Are you going to say that your tax dollars are more important than someone's life
Well see thats the problem. The answer is of course not, but in aggregate the answer has to be yes. The reason is: incentive. Here in California we have a *massive* illegal immigrant problem. Its estimated that each californian pays 1000$ in taxes per year to support services that go to illegals.
If we stopped providing services to them, that would be cruel and heartless right? But how else to stop them from coming? Right now were saying "don't come here, but if you do, we wont ask questions".
Fundies are generally horrible people because horrible people are ATTRACTED to radical beliefs. A lot of fundies are criminials, sex offenders, gang members. They *NEED* the strong discipline that fundamentalism provides. That and fat chicks, seriously. The fatter and more unattractive a girl, the more religious she is. This is not a troll, I have quite a lot of experience with baptists.
Its the same thing with violent vidoegames, violent people are attracted to them.
I have been unemployed for a little over 2 years, I've had to move back in with my parents. I have worked for Walmart, and 911 dispatch because there are no tech jobs.
IMHO, most of the people I know with small studios want Computer integration, good latecny, and for gods sake they want to get rid of MIDI and recording digital synths with expensive 120db SNR inputs:)
In the short term Access is doing a great job of working towards tha.
Long term, the companies need to standardize a synth *networking protocol* (they tried a few years ago with a standard called MLAN) that provides low or zero latency and digitial transmission of Note Data, Syth Channels back to a sequencer/console, and SYNTH CONFIGURATION DATA! Once a standard is in place, they can start integrating it into *big* recording consoles -- whose development tends to move at a glacial pace.
Korg Trtion Rack
Korg N5ex
Triton Expansions 1 thru 7, and the SCSI expansion
I used to own:
Korg N5
One of their guitar rigs (which I replaced with a digitech 2120)
I plan to buy this quarter:
Korg TR Rack
Korg Oasys PCI card:)
So long story short, a bit of experience with korg products:) I still stick by my statement, regardles of what Roland and Alesis are doing -- huge synths are the *past*.
HDTV is one of the biggest screws ever put to the american public! Forcing the replacement of hundreds of MILLIONS of working TV's and equipment so the FCC can auction off the spectrum? It's a payday for everyone involved except the US public.
Companies get to: Sell tons of new TVs, DVD players/Recorders and Tuners (yours isn't compatible anymore!), implement DRM (I can't wait until someone goes to jail for recording Enterprise), and the FCC gets to auction off a prime piece of the specturm for an ungodly sum.
Yep, korg has proved time and time again that they dont get it (and Im a HUGE fan of theirs, I own about 10 korg products).
They don't understand that the move in studios is to small, cheap, modular systems. Romplers are largely *over*, and so are monolithic synths. Thats why *EVERY* other manufacturer has either gone out of business or to small synths that can integrate with a pc. Couple that with the fact that the OASYS arichitecture is several years old already, and im afraid you have an overpriced piece of technology that was outdated years before it Sam Ash.
I can imagine the scene in the korg boardroom (Austion powers):
"Gentlemen, as you know, The year is 1992, audio synthesis technology is at its infancy, and we plan to revolutionze the industry with the mother of all synths!"
evil henchmen, "But sir, its 2004 and the average price of a synthesizer has dropped from the 2000 - 4000$ range to the 500 - 1000$ range."
"Well then what should we do?...
blank stares
"AH hell we'll do what we always do, throw a bunch of DSPs in a box, attach a keyboard and charge a lot of money."
There is speculation that since the events of the Enterprise universe are largely incompatible with the rest of the series that the temporal cold war would eventually erase enterprise altogether and thus still be compatible with the universe...
Rick is the cause of great joy and great suffering in the star trek world. I recall him saying that the last ST movie (the one with the romulans and rhemans) was "exactly what the fans wanted" and he couldn't understand why the film didnt do well.
OTOH, he was responsible for the war story arc on DS9 which was *THE BEST* ST ever made IMHO.
So we have the same man responsible for the worst star trek, and the best star trek.
The irony of the thing is, they started to shake up Enterprise after they realized it was crap -- I have started watching again after writing them off. Season 4 while not transcendant, has been very good but it could take seasons for them to pick up viewership again if at all. With the decisions execs make (firefly, futurama, family guy?) to kill *popular* shoes its easy to understand.
You can actually get better upload rates by turning off the 56k protocol, although sometimes it is tricky to get the modem to do this. Basically 56k splits the send and recieve bandwith unevenly. in downs favor. Obviously thats quite useless on satelite.
Unlike XP, gnome (GTK) is *fully* themeable. In windows you are restricted to themes with dark text on light backgrounds as many fonts colors are hard coded as dark colors -- thus cannot have dark backgrounds.
For some reason I've always gravitated to *dark* colors on the screen, the white backgrounds hurt my eyes after awhile. I've only had a few problems with a couple linux programs, contrasted with many windows programs.
Microsoft learned most of their tricks from IBM, including FUD which was an IBM invention that Microsoft perfected. Microsoft in some ways is in the same situation as we are in the united states. They cant do *anything* without being critisized.
Not to say they are without blame -- I remember the pure horror the first time I used Visual Studio.NET and found that it opens not "Project" files like VS6 but "Solution" files.
Nope it isn't. I want full Ogg Vorbis support. I don't want to hear excuses about how it requires too much processor power, how its a niche format, DPSs won't do it, whatever. iRiver supports it, rio supports it, their products are cost competitve with apples products, end of story.
This is all part of the continuing devaluation of American workers. People older then say 30, aren't really feeling it. But every college graduate I know who is working in the county records office, "self employed" making 10g/year, selling motorcycles, doing plumbing, woring at walmart, and delivering pizzas *WITH A COLLEGE DEGREE* knows what these people are finding out -- that "business" has sold us out.
Worst, Idea, Ever. This sounds like it will be *terrible* for laptops, or any other place power useage is a concern:) Like I really need to run my CPU at 100% so word can lockup that much faster.
Most slashdotters (myself included) say that videogames do not cause violent behavior.
Could a person seeing violent behaviour in a game have one of these videogame intrusions and do something they might not normally do?
Or is it just the whackos who obsess over this shit? When I was in HS the original doom was the controversial game. We all played it, but only the weird ROTC kid with a gun rack in his truck (in california), the one who had that "im a crazy mofo" look in his eyes obsessed over it. Eventually he joined the marines so he could shoot at stuff legally...
For anyone who remembers Black and White, most of the game is spent looking at (fairly gorgeous) landscapes. I was driving one day and passed by a very small valley with a tree in it. I was overtaken by an urge to grab the tree and place it in my village store.
Then I decided it was probably time to pay attention to the road and take a break from black and white.
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Well see thats the problem. The answer is of course not, but in aggregate the answer has to be yes. The reason is: incentive. Here in California we have a *massive* illegal immigrant problem. Its estimated that each californian pays 1000$ in taxes per year to support services that go to illegals.
If we stopped providing services to them, that would be cruel and heartless right? But how else to stop them from coming? Right now were saying "don't come here, but if you do, we wont ask questions".
Its the same thing with violent vidoegames, violent people are attracted to them.
Count your FUCKING blessings
In the short term Access is doing a great job of working towards tha.
Long term, the companies need to standardize a synth *networking protocol* (they tried a few years ago with a standard called MLAN) that provides low or zero latency and digitial transmission of Note Data, Syth Channels back to a sequencer/console, and SYNTH CONFIGURATION DATA! Once a standard is in place, they can start integrating it into *big* recording consoles -- whose development tends to move at a glacial pace.
Korg Trtion Rack
Korg N5ex
Triton Expansions 1 thru 7, and the SCSI expansion
I used to own:
Korg N5
One of their guitar rigs (which I replaced with a digitech 2120)
I plan to buy this quarter: :)
Korg TR Rack
Korg Oasys PCI card
So long story short, a bit of experience with korg products :) I still stick by my statement, regardles of what Roland and Alesis are doing -- huge synths are the *past*.
Companies get to: Sell tons of new TVs, DVD players/Recorders and Tuners (yours isn't compatible anymore!), implement DRM (I can't wait until someone goes to jail for recording Enterprise), and the FCC gets to auction off a prime piece of the specturm for an ungodly sum.
Anytime is a good time to upgrade a Roland. Their stuff from 10 years ago rocks, but, holy crap does everything else suck.
They don't understand that the move in studios is to small, cheap, modular systems. Romplers are largely *over*, and so are monolithic synths. Thats why *EVERY* other manufacturer has either gone out of business or to small synths that can integrate with a pc. Couple that with the fact that the OASYS arichitecture is several years old already, and im afraid you have an overpriced piece of technology that was outdated years before it Sam Ash.
I can imagine the scene in the korg boardroom (Austion powers):
"Gentlemen, as you know, The year is 1992, audio synthesis technology is at its infancy, and we plan to revolutionze the industry with the mother of all synths!"
evil henchmen, "But sir, its 2004 and the average price of a synthesizer has dropped from the 2000 - 4000$ range to the 500 - 1000$ range."
"Well then what should we do?...
blank stares
"AH hell we'll do what we always do, throw a bunch of DSPs in a box, attach a keyboard and charge a lot of money."
the (korg) OASYS architecture has been around since early 2000 actually....
That being said, you're dead right.
OTOH, he was responsible for the war story arc on DS9 which was *THE BEST* ST ever made IMHO.
So we have the same man responsible for the worst star trek, and the best star trek.
The irony of the thing is, they started to shake up Enterprise after they realized it was crap -- I have started watching again after writing them off. Season 4 while not transcendant, has been very good but it could take seasons for them to pick up viewership again if at all. With the decisions execs make (firefly, futurama, family guy?) to kill *popular* shoes its easy to understand.
You can actually get better upload rates by turning off the 56k protocol, although sometimes it is tricky to get the modem to do this. Basically 56k splits the send and recieve bandwith unevenly. in downs favor. Obviously thats quite useless on satelite.
For some reason I've always gravitated to *dark* colors on the screen, the white backgrounds hurt my eyes after awhile. I've only had a few problems with a couple linux programs, contrasted with many windows programs.
Not to say they are without blame -- I remember the pure horror the first time I used Visual Studio .NET and found that it opens not "Project" files like VS6 but "Solution" files.
You can re-enable the function with some slight modifications to the hardware, but it seems silly to disable it in the first place.
Wasnt the USB to Go stuff disabled in the US version for some reason?
I really like the neuros -- but, its a brick man. My archos 6000 was unweildy, and that is *much* larger.
Until then Im happy with my iRiver h340 :)
This is all part of the continuing devaluation of American workers. People older then say 30, aren't really feeling it. But every college graduate I know who is working in the county records office, "self employed" making 10g/year, selling motorcycles, doing plumbing, woring at walmart, and delivering pizzas *WITH A COLLEGE DEGREE* knows what these people are finding out -- that "business" has sold us out.
Worst, Idea, Ever. This sounds like it will be *terrible* for laptops, or any other place power useage is a concern :) Like I really need to run my CPU at 100% so word can lockup that much faster.
So how much love do we have to give apple before we can admit they are dicks to?
IF she gives decent head, shes a keeper.
hah holy shit im installing it right now so I can try that. damn you!
Could a person seeing violent behaviour in a game have one of these videogame intrusions and do something they might not normally do?
Or is it just the whackos who obsess over this shit? When I was in HS the original doom was the controversial game. We all played it, but only the weird ROTC kid with a gun rack in his truck (in california), the one who had that "im a crazy mofo" look in his eyes obsessed over it. Eventually he joined the marines so he could shoot at stuff legally...
Then I decided it was probably time to pay attention to the road and take a break from black and white.