So, I updated on my work comp, and it now has some really odd issues.
It hijacked my homepage to put mozilla homepage on it, even though I unchecked that option.
when I change it back to my homepage, it loads with my homepage just fine on boot, but when I click the home button in the toolbar, I get sent to the moz homepage. WTF?!
Any one else seeing that? any idea how to fix this?
My wife is so into games, that she just completed a certificate course for becoming a Games Tester, and is currently applying to several local gaming houses.
And she is constantly annoyed at all the T&A in most video games. It is fairly infantile the amount of skin that most female characters show in video games. Women are not built like that, nor do they normally dress like that. (Although some will if you pay them $100 a half hour, and will other things besides.)
It seems that the majority of game developers are 12 year old boys with over-active immaginations and a lifetime subscription to playboy magazine because that is how they portray women in games.
Girl Gamers are out there, and they spend money. Lots of money. She buys just as many games as I do, and to ignore, dismiss, or otherwise belittle that marketing slice is not a really good idea at all.
Regarding the file names issue. If you are on Windows there is a program called Renamer (free to download, check download.com) that allows to rename whole groups of songs based on the ID3 tag. Fully configurable, you can arrange the items in any order. It took me about 10 seconds to rename all the files from one release to Artist - Album - Track# - Song.mp3. worked perfectly, and is very useful.
I have begun broadcasting in the Ogg media format recently.. I am using it to replace the Real Media stream from my radio show. At its smallest setting, the sound quality is pretty good, and Win Amp has a plug in for Ogg, so it made it an easy bet to go Ogg instead of Real. Whose advertising methods with its free player drive me nuts, I have been looking for a replacement for Real for a while, and Ogg is it. Ogg joins Win Media as my two formats for the Show.
Definitly one of the best new voices in the Science Fiction genre (with an emphasis on HARD science fiction..)
is Stephen Baxter. he writes very detailed and amazingly well researched books that use lots of very current information for his explanations of the science behind the stories.
One of the more intersting things is that he usually cites the papers he got his ideas from. He is well read, and has drawn ideas from papers on natural nuclear reactors, space time continum, and many other theoretical works.
His works are fresh, and detailed, but he doesn't skimp out on character development. You believe in his characters, and you are drawn in hook line and sinker to his highly detailed, quite beleiveable world.
The one thing that no mentioned (at least Score:3 or above) is this:
If you Centralize the internet, IE: put it all in one easy to monitor place. Then you create the biggest terror target imaginable. If you really want to disrupt the day to day lives of Americans, then BLOW UP THE INTERNET! Which you can't do right now, because of its semi distributed nature. But if you "Centralize" the internet for easier monitoring, then you put all your eggs in a basket, and beg for someone to come kick the basket.
They have proven how resourceful they can be, what with the planes loaded with fuel and all, why give them such an easy target to affect a majority of americans? The internet has become a part of the fabric of peoples lives, and there for the pointy headed idiots in Washington to look at and consider all the information they can't monitor.
Maybe we could send Deep Space 1 out there to take a look, since it is one of the best examples of how things SHOULD be done in NASA's history.
Low Cost (comparitively) and Durable (lasts far beyond mission parameters) is really the way to go.
There are so many interesting things in our own solar system, we should make a DS2 or something to just scoot around the system taking pictures for us to marvel over.
"Isn't "Electronic Industrial" and "music" a contradiction in terms? It kind of fits into the same catagory as rap: Something pretty much anyone can do with a 4 track and a cheap keyboard that will play endless rhythmic and electronic loops. No music talent required."
Well give me some credit for choosing artists to work with that Don't suck?!? I get a lot of CDr from the type you mention above, doesn't mean I have to spend my time on them.
I work with people I think are good... Why else would I bother? I'm not going to spend all my time and money on something that sucks..:)
At least in MY opinion. If you happen to agree, then GREAT... if not, oh well, I am sure we could find you a Milli Vanilli tape around here.. Joking joking..
Peoples musical tastes differ, which is why there are so many musical genres out there. And in each Genre there are MANY MANY people that suck, and a few that are good, and those are the ones that hopefully will get some recognition.
There are Mp3 samples on my site, check it out for yourself, and if you don't like it, then you're not obligated to buy it.:)
"The issue is about price and your label is already too expensive. Lower your price to $8.00 and I'll support you.....maybe."
You need to make the distinction between the music from MY label, and music that I distribute from other labels. Negative Format is not a band on my label, and there for I have to pay a significantly higher whole sale cost. BUT, if you will notice, I charge less for those CD's than most retailers do.:)
Also, in about half of the cases in my distribution, the money goes DIRECTLY to the artists, and the other half goes a label I know that gives half of proceeds to the artists. which is a MUCH better deal than most labels give.
The highest price on my label releases has been $9.00, (excepting 1 release which was a special case, and all the money, and I mean ALL the money went to 9/11 charity)
Also, my cost per unit is MUCH higher than the big boys, so don't map the cost per production from the big boys to my little operation. They can do things in such large amounts a CD costs only pennies, when it's more like $3-5.00 for me, when you add in material costs, printing, audio mastering, cases, shipping supplies, etc. etc.
But anyway, thanks for the comments, and the look see at my label.
I hear all this talk of boycotting them, and how they are strangling the industry, etc etc.
I would like to present an option, or rather How I Fight The System.
I run my own label. Its a small affair, using the best quality packaging, and CDr with thermal printing for a slick look, use professional quality audio mastering, and work with underground electronic/industrial artists to promote, and distribute their music. All legal, and copyrighted by the artist, I don't "own" the artist like the big labels, its more a partnership. I went with a "supply on demand" model to lessen my financial risk, and am just going out and doing it myself. Screw the big guys, there is tons of good music out there, for cheaper than the bloated greedy recording industry would like you to beleieve that they can be had for! I'm not the only one either, there are a few of us out there..
Syncromesh Audio is where to find it. I run an internet radio stream as well, featuring mostly small label, or independant electronic/industrial/goth artists, and very little of the big guys generic and hook filled crap.
You want to stick it to the man? Then support the options. There is some really good music out there, and we don't have billions for marketing to promote it.
Current testing (software quality assurance) theory holds that it is statistically impossible for someone to find ALL the bugs in a program. The sheer number of combinations makes it infeasible.
Kem Kaner, author of Testing Computer Software, the defacto bible of software testers goes into great detail about this idea.
For example, I DL'd Mozilla 1.0, and have already had it crash twice, and it frequently locks up and won't browse to new addresses.
Bug Free? I don't think so.
Sure MS products have bugs, but so do ALL software, including Linux, and others.
I'm just betting that Seamus is leaving to form his own game company, probably writing Xbox games for his beloved platform.
I have no information, but if you look at what sort of person he is, the fact that the fun part of creation is done, and his gripes about games companies not pushing the envelope....
I imagine the temptation to just that would be overpowering..
I seriously doubt that MS will ever "Dominate" the games market. PS2 is too established for that. But if you own both, just think of the massive pile of gaming goodness you'll be able to sit upon like a fat gaming dragon on a gleaming horde. Competition is a good thing, it drives people to make better products.
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So, I updated on my work comp, and it now has some really odd issues.
It hijacked my homepage to put mozilla homepage on it, even though I unchecked that option.
when I change it back to my homepage, it loads with my homepage just fine on boot, but when I click the home button in the toolbar, I get sent to the moz homepage. WTF?!
Any one else seeing that? any idea how to fix this?
badger
Valentines Day? We went and bought Balders Gate II and played it Co-op mode all day.
That and she baked a cake in the shape of a heart.
Cake, video games, and a wife who loves you.
Doesn't get any better than that.
badger
My wife is so into games, that she just completed a certificate course for becoming a Games Tester, and is currently applying to several local gaming houses.
And she is constantly annoyed at all the T&A in most video games. It is fairly infantile the amount of skin that most female characters show in video games. Women are not built like that, nor do they normally dress like that. (Although some will if you pay them $100 a half hour, and will other things besides.)
It seems that the majority of game developers are 12 year old boys with over-active immaginations and a lifetime subscription to playboy magazine because that is how they portray women in games.
Girl Gamers are out there, and they spend money. Lots of money. She buys just as many games as I do, and to ignore, dismiss, or otherwise belittle that marketing slice is not a really good idea at all.
badger
Regarding the file names issue. If you are on Windows there is a program called Renamer (free to download, check download .com) that allows to rename whole groups of songs based on the ID3 tag. Fully configurable, you can arrange the items in any order. It took me about 10 seconds to rename all the files from one release to Artist - Album - Track# - Song.mp3. worked perfectly, and is very useful.
I have begun broadcasting in the Ogg media format recently.. I am using it to replace the Real Media stream from my radio show. At its smallest setting, the sound quality is pretty good, and Win Amp has a plug in for Ogg, so it made it an easy bet to go Ogg instead of Real. Whose advertising methods with its free player drive me nuts, I have been looking for a replacement for Real for a while, and Ogg is it. Ogg joins Win Media as my two formats for the Show.
badger
Definitly one of the best new voices in the Science Fiction genre (with an emphasis on HARD science fiction..)
is Stephen Baxter. he writes very detailed and amazingly well researched books that use lots of very current information for his explanations of the science behind the stories.
One of the more intersting things is that he usually cites the papers he got his ideas from. He is well read, and has drawn ideas from papers on natural nuclear reactors, space time continum, and many other theoretical works.
His works are fresh, and detailed, but he doesn't skimp out on character development. You believe in his characters, and you are drawn in hook line and sinker to his highly detailed, quite beleiveable world.
in a comic vein..
"Danger Room"
old movie vein
"Emerald City"
random vein
"There be Monsters"
"Mind the Gap"
"Internet Invented Here"
"Abandon all Hope"
"The Shrine"
"Rear Command Center"
"Jedi Academy"
"Janitors Closet"
I could go all night.. but that would lame, and I need to catch up on my slee.....
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz.....
The one thing that no mentioned (at least Score:3 or above) is this:
If you Centralize the internet, IE: put it all in one easy to monitor place. Then you create the biggest terror target imaginable. If you really want to disrupt the day to day lives of Americans, then BLOW UP THE INTERNET! Which you can't do right now, because of its semi distributed nature. But if you "Centralize" the internet for easier monitoring, then you put all your eggs in a basket, and beg for someone to come kick the basket.
They have proven how resourceful they can be, what with the planes loaded with fuel and all, why give them such an easy target to affect a majority of americans? The internet has become a part of the fabric of peoples lives, and there for the pointy headed idiots in Washington to look at and consider all the information they can't monitor.
Maybe we could send Deep Space 1 out there to take a look, since it is one of the best examples of how things SHOULD be done in NASA's history.
Low Cost (comparitively) and Durable (lasts far beyond mission parameters) is really the way to go.
There are so many interesting things in our own solar system, we should make a DS2 or something to just scoot around the system taking pictures for us to marvel over.
Never underestimate the power of pretty space pictures to excite the mind.
"Isn't "Electronic Industrial" and "music" a contradiction in terms? It kind of fits into the same catagory as rap: Something pretty much anyone can do with a 4 track and a cheap keyboard that will play endless rhythmic and electronic loops. No music talent required."
:)
:)
Well give me some credit for choosing artists to work with that Don't suck?!? I get a lot of CDr from the type you mention above, doesn't mean I have to spend my time on them.
I work with people I think are good... Why else would I bother? I'm not going to spend all my time and money on something that sucks..
At least in MY opinion. If you happen to agree, then GREAT... if not, oh well, I am sure we could find you a Milli Vanilli tape around here.. Joking joking..
Peoples musical tastes differ, which is why there are so many musical genres out there. And in each Genre there are MANY MANY people that suck, and a few that are good, and those are the ones that hopefully will get some recognition.
There are Mp3 samples on my site, check it out for yourself, and if you don't like it, then you're not obligated to buy it.
"The issue is about price and your label is already too expensive. Lower your price to $8.00 and I'll support you.....maybe."
:)
You need to make the distinction between the music from MY label, and music that I distribute from other labels. Negative Format is not a band on my label, and there for I have to pay a significantly higher whole sale cost. BUT, if you will notice, I charge less for those CD's than most retailers do.
Also, in about half of the cases in my distribution, the money goes DIRECTLY to the artists, and the other half goes a label I know that gives half of proceeds to the artists. which is a MUCH better deal than most labels give.
The highest price on my label releases has been $9.00, (excepting 1 release which was a special case, and all the money, and I mean ALL the money went to 9/11 charity)
Also, my cost per unit is MUCH higher than the big boys, so don't map the cost per production from the big boys to my little operation. They can do things in such large amounts a CD costs only pennies, when it's more like $3-5.00 for me, when you add in material costs, printing, audio mastering, cases, shipping supplies, etc. etc.
But anyway, thanks for the comments, and the look see at my label.
I hear all this talk of boycotting them, and how they are strangling the industry, etc etc.
I would like to present an option, or rather How I Fight The System.
I run my own label. Its a small affair, using the best quality packaging, and CDr with thermal printing for a slick look, use professional quality audio mastering, and work with underground electronic/industrial artists to promote, and distribute their music. All legal, and copyrighted by the artist, I don't "own" the artist like the big labels, its more a partnership. I went with a "supply on demand" model to lessen my financial risk, and am just going out and doing it myself. Screw the big guys, there is tons of good music out there, for cheaper than the bloated greedy recording industry would like you to beleieve that they can be had for! I'm not the only one either, there are a few of us out there..
Syncromesh Audio is where to find it. I run an internet radio stream as well, featuring mostly small label, or independant electronic/industrial/goth artists, and very little of the big guys generic and hook filled crap.
You want to stick it to the man? Then support the options. There is some really good music out there, and we don't have billions for marketing to promote it.
Yeah, so there.
Does Madonna come with this Dick Tracy watch?
And if Transmeta makes the chips, then that is double cool.
I personally don't care WHO makes the damn things, as long as someone makes them, and gets them out there for reasonable prices!
At least it got there...
So, we wait for 2-3 updates on any MS product any waiting for it to be "stable"..
Something close to first post? is it possible?
heh, probably not. just a bug in the matrix.
You would trust AOL with your data?
a fool and his privacy are soon parted..
badger
Ha!
that should keep you guys posting for days!
It almost sounds like a reverse engineering of it, without the exact code base, its not an exact copy of it.
But it would have be carefully thought out.
Bug Free does not exist.
Period.
Current testing (software quality assurance) theory holds that it is statistically impossible for someone to find ALL the bugs in a program. The sheer number of combinations makes it infeasible.
Kem Kaner, author of Testing Computer Software, the defacto bible of software testers goes into great detail about this idea.
For example, I DL'd Mozilla 1.0, and have already had it crash twice, and it frequently locks up and won't browse to new addresses.
Bug Free? I don't think so.
Sure MS products have bugs, but so do ALL software, including Linux, and others.
Just a data point to throw out there.
badger
Thing.
I'm just betting that Seamus is leaving to form his own game company, probably writing Xbox games for his beloved platform.
I have no information, but if you look at what sort of person he is, the fact that the fun part of creation is done, and his gripes about games companies not pushing the envelope....
I imagine the temptation to just that would be overpowering..
just a thought.
Look at AT&T... they are huge and monopolistic around here, that's for sure. breaking them seemed to only be a momentary setback
Huh.. we played it and found that it kicked ass. Play it on Xbox.
I seriously doubt that MS will ever "Dominate" the games market. PS2 is too established for that. But if you own both, just think of the massive pile of gaming goodness you'll be able to sit upon like a fat gaming dragon on a gleaming horde. Competition is a good thing, it drives people to make better products.
It is a great game that's for sure..
My wife loved it so much she finished it and went back to play it again all the way through.
I don't think its going to come out on any other platform though..