That is the result of advertising being less profitable in certain countries with respect to how much it costs to maintain bandwidth, servers, licensing, etc.
That seems to in some way disagree with the results of the current system if there are currently very bad teachers willing to be paid so little as well... In most other sectors, increased pay brings a larger set of applicants to the job interview. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that a greater number of qualified candidates may also appear? (This is in respect to quantitative number, not the 'average' among candidates.)
The reason Xbox Live keeps going out? They are revealing new software at CES to be used with the 360's that will turn them into TiVos... Buy stock now.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of sound engineering here. In this current day and age, it's not possible to seperate different instruments/vocals into separate tracks from a master recording (with a few RARE exceptions). Mixing sound only really happens in one direction, you can mix a multi-track studio recording into a single track master recording, but not a single track recording into a multi-track recording. Guitar Hero requires separate tracks for the guitars/basses so that they can be fed through the corresponding stereo channels (if it's multiplayer, etc.) and so they can be partially muted when you miss notes without having to mute the entire song (note that the rest of the band is still playing when you screw up).
This is why almost all of the songs had to be covers, so they could be re-recorded into multiple tracks during a studio recording. Notice that the few songs that aren't covers are all recently new and recorded, and I can gaurantee Guitar Hero was given the multi-track studio recordings to these songs, which is the only reason that they would need to make a cover in the first place.
That being said, all the original Guitar Hero songs probably had to record new Training tracks and CO-OP tracks (unless they happened to keep their studio recordings from the first game with a bass track), so they had to do atleast SOME work to move these tracks to Guitar Hero 2. $2 is still kinda high I think though....
The salary for game programmers is higher than I expected, and I think it might be actually higher than the average salary for a general programmer... the standard deviation must be huge, or I should start programming games more.
I know I'm a 'slob'. I also happen to have ADD which happens to support my slob tendencies. I rarely do laundry unless all my clothing is dirty. I rarely do dishes unless almost all my dishes are dirty. I rarely vacuum or clean the living room unless it's very clearly disorganized. Now with most of my days actions, I care to do things all at once (when I'm really focused to do whatever I'm doing at the moment) because I for some reason I feel I'm more efficient that way. After all, I can study effectively for courses when I'm interested and focused on them much more than when I'm not, and I usually have to spend less time trying to remember yesterday's lecture subject when I do my homework after class versus days later. This all applies to my cleanliness in the same way. I hate cleaning, and doing laundry, and doing dishes, so I wait as long as I can to do them in order to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on those areas. If I lug all 4 bags of my laundry into the laundromat every month, that saves me the 40 minutes of driving I'd have to do if I chose to do my laundry once a week. Essentially the laws of cleaning are governed by thermodynamics, stuff always becomes dirty (stuff likes to expand whence it came), so no matter how many times I clean, I'll have to clean more. Tolerating the few dirty plates on my coffee table reduces those minutes of my life (which I'll never ever get back) having to clean the junk up. Now when a few girls come over, that's a different story...
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That is the result of advertising being less profitable in certain countries with respect to how much it costs to maintain bandwidth, servers, licensing, etc.
That seems to in some way disagree with the results of the current system if there are currently very bad teachers willing to be paid so little as well... In most other sectors, increased pay brings a larger set of applicants to the job interview. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that a greater number of qualified candidates may also appear? (This is in respect to quantitative number, not the 'average' among candidates.)
The reason Xbox Live keeps going out? They are revealing new software at CES to be used with the 360's that will turn them into TiVos... Buy stock now.
Here's the link from above to give some better insight...: http://wii.ign.com/articles/792/792012p2.html
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I thought gay marriage killed the dinosaurs.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of sound engineering here. In this current day and age, it's not possible to seperate different instruments/vocals into separate tracks from a master recording (with a few RARE exceptions). Mixing sound only really happens in one direction, you can mix a multi-track studio recording into a single track master recording, but not a single track recording into a multi-track recording. Guitar Hero requires separate tracks for the guitars/basses so that they can be fed through the corresponding stereo channels (if it's multiplayer, etc.) and so they can be partially muted when you miss notes without having to mute the entire song (note that the rest of the band is still playing when you screw up). This is why almost all of the songs had to be covers, so they could be re-recorded into multiple tracks during a studio recording. Notice that the few songs that aren't covers are all recently new and recorded, and I can gaurantee Guitar Hero was given the multi-track studio recordings to these songs, which is the only reason that they would need to make a cover in the first place. That being said, all the original Guitar Hero songs probably had to record new Training tracks and CO-OP tracks (unless they happened to keep their studio recordings from the first game with a bass track), so they had to do atleast SOME work to move these tracks to Guitar Hero 2. $2 is still kinda high I think though....
The salary for game programmers is higher than I expected, and I think it might be actually higher than the average salary for a general programmer... the standard deviation must be huge, or I should start programming games more.
Has anyone ever thought to boycott all of the companies the RIAA works for/with?
I know I'm a 'slob'. I also happen to have ADD which happens to support my slob tendencies. I rarely do laundry unless all my clothing is dirty. I rarely do dishes unless almost all my dishes are dirty. I rarely vacuum or clean the living room unless it's very clearly disorganized. Now with most of my days actions, I care to do things all at once (when I'm really focused to do whatever I'm doing at the moment) because I for some reason I feel I'm more efficient that way. After all, I can study effectively for courses when I'm interested and focused on them much more than when I'm not, and I usually have to spend less time trying to remember yesterday's lecture subject when I do my homework after class versus days later. This all applies to my cleanliness in the same way. I hate cleaning, and doing laundry, and doing dishes, so I wait as long as I can to do them in order to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on those areas. If I lug all 4 bags of my laundry into the laundromat every month, that saves me the 40 minutes of driving I'd have to do if I chose to do my laundry once a week. Essentially the laws of cleaning are governed by thermodynamics, stuff always becomes dirty (stuff likes to expand whence it came), so no matter how many times I clean, I'll have to clean more. Tolerating the few dirty plates on my coffee table reduces those minutes of my life (which I'll never ever get back) having to clean the junk up. Now when a few girls come over, that's a different story...