I thought about this concept as well. It'd be pretty cool if your computer experience was just one big game, and instead of irc chat rooms you'd just have a "no weapons" quake 3 arena zone or something where people chat.
Anyway, there is a game that did actually go to the next step - Savage - The Battle for Newerth or something like that. It has a real time strategy component (i.e. the leader) as well as everyone else is in the fps/3rd person (depending on the weapon choice).
Maybe someone could make a game that's a space simulation strategy and you have an fps game inside where you drop off "soldiers" and they do co-op missions on abandoned space stations fighting for them or something. In any case, it'd be a cool gaming model and would be more "vast".
Urban Terror of Silicon Ice fame is getting ported to RtCW: Enemy Territory since they released the source (I think, or at least Silicon Ice Development has it) so they'll release an official version 1 (no beta this time) which is the equivalent of version 3.3 (I think).
Urban Terror will guarrantee that you fail at least one course because of it.:D
In Shanghai there's this neighborhood that has 3000 squarefoot homes going for $8,000,000 USD.
How is this possible? The Chinese manufacturing sector isn't booming because they have cheap labour. They're booming because since they have cheap labour, they can afford all the latest technology coming out from Taiwan and so on.
How do I know this? My dad owns a CNC machine importing company in the Greater Toronto Area (selling CNC lathes, machining centers, cheap cad/cam systems, grinders etc (shameless plug: www.sibacnc.com)). The vice president of one of our distributors had a friend who was in the market for a house in Shanghai. The owners of these manufacturing companies in China aren't getting rich because they have cheap labour, they're getting rich because they have better technology.
If you go into the majority of small machine shops many of them are operating manual machines and are making $40/hour instead of $150/hour like they should be.
What machine shops in North America should be doing is improving their manufacturing process instead of sitting around doing nothing and complaining about China, while their 20 year old machines sit idle.
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More like people are inherently bad. More specifically, greed, and the hunger for power is what drives the already-powerful to bring down the rest of the people.
If you manage to completely automate the manufacturing process, and improve renewable energies then everything should theoretically become cheaper. Throw humanity in the equation and you have 1984.:D
Totally agree. What's worse is when your friends and family think that because you don't have a degree or a diploma it means you won't ammount to anything. Same thing goes for themselves actually. I have a few friends who only have high school diplomas (one doesn't even have that) and they're afraid to learn because they think it's too difficult.
I've met some people who have degrees that have absolutely no ability to learn. It boggles the mind.
Treadmill sales have skyrocketted among conspiracy theorists.
"I used to sit in front of the computer all day," says Richard Consen. "Researching all the latest conspiracy theories and then BAM! It hit us. The big one."
Psychological experts agree that as privarcy goes down, wackos who are obsessed with privacy and conspiracies will are moving towards better fitness.
"Mr. Linux Universe is not far off, it's quite ironic really, it's these guys who make the technology but then end up complaining about it when their former-jock CEO's fire them and end up retiring at 35." Says former Psychologist expert Dr. David Homberg (recently fired due to the extensive use of "wacko" in his dealings with patients).
The Treadmill Inc. company ended at $24.12 at the end of the day, up by $24.11.
If you want to support good record labels you can also check out rewind-records.com which is owned by Soundmurderer, who is also signed to Rephlex (Aphex Twin's label). In the Rewind Single's section there are all decent quality mp3s you can download.
Soundmurderer & SK1 have their CD out here: http://www.rephlex.com/2001releases/rew001/rew001c d.html
and I just got the go-ahead to update their website with tracks on their singles at www.rewind-records.com, so check it out if you like Ragga jungle.:)
Wave Twisters isn't all skratching if you want to get technical about it. Quite a few of the beats were produced (i.e. some by Mix Master Mike). Now for a purely skratch album check out: D-Styles Phantazmagoria. Everything was done live. You can check it out here: http://www.djdstyles.com/.
For other discussions on skratching there are a few message boards floating around, namely the dstyles board, also www.asisphonics.net which is a great site that caters towards skratch djs, as well as http://www.styluswars.com/.
Oh yeah, for another cool turntable instrument, check out the QFO, Qbert's turntable with a built in mixer. Here's a link for that: http://nerdgod.org/vestax-qfo
It's like a bully telling you to hand over your lunch money or else he'll beat the crap out of you.
If you give him your lunch money you've lost, but if you say no, then he'll kick the crap out of you AND THEN take your lunch money!
This is exactly what Miramax is doing - bullying - and there's no way that this guy would be able to survive financially if he would have been sued, hence either way Miramax would have won.
My brother's friend realized an error in a *very* big company in Toronto. He worked as a purchaser and managed to save the company something around 6 million dollars because of some screwed up process that they used. What did the company do?
They told him this: "You broke company policy, don't do it again."
Not all companies want to be well run apparently, maybe his company is one of 'em.
What about getting highspeed internet for a business as opposed to a private residence? I know for a fact the exact same speeds for one place might cost $45CDN but at a business the exact same service costs about $100 or $150CDN a month. There's price descrimination for yah.
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"...of making a virus that downloads child pr0n onto a remote computer? I thought virii were created to wreak havoc, not frame random computer users... or am I wrong? And furthermore, if a jury can believe this defense, what's to keep all the imminent RIAA and MPAA suits from being defused by the same argument? FIRST POST! WOO!! "
Didn't wreak havoc? The guy lost his 500 pounds a day job, didn't work for two years, got his named associated with child pornography...this trojan already made him lose out on two years of his own life. I'd say that constitutes as wreaking havoc.
You know what game needs multiplayer?
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Mafia needs multiplayer. Too bad they're never going to develop something like that (even though there was heavy demand for it).
http://www.mafia-game.com/
I read this in the paper today. The first guy's a complete idiot. The other 4 aren't so bad but it's nothing new. As far as I remember, one guy was saying that record companies SHOULD go down, another person wrote that it's all about the radio stations and that's where the fault lies, and what the other two guys said was more or less repeating what the other two said.
Nothing in the article is new that 95% the rest of us already know about.
When my brother was at Western University (early 90's), he told me how some of his engineering friends were able to put $700 on a printing/photocopying card, so the only reason they needed to get new cards was because the black strip wore out.
I'm a skratch DJ so CDs are essentially worthless to me for DJing. At a DEMF a few years ago there was this booth that had the latest CD DJ turntables. They looked like turntables and the CD was inside. It emulated a turntable closely but not precisely so it didn't catch on. Most hiphop DJs or battle DJs (think ITF and DMC dj competitions) *need* to use vinyl simply because it's their instrument of choice. So CDs are out of the question for a lot of DJs that do more then just mix. Mixing CDs can work quite well if you get accustomed to the equipment and you definitely have a bigger selection for a cheaper price (not to mention you can physically bring more music to an event because vinyl gets heavy). However CDs won't replace records, at least not in the distant future (I can see them being around EASILY for another 20 years). Now Final Scratch and products like it come very close to convincing DJs to switch mediums, especially ones that still like the feel of a turntable but aren't as hardcore when it comes to using them. So drum n bass DJs or techno DJs can really benefit from it because they can play their own produced tracks. Oh yeah...I'm sure quite a few know this but for the rest: People still press up ACETATE! Reggae sound systems press up special dubplates for Sound clashes, but drum n bass DJs and others press up dubplates so they can play their own unique tunes without pressing up vinyl.
In the last little while turntablism and skratch music has really advanced, and there are a lot of musicians who's primary instrument is the turntable (note: DJ Qbert, Rob Swift, Mix Master Mike, Craze, Dstyles etc). So you have a niche market for that. Just think of turntables and records as a possible instrument and it should give you some indication of when vinyl's going to die (maybe when guitars die off?).
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I thought about this concept as well. It'd be pretty cool if your computer experience was just one big game, and instead of irc chat rooms you'd just have a "no weapons" quake 3 arena zone or something where people chat.
Anyway, there is a game that did actually go to the next step - Savage - The Battle for Newerth or something like that. It has a real time strategy component (i.e. the leader) as well as everyone else is in the fps/3rd person (depending on the weapon choice).
Maybe someone could make a game that's a space simulation strategy and you have an fps game inside where you drop off "soldiers" and they do co-op missions on abandoned space stations fighting for them or something. In any case, it'd be a cool gaming model and would be more "vast".
Urban Terror of Silicon Ice fame is getting ported to RtCW: Enemy Territory since they released the source (I think, or at least Silicon Ice Development has it) so they'll release an official version 1 (no beta this time) which is the equivalent of version 3.3 (I think).
:D
Urban Terror will guarrantee that you fail at least one course because of it.
In Shanghai there's this neighborhood that has 3000 squarefoot homes going for $8,000,000 USD.
How is this possible? The Chinese manufacturing sector isn't booming because they have cheap labour. They're booming because since they have cheap labour, they can afford all the latest technology coming out from Taiwan and so on.
How do I know this? My dad owns a CNC machine importing company in the Greater Toronto Area (selling CNC lathes, machining centers, cheap cad/cam systems, grinders etc (shameless plug: www.sibacnc.com)). The vice president of one of our distributors had a friend who was in the market for a house in Shanghai. The owners of these manufacturing companies in China aren't getting rich because they have cheap labour, they're getting rich because they have better technology.
If you go into the majority of small machine shops many of them are operating manual machines and are making $40/hour instead of $150/hour like they should be.
What machine shops in North America should be doing is improving their manufacturing process instead of sitting around doing nothing and complaining about China, while their 20 year old machines sit idle.
More like people are inherently bad. More specifically, greed, and the hunger for power is what drives the already-powerful to bring down the rest of the people.
:D
If you manage to completely automate the manufacturing process, and improve renewable energies then everything should theoretically become cheaper. Throw humanity in the equation and you have 1984.
Totally agree. What's worse is when your friends and family think that because you don't have a degree or a diploma it means you won't ammount to anything. Same thing goes for themselves actually. I have a few friends who only have high school diplomas (one doesn't even have that) and they're afraid to learn because they think it's too difficult.
I've met some people who have degrees that have absolutely no ability to learn. It boggles the mind.
Treadmill sales have skyrocketted among conspiracy theorists.
"I used to sit in front of the computer all day," says Richard Consen. "Researching all the latest conspiracy theories and then BAM! It hit us. The big one."
Psychological experts agree that as privarcy goes down, wackos who are obsessed with privacy and conspiracies will are moving towards better fitness.
"Mr. Linux Universe is not far off, it's quite ironic really, it's these guys who make the technology but then end up complaining about it when their former-jock CEO's fire them and end up retiring at 35." Says former Psychologist expert Dr. David Homberg (recently fired due to the extensive use of "wacko" in his dealings with patients).
The Treadmill Inc. company ended at $24.12 at the end of the day, up by $24.11.
Wasn't that Autechre?...and Orbital.
Shameless promotion...more or less.
c d.html
:)
If you want to support good record labels you can also check out rewind-records.com which is owned by Soundmurderer, who is also signed to Rephlex (Aphex Twin's label). In the Rewind Single's section there are all decent quality mp3s you can download.
Soundmurderer & SK1 have their CD out here: http://www.rephlex.com/2001releases/rew001/rew001
and I just got the go-ahead to update their website with tracks on their singles at www.rewind-records.com, so check it out if you like Ragga jungle.
Wave Twisters isn't all skratching if you want to get technical about it. Quite a few of the beats were produced (i.e. some by Mix Master Mike). Now for a purely skratch album check out: D-Styles Phantazmagoria. Everything was done live. You can check it out here: http://www.djdstyles.com/.
For other discussions on skratching there are a few message boards floating around, namely the dstyles board, also www.asisphonics.net which is a great site that caters towards skratch djs, as well as http://www.styluswars.com/.
Oh yeah, for another cool turntable instrument, check out the QFO, Qbert's turntable with a built in mixer. Here's a link for that: http://nerdgod.org/vestax-qfo
It's like a bully telling you to hand over your lunch money or else he'll beat the crap out of you.
If you give him your lunch money you've lost, but if you say no, then he'll kick the crap out of you AND THEN take your lunch money!
This is exactly what Miramax is doing - bullying - and there's no way that this guy would be able to survive financially if he would have been sued, hence either way Miramax would have won.
It's NOT okay for this to happen.
My brother's friend realized an error in a *very* big company in Toronto. He worked as a purchaser and managed to save the company something around 6 million dollars because of some screwed up process that they used. What did the company do? They told him this: "You broke company policy, don't do it again." Not all companies want to be well run apparently, maybe his company is one of 'em.
What about getting highspeed internet for a business as opposed to a private residence? I know for a fact the exact same speeds for one place might cost $45CDN but at a business the exact same service costs about $100 or $150CDN a month. There's price descrimination for yah.
"...of making a virus that downloads child pr0n onto a remote computer? I thought virii were created to wreak havoc, not frame random computer users... or am I wrong? And furthermore, if a jury can believe this defense, what's to keep all the imminent RIAA and MPAA suits from being defused by the same argument? FIRST POST! WOO!! "
Didn't wreak havoc? The guy lost his 500 pounds a day job, didn't work for two years, got his named associated with child pornography...this trojan already made him lose out on two years of his own life. I'd say that constitutes as wreaking havoc.
Mafia needs multiplayer. Too bad they're never going to develop something like that (even though there was heavy demand for it). http://www.mafia-game.com/
I pay $25 for 100 CDRs. They're not THAT expensive ($25 Canadian).
www.canadacomputers.com
I read this in the paper today. The first guy's a complete idiot. The other 4 aren't so bad but it's nothing new. As far as I remember, one guy was saying that record companies SHOULD go down, another person wrote that it's all about the radio stations and that's where the fault lies, and what the other two guys said was more or less repeating what the other two said.
Nothing in the article is new that 95% the rest of us already know about.
http://www.gta3mta.tk/
When my brother was at Western University (early 90's), he told me how some of his engineering friends were able to put $700 on a printing/photocopying card, so the only reason they needed to get new cards was because the black strip wore out.
I'm a skratch DJ so CDs are essentially worthless to me for DJing. At a DEMF a few years ago there was this booth that had the latest CD DJ turntables. They looked like turntables and the CD was inside. It emulated a turntable closely but not precisely so it didn't catch on. Most hiphop DJs or battle DJs (think ITF and DMC dj competitions) *need* to use vinyl simply because it's their instrument of choice. So CDs are out of the question for a lot of DJs that do more then just mix. Mixing CDs can work quite well if you get accustomed to the equipment and you definitely have a bigger selection for a cheaper price (not to mention you can physically bring more music to an event because vinyl gets heavy). However CDs won't replace records, at least not in the distant future (I can see them being around EASILY for another 20 years). Now Final Scratch and products like it come very close to convincing DJs to switch mediums, especially ones that still like the feel of a turntable but aren't as hardcore when it comes to using them. So drum n bass DJs or techno DJs can really benefit from it because they can play their own produced tracks. Oh yeah...I'm sure quite a few know this but for the rest: People still press up ACETATE! Reggae sound systems press up special dubplates for Sound clashes, but drum n bass DJs and others press up dubplates so they can play their own unique tunes without pressing up vinyl. In the last little while turntablism and skratch music has really advanced, and there are a lot of musicians who's primary instrument is the turntable (note: DJ Qbert, Rob Swift, Mix Master Mike, Craze, Dstyles etc). So you have a niche market for that. Just think of turntables and records as a possible instrument and it should give you some indication of when vinyl's going to die (maybe when guitars die off?).