On 2/6/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Chad, > > You are hurting my feelings :) I am al about fun :) > > Easter eggs simply are *not fun at all* and if you disagree with an > issue, try to keep your remarks directed to the issue, don't get personal. > > All this anger :) focus it on the marketing wiki where you started a > good job! > > Steven P. >
I didn't feel like my last email had anger in it. If there were anger, I wouldn't have said "gosh". People are using some pretty big guns to try to remove a tic-tac-toe game and a space invaders game and a picture of the Star Development Team. "It's like Big Brother" - "Think of the CHILDREN!" "That is like SOOOOoooooo unprofessional!" etc. These are some pretty big claims against a couple games. As for Ian's claim about the schools - Do these schools remove all games from their computers? Do their Windows machines come without Solitaire and Free Cell and Hearts? Do their Macs come without Marble Blast and Nanosaur? Do their Linux machines come without Potatoe Head Man, Tux Racer, and YASC? Do they come without the Internet? Do they come without IM clients? Do they come without the billion or so other distractions that computers have built in? What about Draw? Don't you think being able to make pictures on a computer screen is distracting? I mean, look at how much fun Tux Paint is. Draw can be fun like that with enough imagination. Should we remove that too? You may claim that "an office sutie shouldn't add to the problem." And I can see your point there - but I seriously doubt that removing these 2 games would improve the educational status of any student or school system. And Scott, I do, again, disagree with you, Easter Eggs are fun. In fact, that's the basis of Ian's arguement *against* easter eggs. That they are so much fun they'll distract students from learning. Even if you did remove the internet, gave students no rights to install anything, removed all games and game-like programs from the hard drive, and removed all easter eggs - kids would still not pay attention if they didn't want to. You can play tic-tac-toe in any text editor _|_|_ _|_|_ | | _|_|_ _|_|_ | |X _|_|_ _|_|_ 0| |X _|_|_ _|X|_ 0| |X 0|_|_ _|X|_ 0| |X 0|_|_ X|X|_ 0| |X 0|_|_ X|X|0 0| |X 0|_|X X|X|0 0| |X (Obviously, at this point, it's a cat game) The point is - kids will invent distractions. Having a book to prop up in front of your face as you lay your head down on the desk, with a pencil in one hand like you are taking notes, or having a computer monitor between you and the teacher - either way, kids are going to daydream, pass notes, play games, sleep, and surf the web in school. Easter eggs or no easter eggs. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
