They b'aint Cleetus, they're;
John Ray, who shoots deer and squirrels from his front porch and cooks up batches of fragrant gumbo, said that with his precarious health he would welcome a land line.
That MUST surely be a piss take.
Someone moderate my post down, please, as it stunk mightily and I need to be taught a lesson! Badly thought through... there should be a preview button for my brain.
Maybe attaining functionality is part of the art. Creating something within the constraints of physics. Does art have to be without constraint? And would you therefore say engineering is not an art? It's an art of functionality, yes, but there is a seeking, questing nature there, a desire to realise something (and solve it) which is much like the act of creation. Art is realising the thoughts in the artist's head, and solving the problem of how to display them. And (to revive a terrible old saw) if art is a mirror to life, the two things are the same actions seen from different angles. Maybe it really is all subjective.
Appreciate your point, but thats very cynical (or I'm very naive!). Surely you dont become a designer in order to simply produce that which will create the most profit; you do it because of a passion, and that passion is an art. And people who buy the Porcshe appreciate the art that it is. The end-user is not just getting funtionality, but something that has aesthetic value as well. OK, there are some things which are not created with this in mind, but this is surely an example of something that is! Just because the company is big doesn't mean that it is totally soulless.
Games are seen as 'product' rather than art. When a car designer (as the man himself says) sits down and designs a Porsche, he isn't thinking 'product', he's thinking art. Art isn't about one bit being perfect, but about the overall impression being spot on.
I wonder what you could call it... No, I'd try to be kinder and let my batteries wander around. They make more heat that way. Obviously, this helps discourage laziness as your TV wont work if you sit and watch it all day, unless you are viewing certain kinds of viewing...
You could take peoples excess heat and use it somehow... I suppose. People are great renewable energy sources. So you wear a suit that has a temp control of some kind in, it keeps you at a lovely temperature and you excess heat is siphoned off and used to power stuff. Might need a bit of extra infrastructure engineering though.
Ah, so thats where we've been going wrong; we shouldn't have tried to make the Americans appreciate irony, we should all just start to 'spik moore leek theez' and where funny hats.
In Britain it would be much simpler to code; just the one colour. Three party politics (according to good old Charlie), one xerox dose of public underspending...
Fair go. Just a hypothesis. So basically, the idea is to make sure we DONT create time travel, ja? At least, to the past.
Of course, it might not be only energy feedback but just simple looping of time in general which could be a significant problem, as the past would get all screwed up (The Cathedral of Chalesm problem in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy).
Could, theoretically, the increase of energy in the past actually be a neccesity, creating the 'big bang' and thus powering the cosmic fireball engine? I know I'm out on a limb here, but it is an interesting idea that maybe sentient beings can do this to their overall environment.
Just a thought.
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Hmmm, a real Daily Mail story if I ever saw one. Remember everybody, reading the Daily Mail causes CANCER!
Philosophy catches up with the 21st century. Next question; where does the recyle bin actually lead?
They b'aint Cleetus, they're; John Ray, who shoots deer and squirrels from his front porch and cooks up batches of fragrant gumbo, said that with his precarious health he would welcome a land line. That MUST surely be a piss take.
Someone moderate my post down, please, as it stunk mightily and I need to be taught a lesson! Badly thought through... there should be a preview button for my brain.
Maybe everyone is off teleconferencing.
The truly 1337 would probably turn up in a warthog.
Maybe attaining functionality is part of the art. Creating something within the constraints of physics. Does art have to be without constraint? And would you therefore say engineering is not an art? It's an art of functionality, yes, but there is a seeking, questing nature there, a desire to realise something (and solve it) which is much like the act of creation. Art is realising the thoughts in the artist's head, and solving the problem of how to display them. And (to revive a terrible old saw) if art is a mirror to life, the two things are the same actions seen from different angles. Maybe it really is all subjective.
Appreciate your point, but thats very cynical (or I'm very naive!). Surely you dont become a designer in order to simply produce that which will create the most profit; you do it because of a passion, and that passion is an art. And people who buy the Porcshe appreciate the art that it is. The end-user is not just getting funtionality, but something that has aesthetic value as well. OK, there are some things which are not created with this in mind, but this is surely an example of something that is! Just because the company is big doesn't mean that it is totally soulless.
Games are seen as 'product' rather than art. When a car designer (as the man himself says) sits down and designs a Porsche, he isn't thinking 'product', he's thinking art. Art isn't about one bit being perfect, but about the overall impression being spot on.
I wonder what you could call it... No, I'd try to be kinder and let my batteries wander around. They make more heat that way. Obviously, this helps discourage laziness as your TV wont work if you sit and watch it all day, unless you are viewing certain kinds of viewing...
You could take peoples excess heat and use it somehow... I suppose. People are great renewable energy sources. So you wear a suit that has a temp control of some kind in, it keeps you at a lovely temperature and you excess heat is siphoned off and used to power stuff. Might need a bit of extra infrastructure engineering though.
Ah, so thats where we've been going wrong; we shouldn't have tried to make the Americans appreciate irony, we should all just start to 'spik moore leek theez' and where funny hats.
Basically an updated recipe for a pancake of extreme proportions; we now know whether there should be lumpy bits or not.
In Britain it would be much simpler to code; just the one colour. Three party politics (according to good old Charlie), one xerox dose of public underspending...
Better up-rate the engines to account for the weight of red tape...
Fair go. Just a hypothesis. So basically, the idea is to make sure we DONT create time travel, ja? At least, to the past. Of course, it might not be only energy feedback but just simple looping of time in general which could be a significant problem, as the past would get all screwed up (The Cathedral of Chalesm problem in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy).
Could, theoretically, the increase of energy in the past actually be a neccesity, creating the 'big bang' and thus powering the cosmic fireball engine? I know I'm out on a limb here, but it is an interesting idea that maybe sentient beings can do this to their overall environment. Just a thought.