You have a valid point. yes, you bought the game to play the game.
But, the gaming companies are trying to creat an all-immersive experiance, and music is part of that. The story lines are now getting as complex as novels. Just like we have seen massive improvements in graphic cards in recent years, audio is starting to follow suit. Gone are the days of MIDI synthesizers and 30 cent speakers. I do hope that people will at least bother to hook up some decent speakers to listen too.
I also wonder why the LoTR games aren't using the excellent soundtrack from the movies. Howard Shore worked hard on his 11 hours of music.
If you are gonna go for a spud gun, go with compressed air. Make a pressure chamber and a barrel, and connect the two with a sprinkler solinoid. We got about a metre per pound of pressure, yeilding 120 meters in range. The solonoid was only rated for 150. And wrap your pipe with duct tape to prevent shrapnel.
Next on the list is a steam-pipe system that can handle more then 1200 pounds of pressure...
This guy is nuts. I hope he finds a better mounting system.
Carhartt clothing lasts forever. I have seen a 20 year old jacket with Valdez crude stains and BB pockmarks still going strong.
They make good carpenter pants, a pair of which I am wearing now. I have all the regular jean pockets plus a hanner loop, a long left thigh pocket and a long right thigh pocket with a top divider.
If you happen to get the good pants with the extra protective knee/chap piece that extends from mid-thigh to upper-shin, it is supposed to have a hole at the bottom between the layers. This is to allow things to fall out after you have worn through the first layer of duck canvas and started getting saw dust/ organic matter/ loose resistors between the layers.
Awsome idea. I have also heard man-purses refered to as a "clutch" of all things...
Another idea is to go to a surplus store and get some commando black or camo belts and bags... The military has a huge range of containers.
Alternatively, do as my father did. After a third layoff from a silicon valley company, he is now restoring and modifying an old 1910's warehouse in a small town for use as artist's studios and apartments. He has gone from Snow Crash to Quicksilver and is far happier because of it.
Drop your belt, but not your pants, and go be free for a while.
I do stand corrected. I have made a mistake as well. However, I was thinking in terms of full desktop environments, such as linux, windows, Mac OS, and QNX, which supports networking, internet protocols, and some other stuff.
It specifically says in M$'s TOS that the software is not to be used for any life-critical applications. In fact, QNX is the only compnay that will license software for life critical stuff. Microsoft also has a non-responsability clause in their TOS. This is going to be a long, drawn out fight, like the one against tobacco companies.
Statistically, one could probably claim that Microsoft products have killed people in an indirect manner.
Well, security through obscurity works. He should get a bunch of VAX boxes and force employees to use Macs at home.
In all seriousness, he should be looking at a system that minimizes any potential damage, not some fance firewall solution that costs a bundle. Close down the ports and keep users from loading spyware or opening email with executable attachments.
Sure, the ICANN has sent their message, and lawsuits exist, but it is being tolerated. How many common internet users know what w3c is? Or the ICANN? How many people know the difference between AOL and the internet. The fact is that most people could care less about being screwed over, As this AC pointed out. 50 million people signed a do not call list. They expect the internet to be annoying and full of popups. If 50 million people signed a petition to censure Verisign, you bet there will be some legislation. Regular folks just don't care.
To purge your data, simply run the car for five seconds.
To Purge your data AFTER an accident, put in a new write-once ROM module, and if it doesn't look altered, then people will assume the onboard diagnostics screwed up.
Sorry, but the 64 bit does matter with general computing power. It means that 64 bits of data are being brocessed at once instead of 32 bits. Otherwise, you are perfectly correct.
One of the reasons VTech went for a G5 based cluster WAS price-performance...The mac option is cheaper then a PC aption and easier to install and maintain then Linux says the slide show. I might not fully agree, but thats their reasoning.
I need a digital camera. My dock was under not an inch, but 3.5 feet of water. I lost 2 trees, and was partially flooded.
The hurricane hit NC as quite a few do, but it also hit Virginia, which is usually not subjected to hurricane-force weather. I think the much more interesting information is what happens to areas that are not normally subjected to extreme weather (TM). A case in point is the George Washington Parkway along the Potomac river. Every half dead tree fell, every dead branch was blown over, and picnic tables ended up in the road medians. In Annapolis, power is still out for a majority of people, and the boating community has been hit really hard. The hurricane has weeded out the weak pilings, weak trees, and weak (stupid) boat owners.
Hurricanes are like fires.
If you have a hurricane every once in a while, it will cause a small amount of damage, preventing an even large amount of damage from occuring later. Unfortunately, we can't to "controlled hurricanes". Perhaps someone should do a study about preventative maintenance and tree trimming. And perhaps people should learn to tie up their boats.
Yes, most ferarris are V12 EFI cars. The Enzo is. However, the Modina, Ferarri's cheaper class racer (spelling, sorry) and the 335 and some others are V8s.
hmmm.The GTI 1.8T is quite a bit over 20,000. The one I drove priced at 35,000...But the owner dropped the back end by 2.5 inches and chipped it. It was a nice car, especially with the 6 speed manual tranny.
This AC is right...It is easy to outdo most electric cars with a low-polluting 4 banger. Especially considering how much pollution is produced by the manufacture of 6800 laptop batteries.
To set everyone straight, 6800 laptop batteries are NOT shoved in that car. They are probably using large cylindrical lithium-ion cells measuring 4 inches in diameter by 8 inches long per battery. I saw them on some industrial site. UPS uses something similar in their backup power supplies. Laptop batteries are expensive bc you are paying for the plastic, some circuitry, the brand name, and 4 shiny contact points. Industrial cells are relativly dirt cheap.
The Honda Hybrid has the tapered end and the covered back wheels, like on a late-model Caprice. The Hybrid Civic is a regular Civic chassis with a hybrid engine (1.2 Liters, batteries and a generator). The same engine is found in the Honda Hybrid. Get the hybrid civic, its cheaper...but don't add ricer mods to the engine, it is quite dangerous. Honda has yet to change the exterior design of any of their civics to line up with the Honda Hybrid.
I remember hearing some story about ATT going completely digital and dumping all their analog equipment. THis could be the first manifestation of that change. Anyone else know anything about this?
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As a recording engineer, I can tell you how much it set the label back. $1.50. That includes duplication, distribution, and liner notes/cases.
The sad thing is that musicians usually have to foot the bill for recording sessions, which can run upwards of several thousand an hour. Not cheap. The artists are getting gouged, without much choice. I have never and will never produce a CD that gets distro'd by an RIAA member label.
While the above is accurate, there is an exeption. Concert recordings can be stunning if you have board access. One merely taps the connection between the board output and the amps.
good recordings can also be had with the MOTU and Mackie equipment pointed out above. I have used MOTU software and it is excellent.
More important then the sampling rate are the mics. mics make all the difference. the omnis from radio shack don't cut it.
I use Macs every day...but you run into problems in several areas...
First: the base model is 2,000 dollars. Thats a lot for a club.
Second: The machine is a graphics computer, not a web server. Unless he is hosting a virtual environment, it is overkill.
Third: Macs are so easy to set up, that the club members would learn little, unless they loaded yellowdog or something...but then the 64-bit functionality is lost.
I say get p4 system and load a Linux distro on it, or do as someone said and buy an old Sparc machine and learn a shitload.
Speaking of funding...The relativly small 100 million they spent on something like K19 would yeild my mom over 500 hour-long documentries. She works at national geographic. Infomercials have higher budgets then her films.
As many film school thesis projects have demonstrated, some brilliant, stunning things can be done with less then 50000 dollars
Well, in response to rendering mistakes...you pay for both processor time, usually in MHz/minute if I remember correctly, and a certain amount of huma proofing time.
On top of that, any decent director watches the film in wireframe or a rough-render to make sure it is correct.
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You have a valid point. yes, you bought the game to play the game.
But, the gaming companies are trying to creat an all-immersive experiance, and music is part of that. The story lines are now getting as complex as novels. Just like we have seen massive improvements in graphic cards in recent years, audio is starting to follow suit. Gone are the days of MIDI synthesizers and 30 cent speakers. I do hope that people will at least bother to hook up some decent speakers to listen too.
I also wonder why the LoTR games aren't using the excellent soundtrack from the movies. Howard Shore worked hard on his 11 hours of music.
If you are gonna go for a spud gun, go with compressed air. Make a pressure chamber and a barrel, and connect the two with a sprinkler solinoid. We got about a metre per pound of pressure, yeilding 120 meters in range. The solonoid was only rated for 150. And wrap your pipe with duct tape to prevent shrapnel.
Next on the list is a steam-pipe system that can handle more then 1200 pounds of pressure...
This guy is nuts. I hope he finds a better mounting system.
Amen.
DO IT!
just don't get one of the 14 inch long mini-kilts...
Carhartt clothing lasts forever. I have seen a 20 year old jacket with Valdez crude stains and BB pockmarks still going strong.
They make good carpenter pants, a pair of which I am wearing now. I have all the regular jean pockets plus a hanner loop, a long left thigh pocket and a long right thigh pocket with a top divider.
If you happen to get the good pants with the extra protective knee/chap piece that extends from mid-thigh to upper-shin, it is supposed to have a hole at the bottom between the layers. This is to allow things to fall out after you have worn through the first layer of duck canvas and started getting saw dust/ organic matter/ loose resistors between the layers.
Awsome idea. I have also heard man-purses refered to as a "clutch" of all things...
Another idea is to go to a surplus store and get some commando black or camo belts and bags... The military has a huge range of containers.
Alternatively, do as my father did. After a third layoff from a silicon valley company, he is now restoring and modifying an old 1910's warehouse in a small town for use as artist's studios and apartments. He has gone from Snow Crash to Quicksilver and is far happier because of it.
Drop your belt, but not your pants, and go be free for a while.
I do stand corrected. I have made a mistake as well. However, I was thinking in terms of full desktop environments, such as linux, windows, Mac OS, and QNX, which supports networking, internet protocols, and some other stuff.
It specifically says in M$'s TOS that the software is not to be used for any life-critical applications. In fact, QNX is the only compnay that will license software for life critical stuff. Microsoft also has a non-responsability clause in their TOS. This is going to be a long, drawn out fight, like the one against tobacco companies.
Statistically, one could probably claim that Microsoft products have killed people in an indirect manner.
Well, security through obscurity works. He should get a bunch of VAX boxes and force employees to use Macs at home.
In all seriousness, he should be looking at a system that minimizes any potential damage, not some fance firewall solution that costs a bundle. Close down the ports and keep users from loading spyware or opening email with executable attachments.
Sure, the ICANN has sent their message, and lawsuits exist, but it is being tolerated. How many common internet users know what w3c is? Or the ICANN? How many people know the difference between AOL and the internet. The fact is that most people could care less about being screwed over, As this AC pointed out. 50 million people signed a do not call list. They expect the internet to be annoying and full of popups. If 50 million people signed a petition to censure Verisign, you bet there will be some legislation. Regular folks just don't care.
To purge your data, simply run the car for five seconds.
To Purge your data AFTER an accident, put in a new write-once ROM module, and if it doesn't look altered, then people will assume the onboard diagnostics screwed up.
Sorry, but the 64 bit does matter with general computing power. It means that 64 bits of data are being brocessed at once instead of 32 bits. Otherwise, you are perfectly correct.
One of the reasons VTech went for a G5 based cluster WAS price-performance...The mac option is cheaper then a PC aption and easier to install and maintain then Linux says the slide show. I might not fully agree, but thats their reasoning.
I need a digital camera. My dock was under not an inch, but 3.5 feet of water. I lost 2 trees, and was partially flooded.
The hurricane hit NC as quite a few do, but it also hit Virginia, which is usually not subjected to hurricane-force weather. I think the much more interesting information is what happens to areas that are not normally subjected to extreme weather (TM). A case in point is the George Washington Parkway along the Potomac river. Every half dead tree fell, every dead branch was blown over, and picnic tables ended up in the road medians. In Annapolis, power is still out for a majority of people, and the boating community has been hit really hard. The hurricane has weeded out the weak pilings, weak trees, and weak (stupid) boat owners.
Hurricanes are like fires.
If you have a hurricane every once in a while, it will cause a small amount of damage, preventing an even large amount of damage from occuring later. Unfortunately, we can't to "controlled hurricanes". Perhaps someone should do a study about preventative maintenance and tree trimming. And perhaps people should learn to tie up their boats.
Amen to that
Rolls bought out Allison...I think it was an old Alli turboshaft...
Yes, most ferarris are V12 EFI cars. The Enzo is. However, the Modina, Ferarri's cheaper class racer (spelling, sorry) and the 335 and some others are V8s.
hmmm.The GTI 1.8T is quite a bit over 20,000. The one I drove priced at 35,000...But the owner dropped the back end by 2.5 inches and chipped it. It was a nice car, especially with the 6 speed manual tranny.
This AC is right...It is easy to outdo most electric cars with a low-polluting 4 banger. Especially considering how much pollution is produced by the manufacture of 6800 laptop batteries.
To set everyone straight, 6800 laptop batteries are NOT shoved in that car. They are probably using large cylindrical lithium-ion cells measuring 4 inches in diameter by 8 inches long per battery. I saw them on some industrial site. UPS uses something similar in their backup power supplies. Laptop batteries are expensive bc you are paying for the plastic, some circuitry, the brand name, and 4 shiny contact points. Industrial cells are relativly dirt cheap.
I think the both of you are wrong...
The Honda Hybrid has the tapered end and the covered back wheels, like on a late-model Caprice. The Hybrid Civic is a regular Civic chassis with a hybrid engine (1.2 Liters, batteries and a generator). The same engine is found in the Honda Hybrid. Get the hybrid civic, its cheaper...but don't add ricer mods to the engine, it is quite dangerous. Honda has yet to change the exterior design of any of their civics to line up with the Honda Hybrid.
I remember hearing some story about ATT going completely digital and dumping all their analog equipment. THis could be the first manifestation of that change. Anyone else know anything about this?
As a recording engineer, I can tell you how much it set the label back. $1.50. That includes duplication, distribution, and liner notes/cases.
The sad thing is that musicians usually have to foot the bill for recording sessions, which can run upwards of several thousand an hour. Not cheap. The artists are getting gouged, without much choice. I have never and will never produce a CD that gets distro'd by an RIAA member label.
While the above is accurate, there is an exeption. Concert recordings can be stunning if you have board access. One merely taps the connection between the board output and the amps.
good recordings can also be had with the MOTU and Mackie equipment pointed out above. I have used MOTU software and it is excellent.
More important then the sampling rate are the mics. mics make all the difference. the omnis from radio shack don't cut it.
I use Macs every day...but you run into problems in several areas...
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First: the base model is 2,000 dollars. Thats a lot for a club.
Second: The machine is a graphics computer, not a web server. Unless he is hosting a virtual environment, it is overkill.
Third: Macs are so easy to set up, that the club members would learn little, unless they loaded yellowdog or something...but then the 64-bit functionality is lost.
I say get p4 system and load a Linux distro on it, or do as someone said and buy an old Sparc machine and learn a shitload.
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Speaking of funding...The relativly small 100 million they spent on something like K19 would yeild my mom over 500 hour-long documentries. She works at national geographic. Infomercials have higher budgets then her films.
As many film school thesis projects have demonstrated, some brilliant, stunning things can be done with less then 50000 dollars
Well, in response to rendering mistakes...you pay for both processor time, usually in MHz/minute if I remember correctly, and a certain amount of huma proofing time.
On top of that, any decent director watches the film in wireframe or a rough-render to make sure it is correct.
well, they didn't give in...
IBM has been around for over 50 years now...They have a DoJ sized legal department that is now out for blood.
My money is on Big Blue