> The reason music is dead is very simple. There is no innovation.
You are so mistaken due to a limited listening vocabulary. There's innovative music out there but for the most part you won't find it on the major labels. You have to dig for it, but it's out there, and thus the music is not dead. It's alive and well and in many forms-- new forms, old forms made anew.
Check out the records coming out from labels like Thrilljockey (Tortoise, Mouse on Mars, The Sea and Cake), Strange Attractors (Yume Bitsu, SubArachnoid Space, Kinksi, Landing, Surface of Eceyon), Constellation Records (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think) and Elephant 6 and Cloud Recordings (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel) -- they've been doing something different with the music in the last few years.
The open horizons continue to be in music that could be classified as psychedelic, anything else ends up just being more of the same. The new musical horizons are best found at the point where music can make our brains do different things than we are used to.
If you can't find music with innovation and quality then you simply aren't looking hard enough.
I know the drive is hosed. But no data ever actually seems to get corrupt. For the past year I've moved stuff on and off and never have seen any major problems with the data itself, and thus to be safe I never put anything really important.
HD replacement: will they do this for free even if you aren't an Applecare customer? My warranty ran out about a year before this problem began.
I've had a continued problem on my iBook for the past year or so.
Under HFS+ in Mac OS X Jaguar or Panther, after about a day of having a clean install, fresh partition and format my hard drive starts making clunking noises and the system locks up (without actually freezing) -- then when reboot attempts are made they take aeons.
Under ReiserFS in Gentoo Linux for PPC: never have the problem. Same hard drive. Months of use, never once hear the hard drive being funky. No lockups.
Do I put the blame on HFS? OS X? I just can't figure out this strange problem.
When I was going to college in San Francisco, I lived in the dorms and right around that time (1998) cookiesnmilk.net opened, targeted at us more lit folk as a solution to midnight snacking needs. It was great-- warm, delicious cookies delivered to your door with cold milk. Gradually the company had the mistaken notion they could make bigger money by catering to the office crowd. Never heard of them after a certain point, their website is no longer. Oh well. Keep with the college kiddies.
Here is some evidence of their existence. I have a photograph with a delivery person that is an utter classic.
I can't understand city-team loyalty. A city's team is not representative of the city in almost any way. The players are not, for example, native Bostonians, and in most examples the players only live in the city of Boston because they signed a contract with Boston. What is the psychology of loyalty in this case? Is it because the people owning the team (often, the owners are also not natives or dwellers of the city in which they play) have the cunning to choose these players?
Is team loyalty merely an act of convenience? Because I live in x city and x city has a team, I therefore should root for x team. Can someone explain this? Rationalize it beyond it being just the way things are?
Remembering back to one of the few Star Wars novels I read, the collection of short stories... Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina or someother somesuch, Greedo is sent by Jabba mainly to get get rid of him. Greedo wasn't a bounty hunter, he was a a wannabe, a pain in the neck snot-nose brat. His missing is therefore not too suprising, as he was an idiot.
The Gamecube is the most solid system Nintendo has yet released. Metroid Prime shows off its full capabilities, and I really don't know where they could go from there. What more do people want out of a home console system, besides more games? Why battle a war that is really about shiny things? Think back to the days of NES, the wide-range of game selection available both good and bad (as well as horribly mediocre and superb beyond all belief) -- why not concentrate on the system it has now? I have been nothing but impressed with the capabilities of the Gamecube. I can't imagine a system being more able to provide an entertaining gaming experience, within the current framework of the concept.
Until a true revolution in gaming has arrived, ripe and ready for consumption, what need is there for yet another console? It seems to me that Sony and Microsoft at this point want to release new systems because their current ones are incapable of handling the demands of the games they want to create, or want created for them. I do not see Nintendo yet having this problem with the Gamecube.
It's as if the gaming industry thinks that to remain relevant they have to release a new console every three years. Let the damn things breath. The public needs to be able to take a breath before it can be taken away by a "new gaming experience."
Let's see if I can find a way to summarize the year's best music to my ears...
#1 : Do Make Say Think's Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn. Amazing production, and a very contemporary look on the merging between what dark jazz promised with a certain hopefulness that lingers long after the album is over.
#2 : Howard Hello's Don't Drink His Blood - Deceptive in its pop simplicity, but with this dark streak. Again, mostly instrumental but with highly processed singing in places that borders on sinister. A real sleeper on the radar.
#3 : The Cinematic Orchestra's Man With a Movie Camera:: this is by far the best soundtrack ever produced for this film. Mixing jazz, pure psychedelia, and even throwing in a Art Ensemble of Chicago cover, this album ties everything that is meaningful about the psychedelic experience into a beautiful package. A must listen.
#4 The Microphones' Mount Eerie -- In addition to the wonderful vinyl pressing, with hand-stitched sewn sleeve, this album is a complete trip through the forces of nature and man's place within it. Deep and meditative, good for listening once every two months or so when you are ready to confront your closet.
There were dozens of other great releases this year, but those were the ones I was most thankful for.
On the reprint front, we were given a brilliant repackaging of the Soft Machine's BBC Radio Volume 1. Fantastic music from this forgotten band, at their very best.
This speech is better than most books I've read on the subject of postmodernism, as he is able to embody it as well as utilize it, or is it utilizing him? Is Larry merely a conduit or is he the condition, the conditioned, or the conditioning?
Phillip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors for a long time now. My mind bends along the same tunnels he trodded. The pink light, the red curtains, the overlapping of realities.
I hope that we can some day see his notes on the Owl in Daylight (the novel he never finished/or pretty much even began) because from what exists in his thought patterns in What if our world is their Heaven? -- it was to be a classic work.
Valis is required reading, but it must come to someone at the right time. If at the wrong time they may never touch it again. Ubik would make a fantastic film, as would A Scanner Darkly.
I had read awhile back that Richard Linklater was interested in doing an animated Scanner Darkly, and I think that would have worked out really well. Still, Soderberg would be able to pick up on the needed subtleties in that novel. George Clooney as Bob Arctor could definitley work out well.
The Man in the High Castle also would make a great movie. Hollywood needs to focus on his novels. His short stories just barely scratched the surface of what he was trying to reveal. Perhaps that is why they have been used mostly to date, because they are more skeletal and can be mutated into a product easily.
Grant Morrison is an amazing writer. His talent lies in his ability to tie many, disparate story lines together with a psychedelic, post-modern bent that incorporates the outer fringes of knowledge and dadaist imaginings. His work in the Doom Patrol was particularly striking to me.
In that comic book, he had a character that I was believe called Johnny on the Street. He was the street, one that talked through the existance of what shops were at one time there, and the street roamed from cosmic location to location, a temporary autonomous zone of sorts.
I've been wondering what he has been up to, and it's good to know he's working on a video game. I'd be very interested to see how this turns out.
I was always hoping he'd start writing a TV show like Twin Peaks, or even more so in the current cultural climate of Six Feet Under and what have you; he could get away with making something very interesting.
I just want to take this time to reply to all the people who responded below, rather than replying to each individually. I by no means meant to imply that techies were but beasts for the feeding of creative ideas, or that my ideas worth necessarily worth feeding.
I've been a geek since the moment I was born. Been reading slashdot since day one. Been playing with 3D software and electronic music and linux and a variety of other geeky things since the beginning of my computing times. I know my limitations as an artist however, and I am conceptually driven towards visual mediums but lack the ability to piece to my ideas into an immersive, visual reality. This is the basis for my questioning and comments-- not some innate feeling of betterment versus others or the technicial community in general.
Ideas may be a dime a dozen, but it's the most tangible currency I have. You may not think my ideas are revolutionary, just by the very fact that I am here, posting on slashdot, apparently appearing as some arrogant fuck, but I never claimed that they were. I've released my self from even thinking in scales of that sort.
I am merely looking to find were and how people get together to join in on projects of the nature I've always been interested in attempting. I made the mistake early on in college to not go into a computer or artistic field, a mistake I've long regretted. I'm only 23 years old, but I already feel like I'm heading down the wrong path because of poor choices made when I was 17. That's not any of your guyses problem, and you may not even be interested-- just the same, I have found it very difficult to find like-minded individuals also possessing the technical know-how to collaborate on the projects I imagine possibly filling a void in the artistic world. That doesn't mean that I want to be some auteur with my name all over everything.
I work hard at what I can do. And that is writing experimental fiction. And that is imagining worlds that have no relation to the human models that have been the legacy for eternity. Of course, what I want is not only intangible, it is also impossible. All the more reason to reach and reach for it until I come out insane or dirt poor. I bide my time working in a law office making a pittance, teeter-tottering between the idea of teaching just so I can expect an income that would allow me to buy a cup of coffee when I want one -- and, if possible, to purchase the equipment to enable me to be more active in shaping my artistic futures.
Don't judge someone by three paragraphs they write in a comment on slashdot. That's ridiculous.
At this point I don't know what I set out to say here. I'll probably say some more later. Thanks for reading.
I am a writer of alternative worlds, a sculptor of different realities and narratives taking place in such realities. I also do music that helps to describe these environments. However, I've always thought that the next logical step is film, and after that whatever comes beyond--immersive virtual environments. And yet, it is very difficult to get ahold of the technology and creative teams who would want to do this purely for the love of art, for the drive to create something new.
Are there any resources for the "imagineers" out there, like myself? Where we can contact those who are more technically oriented and feed them ideas, worlds, concepts, and general feelings and allow them to aid us realizing such visions? I've often seen that very good computer animators/modelers, etc. are without GREAT ideas at the core, and thus while technically adept, their creations are more pale than they could be.
In other words, where do animators looking for material and starting points "hang out" on the internet? Where can I start proposing my ideas to turn into realities?
That doesn't stop the guy from rocking the boat just in concern for the company itself. Regardless of this individual's situation, the company has a potential problem with a management employee who needs to be regulated in some way through training and or punishment.
Regardless, the question was asked and posted to slashdot therefore, it is a question that can be modified into its abstract parts and applied to the whole or segments of its intended audience. Someone may find any tangent discussion on this topic helpful.
And I cautionally used e-prime liberally in my analysis so as not to imply that it was applicable beyond a leap of variables.
Wrong. It can be interpreted as sexual harassment regardless of your reluctance to state it as a problem. However, nothing can be done unless you alert the issue to the next person in line of management. When a manager is the source of sexual harassment, the liability on your employer is higher. If this woman has "hire and fire" abilities, she is potentially costing your company a great amount of money, and should be alerted to begin with. Second, while you may not want to sue the person, filing a BOLI (or equivalent to your jurisdiction) complaint against your employer, who cannot legally retaliate against you in any way.)
Your status as a consultant (as,I a person who merely works in an employment defense law firm and reads dozens of pleadings of this nature a day, can advise you) may complicate matters, but shouldn't entirely limit your employer's liability.
Examine any handbook that you received. You can easily construe your work environment as being hostile because of this as well, claim (dis)stress damages, and onward.
But... I have a feeling that you just want this to stop, and talking to a higher level supervisor should solve your problem quickly. Be sure to exhaust any administrative remedies as you can muster. There are always better ways to solve a problem than litigation.
I am not a lawyer, etc. etc.
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Must iterate in compliment to the Jack Womack. I started with Random Acts of Senseless Violence and was blown away by the slow gradual language virus development; it was as if Burroughs' word virus ideas were put into beautiful action. Elvissey, about an alternate time slippage in the 50s whereas agents from the future discover "Elvis Presley," who is actually his infantly dead twin brother. Written terribly well.
And then there is Jeff Noon, another Brit. His world and writing has become quite good, though often he is round on the edges, but the language angles are always challenging and inventive. Vurt will soon be made into a movie, and it's about wonderful trip drugs encoded on feathers, allowing a/vurt/ual world of gaming and archetypal interference. Complicated and well-encoded. Also highly recommend Nymphomation, and Pixel Juice. The Cobralingus is great for anyone interested in systems processes on language.
And then the usual suspect Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly, Valis, The Man in the High Castle, and Confessions of a Crap Artist are tremendous, as are most of his 60s-70s work.
Robert Anton Wilson tends to run well with a lot of geeks. The Illuminatus presents a wonderful summerful of reading, as well as following up with Scrodinger's Cat. Will make the mind melt for a good amount of time. His other books like Quantum Psychology, Prometheus Rising, and Reality Is What You Can Get Away With are also great reads.
And then there is my favorite author, who makes summertime and anytime worth considering and thinking about, Richard Brautigan. Take a nice summer day to read In Watermelon Sugar and watch a new reality unfold before your brain and come out with a unspecific new way of thinking about things, in a way perhaps beyond what one commonly percieves as thinking.
Great summertime music to listen to include the illustrious, instrumental Tortoise's TNT. Always sweetens the days and compliments and reading and writing and general life living.
To think of FruityLoops as lame, though you concede its advancement over linux-tools, is in error. It is really quite more powerful than meets the eye. Its VSTi support and capabilities challenges (at least within my more experimental usage) Cubase. When used in conjunction with a vast array of tools, it can really hold down the fort of insanely intricate and detailed non-standard music making.
How is WineX with music production software? Is Reason 2 working yet? Fruity Loops 3.5? VSTi? Acid? Soundforge? VAZ+? These are the only programs keeping my computer running Windows.
And besides, the meaning of the word "adapter" is also true to the intentions. One who adapts is very similar to one who adopts, whereas one could say adapting is even more preferable due to its progressive nature. Adopting seems like a blind act to me.
The real question, for me at least, is what shows are we talking about here? When I go see the Circulatory System at a small venue, can I get the show? What about Tortoise? Sigur Ros? Sea and Cake? Godspeed you! black emperor? Or are they talking about super blockbuster cookie-cutter concerts where the live recording doesn't mean much? I'll stick with Furthur. I can get the Dead, Pink Floyd, Tortoise, Soul Coughing, old Bob Marley, even Cat Stevens and Talking Heads shows. I can get video footage of shows. And best of all, the software works and I have a pretty high certainty that the musicians approve.
I think you misunderstand the word "plot." What you describe there is a premise, which indeed matches the casual structure of the Final Fantasy series. However, plot is the sequence of events that carry the game forward, within the rubric of the premise/story archetype which remains basically the same throughout the series.
On the other hand, to show a counter-example: consider many family sitcoms: the premise is what often changes from show to show-- but somehow, they recycle the same plots between each and every show, causing the level of cataclysmic crap to bounce off the wall and straight into your mouth.
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> The reason music is dead is very simple. There is no innovation.
You are so mistaken due to a limited listening vocabulary. There's innovative music out there but for the most part you won't find it on the major labels. You have to dig for it, but it's out there, and thus the music is not dead. It's alive and well and in many forms-- new forms, old forms made anew.
Check out the records coming out from labels like Thrilljockey (Tortoise, Mouse on Mars, The Sea and Cake), Strange Attractors (Yume Bitsu, SubArachnoid Space, Kinksi, Landing, Surface of Eceyon), Constellation Records (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think) and Elephant 6 and Cloud Recordings (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel) -- they've been doing something different with the music in the last few years.
The open horizons continue to be in music that could be classified as psychedelic, anything else ends up just being more of the same. The new musical horizons are best found at the point where music can make our brains do different things than we are used to.
If you can't find music with innovation and quality then you simply aren't looking hard enough.
I know the drive is hosed. But no data ever actually seems to get corrupt. For the past year I've moved stuff on and off and never have seen any major problems with the data itself, and thus to be safe I never put anything really important.
HD replacement: will they do this for free even if you aren't an Applecare customer? My warranty ran out about a year before this problem began.
I've had a continued problem on my iBook for the past year or so.
Under HFS+ in Mac OS X Jaguar or Panther, after about a day of having a clean install, fresh partition and format my hard drive starts making clunking noises and the system locks up (without actually freezing) -- then when reboot attempts are made they take aeons.
Under ReiserFS in Gentoo Linux for PPC: never have the problem. Same hard drive. Months of use, never once hear the hard drive being funky. No lockups.
Do I put the blame on HFS? OS X? I just can't figure out this strange problem.
When I was going to college in San Francisco, I lived in the dorms and right around that time (1998) cookiesnmilk.net opened, targeted at us more lit folk as a solution to midnight snacking needs. It was great-- warm, delicious cookies delivered to your door with cold milk. Gradually the company had the mistaken notion they could make bigger money by catering to the office crowd. Never heard of them after a certain point, their website is no longer. Oh well. Keep with the college kiddies.
Here is some evidence of their existence. I have a photograph with a delivery person that is an utter classic.
Great. Maybe this'll finally do something about the great acid shortage of the past 5 years. Do your country a favor, bring back the acid.
I can't understand city-team loyalty. A city's team is not representative of the city in almost any way. The players are not, for example, native Bostonians, and in most examples the players only live in the city of Boston because they signed a contract with Boston. What is the psychology of loyalty in this case? Is it because the people owning the team (often, the owners are also not natives or dwellers of the city in which they play) have the cunning to choose these players?
Is team loyalty merely an act of convenience? Because I live in x city and x city has a team, I therefore should root for x team. Can someone explain this? Rationalize it beyond it being just the way things are?
Remembering back to one of the few Star Wars novels I read, the collection of short stories... Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina or someother somesuch, Greedo is sent by Jabba mainly to get get rid of him. Greedo wasn't a bounty hunter, he was a a wannabe, a pain in the neck snot-nose brat. His missing is therefore not too suprising, as he was an idiot.
The Gamecube is the most solid system Nintendo has yet released. Metroid Prime shows off its full capabilities, and I really don't know where they could go from there. What more do people want out of a home console system, besides more games? Why battle a war that is really about shiny things? Think back to the days of NES, the wide-range of game selection available both good and bad (as well as horribly mediocre and superb beyond all belief) -- why not concentrate on the system it has now? I have been nothing but impressed with the capabilities of the Gamecube. I can't imagine a system being more able to provide an entertaining gaming experience, within the current framework of the concept.
Until a true revolution in gaming has arrived, ripe and ready for consumption, what need is there for yet another console? It seems to me that Sony and Microsoft at this point want to release new systems because their current ones are incapable of handling the demands of the games they want to create, or want created for them. I do not see Nintendo yet having this problem with the Gamecube.
It's as if the gaming industry thinks that to remain relevant they have to release a new console every three years. Let the damn things breath. The public needs to be able to take a breath before it can be taken away by a "new gaming experience."
Let's see if I can find a way to summarize the year's best music to my ears...
:: this is by far the best soundtrack ever produced for this film. Mixing jazz, pure psychedelia, and even throwing in a Art Ensemble of Chicago cover, this album ties everything that is meaningful about the psychedelic experience into a beautiful package. A must listen.
#1 : Do Make Say Think's Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn. Amazing production, and a very contemporary look on the merging between what dark jazz promised with a certain hopefulness that lingers long after the album is over.
#2 : Howard Hello's Don't Drink His Blood - Deceptive in its pop simplicity, but with this dark streak. Again, mostly instrumental but with highly processed singing in places that borders on sinister. A real sleeper on the radar.
#3 : The Cinematic Orchestra's Man With a Movie Camera
#4 The Microphones' Mount Eerie -- In addition to the wonderful vinyl pressing, with hand-stitched sewn sleeve, this album is a complete trip through the forces of nature and man's place within it. Deep and meditative, good for listening once every two months or so when you are ready to confront your closet.
There were dozens of other great releases this year, but those were the ones I was most thankful for.
On the reprint front, we were given a brilliant repackaging of the Soft Machine's BBC Radio Volume 1. Fantastic music from this forgotten band, at their very best.
For DVDs with music:
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
DJ Q-Bert Wave Twisters
For movies in general, dvd or not.
#1 all-time best party movie:
Pippi in the South Seas (no foolin!)
Voltron (goes with any music)
Kiss Meets the Phantom - Need I say more?
And then, calm it all down with Bjork's Volumen.
Smart, smart man.
This speech is better than most books I've read on the subject of postmodernism, as he is able to embody it as well as utilize it, or is it utilizing him? Is Larry merely a conduit or is he the condition, the conditioned, or the conditioning?
Phillip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors for a long time now. My mind bends along the same tunnels he trodded. The pink light, the red curtains, the overlapping of realities.
I hope that we can some day see his notes on the Owl in Daylight (the novel he never finished/or pretty much even began) because from what exists in his thought patterns in What if our world is their Heaven? -- it was to be a classic work.
Valis is required reading, but it must come to someone at the right time. If at the wrong time they may never touch it again. Ubik would make a fantastic film, as would A Scanner Darkly.
I had read awhile back that Richard Linklater was interested in doing an animated Scanner Darkly, and I think that would have worked out really well. Still, Soderberg would be able to pick up on the needed subtleties in that novel. George Clooney as Bob Arctor could definitley work out well.
The Man in the High Castle also would make a great movie. Hollywood needs to focus on his novels. His short stories just barely scratched the surface of what he was trying to reveal. Perhaps that is why they have been used mostly to date, because they are more skeletal and can be mutated into a product easily.
Grant Morrison is an amazing writer. His talent lies in his ability to tie many, disparate story lines together with a psychedelic, post-modern bent that incorporates the outer fringes of knowledge and dadaist imaginings. His work in the Doom Patrol was particularly striking to me.
In that comic book, he had a character that I was believe called Johnny on the Street. He was the street, one that talked through the existance of what shops were at one time there, and the street roamed from cosmic location to location, a temporary autonomous zone of sorts.
I've been wondering what he has been up to, and it's good to know he's working on a video game. I'd be very interested to see how this turns out.
I was always hoping he'd start writing a TV show like Twin Peaks, or even more so in the current cultural climate of Six Feet Under and what have you; he could get away with making something very interesting.
I just want to take this time to reply to all the people who responded below, rather than replying to each individually. I by no means meant to imply that techies were but beasts for the feeding of creative ideas, or that my ideas worth necessarily worth feeding.
I've been a geek since the moment I was born. Been reading slashdot since day one. Been playing with 3D software and electronic music and linux and a variety of other geeky things since the beginning of my computing times. I know my limitations as an artist however, and I am conceptually driven towards visual mediums but lack the ability to piece to my ideas into an immersive, visual reality. This is the basis for my questioning and comments-- not some innate feeling of betterment versus others or the technicial community in general.
Ideas may be a dime a dozen, but it's the most tangible currency I have. You may not think my ideas are revolutionary, just by the very fact that I am here, posting on slashdot, apparently appearing as some arrogant fuck, but I never claimed that they were. I've released my self from even thinking in scales of that sort.
I am merely looking to find were and how people get together to join in on projects of the nature I've always been interested in attempting. I made the mistake early on in college to not go into a computer or artistic field, a mistake I've long regretted. I'm only 23 years old, but I already feel like I'm heading down the wrong path because of poor choices made when I was 17. That's not any of your guyses problem, and you may not even be interested-- just the same, I have found it very difficult to find like-minded individuals also possessing the technical know-how to collaborate on the projects I imagine possibly filling a void in the artistic world. That doesn't mean that I want to be some auteur with my name all over everything.
I work hard at what I can do. And that is writing experimental fiction. And that is imagining worlds that have no relation to the human models that have been the legacy for eternity. Of course, what I want is not only intangible, it is also impossible. All the more reason to reach and reach for it until I come out insane or dirt poor. I bide my time working in a law office making a pittance, teeter-tottering between the idea of teaching just so I can expect an income that would allow me to buy a cup of coffee when I want one -- and, if possible, to purchase the equipment to enable me to be more active in shaping my artistic futures.
Don't judge someone by three paragraphs they write in a comment on slashdot. That's ridiculous.
At this point I don't know what I set out to say here. I'll probably say some more later. Thanks for reading.
I am a writer of alternative worlds, a sculptor of different realities and narratives taking place in such realities. I also do music that helps to describe these environments. However, I've always thought that the next logical step is film, and after that whatever comes beyond--immersive virtual environments. And yet, it is very difficult to get ahold of the technology and creative teams who would want to do this purely for the love of art, for the drive to create something new.
Are there any resources for the "imagineers" out there, like myself? Where we can contact those who are more technically oriented and feed them ideas, worlds, concepts, and general feelings and allow them to aid us realizing such visions? I've often seen that very good computer animators/modelers, etc. are without GREAT ideas at the core, and thus while technically adept, their creations are more pale than they could be.
In other words, where do animators looking for material and starting points "hang out" on the internet? Where can I start proposing my ideas to turn into realities?
That doesn't stop the guy from rocking the boat just in concern for the company itself. Regardless of this individual's situation, the company has a potential problem with a management employee who needs to be regulated in some way through training and or punishment.
Regardless, the question was asked and posted to slashdot therefore, it is a question that can be modified into its abstract parts and applied to the whole or segments of its intended audience. Someone may find any tangent discussion on this topic helpful.
And I cautionally used e-prime liberally in my analysis so as not to imply that it was applicable beyond a leap of variables.
Wrong. It can be interpreted as sexual harassment regardless of your reluctance to state it as a problem. However, nothing can be done unless you alert the issue to the next person in line of management. When a manager is the source of sexual harassment, the liability on your employer is higher. If this woman has "hire and fire" abilities, she is potentially costing your company a great amount of money, and should be alerted to begin with. Second, while you may not want to sue the person, filing a BOLI (or equivalent to your jurisdiction) complaint against your employer, who cannot legally retaliate against you in any way.)
Your status as a consultant (as ,I a person who merely works in an employment defense law firm and reads dozens of pleadings of this nature a day, can advise you) may complicate matters, but shouldn't entirely limit your employer's liability.
Examine any handbook that you received. You can easily construe your work environment as being hostile because of this as well, claim (dis)stress damages, and onward.
But... I have a feeling that you just want this to stop, and talking to a higher level supervisor should solve your problem quickly. Be sure to exhaust any administrative remedies as you can muster. There are always better ways to solve a problem than litigation.
I am not a lawyer, etc. etc.
Must iterate in compliment to the Jack Womack. I started with Random Acts of Senseless Violence and was blown away by the slow gradual language virus development; it was as if Burroughs' word virus ideas were put into beautiful action. Elvissey, about an alternate time slippage in the 50s whereas agents from the future discover "Elvis Presley," who is actually his infantly dead twin brother. Written terribly well.
/vurt/ual world of gaming and archetypal interference. Complicated and well-encoded. Also highly recommend Nymphomation, and Pixel Juice. The Cobralingus is great for anyone interested in systems processes on language.
And then there is Jeff Noon, another Brit. His world and writing has become quite good, though often he is round on the edges, but the language angles are always challenging and inventive. Vurt will soon be made into a movie, and it's about wonderful trip drugs encoded on feathers, allowing a
And then the usual suspect Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly, Valis, The Man in the High Castle, and Confessions of a Crap Artist are tremendous, as are most of his 60s-70s work.
Robert Anton Wilson tends to run well with a lot of geeks. The Illuminatus presents a wonderful summerful of reading, as well as following up with Scrodinger's Cat. Will make the mind melt for a good amount of time. His other books like Quantum Psychology, Prometheus Rising, and Reality Is What You Can Get Away With are also great reads.
And then there is my favorite author, who makes summertime and anytime worth considering and thinking about, Richard Brautigan. Take a nice summer day to read In Watermelon Sugar and watch a new reality unfold before your brain and come out with a unspecific new way of thinking about things, in a way perhaps beyond what one commonly percieves as thinking.
Great summertime music to listen to include the illustrious, instrumental Tortoise's TNT. Always sweetens the days and compliments and reading and writing and general life living.
d. Taylor Singletary
reality technician.
To think of FruityLoops as lame, though you concede its advancement over linux-tools, is in error. It is really quite more powerful than meets the eye. Its VSTi support and capabilities challenges (at least within my more experimental usage) Cubase. When used in conjunction with a vast array of tools, it can really hold down the fort of insanely intricate and detailed non-standard music making.
How is WineX with music production software? Is Reason 2 working yet? Fruity Loops 3.5? VSTi? Acid? Soundforge? VAZ+? These are the only programs keeping my computer running Windows.
And besides, the meaning of the word "adapter" is also true to the intentions. One who adapts is very similar to one who adopts, whereas one could say adapting is even more preferable due to its progressive nature. Adopting seems like a blind act to me.
The real question, for me at least, is what shows are we talking about here? When I go see the Circulatory System at a small venue, can I get the show? What about Tortoise? Sigur Ros? Sea and Cake? Godspeed you! black emperor? Or are they talking about super blockbuster cookie-cutter concerts where the live recording doesn't mean much? I'll stick with Furthur. I can get the Dead, Pink Floyd, Tortoise, Soul Coughing, old Bob Marley, even Cat Stevens and Talking Heads shows. I can get video footage of shows. And best of all, the software works and I have a pretty high certainty that the musicians approve.
I think you misunderstand the word "plot." What you describe there is a premise, which indeed matches the casual structure of the Final Fantasy series. However, plot is the sequence of events that carry the game forward, within the rubric of the premise/story archetype which remains basically the same throughout the series.
On the other hand, to show a counter-example: consider many family sitcoms: the premise is what often changes from show to show-- but somehow, they recycle the same plots between each and every show, causing the level of cataclysmic crap to bounce off the wall and straight into your mouth.
And that's what I have to say about that.
"Splink" reminds me of "spink" which reminds me of the world's most evolved female human, Pippi Longstocking.
And the mind reels, in lands of Pippi in the South Seas. Pirate songs.
Splink. I like it.
d. Taylor Singletary