That's a false dichotomy. Format-shifting music doesn't change the inherent nature of the music. It is still (mostly) similar to its original and intended form.
Changing a third-person game to a first-person one is a considerable change, and many of the design decisions that are made for one type of game are flat-out incorrect for the other.
A better comparison would be cutting up Pulp Fiction or Memento to show the scenes in chronological order.
That's why you have so many "designer diseases" like Restless Leg Syndrome.
I just wanted to say that I've had a few *very* sporadic occurrences of RLS (when I was younger), but if it was something that I had to cope with on a regular basis, I'd consider it anything but a designer disease. Yes it's weird, but I don't think you can appreciate how actually disruptive it can be until you've actually had to cope with it.
I printed off a quick test to an HP LaserJet 4100 from Word 2007 in WinXP, and it looks a lot better in print than on screen. 10 & 11 point being where it looks best. You can still see the holes, but they're not as glaringly obvious or jagged as when displayed on screen.
For anyone who likes Doctor Who it is particularly bad. They had to cut an entire B plot from last season along with many, many character scenes. It's great on the forums. Every once in a while you get a new poster who can't figure out what the hell everyone else is talking about and it usually comes out that they have only seen the American cut. Curious; which B plot was that? I haven't watched Doctor Who on Sci-Fi since the first half of the first season of the new series.
Would you hold class in the center of a crowded mall? The very nature of a college, or classroom, is a controlled environment to further learning. Controlling the student's ability to access the internet is no different than the four walls posted around them to keep them from seeing the rest of the world.
Internet access in the classroom always seemed to me like a boon from the "ignorant IT gods" of hasty wireless implementation by blithering idiots who didn't know how to make it secret and only let professors in the building have access (or smart peoplel like us.). It never made sense that it would continue long past this point, kind of like internet tax freedom or net neutrality. Once people realize its just too good to be true, they're going to stamp down it somewhere.
But no, controlling internet access in a classroom is not hand holding, its simply a common-sense measure to direct attention towards the teacher, like facing all the chairs in the same direction at the beginning of the class.
Oh, I completely agree that they have the right to do this, it just seems a little bit of an overreaction to outright disable Internet access.
I will concede the possibility that people's Internet use in class is so widespread and disruptive to everybody else that this was the best approach to the problem, but that seems unlikely.
This is speaking as somebody who frequently uses the Internet in class to augment his learning via looking up unfamiliar terms or finding more in depth explanations of things the professor mentions.
I can appreciate the reason they're taking such extreme measures, but wouldn't it be better for everybody if they just let the people goofing off in class fail?
I always assumed that once you hit college the hand-holding by instructors was supposed to stop.
Maybe they could use group projects to fix the problem. I know in my college classes I was a righteous dick to any group members who just goofed off on the Internet rather than contributing towards the project.
I loved my system analysis and design class where we could 'fire' group members for poor performance (and trust me, people did.)
I work in a college library and I can vouch that pairs of students who get hyperentangled in the study rooms or on one of our couches certainly seem to be capable of carrying much less information than non-entangled students.
I'm not going to check the pirate bay from work, but I seem to recall that he posted that he expects that parts II-IV will be available for download from the same bittorrent network from which you get part I. I get the feeling that he doesn't really mind, and the stuff for sale is just for people who want to support him or get tangible goods in some way.
My local ISP (Insight in Evansville, Indiana) does the same thing. Even worse, when you 'opt-out' of their URL redirection, they instead redirect you to a fake IE error page. Slimy.
I wonder if the other person he's talking about is Jim Mallon or Mike Nelson. Everybody assumes that Joel or Mike was the respective heads of MST3K during their times as host, but there was plenty of behind the scenes management as well. Of the three post MST3K projects (RiffTrax, Cinematic Titanic, and the MST3K bot shorts) I found Mallon's bot shorts to easily be the worst.
As far as RiffTrax goes, while I like the concept, the actual RiffTrax themselves have been disappointing. While MST3K seemed to keep the "fun" part in mind while making fun of the movies, some RiffTrax give the impressions of being downright mean or hateful. I may be judging the whole breadth of content based on what little I've seen however, so I'll have to give them another chance.
The preview clip of Cinematic Titanic I saw seemed to be right out of MST3K and the humor seemed spot on. Of course that had the advantage of being a clip which quickly combines the best parts of the show, and I'll wait until I get the full DVD before I pass judgment. I already like getting to see the always great TV's Frank getting to be in on performing the riffs however.
Hell, that's only 1D6 falling damage. I imagine he's at least a second level expert if he can build that thing, so he should have the HP to survive it easily.
It doesn't even take effort to import the tracks into iTunes. The Amazon downloader automagically opens up and handles all the importing for you (at least on Windows.)
Even better, with TiVo.net, it'll transcode non-MPEG2 files on the fly and stream them to your TiVo, so the issue of converting files beforehand is moot. There's a similar plugin that'll handle all your non MP3 music as well.
WEP uses a 24 bit initialization vector, and the rest is left for the actual key. So 40 bit = 64 bit - 24 bit IV. Same for 128 = 104. People just use the terms interchangably (for better or for worse).
You can fit more songs onto an iPod shuffle at AAC 128K. At 256K you'll only get half the amount of songs on there. Fortunately, iTunes allows you to downsample your songs to 128kbps when you transfer them to your iPod Shuffle, while leaving the original intact. I wish I could do that on my regular iPod.
This article totally neglects to mention any of the issues with HDTV lag. From my understanding, it occurs when the TV has to convert a signal to its native resolution, resulting in a several millisecond delay.
This can be frustrating in action or rhythm games (Which is why Guitar Hero 2 has an option to compensate for it). I don't have an HDTV, so I'm not sure how bad it is but some google-fu should find plenty more on the subject.
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That's a false dichotomy. Format-shifting music doesn't change the inherent nature of the music. It is still (mostly) similar to its original and intended form.
Changing a third-person game to a first-person one is a considerable change, and many of the design decisions that are made for one type of game are flat-out incorrect for the other.
A better comparison would be cutting up Pulp Fiction or Memento to show the scenes in chronological order.
Do a quick Google/Youtube search for David Caruso One Liners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I
It's a recurring thing from CSI:Miami.
I just wanted to say that I've had a few *very* sporadic occurrences of RLS (when I was younger), but if it was something that I had to cope with on a regular basis, I'd consider it anything but a designer disease. Yes it's weird, but I don't think you can appreciate how actually disruptive it can be until you've actually had to cope with it.
I printed off a quick test to an HP LaserJet 4100 from Word 2007 in WinXP, and it looks a lot better in print than on screen. 10 & 11 point being where it looks best. You can still see the holes, but they're not as glaringly obvious or jagged as when displayed on screen.
Teach Huckabee COBOL? That's because he didn't major in math, he majored in miracles. And getting quality COBOL code now would quite frankly fall under the latter.
Internet access in the classroom always seemed to me like a boon from the "ignorant IT gods" of hasty wireless implementation by blithering idiots who didn't know how to make it secret and only let professors in the building have access (or smart peoplel like us.). It never made sense that it would continue long past this point, kind of like internet tax freedom or net neutrality. Once people realize its just too good to be true, they're going to stamp down it somewhere.
Oh, I completely agree that they have the right to do this, it just seems a little bit of an overreaction to outright disable Internet access.But no, controlling internet access in a classroom is not hand holding, its simply a common-sense measure to direct attention towards the teacher, like facing all the chairs in the same direction at the beginning of the class.
I will concede the possibility that people's Internet use in class is so widespread and disruptive to everybody else that this was the best approach to the problem, but that seems unlikely.
This is speaking as somebody who frequently uses the Internet in class to augment his learning via looking up unfamiliar terms or finding more in depth explanations of things the professor mentions.
I can appreciate the reason they're taking such extreme measures, but wouldn't it be better for everybody if they just let the people goofing off in class fail?
I always assumed that once you hit college the hand-holding by instructors was supposed to stop.
Maybe they could use group projects to fix the problem. I know in my college classes I was a righteous dick to any group members who just goofed off on the Internet rather than contributing towards the project.
I loved my system analysis and design class where we could 'fire' group members for poor performance (and trust me, people did.)
I work in a college library and I can vouch that pairs of students who get hyperentangled in the study rooms or on one of our couches certainly seem to be capable of carrying much less information than non-entangled students.
I'm not going to check the pirate bay from work, but I seem to recall that he posted that he expects that parts II-IV will be available for download from the same bittorrent network from which you get part I. I get the feeling that he doesn't really mind, and the stuff for sale is just for people who want to support him or get tangible goods in some way.
My local ISP (Insight in Evansville, Indiana) does the same thing. Even worse, when you 'opt-out' of their URL redirection, they instead redirect you to a fake IE error page. Slimy.
Ah, but you seem to be forgetting the wild European Tigger.
http://www.mst3k.com/
Click on "Recent Events" from the main page.
Curious: What did Joel say that is "so stupid it will taint my enjoyment of their material." Or are you talking about these interviews in general?
I wonder if the other person he's talking about is Jim Mallon or Mike Nelson. Everybody assumes that Joel or Mike was the respective heads of MST3K during their times as host, but there was plenty of behind the scenes management as well. Of the three post MST3K projects (RiffTrax, Cinematic Titanic, and the MST3K bot shorts) I found Mallon's bot shorts to easily be the worst.
As far as RiffTrax goes, while I like the concept, the actual RiffTrax themselves have been disappointing. While MST3K seemed to keep the "fun" part in mind while making fun of the movies, some RiffTrax give the impressions of being downright mean or hateful. I may be judging the whole breadth of content based on what little I've seen however, so I'll have to give them another chance.
The preview clip of Cinematic Titanic I saw seemed to be right out of MST3K and the humor seemed spot on. Of course that had the advantage of being a clip which quickly combines the best parts of the show, and I'll wait until I get the full DVD before I pass judgment. I already like getting to see the always great TV's Frank getting to be in on performing the riffs however.
Much like killing Rasputin, leaving the Solar System is apparently an ongoing process marked by significant milestones.
Hell, that's only 1D6 falling damage. I imagine he's at least a second level expert if he can build that thing, so he should have the HP to survive it easily.
It doesn't even take effort to import the tracks into iTunes. The Amazon downloader automagically opens up and handles all the importing for you (at least on Windows.)
I'm getting this mental image of an aluminum mohawk coming out of somebody's head, like the sail on the back of ol' Dimetrodon.
I'm certain this has probably been done in some anime already. Most likely in the late 80's/early 90's.
Even better, with TiVo.net, it'll transcode non-MPEG2 files on the fly and stream them to your TiVo, so the issue of converting files beforehand is moot. There's a similar plugin that'll handle all your non MP3 music as well.
Dennis
Not a stupid question, a good question.
WEP uses a 24 bit initialization vector, and the rest is left for the actual key. So 40 bit = 64 bit - 24 bit IV. Same for 128 = 104. People just use the terms interchangably (for better or for worse).
This article totally neglects to mention any of the issues with HDTV lag. From my understanding, it occurs when the TV has to convert a signal to its native resolution, resulting in a several millisecond delay.
This can be frustrating in action or rhythm games (Which is why Guitar Hero 2 has an option to compensate for it). I don't have an HDTV, so I'm not sure how bad it is but some google-fu should find plenty more on the subject.
Sun Microsystems is about to make you its bitch!
(Because we know how well *that* campaign is remembered.)