Good time to get this out of my system. As a guy that grew up in california (bay area) and graduated high school in 1987, I always thought FTP was hilarious, since to me FTP was Fuck the Police by NWA. Lends a nice double entendre to ftp sitez.
Fortunately, pedophilia and rape fantasies are practically unheard of in Japan.
I was just about to embark on a flame when my sarcasm sensor finally kicked in, and I remembered all of the rape/schoolgirl shit from their comics. Indeed. They like their young girls in Japan.
not wierd at all, 1 hour of q3a or UT would give me an intense motion sickness / headache feeling, probably because I am trying to crawl into the screen / see around corners , and generally looking too hard and not blinking enough. This is why I switched to bzflag (i play at least 3 times a week.) it is a much slower less twitchy experience that leaves me headache free.
A RAID-5 array with hot spares or a remote backup site is much more reliable and cost-effective.
Have you forgotton that some places use tape systems for archival storage as well? I suppose near-line is dead as well. Most of the companies that I have worked at use high-rez artwork. At an advertising agency, you are churning out gigs of files that may be used for 6 months tops, yet in 2 years someone will ask for job # 232343-xxx for god knows what reason. We use a 100 tape library for back ups and archives, and the archive is integrated with the asset management system, so the studio bosses can go to a web page, see that a job has been archived, add it to his cart, and restore it from tape with out much more than punching 2 buttons. They can also archive the inactive jobs by adding them to a archive cart and telling it to 'go'. Even a Terabyte capacity raid fills up pretty quickly when a high resolution art file is 1-2 gigabytes. Having a near line archive that is part of our backup solution is saving us big bux. Don't know what raids you use, but these LSI logic fiber channel raids aren't cheap.
Even the changing formats arent that bad. The jukebox lets us upgrade the 4 drives that it contains. Keep in mind that this is a small scale solution too, Can't imagine keeping a bunch of video data live either.
One last thing that we need to plan for at a real business that relies on the data that it stores is a disaster. Should the server closet all of a sudden fill up with water, smoke, fire, server eating cockroaches, be smashed by terrorist piloted airplanes, etc etc. we always have an offsite backup. Lets see your raid 5 recover from being melted into a blob of metal. Clients ask about these things too, in the review process, and it is important that a client's digital assets that it pays real money for are protected. These things are real, not paranoia. I have walked into a smoking server room a few times...
he sed:
That being said I have a brother who can break a component by thinking about it too often.
i know the type. I have been doing desktop support at advertising agencies for a few years, and we always get summer interns that are the son/cousin/ other nepotistic relationship of an exec. One year we had the cousin of our HR drone for an intern. this guy knew nothing. We figured we could put him on moves, no way to screw that up, right? First move of the day he breaks the computer down, sets it back up, sweating profusely the entire time. System boots and the monitor has a noticable red tint that wasn't there pre-move. Doing my best 'MOOOOVE' voice, I pull the vga cable to discover he has bent at least 2 of the pins reconnecting it. He was gone that week. totally useless. we had another intern that was the son of one of our vendors. First day we disassembled his PC and made him put it back together. The liberal arts major did it perfectly. Its something more than smarts, a great deal seems to be common sense and being able to work well with your hands.
he said Norah Jones is one pop artist I actually enjoy listening to. The fact that she's pop is a fluke too, since she's on Blue Note, and manages to get excellent musicians on her albums (i.e. Bill Frisell).
Ya know, I have been thinking about this for a little while, the Norah Jones thing. Lets consider. Blue Note is a major label with a major reputation, She is the daughter of an internationall mega super star, the music is inna classic style that crosses over to the baby boomers (cant listen to gipsy kings and paul simon forever), classic jazz fans, smooth jazz fans, and is accessable to the pop and rnb fan as well, very catchy like a pop song. You pretty much have to be very angry or evil to not like it. Even I didn't mind when someone else was playing it.. until I was on a desktop support call one day and the guy in the next cube had 'don't know why' on repeat play. I happened to be reimaging a machine so I was in for the long haul. I must have heard that song 10 or 15 times in a row. I felt like killing myself by the time the call was over.
So anyway, would you call her pop? doesn't pop just mean anything that becomes popular ? Rap is popular now and didn't even exist 30 years ago.
This is of course a ridiculous item, so I couldnt resist. I have 2 kids and a wife. I was born in 1969 and grew up skateboarding and playing video games. I don't skate anymore, but I love videogames still. Most jobs I have had (IT dept) have had after work / last hour tournaments, my current job is the exception.
Well, I am still addicted to FPS games, and I just stay up a few hours after everyone else goes to bed. That is my time, and I can do whatever the fuck I want to do with it. I have all of 2 pastimes, collecting and djing music and fragging tanks in bzflag. All of my remaining time goes to work and raising 2 kids.
If you are having a problem with your SO, maybe it is because you expect to be able to play whenever you feel like sitting down at your deck. You need to structure your time and make sure that you pay sufficient attention to you SO. Make sure you respect each other's free time, by speaking about it. Don't just disappear into the computer right after dinner. Communication will get to the bottom of your issue.
You may have been joking about zoo tycoon, but that game just sounds LAME. Do you even know what kind of games she likes? When my wife was pregnant I bought Hoyle Board Games 2003 so she could play mahjongg to her hearts content. Lots of women enjoy the Sims from what I know, and the above poster is lucky enough to have a wife that plays Quake 3. Now THATS hot! Anyway, either try to involve her in your hobby (who knows it may even be fun) or find her a game she can enjoy.
As soon as my kids are old enough you can bet that we'll be going head to head on our playstation 3. I've been waiting years to frag the little rugrats ! Also considering buying dance dance revolution since we all enjoy dancing, and it could be a real fun family activity.
Well, they are still around too. Neo Soul relies on traditional instrumentation, as does Lo-Fi. There is plenty of great soul and jazz music being released, and last I checked rock and roll was far from dead, not to mention blues, gospel, punk rock, etc. The list was just to demonstrate new genres that have arisen in the past 10 or 15 years.
Also, there is plenty of electronic music that is more than sequencers, borrowed samples and spoken lyrics. New York House is largely based on soulful vocals, nu jazz is quite musical, etc....
Good Tips, Also check out Sole Records, Bugz in the Attic Seiji Beady Belle Greyboy Nigel Hayes Intuit Quantic Soul Orchestra / Quantic AtJazz Ptaah Crazy Penis Afronaught Fertile Ground Bah Samba Amp Fiddler Vikter Duplaix Afro Mystic Funkstorung Nu Sound Helsinki New Jazz Hustlers Plej Rednose Distrikt ursula rucker The Phuture Sole compilation is an excellent starting point.
www.juno.co.uk has mp3 samples of current releases satellite records has a good colleciton of nu jazz titles www.satelliterecords.com
. To someone who grew up in the 1960's, there has never existed innovation in any meaningful sense in music ever after.
ok fine, your list is longer, that is only because I didn't want to go on ad nauseum. My point is that music is constantly evolving, and not money, not lawyers, and not music downloads can stop it. As someone who grew up in the 60's, maybe you aren't very plugged in to the cutting edge of new music. I could go on naming new styles, for the record, there are more than ever, partly because there are more sub genre's nowadays. Also a very US centric list, as there has been much development outside of the soul and rock category, reggae, zouk, soca, meringue, salsa, spanish reggae, calypso, all have evolved over time. but here, I will bite: Techno,Techno-rave,Techno House,Hardcore Techno,Old School Techno,Proto Techno,Psychedelic Techno, Bubblegum Techno,Industrial Techno, Detroit Techno, Techno Trance, Tech Trance, Trance,Hard Trance, Progressive Trance, Deep Trance,Epic Trance, Psy-Trance, Goa Trance, Acid Trance, Acid, Hard Acid, Acid Core, Hard Acid Core, Acid Techno, Acid House, House, Progressive House, Hard House, Future Hard House,, Happy House, House, Chicago House, NY House, Ghetto House, Booty House, Latin House, Oriental House, Amyl House, Deep House, Dub House,, Ambient House, Ambient, Illbient, Sombient, Ambient Techno, Ambient Trance,, Ambient Jungle, Ambient Dub, Dub, Goa Dub, Intelligent Dance Music, Electronic Listening Music, Nu-NRG, Techno NRG, High Energy, Hardcore, Bouncy Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Happycore, Trancecore\, Terrorcore, Deathcore, Noizecore, Speedcore, Partycore, Punkcore, Breakcore, Electro, Electro Breaks, Big Room Electro, Big Beat, Rave, Progressive Rave Tribal, Tribal House, Tribal Techno, Tribal Funk, Space Funk, Jazz Funk, Rave Funk, Acid Jazz, Acid Jivez, Trip Hop, Brit Hop, Hard Hop, Hardstep, Hardbag, Handbag, Breakbeat, Breakbeat Ballad, California Breaks, Funky Breaks, New School Breaks, Florida Breaks, Intelligent Breaks, Trance Breaks, Jungle, Jump Up, Tech Step, Tech House, Ghetto Tech, Intelligent Jungle, Future Jungle, Scottish Rave, Gabber, Classic Gabba, New Style Gabber, Gabbercore, Gabber House, Acid Gabba, Rotterdam, Drum & Bass, Darkside, Downtempo, Sombient, Minimal, Elemental, Ibiza, 4beat, Anthem, Ragga, Garage, Speedgarage, UK Garage, 2 Step Garage, Nu Step, Breakstep, DISCO!, Tripsco, Lo-Fi, Bounce, Chopped and Screwed, Crunk, Down-Souf Hip Hop, Booty Bass, Rio Funk, Glitch, JPop, Electroclash
and that is the short list.
As someone that did not grow up in the 60's, I appreciate the cultural revolution that happened, but here are a few MAJOR musical innovations that have occured since your glory days:
Hip Hop, like it or not.
Electronic Dance Music, like it or not.
Disco, like it or not, was the force behind both hip hop, house, and many modern dance music styles.
he said: The reason music is dead is very simple. There is no innovation.
well, now thats where you are wrong, see. In the past 10 years I can name numerous styles of music that have developed
nu-jazz - which is a uptempo jazzy take on danceable jazz, with some house elements thrown in
broken beat - still uptempo, still housey, but not 4 on the floor. emphasis on super funky syncopated rhythms
drum and bass - you never heard anything like this 20 years ago.
Neo Soul - not so much a new style but a backlash from pop rnb, a back to basics approach with new production techniques.
trip-hop - I was listening to hip hop, but then I got high..
two-step aka uk garage - a very british fusion of rnb melodies, funky drum patterns and reggae sensibilites. rnb on e's
and not to mention the whole IDM movement. Remember, many of us gave up on the majors years and years ago. That shit is for mass appeal.
david crosby (who sounds like he is shilling for itunes) sez: Two different issues. Me, personally -- I didn't do this to make money. When I joined the team here, when I became a musician, there was no money to be made. We were folk singers, playing in coffeehouses. There was no money, and there never would be any money. The only people I knew who had ever even made a record was Peter, Paul and Mary, okay?
Well, David Crosby is way way way out of touch. There are literally thousands of independent labels, eeking by on sales of 5000 - 50000 units. I am a big critic of the music industry as well, but the majors are not the only way to make a record. Master P self produced and sold albums out of the trunk of his car when he began. I know guys that will produce a track and press 500 copies on vinyl and that is IT, the project is done, no looking back lamenting its lack of position on the hot 100 chart.
Every week I see guys piling out of a beat up van carrying their gear into continental, think they sell any records or make money, Crosby? They have a fuckload of fun though I bet.
The majors only want artists that can break gold, but Indys will put out record after record selling only 10 - 20 k units.
Prince said fuck them all and is now giving away his latest CD at his (sold out) concerts.
he said: it broadens the gamer demographic (my aunt thought the ps2 was the devils work, now shes a ddr junky).
This is the most interesting thing. Few address the difficulty of getting games to 'stick' with female players. The last one that really did was Tetris.
I have been following the ddr threads, and admit I am more than slightly curious. It seems that some of the testimonials were from people that were otherwise going down the couch potato road, excercise for video game junkies. I enjoy going out to clubs for some real dancing, but this could be fun for the family. We all love dancing, even my son that is only 1 dances when we put music on.
Really, so did I. Maybe you remember me, I worked in the warehouse building duping tapes at that time. I was the really tall guy with the ghetto blaster that played music all day while running 6 different duping machines, name of Dave. Left summer of '93 to move to NYC.
My personal fave of the time was the outdoor dancing at mission rock, with they guy doing video toaster on his amiga, and those huge ass speakers!
Whats hilarious? That Brian actually had a life outside of writing awesome software? I knew him when he was a UCB undergrad... he also started the sf-raves email list back in the early 90's, and was part of the early rave scene in the Bay Area.. He used to host pre-rave parties too at his dorm room. He was always very social, talkative, and good with people. He didn't just sit down in the web crunching away on the workstations... There were lots of other coders in the scene too, such as the guys from Twitch records. mw worked at Sybase, etc etc....
Where have you been over the last 20 years? If there is something to be cracked someone will crack it. Its not about Apple, or Windows, or respect for who is doing the right thing and protecting fair use. What it is about is people don't like buying things with locks on them. What it is about is showing that it is virtually pointless to do it in the first place, since it just provides one more bump in the road. Flex LM? Cracked. Alias Wavefront? Cracked. Maya? Cracked. Any commercial software package released in the last decade? Cracked. Adobe E-Books? Cracked. Encrypted DVD video? Cracked.
There is even a way to go read a book if you don't actually own it. (Sit in barnes and noble, go the library, etc.)
Somebody said:
somebody said: I want to go to a page I was already at, I'll most likely know when I went to it and can easily find it.
This is usually true, but there is one page that I lost when I changed computers and forgot to move bookmarks. It was zyx.rt.ru or something and was sort of a technology opinion column with some great explorations. The best part was the photo of the week at the end. No matter what I google for I can't find that site! I guess history wouldn't have helped me tho, since I toasted that too. Will someone please post that url?!
Amen brother. I never made it to descent 3, I tried descent when I finished doom, and it instantly triggered severe vertigo and dizziness. They should have a warning on the box of that fucking game: If you have ever gotten motion sickness don't even think of buying this game. If you get dizzy easily, do NOT buy this game.
Those little white headphones are crap, as are all earbuds. Get some real headphones with a 50 or 60 mm driver, and feel the bass. Sony studio monitors provide a decent listening experience on the low end of things. MDR-V600 or MDR-V700's are nice. the 700's are the trendy dj headphone of the moment, all silvery and stuff.
Didn't you read the earlier story? They have whored themselves completely to microsoft. They are not really a unix company anymore, they are but pawns in the world domination scheme of m$.
Exactly... This will NEVER work. THey got the hash for the tar'd album? Rar it. THey got that hash? Zip it. The got that hash? add a.nfo file to the archive and the hash changes again. Not to mention people rip things with different encoders, at different bitrates. How many billions of hashes must there be to block everything that is illegal? How long until someone comes along and writes a trivial program that adds.01 second of silence to a file, thereby changing the hash yet again. This is the worst angle I have ever seen to solving this 'problem'.
The irony of all this is monumental. The major labels have been in cahoots for years, inflating product prices, ripping off artists, forcing obsolescence of formats so you have to buy what you already owned in the new format at the full price, etc. There are titles that I bought on vinyl, cassette and CD. It is bullshit. The industry is bullshit, major labels are bullshit. People WANT to buy music. They really do! Finally people have had enough and aren't paying full price for music. That is why there are bootleggers every 6 blocks in NYC. Noone can afford $14.99 or $19.99 cd's.
I will tell you the solution: $5.00 cd's. If cd's were $5.00 I would walk into a music store and buy 10 at a time regularly. People this is all that they are worth. You know how much a cd costs to make? Not much. This subject makes me so mad, there is steam coming from my ears right now. I buy vinyl every single week, and yet there is no way for me to have that music in a digital format legally except to buy it twice. So, I download. I am a criminal in the eyes of the RIAA, yet I spend $5000 a year on music.
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Good time to get this out of my system.
As a guy that grew up in california (bay area) and graduated high school in 1987, I always thought FTP was hilarious, since to me FTP was Fuck the Police by NWA. Lends a nice double entendre to ftp sitez.
HeHeHe. Thats always a good one. Anyway, you have freecraft already. Besides, linux has bzflag and nethack. what other games do you really need?
Fortunately, pedophilia and rape fantasies are practically unheard of in Japan.
I was just about to embark on a flame when my sarcasm sensor finally kicked in, and I remembered all of the rape/schoolgirl shit from their comics. Indeed. They like their young girls in Japan.
re: FPS giving headaches
not wierd at all, 1 hour of q3a or UT would give me an intense motion sickness / headache feeling, probably because I am trying to crawl into the screen / see around corners , and generally looking too hard and not blinking enough. This is why I switched to bzflag (i play at least 3 times a week.) it is a much slower less twitchy experience that leaves me headache free.
You're living in the past.
A RAID-5 array with hot spares or a remote backup site is much more reliable and cost-effective.
Have you forgotton that some places use tape systems for archival storage as well? I suppose near-line is dead as well. Most of the companies that I have worked at use high-rez artwork. At an advertising agency, you are churning out gigs of files that may be used for 6 months tops, yet in 2 years someone will ask for job # 232343-xxx for god knows what reason. We use a 100 tape library for back ups and archives, and the archive is integrated with the asset management system, so the studio bosses can go to a web page, see that a job has been archived, add it to his cart, and restore it from tape with out much more than punching 2 buttons. They can also archive the inactive jobs by adding them to a archive cart and telling it to 'go'. Even a Terabyte capacity raid fills up pretty quickly when a high resolution art file is 1-2 gigabytes. Having a near line archive that is part of our backup solution is saving us big bux. Don't know what raids you use, but these LSI logic fiber channel raids aren't cheap.
Even the changing formats arent that bad. The jukebox lets us upgrade the 4 drives that it contains. Keep in mind that this is a small scale solution too, Can't imagine keeping a bunch of video data live either.
One last thing that we need to plan for at a real business that relies on the data that it stores is a disaster. Should the server closet all of a sudden fill up with water, smoke, fire, server eating cockroaches, be smashed by terrorist piloted airplanes, etc etc. we always have an offsite backup. Lets see your raid 5 recover from being melted into a blob of metal. Clients ask about these things too, in the review process, and it is important that a client's digital assets that it pays real money for are protected. These things are real, not paranoia. I have walked into a smoking server room a few times...
he sed: That being said I have a brother who can break a component by thinking about it too often.
i know the type. I have been doing desktop support at advertising agencies for a few years, and we always get summer interns that are the son/cousin/ other nepotistic relationship of an exec. One year we had the cousin of our HR drone for an intern. this guy knew nothing. We figured we could put him on moves, no way to screw that up, right? First move of the day he breaks the computer down, sets it back up, sweating profusely the entire time. System boots and the monitor has a noticable red tint that wasn't there pre-move. Doing my best 'MOOOOVE' voice, I pull the vga cable to discover he has bent at least 2 of the pins reconnecting it. He was gone that week. totally useless. we had another intern that was the son of one of our vendors. First day we disassembled his PC and made him put it back together. The liberal arts major did it perfectly. Its something more than smarts, a great deal seems to be common sense and being able to work well with your hands.
he said
Norah Jones is one pop artist I actually enjoy listening to. The fact that she's pop is a fluke too, since she's on Blue Note, and manages to get excellent musicians on her albums (i.e. Bill Frisell).
Ya know, I have been thinking about this for a little while, the Norah Jones thing. Lets consider. Blue Note is a major label with a major reputation, She is the daughter of an internationall mega super star, the music is inna classic style that crosses over to the baby boomers (cant listen to gipsy kings and paul simon forever), classic jazz fans, smooth jazz fans, and is accessable to the pop and rnb fan as well, very catchy like a pop song. You pretty much have to be very angry or evil to not like it. Even I didn't mind when someone else was playing it..
until I was on a desktop support call one day and the guy in the next cube had 'don't know why' on repeat play. I happened to be reimaging a machine so I was in for the long haul. I must have heard that song 10 or 15 times in a row. I felt like killing myself by the time the call was over.
So anyway, would you call her pop? doesn't pop just mean anything that becomes popular ? Rap is popular now and didn't even exist 30 years ago.
sorry for posting high.
I'll get back to you right after my epileptic seizure.
This is of course a ridiculous item, so I couldnt resist. I have 2 kids and a wife. I was born in 1969 and grew up skateboarding and playing video games. I don't skate anymore, but I love videogames still. Most jobs I have had (IT dept) have had after work / last hour tournaments, my current job is the exception.
Well, I am still addicted to FPS games, and I just stay up a few hours after everyone else goes to bed. That is my time, and I can do whatever the fuck I want to do with it. I have all of 2 pastimes, collecting and djing music and fragging tanks in bzflag. All of my remaining time goes to work and raising 2 kids.
If you are having a problem with your SO, maybe it is because you expect to be able to play whenever you feel like sitting down at your deck. You need to structure your time and make sure that you pay sufficient attention to you SO. Make sure you respect each other's free time, by speaking about it. Don't just disappear into the computer right after dinner. Communication will get to the bottom of your issue.
You may have been joking about zoo tycoon, but that game just sounds LAME. Do you even know what kind of games she likes? When my wife was pregnant I bought Hoyle Board Games 2003 so she could play mahjongg to her hearts content. Lots of women enjoy the Sims from what I know, and the above poster is lucky enough to have a wife that plays Quake 3. Now THATS hot! Anyway, either try to involve her in your hobby (who knows it may even be fun) or find her a game she can enjoy.
As soon as my kids are old enough you can bet that we'll be going head to head on our playstation 3. I've been waiting years to frag the little rugrats ! Also considering buying dance dance revolution since we all enjoy dancing, and it could be a real fun family activity.
Well, they are still around too. Neo Soul relies on traditional instrumentation, as does Lo-Fi. There is plenty of great soul and jazz music being released, and last I checked rock and roll was far from dead, not to mention blues, gospel, punk rock, etc. The list was just to demonstrate new genres that have arisen in the past 10 or 15 years.
Also, there is plenty of electronic music that is more than sequencers, borrowed samples and spoken lyrics. New York House is largely based on soulful vocals, nu jazz is quite musical, etc....
Good Tips,
Also check out Sole Records,
Bugz in the Attic
Seiji
Beady Belle
Greyboy
Nigel Hayes
Intuit
Quantic Soul Orchestra / Quantic
AtJazz
Ptaah
Crazy Penis
Afronaught
Fertile Ground
Bah Samba
Amp Fiddler
Vikter Duplaix
Afro Mystic
Funkstorung
Nu Sound Helsinki
New Jazz Hustlers
Plej
Rednose Distrikt
ursula rucker
The Phuture Sole compilation is an excellent starting point.
www.juno.co.uk has mp3 samples of current releases
satellite records has a good colleciton of nu jazz titles
www.satelliterecords.com
. To someone who grew up in the 1960's, there has never existed innovation in any meaningful sense in music ever after.
,Epic Trance, Psy-Trance, Goa Trance, Acid Trance, Acid, Hard Acid, Acid Core, Hard Acid Core, Acid Techno, Acid House, House, Progressive House, Hard House, Future Hard House,, Happy House, House, Chicago House, NY House, Ghetto House, Booty House, Latin House, Oriental House, Amyl House, Deep House, Dub House,, Ambient House, Ambient, Illbient, Sombient, Ambient Techno, Ambient Trance,, Ambient Jungle, Ambient Dub, Dub, Goa Dub, Intelligent Dance Music, Electronic Listening Music, Nu-NRG, Techno NRG, High Energy, Hardcore, Bouncy Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Happycore, Trancecore\, Terrorcore, Deathcore, Noizecore, Speedcore, Partycore, Punkcore, Breakcore, Electro, Electro Breaks, Big Room Electro, Big Beat, Rave, Progressive Rave Tribal, Tribal House, Tribal Techno, Tribal Funk, Space Funk, Jazz Funk, Rave Funk, Acid Jazz, Acid Jivez, Trip Hop, Brit Hop, Hard Hop, Hardstep, Hardbag, Handbag, Breakbeat, Breakbeat Ballad, California Breaks, Funky Breaks, New School Breaks, Florida Breaks, Intelligent Breaks, Trance Breaks, Jungle, Jump Up, Tech Step, Tech House, Ghetto Tech, Intelligent Jungle, Future Jungle, Scottish Rave, Gabber, Classic Gabba, New Style Gabber, Gabbercore, Gabber House, Acid Gabba, Rotterdam, Drum & Bass, Darkside, Downtempo, Sombient, Minimal, Elemental, Ibiza, 4beat, Anthem, Ragga, Garage, Speedgarage, UK Garage, 2 Step Garage, Nu Step, Breakstep, DISCO!, Tripsco, Lo-Fi, Bounce, Chopped and Screwed, Crunk, Down-Souf Hip Hop, Booty Bass, Rio Funk, Glitch, JPop, Electroclash
ok fine, your list is longer, that is only because I didn't want to go on ad nauseum. My point is that music is constantly evolving, and not money, not lawyers, and not music downloads can stop it. As someone who grew up in the 60's, maybe you aren't very plugged in to the cutting edge of new music. I could go on naming new styles, for the record, there are more than ever, partly because there are more sub genre's nowadays. Also a very US centric list, as there has been much development outside of the soul and rock category, reggae, zouk, soca, meringue, salsa, spanish reggae, calypso, all have evolved over time. but here, I will bite:
Techno,Techno-rave,Techno House,Hardcore Techno,Old School Techno,Proto Techno,Psychedelic Techno, Bubblegum Techno,Industrial Techno, Detroit Techno, Techno Trance, Tech Trance, Trance,Hard Trance, Progressive Trance, Deep Trance
and that is the short list.
As someone that did not grow up in the 60's, I appreciate the cultural revolution that happened, but here are a few MAJOR musical innovations that have occured since your glory days:
Hip Hop, like it or not.
Electronic Dance Music, like it or not.
Disco, like it or not, was the force behind both hip hop, house, and many modern dance music styles.
he said: The reason music is dead is very simple. There is no innovation.
well, now thats where you are wrong, see. In the past 10 years I can name numerous styles of music that have developed
nu-jazz - which is a uptempo jazzy take on danceable jazz, with some house elements thrown in
broken beat - still uptempo, still housey, but not 4 on the floor. emphasis on super funky syncopated rhythms
drum and bass - you never heard anything like this 20 years ago.
Neo Soul - not so much a new style but a backlash from pop rnb, a back to basics approach with new production techniques.
trip-hop - I was listening to hip hop, but then I got high..
two-step aka uk garage - a very british fusion of rnb melodies, funky drum patterns and reggae sensibilites. rnb on e's
and not to mention the whole IDM movement. Remember, many of us gave up on the majors years and years ago. That shit is for mass appeal.
david crosby (who sounds like he is shilling for itunes) sez:
Two different issues. Me, personally -- I didn't do this to make money. When I joined the team here, when I became a musician, there was no money to be made. We were folk singers, playing in coffeehouses. There was no money, and there never would be any money. The only people I knew who had ever even made a record was Peter, Paul and Mary, okay?
Well, David Crosby is way way way out of touch. There are literally thousands of independent labels, eeking by on sales of 5000 - 50000 units. I am a big critic of the music industry as well, but the majors are not the only way to make a record. Master P self produced and sold albums out of the trunk of his car when he began. I know guys that will produce a track and press 500 copies on vinyl and that is IT, the project is done, no looking back lamenting its lack of position on the hot 100 chart.
Every week I see guys piling out of a beat up van carrying their gear into continental, think they sell any records or make money, Crosby? They have a fuckload of fun though I bet.
The majors only want artists that can break gold, but Indys will put out record after record selling only 10 - 20 k units.
Prince said fuck them all and is now giving away his latest CD at his (sold out) concerts.
Er,
isnt there a common problem of the netinfo database going bad? Could it be that you weren't hacked at all just your netinfo db went south.
do a google search for netinfo database corrupt
and you'll see what I mean.
-d
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it broadens the gamer demographic (my aunt thought the ps2 was the devils work, now shes a ddr junky).
This is the most interesting thing. Few address the difficulty of getting games to 'stick' with female players. The last one that really did was Tetris.
I have been following the ddr threads, and admit I am more than slightly curious. It seems that some of the testimonials were from people that were otherwise going down the couch potato road, excercise for video game junkies. I enjoy going out to clubs for some real dancing, but this could be fun for the family. We all love dancing, even my son that is only 1 dances when we put music on.
Really, so did I. Maybe you remember me, I worked in the warehouse building duping tapes at that time. I was the really tall guy with the ghetto blaster that played music all day while running 6 different duping machines, name of Dave.
Left summer of '93 to move to NYC.
My personal fave of the time was the outdoor dancing at mission rock, with they guy doing video toaster on his amiga, and those huge ass speakers!
Whats hilarious? That Brian actually had a life outside of writing awesome software? I knew him when he was a UCB undergrad... he also started the sf-raves email list back in the early 90's, and was part of the early rave scene in the Bay Area.. He used to host pre-rave parties too at his dorm room. He was always very social, talkative, and good with people. He didn't just sit down in the web crunching away on the workstations ... There were lots of other coders in the scene too, such as the guys from Twitch records. mw worked at Sybase, etc etc....
Where have you been over the last 20 years? If there is something to be cracked someone will crack it. Its not about Apple, or Windows, or respect for who is doing the right thing and protecting fair use. What it is about is people don't like buying things with locks on them. What it is about is showing that it is virtually pointless to do it in the first place, since it just provides one more bump in the road. Flex LM? Cracked. Alias Wavefront? Cracked. Maya? Cracked. Any commercial software package released in the last decade? Cracked. Adobe E-Books? Cracked. Encrypted DVD video? Cracked.
There is even a way to go read a book if you don't actually own it. (Sit in barnes and noble, go the library, etc.)
you can't lock information down.
thank you for hearing my off topic plea !
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I want to go to a page I was already at, I'll most likely know when I went to it and can easily find it.
This is usually true, but there is one page that I lost when I changed computers and forgot to move bookmarks. It was zyx.rt.ru or something and was sort of a technology opinion column with some great explorations. The best part was the photo of the week at the end. No matter what I google for I can't find that site! I guess history wouldn't have helped me tho, since I toasted that too. Will someone please post that url?!
Amen brother. I never made it to descent 3, I tried descent when I finished doom, and it instantly triggered severe vertigo and dizziness. They should have a warning on the box of that fucking game: If you have ever gotten motion sickness don't even think of buying this game. If you get dizzy easily, do NOT buy this game.
Those little white headphones are crap, as are all earbuds. Get some real headphones with a 50 or 60 mm driver, and feel the bass. Sony studio monitors provide a decent listening experience on the low end of things. MDR-V600 or MDR-V700's are nice. the 700's are the trendy dj headphone of the moment, all silvery and stuff.
It doesn't matter how many alerts come out as long as there is one idiot on the LAN that clicks the email attachment.
Didn't you read the earlier story? They have whored themselves completely to microsoft. They are not really a unix company anymore, they are but pawns in the world domination scheme of m$.
Exactly... This will NEVER work. THey got the hash for the tar'd album? Rar it. THey got that hash? Zip it. The got that hash? add a .nfo file to the archive and the hash changes again. Not to mention people rip things with different encoders, at different bitrates. How many billions of hashes must there be to block everything that is illegal? How long until someone comes along and writes a trivial program that adds .01 second of silence to a file, thereby changing the hash yet again. This is the worst angle I have ever seen to solving this 'problem'.
The irony of all this is monumental. The major labels have been in cahoots for years, inflating product prices, ripping off artists, forcing obsolescence of formats so you have to buy what you already owned in the new format at the full price, etc. There are titles that I bought on vinyl, cassette and CD. It is bullshit. The industry is bullshit, major labels are bullshit. People WANT to buy music. They really do! Finally people have had enough and aren't paying full price for music. That is why there are bootleggers every 6 blocks in NYC. Noone can afford $14.99 or $19.99 cd's.
I will tell you the solution: $5.00 cd's. If cd's were $5.00 I would walk into a music store and buy 10 at a time regularly. People this is all that they are worth. You know how much a cd costs to make? Not much. This subject makes me so mad, there is steam coming from my ears right now. I buy vinyl every single week, and yet there is no way for me to have that music in a digital format legally except to buy it twice. So, I download. I am a criminal in the eyes of the RIAA, yet I spend $5000 a year on music.