Note also that many of the most valuable musical offerings are already interactive in that no two live performances are ever the same, and also that such performances are worthy of attending.
I think the problem is that we've been given a pretty amazing gift by the early pioneers who (of course) didn't grow up with it, like people increasingly are. I think the job was in a pretty big way its own reward, at the time, and that prompted more dedicated work for less (apparent) reward. but now we're becoming like some bratty kid who's given a really nice car and never changing the oil, throwing a bunch of bumper-stickers on it to improve how it looks/make a statement, and then being all annoyed when the 2nd sunroof we cut out of the ceiling starts to pull the whole roof off.
I have faith in your service! It's become just another utility bill for me, and I am mostly okay with that EXCEPT:
no streaming play in linux. that's ridiculous and annoying and come on.
I don't like being taken off my screen to recommendations after I've selected something. redirection of most kinds bug me in general. just offer the option to check out recommendations. you could do it well, the "move to the top" thing is pretty good.
well, in this case it is a metapackage, and people downplay this for some reason, but it happens quite often that the version in the repositories will require some things which I do not want, or which will not work with my machine, forcing me to install from source which is totally fine EXCEPT that it will sometimes come up that I haven't installed in a way pleasing to the package manager and annoyances spiral. I had a problem recently with pidgin and gstreamer... and arts and amarok... and some others.
also WHY ARTS. this is a tangent but I personally could be fine only ever using ALSA and jack. maybe oss because it plays well with alsa.
Imagine the chilling effect if the public could not inform itself about documents in a library contrary to the present government without scrutiny.
This is already the case, in some ways. I like being autodidactic and make no real bounds on what I should or shouldn't learn, but have often skipped over checking out certain materials on subjects I was interested in, simply due to a potential suspicious glance from a librarian, let alone records being connected to me. I realize mine is a special case of hyper-self-consciousness, but I'm sure this happens to other people, too. In light of this case, I'll probably completely conclude my use of the library beyond fiction and cds/dvds.
Maybe the problem then is in knowing one is being observed. Remove that, and you have the best of both worlds! The authorities can be voyeurs and the citizens will retain their feelings of privacy.
Diabolic advocacy aside, I could see that mentality becoming the fundamental stance taken by those in charge, as a reaction to outcries against these privacy invasions (assuming it's not already the fundamental stance.)
the area of customer service is where Microsoft will defeat FOSS
I'll take almost instantaneous guided help via IRC/forums in which I learn something and can maybe help out someone else in the meantime over sitting on hold for 15 minutes and then listening to someone navigate a script and call me sir and other such stupidity.
And that cartoon is boring and misleading, there was no humor to be lost... I've dissuaded some people from using linux on their desktop, my parents for instance, because I don't think that they would be interested in exchanging "learning a bit about their system" for the "random bluescreens, slowdowns, etc". In short, the last panel should be more like "it's not for everybody, but she's welcome to borrow a couple of these liveCDs I have."
You know, if people wouldn't take out loans they can't afford, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
You know, that's something you hear ALL OVER the place, and yet an enormous number of people had acted in this way which is so spat-upon by most of the smarty-smart forums I frequent. The thing is, though, that if there is such a large amount of similar sentiment or action, there is probably something worth examining there. I would say it has something to do with incredibly smart (well, that's debatable. let's say "good with words") people who write insanely convoluted contracts that everybody and their cousin just signs off the bat without reading (EULA much?) and it's understood that that's how that's done. Added to that, growing up as many of us probably have in a culture that prizes "credit history" (I understand it's being tied to insurance costs, now) which can ONLY be gotten from debt, then I can sympathize with the consumer in these cases (especially after having finally rid myself of debt, probably 10 years later and thousands upon thousands of dollars in interest, and mine's a pretty light case, there are people dealing with mountains of cascading debt). All our choices, all our own fault. But with SO many people in that situation, it's more interesting to look at "why" than just somehow blame them for being wrong. (see: "public misunderstanding" around the release of KDE4.0)
and you have the added bonus, with time travel, of looking back at when widespread awareness of the future-people erupted, and go back to snub it. But then there's faction X who are interested in "enlightening" us, because they don't appreciate faction Y's intention of preparing part of humanity for enslavement (maintaining the status quo, from their perspective) and hence little bits of information gets leaked to us from friendly faction X, but then you have ridiculous amounts of un- or nearly-credible eyewitness accounts who get told to put their tinfoil hats back on, or worse they ar
That's part of the problem with understanding these things, the feeling that they will follow some kind of simple plotting. Who's to say that they didn't find the technology and have no clue how it works? Or that they were developed and shaped by some super-species and that we also were shaped by, in an effort to create an offspring of the two of us, after we had become sufficiently unique from eachother towards some research/hilarity end. Or maybe the travel is somehow intuitive to their bodies/forms, or or or....
My point is just in pointing out how questionable phrases like "would have to be" and "surely" and "obviously" and others are, in these sorts of topics.
Apply graphics to the game, don't try to apply a game to your graphics routines.
THANK YOU. People are talking nonsense like "the Wii is much less powerful, old tech"... blah blah. They're the kind of people I used to know who participated in a kind of coldwar arms escalation with regards to games and systems and in the end were just no goddamn fun at all to be around. The reason Wii is top-selling is because of innovation, and games like Big Brain Academy, not brute force, and I suspect if they took a chance on more games like Electroplankton, and taking a chance on at least some part of the US market appreciating them, they'd have even more success. Especially with the versatility of the wiimote/etc.
Also if homebrew were encouraged and somehow incorporated into the system as a little ecosystem (maybe with frequent prizes going out or contests or something), we'd be at a very cool point where amateur game-makers wouldn't have to have their dreams crushed or work against annoying obstacles. Imagination and gameplay will always win over blingy demonstrations of hardware. I'm very glad that there are others out there who can still happily play many games for the NES/SNES, yet get bored of many newer games very quickly (hint: they're boring.)
there's also the very realistic possibility of a sane, legislated, bloodless (sorry all you mad-max wanna-bes) secession. gain legitimacy in the eyes of other sovereign nations, open trade routes (hello, cuba!) and support a "governmentality" that the residing populace approves of (much easier in a smaller territory.. the U.S. is ridiculously huge).
cascadia ftw! (first motto? annually rotating anthem by cascadian musicians? presidential counsel of 12?.. could be extremely interesting, and I'm not even mentioning the illegal trade and mafias and other troubles that would need to be addressed!)
I think this is a good point, actually, in that it shows that many people around the globe like to come across as more informed about america than the americans, but when you're able to see the same sort of parroting that you see in the ignorant unwashed american masses or whatever ("americans are dumb, they elected george w bush twice and he is ruining the world" "lol yeah") you realize that hickitude and groupthink and reductive summaries of large groups of people is a worldwide bug/feature.
I very strongly agree with this sentiment. So much effort in OSS has been to try and pull in a userbase by mimicking what the user is already used to, and in many cases dissappointing down the road by the simple fact that the product is not microsoft/apple.
With no (or anyhow little) risk of lost revenue, one would think that all kinds of fantastical innovations would be spilling out of the open source movement in areas of desktop, input and output, etc. It's all gotten so incestuous that any small change seems like an earthquake. People maybe forget that at one point, the mouse was an innovation. And others like it CAN come along and be useful and accepted, it just takes a little imagination.
That makes every bit of sense, that that's where streets came from, but we need to re-evaluate them (and I don't mean get rid of them or something crazy). It's along the same lines as "Don't have highways go right through a city's downtown business district." Just like semis have specific routes they can and cannot take, so should regular autos. Basically, I can agree to lay off the streets if you acknowledge the usefulness of conscious (rather than habit or historically driven) urban planning.
I think that a serious ground-up reconsideration of city infrastructure would be appropriate as a longer-term solution, to hell with those who won't adapt (and exception made to those who can't adapt). Our urban centers should simply not allow for the combustion engine to clog it up so badly. One good look at our streets shows about 80% road, 20% "side walk", 10% on each side. The side walk is simply a gutter. It is far too easy to use an automobile as a primary mode of ambulation, where it should instead be the rare occasion, not some pathetic psychic extension of one's body.
It's long seemed to me that the hold-up for alternative fuels and viable solutions in that dept has been due to the people up top in those markets going "wait wait wait that's fine and good but we need to figure out how we can control it." And then like ICANN they come swooping in to save us from a situation that they've basically created through ineptitude and greed.
It's funny about digital books, I just don't read them. I love reading bound-paper books, always have, and it's not like I dislike the principle of digital books, but for whatever reason (tactile, olfactory?) I just can't read more than a couple pages. And it's funny too, browsing through people's digital-book folders, how often there's this type of person with a "philosphy" folder containing plenty of neitzsche, and maybe a couple other people who, after conversing a short bit, I find they are really looking forward to reading someday.*
* probably confusing disinterested grammar which could be used against me in a dashing rebuttal
I haven't RTFA (never do) but it would be interesting if the biofeedback somehow encouraged you in directions that you felt pleased with. That's the general kind of trajectory I think of when I think of "feedback", so it would make sense in that regards. I'm not sure how that would work, maybe encouraging you when you felt good about your results.
I just don't understand these singing competitions, their appraisals seem totally random. I've sang in a bunch of choirs and worked on the open vowels and proper articulation, but I prefer the Lou Reed/Leonard Cohen school of singing.
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there's also waves and tide.
I agree except for the very last bit:
Note also that many of the most valuable musical offerings are already interactive in that no two live performances are ever the same, and also that such performances are worthy of attending.
there, fix'd
yeah but george bush has no brain LOLLOLOLOLOL oh man.. hahahhahaha good one.
I thought ET was pretty cool ecept I couldnt' figure out what to do
I think the problem is that we've been given a pretty amazing gift by the early pioneers who (of course) didn't grow up with it, like people increasingly are. I think the job was in a pretty big way its own reward, at the time, and that prompted more dedicated work for less (apparent) reward. but now we're becoming like some bratty kid who's given a really nice car and never changing the oil, throwing a bunch of bumper-stickers on it to improve how it looks/make a statement, and then being all annoyed when the 2nd sunroof we cut out of the ceiling starts to pull the whole roof off.
I have faith in your service! It's become just another utility bill for me, and I am mostly okay with that EXCEPT:
no streaming play in linux. that's ridiculous and annoying and come on.
I don't like being taken off my screen to recommendations after I've selected something. redirection of most kinds bug me in general. just offer the option to check out recommendations. you could do it well, the "move to the top" thing is pretty good.
well, in this case it is a metapackage, and people downplay this for some reason, but it happens quite often that the version in the repositories will require some things which I do not want, or which will not work with my machine, forcing me to install from source which is totally fine EXCEPT that it will sometimes come up that I haven't installed in a way pleasing to the package manager and annoyances spiral. I had a problem recently with pidgin and gstreamer... and arts and amarok... and some others.
also WHY ARTS. this is a tangent but I personally could be fine only ever using ALSA and jack. maybe oss because it plays well with alsa.
Imagine the chilling effect if the public could not inform itself about documents in a library contrary to the present government without scrutiny.
This is already the case, in some ways. I like being autodidactic and make no real bounds on what I should or shouldn't learn, but have often skipped over checking out certain materials on subjects I was interested in, simply due to a potential suspicious glance from a librarian, let alone records being connected to me. I realize mine is a special case of hyper-self-consciousness, but I'm sure this happens to other people, too. In light of this case, I'll probably completely conclude my use of the library beyond fiction and cds/dvds.
Maybe the problem then is in knowing one is being observed. Remove that, and you have the best of both worlds! The authorities can be voyeurs and the citizens will retain their feelings of privacy.
Diabolic advocacy aside, I could see that mentality becoming the fundamental stance taken by those in charge, as a reaction to outcries against these privacy invasions (assuming it's not already the fundamental stance.)
Why? What do you have to hide? HMMMMMM? red flag! red flag!
the area of customer service is where Microsoft will defeat FOSS
I'll take almost instantaneous guided help via IRC/forums in which I learn something and can maybe help out someone else in the meantime over sitting on hold for 15 minutes and then listening to someone navigate a script and call me sir and other such stupidity.
And that cartoon is boring and misleading, there was no humor to be lost... I've dissuaded some people from using linux on their desktop, my parents for instance, because I don't think that they would be interested in exchanging "learning a bit about their system" for the "random bluescreens, slowdowns, etc". In short, the last panel should be more like "it's not for everybody, but she's welcome to borrow a couple of these liveCDs I have."
You know, if people wouldn't take out loans they can't afford, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
You know, that's something you hear ALL OVER the place, and yet an enormous number of people had acted in this way which is so spat-upon by most of the smarty-smart forums I frequent. The thing is, though, that if there is such a large amount of similar sentiment or action, there is probably something worth examining there. I would say it has something to do with incredibly smart (well, that's debatable. let's say "good with words") people who write insanely convoluted contracts that everybody and their cousin just signs off the bat without reading (EULA much?) and it's understood that that's how that's done. Added to that, growing up as many of us probably have in a culture that prizes "credit history" (I understand it's being tied to insurance costs, now) which can ONLY be gotten from debt, then I can sympathize with the consumer in these cases (especially after having finally rid myself of debt, probably 10 years later and thousands upon thousands of dollars in interest, and mine's a pretty light case, there are people dealing with mountains of cascading debt). All our choices, all our own fault. But with SO many people in that situation, it's more interesting to look at "why" than just somehow blame them for being wrong. (see: "public misunderstanding" around the release of KDE4.0)
and you have the added bonus, with time travel, of looking back at when widespread awareness of the future-people erupted, and go back to snub it. But then there's faction X who are interested in "enlightening" us, because they don't appreciate faction Y's intention of preparing part of humanity for enslavement (maintaining the status quo, from their perspective) and hence little bits of information gets leaked to us from friendly faction X, but then you have ridiculous amounts of un- or nearly-credible eyewitness accounts who get told to put their tinfoil hats back on, or worse they ar
That's part of the problem with understanding these things, the feeling that they will follow some kind of simple plotting. Who's to say that they didn't find the technology and have no clue how it works? Or that they were developed and shaped by some super-species and that we also were shaped by, in an effort to create an offspring of the two of us, after we had become sufficiently unique from eachother towards some research/hilarity end. Or maybe the travel is somehow intuitive to their bodies/forms, or or or....
My point is just in pointing out how questionable phrases like "would have to be" and "surely" and "obviously" and others are, in these sorts of topics.
could also be that they're not really hiding so much as we're still too young to see that we're developing in an agar?
Apply graphics to the game, don't try to apply a game to your graphics routines.
THANK YOU. People are talking nonsense like "the Wii is much less powerful, old tech"... blah blah. They're the kind of people I used to know who participated in a kind of coldwar arms escalation with regards to games and systems and in the end were just no goddamn fun at all to be around. The reason Wii is top-selling is because of innovation, and games like Big Brain Academy, not brute force, and I suspect if they took a chance on more games like Electroplankton, and taking a chance on at least some part of the US market appreciating them, they'd have even more success. Especially with the versatility of the wiimote/etc.
Also if homebrew were encouraged and somehow incorporated into the system as a little ecosystem (maybe with frequent prizes going out or contests or something), we'd be at a very cool point where amateur game-makers wouldn't have to have their dreams crushed or work against annoying obstacles. Imagination and gameplay will always win over blingy demonstrations of hardware. I'm very glad that there are others out there who can still happily play many games for the NES/SNES, yet get bored of many newer games very quickly (hint: they're boring.)
I'm usually not one to follow up a reasonable and well-thought argument with a spelling correction, so here goes:
You just can't win with these brainless hippies
fix'd
there's also the very realistic possibility of a sane, legislated, bloodless (sorry all you mad-max wanna-bes) secession. gain legitimacy in the eyes of other sovereign nations, open trade routes (hello, cuba!) and support a "governmentality" that the residing populace approves of (much easier in a smaller territory.. the U.S. is ridiculously huge).
.. could be extremely interesting, and I'm not even mentioning the illegal trade and mafias and other troubles that would need to be addressed!)
cascadia ftw! (first motto? annually rotating anthem by cascadian musicians? presidential counsel of 12?
I think this is a good point, actually, in that it shows that many people around the globe like to come across as more informed about america than the americans, but when you're able to see the same sort of parroting that you see in the ignorant unwashed american masses or whatever ("americans are dumb, they elected george w bush twice and he is ruining the world" "lol yeah") you realize that hickitude and groupthink and reductive summaries of large groups of people is a worldwide bug/feature.
I very strongly agree with this sentiment. So much effort in OSS has been to try and pull in a userbase by mimicking what the user is already used to, and in many cases dissappointing down the road by the simple fact that the product is not microsoft/apple.
With no (or anyhow little) risk of lost revenue, one would think that all kinds of fantastical innovations would be spilling out of the open source movement in areas of desktop, input and output, etc. It's all gotten so incestuous that any small change seems like an earthquake. People maybe forget that at one point, the mouse was an innovation. And others like it CAN come along and be useful and accepted, it just takes a little imagination.
That makes every bit of sense, that that's where streets came from, but we need to re-evaluate them (and I don't mean get rid of them or something crazy). It's along the same lines as "Don't have highways go right through a city's downtown business district." Just like semis have specific routes they can and cannot take, so should regular autos. Basically, I can agree to lay off the streets if you acknowledge the usefulness of conscious (rather than habit or historically driven) urban planning.
I think that a serious ground-up reconsideration of city infrastructure would be appropriate as a longer-term solution, to hell with those who won't adapt (and exception made to those who can't adapt). Our urban centers should simply not allow for the combustion engine to clog it up so badly. One good look at our streets shows about 80% road, 20% "side walk", 10% on each side. The side walk is simply a gutter. It is far too easy to use an automobile as a primary mode of ambulation, where it should instead be the rare occasion, not some pathetic psychic extension of one's body.
("You hit me!" "No, I hit your car.")
It's long seemed to me that the hold-up for alternative fuels and viable solutions in that dept has been due to the people up top in those markets going "wait wait wait that's fine and good but we need to figure out how we can control it." And then like ICANN they come swooping in to save us from a situation that they've basically created through ineptitude and greed.
Stockholm Syndrome ftw!
It's funny about digital books, I just don't read them. I love reading bound-paper books, always have, and it's not like I dislike the principle of digital books, but for whatever reason (tactile, olfactory?) I just can't read more than a couple pages. And it's funny too, browsing through people's digital-book folders, how often there's this type of person with a "philosphy" folder containing plenty of neitzsche, and maybe a couple other people who, after conversing a short bit, I find they are really looking forward to reading someday.*
* probably confusing disinterested grammar which could be used against me in a dashing rebuttal
I haven't RTFA (never do) but it would be interesting if the biofeedback somehow encouraged you in directions that you felt pleased with. That's the general kind of trajectory I think of when I think of "feedback", so it would make sense in that regards. I'm not sure how that would work, maybe encouraging you when you felt good about your results.
I just don't understand these singing competitions, their appraisals seem totally random. I've sang in a bunch of choirs and worked on the open vowels and proper articulation, but I prefer the Lou Reed/Leonard Cohen school of singing.