I take it that you've never been in a band and made an album before. Where should I start...there's recording time and production costs along with other various rental and studio costs, graphic design, promotion, the physical medium for distribution (although online distribution negates this cost), etc... If it's only costing you 44 dollars to make a record, I don't want to hear it.
I think you're forgetting that the Xbox can run in High-Def. If it's going to be 1080i supported, than I have no worries about having to upgrade my PC. mmmm...Doom 3 on a High-Def big screen TV... Now if someone will finally release a frickin' keyboard and mouse for the system.
Damn, I'll say it. I bought an xbox just for Halo. Am I ashamed? No. Do I have any other games for xbox? Only two others. Do I regret my purchase? No. Halo is one of the only games that I can still play after more than a year and not be sick of one bit. Do I have mine modded? No. Why? I have two pc's in my apartment, why do I need to mod my game console to do something that my one of my cpu's can already do. Why the flying fu#k do I need to run Linux on my xbox when I have a much better machine already running it. Rant? Finished.
Maybe someone can remind me of the rules for bulk-snail-mail. For all 2-5 credit card offers and such I get every day and whatever other crap I get in my mailbox, if I just marked them 'Return To Sender' would these actually get returned or trashed by the USPS? If they would be returned, I'm buying myself a ink pad and stamper.
As far as I can tell, the web really hasn't evolved that much either(not counting the browser). We are using the same protocols and delivering basically the same types of information that we did 5 years ago. Sure we have flash and other funky plugins to spice things up, but the backbone is still the same. How are you suppose to innovate when the set of building blocks you have to work with haven't changed? Sure you can mix them up a little and get mouse gestures and tabbing and such, but you need new building materials to work with to innovate on top of. Once we migrate off the current version of protocols that we so fondly call the Internet, and open things up some more, I'm sure we'll start to see this innovation.
I believe I heard it best watching the Screen Savers earlier this afternoon. It's not free speech, it's commercial communications. Spammers aren't trying to just sway peoples' judgements...ok, well maybe trying to make guys believe that by taking a pill they can make their junk 25% larger...but on top of that they are selling you something. If this was free speech we would have never seen a national do-not-call directory for telemarketers.
hmmm...somebody(SCO) is shouting threats at someone else(IBM) that may be, as they see it, harmful to their security. Does this ring a bell to anyone else? I think Dub'ya is on the board of directors for SCO. Let's see, US talking smack to Iraq and (a bunch of other countries on the side) and what happens after the deadline is set? Invasion! IBM should start locking down their corporate headquarters and raise their current threat color a level or two. SCO's coming in!
Bet their "shock and awe" phase will be a let down.
What timezone do you live in again? Did I pass out earlier?
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I don't know how to break this to you, but...
Evidently someone here thinks their own culture is the only one on Earth. Euroelitistpigs.
Dude, I live in Wisconsin. The beer drinking mecca of the USA (listen to Lewis Black, The White Album's first track ). Judging from your list of fine canned beers and your viewpoint on our foreign friends, you must live somewhere around northern Minnesota. Ahh, this is a waste of time trying to explain. I'll write a children's book on the subject instead so you won't have problems getting the joke next time.
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You must not drink much Guinness if you didn't get understand that... Maybe I should have put it this way:
That's "American" Guinness. "Real" Guinness doesn't come in a can, silly.
My god man! Yes, drink it cold, but stop drinking beer out of a can unless that's all you can afford after paying your second mortgage on your double-wide at the end of the month
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That's "American" Guinness. Real Guinness doesn't come in a can, silly.
or does that Manhunt website really suck. Sure, teasers are great and all, but they don't do any good when a website just gives you a full page-can't click anywhere-boring flash show that could have been in pure HTML for what it was worth. And yippie for the second page as well. Some people have to learn that a 10 second teaser on tv or a magazine ad with just a line of text works better than doing this sort of thing on the internet.
Internet = interact TV and print = passive
or maybe I'm just stupid and didn't see the link to the real site
I'll get to as soon as someone makes a robot that can play foosball...HAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA
Now I'll have to change it to: I'll get to it as soon as someone makes a robot that can kick my ass on a regular basis playing foosball (minus laughter afterwards).
But, that hasn't stopped either party before.. From Microsoft's lies about the xbox's polygon performance, to their bull about the advantages of having to pay to play games you already bought online..
Oh, Heavens to Betsy!!! You mean a console maker would actually have the nerve to exagerate their specs!?!? Never!! That's a bad, bad Microsoft! A nice upstanding company like Sony, for instance, would never do anything like this. Much less make people pay to play games online...wait a minute...
Unless you are a total audio nut (in which case you would bypass the whole mp3/wma/ogg/aac scene in the first place since they would all suck), then you have nothing to worry about. AAC sounds perfectly fine. Sure, they might sound a little muddy coming out of some iBook speakers, but with a good pair of headphones...well, anyway, if this were the Pepsi challenge, then it'd probably end up 50/50. If you want your music to sound exactly like your CD then frickin' rip the music right into.wav files and don't bitch when your harddrive is full after 40 CDs.
I'm actually hoping that this patch will be annouced at E3 along with Diablo III. It would be a perfect match actually. Diable III could be announed for release fourth quarter this year and to tide all of us Diablo fans over, we get this great new patch! Looks like it could be Win-Win for Blizzard and for the players. Now I just gotta keep my fingers crossed for a week straight...
Actually, I don't see any issues with cropping regular 4:3 TV signals if all you're losing is about a tiny bit off the top and bottom (not half the dang picture). Anyway, going back to my college video classes, you shouldn't really be placing anything of importance near the very edges of the screen due to the way that different TVs can crop the viewable image just by their design. I have a little 19 inch Sanyo in my bedroom that cuts off about an inch and a half from the right hand side and there's nothing I can do about it. Basically television programming is like filler for the brain, movies I view as an art form (not counting Dude, Where's My Car & similar) and I really don't want it distorted in anyway from its orginal. Same reason I can put up with crappy streaming internet broadcast but I don't want my own Mp3s to be popping every few seconds. Wow...I must be bored. I just ranted over nothing worthwhile.
I don't think my widescreen does all that horrible a job at formatting 4:3 images to fill the screen. My Sony has a great video setting that instead of just stretching the image to 16:9, it kinda zooms it in and crops a little off the top and bottom of the screen. The only time I really notice this cropping is when I watch CNN or those other news channels with the scrolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen. This kinda sucked during the first few days of the war, but after 3 days or so of pure CNN and Fox News you get really good at reading only the top half of scrolling text.
It worse when playing console games and information is either way at the top or bottom of the screen and you can't see it unless you do the whole vertical bar thing. I'm glad Microsoft was smart enough to put in HD and widescreen formats built into the X-Box. Once you go widescreen Halo, there's no going back.
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The 80's called. They want their Steve Guttenberg joke back.
I take it that you've never been in a band and made an album before. Where should I start...there's recording time and production costs along with other various rental and studio costs, graphic design, promotion, the physical medium for distribution (although online distribution negates this cost), etc...
If it's only costing you 44 dollars to make a record, I don't want to hear it.
I think you're forgetting that the Xbox can run in High-Def. If it's going to be 1080i supported, than I have no worries about having to upgrade my PC.
mmmm...Doom 3 on a High-Def big screen TV... Now if someone will finally release a frickin' keyboard and mouse for the system.
Damn, I'll say it. I bought an xbox just for Halo. Am I ashamed? No. Do I have any other games for xbox? Only two others. Do I regret my purchase? No. Halo is one of the only games that I can still play after more than a year and not be sick of one bit. Do I have mine modded? No. Why? I have two pc's in my apartment, why do I need to mod my game console to do something that my one of my cpu's can already do. Why the flying fu#k do I need to run Linux on my xbox when I have a much better machine already running it. Rant? Finished.
Maybe someone can remind me of the rules for bulk-snail-mail. For all 2-5 credit card offers and such I get every day and whatever other crap I get in my mailbox, if I just marked them 'Return To Sender' would these actually get returned or trashed by the USPS? If they would be returned, I'm buying myself a ink pad and stamper.
As far as I can tell, the web really hasn't evolved that much either(not counting the browser). We are using the same protocols and delivering basically the same types of information that we did 5 years ago. Sure we have flash and other funky plugins to spice things up, but the backbone is still the same. How are you suppose to innovate when the set of building blocks you have to work with haven't changed? Sure you can mix them up a little and get mouse gestures and tabbing and such, but you need new building materials to work with to innovate on top of. Once we migrate off the current version of protocols that we so fondly call the Internet, and open things up some more, I'm sure we'll start to see this innovation.
I believe I heard it best watching the Screen Savers earlier this afternoon. It's not free speech, it's commercial communications. Spammers aren't trying to just sway peoples' judgements...ok, well maybe trying to make guys believe that by taking a pill they can make their junk 25% larger...but on top of that they are selling you something. If this was free speech we would have never seen a national do-not-call directory for telemarketers.
Welcome to our planet
We Earthlings call this marketing
You lost me here...are you for or against the whole Freecraft thing? Wait a second...dammit, I got trolled again!
hmmm...somebody(SCO) is shouting threats at someone else(IBM) that may be, as they see it, harmful to their security. Does this ring a bell to anyone else? I think Dub'ya is on the board of directors for SCO. Let's see, US talking smack to Iraq and (a bunch of other countries on the side) and what happens after the deadline is set?
Invasion!
IBM should start locking down their corporate headquarters and raise their current threat color a level or two. SCO's coming in!
Bet their "shock and awe" phase will be a let down.
It's saturday night.
What timezone do you live in again? Did I pass out earlier?
I don't know how to break this to you, but...
Evidently someone here thinks their own culture is the only one on Earth. Euroelitistpigs.
Dude, I live in Wisconsin. The beer drinking mecca of the USA (listen to Lewis Black, The White Album's first track ). Judging from your list of fine canned beers and your viewpoint on our foreign friends, you must live somewhere around northern Minnesota. Ahh, this is a waste of time trying to explain. I'll write a children's book on the subject instead so you won't have problems getting the joke next time.
You must not drink much Guinness if you didn't get understand that... Maybe I should have put it this way:
That's "American" Guinness. "Real" Guinness doesn't come in a can, silly.
My god man! Yes, drink it cold, but stop drinking beer out of a can unless that's all you can afford after paying your second mortgage on your double-wide at the end of the month
That's "American" Guinness. Real Guinness doesn't come in a can, silly.
or does that Manhunt website really suck. Sure, teasers are great and all, but they don't do any good when a website just gives you a full page-can't click anywhere-boring flash show that could have been in pure HTML for what it was worth. And yippie for the second page as well. Some people have to learn that a 10 second teaser on tv or a magazine ad with just a line of text works better than doing this sort of thing on the internet.
Internet = interact
TV and print = passive
or maybe I'm just stupid and didn't see the link to the real site
I'll get to as soon as someone makes a robot that can play foosball...HAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA
Now I'll have to change it to:
I'll get to it as soon as someone makes a robot that can kick my ass on a regular basis playing foosball (minus laughter afterwards).
But, that hasn't stopped either party before.. From Microsoft's lies about the xbox's polygon performance, to their bull about the advantages of having to pay to play games you already bought online..
Oh, Heavens to Betsy!!! You mean a console maker would actually have the nerve to exagerate their specs!?!? Never!! That's a bad, bad Microsoft!
A nice upstanding company like Sony, for instance, would never do anything like this. Much less make people pay to play games online...wait a minute...
Sounds like you've been there before.
I tell ya, you guys gotta stop trying to meet chicks over those online dating sites...
LOL!!!!!
I know. That's what everyone else is saying here, too. It's call Daikatana.
Unless you are a total audio nut (in which case you would bypass the whole mp3/wma/ogg/aac scene in the first place since they would all suck), then you have nothing to worry about. AAC sounds perfectly fine. Sure, they might sound a little muddy coming out of some iBook speakers, but with a good pair of headphones...well, anyway, if this were the Pepsi challenge, then it'd probably end up 50/50. If you want your music to sound exactly like your CD then frickin' rip the music right into .wav files and don't bitch when your harddrive is full after 40 CDs.
I am not a Mac user, but I play one at work
I'm actually hoping that this patch will be annouced at E3 along with Diablo III. It would be a perfect match actually. Diable III could be announed for release fourth quarter this year and to tide all of us Diablo fans over, we get this great new patch! Looks like it could be Win-Win for Blizzard and for the players.
Now I just gotta keep my fingers crossed for a week straight...
Viva La Resistance!!
Actually, I don't see any issues with cropping regular 4:3 TV signals if all you're losing is about a tiny bit off the top and bottom (not half the dang picture). Anyway, going back to my college video classes, you shouldn't really be placing anything of importance near the very edges of the screen due to the way that different TVs can crop the viewable image just by their design. I have a little 19 inch Sanyo in my bedroom that cuts off about an inch and a half from the right hand side and there's nothing I can do about it.
Basically television programming is like filler for the brain, movies I view as an art form (not counting Dude, Where's My Car & similar) and I really don't want it distorted in anyway from its orginal. Same reason I can put up with crappy streaming internet broadcast but I don't want my own Mp3s to be popping every few seconds.
Wow...I must be bored. I just ranted over nothing worthwhile.
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Thanks for the correction, my bad
I don't think my widescreen does all that horrible a job at formatting 4:3 images to fill the screen. My Sony has a great video setting that instead of just stretching the image to 16:9, it kinda zooms it in and crops a little off the top and bottom of the screen. The only time I really notice this cropping is when I watch CNN or those other news channels with the scrolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen. This kinda sucked during the first few days of the war, but after 3 days or so of pure CNN and Fox News you get really good at reading only the top half of scrolling text.
It worse when playing console games and information is either way at the top or bottom of the screen and you can't see it unless you do the whole vertical bar thing. I'm glad Microsoft was smart enough to put in HD and widescreen formats built into the X-Box. Once you go widescreen Halo, there's no going back.