There will be a famous musician five or ten years from now who says "Guitar Hero inspired me to learn how to play guitar." And then he'll say "ka-ching" and collect a huge check.
You just made Ashley Simpson smile for the first time since SNL. You're a natural record label executive. Unfortunately you wouldn't last 3 shows on tour, so now the old farts from the muppet show are gumming away at your privates.
The authoring function would be great for indie bands who could presumably make their songs available for GH:WT play.
Then I watched a YouTube clip of a "music studio" demo given by one of the developers. The painfully obvious and much simpler approach would be for bands could simply transfer their actual multitrack audio (separate drum, bass, guitar, vocal and backing tracks) then just program corresponding controller movements for gameplay.
But no, that would interfere with one of the key revenues the game generates, promoting the real music added to the game, which undoubtedly is not free to the copyright owners of the music, all of which are signed to RIAA labels. Instead there is a music editor for you to create music within the game, limited to the game controllers for input, presumably without vocals at all. That's why musicians spend thousands on gear and recording, so they can broadcast their music from a toy studio.
From the demo: "We're trying to provide the community with everything we can"...except the most important tools for the most in need. Next time pull the RIAA cock out of your ass before deciding what is or isn't good for music.
Another quote to show just how far off point these guys are: "I want to see a band perform live on stage with Guitar Hero controllers." Do these people not know where music comes from?
People wanking away with their fave tunes at home is one thing, but invading the arena of live performance is completely cannibalistic. The next generation of music will be lacking in originality and diversity (even moreso than already) thanks largely to kids being introduced into music as a binary instruction set - hit the wrong button and you're ruined.
The Easter Island civilization collapsed because they chopped down all the trees on the island to make boats and shelters, not realizing that trees don't just grow out of stone. Musical talent doesn't either.
MSFT's biggest problem is that they have nothing to attract talented innovative staff except money. That's why they try to thwart everyone that stands to offer their target talent pool a better offer than they can. Nobody with any natural leadership and matching insight will ever sit on the M$ executive without either drawing gunfire from the rest of the board or jumping out the nearest window long before they can affect some substantial change.
Hear hear. I've had clients of mine pay upwards of $1500 for the right to include a cover (their own recording) of a copyrighted song on their album. What that latest cover I heard on the radio, someone doing Micheal Jackson's Beat It. Think they got the rights for that for $200?
Pirates need to learn the affect they have on songwriters. In the end, it's not worth it, unless you want to listen to rehashings of the same unoriginal crap for the rest of your lives. Don't believe me? Turn on the radio!
However such innovations are necessary to commercial development, and their importance should not be underrated. It's one thing to develop a technology, it's another to bring that technology to market. Both require the same level of ingenuity.
Similarly, you wouldn't criticize Alexander Graham Bell for seeking outside help in turning his "Watson, I need you" gadget into the most valuable patent in the world. NASA is doing it in a way that I expect would be most embraced by the/. crowd. Would you rather some faceless corporation handle it?
Well at the same time, it's hearsay from an unapologeticly biased source. Wouldn't surprise me that an overzealous RIAA agent said that, but that's a far cry from proof of RIAA policy. Yes, they're douchebags, but this accusation only warrants an allegation. Try divorce court custody hearings. Lots of weakly-supported allegations everywhere, proving that both parties are douchebags, but not necessarily as attrocious as the allegations describe.
In case you missed it, I loosely implied that the author was a douchebag for publishing his weakly-supported accusation. Online rags like that are corrupting journalistic integrity far faster than the RIAA could ever kill music. I at least understand the difference between an implication, an allegation, and an accusation, all of which are leagues away from fact.
seriously, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this will have long term affects similar to asbestos. It's not the chemical that's the problem but the super small, non-destructible particles that damage the fine internal tissues. They already had this problem using buckeyballs to deliver meds. I'd expect the raw fibers during processing will need to be tightly controlled. Wrapped up in epoxy it will be fine for normal use as long as it doesn't break... but if airplane wings break the passengers have bigger problems.
Got a reference? If so, that's a highly mod-up-worthy fact.
Still, the amount of actual bucky-carbon that would be exposed by a crack or fracture when suspended in epoxy resin would be much lower than the common asbestos materials formerly used in construction. Asbestos is still used in high-performance brake pads because of the low exposure-to-benefit ratio. Many highly caustic materials are in common use on that basis. Hell, botulinum toxin (active ingredient in Botox) is the most toxic protein ever discovered - one gram can kill 7 million people - and millions routinely inject it into their faces.
Been done, dude. You completely ripped off the "Happy Fun Ball" bit from TV. That's called "plagiarism".
While I appreciate the humor, I got the impression you were trying to pass it off as your own. Shame.
Dude, follow the link in the first line. I didn't hide the reference, just hoping people would catch the reference mid-way. Best SNL fake commercial since the Bassmatic 76 - "wow, that's terrific bass!" No disrespect for defending it though:)
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It's called MacBook PRO. Virtually all professional audio and video interfaces designed to support laptops use Firewire 400. USB cannot be trusted for time-sensitive data transfers, such as a 24+ channel multitrack audio stream, because USB relies too much on the CPU to govern transfers, while Firewire pretty much governs itself.
The OP is actually inaccurate, new MBP's do have Firewire 800, just not the more widely used Firewire 400. It is still a nasty fail on the part of Apple to cut off support for so wide a range of current products.
But which is worse, the government violating the rights of their constituents, or the constituents doing nothing about it? I'll give you a hint - would you risk your life on a battlefield for the rights of people who are unwilling to exercise them?
Embracing despair in this matter is counterproductive and highly unpatriotic. If you won't stand up for your rights, fine. But don't you dare get in the way of those who do it for you.
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The sad thing is just by knowing your being watched you lose a degree of freedom.
Well that would be most impressive if only you weren't posting to one of the most discerning and widely read international forums in the world. If being watched sucks, then why are you trying so hard to be seen?
Here's a freekin quarter, call someone in any of a dozen African countries whose daughter is dying because you didn't spend the quarter on the painfully obvious. Ask them how glad they are they didn't get their story on CNN, for fear they might lose their freedom.
Bring on the troll/flaimbait mods, I'll take them long before I let this post go unchallenged.
The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says this is a 'necessity'
Necessity is not determined by mandate. If this shyte were attempted in Canada, I would not hesitate to drive the 4500km to Ottawa to let them know just exactly what necessity means.
I pray that there reside the requisite folk to achieve the desired effect within 4500km of London.
One of the key sources of revenue of search engines is the market indicators collected by recording and indexing the search patterns of consumers. In that regard, YouTube and Yahoo are in direct competition. Advertisers can research and target fertile markets just as precisely with the market info gathered from either site.
I remember reading back in the early 80's that Road & Track magazine made more from selling its subscriber list than from advertising in the magazine itself. I inquired about it when I kept getting gold Mastercard applications when I was 8 years old. And that was over 25 years ago. Air Miles, credit cards, digital TV (they can now watch what you watch), possibly even DNS servers all harvest and sell such information. There's mad money in it.
Five, you shouldn't be driving on crack. By turning off the engine, you're disabling the car. Even Windows doesn't ask, "you're at peak performance and at most risk of loss, shall I shut down now?" Why should it even cross your mind when driving on a highway?!!
what this dumbass did is _completely_ out of line and he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We don't allow this sort of behavior to go unpunished in a civilized society.
You've missed the best part - he is the son of an elected Democrat, he invaded the privacy of a Republican vice-presidential candidate, and his actions were intended to subvert the electoral process. That is a direct attack on democracy and the constitution by someone who definitely knows better.
Then there's the dad angle. Wonder what he had to say about it...
And communities that own guns have lower crime. Those that ban gans have higher crime. Been to DC recently?
Ah, the capital of excuses to keep guns legal. Guns were outlawed in DC in 1977. Yes, gun violence did get out of hand in the late-80's and early 90's, but the crime wave did not start until about 1985. If the gun law was the direct cause, why did criminals take 8 years to take advantage of it?
Sharpshooting trivial aspects does not become this thread. Kids shot other kids, they got the ammunition from x-Mart. Who cares what the name was! Are you suggesting that it's ok for Wal-Mart to sell ammunition to kids because there haven't been any school shoot-ups using their ammunition yet?
A gun is a tool. Guns are not evil. They can be used to do evil things, so they are outlawed because it makes it easier to do evil things.
Yeah yeah yeah... "Guns don't kill people, people kill people..." It's ignorance and intolerance that kills people, and access to guns perpetuates it. As long as it is in such abundance, guns should not be available to those that practice it.
You can say the same about knives. They make it easier to kill people as well.
Or pencils. Or cars. They're all just tools. That make it easier to kill people or do bad things.
Buying a box of pencils doesn't require a willingness to do harm to someone. Chances are those who buy AK47's have plans to use them for something other than a prop in a school play. You must not have seen Bowling For Columbine, where a kid that was shot by another kid confronted Walmart for selling the shooter the ammunition. Try telling their parents that enlightened comparison with pencils.
He is raising the point, that someone intending to break the law in an act such as a mugging, they wouldn't care if they were breaking another law at the same time.
But how many muggings with guns would not have happened without the guns? You can't say that every one of them would have happened with knives instead. You can hold up 10 people at once with a gun. Try that with a knife. Access to guns enables crimes, which creates situations where the criminals would rather injure or kill victims or police officers rather than face a substantial jail sentence. Most gun-toting muggers would shoot a cop just to hide the fact that they had the gun.
If knives/guns are outlawed, you can't use a knife/gun to defend yourself from someone attempting to mug you using a knife/gun.
Get insurance, get secure plastic means of payment, give them your damned wallet, call the police. It's not worth the risk over such a relatively minor inconvenience. Credit cards can be canceled, ID can be gotten online in most cases, and cash is hardly worth carrying around anymore. Carrying weapons is no guarantee of protection, and it's a huge legal liability. If you carry a licensed handgun, fire it at a mugger for example, wing him, then the bullet carries on through a wall into a baby's crib, you might as well have stood over the crib and opened fire. Intent follows the bullet. Shooting at anything in a residential area under any circumstances is only for trained law enforcement. That's their entire purpose, so you don't have to. Buying insurance generates funds to research criminal activity and make communities safer.
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There will be a famous musician five or ten years from now who says "Guitar Hero inspired me to learn how to play guitar." And then he'll say "ka-ching" and collect a huge check.
You just made Ashley Simpson smile for the first time since SNL. You're a natural record label executive. Unfortunately you wouldn't last 3 shows on tour, so now the old farts from the muppet show are gumming away at your privates.
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That's a pretty creative way of describing how you can't copyright non-creative work. Good thing you copyrighted it.
Idiot. (C) 2008, a handful of rights reserved thanks to people like the above.
The authoring function would be great for indie bands who could presumably make their songs available for GH:WT play.
Then I watched a YouTube clip of a "music studio" demo given by one of the developers. The painfully obvious and much simpler approach would be for bands could simply transfer their actual multitrack audio (separate drum, bass, guitar, vocal and backing tracks) then just program corresponding controller movements for gameplay.
But no, that would interfere with one of the key revenues the game generates, promoting the real music added to the game, which undoubtedly is not free to the copyright owners of the music, all of which are signed to RIAA labels. Instead there is a music editor for you to create music within the game, limited to the game controllers for input, presumably without vocals at all. That's why musicians spend thousands on gear and recording, so they can broadcast their music from a toy studio.
From the demo: "We're trying to provide the community with everything we can" ...except the most important tools for the most in need. Next time pull the RIAA cock out of your ass before deciding what is or isn't good for music.
Another quote to show just how far off point these guys are: "I want to see a band perform live on stage with Guitar Hero controllers." Do these people not know where music comes from?
People wanking away with their fave tunes at home is one thing, but invading the arena of live performance is completely cannibalistic. The next generation of music will be lacking in originality and diversity (even moreso than already) thanks largely to kids being introduced into music as a binary instruction set - hit the wrong button and you're ruined.
The Easter Island civilization collapsed because they chopped down all the trees on the island to make boats and shelters, not realizing that trees don't just grow out of stone. Musical talent doesn't either.
MSFT's biggest problem is that they have nothing to attract talented innovative staff except money. That's why they try to thwart everyone that stands to offer their target talent pool a better offer than they can. Nobody with any natural leadership and matching insight will ever sit on the M$ executive without either drawing gunfire from the rest of the board or jumping out the nearest window long before they can affect some substantial change.
Hear hear. I've had clients of mine pay upwards of $1500 for the right to include a cover (their own recording) of a copyrighted song on their album. What that latest cover I heard on the radio, someone doing Micheal Jackson's Beat It. Think they got the rights for that for $200?
Pirates need to learn the affect they have on songwriters. In the end, it's not worth it, unless you want to listen to rehashings of the same unoriginal crap for the rest of your lives. Don't believe me? Turn on the radio!
Agreed, mod up.
However such innovations are necessary to commercial development, and their importance should not be underrated. It's one thing to develop a technology, it's another to bring that technology to market. Both require the same level of ingenuity.
Similarly, you wouldn't criticize Alexander Graham Bell for seeking outside help in turning his "Watson, I need you" gadget into the most valuable patent in the world. NASA is doing it in a way that I expect would be most embraced by the /. crowd. Would you rather some faceless corporation handle it?
After all, the RIAA simply suggests you drop out of school to pay your fine.
Well at the same time, it's hearsay from an unapologeticly biased source. Wouldn't surprise me that an overzealous RIAA agent said that, but that's a far cry from proof of RIAA policy. Yes, they're douchebags, but this accusation only warrants an allegation. Try divorce court custody hearings. Lots of weakly-supported allegations everywhere, proving that both parties are douchebags, but not necessarily as attrocious as the allegations describe.
In case you missed it, I loosely implied that the author was a douchebag for publishing his weakly-supported accusation. Online rags like that are corrupting journalistic integrity far faster than the RIAA could ever kill music. I at least understand the difference between an implication, an allegation, and an accusation, all of which are leagues away from fact.
seriously, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this will have long term affects similar to asbestos. It's not the chemical that's the problem but the super small, non-destructible particles that damage the fine internal tissues. They already had this problem using buckeyballs to deliver meds. I'd expect the raw fibers during processing will need to be tightly controlled. Wrapped up in epoxy it will be fine for normal use as long as it doesn't break... but if airplane wings break the passengers have bigger problems.
Got a reference? If so, that's a highly mod-up-worthy fact.
Still, the amount of actual bucky-carbon that would be exposed by a crack or fracture when suspended in epoxy resin would be much lower than the common asbestos materials formerly used in construction. Asbestos is still used in high-performance brake pads because of the low exposure-to-benefit ratio. Many highly caustic materials are in common use on that basis. Hell, botulinum toxin (active ingredient in Botox) is the most toxic protein ever discovered - one gram can kill 7 million people - and millions routinely inject it into their faces.
Been done, dude. You completely ripped off the "Happy Fun Ball" bit from TV. That's called "plagiarism". While I appreciate the humor, I got the impression you were trying to pass it off as your own. Shame.
Dude, follow the link in the first line. I didn't hide the reference, just hoping people would catch the reference mid-way. Best SNL fake commercial since the Bassmatic 76 - "wow, that's terrific bass!" No disrespect for defending it though :)
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When not in use, Buckypaper should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Buckypaper, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its namesake, Buckminster Fuller, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Buckypaper include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
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It was even cooler back in the SCSI days, when you could boot your desktop off the laptop's hard drive. Now THAT was a life saver.
It's called MacBook PRO. Virtually all professional audio and video interfaces designed to support laptops use Firewire 400. USB cannot be trusted for time-sensitive data transfers, such as a 24+ channel multitrack audio stream, because USB relies too much on the CPU to govern transfers, while Firewire pretty much governs itself.
The OP is actually inaccurate, new MBP's do have Firewire 800, just not the more widely used Firewire 400. It is still a nasty fail on the part of Apple to cut off support for so wide a range of current products.
But which is worse, the government violating the rights of their constituents, or the constituents doing nothing about it? I'll give you a hint - would you risk your life on a battlefield for the rights of people who are unwilling to exercise them?
Embracing despair in this matter is counterproductive and highly unpatriotic. If you won't stand up for your rights, fine. But don't you dare get in the way of those who do it for you.
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After a thorough examination of over 6.2 websites worldwide, my Mama determined that 7.31% of all statistics are merely improvised and presented using unnecessarily sophisticated syntax.
The sad thing is just by knowing your being watched you lose a degree of freedom.
Well that would be most impressive if only you weren't posting to one of the most discerning and widely read international forums in the world. If being watched sucks, then why are you trying so hard to be seen?
Here's a freekin quarter, call someone in any of a dozen African countries whose daughter is dying because you didn't spend the quarter on the painfully obvious. Ask them how glad they are they didn't get their story on CNN, for fear they might lose their freedom.
Bring on the troll/flaimbait mods, I'll take them long before I let this post go unchallenged.
The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says this is a 'necessity'
Necessity is not determined by mandate. If this shyte were attempted in Canada, I would not hesitate to drive the 4500km to Ottawa to let them know just exactly what necessity means.
I pray that there reside the requisite folk to achieve the desired effect within 4500km of London.
Best post ever.
Are you hiring? Any language requirements? What company? What kind of call center? Come on man, hook a brotha up!
You must speak english, live in Indonesia, and be willing to work for remanded clothing.
One of the key sources of revenue of search engines is the market indicators collected by recording and indexing the search patterns of consumers. In that regard, YouTube and Yahoo are in direct competition. Advertisers can research and target fertile markets just as precisely with the market info gathered from either site.
I remember reading back in the early 80's that Road & Track magazine made more from selling its subscriber list than from advertising in the magazine itself. I inquired about it when I kept getting gold Mastercard applications when I was 8 years old. And that was over 25 years ago. Air Miles, credit cards, digital TV (they can now watch what you watch), possibly even DNS servers all harvest and sell such information. There's mad money in it.
Five, you shouldn't be driving on crack. By turning off the engine, you're disabling the car. Even Windows doesn't ask, "you're at peak performance and at most risk of loss, shall I shut down now?" Why should it even cross your mind when driving on a highway?!!
Now you know how Cuba feels.
You've missed the best part - he is the son of an elected Democrat, he invaded the privacy of a Republican vice-presidential candidate, and his actions were intended to subvert the electoral process. That is a direct attack on democracy and the constitution by someone who definitely knows better.
Then there's the dad angle. Wonder what he had to say about it...
And communities that own guns have lower crime. Those that ban gans have higher crime. Been to DC recently?
Ah, the capital of excuses to keep guns legal. Guns were outlawed in DC in 1977. Yes, gun violence did get out of hand in the late-80's and early 90's, but the crime wave did not start until about 1985. If the gun law was the direct cause, why did criminals take 8 years to take advantage of it?
Also, the number of homicides has dropped back to levels more on par with 1977, all without changing the law until very recently, which still leaves DC as one of the most restrictive cities on guns in the US. In fact DC had already had fewer homicides per capita than neighboring Baltimore or Richmond in 2005, both of which do not have as severe restrictions.
So to answer your question, no I haven't been to DC recently, but I wouldn't mind a visit.
Sharpshooting trivial aspects does not become this thread. Kids shot other kids, they got the ammunition from x-Mart. Who cares what the name was! Are you suggesting that it's ok for Wal-Mart to sell ammunition to kids because there haven't been any school shoot-ups using their ammunition yet?
A gun is a tool. Guns are not evil. They can be used to do evil things, so they are outlawed because it makes it easier to do evil things.
Yeah yeah yeah... "Guns don't kill people, people kill people..." It's ignorance and intolerance that kills people, and access to guns perpetuates it. As long as it is in such abundance, guns should not be available to those that practice it.
You can say the same about knives. They make it easier to kill people as well.
Or pencils. Or cars. They're all just tools. That make it easier to kill people or do bad things.
Buying a box of pencils doesn't require a willingness to do harm to someone. Chances are those who buy AK47's have plans to use them for something other than a prop in a school play. You must not have seen Bowling For Columbine, where a kid that was shot by another kid confronted Walmart for selling the shooter the ammunition. Try telling their parents that enlightened comparison with pencils.
He is raising the point, that someone intending to break the law in an act such as a mugging, they wouldn't care if they were breaking another law at the same time.
But how many muggings with guns would not have happened without the guns? You can't say that every one of them would have happened with knives instead. You can hold up 10 people at once with a gun. Try that with a knife. Access to guns enables crimes, which creates situations where the criminals would rather injure or kill victims or police officers rather than face a substantial jail sentence. Most gun-toting muggers would shoot a cop just to hide the fact that they had the gun.
If knives/guns are outlawed, you can't use a knife/gun to defend yourself from someone attempting to mug you using a knife/gun.
Get insurance, get secure plastic means of payment, give them your damned wallet, call the police. It's not worth the risk over such a relatively minor inconvenience. Credit cards can be canceled, ID can be gotten online in most cases, and cash is hardly worth carrying around anymore. Carrying weapons is no guarantee of protection, and it's a huge legal liability. If you carry a licensed handgun, fire it at a mugger for example, wing him, then the bullet carries on through a wall into a baby's crib, you might as well have stood over the crib and opened fire. Intent follows the bullet. Shooting at anything in a residential area under any circumstances is only for trained law enforcement. That's their entire purpose, so you don't have to. Buying insurance generates funds to research criminal activity and make communities safer.