These days, every band either plays punk (which I hate) or plays music that's entirely based on texture and effects and completely forget about song writing, decent baseline and non-repetitive melodies.
Very few bands that you could ever hear on a typical radio station these days plays actual punk music. Maybe you're referring to the pop-emo "hey i've got spiked hair/tattoos/plaid pants/a spike belt/chains so i'm a punk" garbage that's on MTV and tons of radio stations all the time?
If you're interested in really good songwriting I would recommend Good Riddance "For God and Country" or Propagandhi "Less Talk, More Rock", they are some of the best punk albums as far as lyrical content goes.
It's true that the majority of the theaters sound hasn't really improved greatly while home sound has. The IMAX theaters are the only ones that still really impress me, I saw Return of the King on an IMAX screen and the sound was intense...
I'll wait for the DVD and rent. They get minimum $$ out of my pocket, which is my goal. Most of the sheeple don't have the willpower to do so, sadly. Things might change if they did.
It's not that I don't have the willpower, it's just that I don't have a 100 foot screen and 30,000 watt sound system at my house (yet).
When I build a computer for a friend I typically demand a large quantity of alcohol and probably whatever drugs may be lying around... in that case such a project normally ends up taking a few days.
Yes, this all sounds great but personally I would prefer not to have a bunch of kids who have no clue about the real world and no concept of responsibility be selecting who will run this country.
The problem with 14-17 year olds is not in their lack of intelligence, but in their lack of common sense. I think the main issue is that the majority of kids do not support themselves and until they do the really shouldn't have much of a say in how things should go.
I suppose I could possibly support a measure for them voting if they were not claimed as a dependent on anyone's tax return.
Taking off from Kagoshima in southern Japan on its 22 month outbound trip, the Muses-C space probe is scheduled to visit the 1998 SF36 asteroid, 186 million miles from Earth, and bring back a single gram of rock in four years' time.
I bet on the street you could get at least 100 bones for that gram rock.
It's a good point, sometimes people can actually look better in a pair of jeans than "dress pants" and some jeans even cost more than them.
It reminds me of a time I was going to Club OPM in Caesar's Palace and I saw this huge sign at the door that said "The price of what you are wearing does not affect what is required by the dress code." I'm guessing some people have tried to get in wearing $200 tennis shoes or $250 basketball jerseys or something.
I do agree that if you are going to be doing hands-on work a nice suit probably isn't the best option. It's also true that hygene and clothes are two different issues I suppose I should have delineated the two a bit more careful.
Unforutnately, people *do* judge a book by its cover.
I don't really know if it's "unfortunate", in my experience, people who are unable to have proper hygene and appearance in a work setting generally have a serious lack of social skills, which in the long term can be very damaging in relations with clients and co-workers. I usually think if they can't take care of their own body properly why would I trust them to take care of anything else.
This is not to say you can't dress however you want when you are not at work, if I see someone dressed shabby at the supermarket I really don't pass judgement on that person because why should they dress up to go to the supermarket?
South Park is easily the most political show on TV with maybe the exception of 'The West Wing' and news shows (O'Reilly Factor, Daily Show, etc) which provide direct political commentary whereas South Park's is generally buried within the plotline (Simpsons does this to, to a lesser degree).
Personally I would love to see more political videogames. Maybe one about how the Roman Empire squandered it's vast economic power by sending its legions to the corners of the world fighting war after war (if you've got the world's greatest military you might as well use it!), alienating the rest of the world, and eventually leading to it's decline and the end of world order.
What rock have you been living under? Have you ever by chance heard of a program called Excel?!? Most robust DB product on the market as far as I know, and I know a lot.
I don't listen to the radio or watch MTV at all and yet I still know when good albums come out for the genres that I listen to. They don't even play punk/industrial/drumnbass on MTV or the radio (maybe at like 3AM on the radio if you're lucky). When I group that I have liked in the past comes out with a new album I'll generally buy it on good faith and if it sucks the next time I'll definitely have to do a little more research to make sure it won't suck again... but I'm rarely disappointed, truly good artists rarely put out horrible albums, thats generally the domain of pop music. Not only that but if you know lot of people who are into those scenes they can tell you what's new and good.
Of course they are harder for you to learn. I had the same problem, we were both taught first on an imperative language and so forever more we are stuck on that mindset.
People I have met who started out on functional and can write a lisp program as quick as I can write C often have serious problems with even the simplest program imperative languages just as I will get stumped by something stupid when trying to use lisp.
As in natural languages it is normally your first language that you are going to be comfortable with the most although you can obviously learn others. In coding its a bit more complex since you may find that your first language was terrible and pick up another one but people will generally stay in the same paradigm of imperative, functional or OO. It is a challenge to cross over once your mind works in a certain way.
This is the only way we'll be able to compete in hand to hand combat with the robots that we'll assuredly create and be forced to fight against in the near future.
I think it has a lot to do with the whole franchise aspect, they don't want to ruin a namebrand permanently by rushing it out with horrible flaws. If it's a one-shot game then a bunch of people will buy it and be pissed but as long as there's no follow up it won't hurt the company too bad.
What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right? I've got a Radeon 9100 and it still seems to be running at the lowest resolution with 16 colors when I try it, also it seems to have downgraded to ASCII characters since my graphics card is obviously too poor to run such a bloated game.
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These days, every band either plays punk (which I hate) or plays music that's entirely based on texture and effects and completely forget about song writing, decent baseline and non-repetitive melodies.
Very few bands that you could ever hear on a typical radio station these days plays actual punk music. Maybe you're referring to the pop-emo "hey i've got spiked hair/tattoos/plaid pants/a spike belt/chains so i'm a punk" garbage that's on MTV and tons of radio stations all the time?
If you're interested in really good songwriting I would recommend Good Riddance "For God and Country" or Propagandhi "Less Talk, More Rock", they are some of the best punk albums as far as lyrical content goes.
I'm sure he got the majority of his figures correct, he probably just filled the rest in so "it looked right". Worked for my physics lab...
It's true that the majority of the theaters sound hasn't really improved greatly while home sound has. The IMAX theaters are the only ones that still really impress me, I saw Return of the King on an IMAX screen and the sound was intense...
I'll wait for the DVD and rent. They get minimum $$ out of my pocket, which is my goal. Most of the sheeple don't have the willpower to do so, sadly. Things might change if they did.
It's not that I don't have the willpower, it's just that I don't have a 100 foot screen and 30,000 watt sound system at my house (yet).
When I build a computer for a friend I typically demand a large quantity of alcohol and probably whatever drugs may be lying around... in that case such a project normally ends up taking a few days.
Yes, you're right, no one younger than 28 has any love of computing, we're all just out to make a quick buck with our fancy university degrees.
Yes, this all sounds great but personally I would prefer not to have a bunch of kids who have no clue about the real world and no concept of responsibility be selecting who will run this country.
The problem with 14-17 year olds is not in their lack of intelligence, but in their lack of common sense. I think the main issue is that the majority of kids do not support themselves and until they do the really shouldn't have much of a say in how things should go.
I suppose I could possibly support a measure for them voting if they were not claimed as a dependent on anyone's tax return.
Taking off from Kagoshima in southern Japan on its 22 month outbound trip, the Muses-C space probe is scheduled to visit the 1998 SF36 asteroid, 186 million miles from Earth, and bring back a single gram of rock in four years' time.
I bet on the street you could get at least 100 bones for that gram rock.
I guess now would be the ideal time to post my site about the real nigritude ultramarine.
$800,000 minus the lawyers fees, with those included the government probably didn't come out as good as people might think.
Most likely, as usual, the only real winners here are the lawyers for both sides.
It's a good point, sometimes people can actually look better in a pair of jeans than "dress pants" and some jeans even cost more than them.
It reminds me of a time I was going to Club OPM in Caesar's Palace and I saw this huge sign at the door that said "The price of what you are wearing does not affect what is required by the dress code." I'm guessing some people have tried to get in wearing $200 tennis shoes or $250 basketball jerseys or something.
I do agree that if you are going to be doing hands-on work a nice suit probably isn't the best option. It's also true that hygene and clothes are two different issues I suppose I should have delineated the two a bit more careful.
Unforutnately, people *do* judge a book by its cover.
I don't really know if it's "unfortunate", in my experience, people who are unable to have proper hygene and appearance in a work setting generally have a serious lack of social skills, which in the long term can be very damaging in relations with clients and co-workers. I usually think if they can't take care of their own body properly why would I trust them to take care of anything else.
This is not to say you can't dress however you want when you are not at work, if I see someone dressed shabby at the supermarket I really don't pass judgement on that person because why should they dress up to go to the supermarket?
South Park is easily the most political show on TV with maybe the exception of 'The West Wing' and news shows (O'Reilly Factor, Daily Show, etc) which provide direct political commentary whereas South Park's is generally buried within the plotline (Simpsons does this to, to a lesser degree).
Personally I would love to see more political videogames. Maybe one about how the Roman Empire squandered it's vast economic power by sending its legions to the corners of the world fighting war after war (if you've got the world's greatest military you might as well use it!), alienating the rest of the world, and eventually leading to it's decline and the end of world order.
I agree, we should all block Google's ads so that way they will be forced to go from the best free e-mail system into a pay service, brilliant!
What rock have you been living under? Have you ever by chance heard of a program called Excel?!? Most robust DB product on the market as far as I know, and I know a lot.
I don't listen to the radio or watch MTV at all and yet I still know when good albums come out for the genres that I listen to. They don't even play punk/industrial/drumnbass on MTV or the radio (maybe at like 3AM on the radio if you're lucky). When I group that I have liked in the past comes out with a new album I'll generally buy it on good faith and if it sucks the next time I'll definitely have to do a little more research to make sure it won't suck again... but I'm rarely disappointed, truly good artists rarely put out horrible albums, thats generally the domain of pop music. Not only that but if you know lot of people who are into those scenes they can tell you what's new and good.
And the award for the most oversimplification of two vastly different paradigms goes to the Anonymous Coward above!
Of course they are harder for you to learn. I had the same problem, we were both taught first on an imperative language and so forever more we are stuck on that mindset.
People I have met who started out on functional and can write a lisp program as quick as I can write C often have serious problems with even the simplest program imperative languages just as I will get stumped by something stupid when trying to use lisp.
As in natural languages it is normally your first language that you are going to be comfortable with the most although you can obviously learn others. In coding its a bit more complex since you may find that your first language was terrible and pick up another one but people will generally stay in the same paradigm of imperative, functional or OO. It is a challenge to cross over once your mind works in a certain way.
Because you never know when you might run out of air up there!
I don't.
This is the only way we'll be able to compete in hand to hand combat with the robots that we'll assuredly create and be forced to fight against in the near future.
I think it has a lot to do with the whole franchise aspect, they don't want to ruin a namebrand permanently by rushing it out with horrible flaws. If it's a one-shot game then a bunch of people will buy it and be pissed but as long as there's no follow up it won't hurt the company too bad.
What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right? I've got a Radeon 9100 and it still seems to be running at the lowest resolution with 16 colors when I try it, also it seems to have downgraded to ASCII characters since my graphics card is obviously too poor to run such a bloated game.
Can you get your money back if the candidate turns out to be defective?