Some very old DOS games probably support it, and not GM soundcards or modules
Yes and no. In 1987 the Roland MT-32 was *THE* synth to have. Unfourtanatley you had to be pretty wealthy or lucky to have one -- their new price was somewhere around 600$. The MT-32 was light years ahead of then-current sound cards, and even today it still sounds pretty good.
Now the reason you want an MT-32 today is as we said, the MT-32 was top of the line shit -- its what the soundtrack to your classic videogame was *written on*. Wanna play monkey island and hear exactly what the composer intended? Get an MT-32 because it was written on that, and monkey island even has custom patches it uploads to the MT-32.
Long story short, most games of the day were written specifically for the MT-32, so it's like keeping a car all stock, wanting to experience the original thing just like it might have been.
The very last course in my CS program was "CS182 Compiler Construction". 10 weeks to learn how a compiler works AND implement one. I was one of the best CS studends at my school, and I got a C in the course and it was the hardest C I ever earned...
Long story short, atleast half of the assignments were copied, someone had gotten source code to the *complete* compiler and we were worried about not graduating because a bunch of cheating assholes were going to turn in complete compilers whereas we worked our asses off and ours barely worked. We went to the professor and he was livid and he said, "I'm not sure how, but I'll take care of it." One girl who I was friends with cheated terribly, she called me up and was asking "I'm getting asserts and I don't know why! can you help me?" I played dumb, but any asshole knows if you wrote the assert then you know why its happening.
Long story short, we got to the final, and in addition to the normal final there were two pages tacked on with questions like, "In your compiler, how did you implement X Y and Z?" "What was the name of the function which implemented such and such?" These questions were only worth negative credit (no points for getting them right, but lost points for getting them wrong). They had the effect of canceling out the final if answered them all wrong. It pretty much caught all the cheaters and ALOT of people didn't graduate that quarter (or probably ever).
thats not really how emusic works... 99% of the music on emusic is *pure garbage*. You need unlimited downloads to FIND that 1% that doesn't suck. I had an emusic subscription and downloaded like 100 albums a month... listened to every last one of them, and kept maybe 1 or 2. I was happy because I found bands like Xploding Plastic, Flunk, Pepe Deluxe, Claire Voyant and Thievery Corporation years before they "made it big".
It's not lie emusic has the newest sting album that you *KNOW* you want... you dont know what you want so you have to download alot to find it.
I was in Fry's computer store one day with a few friends when saw a guy holding *two* 120GB drives (about the largest drives there were at the time and very expensive). I walked up to him and said in my best strong bad impression, "Ouhhhgghh I bet those would hold ALOT of porn!"
The guy turned bright red and didn't say a word:) But he knew:)
Huh? no reason to use binary units? What are you smoking and can I have some?:)
The reason we use binary units is for engineering reasons... Back in the way back time there was no such thing as a disk drive, and there was only ram. Ram had/has to be made in a power of two because it has to completley fill its address space so the NEXT ram chip begins where the other ends. Otherwise you'd have holes in your address space.
Reality check... College degrees are not and have never been for "their own reward." They are passes.
A Bachelorate (sp?) degree is a pass to earn between 25-40k, a masters 40-60, and a phd, 60-100. That's all it is and all it's ever been. Western society suffers from overwhelming credentialism. You can't do *SHIT* in this society without a credential. If you don't believe me, I'm now going to paste for you a list of professions the state of california issues licenses for.
ACCOUNTANCY
Individual Licenses Licensed Firms
ACUPUNCTURE
Acupuncturist
ARCHITECTS
Architects
ATHLETIC COMMISSION
Licensees
AUTOMOTIVE
Auto Repair Dealers Smog Check Station
Brake And Lamp Adjusters Smog Technicians
Brake Station
Lamp Station
BARBERING AND COSMETOLOGY
Individual Licenses Licensed Establishments
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Continuing Education Providers Licensed Educational Psychologists Marriage, Family and Child Counselor Referral Services
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (Licensees, Associates) Marriage and Family Therapists (Licensees, Interns)
CEMETERY AND FUNERAL
Apprentice Embalmer Cemetery Salesperson Embalmer
Cemetery Broker Certificate Of Authority - Cemetery Funeral Director
Cemetery Broker Additional Cremated Remains Disposer Funeral Establishment
Cemetery Broker Branch Crematory
CHIROPRACTIC
Chiropractors Corporation Referral Service
CONTRACTORS
By contractor's business name By contractor's license number By personnel name
COURT REPORTERS
Certified Shorthand Reporter
DENTAL
Additional Office Fictitious Name Oral Conscious Sedation Certification
Conscious Sedation Permit General Anesthesia Registered Provider
Dental License OMS Permit Special Permit
DENTAL AUXILIARIES
Registered Dental Assistants and Hygienists
ELECTRONIC AND APPLIANCE REPAIR
Service Contract Sellers and Administrators
Service and Repair Dealers
ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS (PROFESSIONAL)
Professional Engineers Professional Land Surveyors
GEOLOGY
Registered Geologists and Geophysicists
HEARING AID DISPENSERS
Hearing Aid Dispenser
HOME FURNISHINGS
Home Furnishings Licensees
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Landscape Architect
MEDICAL BOARD
Fictitious Name Permit Special Faculty Permit
Medical Doctor
MIDWIVES
Midwives
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants
OPTOMETRY
Optometrists
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
Osteopathic Physicians
PHARMACY
Clinic Permit Intern Pharmacist Registered Pharmacist
Drug Room Licensed Sterile Compounding Veterinary Food-Animal Drug Retailer
Exemption Certificates (Exemptees) Nonresident Sterile Compounding Wholesalers
Government Owned Pharmacy or Hospital Pharmacies
Hypodermic Needle and Syringe Pharmacy Technician
PHYSICAL THERAPY
Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Physician Assistants
PODIATRY
Fictitious Name Permits Podiatrists
PRIVATE POSTSECONDARY & VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
Degree, Non-Degree and Registered Institutions and Programs
PSYCHIATRIC TECHNICIANS
Psychiatric Technician
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologist (incl. Reg. Psych. and Psychological Asst.)
REGISTERED DISPENSING OPTICIANS
Out of State Dispenser Registered Dispensing Optician
Registered Contact Lens Dispenser Registered Spectacle Lens Dispenser
REGISTERED NURSING
Registered Nurses and Continuing Education Providers
RESPIRATORY CARE
Respiratory Care Practitioner
SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE
Alarm Company Firearm Training Facility Repossessor Agency
Alarm Company Employee Firearm Training Instructor Repossessor Agency - Employee
Alarm Company Qualified Manager Locksmith Company Repossessor Agency - Qualified Manager
Baton Training Facility Locksmith Company - Employee Security Guard
Baton Training Instructor Private Investigator
Firearm Permit Private Patrol Operator
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY & AUDIOLOGY
Licensees Providers
STRUCTURAL PEST
Business Employees
VETERINARY MEDICINE
Veterinarians/Veterinary Hospitals
VETERINARY TECHNICIAN
Registered Veterinary Technicians
VOCATIONAL NURSES
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Im gonna assume you're talking about MAME here... The Galaga hardware uses sampled sounds so there is infact no hardware to emulate making the sounds... You need to download the galaga samples from www.mame.net and drop them in your samples directory.
The real problem is -- voting for a Republican is a crime against humanity and voting for a Democrat just proves you're stupid.
Californian's don't want ANY of these asshats to be governer. But at the same time we're terrified not to vote because of the 2000 presidential election.
Look at the choices -- davis, the guy who made the state a national joke, arnold -- the guy who wants to make the state an international joke, or bustamante -- the guy who wants to make us a state of mexico.
In one of the most halarious moments ever broadcast -- The Daily Show defined a new economic indicator the "Broken Dreams Index" as "The total value of ramen purchased divided by the value of all the blood donated."
Christ tell me about it... There's also a LEGION of college students out there who are terminally screwed as well.
Almost all of the people I graduated college with in 2001 are unemployed or severly underemployed (the lucky ones). The *lucky* folks are selling motorcylces, the less lucky are delivering pizzas etc... but most are just unemployable. Ever try to get a minimum wage job when you have a BS degree? I have a BS in CSIf you lie you have to explain why you haven't been working for the last 4 years, or in my case why my previous job was as a Systems Administrator and now I want to answer telephones at a reservation center?
If you don't lie they are very nice to you and you get a letter in the mail a few days later saying you don't match their needs. What community college flunky manager for Hilton reservation center is going to hire an engineer to answer their phones? They probably have no doubt that you could do a good job but still they know Im gone as SOON as I find a new job and their training costs are wasted.
I've had similiar situations with jobs where I would be underemployed, I interviewed for a job as a Computer Tech II for 20,000k a year. I had more experience/education then the MIS director who interviewed me... was he gonna give me a job? no fucking way:) They hired some guy who could barely find the power switch on a computer -- no threat to him.
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like. It's what bullshit TV execs think americans like. I've enjoyed the hell out of british shows like, sharp's rifles, mr bean/black adder/thin blue line, danger uxb, all creatures great and small, yes minister... etc. I think given a chance american audiences would rise to the task and appreciate more sophisticated humor... if given a chance, that is...
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Gentoo claim they go the extra mile for "performance"
My *cheap ass* Athlon 1700 gentoo box (total system value: 300$) can *reboot* gentoo in under 30 seconds, INCLUDING X. What else do you want?
If your linux box takes more then 30 seconds to boot up you are either A: running way too many services, B: You're running Mandrake/Redhat (in which case you're guilty of A to).
I wish people would realize that sun is rock solid hardware and not that much more expensive.
I don't actually disagree with you:) Alot of people don't need rock solid though, and don't need to pay for it. At the university I worked at, we didn't need rock solid, but we could afford it. I'm not saying we ever bought a DELL server, we just threatened to to get Sun to lower their rediculous prices:) Negotiating with them always reminded me of the south park where cartman is selling fetuses, "oh jesus larry you're breaking my balls here." Sun tries to club you over the head with their *rediculous* list prices.
Once after I negotiated a pretty good deal (104k for A fire V440 with 4 procs, 4 gigs of ram, 2.6 TB of storage, and a tape library), I told one of my coworkers how proud I was of myself for getting us almost 50% off the list, and he said the funniest thing I've ever heard, "You should have asked them to raise their prices so we could have gotten an even better discount."
So anyways, I love suns, was a solaris admin for 2.5 years, and I dont really diasgree with you. Just saying the average business might not need all that horespower. In my entire time I had *one* sparc 10 give out that was ancient, other then that nare a hardware problem in 2.5 years.
I've told this story a million times, but I'll tell it once more... Sun is *VERY* scared of linux. I used to buy Sun equiptment fairly regularaly for the university I worked for, and out Sun rep flat out told us Sun was "very concerned" about Linux. Sun is very competitive with discounts as well, just use the word "Dell" in a sentence and Sun will offer you steep discounts (on overvalued hardware). Because at the end of the day, sun has to answer the question, "A 4 way sun box costs 40k, and a 4 way Dell costs 12k. What can sun do that Dell can't?" At one point Sun even offered us *free* (low end) servers to replace some Linux boxes we had. We politely declined.
I worked in an american acedemic research lab, with alot of foreigners, and I'd say you are dead accurate, especially in reference to Asian countries.
The Asian kids knew their fields dead to rights -- but ONLY their fields. We did visual research, so these guys knew Matlab, C, and Linear Algebra like *nobody's business*. But *anything* out of that field, Calculus, physics, even basic computer knowledge was beyond these masters and doctoral level students.
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Bring me a programmer who knows COBOL, RPG, and AS/400 and I'll show you someone whose working.
Yes and no. In 1987 the Roland MT-32 was *THE* synth to have. Unfourtanatley you had to be pretty wealthy or lucky to have one -- their new price was somewhere around 600$. The MT-32 was light years ahead of then-current sound cards, and even today it still sounds pretty good.
Now the reason you want an MT-32 today is as we said, the MT-32 was top of the line shit -- its what the soundtrack to your classic videogame was *written on*. Wanna play monkey island and hear exactly what the composer intended? Get an MT-32 because it was written on that, and monkey island even has custom patches it uploads to the MT-32.
Long story short, most games of the day were written specifically for the MT-32, so it's like keeping a car all stock, wanting to experience the original thing just like it might have been.
Long story short, atleast half of the assignments were copied, someone had gotten source code to the *complete* compiler and we were worried about not graduating because a bunch of cheating assholes were going to turn in complete compilers whereas we worked our asses off and ours barely worked. We went to the professor and he was livid and he said, "I'm not sure how, but I'll take care of it." One girl who I was friends with cheated terribly, she called me up and was asking "I'm getting asserts and I don't know why! can you help me?" I played dumb, but any asshole knows if you wrote the assert then you know why its happening.
Long story short, we got to the final, and in addition to the normal final there were two pages tacked on with questions like, "In your compiler, how did you implement X Y and Z?" "What was the name of the function which implemented such and such?" These questions were only worth negative credit (no points for getting them right, but lost points for getting them wrong). They had the effect of canceling out the final if answered them all wrong. It pretty much caught all the cheaters and ALOT of people didn't graduate that quarter (or probably ever).
It's not lie emusic has the newest sting album that you *KNOW* you want... you dont know what you want so you have to download alot to find it.
Yea the que is slow/messed up/ignored, whatever ... Ive had a story pending for a week myself.
I was in Fry's computer store one day with a few friends when saw a guy holding *two* 120GB drives (about the largest drives there were at the time and very expensive). I walked up to him and said in my best strong bad impression, "Ouhhhgghh I bet those would hold ALOT of porn!"
The guy turned bright red and didn't say a word :) But he knew :)
The reason we use binary units is for engineering reasons ... Back in the way back time there was no such thing as a disk drive, and there was only ram. Ram had/has to be made in a power of two because it has to completley fill its address space so the NEXT ram chip begins where the other ends. Otherwise you'd have holes in your address space.
Old man with walker chases mummy? I'm not sure what to do with this one ...
A Bachelorate (sp?) degree is a pass to earn between 25-40k, a masters 40-60, and a phd, 60-100. That's all it is and all it's ever been. Western society suffers from overwhelming credentialism. You can't do *SHIT* in this society without a credential. If you don't believe me, I'm now going to paste for you a list of professions the state of california issues licenses for.
ACCOUNTANCY Individual Licenses Licensed Firms ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncturist ARCHITECTS Architects ATHLETIC COMMISSION Licensees AUTOMOTIVE Auto Repair Dealers Smog Check Station Brake And Lamp Adjusters Smog Technicians Brake Station Lamp Station BARBERING AND COSMETOLOGY Individual Licenses Licensed Establishments BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Continuing Education Providers Licensed Educational Psychologists Marriage, Family and Child Counselor Referral Services Licensed Clinical Social Workers (Licensees, Associates) Marriage and Family Therapists (Licensees, Interns) CEMETERY AND FUNERAL Apprentice Embalmer Cemetery Salesperson Embalmer Cemetery Broker Certificate Of Authority - Cemetery Funeral Director Cemetery Broker Additional Cremated Remains Disposer Funeral Establishment Cemetery Broker Branch Crematory CHIROPRACTIC Chiropractors Corporation Referral Service CONTRACTORS By contractor's business name By contractor's license number By personnel name COURT REPORTERS Certified Shorthand Reporter DENTAL Additional Office Fictitious Name Oral Conscious Sedation Certification Conscious Sedation Permit General Anesthesia Registered Provider Dental License OMS Permit Special Permit DENTAL AUXILIARIES Registered Dental Assistants and Hygienists ELECTRONIC AND APPLIANCE REPAIR Service Contract Sellers and Administrators Service and Repair Dealers ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS (PROFESSIONAL) Professional Engineers Professional Land Surveyors GEOLOGY Registered Geologists and Geophysicists HEARING AID DISPENSERS Hearing Aid Dispenser HOME FURNISHINGS Home Furnishings Licensees LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Landscape Architect MEDICAL BOARD Fictitious Name Permit Special Faculty Permit Medical Doctor MIDWIVES Midwives OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants OPTOMETRY Optometrists OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Osteopathic Physicians PHARMACY Clinic Permit Intern Pharmacist Registered Pharmacist Drug Room Licensed Sterile Compounding Veterinary Food-Animal Drug Retailer Exemption Certificates (Exemptees) Nonresident Sterile Compounding Wholesalers Government Owned Pharmacy or Hospital Pharmacies Hypodermic Needle and Syringe Pharmacy Technician PHYSICAL THERAPY Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS Physician Assistants PODIATRY Fictitious Name Permits Podiatrists PRIVATE POSTSECONDARY & VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS Degree, Non-Degree and Registered Institutions and Programs PSYCHIATRIC TECHNICIANS Psychiatric Technician PSYCHOLOGY Psychologist (incl. Reg. Psych. and Psychological Asst.) REGISTERED DISPENSING OPTICIANS Out of State Dispenser Registered Dispensing Optician Registered Contact Lens Dispenser Registered Spectacle Lens Dispenser REGISTERED NURSING Registered Nurses and Continuing Education Providers RESPIRATORY CARE Respiratory Care Practitioner SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE Alarm Company Firearm Training Facility Repossessor Agency Alarm Company Employee Firearm Training Instructor Repossessor Agency - Employee Alarm Company Qualified Manager Locksmith Company Repossessor Agency - Qualified Manager Baton Training Facility Locksmith Company - Employee Security Guard Baton Training Instructor Private Investigator Firearm Permit Private Patrol Operator SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY & AUDIOLOGY Licensees Providers STRUCTURAL PEST Business Employees VETERINARY MEDICINE Veterinarians/Veterinary Hospitals VETERINARY TECHNICIAN Registered Veterinary Technicians VOCATIONAL NURSES Licensed Vocational Nurse
Just what I need, another fucking corprate entity telling me what I want.
I live about 20 miles from moreno valley, get me an address and I'll go kick his ass :)
Im gonna assume you're talking about MAME here ... The Galaga hardware uses sampled sounds so there is infact no hardware to emulate making the sounds... You need to download the galaga samples from www.mame.net and drop them in your samples directory.
Californian's don't want ANY of these asshats to be governer. But at the same time we're terrified not to vote because of the 2000 presidential election.
Look at the choices -- davis, the guy who made the state a national joke, arnold -- the guy who wants to make the state an international joke, or bustamante -- the guy who wants to make us a state of mexico.
I did know a girl though who was the manager of taco bell who had a degree in "theater costume design".
In one of the most halarious moments ever broadcast -- The Daily Show defined a new economic indicator the "Broken Dreams Index" as "The total value of ramen purchased divided by the value of all the blood donated."
Almost all of the people I graduated college with in 2001 are unemployed or severly underemployed (the lucky ones). The *lucky* folks are selling motorcylces, the less lucky are delivering pizzas etc... but most are just unemployable. Ever try to get a minimum wage job when you have a BS degree? I have a BS in CSIf you lie you have to explain why you haven't been working for the last 4 years, or in my case why my previous job was as a Systems Administrator and now I want to answer telephones at a reservation center?
If you don't lie they are very nice to you and you get a letter in the mail a few days later saying you don't match their needs. What community college flunky manager for Hilton reservation center is going to hire an engineer to answer their phones? They probably have no doubt that you could do a good job but still they know Im gone as SOON as I find a new job and their training costs are wasted.
I've had similiar situations with jobs where I would be underemployed, I interviewed for a job as a Computer Tech II for 20,000k a year. I had more experience/education then the MIS director who interviewed me ... was he gonna give me a job? no fucking way :) They hired some guy who could barely find the power switch on a computer -- no threat to him.
I know you're kidding, but there's a book about the subject written by slashdots patron saint, lawrence lessig, Code and Other Lws of Cyberspace
I bought it when it came out and stayed up all night reading it... not groundbreaking material but alot to think about, and defiantley worth 12$
For a discussion of that and other topics in a brilliant radio play format check out the Sean Kennedy Chronicles.
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like. It's what bullshit TV execs think americans like. I've enjoyed the hell out of british shows like, sharp's rifles, mr bean/black adder/thin blue line, danger uxb, all creatures great and small, yes minister ... etc. I think given a chance american audiences would rise to the task and appreciate more sophisticated humor ... if given a chance, that is...
My *cheap ass* Athlon 1700 gentoo box (total system value: 300$) can *reboot* gentoo in under 30 seconds, INCLUDING X. What else do you want?
If your linux box takes more then 30 seconds to boot up you are either A: running way too many services, B: You're running Mandrake/Redhat (in which case you're guilty of A to).
I don't actually disagree with you :) Alot of people don't need rock solid though, and don't need to pay for it. At the university I worked at, we didn't need rock solid, but we could afford it. I'm not saying we ever bought a DELL server, we just threatened to to get Sun to lower their rediculous prices :) Negotiating with them always reminded me of the south park where cartman is selling fetuses, "oh jesus larry you're breaking my balls here." Sun tries to club you over the head with their *rediculous* list prices.
Once after I negotiated a pretty good deal (104k for A fire V440 with 4 procs, 4 gigs of ram, 2.6 TB of storage, and a tape library), I told one of my coworkers how proud I was of myself for getting us almost 50% off the list, and he said the funniest thing I've ever heard, "You should have asked them to raise their prices so we could have gotten an even better discount."
So anyways, I love suns, was a solaris admin for 2.5 years, and I dont really diasgree with you. Just saying the average business might not need all that horespower. In my entire time I had *one* sparc 10 give out that was ancient, other then that nare a hardware problem in 2.5 years.
I've told this story a million times, but I'll tell it once more ... Sun is *VERY* scared of linux. I used to buy Sun equiptment fairly regularaly for the university I worked for, and out Sun rep flat out told us Sun was "very concerned" about Linux. Sun is very competitive with discounts as well, just use the word "Dell" in a sentence and Sun will offer you steep discounts (on overvalued hardware). Because at the end of the day, sun has to answer the question, "A 4 way sun box costs 40k, and a 4 way Dell costs 12k. What can sun do that Dell can't?" At one point Sun even offered us *free* (low end) servers to replace some Linux boxes we had. We politely declined.
In my experience, immediatley following a hick uttering the phrase "Hey y'all, watch this!" there is usually some very surprised livestock.
The Asian kids knew their fields dead to rights -- but ONLY their fields. We did visual research, so these guys knew Matlab, C, and Linear Algebra like *nobody's business*. But *anything* out of that field, Calculus, physics, even basic computer knowledge was beyond these masters and doctoral level students.