You know, this has halready been done. With pictures. The only new idea here was to decrease the amount of poorly written pornography.

I'm sure Slashdot is among the best places to ask.

Is there an ADSL router in the world that would have at least 4 gigabit ethernet ports, WLAN, and could handle IPv6 routing? I've been looking for a device like this that would take care of all the network needs at home. There's many devices that do two of those things, but never all three.

Would be willing to go pretty high as the price goes, just nothing too excessive.

FreeBSD i386 has a pretty good Linux emulation, and I've been using Linux flash via nspluginwrapper on my machine until recently.

Now recently, with latest FreeBSD drivers from nvidia, the flash images start playing on every black pixel on my screen that's on the same relative screen position as the video. This happens on every desktop. If I put youtube on, then go into another desktop to do coding, the video happily keeps playing in my black-background terminal.

The bug is so bizarre I wouldn't know where to begin with it. If it persists with FreeBSD 8.3, it's time to start looking for a solution. As-is, downloadhelper and greasemonkey will do.

Blender is like Vim - it does not make compromises for usability versus power.

For professional purposes it does not make sense to create a program that's easy to use. Accessibility has zero value in this equation - the people just trying out thinking they can be the next Pixar would not achieve anything anyway. The people with willpower to become experts will only care whether it's powerful or not.

I'm actually running Gnome 2 sans Metacity. It's a clunky thing that requires you to constantly wave your mouse around. That's not optimal, the computer should be usable with keyboard only. Luckily, it is replaceable by any other ewmh compliant window manager.

I'm using FVWM mainly for configurability. With it, I can configure elementary sequences under a single keypress. For example:
- move this window to a corner of the screen
- resize this window to occupy exactly top/bottom or left/right part of the screen
- expand this window to fill the screen from a corner but don't overlap any other windows

(it appears awesome could be even better for my purposes - have to try it out sometime)

Please look into the light.

Video game products contain plenty of art, but it's product art, which is to say, kitsch art. Kitsch art is not bad art. It's commercial art. Art designed to be sold, easily and in quantity. And the bigger the audience, the kitschier it's gonna get.

People who talk about "Kitch" art are generally the kind of people who think that true "Art" consists of splotches of paint on canvas and rusty iron walls. I'm not going to dwell on this, but I will add that yes, some art is crass and cheap.

For as long as we've had 'modern' art, it's been popular to refer to it as monkeys painting on canvas or sperm, blood and shit in a blender.

In the old times being an artist used to mean the practical skill in painting, sculpting or the like. These people didn't do 'art' just for fun and for grants, they were employed by people who wanted something (usually themselves) immortalized. Anyone can appreciate the magnificent craft of these paintings and sculptures, but they could truly be understood by fellow practicioners or experts that can understand all the different nuances.

Computer gaming example, consider bullet hell games. Before 'shooter' came to mean FPS, vertical and horizontal shooters were popular. After their descent into oblivity, the genre was transformed into its extremes, with literal curtains of bullets and mind-boggling difficulty levels. Eventually that did turn everyone expect the most fanatic hobbyists away. If you'd say 'shooter' to a child from this gaming generation (s)he would think about a game where two fratboys do fistpounds after killing deveral dozens of people.

(the above is not demeaning, I like ridiculously macho killfests as much as you do)

But some art is heartfelt, and worked hard on, and that shows through in the final product. And there are video games which meet that standard.

Forementioned shooter genre received several of its finest contributions after vanishing from regular gamers' eyes. These could be appreciated (or even known) by only hardcore fans of the niche. Yet they're undeniably brilliant.

The point is - if you don't understand something, that does not make it not be art. I'm not saying that killing cats on video is art, but even among the paint splotches, there are people who are masters in their craft. Perhaps people who are into rusty walls can see something touching in a particular installment. At which point, it is art.

Conversely, even if someone does not understand gaming, it still is art. Simple as that. Perhaps not every game or even the most, but there undeniably:

I think most people on the forum will have played a game--however primitive--which moved them deeply in some way. And moved them in a more genuine and heartfelt way than any picture of circles has ever moved any art critic.

There's already been many great examples in this thread. I'll add The Void.

There was a better alternative back in the nineties called SMODEM. It had a bidirectional transfer of one file into each direction, and a real-time chat at the same time. For example, the Finnish BBS called MBnet used this to connect users into a group chat whenever they were downloading with SMODEM.

I doubt it was available for the first Linux images though.

Note: I made an account to say this.