Just so's you know: posting in a discussion after you mod in it undoes your moderation, and you loose the mod points.
The original poster was either trolling you or confused.
Personally, I believe the key to Nemesis's downfall was the lack of trombone playing by Riker. He had a perfect chance in the opening scenes, and that waste created an imbalance throughout the movie.
I think it might have something to do with the GBA being portable, and having virtually no competition in that respect, whereas the PS2/XBox/Gamecube are all in direct competition.
Not to spoil a funny joke (5 years for discard, heh), but MS's "Simple TCP/IP Services" have been around for a while now, which include not only echo and discard but other such favorites as daytime and chargen!
At my last job I set up the login script for all the clients on the Win2K network to do a quick "telnet mainserver 17" in order to provide all the random "Quote of the Day" goodness a user could possibly want.
Transistors vs. tubes and digital vs. analog are 2 entirely separate debates. Analog and digital are just ways of encoding a signal. Transistors and tubes do the same thing (gating an electric current), just in slighty different ways. The first digital computers used tubes because transistors hadn't been invented yet, if that helps you understand.
Transistor distortion pedals are going to sound different than tube distortion pedals, but they're both analog. Digital would mean sampling the signal, encoding it in 1's and 0's, and using a software program to distort the signal. Think "digital delay" vs. "tape echo."
I think you're a little confused. The pickups and amplifiers will still be analog, and that's where guitarists want their noise to come from. All Gibson is doing is digitizing the sound that comes from the pickups and sending it to the amp where it is changed back to analog. There's nothing stopping the guitar from digitizing the noisiest pick scrapes or muted strings. The only noise lost would be the hum from bad cable connections, the kind of noise guitarists avoid.
Also, I think the tire chains act was probably one of the few times Uriah Heep showed any kind of originality...
You, sir, are talking out of your ass. X11, as far as programming interfaces and debugging is concerned, is a disaster, and that is the context from which jwz is speaking, not editing or music or whatever it is you do.
It's really slashdot's fault for publishing a rant that was never intended for this kind of exposure, and for the "fucktard" who submitted it for misrepresenting its contents.
I have several albums by different artists in which I can hear the autopitch working. A 4ms delay is enough to give a singer's attack a noticeably unnatural warble. I wish the producers would just spend the time(money) to do another take instead using computers.
Although I must say I enjoyed Radiohead's experiments with applying pitch correction to a spoken voice, and having the machine go crazy trying to find the right pitch.
It's likely that a given piece of Creative Commons content is going to be crap because 90% of everything is crap (this is known as Sturgeon's Law, BTW).
Content intermediaries produce mediocre results, but it's still better than crap.
Maybe the answer is not to guarantee that there is free crap available, but to offer a way to filter out the crap, without having to pay a middleman.
Do you have any idea what it would take cover 66,000 km^2 with PV cells? The costs in dollars and natural resources would be astronomical. I don't even want to think about it.
And yeah, I think most people would be a little upset if we wiped out the entire mojave desert. Eh, we didn't care about that ecosystem, right? Sorry Mr Gila Monster!
In addition, we already know cities like Tokyo have distinctly different weather patterns due to all the manmade structures. I wonder how covering a few thousand kilometers with metal and glass would affect the weather for the US Southwest?
Hey man, if you troll you are a troll. If you aren't going to respect the social contract here (post your opinions in good faith with the intent of having a serious discussion), then why should I respect your writing? There is enough sincerely meant garbage on here; I have little patience for intentional garbage.
Actually, that's not entirely true. I only give a -1 to foes, so if the mods mod you up high enough I'll see your post. But I'll see that red dot and know to think a little more carefully about what you're saying. Just in case. And if you don't like my "vendetta", use a non-troll acount for your non-troll posts.
That said, if you happen to know and/or be l33t j03, I'd love to read the 'l33t j03 FAQ' again...
Heh. I don't give a bonus to fans, but thanks for the endorsement...
You're basically right, although I would throw in the MC5 (1964, they had the attitude and the politics) and the New York Dolls (1971). The VU get credit for starting the DIY/no-skills-needed philosophy of music making. Basically, Malcolm McLaren took what he found in the NY punk scene and transplanted it in London to form the Sex Pistols, who then blew everyone away with their sheer filth and fury.
I'd never thought about the food before, but you're right! The 'Ghetto Chef Beef Bowl' had me laughing out loud. Also, the description of the tortilla chip omelet was one of the more evocative scenes in Count Zero.
Bill Gates did not drop out of college. He was granted a leave of absence to start his own business. It is true that he never graduated, but it was not for lack of academic ability.
Although maybe if he stayed on for another year he could have taken a course in Ethics...?
Then please explain to me why Bush wants to give his buddies in the oil industry permission to drill in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Actually, I just read the answer to that in a back issue of National Geographic while sitting in a hospital waiting room. The reason is that it would take 20-30 years from the start of drilling for the fields along the artic costal plain to reach their full output capacity. So Bush+Co. really are looking to the long-term, which is pretty unusual for a politician. Just not in the way you'd like (unfortunately).
Here's another source as a bonus: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analy sis_publications/arctic_national_wildlife_refuge/h tml/summary.html
I wonder if that was because of a noisy line or problems on the server side. Unless your digital cable was misbehaving on the regular channels, I'd guess serverside problems.
Since basically all VOD is is a bunch of fiberchannel storage arrays containing mpeg-encoded movies, the FF complaint is just a limitation of the system. It's not a DVD; there are no built-in chapters. Still, you should have been able to FF at 16x or something close, like a DVD. I could imagine maybe in a freak of statistics 20 people on the same network as you deciding to try watching Jurassic Park at the same time, and the server just not keeping up.
It's up to the cable companies to insure their infrastructure can handle peak loads. Unfortunately they've been slow to invest in VOD hardware, because it's expensive and not many people know about VOD yet. The problem is they're ruining he experience for the early-adopters they're trying to hook.
If you think VOD would be worth your $$ if done properly, let Comcast know, and maybe they'll improve their service.
So what the hell is VOD anyway? This is the first I've ever heard of it. Is it just pay per view under a different name? Rebranded so to speak?
And if so... do they REALLY think we're that stupid?
I happen to have worked in the cable industry. Video on Demand, or VOD, is a sort of "instant" Pay Per View (PPV), or more accurately DVD rental without having to go to the store.
Rather than calling the cable company and telling them you want to watch Movie X when it comes on at 12:00pm, you press a button your cable remote and the movie is streamed instantly to your cable box. You can pause, stop, rewind, or fast-forward, and you get a certain time window (48hrs or something) within which you can watch your selection as many times as you want.
The cable office has racks of servers packed full of disk space and bandwidth that can singlecast video streams to hundreds of subscribers. Companies are currently working on getting all the DVD functions like different audio streams and camera angles as well as special features into the VOD package, and the eventual goal is to make Blockbuster obsolete.
So it's more than PPV rebranded, but I'd guess they still think you're pretty stupid.
I believe the idea is that it's not enough to simply boycott the Entertainment Cartel, because most of us couldn't go without movies/music forever. We need to support friendly independent entertainment sources so that there will be alternatives to the media conglomerates.
Also, assuming you spend a fixed amount of money per month on entertainment, each dollar given to independent sources of entertainment is a dollar not given to the media conglomerates.
In this way we work to take down the media cartel and put up a friendlier system in its place.
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The Apple II was an eight bit machine as well.
I don't know of any game that presents the user with a deliberately poor UI as part of the "challenge" or "competition".
The original poster was either trolling you or confused.
Personally, I believe the key to Nemesis's downfall was the lack of trombone playing by Riker. He had a perfect chance in the opening scenes, and that waste created an imbalance throughout the movie.
Maybe.
I think it might have something to do with the GBA being portable, and having virtually no competition in that respect, whereas the PS2/XBox/Gamecube are all in direct competition.
At my last job I set up the login script for all the clients on the Win2K network to do a quick "telnet mainserver 17" in order to provide all the random "Quote of the Day" goodness a user could possibly want.
Transistors vs. tubes and digital vs. analog are 2 entirely separate debates. Analog and digital are just ways of encoding a signal. Transistors and tubes do the same thing (gating an electric current), just in slighty different ways. The first digital computers used tubes because transistors hadn't been invented yet, if that helps you understand.
Transistor distortion pedals are going to sound different than tube distortion pedals, but they're both analog. Digital would mean sampling the signal, encoding it in 1's and 0's, and using a software program to distort the signal. Think "digital delay" vs. "tape echo."
Also, I think the tire chains act was probably one of the few times Uriah Heep showed any kind of originality...
It's really slashdot's fault for publishing a rant that was never intended for this kind of exposure, and for the "fucktard" who submitted it for misrepresenting its contents.
Dude. Which Communicator are you using? I haven't found a Netscape product that didn't suck ass since 1996.
Although I must say I enjoyed Radiohead's experiments with applying pitch correction to a spoken voice, and having the machine go crazy trying to find the right pitch.
sex, drug use, music, government secrets, scams, circumventing the law, satire, and other boring stuff like they have kuro5hin"
They are Neodymium. Neodymium Iron Boron (Nd2Fe14B), in fact. One of the strongest ferromagnetic materials known, but very brittle, unfortunately.
- It's likely that a given piece of Creative Commons content is going to be crap because 90% of everything is crap (this is known as Sturgeon's Law, BTW).
- Content intermediaries produce mediocre results, but it's still better than crap.
- Maybe the answer is not to guarantee that there is free crap available, but to offer a way to filter out the crap, without having to pay a middleman.
Makes more sense now?Look up "Schroedinger's Cat".
Do you have any idea what it would take cover 66,000 km^2 with PV cells? The costs in dollars and natural resources would be astronomical. I don't even want to think about it.
And yeah, I think most people would be a little upset if we wiped out the entire mojave desert. Eh, we didn't care about that ecosystem, right? Sorry Mr Gila Monster!
In addition, we already know cities like Tokyo have distinctly different weather patterns due to all the manmade structures. I wonder how covering a few thousand kilometers with metal and glass would affect the weather for the US Southwest?
Thanks for giving me a good laugh, though.
Actually, that's not entirely true. I only give a -1 to foes, so if the mods mod you up high enough I'll see your post. But I'll see that red dot and know to think a little more carefully about what you're saying. Just in case. And if you don't like my "vendetta", use a non-troll acount for your non-troll posts.
That said, if you happen to know and/or be l33t j03, I'd love to read the 'l33t j03 FAQ' again...
You're basically right, although I would throw in the MC5 (1964, they had the attitude and the politics) and the New York Dolls (1971). The VU get credit for starting the DIY/no-skills-needed philosophy of music making. Basically, Malcolm McLaren took what he found in the NY punk scene and transplanted it in London to form the Sex Pistols, who then blew everyone away with their sheer filth and fury.
NO FUTURE for YOU!
Punk was born in the US. Where it went after that is debatable.
I'd never thought about the food before, but you're right! The 'Ghetto Chef Beef Bowl' had me laughing out loud. Also, the description of the tortilla chip omelet was one of the more evocative scenes in Count Zero.
Although maybe if he stayed on for another year he could have taken a course in Ethics...?
(lameness filter, etc.)
Actually, I just read the answer to that in a back issue of National Geographic while sitting in a hospital waiting room. The reason is that it would take 20-30 years from the start of drilling for the fields along the artic costal plain to reach their full output capacity. So Bush+Co. really are looking to the long-term, which is pretty unusual for a politician. Just not in the way you'd like (unfortunately).
Here's another source as a bonus: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analy sis_publications/arctic_national_wildlife_refuge/h tml/summary.html
Since basically all VOD is is a bunch of fiberchannel storage arrays containing mpeg-encoded movies, the FF complaint is just a limitation of the system. It's not a DVD; there are no built-in chapters. Still, you should have been able to FF at 16x or something close, like a DVD. I could imagine maybe in a freak of statistics 20 people on the same network as you deciding to try watching Jurassic Park at the same time, and the server just not keeping up.
It's up to the cable companies to insure their infrastructure can handle peak loads. Unfortunately they've been slow to invest in VOD hardware, because it's expensive and not many people know about VOD yet. The problem is they're ruining he experience for the early-adopters they're trying to hook.
If you think VOD would be worth your $$ if done properly, let Comcast know, and maybe they'll improve their service.
And if so... do they REALLY think we're that stupid?
I happen to have worked in the cable industry. Video on Demand, or VOD, is a sort of "instant" Pay Per View (PPV), or more accurately DVD rental without having to go to the store.
Rather than calling the cable company and telling them you want to watch Movie X when it comes on at 12:00pm, you press a button your cable remote and the movie is streamed instantly to your cable box. You can pause, stop, rewind, or fast-forward, and you get a certain time window (48hrs or something) within which you can watch your selection as many times as you want.
The cable office has racks of servers packed full of disk space and bandwidth that can singlecast video streams to hundreds of subscribers. Companies are currently working on getting all the DVD functions like different audio streams and camera angles as well as special features into the VOD package, and the eventual goal is to make Blockbuster obsolete.
So it's more than PPV rebranded, but I'd guess they still think you're pretty stupid.
Also, assuming you spend a fixed amount of money per month on entertainment, each dollar given to independent sources of entertainment is a dollar not given to the media conglomerates.
In this way we work to take down the media cartel and put up a friendlier system in its place.