Hehe, sound crews (oh brother, don't get me started;-).
Actually I was always the most 'deaf' of any member of any band I played in. Had something to do with the fact that I practice by standing about six inches in front of my fullstack with everything cranked but the mids (those are only about 75%). Although I have known a few drummers that came close to being as deaf as me.
"This amp is special, see all the knobs go up to 11, that means it is one louder than other amps"
Sorry to jump OT for a moment, but this was my favorite part of the Spinal Tap movies.
As a heavy metal guitarist, I've actually seen people do things exactly like this, some even went so far as to pull off the knobs on their amps, move them a quarter turn forward, then put them back on so that they could say, "Look, I can go a full 25% above 10. I'm REALLY loud!"
I just find it funny that no one ever picks on guitarists when they do shit like that, yet everyone jumps all over someone when they pull something that makes them look like a fake 3l33t h4X0r d00dz. Like I've said before, it must be the stage lighting. I have yet to see a geek with good stage lighting.
I wasn't trolling. I honestly have played countless 'newer' games and have actually enjoyed playing about three of them. Most of them either go so far into the "We have cool graphics" realm that you cannot for the life of you find anything reedeming to the game itself, or they go so far out of their way to make the game "realistic" that you cannot figure out how to get past the first round. I'm thinking along the lines of the strategy games where you have to make sure your troops have enough toilet paper or else they end up getting poison ivy because you didn't properly train/warn them about how to wipe their ass in the wilderness and then morale shoots through the floor. I hate those damn "realistic" games that seem to be more about how to piss you off then how to have an enjoyable game. BTW, you're right, I never did finish Bards Tale II, but I still occassionally play it. Why? Because, even when you didn't win, it was still fun as hell to play.
As I said, I went there and was told I'm not eligible (because I'm not logged in, which I clearly am logged in). Yeah, well fuck-all if I don't feel like kissing taco's dick because he tried but failed miserably.
I was going to respond in anger, but then I realized that my original comment is going to get moderated down, and your response is going to get moderated up. So, no matter what kind of response I give you, I'm going to have that response (this post) moderated down as well. So, in the effort to be fair:
I just don't understand how demand for these things can be that big!
Seriously, are there really people that think the game quality is going to be instantly better just because you can push a few more pixels. I just (and I mean just a couple of weeks ago) bought a N64 and will probably now consider buying the old Playstation (as the price will surely drop like a rock now). The older games are far more plentiful and there are a few that are even enjoyable to play. I find that in the first year or two of a new system there are very few games that are actually fun to play.
Most of the games I see now are completely ridiculous when it comes to game-play. Sure, I suppose the system is great if you are really into all that "I have the latest available toy" sort of thing, but I think if you waited you would save yourself a bundle and get more enjoyable games to boot.
Now I'm off to play the Bard's Tale II on my old trusty Apple IIgs (it's still more enjoyable than about 90% of the games I've seen in the past few years).
Usenet isn't worth posting to. Actually, slashdot probably isn't either if it wasn't for the entertainment value. On usenet people just ignore any sort of comment they don't agree with. Here you get four hundred angry idiots telling you you'd better shut up if you try to say something they don't agree with. Not sure why, but that seems a little more interesting.
Yeah, I know about meta-mod. Never used it, have no idea how to use it, and am told that participation in it (by following that link) is something I am not eligible for. Not sure I would do it anyway, but it's nice to know that I suck enough to not be allowed into that little area too.
My point was, we have to have something that is based on actual thought process. Right now we have it so that the trolls, karma-whores and slashbots can all participate in the moderation system and all it amounts to is 'stay with the flock or you are totally fucked' type of moderation. How about seeing a truly insightful but not quite majority opinion comment get moderated up? It isn't going to happen. Or if it does it will quickly get meta-modded to 'overrated' and that will be that. What a waste.
Boy, some moderator is really, REALLY enjoying themsevles today aren't they?
Ah well, if karma had ever mattered to me I probably wouldn't be hanging on slashdot in the firstplace. BTW, anyone else bothered that they call it karma? I mean, it's like they are trying to imply that somehow impressing a bunch of masturbating assholes with a power-trip problem is the most important thing you could accomplish in this lifetime.
What the fuck is up with this place? Goddamn! Even if it is done constructively, critiquing the system is not allowed. Fucking bunch of bullshit cocksuckers!
I don't know why I bother. But it sure is fun to bitch about.
I suppose if I took the opportunity (seeing as how the original poster praised computer graphics) to somehow slam Lucas for what I consider his great animation sequences in the latest Star Wars film I would have been rated up as insightful? Get the fucking moderation system fixed goddamn it! Don't let a bunch of crack addicted (and by that I mean getting their heads so far up their ass all they can do is sniff their own crack) piece of shit assholes moderate. Get some kind of 'moderation of moderation' system in place that actually fucking works.
Goddamned. Slashdot is more useless than usenet. And that's fucking saying something!
I don't understand why this concept is so difficult. If all the kid ever sees or hears is disrespect, how are they ever going to learn respect? Contrary to popular belief, you are not going to teach a kid to respect you or anything else by constantly telling them they are idiots. Show them how much you respect them (and if you don't, then don't have kids. Please, the world is screwed up enough right now). If you can't respect them, how do you expect them to respect you?
Ever consider that if people stopped saying how evil 'those damned kids' are that maybe they wouldn't be so evil? I know that for a few years I went through a period where everyone around me told me what an evil fuck I was for every little thing I did (Dungeons & Dragons is evil, your music is satanic, your clothes look naughty, blah, blah, blah). Eventually, after three or four years of being told what an evil son-of-a-bitch I was I started to believe it. Another few years of that shit and I probably would have been ready to go on a killing spree (as it was I only thought about how nice it would have been to kill my aunt and uncle and keep their kids from growing up with such fucked-up parenting, but I didn't do it. Damned shame too, their kids are now on their way to juvenile centers).
Stop telling children they're evil scummy shit, and teach them how to respect others (and this sense of anonymity). And I am not a firm believer in the 'fuck you you little basard' method of teaching. Try something along the lines of, 'how about we try this'. You'd be amazed how well it works if you treat the kid with respect.
Yep, it's awful easy to be 'the most stable' when it hasn't even made an appearance yet. And as far as I know it is barely out of the "let's see what we can do" stage of thought processes.
But flame away. Keep telling us how great.Net is! God knows it has to be good if it's from the great Redmond monolith.
Guess I wouldn't know as I'm using a Fraunhaer(sp?!?) MP3Enc for MP3 encoding. Like I said, the free encoders suck for my kind of music, they leave all kinds of high end noise in the finished product.
Well, MP3 the format isn't illegal in and of itself. You can still make copies legally for yourself. As you said, it is 'units shipped' that you are charged for. If you aren't distributing, then you don't have any reason to worry about using MP3.
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of Vorbis (I haven't used it yet, but am keeping my eye on it), but I have spent hundreds of hours (not really, hundreds of hours of batch time on my Linux server at home) encoding all of my CDs to MP3 so that I don't have to constantly fiddle with the CDs themselves (and I did purchase a legal MP3 encoder to do this work, the 'free' ones give me really sucky, squeaky quality). It's going to take some convincing to get me to switch without a real reason. And thus far this entire, *MP3 is illegal* thing just doesn't seem real to me. If the format itself ever is outlawed, and Vorbis begins to take its place, it won't be long before Vorbis is outlawed as well.
It is the concept of copying which seems to bother the big corporations. And unfortunately at the moment, the big corporations are all that really matter in the US. God knows the law is bought and paid for by them. Just a few more years and they should be able to remove that pesky voting process where people even have the illusion that they matter.
Everybody knows that government is there to protect the poor abused big businesses from the big bad and nasty consumers. That's what this entire, *MP3 should be illegal* thing is really about. Forget fair use. If you want to listen to a song on your home stereo and in your car you should have to pay for it twice! Now, if they could just convince people that this is *for their own good*.
Oh, I don't know. Ever read the Hyperion/Endymion books by Dan Simmons? He made the concept of empathy=love=physics sound pretty damned exciting. If only the entire universe could love!
There have been a few authors that kind of tackled that basic concept, but I think I've got a good take on a new direction. It will probably take me a few more years to complete the story (as writing is not my profession, just a hobby), but I still think I have something a little different.
But even when I have seen others go on that theme, I've always found it very interesting to say the least.
My intention wasn't to impress. My intention was to make clear that music is one thing that I do know quite a bit about. While I'm not about to claim I'm perfect, when someone attacks one of the things that truly is important to me, I will point out how wrong they are. Although I'm sure no one here believes it. God forbid someone on slashdot be taken at the word, especially not when someone willing to give a real email address is trying to prove something to an AC. God knows, the AC has to be right.
Slashdot Mirror
If you marked my posts down any faster you would be hitting them before I even post them.
The slashdot game comes crumbling down. Cripes does this suck.
Hehe, sound crews (oh brother, don't get me started ;-).
Actually I was always the most 'deaf' of any member of any band I played in. Had something to do with the fact that I practice by standing about six inches in front of my fullstack with everything cranked but the mids (those are only about 75%). Although I have known a few drummers that came close to being as deaf as me.
Yeah, I had a Ampeg fullstack where everything went to twelve too. I guess that means we are one cooler than Spinal Tap (YEAH BABY!).
Sorry to jump OT for a moment, but this was my favorite part of the Spinal Tap movies.
As a heavy metal guitarist, I've actually seen people do things exactly like this, some even went so far as to pull off the knobs on their amps, move them a quarter turn forward, then put them back on so that they could say, "Look, I can go a full 25% above 10. I'm REALLY loud!"
I just find it funny that no one ever picks on guitarists when they do shit like that, yet everyone jumps all over someone when they pull something that makes them look like a fake 3l33t h4X0r d00dz. Like I've said before, it must be the stage lighting. I have yet to see a geek with good stage lighting.
I wasn't trolling. I honestly have played countless 'newer' games and have actually enjoyed playing about three of them. Most of them either go so far into the "We have cool graphics" realm that you cannot for the life of you find anything reedeming to the game itself, or they go so far out of their way to make the game "realistic" that you cannot figure out how to get past the first round. I'm thinking along the lines of the strategy games where you have to make sure your troops have enough toilet paper or else they end up getting poison ivy because you didn't properly train/warn them about how to wipe their ass in the wilderness and then morale shoots through the floor. I hate those damn "realistic" games that seem to be more about how to piss you off then how to have an enjoyable game. BTW, you're right, I never did finish Bards Tale II, but I still occassionally play it. Why? Because, even when you didn't win, it was still fun as hell to play.
As I said, I went there and was told I'm not eligible (because I'm not logged in, which I clearly am logged in). Yeah, well fuck-all if I don't feel like kissing taco's dick because he tried but failed miserably.
I was going to respond in anger, but then I realized that my original comment is going to get moderated down, and your response is going to get moderated up. So, no matter what kind of response I give you, I'm going to have that response (this post) moderated down as well. So, in the effort to be fair:
Bend over bitch, I've got something for ya!
I just don't understand how demand for these things can be that big!
Seriously, are there really people that think the game quality is going to be instantly better just because you can push a few more pixels. I just (and I mean just a couple of weeks ago) bought a N64 and will probably now consider buying the old Playstation (as the price will surely drop like a rock now). The older games are far more plentiful and there are a few that are even enjoyable to play. I find that in the first year or two of a new system there are very few games that are actually fun to play.
Most of the games I see now are completely ridiculous when it comes to game-play. Sure, I suppose the system is great if you are really into all that "I have the latest available toy" sort of thing, but I think if you waited you would save yourself a bundle and get more enjoyable games to boot.
Now I'm off to play the Bard's Tale II on my old trusty Apple IIgs (it's still more enjoyable than about 90% of the games I've seen in the past few years).
Fucking crack addicted moderators!
As I said elsewhere, crack addicted means you have your head shoved so far up your ass that you cannot smell anything but your own crack.
This seems to be a pre-requisit for moderation anymore. What a fuck-hole!
Usenet isn't worth posting to. Actually, slashdot probably isn't either if it wasn't for the entertainment value. On usenet people just ignore any sort of comment they don't agree with. Here you get four hundred angry idiots telling you you'd better shut up if you try to say something they don't agree with. Not sure why, but that seems a little more interesting.
Yeah, I know about meta-mod. Never used it, have no idea how to use it, and am told that participation in it (by following that link) is something I am not eligible for. Not sure I would do it anyway, but it's nice to know that I suck enough to not be allowed into that little area too.
My point was, we have to have something that is based on actual thought process. Right now we have it so that the trolls, karma-whores and slashbots can all participate in the moderation system and all it amounts to is 'stay with the flock or you are totally fucked' type of moderation. How about seeing a truly insightful but not quite majority opinion comment get moderated up? It isn't going to happen. Or if it does it will quickly get meta-modded to 'overrated' and that will be that. What a waste.
Boy, some moderator is really, REALLY enjoying themsevles today aren't they?
Ah well, if karma had ever mattered to me I probably wouldn't be hanging on slashdot in the firstplace. BTW, anyone else bothered that they call it karma? I mean, it's like they are trying to imply that somehow impressing a bunch of masturbating assholes with a power-trip problem is the most important thing you could accomplish in this lifetime.
What the fuck is up with this place? Goddamn! Even if it is done constructively, critiquing the system is not allowed. Fucking bunch of bullshit cocksuckers!
I don't know why I bother. But it sure is fun to bitch about.
Flamebait huh?
I suppose if I took the opportunity (seeing as how the original poster praised computer graphics) to somehow slam Lucas for what I consider his great animation sequences in the latest Star Wars film I would have been rated up as insightful? Get the fucking moderation system fixed goddamn it! Don't let a bunch of crack addicted (and by that I mean getting their heads so far up their ass all they can do is sniff their own crack) piece of shit assholes moderate. Get some kind of 'moderation of moderation' system in place that actually fucking works.
Goddamned. Slashdot is more useless than usenet. And that's fucking saying something!
I wish there were more like you.
I don't understand why this concept is so difficult. If all the kid ever sees or hears is disrespect, how are they ever going to learn respect? Contrary to popular belief, you are not going to teach a kid to respect you or anything else by constantly telling them they are idiots. Show them how much you respect them (and if you don't, then don't have kids. Please, the world is screwed up enough right now). If you can't respect them, how do you expect them to respect you?
Yeah, and another thing, I thought that all CG sucked according to the 'slashdot majority'.
Oh wait, that only applies to Star Wars films. Sorry, I thought we held everyone to the same standards.
I don't know why that got moderated down. He has a point you know.
After all, the guy found it interesting enough to post it, yet he acts like he's completely bored with it. Um, hello, tap*tap*tap, is this thing on.
Ah yes, let's build on that little anomoly!
Ever consider that if people stopped saying how evil 'those damned kids' are that maybe they wouldn't be so evil? I know that for a few years I went through a period where everyone around me told me what an evil fuck I was for every little thing I did (Dungeons & Dragons is evil, your music is satanic, your clothes look naughty, blah, blah, blah). Eventually, after three or four years of being told what an evil son-of-a-bitch I was I started to believe it. Another few years of that shit and I probably would have been ready to go on a killing spree (as it was I only thought about how nice it would have been to kill my aunt and uncle and keep their kids from growing up with such fucked-up parenting, but I didn't do it. Damned shame too, their kids are now on their way to juvenile centers).
Stop telling children they're evil scummy shit, and teach them how to respect others (and this sense of anonymity). And I am not a firm believer in the 'fuck you you little basard' method of teaching. Try something along the lines of, 'how about we try this'. You'd be amazed how well it works if you treat the kid with respect.
Yep, it's awful easy to be 'the most stable' when it hasn't even made an appearance yet. And as far as I know it is barely out of the "let's see what we can do" stage of thought processes.
.Net is! God knows it has to be good if it's from the great Redmond monolith.
But flame away. Keep telling us how great
Guess I wouldn't know as I'm using a Fraunhaer(sp?!?) MP3Enc for MP3 encoding. Like I said, the free encoders suck for my kind of music, they leave all kinds of high end noise in the finished product.
****WAVES HAND!!!!****
My laptop is still a 233 and my main home beast is a dual 333mhz both PIIs.
Personally, I would love a 600mhz Celeron, but I don't have the money currently. Ah, someday.
Well, MP3 the format isn't illegal in and of itself. You can still make copies legally for yourself. As you said, it is 'units shipped' that you are charged for. If you aren't distributing, then you don't have any reason to worry about using MP3.
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of Vorbis (I haven't used it yet, but am keeping my eye on it), but I have spent hundreds of hours (not really, hundreds of hours of batch time on my Linux server at home) encoding all of my CDs to MP3 so that I don't have to constantly fiddle with the CDs themselves (and I did purchase a legal MP3 encoder to do this work, the 'free' ones give me really sucky, squeaky quality). It's going to take some convincing to get me to switch without a real reason. And thus far this entire, *MP3 is illegal* thing just doesn't seem real to me. If the format itself ever is outlawed, and Vorbis begins to take its place, it won't be long before Vorbis is outlawed as well.
It is the concept of copying which seems to bother the big corporations. And unfortunately at the moment, the big corporations are all that really matter in the US. God knows the law is bought and paid for by them. Just a few more years and they should be able to remove that pesky voting process where people even have the illusion that they matter.
Everybody knows that government is there to protect the poor abused big businesses from the big bad and nasty consumers. That's what this entire, *MP3 should be illegal* thing is really about. Forget fair use. If you want to listen to a song on your home stereo and in your car you should have to pay for it twice! Now, if they could just convince people that this is *for their own good*.
I'm sorry, but your post begs the question:
"Is there such a thing as a clue cannon?"
God knows some people need a clue at least as big and massive as a cannon ball to even start to think clearly.
Oh, I don't know. Ever read the Hyperion/Endymion books by Dan Simmons? He made the concept of empathy=love=physics sound pretty damned exciting. If only the entire universe could love!
There have been a few authors that kind of tackled that basic concept, but I think I've got a good take on a new direction. It will probably take me a few more years to complete the story (as writing is not my profession, just a hobby), but I still think I have something a little different.
But even when I have seen others go on that theme, I've always found it very interesting to say the least.
My intention wasn't to impress. My intention was to make clear that music is one thing that I do know quite a bit about. While I'm not about to claim I'm perfect, when someone attacks one of the things that truly is important to me, I will point out how wrong they are. Although I'm sure no one here believes it. God forbid someone on slashdot be taken at the word, especially not when someone willing to give a real email address is trying to prove something to an AC. God knows, the AC has to be right.