Backinmyday, not only did I get a manual, I got peril-sensitive sunglasses, a microscopic space fleet, a pin button, pocket fluff, a replica of the Vogon destruction order for the Earth, and no tea.
When I was a kid on a long road trip there were these things called BOOKs.
Your backinmyday story sounds dreadful. You know they murdered trees and dumped dioxin into the environment to make those things, right? Good riddance, I say!
I wonder if he would differentiate between the game's mechanics and the presentation of the game. From TFA:
"Santiago concedes that chess, football, baseball and even mah jong cannot be art, however elegant their rules. I agree."
Perhaps chess--that is, the set of rules that describe it--is not art. But I've seen chess sets that are very likely art, to the extent that fine sculpture is art. Likewise, artwork in various collectible card games can be beautiful, and the artists who create it often paint the original works on large canvases with oil paints. In this case, the art is more tightly integrated with the game than a fine chess set is integrated with chess; although the mechanics can stand alone, many people wouldn't play if the games were just numbers on cardboard.
Video games go beyond a set of mechanics. In many cases, the graphics and the music are undeniably art. Graphic designers are often trained as artists, and I know a composer of video game music who considers himself a real composer. Could a video game stand alone without these things? Probably not. The game is too tightly woven together with its artistic assets. It becomes just as meaningful to say that the game is the art as it is to say that the game uses the art.
I used to work for Palm about 8 or 9 years ago. I was one of their higher level tech support agents and had direct contact with their software engineers. Their corporate people, like Mr Abott were a joke.
You supposedly worked at Palm way before Abbott started there in 2008. How do you know he's a joke?
Seems like an unfair assessment, is all I'm saying. I opted for the Hero over the Pre this year, but WebOS is a pretty damn slick bit of work.
Online play is a part of the game as advertised on the retail box.
Yes, but along with those great big letters and exclamation points at the top, there will be some itty bitty little other letters at the bottom that make this issue go away.
I would have [an iPhone] right now and would would pay the full price except for one thing. I have to purchase AT&T data plan for $30/month for as long as I have the phone. I have no need for a data plan. I am around wifi most of the time and I would rarely need to use AT&T 3G.
I'll take bare metal code over writing inside an OS any day for simplicity.
I think I'm going to have to go ahead and call bullshit on this. We used to have to write our own routines for writing characters to the screen and multiplying floating point numbers. We eventually got ROM-based OS routines for basic tasks (set some registers, jump to subroutine, then read the results in the registers or accumulator or CPU flags), and we used them, because anything else was just a waste of time. And now, do you think I'm going to write my own vector class? No. Relying on other people's code is almost always the path to simplicity.
There's really no critique of open source here. He said "open source," but he's just throwing the term around without knowing what "open source culture" is. He clearly means something along the lines of "peer-to-peer" culture.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure LOL We are met on a great battle-field of that war LOL We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live LOL It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ROTFLMFAO"
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My god, what I wouldn't give for some rocks! I have to try to simulate the universe with crushed saxophone reeds.
What will my 18-month-old son rip to shreds now?
Backinmyday, not only did I get a manual, I got peril-sensitive sunglasses, a microscopic space fleet, a pin button, pocket fluff, a replica of the Vogon destruction order for the Earth, and no tea.
Nowadays, you don't even get the no tea.
At least the problem is restricted to the tiny subset of the user base that just happens to have exactly that crazy perfect storm of a configuration.
Your backinmyday story sounds dreadful. You know they murdered trees and dumped dioxin into the environment to make those things, right? Good riddance, I say!
Come on, the toilets can't be that bad if nobody gets bathroom breaks. Sounds like a win for everyone!
I wonder if he would differentiate between the game's mechanics and the presentation of the game. From TFA:
Perhaps chess--that is, the set of rules that describe it--is not art. But I've seen chess sets that are very likely art, to the extent that fine sculpture is art. Likewise, artwork in various collectible card games can be beautiful, and the artists who create it often paint the original works on large canvases with oil paints. In this case, the art is more tightly integrated with the game than a fine chess set is integrated with chess; although the mechanics can stand alone, many people wouldn't play if the games were just numbers on cardboard.
Video games go beyond a set of mechanics. In many cases, the graphics and the music are undeniably art. Graphic designers are often trained as artists, and I know a composer of video game music who considers himself a real composer. Could a video game stand alone without these things? Probably not. The game is too tightly woven together with its artistic assets. It becomes just as meaningful to say that the game is the art as it is to say that the game uses the art.
You supposedly worked at Palm way before Abbott started there in 2008. How do you know he's a joke?
Seems like an unfair assessment, is all I'm saying. I opted for the Hero over the Pre this year, but WebOS is a pretty damn slick bit of work.
"Palm, Inc., creator of the Palm VII PDA" would have been better?
You, sir, have lived up to your handle. Bravo!
Yeah, Wolfgang, you can stop decomposing now!
Yes, but along with those great big letters and exclamation points at the top, there will be some itty bitty little other letters at the bottom that make this issue go away.
Or recursion.
Sounds like you just need an iPod Touch.
I think I'm going to have to go ahead and call bullshit on this. We used to have to write our own routines for writing characters to the screen and multiplying floating point numbers. We eventually got ROM-based OS routines for basic tasks (set some registers, jump to subroutine, then read the results in the registers or accumulator or CPU flags), and we used them, because anything else was just a waste of time. And now, do you think I'm going to write my own vector class? No. Relying on other people's code is almost always the path to simplicity.
I still wouldn't pay it.
I figured they committed to a year (35 * 5 * 52 = 9100). But it's the 5 * 52 that gets me. 35 people REALLY love Newsday, bless their hearts.
...could possibly happen to me. That's it. Perceived risk versus perceived effort.
I can't believe it! I'm so ticked off about this I could... oh, wait... only people that have "been reported?" Okay, then.
Hmm...
I like it. It fits.
Verizon will soon have the Pre Plus.
There's really no critique of open source here. He said "open source," but he's just throwing the term around without knowing what "open source culture" is. He clearly means something along the lines of "peer-to-peer" culture.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure LOL We are met on a great battle-field of that war LOL We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live LOL It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ROTFLMFAO"
Wait a damn minute... which is it?
Yeah, that does sound like AT&T.