well my dad says the computer is for work.
I have a player on here, yes games for when I am not working, in the
player I can play music for whatever on whatever I like so its for both.
Its also fair to say that games have been in the dos system since
qbasic and probably gwbasic existed there will always be games in the os.
I havn't known an os not to have games in it.
Its all what portion has what.
A small portion of my drives have games and programs.
There is a medium ammount of podcasts, dramas and books but most is music.
I always get all round systems though because of their stability seem
to go for business systems to run my stuff on.
At 01:51 a.m. 29/04/2011, you wrote:
True tom, and this is another reason I'm so anxious to make people
know that more than just azabat exist.
The "computer is just for work" thing is actually an interesting,
and rather depressing, one.
I myself actually went through a similar notion when I first got my
laptop provided by my student grant to do my degree with. In my case
it wasn't based upon a moral idea, but on an assumption I had.
I'd obviously played console games for years, and while I knew pc
games existed, I assumed most were modern hyper graphical affairs
which I myself would find unplayable.
I'd only ever used my computer to essentially do word processing at
school, so the idea of playing even textual games was one that
simply hadn't occurred to me, in my brain computers and school work
were sort of absolutely associated with each other.
if I wanted to play a game, i needed a console.
it wasn't until I heard of the www.whitestick.co.uk's "games to play
online" page that I started thinking that I could actually have some
fun with my computer.
interestingly enough though, it was this that also got me playing
around with computers and with the net, and trying to work out how
to do things, and these are skills I've needed.
For instance, many online brouser games require use of complex page
navigation. When i read spinoza online, there were so many
references, footnotes and goodness knows what the page was cluttered
as heck. If I hadn't been used at that point to using all of Hal's
read page commands on a webpage, i could've been rather confused indeed!
There is currently a copy of my thesis saved on sendspace in case I
had a fire. however had I not played games, I'd have never heard
about file sharing and never had this idea to use it as a backup.
But nobody is going to sit there and practice ways in their spare
time of learning how to do their work better, and even if a person
has training, the training won't teach them to start experimenting
and trying different things out, nor will they be inclined to do so
in their spare time.
If computers were just for work, why do operating systems come with
preinstalled games like hearts, solitare, pinball etc?
On a moral level, there are certainly cases of people I've heard of
who screw over the equipment system to try and get what they want out of it.
The r09 digital recorder I used to make podcasts and such was
actually provided by my student grant, and what I use it mostly for
is to have people read me gernal articals which I can then record.
Because however I knew I'd be using the recorder for fun, I found
the price of the olympus mono voice recorder which would've served
exactly my needs for my phd, but would've been no good in terms of
making podcasts etc, got my grant to pay that and paid the extra 70
quid or so for the r09 with it's sterrio mikes myself.
So I do have sympathy for this position as it ultimately comes out
of a sense of fairness.
However, while I do agree it would be wrong to have a computer
bought "just" to play games on, so long as the state are not
expected to pay more for your recreation, why not?
does everyone in business delete all games from their operating
system? heck, I've regularly seen very professional business type
people on trains doing crosswords in the papers.
While I do agree the state has no financial obligation to let you
play games, once the computer is bought, the money is spent and the
state's obligation is pretty much over and done with.
the equipment is now yours to use for whatever, so long as the state
isn't paying more money. What you do with your computer outside work
is only your business, ---- you might as well ask all those people
who sit on trains why their not working and why they're doing
crosswords in "work" time.
this is generally one of the largest differences I've noticed in the
atitudes of disabled people. Because a computer is provided for work
and training is focused that way, either there is a moral idea, or
as in my case just an assumption, tht you don't do anything else with it.
That's also why people fail to practice skills, sinse quite
obviously you'll learn to do, and practice something a good bit more
if your doing it for fun as well as work.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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