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Post by TonicBH on Sept 17, 2005 22:27:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I've been talking about this a bit in #lemonade and #srb2, and I decided to mention it here: I wrote a report that's about 20 pages about video game violence. It's somewhat rough for some parts aren't completely in-depth as well as having way too much info for Jack Thompson. I know it says it says it's "not for gamers" but I really want everyone to read this. I want to get popularity and stuff.  (EDIT: yeah, it might help if I link to it: www.geocities.com/BBrown9326/vgcontroversy.doc) |
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Post by Squiggles the Chao on Sept 17, 2005 22:52:50 GMT -5
Would you mind posting it as a plain text file or a PDF please? Or RTF. Or something—ANYTHING—other than Microsoft Word or WordPerfect?
It really sounds interesting...
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Post by Eric on Sept 18, 2005 7:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by Sofox on Sept 18, 2005 10:06:33 GMT -5
Squigs, OpenOffice does a good job of opening Word documents.
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Post by Squiggles the Chao on Sept 18, 2005 14:22:46 GMT -5
Eric, thanks.
Tonic, it's a very interesting piece. However, it really could use a lot of editing. I don't pretend to know all the intricacies of writing, but I was wincing at a lot of the punctuation, word choice and transations in the paper. Content-wise, it was pretty accurate though.
Sofox, I know it does. But it's not perfect. Furthermore, the document format is proprietary and overly large for the data it transmits. RTF preserves the data, is an open standard, and uses a lot less disk space. This is because the files keep a lot of data which relates to the creating of the document, and not necessarily the presentation of it. Word is also not device and version-independant, meaning it can be displayed many different ways on different setups. In short, while it's a perfectly fine authoring tool, the Microsoft Word document format is not a document exchange format.
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2005 17:01:29 GMT -5
Panesian. Also responsible for "Hot Slots" and "Peek-a-boo Poker".
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