Somehow MS' status as an anti-competitive, FUD-mongering, embracing-and-extinguishing, abusive monopoly doesn't seem so professional to me, but what do i know...
They'd still be subject to reality when travelling to other places. If they manage to get that kind of special treatment with any airport, that would be something indeed. For now, it's 1) travel to some other state or country, 2) land in the same airport as everybody else, 3) commute to and from their plane just like everybody else.
I think the Internet is making possible lots of new and wonderful ways of making music. For instance, i happen to be a member of a musician-oriented forum. Once in a while, somebody would compose a drum track or some other backing track and then pass it around to members. Those who were interested to add to it are free to do so, and i've heard a lot of excellent musical ideas from people who otherwise would've had no avenue of expression. Suddenly, you don't even have to have a band living in the same town as you are: your bass player could be living somewhere in Europe while the singer could be in Japan and the rest of the band in other places. Taking it one step further, the really prolific could now create full albums and a website from where they could sell CDs, completely bypassing the greedy record labels.
For me, what IS destroying good music is the empty-v culture of all flash, no substance. Ever sat down to watch for at least 5 minutes or so? It's nothing but the same big name, big production, no talent crap over and over.
To answer question #2, IMHO a satellite link is just too unreliable to be used as major backbone. There are just too many factors that could disrupt proper communications: weather, solar conditions, possibly even obstructions of the line of sight between the satellite and the ground station.
While actual mechanical skill with an instrument belongs to one level, composing and arranging belong to a wholly different level. I'd even go as far to venture that both rely on completely different sets of brain matter. Speaking from personal experience, i may be able to shred guitar with the best of them (okay, i might be exaggerating a bit), but i really hit a wall when i try to arrange something, especially if it has many layers of instrumentation, melody, harmony, etc. That guy is a master arranger in his own right.
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Somehow MS' status as an anti-competitive, FUD-mongering, embracing-and-extinguishing, abusive monopoly doesn't seem so professional to me, but what do i know...
The Doom 3 "expansion" Resurrection of Evil has the Grabber. Essentially the Gravity Gun except that you can't hold objects forever.
Fixed it for you.
Which, the keyboard or the wife?
Mod parent +1 interesting! I actually chuckled when i saw slashdot's headers! :D
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3. PROFIT!
That, in my opinion, is an unfair analogy. If Theo de Raadt is a score: 1 flamebait, John C. Dvorak would be a score: -1 troll.
Ninjas with B00BS!!!
The UAC has made the use of traditional landing spots obsolete. They call it "the Ark."
I swallowed a petrified hot grit that my appendix is too small to contain.
Mod parent +1 Lame!
They'd still be subject to reality when travelling to other places. If they manage to get that kind of special treatment with any airport, that would be something indeed. For now, it's 1) travel to some other state or country, 2) land in the same airport as everybody else, 3) commute to and from their plane just like everybody else.
And the song will be called "Get the Axe"!
Not only that, this completely gets in the way of that little thing called natural selection. ;-p
I think the Internet is making possible lots of new and wonderful ways of making music. For instance, i happen to be a member of a musician-oriented forum. Once in a while, somebody would compose a drum track or some other backing track and then pass it around to members. Those who were interested to add to it are free to do so, and i've heard a lot of excellent musical ideas from people who otherwise would've had no avenue of expression. Suddenly, you don't even have to have a band living in the same town as you are: your bass player could be living somewhere in Europe while the singer could be in Japan and the rest of the band in other places. Taking it one step further, the really prolific could now create full albums and a website from where they could sell CDs, completely bypassing the greedy record labels.
For me, what IS destroying good music is the empty-v culture of all flash, no substance. Ever sat down to watch for at least 5 minutes or so? It's nothing but the same big name, big production, no talent crap over and over.
simply move to quash the Think City before it actually hits the production line?
I, for one, welcome our new technologically-enhanced cyborg pr0nstar overloards!
To answer question #2, IMHO a satellite link is just too unreliable to be used as major backbone. There are just too many factors that could disrupt proper communications: weather, solar conditions, possibly even obstructions of the line of sight between the satellite and the ground station.
Gives new meaning to the term HARD BOOT!
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bianca/
;-P
I would love to give her my very large hard drive. For "performance evaluation and measurement", you understand.
While actual mechanical skill with an instrument belongs to one level, composing and arranging belong to a wholly different level. I'd even go as far to venture that both rely on completely different sets of brain matter. Speaking from personal experience, i may be able to shred guitar with the best of them (okay, i might be exaggerating a bit), but i really hit a wall when i try to arrange something, especially if it has many layers of instrumentation, melody, harmony, etc. That guy is a master arranger in his own right.
You lost me at "girlfriend."
I, for one, welcome our new teenage basement-dwelling fusion reactor overlords!
does it run Linux?