So, I thought that was the rationale for why a D.J. is more than just some poser replacing a CD player... that they somehow responded to the crowd.
Sigh. Normally the way a DJ responds to the crowd is by trying different tracks and seeing which style is getting the best response. For example, if a hard beat makes people leave the dancefloor, you'd play something funkier next. One guy with a phone does not represent the crowd as a whole.
If you don't want input from the jackasses in the crowd then what are you doing up there?
Maybe introducing people to some interesting music they haven't heard before? I'm guessing from the anti-DJ slant you're more of a live band kind of a guy. Well, imagine if every band only played covers and requests -- your local music scene would get stale pretty quickly. That's pretty much what you're proposing here.
This backfired badly on me. I spent weeks trying to convince my girlfriend to play Animal Crossing, and now she's so badly hooked that I can't get 5 minutes on the GameCube. It goes something like:
ME: "Honey, could I possibly have a wee go at Metroid?"
SO: "Just let me re-arrange the furniture again and I'll be right with you..."
Most nights I end up curled on the other couch with the GBA and a dry martini, chewing on an olive and muttering to myself.
Somebody writes a piece in support of nuclear power. Some blogger fisks it [...]
The reason it's of interest (news for nerds, even) is that Sterling is not merely some blogger (you're a geek, you've read The Hacker Crackdown). TFA is not even a blog entry -- it's a tongue-in-cheek mailout to people interested in pragmatic and / or humorous solutions to global warming.
As for no hard science etc., fair enough, point taken, but have a look at this chunk:
Okay ==
let's say your argument has convinced me. So
get me a written quid pro quo that actually cuts
carbon emissions way past Kyoto limits, and I'll
risk the Chernobyls.
This to me, is the point of the article. The global warming debate is not presently a scientific dialogue about which form of power strikes the best balance between productivity and safety. Right now it's about getting fossil fuel producing countries to even acknowledge that something is wrong. When Australia and the US ratify the Kyoto treaty, then the scientific debate can begin.
Disclaimer: I have a couple of Sterling novels and think solar power is pretty neat. Hey, and fusion would be even better. See.sig for details.
Rod logic is (to the best of my recollection) basically a mechanical implementation of numerical AND, OR etc. Once you have that working you're not too far from an assembly language (for assemblers, ha ha). See chapter 12 of Drexler's Nanosystems, which Stephenson presumably got the idea from.
If anyone in this thread wants to read up on the Arab-Israeli conflict, check out this timeline. It's pretty even-handed in my opinion, but you can make up your own mind.
... of course I would buy it, if it's fun and gets decent reviews. Think of all the great game ideas that must have sounded stupid at the time: PaRappa, Lemmings, Harvest Moon, Tetris etc.
And I thought the eight amendment of their constitution outlawed cruel and unusual punishment. Every American is very keen on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, and most claim the constitution supports their position on gun ownership (whether pro- or anti-). I find it illuminating that the 'cruel and unusual' bit is considered a joke...
I was going to mod you down, but a lot of people seem to be on your wavelength so I'm going to reply instead. Perhaps someone will enjoy the alternate viewpoint.
Your reasons to wear a tie seem to be based around a dubious ethic of climbing the corporate ladder based on appearance rather than merit, then picking up the sort of classy lady who is mesmerised by business neckwear. Since I lost the tie I am doing way better in both departments.
Wouldn't it be better for everyone if success was earned on the basis of merit / quality rather than their shiny veneer? Think of (for example) successful software versus its less successful, higher quality alternatives. Or politicians. Or people in your workplace. Or whatever.
Rampart had the finest trackball of all. Weird game too: you built a castle out of tetris bricks, then defended it from pirates using your trackball guided cannonballs.
I use both in conjunction. Adblock blocks nominated Flash entirely (which is good for ads), whereas Flashblock makes a space in the page for Flash content, but prevents it from playing until you click on it. Sometimes (almost never, but sometimes) Flash is worth seeing.
Actually, he uses a CAD system developed (in-house by Dassault, I think) for aerospace engineering. This lets him do use that crazy curving and folding titanium without the whole thing falling down.
Someone below jokingly suggested that the architect might have used Lego bricks as his initial model. This isn't too far from the truth; after his initial sketches Gehry makes his first models from wooden blocks. The Bilbao Guggenheim also featured the funky design step of 3D scanning frozen fish to get natural curves.
He can do normal looking buildings too, if anyone's interested. He asks the clients how crazy he can go, so blame MIT if you think it's over the top... they signed off on it.
a revamp would be very nice. The only problem is how they are going to handle it on a console. There were many times where you split up your 4 guys to do various things. It required a lot of fast mouse scrolling around to make sure everyone was ok or to to work together on accomplishing something. It would be fine if they squad just stayed together, but thats no fun.
I actually have a copy of the PSX version of Syndicate Wars, and even with the PSX mouse it's impossible to control. You really do need a mouse + keyboard combo to do all the quick switching. A shame really, as I loved the Amiga Syndicate dearly. It's more fun with sprites rather than polygons, for some reason.
As for performance, well, in my experience the slick, hackerish ways of doing things often slow things down more than the explicit-using-more-lines way of doing things.
Amen. I think this is because the interpreter / VM is usually optimised for the most obvious way of doing things. If you try and improve the performance of your code with tricks and shortcuts, you're basically trying to outsmart the Larry and the other internals hackers.
If, like me, you find the PHP docs frustrating, then please consider the O'Reilly Programming PHP. I'm working on a large PHP project at the moment and this book has clarified a lot of PHP's counterintuitive strangeness (especially with respect to scoping) for me.
I take your point, but my understanding is that the grey album is not a simple mash up: the black album vocals are overlaid over originally composed music built out of white album samples, mostly drum hits and key stabs as described above. There's a creative element there if a whole album worth of new music was composed (albeit out of existing samples).
Yah, you're just old and fear the new. Music is whatever people what it to be. I have performed in traditional three piece bands, and also as a DJ and electronic musician. Electronic music production is easily the most difficult, simply because of the number of roles you take on. You have to write, perform, record, produce and engineer the music, while at the same time maintaining a bunch of uppity machines.
Here's the process I go through to create a typical track:
Write a drum part, either on a drum kit or a drum machine. Load some drum sounds into a sampler (i.e. individual half second long drum hits, such as a single snare drum sound). These hits come from a combination of real drum kits, drum machines, synths, video game sound tests, drum solos from old records etc. Program a sequencer to play back the drum samples through a mixing desk in the pattern that I've written earlier. Mix the drum part as eight tracks, then assign it to a desk subgroup.
Write a bass part on a keyboard. Play it in realtime into the sequencer. Hook up a bunch of bass synths and have them play the parts back through the desk (on 2 or 3 channels). Tweak the programmed sequence to add fills and breaks and a general track structure.
Write and program some keyboard / synth parts. Again, send them through the desk.
Add any vocals or sound effects, either recorded live or sampled or both. Send them to the desk.
Do any final rewriting, then record a dry multitrack backup. Add effects / compression and mix down to two track.
Edit the two track version as needed, and add any filtering, subharmonics or two track effects.
It may surprise you to hear that this is somewhat more difficult than writing a derivative three chord guitar part for your garage band.
Can someone tell me what the point of Dreamweaver is? In every web development shop I've seen the front end is mocked up (and the graphics cut and compressed) in Photoshop, but the HTML and CSS are hand written to get the best performance.
Can someone who actually uses Dreamweaver commercially enlighten me? I can see it being used for quick mockups when a client wants to see how their unreasonable changes would look, but that's about it.
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The best description I've read explains things in terms of a fridge full of beer.
There's a good page on stopping comment spam here.
So, I thought that was the rationale for why a D.J. is more than just some poser replacing a CD player... that they somehow responded to the crowd.
Sigh. Normally the way a DJ responds to the crowd is by trying different tracks and seeing which style is getting the best response. For example, if a hard beat makes people leave the dancefloor, you'd play something funkier next. One guy with a phone does not represent the crowd as a whole.
If you don't want input from the jackasses in the crowd then what are you doing up there?
Maybe introducing people to some interesting music they haven't heard before? I'm guessing from the anti-DJ slant you're more of a live band kind of a guy. Well, imagine if every band only played covers and requests -- your local music scene would get stale pretty quickly. That's pretty much what you're proposing here.
Hey, they fixed the game switching process too -- the carts hot swap in a top mounted slot in the new model.
Now all they need are games... and a marketing department that has never heard of 'xtreme' sports.
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Paul, go to prison!
This backfired badly on me. I spent weeks trying to convince my girlfriend to play Animal Crossing, and now she's so badly hooked that I can't get 5 minutes on the GameCube. It goes something like:
ME: "Honey, could I possibly have a wee go at Metroid?"
SO: "Just let me re-arrange the furniture again and I'll be right with you..."
Most nights I end up curled on the other couch with the GBA and a dry martini, chewing on an olive and muttering to myself.
Somebody writes a piece in support of nuclear power. Some blogger fisks it [...]
.sig for details.
The reason it's of interest (news for nerds, even) is that Sterling is not merely some blogger (you're a geek, you've read The Hacker Crackdown). TFA is not even a blog entry -- it's a tongue-in-cheek mailout to people interested in pragmatic and / or humorous solutions to global warming.
As for no hard science etc., fair enough, point taken, but have a look at this chunk:
Okay == let's say your argument has convinced me. So get me a written quid pro quo that actually cuts carbon emissions way past Kyoto limits, and I'll risk the Chernobyls.
This to me, is the point of the article. The global warming debate is not presently a scientific dialogue about which form of power strikes the best balance between productivity and safety. Right now it's about getting fossil fuel producing countries to even acknowledge that something is wrong. When Australia and the US ratify the Kyoto treaty, then the scientific debate can begin.
Disclaimer: I have a couple of Sterling novels and think solar power is pretty neat. Hey, and fusion would be even better. See
Rod logic is (to the best of my recollection) basically a mechanical implementation of numerical AND, OR etc. Once you have that working you're not too far from an assembly language (for assemblers, ha ha). See chapter 12 of Drexler's Nanosystems, which Stephenson presumably got the idea from.
If anyone in this thread wants to read up on the Arab-Israeli conflict, check out this timeline. It's pretty even-handed in my opinion, but you can make up your own mind.
... of course I would buy it, if it's fun and gets decent reviews. Think of all the great game ideas that must have sounded stupid at the time: PaRappa, Lemmings, Harvest Moon, Tetris etc.
And I thought the eight amendment of their constitution outlawed cruel and unusual punishment. Every American is very keen on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, and most claim the constitution supports their position on gun ownership (whether pro- or anti-). I find it illuminating that the 'cruel and unusual' bit is considered a joke...
I was going to mod you down, but a lot of people seem to be on your wavelength so I'm going to reply instead. Perhaps someone will enjoy the alternate viewpoint.
Your reasons to wear a tie seem to be based around a dubious ethic of climbing the corporate ladder based on appearance rather than merit, then picking up the sort of classy lady who is mesmerised by business neckwear. Since I lost the tie I am doing way better in both departments.
Wouldn't it be better for everyone if success was earned on the basis of merit / quality rather than their shiny veneer? Think of (for example) successful software versus its less successful, higher quality alternatives. Or politicians. Or people in your workplace. Or whatever.
Rampart had the finest trackball of all. Weird game too: you built a castle out of tetris bricks, then defended it from pirates using your trackball guided cannonballs.
I use both in conjunction. Adblock blocks nominated Flash entirely (which is good for ads), whereas Flashblock makes a space in the page for Flash content, but prevents it from playing until you click on it. Sometimes (almost never, but sometimes) Flash is worth seeing.
Right on. I don't mind MS bundling some light AV product providing it can be easily removed or replaced with a competing product.
Why is the top screen so square instead of rectangular?
It's cheaper to make 2 square screens rather than 1 square and one rectangular.
Be sure and tune in next week when I reveal why your VCR has mono sound...
Actually, he uses a CAD system developed (in-house by Dassault, I think) for aerospace engineering. This lets him do use that crazy curving and folding titanium without the whole thing falling down.
Someone below jokingly suggested that the architect might have used Lego bricks as his initial model. This isn't too far from the truth; after his initial sketches Gehry makes his first models from wooden blocks. The Bilbao Guggenheim also featured the funky design step of 3D scanning frozen fish to get natural curves.
He can do normal looking buildings too, if anyone's interested. He asks the clients how crazy he can go, so blame MIT if you think it's over the top... they signed off on it.
...I'm a bit bored with that shit now.
I just want to rinse it out proper!
a revamp would be very nice. The only problem is how they are going to handle it on a console. There were many times where you split up your 4 guys to do various things. It required a lot of fast mouse scrolling around to make sure everyone was ok or to to work together on accomplishing something. It would be fine if they squad just stayed together, but thats no fun.
I actually have a copy of the PSX version of Syndicate Wars, and even with the PSX mouse it's impossible to control. You really do need a mouse + keyboard combo to do all the quick switching. A shame really, as I loved the Amiga Syndicate dearly. It's more fun with sprites rather than polygons, for some reason.
As for performance, well, in my experience the slick, hackerish ways of doing things often slow things down more than the explicit-using-more-lines way of doing things.
Amen. I think this is because the interpreter / VM is usually optimised for the most obvious way of doing things. If you try and improve the performance of your code with tricks and shortcuts, you're basically trying to outsmart the Larry and the other internals hackers.
If, like me, you find the PHP docs frustrating, then please consider the O'Reilly Programming PHP. I'm working on a large PHP project at the moment and this book has clarified a lot of PHP's counterintuitive strangeness (especially with respect to scoping) for me.
I take your point, but my understanding is that the grey album is not a simple mash up: the black album vocals are overlaid over originally composed music built out of white album samples, mostly drum hits and key stabs as described above. There's a creative element there if a whole album worth of new music was composed (albeit out of existing samples).
Here's the process I go through to create a typical track:
It may surprise you to hear that this is somewhat more difficult than writing a derivative three chord guitar part for your garage band.
Can someone tell me what the point of Dreamweaver is? In every web development shop I've seen the front end is mocked up (and the graphics cut and compressed) in Photoshop, but the HTML and CSS are hand written to get the best performance.
Can someone who actually uses Dreamweaver commercially enlighten me? I can see it being used for quick mockups when a client wants to see how their unreasonable changes would look, but that's about it.
There have always bin rumors that closed source Microsoft applications have leaked to terrorists
Osama bin Rumours?