Video is definitely the real killer. I've seen sites that are trying to stream their own video slashdotted before more than 10 comments are even posted.
My friend wanted help posting video on their business's website. I told them that they were better off creating an account for their company on YouTube, uploading it, and then embedding it in their page. They don't have to pay for bandwidth and their site doesn't die when the video gets popular.
Yeah and it screws me everytime I play drums on RB over at my friend's house. He's got digital drums and his kit doesn't register rim shots as regular pad hits in the game so if I hit the rim rather than just the pad... no hit....and yes, yes it wouldn't be a problem if I were better at playing real drums!
You don't have to be Santana. All of that guy's solos sound the same anyway. Look at just about any punk band from early 90's or Tom Petty for pete's sake. You can play just about any Tom Petty song using about 4 or 5 chords. You can learn enough in 6 months to write your own songs.
100,000 songs? Do they really expect all of them to be good? It's probably 99,990 really horrible songs written by emo kids in their basements and 10 reasonably good songs. Hardly worth paying for. Example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67_og3v_Ow
RB2 is *awesome*. It's a huge improvement over RB. I've owned both games almost since they were released.
RB2 has a no fail mode which is great for teaching your friends without failing songs over and over. You can tour with your friends online now via Xbox Live (I'm sure it works on PS3 same way). You can tour as a single player and you can play bass as a single player now as well. There are drum solos now and the calibration tools works a lot better. There are many, many other improvements but those were the big ones for me.
The actual RB2 instruments themselves are quite a bit better. The guitar's main improvement is that there isn't nearly as much slop in the strummer as there is in the original. The drums are a vast improvement. The pads are pressure sensitive, much quieter, and do a better job of picking up rolls. The kick pedal now has a metal top so you don't have to worry about it breaking. Also I believe the new mic is wireless and has built in controls.
The DLC works as advertised. All of my RB1 DLC came over to RB2 automatically, I didn't have to do anything.
No he started slinging crap because the media doesn't cover anything political that doesn't involve an attack. No attacks = no coverage. It's not exciting enough to grab ratings. Obama and Hillary got free nonstop coverage because they were different from the status quo and were by their very nature "ratings magnets".
McCain didn't run the campaign he wanted to run, he got screwed because no one covered anything he did when he ran a quiet state-to-state local campaign where he just discussed the issues.
I believe that Palin falls under the same category. He got forced into picking her in a sad grab at some of Hillary's voters. I can't imagine he would have picked her on his own - he didn't even know her.
Thank God someone realizes this. All these people blaming Bush for the current economic climate are crazy. It takes years for this garbage to build up. First sub-prime mortgages are made legal. Then banks finally start actually giving them out. Then builders, realtors, and lenders start figuring out how to game the system to make piles of money. Years down the road you've got millions of people in houses they can't afford on loans whose interest rates are set to explode in 5 years when they go variable.
I'm not saying Bush couldn't have tried to preemptively stem the tide of this crap... but he certainly didn't start it.
The left has gotten just as bad as the right. It's become so fashionable to just blame everything on Bush that no one even thinks twice.
Unmanned fembot bunny farm in Nevada. It's in the middle of the stinkin' desert so of course it's not very well connected. He needs to be able to reboot the 'bots between clients... don't ask why.
He's one of Santa's elves. Santa's trying to get into the 21st century here. He's tired of having to do all this work. He's deploying unmanned present delivery machines. This elf is just freaking now because santa gave him all year to work on it but he spent it drinking cocoa and snorting candycane and now he's got less than a month left before he needs to demo it.
This is not like sports. There are no amazing game changing plays. There are tv personalities mindlessly reading teleprompters full of stats for hours on end... that's it. The game is over - they're just tallying the score at this point.
Ugh are you kidding? I can't wait for this crap to be over. Watching it all in awful super slo-mo on the net isn't going to change the results. I'll just wait until Wednesday or the end of the week or next month or whenever they finally have official, permanent results (none of these al gore / bush results).
I've got all these mod points and not a single one let's me mod something "scary", "stay away from this guy", or "OMGWTFBBQ". So sad. Although for a moment I considered modding it "informative".
The MSN bug is the only one I've run into. Other than that I've always thought Pidgin was great. I've been forced to switch over to Windows Live Messenger and I really don't like it after using Pidgin. The Outlook integration doesn't make up for the clunkier UI and the inability to connect to other networks.
That was my thought as well. A more apt description of the situation would have been, "were proven right". This isn't like the DRM / RIAA vs Joe battle. This isn't even a battle of opinion over what's right and wrong. This is intelligent people pointing out that these machines clearly don't work and absolutely should not be used. The only battle here is the battle to pull every politician's head out of the deep dark place it resides so that they can see the obvious truth.
You've just given more useful information about the phone than I've found in all the billions of hypefest articles on the 'net. It actually sounds really appealing now.
Exactly! Which is why I didn't bother to give Microsoft any points for it in my original post. Microsoft may not have chosen to come right out and say that they're planning on eventually going away from the standard but I think we're all expecting it to happen eventually.
Yes, because a huge percentage of America is within the Arctic circle. Oh, wait, no that's just a small piece of Alaska and only pipeline workers live up there.
My point was that there are only about three months of the year that are worth being outside - and for those months it's nice getting extra hours outside in the sun. When you live in Arizona you get sun all the freaking time and it doesn't matter.
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Video is definitely the real killer. I've seen sites that are trying to stream their own video slashdotted before more than 10 comments are even posted.
My friend wanted help posting video on their business's website. I told them that they were better off creating an account for their company on YouTube, uploading it, and then embedding it in their page. They don't have to pay for bandwidth and their site doesn't die when the video gets popular.
Yeah and it screws me everytime I play drums on RB over at my friend's house. He's got digital drums and his kit doesn't register rim shots as regular pad hits in the game so if I hit the rim rather than just the pad... no hit. ...and yes, yes it wouldn't be a problem if I were better at playing real drums!
You don't have to be Santana. All of that guy's solos sound the same anyway. Look at just about any punk band from early 90's or Tom Petty for pete's sake. You can play just about any Tom Petty song using about 4 or 5 chords. You can learn enough in 6 months to write your own songs.
100,000 songs? Do they really expect all of them to be good? It's probably 99,990 really horrible songs written by emo kids in their basements and 10 reasonably good songs. Hardly worth paying for. Example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67_og3v_Ow
RB2 is *awesome*. It's a huge improvement over RB. I've owned both games almost since they were released.
RB2 has a no fail mode which is great for teaching your friends without failing songs over and over. You can tour with your friends online now via Xbox Live (I'm sure it works on PS3 same way). You can tour as a single player and you can play bass as a single player now as well. There are drum solos now and the calibration tools works a lot better. There are many, many other improvements but those were the big ones for me.
The actual RB2 instruments themselves are quite a bit better. The guitar's main improvement is that there isn't nearly as much slop in the strummer as there is in the original. The drums are a vast improvement. The pads are pressure sensitive, much quieter, and do a better job of picking up rolls. The kick pedal now has a metal top so you don't have to worry about it breaking. Also I believe the new mic is wireless and has built in controls.
The DLC works as advertised. All of my RB1 DLC came over to RB2 automatically, I didn't have to do anything.
Well now I know why the media is so sensationalist and ridiculous - apparently the average citizen / slashdotter isn't any better...
If it was that easy to resolve why even bother taking the time to post about it? It seems like it took longer to complain than it did to fix it.
Well there's your problem... it was released on 9/11. Of course it came with a few unexpected surprises...
He's suing fruit of A-Loom rather than fruit of The Loom - that's how you know he's crazy.
No he started slinging crap because the media doesn't cover anything political that doesn't involve an attack. No attacks = no coverage. It's not exciting enough to grab ratings. Obama and Hillary got free nonstop coverage because they were different from the status quo and were by their very nature "ratings magnets".
McCain didn't run the campaign he wanted to run, he got screwed because no one covered anything he did when he ran a quiet state-to-state local campaign where he just discussed the issues.
I believe that Palin falls under the same category. He got forced into picking her in a sad grab at some of Hillary's voters. I can't imagine he would have picked her on his own - he didn't even know her.
And no, I didn't vote McCain.
Thank God someone realizes this. All these people blaming Bush for the current economic climate are crazy. It takes years for this garbage to build up. First sub-prime mortgages are made legal. Then banks finally start actually giving them out. Then builders, realtors, and lenders start figuring out how to game the system to make piles of money. Years down the road you've got millions of people in houses they can't afford on loans whose interest rates are set to explode in 5 years when they go variable.
I'm not saying Bush couldn't have tried to preemptively stem the tide of this crap... but he certainly didn't start it.
The left has gotten just as bad as the right. It's become so fashionable to just blame everything on Bush that no one even thinks twice.
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Unmanned fembot bunny farm in Nevada. It's in the middle of the stinkin' desert so of course it's not very well connected. He needs to be able to reboot the 'bots between clients... don't ask why.
He's one of Santa's elves. Santa's trying to get into the 21st century here. He's tired of having to do all this work. He's deploying unmanned present delivery machines. This elf is just freaking now because santa gave him all year to work on it but he spent it drinking cocoa and snorting candycane and now he's got less than a month left before he needs to demo it.
This is not like sports. There are no amazing game changing plays. There are tv personalities mindlessly reading teleprompters full of stats for hours on end... that's it. The game is over - they're just tallying the score at this point.
Ugh are you kidding? I can't wait for this crap to be over. Watching it all in awful super slo-mo on the net isn't going to change the results. I'll just wait until Wednesday or the end of the week or next month or whenever they finally have official, permanent results (none of these al gore / bush results).
I've got all these mod points and not a single one let's me mod something "scary", "stay away from this guy", or "OMGWTFBBQ". So sad. Although for a moment I considered modding it "informative".
The MSN bug is the only one I've run into. Other than that I've always thought Pidgin was great. I've been forced to switch over to Windows Live Messenger and I really don't like it after using Pidgin. The Outlook integration doesn't make up for the clunkier UI and the inability to connect to other networks.
Yeah, this is pretty ridiculous. You could have the same title for an article about an author that wrote a book using OpenOffice.
That was my thought as well. A more apt description of the situation would have been, "were proven right". This isn't like the DRM / RIAA vs Joe battle. This isn't even a battle of opinion over what's right and wrong. This is intelligent people pointing out that these machines clearly don't work and absolutely should not be used. The only battle here is the battle to pull every politician's head out of the deep dark place it resides so that they can see the obvious truth.
Sometimes it helps if you slow down as well. I. DON'T. UNDERSTAND. YOU. Is always easier for a foreign person to understand.
You've just given more useful information about the phone than I've found in all the billions of hypefest articles on the 'net. It actually sounds really appealing now.
Exactly! Which is why I didn't bother to give Microsoft any points for it in my original post. Microsoft may not have chosen to come right out and say that they're planning on eventually going away from the standard but I think we're all expecting it to happen eventually.
Substitute Microsoft's name for Google and it'd be just another day in tech. Interesting to see Google doing this though.
There would be if people made breast implants out of a semiconductor.
Yes, because a huge percentage of America is within the Arctic circle. Oh, wait, no that's just a small piece of Alaska and only pipeline workers live up there.
My point was that there are only about three months of the year that are worth being outside - and for those months it's nice getting extra hours outside in the sun. When you live in Arizona you get sun all the freaking time and it doesn't matter.