The performer's individual interpretation of a work is not extravagant in a non-solo setting, it is subtle, but it is most assuredly there. In fact, the variety of performance among the performers within a section is counted on in order to get the rich colors that can come of the orchestra.
Let me put it to you this way, if you have a chamber group that has a violin section of 6 players, and you compare it to the violin section of a full orchestra playing the exact same piece...the distinction between the two string section will not strictly be one of volume.
Composers already do this quite easily as it's not uncommon to have synth instruments in a pit along with the traditional ones. Replacing your instrumentalists with automation really doesn't give you as a composer any more sonic freedom...you actually have more freedom when your music has to be interpreted by a performer.
BTW I am a composer...it's what I do for a living...and I do it in theater.
Are you suggesting that lighting designers would consider the lighting more important the the music in a *musical*?? really? Do you think they'd consider the lighting more important than the script as well?
While your point is completely valid with IJ, labyrinth was a box office failure. It made back about half of the film's cost and generally received very poor reviews.
Force Quit wouldn't be on the menu in OSX, and Apple wouldn't continually be on the receiving end of class action lawsuits for faulty hardware/design issues when they bring out new hardware.
Apple is a company with a lot of investments in hardware and software...with products as new, sophisticated, and complex as the various lines of business they are involved in are, there is no such thing as a product that "just works." There is only a lot of circumstantial evidence where it just works "in most cases."
the sword cuts both ways though...if not more strongly in the other direction than you seem to be swinging it.
Religion is used to fervently oppose science by those uneducated masses who understand neither their own religion or science. Honestly this is where in my experience those who are pro-science and anti-religion get their frustration with religion from.
The extreme distrust of intellectualism throughout the US in particular is a major block in the advancement of society on a wide variety of fronts, and most often that distrust is manufactured as a form of religious views attacking scientific foundations and research.
Tetris was bundled with every original Game Boy that Nintendo sold...the Game Boy made Tetris ubiquitous. Everywhere there was a Game Boy there was a Tetris cartridge.
mod AC up, quantum teleportation is, in a nutshell, encryption...not teleportation in the newtonian physics sense that we like to think a-la Star Trek.
You haven't been spending enough time with Apple users. The lack of required technical knowledge is NOT why the average Apple fan I have met likes any of their products, it is one factor of a much larger issue, and this is the one that much of Slashdot takes umbrage with:
Apple products are a fashion accessory for these people, it's got nothing to do with technical knowledge you are correct there, but the reason they *like* Apple products is because they feel it says something special about them as a consumer and an artist, and occasionally (heaven forbid) as a technical genius (there are a LOT of Apple fanatics who believe they understand technology who have no clue whatsoever...people who say things like 'Apple invented C-Plus the programming language by innovating on C, then Microsoft stole their ideas and renamed it C++').
My experience (okay this is anecdotal I'll admit that) also suggests that Apple fans are firmly convinced that in every technical and manufacturing possibility, the Apple product is innately superior to all of its competitors. They have no technical knowledge, but are completely confident that they are purchasing the highest quality device that is as good as technology can get whenever they buy Apple...no matter what it is they are buying. No matter what information you could give them if they could even understand it, they would simply and smugly believe that the Apple product was just 'better.' This is mainly due to the way Apple products have been marketed ever since they came out in fruity colors.
"This IS NOT because they don't want you to have porn apps at all, but because they want to control the quality of the iPhone experience..."
I fail to see how these two ideas are not in fact the same thing. If they want to control the iPhone experience, then YES, they DO in fact care many whits about what you do on your iPhone, hence the limiting of what you can do on it.
it says that with the full retail purchase ONE download-able character and one download-able quest comes with the game...it's advertised similarly to extras that might come with a Collector's edition...like a special pet in WoW. It also implies that said character and quest can be purchased separately for $15. Like the person you're responding to suggested as a potential solution.
It says nothing about further download-able content or how that content is or can be obtained, and nowhere on the box does it ever say that you must have an original first sale retail version of the game in order to obtain DLC, it only says you must have a registration and subscription.
Slashdot Mirror
So Google Wave is 4chan with "noko" already in the email field and an auto-refresh?
if you pronounce the letter "A" like you're saying 'Aye' (or eye) there is something terribly wrong with your accent.
Software *usually* cannot kill hardware.
Once in a while technologies like CGA get developed, mix that with an unknowledgable programmer and POP goes the monitor.
The performer's individual interpretation of a work is not extravagant in a non-solo setting, it is subtle, but it is most assuredly there. In fact, the variety of performance among the performers within a section is counted on in order to get the rich colors that can come of the orchestra.
Let me put it to you this way, if you have a chamber group that has a violin section of 6 players, and you compare it to the violin section of a full orchestra playing the exact same piece...the distinction between the two string section will not strictly be one of volume.
Composers already do this quite easily as it's not uncommon to have synth instruments in a pit along with the traditional ones. Replacing your instrumentalists with automation really doesn't give you as a composer any more sonic freedom...you actually have more freedom when your music has to be interpreted by a performer.
BTW I am a composer...it's what I do for a living...and I do it in theater.
Are you suggesting that lighting designers would consider the lighting more important the the music in a *musical*?? really? Do you think they'd consider the lighting more important than the script as well?
Science classes don't discuss morality...they discuss science...which doesn't claim to have all the answers.
Creationism is not science.
The end.
While your point is completely valid with IJ, labyrinth was a box office failure. It made back about half of the film's cost and generally received very poor reviews.
I remember games with good split-screen play.
God I miss my Commodore 64.
PC games will be around as long as there are PCs.
10-15 years tops.
People have been saying that for the past 30 years.
Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em... ...leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!
(Golly!)
Are you anti-organ donation as well because it creates a demand for dead humans in general? or is it only the dead "baby" demand that offends you?
Force Quit wouldn't be on the menu in OSX, and Apple wouldn't continually be on the receiving end of class action lawsuits for faulty hardware/design issues when they bring out new hardware.
Apple is a company with a lot of investments in hardware and software...with products as new, sophisticated, and complex as the various lines of business they are involved in are, there is no such thing as a product that "just works." There is only a lot of circumstantial evidence where it just works "in most cases."
the sword cuts both ways though...if not more strongly in the other direction than you seem to be swinging it.
Religion is used to fervently oppose science by those uneducated masses who understand neither their own religion or science. Honestly this is where in my experience those who are pro-science and anti-religion get their frustration with religion from.
The extreme distrust of intellectualism throughout the US in particular is a major block in the advancement of society on a wide variety of fronts, and most often that distrust is manufactured as a form of religious views attacking scientific foundations and research.
Tetris was bundled with every original Game Boy that Nintendo sold...the Game Boy made Tetris ubiquitous. Everywhere there was a Game Boy there was a Tetris cartridge.
mod AC up, quantum teleportation is, in a nutshell, encryption...not teleportation in the newtonian physics sense that we like to think a-la Star Trek.
what on earth coming out of Apple is "State of the art" praytell?
You haven't been spending enough time with Apple users. The lack of required technical knowledge is NOT why the average Apple fan I have met likes any of their products, it is one factor of a much larger issue, and this is the one that much of Slashdot takes umbrage with:
Apple products are a fashion accessory for these people, it's got nothing to do with technical knowledge you are correct there, but the reason they *like* Apple products is because they feel it says something special about them as a consumer and an artist, and occasionally (heaven forbid) as a technical genius (there are a LOT of Apple fanatics who believe they understand technology who have no clue whatsoever...people who say things like 'Apple invented C-Plus the programming language by innovating on C, then Microsoft stole their ideas and renamed it C++').
My experience (okay this is anecdotal I'll admit that) also suggests that Apple fans are firmly convinced that in every technical and manufacturing possibility, the Apple product is innately superior to all of its competitors. They have no technical knowledge, but are completely confident that they are purchasing the highest quality device that is as good as technology can get whenever they buy Apple...no matter what it is they are buying. No matter what information you could give them if they could even understand it, they would simply and smugly believe that the Apple product was just 'better.' This is mainly due to the way Apple products have been marketed ever since they came out in fruity colors.
"This IS NOT because they don't want you to have porn apps at all, but because they want to control the quality of the iPhone experience..."
I fail to see how these two ideas are not in fact the same thing. If they want to control the iPhone experience, then YES, they DO in fact care many whits about what you do on your iPhone, hence the limiting of what you can do on it.
But they're vicious with a soccer ball.
it says that with the full retail purchase ONE download-able character and one download-able quest comes with the game...it's advertised similarly to extras that might come with a Collector's edition...like a special pet in WoW. It also implies that said character and quest can be purchased separately for $15. Like the person you're responding to suggested as a potential solution.
It says nothing about further download-able content or how that content is or can be obtained, and nowhere on the box does it ever say that you must have an original first sale retail version of the game in order to obtain DLC, it only says you must have a registration and subscription.
You are missing something.
See: RIAA
Now go run more scripts, server monkey.
but he's a server monkey WITHOUT a server!
Haven't you been paying attention?!?!?!???
agreed...Religion is much more like Heroin
did you just miss the 2 whole paragraphs where he talks about 'faith in the Party?'