It's all nice and pretty that games have more and more advanced video and animaton, but one thing that I think is sorely lacking is that of audio advancements.
The biggest failing of most games nowadays is that the same SFX are recycled over and over, with perhaps just a small variation in pitch.
How about having true dynamic audio so that when you hit the same enemies over and over, they dont just blurt out exactly the same sound effect? Generating the sound for a particular monster should be done from a variety of generators that create the sound for that moment according to what is happening to them.
Fourier based audio generation such that entering a large hall makes the sounds boomy, low and echoy, whereas a small passageway has appropriately short echoes
and higher pitch?
If the sound was truly dynamic in that way, then that would work for truly scaring the shit out of me!
Time shifting radio
on
TiVo For Radio?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Actually this is a very good idea - please ignore 'crap top 40' trolls.
You see, there is a lot of very good content on radio nowadays, but generally you have to avoid the commercial stations. They tend to have the interesting stuff because they know that people want more than the spoon fed commercial junk.
Myself, I often listen to Triple J which is a government-owned national broadcaster in Australia. They have a lot of diverse programs usually aimed at under-25 audiences (but still have stuff for over 25s).
I'm living in Europe now, but I still wanted to listen to some JJJ shows, so I set up a Linux box in Sydney with a BT878 based FM card, a cheapie sound card, some scripts, and oggenc. Now I get regular recordings of various shows each day that I download and listen to. The bonus of a BT878 type card is that I can tune to any other local station as well.
And I can also live stream too, at much better bitrates than the stations' own 'online streaming' at some unlistenable bitrate.
Remember - any concerns over "book piracy" are vastly less worrying than that of CD copyright infringement. Anyone who obtains music illegally can very easily listen to it via the same means as the legal copy - with headphones via a burned cd, etc.
OTOH, not many people want to read a book on a screen - it's much better reading it in a bound paper copy, and few consumers have the means to create these from something they downloaded. Or at the very least it's time consuming and expensive.
I'm thinking of a booth on the steet, kinda of like a phone booth,where you go into it, deposit 25c, then select either a quick and painless death, or a bloody and gruesome one.
So now that you've been back online for what's probably a few days by the time you read this:
What do you think of todays internet?
Re:Building on the existing infrastructure
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DSL Rising
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· Score: 2
I may be totally wrong about this, but can't cable modems use existing cable lines, where DSL needs either fiber or at least better than two-wire phone line?
DSL uses standard 2-wire phone line. With
telephone lines clearly have a far greater install-base worldwide than cable, it makes sense that it's more popular. Telephone lines have
been standard installation for > 30+years
in most places, not so with cable.
Also, as other say, the US is far more spread out, which is harder for DSL as it requires you to be within a couple of km of an exchange. In Europe,
people tend to be a lot closer to an exchange.
"If you have a question, comment, suggestion, complaint, or personal request that we assist in the transfer of funds from a deposed dictator, please send an email to froogle-support@google.com."
[You shall not]
Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.
However:
$ wget http://www.aa.com/robots.txt
--10:23:00-- http://www.aa.com:80/robots.txt
=> `robots.txt'
Connecting to www.aa.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
10:23:01 ERROR 404: Not found.
So they've not got a robots.txt file. Do they
expect web crawlers to read and understand this also??
I think it's more like charging more for seatbelts and crumplezones myself.
And with this model sir, for only a little more, you and your family will enjoy a full 30% increase in their chances of survival in the event of a head on crash...
I still remember when cars ads mentioned "optional airbags"...so at least one industry has made money selling more safety features.
Brrrng to be a cold
RC5-64 finished?
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RC5-64 Success
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· Score: 1
That would explain why the weathers cooling down now...
RFC821 includes almost exactly this patent (hopefully enough to quash it), especially the 551 response:
3.2. FORWARDING
There are some cases where the destination information in the
<forward-path> is incorrect, but the receiver-SMTP knows the
correct destination. In such cases, one of the following replies
should be used to allow the sender to contact the correct
destination.
[...]
551 User not local; please try <forward-path>
This reply indicates that the receiver-SMTP knows the user's
mailbox is on another host and indicates the correct
forward-path to use. Note that either the host or user or
both may be different. The receiver refuses to accept mail
for this user, and the sender must either redirect the mail
according to the information provided or return an error
response to the originating user.
Actually, black paper's bad - it runs really slowly as it has to send every black area = ie the entire page.
Far better, is to scrawl a few thick black lines on white paper, loop that around, then send it. It'll go through their paper much faster, and the scrawls will make it effectively useless anyway.
A man in Laos suffered a sudden heart attack
when the computer he was powering by pedal received
a massive DOS attack and quadrupled its
power needs. Local authorities beleive the DOS attack was
caused after a neighbour, whom he has had
many problems with, posted the address of the pedal powered computer to a popular web site.
Slashdot Mirror
The biggest failing of most games nowadays is that the same SFX are recycled over and over, with perhaps just a small variation in pitch.
How about having true dynamic audio so that when you hit the same enemies over and over, they dont just blurt out exactly the same sound effect? Generating the sound for a particular monster should be done from a variety of generators that create the sound for that moment according to what is happening to them.
Fourier based audio generation such that entering a large hall makes the sounds boomy, low and echoy, whereas a small passageway has appropriately short echoes and higher pitch?
If the sound was truly dynamic in that way, then that would work for truly scaring the shit out of me!
You see, there is a lot of very good content on radio nowadays, but generally you have to avoid the commercial stations. They tend to have the interesting stuff because they know that people want more than the spoon fed commercial junk.
Myself, I often listen to Triple J which is a government-owned national broadcaster in Australia. They have a lot of diverse programs usually aimed at under-25 audiences (but still have stuff for over 25s).
I'm living in Europe now, but I still wanted to listen to some JJJ shows, so I set up a Linux box in Sydney with a BT878 based FM card, a cheapie sound card, some scripts, and oggenc. Now I get regular recordings of various shows each day that I download and listen to. The bonus of a BT878 type card is that I can tune to any other local station as well.
And I can also live stream too, at much better bitrates than the stations' own 'online streaming' at some unlistenable bitrate.
Address your letters to:
Crater #23432
(former) Abdullah Street
Baghdad
Do it now!
Or did anyone else start to rejoince after misreading this as "Jeff Bezos shot into space"?
In Soviet Russia, pencil sends YOU to Mars!
Remember - any concerns over "book piracy" are vastly less worrying than that of CD copyright infringement. Anyone who obtains music illegally can very easily listen to it via the same means as the legal copy - with headphones via a burned cd, etc.
OTOH, not many people want to read a book on a screen - it's much better reading it in a bound paper copy, and few consumers have the means to create these from something they downloaded. Or at the very least it's time consuming and expensive.
I'm thinking of a booth on the steet, kinda of like a phone booth,where you go into it, deposit 25c, then select either a quick and painless death, or a bloody and gruesome one.
I'll call it a Suicide Booth!!
What?? Not my original idea? Damn...
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Cowboynealean
An online version of that game would absolutely rock! Please Wendell, do it!
Yes there are clones out there, but none are quite so good.
(not really to do with online sales)
Why oh why do they still insist on charging tax as *extra* in retail stores in the US?
When I buy something, I expect to be told on the price list how much money I will pay to have the item. Including all taxes.
Why cant the US follow the rest of the world and have prices at general retail extablishments *inclusive* tax??
Salesdroid: That costs only $99, sir.
Me: here's a $100 note..
Salesdroid: Oh it's actually $105 including tax
Me: Argh ^%$^$%@!!
In Australia, Europe, etc the price on the tag is how much you pay. In the US it's not.
So now that you've been back online for what's probably a few days by the time you read this:
What do you think of todays internet?
DSL uses standard 2-wire phone line. With telephone lines clearly have a far greater install-base worldwide than cable, it makes sense that it's more popular. Telephone lines have been standard installation for > 30+years in most places, not so with cable.
Also, as other say, the US is far more spread out, which is harder for DSL as it requires you to be within a couple of km of an exchange. In Europe, people tend to be a lot closer to an exchange.
I've never heard of anyone 'Googling' for something when using another search engine...
You can blame Heisenberg.
"If you have a question, comment, suggestion, complaint, or personal request that we assist in the transfer of funds from a deposed dictator , please send an email to froogle-support@google.com."
(my emphasis)
[You shall not] Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.
However:
$ wget http://www.aa.com/robots.txt
--10:23:00-- http://www.aa.com:80/robots.txt
=> `robots.txt' Connecting to www.aa.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
10:23:01 ERROR 404: Not found.
So they've not got a robots.txt file. Do they expect web crawlers to read and understand this also??
Microsoft concerned about misleading EULAs
Bush administration concerned about freedoms being lost
RIAA concerned about consumers losing fair-use rights
Slashdot editors concerned about editorial integrity.
From correspondence I had with RMS not long ago:
(Indented text mine)
<quote>
I understand that US law prohibits any works created by
the government from holding any copyright, but immediately
fall into public domain.
That is true. However, work done by contractors with US government
contracts can be copyrighted and therefore can be GPL'd.
But by releasing modifications to
GPL licensed software, US government modifications would have
to fall under the public domain would they not?
Modifications written by government agencies would be in the public
domain.
This is no disaster. They would still be free software, and the modified
program as a whole would still be under the GPL.
</quote>
Those are Stallmans views on the US government and GPL code.
And with this model sir, for only a little more, you and your family will enjoy a full 30% increase in their chances of survival in the event of a head on crash...
I still remember when cars ads mentioned "optional airbags"...so at least one industry has made money selling more safety features.
That would explain why the weathers cooling down now...
1) Sing
2) ???
3) Profit!
At least someones got it right...
RFC821 includes almost exactly this patent (hopefully enough to quash it), especially
the 551 response:
3.2. FORWARDING
There are some cases where the destination information in the
<forward-path> is incorrect, but the receiver-SMTP knows the
correct destination. In such cases, one of the following replies
should be used to allow the sender to contact the correct
destination.
[...]
551 User not local; please try <forward-path>
This reply indicates that the receiver-SMTP knows the user's
mailbox is on another host and indicates the correct
forward-path to use. Note that either the host or user or
both may be different. The receiver refuses to accept mail
for this user, and the sender must either redirect the mail
according to the information provided or return an error
response to the originating user.
Or can the lawyers see holes in that?
Actually, black paper's bad - it runs really slowly as it has to send every black area = ie the entire page.
Far better, is to scrawl a few thick black lines on white paper, loop that around, then send it. It'll go through their paper much faster, and the scrawls will make it effectively useless anyway.
A man in Laos suffered a sudden heart attack when the computer he was powering by pedal received a massive DOS attack and quadrupled its power needs.
Local authorities beleive the DOS attack was caused after a neighbour, whom he has had many problems with, posted the address of the pedal powered computer to a popular web site.
Q: Can I bring a beamer?
A: Bringing your beamer is possible. Make sure you are not causing inconvenience to other visitors.
But will my Mercedes cause inconvenience?
(OKOK - 'Beamer' in Dutch actually is a video projector)