"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."
If by "passive" you mean sitting in a room full of people that you are essentially ignoring, then we're on the same page there. Watching TV with family involves about as much social interaction as sitting in a movie theatre full of strangers, staring at the same screen and happening to chuckle at the same time.
Whether you are playing WoW or upping your frag count in Quake, not only are you getting the benefit of interaction wth the game itself, but you are also exchanging ideas with other people from various backgrounds and learning a bit about them, even if it's respect for their skill, or their tactics, or something. There is no way you're going to convince me that there is more mental, social or otherwise stimulus in watching a rerun of "Friends" with your parents than even in a game of Worms.
Yea, that's only because those of us that bought it didn't realize it ran like shit until after we tried playing it. I seriously doubt Halo 2 will enjoy the same success.
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...that the chipset is passively cooled!
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"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."
Millions of Chinese staring at screenfuls of tabs saying, "The page cannot be disprayed"
^ I'm sorry, it had to be said.
If by "passive" you mean sitting in a room full of people that you are essentially ignoring, then we're on the same page there. Watching TV with family involves about as much social interaction as sitting in a movie theatre full of strangers, staring at the same screen and happening to chuckle at the same time. Whether you are playing WoW or upping your frag count in Quake, not only are you getting the benefit of interaction wth the game itself, but you are also exchanging ideas with other people from various backgrounds and learning a bit about them, even if it's respect for their skill, or their tactics, or something. There is no way you're going to convince me that there is more mental, social or otherwise stimulus in watching a rerun of "Friends" with your parents than even in a game of Worms.
Yea, that's only because those of us that bought it didn't realize it ran like shit until after we tried playing it. I seriously doubt Halo 2 will enjoy the same success.
I got the RSS feed and for a second there, I could swear it was a headline on The Onion...