What you're basically saying is that every recording Guthrie did was live, so this must be wrong.
Lol.
I've never heard of a non-live recording...except maybe some performance art neo-modernist crap.
The point is that Guthrie performed differently in front of a crowd than he did on the radio, or in a studio, and there are NO RECORDINGS OF HIM PERFORMING IN FRONT OF A CROWD. Until this one.
That sounds unbelievable, but the man died of a debilitating illness, after being hospitalized for a decade, while he was still fairly young, in the 60's. Long before that time he was blacklisted for being a communist and few people would host him, let alone record him. You think fans were streaming to his 200 person venues in the 30's with closet-sized recording devices to get his live words onto tape?
I have this album, along with the Moses Asch recordings and the library of congress recordings, and I can tell you there is an appreciable difference that you will not find in any other recording. Yes, those were live. No, neither Moses Asch nor the LoC count as a "crowd." I guess his daughter must know more about the man through living with him and taking over his musical legacy than you do through hearsay and assumption. Stunning!
"[the wii] is likely so popular BECAUSE it's hard to get."
This sounds true in theory, but is not true in practice. The majority of children don't realize that it's a hard to find item - they just know their parents tell them Santa might bring one, and he might not. Certainly they are aware that it's not readily available in the stores, but thinking back to my own childhood, there wasn't a single item (that I _remember_ at least) I wanted badly because it was hard to find. Supply and demand wasn't a huge factor for me when I was 10.
Moving further on the age scale, a 25 year old friend of mine wanted one because it sounded cool, and because of how I explained it to him. He had a Gamecube and had been a longtime gamer, but didn't have anything next gen (current gen?). He wasn't willing to spend $350+, but he'd gladly spend $250 on a clever system filled with nintendo nostalgia.
I told him he'd have trouble getting one, and he said, Oh? He had no idea. He then called 9 stores and found one. This was a month ago.
But when we move to the 30-45 year old crowd, and I can imagine that a big desire to grab anything on their part is because it's hard to find, whether it's for their kids or for themselves. You're at least right about the fact that "Nothing lights a fire under middle American purchasing power like that hard to get must have Christmas gift."
But the actual desire for the wii, for the people who will spend the most time playing it, is probably less related to it's rarity (although 12 million have been sold...) and more related to it's price and control scheme.
quote from TFA-"This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak -- an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters."
Esoteric computer hacker language? Please.
How would these people define pig latin? "A sophisticated and secretive juvenile code, in which consonants are shifted to the end of the word and the suffix "-Ay" is added to complete the transition?"
(They actually define it as "a jargon that is made by systematic alteration of English". Which IMO is a far better definition of leet speak.)
It wasn't just gov't employees, regardless of what reports say. It was also dependents and other people. I know multiple people who got the letter stating they were on the tapes, who are not and have never been employees. Also, college students working for a public university count. As do those who worked for the state over a period of several years ago. Turns out to be quite a large number of people when you figure all that in.
We can thank god that no one cares much for these franchises. After what he's done to actually well-appreciated, deserving games...at least he's not helming a Final Fantasy movie, is what I'm trying to say.
"According to the FTC, consumers have unwittingly downloaded Zango's software more than 70 million times, and as a result, have been subjected to more than 6.9 billion pop-up ads between 2002 and 2005."
They should sue our wits for the other 700 million times we didn't download the software.
I recently played Maniac Mansion (and its sequel) another time around, and I swear they never get old. I hope beyond hope that we can move out of the fast-paced, shoot-first-or-be-shot style of game and that this intellectually fascinating genre can be saved.
I can't agree more. I am in general sick of FPS, and I have been since I got through with Goldeneye for the n64. That FPS is the new side-scroller makes me want to puke, because it severely limits gameplay (although perhaps it doesn't have to) in the majority of games, and certainly in the majority of these 13. Pick any other era where there was a dominant game genre and you will undoubtedly see mountains of individuality in the top 10 games of that style, but in FPS, I can't get over the feeling that I've done it all before. I imagine these games are the greatest not only because of the big companies that produced them, but also because the big companies put a lot of time into making them "good" (how often this translates to unimaginative copies is the sad part). Which is why I don't play PC games near as much as I do console games. Wii the rescue!
The similarities between DC and wii were close enough for me that when I finally got my hands on a wii and found its disc light slowly pulsing with a vaguely intelligent light after I'd shut it off, swore I could hear someone somewhere whispering: "it's *blinking*." (Dreamcast's slogan was "It's thinking" for those of you that don't remember)
I made a small video of this here if you don't know what I mean (sound effects added):
The part of intelligence that involves semantic content, or actually understanding what a symbol means. That part that, per The Chinese Room Argument, explains why there will never be such a thing as what most would consider "AI."
If all intelligence amounts to is pattern-manipulation (syntax), then the weather (for example) is intelligent. But if intelligence amounts to more than just syntax, and it does, then no collection of keywords/databases/searches/processor speed will ever amount to intelligence.
Even the former leader of the United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once...
But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Venus was at its peak brilliance that night. They probably thought they saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
Our scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception.
Yet they somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing?
Their scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt that ignorance by telling anyone that they saw anything that night other than the planet Venus, because if they do, they're dead men.
Just to name a few places where it's not only mentioned, but enjoyed and abused far more than google answers ever could have been, in less than 3 months of chacha's running.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had an article (google cache if needed) about georgia's dead zone about two weeks ago, and claimed that the solution in this case was actually quite obvious:
Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.
As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.
"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.
--------------- Other bits of the article follow....
For 20 years, a scientist near Savannah has taken weekly water samples from the same dock, giving him a composite snapshot of the estuary's health. Pieced together, the view goes from good to fair and getting worse. Peter Verity's data tells him the estuary --- where rivers wrestle with the sea --- is in trouble. Dissolved oxygen, the breath of life for shrimp, blue crabs, oysters and fish, is declining at an alarming rate. Within 10 years, Verity, a professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, predicts there won't be enough left for the sea life we love to eat. Those creatures will be replaced by jellyfish, which don't need as much dissolved oxygen and feed on the type of organisms that grow in a polluted estuary, he says.
Verity's already witnessed change. Between 1987 and 2000, his sampling showed a 70 percent increase in jellyfish.
Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.
As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.
"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.
Verity presented his dissolved oxygen research in June at an international conference of his peers and published it this month in an academic journal, Estuaries and Coasts. His bottom line: Georgia's bays and inlets, lined with tidal marshes now teeming with infant and juvenile sea life, is headed toward hypoxia, a dead zone incapable of supporting shellfish and fish.
Hypoxia is already severe at times in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast and in the Chesapeake Bay near Washington. An associated problem, harmful algae blooms that release fish-killing toxins, has affected virtually every coastal state, threatening human health and dealing economic blows to seafood industries worldwide.
"The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory."
Could be bush or rumsfeld...but it's from mao's little red book. Incredible, the similarities between dictators.
For lovers of already-recorded music (which the obvious majority of music always logically is) I have a solution: Napster To Go, even just the free trial. After the trial ends, the fee is only $14.95 for unlimited monthly downloads that you "can't burn to cd." We slashdot readers all know that what you "can't burn to cd," well, you can always burn to cd. In a month I've "purchased" nearly 40gb of music that I (and my girlfriend, friends, parents, and friends' parents) always wanted but could never buy. That's about 10,000 songs for $0. Paying the monthly fee only raises the price to $.001495/song, and even I'm willing to pay that. But only for a while - if the industry doesn't move quickly, the majority of my lifetime music needs will have already been fulfilled.
This is not to say that I won't want more music in the future, but only that I will probably never be interested in buying any new Beatles releases, for instance. So while the RIAA dawdles around and continues to ignore this idea that "pre-existing libraries of music are a commodity and should economically be treated as such," the very value of those libraries is, for me at least, dropping exponentially.
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What you're basically saying is that every recording Guthrie did was live, so this must be wrong.
Lol.
I've never heard of a non-live recording...except maybe some performance art neo-modernist crap.
The point is that Guthrie performed differently in front of a crowd than he did on the radio, or in a studio, and there are NO RECORDINGS OF HIM PERFORMING IN FRONT OF A CROWD. Until this one.
That sounds unbelievable, but the man died of a debilitating illness, after being hospitalized for a decade, while he was still fairly young, in the 60's. Long before that time he was blacklisted for being a communist and few people would host him, let alone record him. You think fans were streaming to his 200 person venues in the 30's with closet-sized recording devices to get his live words onto tape?
I have this album, along with the Moses Asch recordings and the library of congress recordings, and I can tell you there is an appreciable difference that you will not find in any other recording. Yes, those were live. No, neither Moses Asch nor the LoC count as a "crowd." I guess his daughter must know more about the man through living with him and taking over his musical legacy than you do through hearsay and assumption. Stunning!
"[the wii] is likely so popular BECAUSE it's hard to get."
This sounds true in theory, but is not true in practice. The majority of children don't realize that it's a hard to find item - they just know their parents tell them Santa might bring one, and he might not. Certainly they are aware that it's not readily available in the stores, but thinking back to my own childhood, there wasn't a single item (that I _remember_ at least) I wanted badly because it was hard to find. Supply and demand wasn't a huge factor for me when I was 10.
Moving further on the age scale, a 25 year old friend of mine wanted one because it sounded cool, and because of how I explained it to him. He had a Gamecube and had been a longtime gamer, but didn't have anything next gen (current gen?). He wasn't willing to spend $350+, but he'd gladly spend $250 on a clever system filled with nintendo nostalgia.
I told him he'd have trouble getting one, and he said, Oh? He had no idea. He then called 9 stores and found one. This was a month ago.
But when we move to the 30-45 year old crowd, and I can imagine that a big desire to grab anything on their part is because it's hard to find, whether it's for their kids or for themselves. You're at least right about the fact that "Nothing lights a fire under middle American purchasing power like that hard to get must have Christmas gift."
But the actual desire for the wii, for the people who will spend the most time playing it, is probably less related to it's rarity (although 12 million have been sold...) and more related to it's price and control scheme.
quote from TFA-"This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak -- an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters."
Esoteric computer hacker language?
Please.
How would these people define pig latin? "A sophisticated and secretive juvenile code, in which consonants are shifted to the end of the word and the suffix "-Ay" is added to complete the transition?"
(They actually define it as "a jargon that is made by systematic alteration of English". Which IMO is a far better definition of leet speak.)
old people ftw!
The simpson's board game is, ironically, called "Loser Takes All."
The rest you can probably figure out.
It wasn't just gov't employees, regardless of what reports say. It was also dependents and other people. I know multiple people who got the letter stating they were on the tapes, who are not and have never been employees. Also, college students working for a public university count. As do those who worked for the state over a period of several years ago. Turns out to be quite a large number of people when you figure all that in.
We can thank god that no one cares much for these franchises. After what he's done to actually well-appreciated, deserving games...at least he's not helming a Final Fantasy movie, is what I'm trying to say.
welcome our copyright-law-promoting overlords!
"According to the FTC, consumers have unwittingly downloaded Zango's software more than 70 million times, and as a result, have been subjected to more than 6.9 billion pop-up ads between 2002 and 2005."
They should sue our wits for the other 700 million times we didn't download the software.
I recently played Maniac Mansion (and its sequel) another time around, and I swear they never get old. I hope beyond hope that we can move out of the fast-paced, shoot-first-or-be-shot style of game and that this intellectually fascinating genre can be saved.
I can't agree more. I am in general sick of FPS, and I have been since I got through with Goldeneye for the n64. That FPS is the new side-scroller makes me want to puke, because it severely limits gameplay (although perhaps it doesn't have to) in the majority of games, and certainly in the majority of these 13. Pick any other era where there was a dominant game genre and you will undoubtedly see mountains of individuality in the top 10 games of that style, but in FPS, I can't get over the feeling that I've done it all before. I imagine these games are the greatest not only because of the big companies that produced them, but also because the big companies put a lot of time into making them "good" (how often this translates to unimaginative copies is the sad part). Which is why I don't play PC games near as much as I do console games. Wii the rescue!
The similarities between DC and wii were close enough for me that when I finally got my hands on a wii and found its disc light slowly pulsing with a vaguely intelligent light after I'd shut it off, swore I could hear someone somewhere whispering: "it's *blinking*." (Dreamcast's slogan was "It's thinking" for those of you that don't remember)
I made a small video of this here if you don't know what I mean (sound effects added):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61u9bG99n0
That sony will charge a mere $400/title for these downloadables.
The part of intelligence that involves semantic content, or actually understanding what a symbol means. That part that, per The Chinese Room Argument, explains why there will never be such a thing as what most would consider "AI."
If all intelligence amounts to is pattern-manipulation (syntax), then the weather (for example) is intelligent. But if intelligence amounts to more than just syntax, and it does, then no collection of keywords/databases/searches/processor speed will ever amount to intelligence.
I'm not sure why this site is so frequently dismissed or ignored in these sort of polls and collections of answer sites, but I'd recommend it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-897704581 44460734&hl=en/
That might illuminate the unaware.
http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=1872475
http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?s=a69fba41b66 d1eff21a2f920476dbe65&t=691767
http://chachachats.wordpress.com/
http://www.rotteneggs.com/r3/show/se/700-forum-dis play_topic-0-1-1298121.html
Just to name a few places where it's not only mentioned, but enjoyed and abused far more than google answers ever could have been, in less than 3 months of chacha's running.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had an article (google cache if needed) about georgia's dead zone about two weeks ago,
and claimed that the solution in this case was actually quite obvious:
Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.
As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.
"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.
---------------
Other bits of the article follow....
For 20 years, a scientist near Savannah has taken weekly water samples from the same dock, giving him a composite snapshot of the estuary's health.
Pieced together, the view goes from good to fair and getting worse. Peter Verity's data tells him the estuary --- where rivers wrestle with the sea --- is in trouble.
Dissolved oxygen, the breath of life for shrimp, blue crabs, oysters and fish, is declining at an alarming rate. Within 10 years, Verity, a professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, predicts there won't be enough left for the sea life we love to eat. Those creatures will be replaced by jellyfish, which don't need as much dissolved oxygen and feed on the type of organisms that grow in a polluted estuary, he says.
Verity's already witnessed change. Between 1987 and 2000, his sampling showed a 70 percent increase in jellyfish.
Verity and other scientists who have researched similar changes worldwide say they can sum up the cause in a single word: people.
As more homes, condominiums, marinas and businesses are built on the coast, pollution increases in tidal creeks and estuaries. Treated sewage discharges and storm water runoff carry fertilizers from lawns, golf courses and farms and oil and other pollutants from pavement and rooftops.
"We need to stop what we're doing now and either mitigate or reduce [the impacts] because we're going downhill in a hurry," Verity said.
Verity presented his dissolved oxygen research in June at an international conference of his peers and published it this month in an academic journal, Estuaries and Coasts. His bottom line: Georgia's bays and inlets, lined with tidal marshes now teeming with infant and juvenile sea life, is headed toward hypoxia, a dead zone incapable of supporting shellfish and fish.
Hypoxia is already severe at times in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast and in the Chesapeake Bay near Washington. An associated problem, harmful algae blooms that release fish-killing toxins, has affected virtually every coastal state, threatening human health and dealing economic blows to seafood industries worldwide.
"The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory."
Could be bush or rumsfeld...but it's from mao's little red book. Incredible, the similarities between dictators.
For lovers of already-recorded music (which the obvious majority of music always logically is) I have a solution: Napster To Go, even just the free trial. After the trial ends, the fee is only $14.95 for unlimited monthly downloads that you "can't burn to cd." We slashdot readers all know that what you "can't burn to cd," well, you can always burn to cd. In a month I've "purchased" nearly 40gb of music that I (and my girlfriend, friends, parents, and friends' parents) always wanted but could never buy. That's about 10,000 songs for $0. Paying the monthly fee only raises the price to $.001495/song, and even I'm willing to pay that. But only for a while - if the industry doesn't move quickly, the majority of my lifetime music needs will have already been fulfilled. This is not to say that I won't want more music in the future, but only that I will probably never be interested in buying any new Beatles releases, for instance. So while the RIAA dawdles around and continues to ignore this idea that "pre-existing libraries of music are a commodity and should economically be treated as such," the very value of those libraries is, for me at least, dropping exponentially.