working 8-5 in an intellectually challenging field and save the gaming for its true purpose: a hobby.
does this mean you dont love your dayjob? that you dont have a great passion for what it is you do? im just thinking here:
lets say you spend 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year doing this. thats approximately 23% of your life your spending doing something just to make money. that may not seem like a lot at first but remember: this what youre devoting most of your time energy and thought to. and in reality the %age is probably higher -- with schooling, commute or extra hours etc. and of course sleep takes up 33% of most peoples life.
i just cant imagine consciously choosing to do something so intensely that i only kindof *like*.
-a
quote of memo to bush from the article:
"An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an XXXXXXXX service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike."
and from the article itself:
"This eliminated all but seven words: Ugandan, Ukrainian, Egyptian, uninvited, incursive, indebted and unofficial. Naccache plumped for Egyptian, in this case."
AH-HAH!
so an egyptian operative told an *egyptian* service....
man this is some tricky work! uncovering covert secrets for sure!
seriously though the technique is pretty awesome
The people you are after are the peole you depend on;
we cook your meals.
We take out your trash.
We connect your calls.
We drive your ambulances.
We guard you while you sleep.
Do not fuck with us!
dont fuck with linux!
i think its somewhat fallacious to assume that distribution of these personal and custom arts will fit into the framework of widely-known works
yeah probably a good portion of it will be subpar
but i also think its likely it will be created for a much smaller and more personal audience
i imagine that this is how things like homestarrunner and red vs blue started and only gained a wider audience through word of mouth
after being created and shown to a close network of friends those friends showed it to theirs etc
this is afterall the idea behind the blogs, wikis, sites like slashdot and the internet at large is it not? extensibility, customization, etc
utilizing these ideas through new technologies only allows for these new artforms to be created and although (given the lowering cost of access) everyone can use it, this only means that more people have a hobby, which previously was limited to those who could afford it
i can see that there could be a large number of unknown artists (if you will allow) creating works that most arent aware of despite access to via the net
(for example im pretty sure my parents have never heard of red vs blue or probably even slashdot for that matter)
but for those looking for something along those lines (or any others determined by them), it is out there, available
i hate to put forth naively the ideals of democratization that arose with the internet but it isnt hard to imagine that someone can produce work on their own for fun and consequently getting enough recognition to live off of it
[this is infact what happened with the 'brothers chaps' of homestar renown]
and that aint a bad thing
they all seem to be pushing the 2D paradigm into 3D. No one is really "using" 3D
i get what you mean and i agree
however:
it seems to me that what you describe probably wont be feasible until we are using something other than a flat screen as our display, donchathink?
(and i realize this is not necessarily the case but it would have to be a dramatically new paradigm and i cant imagine an alternative)
i suspect that the innovation is going to have to come from a hardware / input side of things to get that going. in the mean time though, im glad that theyre pushing things forward and trying it out (i only saw a brief glimpse cause of slashdotting but seems interesting from a research pov at least)
a
i agree: something must be done
but what i find interesting is that
in many ways (in this case) doing nothing
would be an important contribution
drive your car less and not at all when unnecessary
stop cutting down rainforests
dont dump pollutants into streams
stop drilling for new oil
etc
now of course this would be a major paradigm
shift and would probably require quite a bit of action
in terms of policy making to enforce these things
on the corporate side
but it really resonates with me
that the answer could be as simple as
doing less and using less
whats easier than that?