I'm still unconvinced that you can sell SAAS to consumers. Imagine (for the sake of argument) you brought together a team of programmers, artists, audio designers, level designers, testers, etc. to create a new PS3 title. Then, instead of selling a licensed disk to people, you let them download it for free. Now ask yourself if selling after-sales service for that game makes for a sound business model.
It does not.
The only way in the consumer world of generating an income to support your staff is to keep selling product or to make people pay a subscription for content delivery.
The only way you can afford to make games is if you effectively say to consumers "You want it ? OK, pay me for it." or "Want to keep playing this game next month ? Pay for another month's access to our servers." You CANNOT say "Want after-download support for this game ? Pay me for it", because a game that gets it right 95% of the time and costs zero is a lot more attractive than a game which constantly improves but costs you $10 a month in support fees.
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Get the subject into the punter's thoughts so that when they are in a purchasing mood, the product will be given consideration, and maybe even purchased.
Except for the fact that the product is free - as in beer.
...being out of CPU, the error message was actually something to do with multicast. As a precautionary measure I rebooted each core just to make sure it wasn't anything silly. After the cores came back online they instantly went back to 100% fabric CPU usage and started shedding connections again. So slowly I started going through all the switch ports on the cores, trying to isolate where the traffic was originating. The problem was all the cabinet switches were showing 10 Gbit/sec of traffic, making it very hard to isolate. Through the process of elimination I was finally able to isolate the problem down...
What did I say that sounded like "Tell me about your day at work" ?
Basicly this says that we must stop treating evolution as a theory and instead embrace it as truth.
Well, one of the wedges that Creationists use in debate and in writings is the duality of the word "Evolution". It can mean both the fact of evolution - that populations change over time, AND to refer to the Theory of Evolution based on Natural Selection. Fruitcakes like Kent Hovind even extend it to encompass the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, which is obviously completely unrelated to the biological evolution of life on Earth.
We have to be vigilant at all times over the way Creationists play with words like "Theory" and "Evolution" and pick them up on it, tie them down to which particular meaning they are using at the time. Of course, they can in turn use this to advantage in debates by accusing scientists of being pernickety fusspots, or even underhand and rhetorical themselves. It's a tightrope, Spud ! A f***ing tightrope !
So do I. Vangelis (amongst many others) makes some achingly beautiful music with synths. Real emotional depth.
However, it's important to understand that Queen didn't make the statement "No Synthesizers" as a stand against synths as musical instruments (see my other comment above).
The disclaimer on their early albums wasn't because they felt synths to be artificial or 'unmusical' or even 'cheating'. As you rightly point out - they used synths a lot in the '80s.
It was because they, together with their producer Roy Thomas Baker, created a wall of sound using ONLY guitars and vocals as the source. They wanted people to know that these eerily perfect sounds weren't coming out of a vocoder or synthesizer - that they hadn't taken any shortcuts.
Aww, c'mon. Why was this modded down ? I thought it was quite a witty take on "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade".
And given that sugar is the other ingredient of lemonade, and the Sugar people were handed metaphorical lemons when XP found its way onto the XO, well...
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Curious, what does your wife think of your obsession with this place?
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I thought it was a reference to "Vera" off The Wall.
I'm still unconvinced that you can sell SAAS to consumers. Imagine (for the sake of argument) you brought together a team of programmers, artists, audio designers, level designers, testers, etc. to create a new PS3 title. Then, instead of selling a licensed disk to people, you let them download it for free. Now ask yourself if selling after-sales service for that game makes for a sound business model.
It does not.
The only way in the consumer world of generating an income to support your staff is to keep selling product or to make people pay a subscription for content delivery.
The only way you can afford to make games is if you effectively say to consumers "You want it ? OK, pay me for it." or "Want to keep playing this game next month ? Pay for another month's access to our servers." You CANNOT say "Want after-download support for this game ? Pay me for it", because a game that gets it right 95% of the time and costs zero is a lot more attractive than a game which constantly improves but costs you $10 a month in support fees.
Get the subject into the punter's thoughts so that when they are in a purchasing mood, the product will be given consideration, and maybe even purchased.
Except for the fact that the product is free - as in beer.
Observed instances of speciation
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you might just get some true, no kiss-ass, answers for once
...but you'll most likely be Goatse'd to Hell and back.
...being out of CPU, the error message was actually something to do with multicast. As a precautionary measure I rebooted each core just to make sure it wasn't anything silly. After the cores came back online they instantly went back to 100% fabric CPU usage and started shedding connections again. So slowly I started going through all the switch ports on the cores, trying to isolate where the traffic was originating. The problem was all the cabinet switches were showing 10 Gbit/sec of traffic, making it very hard to isolate. Through the process of elimination I was finally able to isolate the problem down...
What did I say that sounded like "Tell me about your day at work" ?
I think she'd have more fun with a Rabbit running at 14 Hz.
I don't have a girlfriend
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Basicly this says that we must stop treating evolution as a theory and instead embrace it as truth.
Well, one of the wedges that Creationists use in debate and in writings is the duality of the word "Evolution". It can mean both the fact of evolution - that populations change over time, AND to refer to the Theory of Evolution based on Natural Selection. Fruitcakes like Kent Hovind even extend it to encompass the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, which is obviously completely unrelated to the biological evolution of life on Earth.
We have to be vigilant at all times over the way Creationists play with words like "Theory" and "Evolution" and pick them up on it, tie them down to which particular meaning they are using at the time. Of course, they can in turn use this to advantage in debates by accusing scientists of being pernickety fusspots, or even underhand and rhetorical themselves. It's a tightrope, Spud ! A f***ing tightrope !
These guys put it better than me.
I really hate the prejudice against synths.
So do I. Vangelis (amongst many others) makes some achingly beautiful music with synths. Real emotional depth.
However, it's important to understand that Queen didn't make the statement "No Synthesizers" as a stand against synths as musical instruments (see my other comment above).
The disclaimer on their early albums wasn't because they felt synths to be artificial or 'unmusical' or even 'cheating'. As you rightly point out - they used synths a lot in the '80s.
It was because they, together with their producer Roy Thomas Baker, created a wall of sound using ONLY guitars and vocals as the source. They wanted people to know that these eerily perfect sounds weren't coming out of a vocoder or synthesizer - that they hadn't taken any shortcuts.
And 'The Demon Seed'.
Aww, c'mon. Why was this modded down ? I thought it was quite a witty take on "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade".
And given that sugar is the other ingredient of lemonade, and the Sugar people were handed metaphorical lemons when XP found its way onto the XO, well...
Yeah, and a bit Scratchy, too.
PETA nudity is wrong
And Bill Gates nudity is even wrongerer.
Except that he only pretended to release the mosquitos...
Don't RTFA, by all means. But please Read Your Own F.... Links
"Turns out he did actually release some mosquitoes into the audience, though organizers were quick to reassure that they weren't malarial"
But how awesome would it be if he gave a speech about unicorns? That would be sweet!
Go into the Candy Mountain Cave, Bill !
French, a static, dying language best used for describing cuisine.
Merd !
It was on one of the discovery channel series, but I forgot what it's called. Anyone know?
Dirty Jobs ?
Oh no, that was the show where Steve did a British version of Jackass.
Satellites with radar, ships with sonar?
Noooooo. Sharks with frickin' lasers !
Mod me redundant - I don't care. Someone had to say it.
Put in some porn and computer security will rise at once!
Ah, so you call him "Computer Security", do you ?
Kinky !
Why he wouldn't just come inside to eat the exact same food was beyond me.
Because, although you could only see it as two examples of the same food, your cat could appreciate the underlying symbolic differences.
And please don't tell me this is "Also sprach Zarathustra". That is simply an ambiguity of translation and not worth my time.
The opening and final notes of that piece are played on an organ. So I can understand where the OP was coming from.
Imagine if they'd found a Beowulf Cluster of them !