Drug treatments for depression are basically just stimulating parts of the brain chemically, right?
So then this would just be a shortcut. And if pinpointed accurately enough, hopefully avoid some of the nast side-effects which chemical treatment can cause.
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Sure, the DS may have TWO screens, one of them being a touch screen, allowing developers to get a bit creative, but it's just a matter of time for the novelty effect to wear off and for people to realize that these features do not actually enhance the gaming experience by much.
I dunno man, I own a DS and the touch screen is a real pleasure to use. When I go back and play GBA games, I almost feel out of place playing without using the touch screen. Try playing Pac-Pix and you'll understand.
I founded a company that does the exact same thing.
We do a process called silk screening.
Seriously, just do it yourself, it's really easy to make your own clothes, plus it's fun, you get a lot of pride out of doing it yourself, it will be completley unique, and other people are always fascinated by it.
Just go down to your local art store and ask around.
Just curious, if they can't host their blogs within China, why can't they do it elsewhere? Like perhaps in the US, Australia, or Canada?
There is a program in place which facilitates persons from around the world to adopt a Chinese blog and host it for the Chinese blogger. Pretty cool concept: people from around the world coming together and helping each other make connections and facilitate free speech.
OS X is great and I'm happy for Apple that they have it running on P4's. Yay for them.
What about the other big apps that are on PPC-based macs? What about ProTools, Digital Performer, Peak, among others? I don't know anything about their inner development, but I somehow doubt they're all built using XCode.
XCode hasn't been around for very long, a year or two, and although that isn't very long in terms of computer hardware, the software I mentioned above is from days of yore. Sure they made the jump to OS X from Classic, but it's still a huge undertaking.
Sorry, I don't tend to do this, but it's the one literary error that really pisses me off.
With games becoming ever more realistic, and reality ever more bent to our imaginations, it's ironic that reporting on reality becoming more of a fantasy game, while gaming reporting becomes more realistic.
If reality is becoming more fantasy, and gaming is becoing more "realistic", it isn't ironic that the reporting follows the same trends, it's similar, or fitting. Ironic is not the right word here.
the point is, none of those guys do what you are used to. it once upon a time was a sure thing to expose you to new venues, music types, and new songs and artists, when you could have beach boys bumped up against patsy cline and followed with the frank chacksfield orchestra and nilsson.
three new songs a week on any top-chart station is all the new you get, and it's all of a sameness.
Interestingly, IBOC is not that difficult to set up. Sure, the quality is lower on AM than FM because of the lower bandwidth (who listens to AM anyway?), but in terms of overall startup costs, it is lower than DAB. Plus, digital has a much larger coverage area, watt for watt. To recieve a good analog FM signal, you need a carrier to noise ratio of around 30dB, but with digital, you only need a C/N of 6dB. You can see, that given the same power of broadcast you will get a much larger coverage radius. Thus, IBOC is not just value-added.
I agree with you on the point that traditional radio is fantastic for its simple equipment and ease of use for both broadcasters and listeners, that's why I'm involved in radio (KCSB, WVUM) and listen to it daily!
...why isn't anyone really pushing Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), like they have in the UK ?
Because DAB is shared across all stations. They take the spectrum and use wavelength division multiplexing and time division multiplexing to spread all of the stations with digital broadcasts across the spectrum. This allows high station density and no problems associated with signal drop out from distance nodes. However, this situation requires cooperation between competitors vying for listeners, something that is nearly impossible to achieve in the fiercly independent business environment of the USA.
The US alternative is Digital Audio Radio (DAR) using In-Band On-Channel (IBOC) broadcasting. IBOC uses a station's existing carrier frequency and puts the digital signal in the low-power extremeties of the carrier as mandated by the FCC. This is not as efficient as DAB because you don't eliminate the issue of signal dropout from fequency nodes, and you may suffer from interference when listening to the analog signal. The good thing is that setup costs are much lower compared to DAB and, as is true with all digital audio radio situations, the digital signal carries further with lower power than analog.
So why isn't IBOC popular? It's not as robust as DAB and there is little incentive for stations to switch. Who has a DAR receiver in their car? Here's hoping that one day this will be a reality.
yeah, sure live electronic performances aren't interesting, which is a shame (although there are some, for instance Doormouse or Otto Von Schirach). However, I go to live electronic parties to speaker hug. Depending on the type of music you make/listen to, there's nothing better than putting in your earplugs, going right up to those 30" woofers, and just blissing out to the lows.
But overall, as a musician, I've noticed from being in bands over the years that you make the most money by doing shows and selling merch. Selling music hardly gets you any money in comparison to those outlets.
Promote using message boards like this one. Slashdot gets many hits, so perhaps if many people read this post they will check out my band, listen to our music, and buy our shirts.
But in all sincerity, we're starting our own label and going to focus on getting distributors to pick up our label. That way albums come out when we want, we get all the profit, and we still seem legitimate. There are services like DollarCD.com that allow musicians to get their stuff pressed for extremely good prices, then you just take care of the rest yourself. Pretty cool service.
I am looking for a solution where I could set up 3 Thunderbird executables: one for Windows, one for Linux, one for Mac OS X. I would then have them use the same profile. This shouldn't be so difficult. But what I really want is to set up some encryption scheme accessible across each of the "big 3" OS's. That way I can encrypt my profile so should I lose my keydrive, I won't have to worry (within reason). Is there any such solution?
I'm also interested in finding a standalone audio encoder for either flac or ogg on Windows or Mac OS X. I've looked but to no avail...
The only question is if they actually have the data to back it up (some graphs would be nice).
Any idiot can make a graph. You put crap in and you get crap out. I would like to see duplicated results, source code, equipment, etc. Then, maybe some graphs. Not before.
But yeah, I agree with you, my spelling and grammar are definetely not what they used to be when I was in high school (now I'm in college as a music/computer science student, no writing for me!) and gave a crap about that stuff. I figure language is an ever evolving way that a culture uses to describe the world. As the culture changes, the writing changes. If the majority of the people make the same spelling mistake or grammar error on a more regular basis than the "correct" way, isn't that just language evolving?
s/mistakes/mistake/. Typos like mine do happen - I won't deny that. The fact remains though, that, the kinds of mistakes I describe are far too common to be easily dismissed as simple typos.
Hahaha elitist! =) Somehow "alot" is a crime against humanity when someone like myself commits it, yet yourself using the wrong plurality is but a slip of the finger? I am aware that "a lot" is spelled with a space, but that damn spacebar is just so slippery.
It's okay to be elitist, I am too. I find it pretty funny when people complain about CD's and such being $17. I only buy underground albums that generally go for around $7, usually on vinyl too.
Book prices have gone thru the roof in the past 10 years.
Riiiight. It costs so much to walk down to the local public library and check out a few books every now and again. Remember, if you return them on time they're FREE!
Also, I buy used books. They're cheap and have the exact same content.
I read alot, particularly content on the web, so I'm not really concerned with our culture becoming "post-literate" because of the decline in novel consumption. The thing I do worry about, however, is attention span. I believe my attention span has dropped thanks in part to sites like slashdot, where you get your morsel of information, feel satiated, and move on.
That said, I believe television to be much more dangerous to the attention span than anything else.
BTW, I just finished The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Incredible!
I'd recommend going to see the film anyway. If you disagree with his presentation and style, then sure, you have a right to be upset with it. The information alone presented in the film is worth it. You'll learn a thing or two that are infuriating and fascinating, I know I did.
The Oscars have been a political platform for years. Marlon Brando in 1973 sent up a Native American girl who read a speech blasting Holly to accept his prize for him; Jane Fonda gave a black panther's salute in 1970. Even if Moore were to not use his time for politics, others inevitably will.
The thing to remember over all is that the film isn't about Moore, but it's about Bush. Regardless of how it's presented, the information in there is shocking. Go education!
I have had 2 of the lovely little Karmas die on me. RMA'ed the first one after an HD failure only to have it replaced almost a month later by one that skips while playing most of my songs and has repeatedly required formatting just to get it to shut down.
Once I RMA this sucker for the 3rd time I will sell it and pick up the iRiver iHP-120 20 gigs of OGG, WMA, MP3, WAV, plus a remote with LCD, FM radio tuner, and can record into WAV or MP3 in realtime from a built-in mic or stereo line-in. Pretty kickass. Sure the Karma is about $75 cheaper, but for a unit that WORKS, it's worth it.
Plus, the Karma only has a 90 day warrantee. The iRiver has a 1-year warrantee.
One thing worthy of note: the script in the logo for the words "San Andreas" is in that faux-English "newspaper-title" font that is popular among Latinos who put it on the back of their pickup trucks (often along with a decal of the virgin Mary - I don't get it either) and what not. Dunno if that means anything..
I noticed that too. It means LA and not San Francisco. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was LA, you see that script alot down there. Up north, it's more about hipster urban spray paint. Yessire, San Andreas is defiantely from the dirty south.
Call me crazy, but I think the US having the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in our way does make the world a safer place. For Americans. And those are the only people our tax dollars should be protecting in the first place.
Two words: Trojan Horse. While the U.S. is putting all its efforts into blockbuster totalitarian-like defense, such systems can be taken down by tiny weaknesses. Example: a man crashing a plane into a building. Can't exactly zap NYC with your hypergalatic super rods.
Point is, this is an agressive action that will only encourage retaliation. How is this any different from a country gathering up troops on the boarder of another nation? Personally, I don't believe there was an "organized terrorist network" called al Queda before the Bush administration has tried to pin everything to it. I believe it has showed up in response to the wild goose chase searching for one.
As history has repeatedly showed us, all governments eventually come to an end. What happens to these weapons when the U.S. eventually crashes? I don't want to be around if it comes in a hostile take over. Non-proliferation is the only way to go
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Drug treatments for depression are basically just stimulating parts of the brain chemically, right?
So then this would just be a shortcut. And if pinpointed accurately enough, hopefully avoid some of the nast side-effects which chemical treatment can cause.
Sure, the DS may have TWO screens, one of them being a touch screen, allowing developers to get a bit creative, but it's just a matter of time for the novelty effect to wear off and for people to realize that these features do not actually enhance the gaming experience by much.
I dunno man, I own a DS and the touch screen is a real pleasure to use. When I go back and play GBA games, I almost feel out of place playing without using the touch screen. Try playing Pac-Pix and you'll understand.
I founded a company that does the exact same thing.
We do a process called silk screening.
Seriously, just do it yourself, it's really easy to make your own clothes, plus it's fun, you get a lot of pride out of doing it yourself, it will be completley unique, and other people are always fascinated by it.
Just go down to your local art store and ask around.
Just curious, if they can't host their blogs within China, why can't they do it elsewhere? Like perhaps in the US, Australia, or Canada?
There is a program in place which facilitates persons from around the world to adopt a Chinese blog and host it for the Chinese blogger. Pretty cool concept: people from around the world coming together and helping each other make connections and facilitate free speech.
OS X is great and I'm happy for Apple that they have it running on P4's. Yay for them.
What about the other big apps that are on PPC-based macs? What about ProTools, Digital Performer, Peak, among others? I don't know anything about their inner development, but I somehow doubt they're all built using XCode.
XCode hasn't been around for very long, a year or two, and although that isn't very long in terms of computer hardware, the software I mentioned above is from days of yore. Sure they made the jump to OS X from Classic, but it's still a huge undertaking.
Sorry, I don't tend to do this, but it's the one literary error that really pisses me off.
With games becoming ever more realistic, and reality ever more bent to our imaginations, it's ironic that reporting on reality becoming more of a fantasy game, while gaming reporting becomes more realistic.
If reality is becoming more fantasy, and gaming is becoing more "realistic", it isn't ironic that the reporting follows the same trends, it's similar, or fitting. Ironic is not the right word here.
Please do not misuse "irony."
the point is, none of those guys do what you are used to. it once upon a time was a sure thing to expose you to new venues, music types, and new songs and artists, when you could have beach boys bumped up against patsy cline and followed with the frank chacksfield orchestra and nilsson.
three new songs a week on any top-chart station is all the new you get, and it's all of a sameness.
Start listening to your local college radio.
Interestingly, IBOC is not that difficult to set up. Sure, the quality is lower on AM than FM because of the lower bandwidth (who listens to AM anyway?), but in terms of overall startup costs, it is lower than DAB. Plus, digital has a much larger coverage area, watt for watt. To recieve a good analog FM signal, you need a carrier to noise ratio of around 30dB, but with digital, you only need a C/N of 6dB. You can see, that given the same power of broadcast you will get a much larger coverage radius. Thus, IBOC is not just value-added.
I agree with you on the point that traditional radio is fantastic for its simple equipment and ease of use for both broadcasters and listeners, that's why I'm involved in radio (KCSB, WVUM) and listen to it daily!
...why isn't anyone really pushing Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), like they have in the UK ?
Because DAB is shared across all stations. They take the spectrum and use wavelength division multiplexing and time division multiplexing to spread all of the stations with digital broadcasts across the spectrum. This allows high station density and no problems associated with signal drop out from distance nodes. However, this situation requires cooperation between competitors vying for listeners, something that is nearly impossible to achieve in the fiercly independent business environment of the USA.
The US alternative is Digital Audio Radio (DAR) using In-Band On-Channel (IBOC) broadcasting. IBOC uses a station's existing carrier frequency and puts the digital signal in the low-power extremeties of the carrier as mandated by the FCC. This is not as efficient as DAB because you don't eliminate the issue of signal dropout from fequency nodes, and you may suffer from interference when listening to the analog signal. The good thing is that setup costs are much lower compared to DAB and, as is true with all digital audio radio situations, the digital signal carries further with lower power than analog.
So why isn't IBOC popular? It's not as robust as DAB and there is little incentive for stations to switch. Who has a DAR receiver in their car? Here's hoping that one day this will be a reality.
yeah, sure live electronic performances aren't interesting, which is a shame (although there are some, for instance Doormouse or Otto Von Schirach). However, I go to live electronic parties to speaker hug. Depending on the type of music you make/listen to, there's nothing better than putting in your earplugs, going right up to those 30" woofers, and just blissing out to the lows.
But overall, as a musician, I've noticed from being in bands over the years that you make the most money by doing shows and selling merch. Selling music hardly gets you any money in comparison to those outlets.
Promote using message boards like this one. Slashdot gets many hits, so perhaps if many people read this post they will check out my band, listen to our music, and buy our shirts.
But in all sincerity, we're starting our own label and going to focus on getting distributors to pick up our label. That way albums come out when we want, we get all the profit, and we still seem legitimate. There are services like DollarCD.com that allow musicians to get their stuff pressed for extremely good prices, then you just take care of the rest yourself. Pretty cool service.
And oh yeah, we rock =)
I am looking for a solution where I could set up 3 Thunderbird executables: one for Windows, one for Linux, one for Mac OS X. I would then have them use the same profile. This shouldn't be so difficult. But what I really want is to set up some encryption scheme accessible across each of the "big 3" OS's. That way I can encrypt my profile so should I lose my keydrive, I won't have to worry (within reason). Is there any such solution?
I'm also interested in finding a standalone audio encoder for either flac or ogg on Windows or Mac OS X. I've looked but to no avail...
The only question is if they actually have the data to back it up (some graphs would be nice).
Any idiot can make a graph. You put crap in and you get crap out. I would like to see duplicated results, source code, equipment, etc. Then, maybe some graphs. Not before.
I have never been to a site that has asked me to accept so many cookies before. Yuck.
Deny deny deny.
Yay for someone posting the text.
how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?
My answer is to buy neither. I don't have a regular DVD-+=
Don't worry about it, don't buy it.
But yeah, I agree with you, my spelling and grammar are definetely not what they used to be when I was in high school (now I'm in college as a music/computer science student, no writing for me!) and gave a crap about that stuff. I figure language is an ever evolving way that a culture uses to describe the world. As the culture changes, the writing changes. If the majority of the people make the same spelling mistake or grammar error on a more regular basis than the "correct" way, isn't that just language evolving?
Riiiight, I live in NYC, where the funding for the library gets cut yearly and my local neighborhood library serves several thousand people a week.
Agreed. I too wish those bastards in congress would stop voting for military budget increases and start voting for more public works funding! =)
s/mistakes/mistake/. Typos like mine do happen - I won't deny that. The fact remains though, that, the kinds of mistakes I describe are far too common to be easily dismissed as simple typos.
Hahaha elitist! =) Somehow "alot" is a crime against humanity when someone like myself commits it, yet yourself using the wrong plurality is but a slip of the finger? I am aware that "a lot" is spelled with a space, but that damn spacebar is just so slippery.
It's okay to be elitist, I am too. I find it pretty funny when people complain about CD's and such being $17. I only buy underground albums that generally go for around $7, usually on vinyl too.
Book prices have gone thru the roof in the past 10 years.
Riiiight. It costs so much to walk down to the local public library and check out a few books every now and again. Remember, if you return them on time they're FREE!
Also, I buy used books. They're cheap and have the exact same content.
I read alot, particularly content on the web, so I'm not really concerned with our culture becoming "post-literate" because of the decline in novel consumption. The thing I do worry about, however, is attention span. I believe my attention span has dropped thanks in part to sites like slashdot, where you get your morsel of information, feel satiated, and move on.
That said, I believe television to be much more dangerous to the attention span than anything else.
BTW, I just finished The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Incredible!
I'd recommend going to see the film anyway. If you disagree with his presentation and style, then sure, you have a right to be upset with it. The information alone presented in the film is worth it. You'll learn a thing or two that are infuriating and fascinating, I know I did.
The Oscars have been a political platform for years. Marlon Brando in 1973 sent up a Native American girl who read a speech blasting Holly to accept his prize for him; Jane Fonda gave a black panther's salute in 1970. Even if Moore were to not use his time for politics, others inevitably will.
The thing to remember over all is that the film isn't about Moore, but it's about Bush. Regardless of how it's presented, the information in there is shocking. Go education!
I would happily put linux on my iPod if it would record stereo tracks. I hear it is technically possible...
You hear it is? What sources have you?
I have had 2 of the lovely little Karmas die on me. RMA'ed the first one after an HD failure only to have it replaced almost a month later by one that skips while playing most of my songs and has repeatedly required formatting just to get it to shut down.
Once I RMA this sucker for the 3rd time I will sell it and pick up the iRiver iHP-120 20 gigs of OGG, WMA, MP3, WAV, plus a remote with LCD, FM radio tuner, and can record into WAV or MP3 in realtime from a built-in mic or stereo line-in. Pretty kickass. Sure the Karma is about $75 cheaper, but for a unit that WORKS, it's worth it.
Plus, the Karma only has a 90 day warrantee. The iRiver has a 1-year warrantee.
One thing worthy of note: the script in the logo for the words "San Andreas" is in that faux-English "newspaper-title" font that is popular among Latinos who put it on the back of their pickup trucks (often along with a decal of the virgin Mary - I don't get it either) and what not. Dunno if that means anything..
I noticed that too. It means LA and not San Francisco. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was LA, you see that script alot down there. Up north, it's more about hipster urban spray paint. Yessire, San Andreas is defiantely from the dirty south.
Two words: Trojan Horse. While the U.S. is putting all its efforts into blockbuster totalitarian-like defense, such systems can be taken down by tiny weaknesses. Example: a man crashing a plane into a building. Can't exactly zap NYC with your hypergalatic super rods.
Point is, this is an agressive action that will only encourage retaliation. How is this any different from a country gathering up troops on the boarder of another nation? Personally, I don't believe there was an "organized terrorist network" called al Queda before the Bush administration has tried to pin everything to it. I believe it has showed up in response to the wild goose chase searching for one.
As history has repeatedly showed us, all governments eventually come to an end. What happens to these weapons when the U.S. eventually crashes? I don't want to be around if it comes in a hostile take over. Non-proliferation is the only way to go