Chatting him?
Perhaps with some online collaboration, the summary may have been improved.
Gah.

You're right to be disappointed by Spore, hell knows I was. Serious overuse of "shit" though considering you didn't even say the sequels were SimShitty.

"I'm one of those incredibly stupid, ignorant, Bible believing Christians" ... "I'm one of those "public school kids are awful" people."
Are these related? Serious question.
In a public school? 3D modeling in 6th grade? Is that an elective (electives in 6th grade?), or what? I really fail to see how educational games and teaching 3D modeling is going to help the problem of kids not getting a good education in rather basic things like language and grammar....
If I could've had a decent grounding in 3D modelling when I was a kid, instead of pissing about on Imagine on my Amiga (not that Imagine was a bad package or Amiga a bad platform, just that I'd have liked some classes in what I was actually doing), I'd probably have a more interesting job than I do right now.
and why inoculate them with Flash and Maya, since I'm on slashdot... why not, oh I don't know, Blender?
Because if they tried to teach them Blender, they'd end up learning a set of keyboard shortcuts that don't get used in any other package. It's great when you know all the shortcuts in Blender, but it's better when you know all the theory in *any 3D modelling program*, and preferably one that has buttons to ease the learning process.

Hee hee, "root" cause. Nice.

Once properly hacked out and compiled, your average(ish) citizen could run simulations to determine legal outcomes, making lawyers obsolete.
Download the latest Law API, set up your environment, run the "Bludgeon enemy with mallet" program and see the outcome.
Sounds like a cracking idea. Although, one could run enough simulations to find the loopholes/bugs that got transcribed into the package and plot the perfect crime!
Oh Hans, if you'd only waited!

Hee hee, I followed your link but misread the table and thought you meant that HR 3200 was like: "a very minor update to 3.0a that fixed a cosmetic problem with the Japanese version of Windows 95"
Good times.

Damn you I was just about to bring that up.
He's either applying a 'circumvention device' or disabling an 'anti-circumvention device'.
Silly author.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand, the terrorists have won.
Neat innit? How this sort of threat looks and quacks just like all the others and garners the same response.
Interesting really.

You missed it. How is it possible that there are people saying "Author not looking for art but for porn." or "What I don't understand is how does classifying something as art give it a special dispensation to show material that wouldn't be deemed appropriate in other media." when even TFS let alone TFA say nothing of the sort?
It's a fairly ranty article against censorship that highlights the absurdity in the difference between what can be shown in an 18 rated movie or described in some other art form e.g. literature, and what cannot currently be shown in video games regardless of their rating.
I tend to agree, although there are problems with movie ratings too IMHO.
Why shouldn't a game developer be able to make a story driven game with all the gritty reality of some of the more shocking hollywood movies, while presenting a story that, if it were in movie form, would win huge numbers of writing/cinematography awards showing it's acceptance as a work of art.
It's ridiculous, and I think that's some of what the author was trying to get across.

Once you can see a video game more as a delivery platform for a story and less as a child's toy, it's fairly simple to grasp.
Well, I think it is anyhow.
Meh.

The HTC Magic was released very recently in the UK. So that makes two. (both by HTC but hey, more than one.)

"Not the TV license does not cover iplayer, which is used after the broadcast, nor does it cover Radio or internet use -- you're perfectly legally fine to use non-TV BBC services without a license."
Almost.
Iplayer and some BBC websites will now serve up some channels "as broadcast" and the pages shown contain a warning that you should have paid your tv license if you're watching it.
First example that comes to mind is the BBC News channel.

Drunk and pissed off enough to think you didn't see my accidentally anonymous post. Therefore I'm reposting now. CBA putting the formatting in so if you have serious trouble viewing it then check out the AC post for a properly formatted response. _______________________________________ Ok, let's start from your assertion: ""But to the extent that there are any rules for such things, "disk", in the context of computing, is spelled with a "k"."" This is, at this moment, untrue. I pulled these links from a (very) quick google search on "disc vs disk" so bear in mind they're not neccessarily 100% trustworthy, however I hope to make up for their possible sketchiness in volume. Here goes. This one's pretty straightforward - disk=magnetic, disc=optical. Both used in computing. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300 [apple.com] This one almost supports your assertion, but if you take into account that compact discs are pretty standard in the computer world these days, then maybe not. http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-disc-disk.asp [future-perfect.co.uk] Another one making the magnetic/optical distinction, but with no reference to the supposed computing/audio distinciton. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disc.html [wsu.edu] Whether or not the history of this one is accurate, I can't say, but all in all I came away from reading it without the belief that in computing, it is always "disk". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc [wikipedia.org] Finally (because I'm at work and can only slack off for so long) there is a short discussion on the matter here, which, while it is between regular joes, not industry experts, is interesting in that it points out (as do one or two of the other links I've posted) that the English usage was previously disk and was changed over time to the latin rooted disc. Again, this has little to do with disk=computing disc=something else, which was your original assertion. http://everything2.com/title/disc%2520vs.%2520disk [everything2.com] Hope that helps explain where I was coming from. Back to work now...

Anonymous accident. PP was mine.

It's not a rule based on "the context of computing" and it's plainly false to say that it is.
That's all.

Latin derivation for the name of the shape: discus.

Latin usage date > "couple of decades" = true;

Nuff said.