Avoid 12 tone equal temperament. Use microtones. Invent a new genre of music where old melodies won't be recognized. Create a new system of keys, scales, and intervals based on pi or the golden mean, without having it sound like shit.
It's been done for UT. I made a Super Mario Bros. map for using textures ripped from a ROM. No levels are reproduced, but it's a custom map with castles, pipes (with UT warpzones), platforms, tunnels, and chasms.
No link for now, but I might post a link if I find a public FTP server or something by the end of the day.
Eventually, as you go higher, you will reach 2^300, where the most significant digit in base ten is 2, not a 1. Luckily that number is higher than the estimated number of atoms in the universe, or else we'd eventually be getting screwed by HD manufacturers.
The closer a sound get to 22KHz, the fewer samples you have per wave to record it, and the more your wave is going to look/sound like a square wave. You don't want that. A lot of high notes (and percussion) and their overtones playing at the same time will be better sampled with a high bitrate than a low one. 96KHz is probably as high a rate as anyone needs to sample for audio purposes.
Good headphones can get actually get pretty expensive (expensive for headphones, anyway, like in the few hundreds of dollars), but they still cost a good deal less than floor standing speakers with equivalent sound quality.
If you're crazy you can get a Sennheiser Orpheus with a tube amp for something like 12-16 grand. Of course, a person who would buy that would probably also listen to nothing less than 24bit 96KHz or analog recordings.
There are probably many songs that aren't called lullabyes but could act as such (when played with proper instruments). One example I can think of is Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", especially the new Switched on Bach performance.
Maybe different keys or tuning styles are better suited to sleep, because some notes may be harmonics of fundamental brain frequencies. Just a thought, probably wrong.
Any of various usually small tropical and subtropical lizards of the family Gekkonidae, having toes padded with setae containing numerous suction cups that enable them to climb on vertical surfaces.
If I remember correctly, they looked pretty but kinda sucked when using a controller to select menu items. Menu browsing with a mouse will be much faster.
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Avoid 12 tone equal temperament. Use microtones.
Invent a new genre of music where old melodies won't be recognized.
Create a new system of keys, scales, and intervals based on pi or the golden mean, without having it sound like shit.
How about these: Translocator. Sniper rifle (especially sniper arena). Dodging.
$ ls -R / ;-)
/ ! :-)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;-)'
That's what bash version 2.05a.0(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) gives me.
(Hey, I wasn't going to check with rm -rf
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;-)'
:-(
Speaking of nethack... here's a graphical version: http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html
Nethack has been brought to a level Quake fans might enjoy. Well, maybe not.
Robotron Quake!!
It's been done for UT. I made a Super Mario Bros. map for using textures ripped from a ROM. No levels are reproduced, but it's a custom map with castles, pipes (with UT warpzones), platforms, tunnels, and chasms.
No link for now, but I might post a link if I find a public FTP server or something by the end of the day.
And the diagram is fucking ugly to boot! Someone could use that as an advertisement against bitmaps and for vector-graphics editing tools.
Vulnerable to a major ... what? No link to the goatse.cx guy?
Eventually, as you go higher, you will reach 2^300, where the most significant digit in base ten is 2, not a 1. Luckily that number is higher than the estimated number of atoms in the universe, or else we'd eventually be getting screwed by HD manufacturers.
The closer a sound get to 22KHz, the fewer samples you have per wave to record it, and the more your wave is going to look/sound like a square wave. You don't want that. A lot of high notes (and percussion) and their overtones playing at the same time will be better sampled with a high bitrate than a low one. 96KHz is probably as high a rate as anyone needs to sample for audio purposes.
Good headphones can get actually get pretty expensive (expensive for headphones, anyway, like in the few hundreds of dollars), but they still cost a good deal less than floor standing speakers with equivalent sound quality.
If you're crazy you can get a Sennheiser Orpheus with a tube amp for something like 12-16 grand. Of course, a person who would buy that would probably also listen to nothing less than 24bit 96KHz or analog recordings.
People still played MP3s in the days long before there they were supported by any hardware (DVD/CD players, etc).
Of course, for those who play music from their computers (even hooked up to their main audio system) it doesn't hurt one bit to use Ogg.
I would have hated to have you as a teacher.
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> Drinking after having a bunch of beer ... well that's just plain stupid.
:-)
What's wrong with that?
(Yes, I know what you meant...)
> We can see you're not married then...
Q: Why does a bride smile when she's walking down the aisle?
A: Because she knows she only has to give one more blowjob.
> Cynical chic I guess; snipe at everything lest you be considered naive...
Damn straight. Same as "I already did this, 20 years ago. Obviously my penis and beard are longer than any of yours'."
There are probably many songs that aren't called lullabyes but could act as such (when played with proper instruments). One example I can think of is Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", especially the new Switched on Bach performance.
Maybe different keys or tuning styles are better suited to sleep, because some notes may be harmonics of fundamental brain frequencies. Just a thought, probably wrong.
Yes, you start to dream on your feet. Free drugs! Or, as JWZ would have it, free if your time has no value.
If puns were deli meats, this would be the wurst.
Just in case anyone didn't know,
gecko (gk)
n. pl. geckos or geckoes
Any of various usually small tropical and subtropical lizards of the family Gekkonidae, having toes padded with setae containing numerous suction cups that enable them to climb on vertical surfaces.
If I remember correctly, they looked pretty but kinda sucked when using a controller to select menu items. Menu browsing with a mouse will be much faster.