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Saving MUDs?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm still amazed that TinyCWRU is still online after 13 years with the same database. All this time, and I can still login with my old character, not that I remember any of the building commands or anything. Probably for the better, as I'm sure the MUSH led to me failing out of Case in the first place.
Sweet! I hadn't heard of DiscSox, but they look like a good solution for my 1200+ collection that's spilling out over 4 or 5 shelving systems... Thanks for the link.
You could have done Monsters, Inc with sock puppets and it still would have been entertaining.
Yeah, and you could call it Shrek. Really, for a movie that did so well in the box office, Shrek's animation was piss poor compared to Monsters, Inc. which came out the same year.
Ok, a week later, I know, but maybe you're checking for replies... Someone posted a new app to versiontracker that lets you tap the tempo and it calculates the BPM... here
QuickTime seems to have a decent enough implementation of MPEG4, I would like to see them use it in more interesting ways. PVR seems like a natural addition to their software lineup for their existing hardware. What I'd be more interested in seeing, though, is an Apple/QuickTime branded digital cinema playback system. Xserve and Xserve RAID loaded up with hi-def telecine transfers could make a nice turn-key solution for a lot of movie theaters. And I bet Jobs would love to have an Apple digital cinema trailer splashed up on the big screen between the Dolby Digital and THX trailers.
Another option might be just getting a 16 point patch bay... You could either do it with 1/4" mono or stereo jacks and you'd only need one or two patch cables.
Let's take a clean room example... Person A hears the riff, goes into another room and hums it to bass player B. It's ok in other forms of reverse engineering. Why not here?
As I've been contributing to IBList I've been digging through various bibliographies. One thing I came across that struck me as something I'd want to read was all the old short stories from the pulp science fiction magazines of the 40's and 50's. In particular, it seems that there were a couple of "house pseudonyms" used by the writers. I'd love to see the collected works of "Ivar Jorgensen" (at various times, works by Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Paul Fairman and Richard Wilson) or "E.K. Jarvis", (a pseudonym used by Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Paul Fairman and Robert Moore Williams).
Most of the works of Clifford D. Simak seem to be unavailable...
I can never keep up with what Harlan Ellison is available from what publisher at any given time. There's some good stuff that I was hoping White Wolf would re-publish when they were putting together the Edgeworks editions, but that series seems to have imploded.
Disc 2 of the Attack of the Clones DVD has a documentary with Ben Burtt, the sound designer for all of the Star Wars films, among others. In it he shows how he's had to bake some tapes from his original sound effects library, and even shows one he left in for too long.
Not specific to recording, but since you mention you're a dj, did you notice that iTunes 4 has a BPM field in the ID3 tag now? If you were "spinning" mp3s, could make organizing your library easier. Don't know. I'm not a dj, but I thought it was a cool, yet unmentioned, addition.
How far back to game novelizations go? And I really mean novels based on the games, not just novels that mention board games or something... For sake of argument (and to avoid any Dragonlance mentions), let's limit ourselves to computer games.
So far I've tracked the Infocom novels to 1988. Anyone care to go back further?
I would think production time would actually be longer with ProTools or another digital package. Primarily because the options of multiple undos and seemless punches exists. People will spend more time thinking, "well I might as well fix that" than they would have in the days of tape. Digital allows people to try to be perfectionists, but the studio hours they'll burn will increase accordingly.
No, artists who are not backed by major studios are perhaps a little better equipped to produce a very professional-sounding CD. Doesn't mean they have the talent or knowledge necessary to pull it off.
Remember when video cameras became affordable to the consumer market? Everyone and their uncle thought they could make good movies, because they had better tools to do so. Doesn't mean it happened.
Um, the page you link to says nothing about them swearing not to make the program compatible with other, more modern systems. All it says is that the current version will not run on those systems.
Where are you getting that they won't keep up development?
Re:They chose AAC because it's already in QuickTim
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AAC vs. OGG vs. MP3
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I did some test rips in iTunes 4 last night and was suprised to find that AAC ripping at 192 was often twice as fast as LAME -r3mix, which was my old standard for ripping. So not only are they producing a decent sound at a similar size, you get the file faster, which is nice when you're working on a ~1200 disc library.
So she became a peace officer for the sole reason of being able to take her gun to bars. Yeah that sounds like Texas... home state of our President. The Dixie Chicks were right.
You should read David Mamet's "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources". It's basically an attempt to interpret history after all the electronic sources of information have been wiped out. Funny stuff.
Considering the number of standing buildings is significantly larger than the number of buildings currently on fire, being shaken, flooded and bombed, I'd say yes, the destruction of buildings is a rare thing. Of the buildings that ARE on fire, being shaken, flooded and bombed at this moment, I don't believe I have any data in them.
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I'm still amazed that TinyCWRU is still online after 13 years with the same database. All this time, and I can still login with my old character, not that I remember any of the building commands or anything. Probably for the better, as I'm sure the MUSH led to me failing out of Case in the first place.
You're right! I'm amazed http://www.wired.co.ug/ isn't taken yet! Better grab it up.
Sweet! I hadn't heard of DiscSox, but they look like a good solution for my 1200+ collection that's spilling out over 4 or 5 shelving systems... Thanks for the link.
So you're saying you'd join the International Federation of the Pronograpric Industry?
Yeah, and you could call it Shrek. Really, for a movie that did so well in the box office, Shrek's animation was piss poor compared to Monsters, Inc. which came out the same year.
Ok, a week later, I know, but maybe you're checking for replies... Someone posted a new app to versiontracker that lets you tap the tempo and it calculates the BPM... here
I don't know about that. The leap to System 7 was pretty significant, IIRC.
QuickTime seems to have a decent enough implementation of MPEG4, I would like to see them use it in more interesting ways. PVR seems like a natural addition to their software lineup for their existing hardware. What I'd be more interested in seeing, though, is an Apple/QuickTime branded digital cinema playback system. Xserve and Xserve RAID loaded up with hi-def telecine transfers could make a nice turn-key solution for a lot of movie theaters. And I bet Jobs would love to have an Apple digital cinema trailer splashed up on the big screen between the Dolby Digital and THX trailers.
Another option might be just getting a 16 point patch bay... You could either do it with 1/4" mono or stereo jacks and you'd only need one or two patch cables.
Let's take a clean room example... Person A hears the riff, goes into another room and hums it to bass player B. It's ok in other forms of reverse engineering. Why not here?
As I've been contributing to IBList I've been digging through various bibliographies. One thing I came across that struck me as something I'd want to read was all the old short stories from the pulp science fiction magazines of the 40's and 50's. In particular, it seems that there were a couple of "house pseudonyms" used by the writers. I'd love to see the collected works of "Ivar Jorgensen" (at various times, works by Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Paul Fairman and Richard Wilson) or "E.K. Jarvis", (a pseudonym used by Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Paul Fairman and Robert Moore Williams).
I enjoyed Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey and Unforsaken Hiero ...
Most of Harry Harrison's Bill, the Galactic Hero books are sadly out of print...
Most of the works of Clifford D. Simak seem to be unavailable...
I can never keep up with what Harlan Ellison is available from what publisher at any given time. There's some good stuff that I was hoping White Wolf would re-publish when they were putting together the Edgeworks editions, but that series seems to have imploded.
Disc 2 of the Attack of the Clones DVD has a documentary with Ben Burtt, the sound designer for all of the Star Wars films, among others. In it he shows how he's had to bake some tapes from his original sound effects library, and even shows one he left in for too long.
Original actor was Eric Stoltz. Didn't realize any footage of him was still in the print. Amusing.
Not specific to recording, but since you mention you're a dj, did you notice that iTunes 4 has a BPM field in the ID3 tag now? If you were "spinning" mp3s, could make organizing your library easier. Don't know. I'm not a dj, but I thought it was a cool, yet unmentioned, addition.
How far back to game novelizations go? And I really mean novels based on the games, not just novels that mention board games or something... For sake of argument (and to avoid any Dragonlance mentions), let's limit ourselves to computer games.
So far I've tracked the Infocom novels to 1988. Anyone care to go back further?
I would think production time would actually be longer with ProTools or another digital package. Primarily because the options of multiple undos and seemless punches exists. People will spend more time thinking, "well I might as well fix that" than they would have in the days of tape. Digital allows people to try to be perfectionists, but the studio hours they'll burn will increase accordingly.
No, artists who are not backed by major studios are perhaps a little better equipped to produce a very professional-sounding CD. Doesn't mean they have the talent or knowledge necessary to pull it off.
Remember when video cameras became affordable to the consumer market? Everyone and their uncle thought they could make good movies, because they had better tools to do so. Doesn't mean it happened.
Um, the page you link to says nothing about them swearing not to make the program compatible with other, more modern systems. All it says is that the current version will not run on those systems.
Where are you getting that they won't keep up development?
I did some test rips in iTunes 4 last night and was suprised to find that AAC ripping at 192 was often twice as fast as LAME -r3mix, which was my old standard for ripping. So not only are they producing a decent sound at a similar size, you get the file faster, which is nice when you're working on a ~1200 disc library.
So she became a peace officer for the sole reason of being able to take her gun to bars. Yeah that sounds like Texas... home state of our President. The Dixie Chicks were right.
Yeah, but is it dedicated?
I can see the ad now...
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You should read David Mamet's "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources". It's basically an attempt to interpret history after all the electronic sources of information have been wiped out. Funny stuff.
Considering the number of standing buildings is significantly larger than the number of buildings currently on fire, being shaken, flooded and bombed, I'd say yes, the destruction of buildings is a rare thing. Of the buildings that ARE on fire, being shaken, flooded and bombed at this moment, I don't believe I have any data in them.