You're absolutely wrong if you think popular music labels don't make money from merch and shows. TThe "artists" that are signed to the big house labels are basically enslaved. Sure they make millions of dollars, but just imaging how many more millions they'd make if SONY BMG or Island/Def Jam didn't take 80 percent off the top.
The word artist should be completely removed from the vernacular of big music. This music is not art, this music is a product, plain and simple. People who listen to actual artists (read: musicians) tend to actually buy records and songs directly from artists. Even small labels like relapse records and earache (I used to be a big metal head) have turned into production lines, churning out countless albums by bands with "brutal" names and unreadable logos, generic sounding metal that fits neatly into a box that can be easily reproduced and resold under a different logo. I understand that record labels are a business, but there has to be a balance between supporting true artistry and just milling out easy to sell shit, just because it's easy.
that's the alternative pop music you're thinking of (inxs, cure, depeche mode)
If I have to go into a TL;DR about the history of rock and roll, I can, but I'm really not in the mood.
I know that you don't actually care that you're wrong, but here is some education for that empty skull of yours:
http://www.fourfa.com/
Remember when you could start your car with the turn of a key and not have to worry about a software update refuckulating your engine timing system?
Adding computers to EVERYTHING is a really bad idea, especially because PEOPLE are required to write the code that runs the software that controls X Y and Z systems on the engine, chassis, and security systems.
Is that no one checks their voicemail. The problem with email, is that no one responds to their email. The problem with cell phones is that no one answers their cell phones. [/end bitter i hate to work dispatch rant]
Chassis: Fractal Design Node 804.
Motherboard: Asus z97m-plus
Ram: 16gb Mushkin silverline
CPU: i5 4690k (currently oc'd to 4.6ghz)
GPU: Vanilla pny gtx 780 3gb
Storage: 1TB seagate cuda sata 3 (misc storage), 128GB intel 530 series SSD (windir), and a pny (forgot what series) 240GB ssd (games)
Daily driver, with decent horsepower. Does what I need her to do.
I'd rather live my life being happy, or pursuing that happiness, than live my life pursuing an education that I cannot afford, only to obtain a job that I loathe in order to pay off the debt.
I think the model in place for education serves the banks and universities far more than it benefits students. Just as an example: I was hired to replace a college educated technician at my current job. I have no formal training or certification. I am really just smart because I was interested in computers as a child and learned by doing. I didn't have to dig a hole and fill it with borrowed money. I found my interest, and pursued it. Sure, I'm not some big shot making six figures. That's not what makes me happy. I don't need credit cards to pay for things I can't afford. That doesn't make me happy. People can be happy without conforming to this horrible model of "be miserable working off debts for your whole life, then you die" is really not appealing to the up and coming generation.
Your comprehension skills are astounding, young man! You're mistaken if you think VATS was around in the first 3 fallout games. (read, fallout, fallout 2, and fallout tactics) Yes, you have the ability to target specific parts of an enemy, but you didn't just run around an open world spamming the vats button. If you had specific skills enabled ( i think it was called quickshot?) you would lose the ability to target body parts all together.
VATS was added to Fallout 3 to appease the actual fans of the series, and to make the game more forgiving, since it seems to use an RNG to calculate where your shots go, unless you're in VATS mode, and even then, you'd be more apt to hit the radscorpions 4 meters behind your intended target.
As for the immensely improved graphics over the older games? I should hope so, as it's been 6 years. I guess we use different measuring sticks for the baseline of "immense improvement". I see they used MORE textures in the trailer, as in variety, but they still look blurry and low resolution. The lighting effects have improved, yes. But the character models and set pieces are still low-poly, and the animations are still really really bad (full sprint = slow moving legs seemingly levitating over terrain). These are all things that people have been poo-pooing about bethsoft games for years, this should come as no surprise to anyone, especially bethsoft. What I am trying to illustrate is that this game does not look CURRENT, it barely looks as good as RAGE.
That's ok that it isn't the most delectable piece of eye candy that we've ever seen , but you can't throw all the same old fallout stuff into a new box and expect everyone to grovel at your feet and hale in a new era of Fallout Sovereignty.
I guess you're right then, that the fallout series "just isn't for me" because the first 2 games were two of the best games I've EVER played, while 3 was a marginally playable collection of home student level programming, new vegas was the same as 3 only more brown/orange, and because they're already taking pre-orders on an unfinished product that has a deadline of October.
And since the developers "don't care what we think"* as customers, I think that shows where their priorities are.
*source: Pete Hines (vp of bethsoft, director of marketing) on twitter regarding graphics concerns in the trailer:
"i’m not spending any time or energy caring what they think
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) June 4, 2015"
...since that is the only material we have available: The graphic fidelity is downright embarrassing for a AAA title in 2015. My current install of a lightly modded FO3 has better texture clarity. I never got past the opening mission on New Vegas, as I lost interest after realizing that this was the same exact game as FO3, only in a brown place instead of green place. I couldn't understand why the texture on my characters hands looked like a lizard's. I thank my sense of skepticism for telling me to wait for NV to go on sale (got it for $4)
Did they record this trailer with ALL the eyecandy turned OFF? I cannot justify spending full price on a game that looks identical to the last 2 (3 and NV), just in a different city. I understand the world will be "more open" but without cleaner graphics and the tactical and strategic gameplay which has been absent since the release of fallout 3, it will just be another TES with guns.
Spam VATS, run, spam VATS, run, rinse repeat.
I mean, you'd have to be rich if you went out and bought a new car every time the gas prices changed. Who in their right mind looks to buy a new car just cause gas is a couple bucks cheaper? Is this really a thing?
I am talking about the over abundance of racist, backwards-thinking, knuckle dragging, paranoid, "they-took-r-guns" types on slashdot. The "news for nerds" website. It seems to be more of an outlet for angry straight men with psychoses that would make Freud blush.
"Talk to your staff and treat them like fucking humans"
You can have that algorithm for free, you soul-sucking corporate bastards.
This. My last boss was a jeckyl and hyde type and he only tried to act like a person after i quit. He sent me an email letting me know how much extra stress i cause him and his business.
Human interaction? Why bother?! You can sit at your desk and rain fire and brimstone on your peon subordinates, especially the ones who are about to leave! Fire them before they can quit!
I thought nerds were the blacksheep of their respective habitats? Shouldn't we band together to fight ignorance instead of promoting it? It seems that there are way too many backwoods rednecks on slashdot for any kind of rational dialogue to occur. Blame all of your problems on our president because of his skin color. Make claims supporting the actions of mass murderers and dictators. It only serves to prove my argument that the tech world is loaded with cavemen who don't actually understand the world, but would rather build technology to force the world to fit their twisted model of reality.
Dude, youtube is a place for user created content, this means that youtube is not responsible for what it's users upload. That is your sign to keep the kids off.
I was watching some music videos on youtube and was interrupted with an ad with 2 women drinking wine on a couch, and one of them says "THIS PLACE IS THE SHIT" what the fuck is that? commercials with swears? AWESOME
Slashdot Mirror
That I'm in the right line of work, but I'm on the wrong side.
Using percent to describe something in the thousands is rather silly to begin with.
Why? The people who load up on monthly bills like that are either rich, or are in debt up to their asshole and in denial about it.
You're absolutely wrong if you think popular music labels don't make money from merch and shows. TThe "artists" that are signed to the big house labels are basically enslaved. Sure they make millions of dollars, but just imaging how many more millions they'd make if SONY BMG or Island/Def Jam didn't take 80 percent off the top.
The word artist should be completely removed from the vernacular of big music. This music is not art, this music is a product, plain and simple. People who listen to actual artists (read: musicians) tend to actually buy records and songs directly from artists. Even small labels like relapse records and earache (I used to be a big metal head) have turned into production lines, churning out countless albums by bands with "brutal" names and unreadable logos, generic sounding metal that fits neatly into a box that can be easily reproduced and resold under a different logo. I understand that record labels are a business, but there has to be a balance between supporting true artistry and just milling out easy to sell shit, just because it's easy.
that's the alternative pop music you're thinking of (inxs, cure, depeche mode) If I have to go into a TL;DR about the history of rock and roll, I can, but I'm really not in the mood. I know that you don't actually care that you're wrong, but here is some education for that empty skull of yours: http://www.fourfa.com/
Remember when you could start your car with the turn of a key and not have to worry about a software update refuckulating your engine timing system? Adding computers to EVERYTHING is a really bad idea, especially because PEOPLE are required to write the code that runs the software that controls X Y and Z systems on the engine, chassis, and security systems.
You nailed it.
Is that no one checks their voicemail. The problem with email, is that no one responds to their email. The problem with cell phones is that no one answers their cell phones. [/end bitter i hate to work dispatch rant]
Chassis: Fractal Design Node 804. Motherboard: Asus z97m-plus Ram: 16gb Mushkin silverline CPU: i5 4690k (currently oc'd to 4.6ghz) GPU: Vanilla pny gtx 780 3gb Storage: 1TB seagate cuda sata 3 (misc storage), 128GB intel 530 series SSD (windir), and a pny (forgot what series) 240GB ssd (games) Daily driver, with decent horsepower. Does what I need her to do.
Probably the same feeling as being an idiot that uses the word "epic" to describe every day happenstance.
I'd rather live my life being happy, or pursuing that happiness, than live my life pursuing an education that I cannot afford, only to obtain a job that I loathe in order to pay off the debt. I think the model in place for education serves the banks and universities far more than it benefits students. Just as an example: I was hired to replace a college educated technician at my current job. I have no formal training or certification. I am really just smart because I was interested in computers as a child and learned by doing. I didn't have to dig a hole and fill it with borrowed money. I found my interest, and pursued it. Sure, I'm not some big shot making six figures. That's not what makes me happy. I don't need credit cards to pay for things I can't afford. That doesn't make me happy. People can be happy without conforming to this horrible model of "be miserable working off debts for your whole life, then you die" is really not appealing to the up and coming generation.
Your comprehension skills are astounding, young man! You're mistaken if you think VATS was around in the first 3 fallout games. (read, fallout, fallout 2, and fallout tactics) Yes, you have the ability to target specific parts of an enemy, but you didn't just run around an open world spamming the vats button. If you had specific skills enabled ( i think it was called quickshot?) you would lose the ability to target body parts all together. VATS was added to Fallout 3 to appease the actual fans of the series, and to make the game more forgiving, since it seems to use an RNG to calculate where your shots go, unless you're in VATS mode, and even then, you'd be more apt to hit the radscorpions 4 meters behind your intended target. As for the immensely improved graphics over the older games? I should hope so, as it's been 6 years. I guess we use different measuring sticks for the baseline of "immense improvement". I see they used MORE textures in the trailer, as in variety, but they still look blurry and low resolution. The lighting effects have improved, yes. But the character models and set pieces are still low-poly, and the animations are still really really bad (full sprint = slow moving legs seemingly levitating over terrain). These are all things that people have been poo-pooing about bethsoft games for years, this should come as no surprise to anyone, especially bethsoft. What I am trying to illustrate is that this game does not look CURRENT, it barely looks as good as RAGE. That's ok that it isn't the most delectable piece of eye candy that we've ever seen , but you can't throw all the same old fallout stuff into a new box and expect everyone to grovel at your feet and hale in a new era of Fallout Sovereignty. I guess you're right then, that the fallout series "just isn't for me" because the first 2 games were two of the best games I've EVER played, while 3 was a marginally playable collection of home student level programming, new vegas was the same as 3 only more brown/orange, and because they're already taking pre-orders on an unfinished product that has a deadline of October. And since the developers "don't care what we think"* as customers, I think that shows where their priorities are. *source: Pete Hines (vp of bethsoft, director of marketing) on twitter regarding graphics concerns in the trailer: "i’m not spending any time or energy caring what they think — Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) June 4, 2015"
...since that is the only material we have available: The graphic fidelity is downright embarrassing for a AAA title in 2015. My current install of a lightly modded FO3 has better texture clarity. I never got past the opening mission on New Vegas, as I lost interest after realizing that this was the same exact game as FO3, only in a brown place instead of green place. I couldn't understand why the texture on my characters hands looked like a lizard's. I thank my sense of skepticism for telling me to wait for NV to go on sale (got it for $4) Did they record this trailer with ALL the eyecandy turned OFF? I cannot justify spending full price on a game that looks identical to the last 2 (3 and NV), just in a different city. I understand the world will be "more open" but without cleaner graphics and the tactical and strategic gameplay which has been absent since the release of fallout 3, it will just be another TES with guns. Spam VATS, run, spam VATS, run, rinse repeat.
I mean, you'd have to be rich if you went out and bought a new car every time the gas prices changed. Who in their right mind looks to buy a new car just cause gas is a couple bucks cheaper? Is this really a thing?
I am talking about the over abundance of racist, backwards-thinking, knuckle dragging, paranoid, "they-took-r-guns" types on slashdot. The "news for nerds" website. It seems to be more of an outlet for angry straight men with psychoses that would make Freud blush.
"Talk to your staff and treat them like fucking humans"
You can have that algorithm for free, you soul-sucking corporate bastards.
This. My last boss was a jeckyl and hyde type and he only tried to act like a person after i quit. He sent me an email letting me know how much extra stress i cause him and his business.
Human interaction? Why bother?! You can sit at your desk and rain fire and brimstone on your peon subordinates, especially the ones who are about to leave! Fire them before they can quit!
I thought nerds were the blacksheep of their respective habitats? Shouldn't we band together to fight ignorance instead of promoting it? It seems that there are way too many backwoods rednecks on slashdot for any kind of rational dialogue to occur. Blame all of your problems on our president because of his skin color. Make claims supporting the actions of mass murderers and dictators. It only serves to prove my argument that the tech world is loaded with cavemen who don't actually understand the world, but would rather build technology to force the world to fit their twisted model of reality.
Dude, youtube is a place for user created content, this means that youtube is not responsible for what it's users upload. That is your sign to keep the kids off.
I was watching some music videos on youtube and was interrupted with an ad with 2 women drinking wine on a couch, and one of them says "THIS PLACE IS THE SHIT" what the fuck is that? commercials with swears? AWESOME
Jesus Horses.
it has people on it.