Just as sad as a book burning. Music is information in the same way, and it's awful to see information destroyed in a manner such as this. Just back it up somewhere for gawds sake.
Cool Edit Pro 2.0 is great multitrack recording software. I have a crappy 8 channel peavey power mixer run into a soundblaster live! soundcard and have been recording albums with live instuments (drums, guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, various percussion) for a few years like this. When in need of some digital effects i pull out a copy of Fruity Loops (THey may have recoently changed thier name) which is a sweet program as well. I'd like to upgrade to a Echo Layla Sound Card so I could record multipal tracks at once, but I've gotten pretty good at my current process and don't have extra cash on hand for the new card. Here is a link to some songs I've done with my current setup for an idea of what kind of quality you can get with very little equipment and a tiny bit of training/playing around:
With the time you took to post that you coulda looked up a MUD and had a relevant post instead of a typical snivel.....of course the same could be said for me. But on the other hand, how productive is looking for a MUD any ways?...I'm joking! Jesus!
Raw clock speed can make up for a deficiancy in efficiancy. I don't like it, but I have to conceed. Why else are all the top machines in maximum PC P-4 3.2 Ghz w/ dual channel DDR 400?
However, for me, an additional issue comes into play. I am also concerned about price.
To bring it around to the car analogy again, I could take my $5000 used honda accord and drop another $6000 into it, and thus roughly equal my brother's TransAm, in price and horsepower, which he paid $11000 for. I.e. I can pay for an intel and get the performance, or I could pay for the AMD and tweak, overclock, etc etc and probably get equivilant power.
But, then, my $5000 honda gets me from A to B, and my wallet is happier.
Now the artist will only sell one song for a dollar and gain %12 off that, rather than one album at $15 and gain a much more profitable %1, as most people only care about the new hit single- I think I'd rather sell the entire crappy cd too. Its all about green stamps to pay back your major label, and 12cents compared to $3 aint gonna do it. You dont want Johnny Record Label comming after your kneecaps.
The computer you buy from walmart.com that comes with lindows, I wouldn't even bother. I'm not entirely sure it runs winxp, and even if it does, I doubt that it has enough power left to rock any modern games other than solitare.
Maximum PC reviewed one of these. It had a 10 GB hard drive, 64MB ram, and 800 Mhz via cpu, and onboard savage S3 graphics. Sisoft sandra rated the CPU equivilant to a 300Mhz PII.
So, i guess if (cost of computer + $50 for windows) is less than $200, then you'll save money getting windows, and you'll have a 300 mhz computer to play with.
I know a 300 mhz computer will still work and do things for you, but not in the context of win XP and gaming. Mabey if you need a mailserver / fileserver for your house....
While I don't understand why you would decide to point this out now instead of during your first tour of ignorance, I'm terribly sorry...your dead wrong about XP not having a VGA mode. Take a look here.
I'm glad you intended to help me out in the situation that I was also helpfully pointing out to the rest of the community, but you have nothing intelligent to offer at this point so please pack your bags and march on gracefully. The fact of the matter is you are one out of the many thousands of people who read my comment that didn't get it. This means the problem is you, not me. If thirty people had made the same comment I would admit my post was too vague, but it was just you having problems understanding it. So in the future please don't try to be a smart ass slashdot elitist (ie. "You work in a repair shop and you don't know how to get to Safe Mode?") about things you only partially understand. Take care.
You work in a repair shop and you don't know how to get to Safe Mode?
You are kidding right? Of course I know how to get into safe mode. If you'd READ my post you would understand that the machine will not *allow* safe mode to be entered when this problem occurs. I hope this has restored your faith in the human race, as your comment has diminished mine.:)
I agree with that to a certian point but just today I loaded a freah load of xp home, slammed all the driver updates on, then loaded sp1. No more booty. Theres no rhyme nor reason to it sometimes.
Another major problem we have seen with SP1 is after it is loaded, copying large chunks of data out of differant directories end with a "cannot read from source disk" error. It makes backing up all *.doc files or *.jpg files in one full swoop after a file search a really big pain....Grumble grumble....
I work in a local computer repair shop, and 30% or so of the computers we load SP1 on stop booting properly. No safe mode, no VGA mode, just a wipe and reload. They boot then restart as soon as they should be getting to the desktop, caught in a eternal loop. Unless it is specifically requested by the user, I definatly don't load it. Thats just the major of many other problems we have come across with SP1.
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It took me two weeks to just load Gentoo on my box due to the last Debian hack! I can't keep up with all this!
Laugh kids!
Just as sad as a book burning. Music is information in the same way, and it's awful to see information destroyed in a manner such as this. Just back it up somewhere for gawds sake.
By switching from using relatively standard parts to more customized silicon, the company can better optimize its game console, due in 2005.
Or cut back on piracy. Perhaps we will have to activate games online in the future!
Why are 94 million people paying an extra $200-$500 PER TV SET for the benefit of less than 10 million broadcast TV viewers?
Because the "Men In Black" own the rights to digital TV recievers, and they plan a mars invasion in 2010. Gotta beef up the budjet. Duh.
Cool Edit Pro 2.0 is great multitrack recording software. I have a crappy 8 channel peavey power mixer run into a soundblaster live! soundcard and have been recording albums with live instuments (drums, guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, various percussion) for a few years like this. When in need of some digital effects i pull out a copy of Fruity Loops (THey may have recoently changed thier name) which is a sweet program as well. I'd like to upgrade to a Echo Layla Sound Card so I could record multipal tracks at once, but I've gotten pretty good at my current process and don't have extra cash on hand for the new card. Here is a link to some songs I've done with my current setup for an idea of what kind of quality you can get with very little equipment and a tiny bit of training/playing around:
http://www.adventure-today.com/theblackpearl
With the time you took to post that you coulda looked up a MUD and had a relevant post instead of a typical snivel.....of course the same could be said for me. But on the other hand, how productive is looking for a MUD any ways? ...I'm joking! Jesus!
I just hope they dont store all the data on CD-r's.
Yea, A band i was in made 500 cd's at one point and gave them all away free. This was back in the day...4x burner. That was horrid.
Captian...she can't take much more...she's breaking up!!
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88"
Yea, that is exactly how hard disks *don't* work.
Totally agree.
Raw clock speed can make up for a deficiancy in efficiancy. I don't like it, but I have to conceed. Why else are all the top machines in maximum PC P-4 3.2 Ghz w/ dual channel DDR 400?
However, for me, an additional issue comes into play. I am also concerned about price.
To bring it around to the car analogy again, I could take my $5000 used honda accord and drop another $6000 into it, and thus roughly equal my brother's TransAm, in price and horsepower, which he paid $11000 for. I.e. I can pay for an intel and get the performance, or I could pay for the AMD and tweak, overclock, etc etc and probably get equivilant power.
But, then, my $5000 honda gets me from A to B, and my wallet is happier.
~Wx
Oh Oh Oh, i thought of another one. The Vandal's "Oi! To The World" is also a recent concept album.
Excellent point.
Yea, i meant to say "rather than sell one album and gain a much more profitable *%12* off $15" for those confused. my bad.
Coheed and Cambria's Second Stage Turbine Blade was released in 2002, and its a concept alubm. Also one of the best CD's I have heard in a long time.
Now the artist will only sell one song for a dollar and gain %12 off that, rather than one album at $15 and gain a much more profitable %1, as most people only care about the new hit single- I think I'd rather sell the entire crappy cd too. Its all about green stamps to pay back your major label, and 12cents compared to $3 aint gonna do it. You dont want Johnny Record Label comming after your kneecaps.
The computer you buy from walmart.com that comes with lindows, I wouldn't even bother. I'm not entirely sure it runs winxp, and even if it does, I doubt that it has enough power left to rock any modern games other than solitare. Maximum PC reviewed one of these. It had a 10 GB hard drive, 64MB ram, and 800 Mhz via cpu, and onboard savage S3 graphics. Sisoft sandra rated the CPU equivilant to a 300Mhz PII. So, i guess if (cost of computer + $50 for windows) is less than $200, then you'll save money getting windows, and you'll have a 300 mhz computer to play with. I know a 300 mhz computer will still work and do things for you, but not in the context of win XP and gaming. Mabey if you need a mailserver / fileserver for your house....
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XP doesn't have a VGA mode
While I don't understand why you would decide to point this out now instead of during your first tour of ignorance, I'm terribly sorry...your dead wrong about XP not having a VGA mode. Take a look here.
I'm glad you intended to help me out in the situation that I was also helpfully pointing out to the rest of the community, but you have nothing intelligent to offer at this point so please pack your bags and march on gracefully. The fact of the matter is you are one out of the many thousands of people who read my comment that didn't get it. This means the problem is you, not me. If thirty people had made the same comment I would admit my post was too vague, but it was just you having problems understanding it. So in the future please don't try to be a smart ass slashdot elitist (ie. "You work in a repair shop and you don't know how to get to Safe Mode?") about things you only partially understand. Take care.
The subwoofer for the speakers will set you back a rocket high stack of coin, cause 21 inch LCDs are still moronically priced.
You work in a repair shop and you don't know how to get to Safe Mode?
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You are kidding right? Of course I know how to get into safe mode. If you'd READ my post you would understand that the machine will not *allow* safe mode to be entered when this problem occurs. I hope this has restored your faith in the human race, as your comment has diminished mine.
I agree with that to a certian point but just today I loaded a freah load of xp home, slammed all the driver updates on, then loaded sp1. No more booty. Theres no rhyme nor reason to it sometimes.
...Grumble grumble....
Another major problem we have seen with SP1 is after it is loaded, copying large chunks of data out of differant directories end with a "cannot read from source disk" error. It makes backing up all *.doc files or *.jpg files in one full swoop after a file search a really big pain.
I work in a local computer repair shop, and 30% or so of the computers we load SP1 on stop booting properly. No safe mode, no VGA mode, just a wipe and reload. They boot then restart as soon as they should be getting to the desktop, caught in a eternal loop. Unless it is specifically requested by the user, I definatly don't load it. Thats just the major of many other problems we have come across with SP1.