2-D, arcade-stype fighters aren't dead by a long shot. Most of the community has just gone underground. Instead of playing in arcades, they buy arcade sticks and play on their consoles. But there are still placesforfansof2dfighters, and dozens or hundreds of tournaments every year.
Most Walmarts sell a converter device that allows you to use any PS2 controller with an Xbox. It's about 20 bucks. I use one so I can play Guilty Gear X2 #Reload on my Xbox with a Hori Real Arcade Pro. Works like a charm.
It was while standing in my first-ever ladies' room line at E3 2004 as I pondered the Playboy bunnies, the return of Leisure Suit Larry, and the slew of buxom virtual ladies headlining each booth that I questioned whether the industry had evolved at all.
Out of 1257 tracks in my iTunes library, only 8 were downloaded off of P2P (Acqusition, to be exact).
Basically, at some point I realized that the selection and quality from the P2P networks I was using* was... well, crap. You'll find 40 copies of one version of a song--which happens to be encoded at 128 kb/sec, or has a nasty glitch in the middle.
Also, I like my music enough to want to have a real-world, excellent-quality backup (a CD).
Most of my friends still use P2P. Frankly, though, they don't care as much about music as I do.
*I'd like to note that, as a Mac user, I don't have the selection of P2P networks that Windows users do, so maybe the poor-quality is a Mac-specific problem.
Don't forget, while Bioware's Neverwinter Nights was not released for the Xbox, they also produced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, probably still the best RPG released for Microsoft's console. They're also working on Jade Empire, which will be an Xbox exclusive, and was specifically designed from the start for the Xbox.
Badnarik? Rich? Ha! Badnarik's just a teacher who offers a one-day class on the Constitution.
I've been following Badnarik's ascent to the LP's candidate in Reason Magazine, which covers a lot of libertarian issues, and one thing is for sure: this man had almost NO funding whatsoever in his campaign.
In fact, leading up to the LP convention, he drove around in his Kia Sophia campaigning with just one other guy, and they would often run out of money and have to rely on the generosity of random supporters to even have a place to stay. For example, when the LP convention came around, it was held in a Marriott hotel or something like that. Badnarik couldn't even afford a room! Fortunately, an impressed supporter offered Badnarik the chance to use his room as a "base of operations" of sort, which allowed him to talk to more delegates and win the nomination.
Yeah, get a clue, Apple! In fact, let's hang out. We can go to town and see the Shakespeare theatre's production of The Taming of the Clue. Then we can go to my favorite restaurant, Clubie Tuesdays. Later you can come back to my house and we'll get high and watch reruns of the old Clubie Doo cartoons.
The stats don't make sense to me. Here's what I see:
Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004, with 48% of vulnerabilities allowing remote attacks and 46% enabling system access, Secunia said.
So that would mean, multiplying 46 by 48% would give you the number of remote attacks, and multiplying 46 by 46% would give you the number of attacks enabling system access. So for Windows:
22.08 remote attacks.
21.16 system access attacks.
Don't ask me why they are not integers. I suppose that some advisorys covered more than one bug?
Now, for OS X:Of the 36 advisories issued in 2003-2004, 61% could be exploited across the internet and 32% enabled attackers to take over the system.
Using the same system as before, I got:
21.96 remote attacks.
11.52 system access attacks.
So they're saying OS X allows HALF of the number of attacks that can gain access to a system as XP, but their conclusion is that "The myth that Mac OS X is secure, for example, has been exposed"???Hmmm....
It's cheap. While 799-999 isn't exactly "cheap" in the PC world, it's the most affordable computer that Apple makes right now. If you don't like it, you can sell it and not take as much as a hit as if you had, say, bought a PowerMac G5.
It's all you'll need. You just said that all you do is email, internet, documents, etc. You don't need more than 1.25 GHz for that.
It's a good deal at the moment. It has the same processor speed as an eMac, for much less money.
If you do decide to get a Mac, make sure to pump it full of RAM. I'd say 512 MB is a good amount, but nothing less, certainly not the stock 256 stick.
Those are all great, but to me, I want to know if Tiger has another "new feature": Does it make my computer feel faster?
Pretty much every previous release of MacOS X has brought speed improvements, and I want to know if Tiger will continue that tradition. Not all of us can afford G5s at the moment, and a speed increase would really make it shelling out another 80 bucks or so (.edu discount) worth it.
Yeah, but can we really trust a lecture about intervals from the Devil's interval??
(Seriously, though, I'm quite jealous that you got tritone@slashdot. I have tritone at gmail, orkut, kuro5hin, and a bunch of other places, but I was way too late to get it here)
No, I don't think we need a dictionary. And I definitely don't have all (or any, really) answers. But a whooooole lot of people don't think music is a language, and I guess I was just attempting to point to the fact that the question might not be as simple as it looks.
I'm not so sure that music is really a language. It is definitely not a simple question and people have been arguing about it for a long, long time. I've heard people say it is, but I've read some authors who are convinced that it isn't. Here's what I see as the main difficulty. (Hold on, let me try to remember my Derrida from 11th grade English.) The problem is that language consists of two things: The words (signifiers) and the actual objects they represent (signifieds) (linky).They have a concrete relationship. However, does music really have the ability to act as signifiers? Depends on who you ask. You can't exactly look up in a dictionary what an instrumental piece of music means. On the other hand, it's very obvious that some pieces of music are meant to evoke emotions and/or thoughts. The problem is that the meaning isn't set. Different people will get completely different things out of the same music. And if the signifier/signified relationship is different for everyone, is it really a language?
Many musicians already know this. Have you ever heard a soloist described as "lyrical"? (grep for "lyrical")
Have you ever heard a musician compare improvising a solo to "telling a story"(grep for "telling a story")
Ever heard a short musical idea described as a "phrase"?
Listening to a good jazz solo is a lot like listening to a conversation: There are main points, and there are variations on that point. It should be grounded but not to repetative
What is the soloist doing when he attempts to "build"? Actually the ideal process hardly ever takes place--that is, it is hardly ever the case that a conscientious soloist plays a thinking solo for a hard-listening hearer--but when this does happen, the key process is memory. The soloist has to establish for the listener what the important POINT, the motif if you like, is, and then show as much as he can of what it is that he sees in that motif, extending the relationships of it to the basic while never giving the feeling that he has forgotten it. In other words, I believe that it should be a basic principle to use repetition, rather than variety--but not too much. The listener is constatnly making predictions; actual infinitesimal predictions as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something, or something different. The player is constantly either confimring or denying these predictions in the listener's mind. As nearly as we can tell (Kraehenbuehl at Yale and I), the listener must come out right about 50% of the time--if he is too successful in predicting, he will be bored; if he is too unsuccessful, he will give up and call the music "disoganized."
Thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listener's attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue. Then, if the thing keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how long the pattern is going to continue. Similarly, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagnation he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing, that he is not going to be able to make any predections right, and also stops litening. Too much difference is sameness: boring. Too much sameness is boring--but also different once in a while.
Yahoo! Instant Messenger, unlike AIM, is horrible on the Mac. Using the video chat, it crashed on me every 30 minutes, or less. It has a bunch of features on the PC that are unimplemented. When I reinstalled OS X, I tried to keep the system as stable as possible. There are only four programs I really stayed away from: the Application Enhancer haxie, bittorrent, menumeters, and Yahoo! Instant Messenger.
On the other hand, AOL Instant Messenger is amazing for the Mac. About half of my Mac friends like it more than iChat.
No, you're not the only one. They also put the dual 1.8 in the motherboard comparable to the previous 1.6 model, which means less available ram slots, and no PCI-X expansion.
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2-D, arcade-stype fighters aren't dead by a long shot. Most of the community has just gone underground. Instead of playing in arcades, they buy arcade sticks and play on their consoles. But there are still places for fans of 2d fighters, and dozens or hundreds of tournaments every year.
Maybe they should just put Link in again, then.
Most Walmarts sell a converter device that allows you to use any PS2 controller with an Xbox. It's about 20 bucks. I use one so I can play Guilty Gear X2 #Reload on my Xbox with a Hori Real Arcade Pro. Works like a charm.
I disagree with the headline, because it implies that it was actually relevant at one point.
It was while standing in my first-ever ladies' room line at E3 2004 as I pondered the Playboy bunnies, the return of Leisure Suit Larry, and the slew of buxom virtual ladies headlining each booth that I questioned whether the industry had evolved at all.
As a devout Dead or Alive: Ultimate player, I can confidently say that...
No, no it hasn't.
You forgot the most important difference for a lot of people:
Xbox-only - PS2-only
(That pretty much decides it for a bunch of us)
I'd like to see a high-security microkernel OS in widespread use
Would MacOS X count?
The fundamental services and primitives of the Mac OS X kernel are based on Mach 3.0... Mach 3.0 was originally conceived as a simple, extensible, communications microkernel.
Out of 1257 tracks in my iTunes library, only 8 were downloaded off of P2P (Acqusition, to be exact). Basically, at some point I realized that the selection and quality from the P2P networks I was using* was... well, crap. You'll find 40 copies of one version of a song--which happens to be encoded at 128 kb/sec, or has a nasty glitch in the middle. Also, I like my music enough to want to have a real-world, excellent-quality backup (a CD). Most of my friends still use P2P. Frankly, though, they don't care as much about music as I do. *I'd like to note that, as a Mac user, I don't have the selection of P2P networks that Windows users do, so maybe the poor-quality is a Mac-specific problem.
Don't forget, while Bioware's Neverwinter Nights was not released for the Xbox, they also produced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, probably still the best RPG released for Microsoft's console. They're also working on Jade Empire , which will be an Xbox exclusive, and was specifically designed from the start for the Xbox.
You forgot the last two "Developers!" Dammit! That's the hook!
Badnarik? Rich? Ha! Badnarik's just a teacher who offers a one-day class on the Constitution.
I've been following Badnarik's ascent to the LP's candidate in Reason Magazine, which covers a lot of libertarian issues, and one thing is for sure: this man had almost NO funding whatsoever in his campaign.
In fact, leading up to the LP convention, he drove around in his Kia Sophia campaigning with just one other guy, and they would often run out of money and have to rely on the generosity of random supporters to even have a place to stay. For example, when the LP convention came around, it was held in a Marriott hotel or something like that. Badnarik couldn't even afford a room! Fortunately, an impressed supporter offered Badnarik the chance to use his room as a "base of operations" of sort, which allowed him to talk to more delegates and win the nomination.
Yeah, get a clue, Apple! In fact, let's hang out. We can go to town and see the Shakespeare theatre's production of The Taming of the Clue. Then we can go to my favorite restaurant, Clubie Tuesdays. Later you can come back to my house and we'll get high and watch reruns of the old Clubie Doo cartoons.
Yeah. And Tiger is to be released in the first half of 2005. Which gives them between 5-11 months to make these changes.
I think it's just too early to tell how fast the final release is going to be, since there's probably 3/4 of a year more development to be done.
Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004, with 48% of vulnerabilities allowing remote attacks and 46% enabling system access, Secunia said.
So that would mean, multiplying 46 by 48% would give you the number of remote attacks, and multiplying 46 by 46% would give you the number of attacks enabling system access. So for Windows:
Don't ask me why they are not integers. I suppose that some advisorys covered more than one bug?
Now, for OS X:Of the 36 advisories issued in 2003-2004, 61% could be exploited across the internet and 32% enabled attackers to take over the system.
Using the same system as before, I got:
So they're saying OS X allows HALF of the number of attacks that can gain access to a system as XP, but their conclusion is that "The myth that Mac OS X is secure, for example, has been exposed"???Hmmm....
. It's a good deal at the moment. It has the same processor speed as an eMac, for much less money.
I mean iMac.
If you do decide to get a Mac, make sure to pump it full of RAM. I'd say 512 MB is a good amount, but nothing less, certainly not the stock 256 stick.
Those are all great, but to me, I want to know if Tiger has another "new feature": Does it make my computer feel faster?
Pretty much every previous release of MacOS X has brought speed improvements, and I want to know if Tiger will continue that tradition. Not all of us can afford G5s at the moment, and a speed increase would really make it shelling out another 80 bucks or so (.edu discount) worth it.
Yeah, but can we really trust a lecture about intervals from the Devil's interval??
(Seriously, though, I'm quite jealous that you got tritone@slashdot. I have tritone at gmail, orkut, kuro5hin, and a bunch of other places, but I was way too late to get it here)
No, I don't think we need a dictionary. And I definitely don't have all (or any, really) answers. But a whooooole lot of people don't think music is a language, and I guess I was just attempting to point to the fact that the question might not be as simple as it looks.
I'm not so sure that music is really a language. It is definitely not a simple question and people have been arguing about it for a long, long time. I've heard people say it is, but I've read some authors who are convinced that it isn't. Here's what I see as the main difficulty. (Hold on, let me try to remember my Derrida from 11th grade English.) The problem is that language consists of two things: The words (signifiers) and the actual objects they represent (signifieds) (linky).They have a concrete relationship. However, does music really have the ability to act as signifiers? Depends on who you ask. You can't exactly look up in a dictionary what an instrumental piece of music means. On the other hand, it's very obvious that some pieces of music are meant to evoke emotions and/or thoughts. The problem is that the meaning isn't set. Different people will get completely different things out of the same music. And if the signifier/signified relationship is different for everyone, is it really a language?
Many musicians already know this. Have you ever heard a soloist described as "lyrical"? (grep for "lyrical")
Have you ever heard a musician compare improvising a solo to "telling a story"(grep for "telling a story")
Ever heard a short musical idea described as a "phrase"?
Listening to a good jazz solo is a lot like listening to a conversation: There are main points, and there are variations on that point. It should be grounded but not to repetative
What is the soloist doing when he attempts to "build"? Actually the ideal process hardly ever takes place--that is, it is hardly ever the case that a conscientious soloist plays a thinking solo for a hard-listening hearer--but when this does happen, the key process is memory. The soloist has to establish for the listener what the important POINT, the motif if you like, is, and then show as much as he can of what it is that he sees in that motif, extending the relationships of it to the basic while never giving the feeling that he has forgotten it. In other words, I believe that it should be a basic principle to use repetition, rather than variety--but not too much. The listener is constatnly making predictions; actual infinitesimal predictions as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something, or something different. The player is constantly either confimring or denying these predictions in the listener's mind. As nearly as we can tell (Kraehenbuehl at Yale and I), the listener must come out right about 50% of the time--if he is too successful in predicting, he will be bored; if he is too unsuccessful, he will give up and call the music "disoganized."
Thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listener's attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue. Then, if the thing keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how long the pattern is going to continue. Similarly, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagnation he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing, that he is not going to be able to make any predections right, and also stops litening. Too much difference is sameness: boring. Too much sameness is boring--but also different once in a while.
-Richmond Browne
Yahoo! Instant Messenger, unlike AIM, is horrible on the Mac. Using the video chat, it crashed on me every 30 minutes, or less. It has a bunch of features on the PC that are unimplemented. When I reinstalled OS X, I tried to keep the system as stable as possible. There are only four programs I really stayed away from: the Application Enhancer haxie, bittorrent, menumeters, and Yahoo! Instant Messenger.
On the other hand, AOL Instant Messenger is amazing for the Mac. About half of my Mac friends like it more than iChat.
I totally need a business card drawn up that says Official Member of the Slashdot Tinfoil Hat Brigade.
No, you're not the only one. They also put the dual 1.8 in the motherboard comparable to the previous 1.6 model, which means less available ram slots, and no PCI-X expansion.