This reminds me of the time a couple months ago that I upgraded my heatsink, and for whatever reason absentmindedly left my old copper block on my toaster oven. Weeks later I noticed the toaster was not working quite as well as it used to, and I realized the heatsink was to blame!
Then I realized that the toaster was just fucked up and that I was just an idiot.
Can you name more than say, zero of the existing audio looping software out there right now? Maybe one?
Well guess what, everyone and their mothers will know about GarageBand once every kid with a mac starts using it. Thanks to the amazing marketing of Apple, it will become FAR more mainstream than any of the existing tools like acid or fruityloops.
It will be cheap, and it will be ubiquitous.
And yes, all those other programs heralded as bringing real music production down a peg actually _did_ accomplish that. The fact that folks like you already have no problem acknowledging musicians who can't do anything but drag-n-drop another musician's loops and call it their own, is proof that it has already happened.
There is also a huge difference between little console music makers like mario paint, where you actually have to "create", and something like garageband which allows you to "borrow" and "pretend".
Finally, yes, I do continue to believe that in order to be a composer, you need to actually write the notes. If that's elitist, so be it.
flamebait??
the proliferation of loop-based music is a disturbing phenomenon with deleterious effects on the music industry, and apple happens to be fanning the flames, not me.
how is calling attention to an alarming trend flamebait?
with all the bustling fervor over the new mini iJiblet and its transparent pricing ploy, it seems we've forgotten to scorn GarageBand properly.
i don't have the numbers, but i would have to imagine that apple's target audience is largely a mass of rich boys generally untrained in music (and no, being able to play "More Than Words" on your brother's guitar does not make you "trained). all of apple's pro audio people are already deeply entrenched in Logic, for which purpose Apple ate emagic already. it seems likely that a significant percentage of these target-people will _not_ be using a MIDI input device to make their music, let alone a guitar, a suspicion upheld by apple's inclusion of over 2,000 prerecorded loops. that's a SHITLOAD of someone else's work going into macboy's bragging.
bitterness aside, the point of this comment is that apple is marketing GarageBand as a "way to unleash your inner Mozart", and offering "instant fame" via iTunes, to which GarageBand is intimiately tied.
as a musician, and a resident of nyc, i see two things wrong with this. first, and most pernicious, is the furthering of the idea that someone who arranges someone else's loops is a "musician" or "composer" at all in the first place (they're not, they're an "arranger"). how many folks who would otherwise have legitimately learned to play a keyboard or guitar will say "fuck it, i'll never make music that sounds as good as john mayer's loops" and never attempt music again? this is a piece of software which promotes the mindset which is going to eventually destroy music.
second is the boost to these rich boys' egos that they could not possibly need LESS, given the fact that their lives are status-oriented enough to spend their trust fund money on a 2 grand apple to begin with. what does this have to do with my being from nyc? well, if you were here and could see the despicable iPod cult of hipsters, you would understand. just _picturing_ one of those williamsburg loft-living, $300 vintage clothing-wearing, $400 antique schwinn-riding jerkoffs saying to their friend "listen to the new track i made" is enough to cause my rectum to shoot out through my anus and strangle me.
the only joy greater than agitating a nerd to the point where he provides you with "research" (aka links 2 and 3 from a google search), is causing him to do so when you're not even being serious:)
It's not that breast feeding is perceived as "perverted" per se; Americans are just loathe to witness a baby suckling, and in so doing realize that our foreplay methods betray us as being sexually attracted to our moms.
The term "case modder" implies that you have some artistic vision to take something boring and through hard work and craftsmanship you modify it to make something unique.
Just about every single user-modded case I have ever seen has been the same absurdly tasteless conglomeration of 20 ugly fans and tube lights, the same UV reactive motherboard and IDE cables, tacky black or silver plastic frame with plexiglass window, with fan-control knobs and dials and laughable temperature displays... and some game logo fan grill or alien-approval case badge.
The artsy fartsy, psuedo-nouveau WHR I can imagine being shown on CN, but Wolf's Rain? This is a top-notch show, but has mention been made that this is basically an anime about very pretty boys basically adoring each other and bonding in a not-altogether-nonsexual way?
Is it possible to craft a dub that leans away from the limp-pawed, disaffected bishoujo-style angsty dialogue and still maintain the essential character of this show? It really _is_ about sexily-dressed guys bonding, I don't know how well that will go over with, well, anyone...
On a positive note, the fabulous opening sequence could be kept intact, being that it's all English (thanks to Sting-wannabe doofus Steve Conte).
If you are browsing for information, then Flash is indeed positively aggravating.
If you are checking out a graphic artist's site, or an audio producer's site, or any other business or individual concerned with content creation of any kind, then good Flash makes a site sticky, and can and does go a long way towards getting the deal signed.
Flash has its place.
one that will supplant science fiction in content, but not in perspective.
Having just returned from an utterly serious debate on whether or not humanity will be extinct within 100 years, I'm convinced that even though we may have stepped over a significant boundary as far as technology is concerned, other questions about the future will emerge.
Whereas before, the question was "what type of robots will there be", the new question will be "now what?" We have a weird, weird future ahead of us (well, those of us who aren't dying from AIDS), and imaginations will soar again, just not about stupid goddamn robots anymore.
I can appreciate that the prevailing mode of slashdotters, especially when it comes to piracy, is one of legality and reason (or so they would like to seem). Really though, is a FAQ for anime piracy _truly_ relevant?
The reasons that piracy exists in anime is because a) most anime fans do not speak japanese (although they do certainly try, don't they) and therefore require the intermediary of fansubbing (illegal), and b) obtaining imported products, especially soundtracks, are _prohibitively_ expensive. This isn't like "go to Tower and pick up the CD for 15 bucks"... these things run 30 and 40 dollars for the real mccoy.
And as others have no doubt already said (or are about to say), this is not a situation where the market conditions are changing per se, as is the case domestically with CD sales; rather, this is a case of a market expanding in a way ultimately beneficial to both consumers and producers.
There hasn't been a single case of a Japanese company cracking down on this in the US, at least that I'm aware, so really in all honesty, this FAQ comes off like that one kid in class who reminds the teacher that she forgot to give homework. So you bought a pirated CD by mistake. What are you going to do now, send it back? Or perhaps write a FAQ about it?
Seems to be the best way to get huge scores is to have him bash against the windshield and rattle around in there.
Let's learn from this and eliminate windshields from cars... at least people won't rattle around inside their cars until they die, and can enjoy the true freedom of flying before landing on a fire hydrant.
Buying bespoke garments may be a viable option for you well-off titular servants with your lucrative, stable civil service jobs, but 90 bucks a smock for us glass-sorters and bacon-miners means that at least 7 of the 12 kids don't get their cabbage water.
I'm still looking for some nice rags. Does Brooks Brothers make rags? I prefer either soot-soiled or tattered...
After looking at this and all other articles pertaining to MIT generating massive amounts of ingenuity and vigilant social intelligence such as this bizarre device, my question is: how many more years will pass until MIT's home-grown nerd-mercenaries release their top-secret 9 Android Devils of Cambridge on the earth, therein enslaving man in a gruesome and enlightening web of technology, power and fashion emergencies?
It's worth considering the corollaries of this concept in other realms of society; in business, as the incorporation of many companies under the umbrella of a single larger corporation, or in politics as the diminution of state power and increase in central governmental control. These are ideas which cause distress to many of the same people who would support the automation and conglomeration of one's home electronics.
And think of what the remote control did to components: they removed controls from the actual unit, giving all power to a single unreliable piece of battery-operated equipment that is easily misplaced or crushed (if sat on by a fat man). Would the system this article talks about cause the eventual removal of even more controls from components?
Personally I won't buy anything that doesn't have every single major function on the remote available on the main box.
I've played X-Plane several times on my roommate's computer (he's a flight sim freak), and I've come to the conclusion that it is an amazing simulation of flight, but a very poor simulation of fun.
For real flight sim fun with accurate physics models, might I recommend Starfox for SNES?
Do hackers even care any more about creating something useful or ingenious?
Because more and more, it seems like this has all become a race to see who can do the most useless thing with the most obsolete item, and spend the most amount of time and money doing so.
And then brag to the internet about how their wives left them because of the project.
From this number, would I be wrong in assuming that there are many people besides spammers themselves who have no problem at all with spam remaining legislation-free?
I had no idea anti-spam was such a lucrative business, and I suspect many others hadn't either.
Sony was successful in pulling the console market out from under nintendo; why have they basically left nintendo free to dominate the hand-held market? One would have to imagine sony could put out a rad product, perhaps using memory stick for game dl'ing instead of proprietary cartridges.
The problem is not just that voice-overs are done by drunk canadians... it's also physically difficult to fit a thoughtfully-delivered english line into the same space as the equivalent japanese line, which is often one 4-syllable word which means the same thing.
it's not at all artsy fartsy groaning. I'm very aware that not all anime will fly in this country. To use your examples, Grave of the Fireflies is powerful (in a heavy-handed, drill-the-point-home-with-a-dremel kind of way), and Azumanga is indeed genius. But the former is just a ridiculously depressing war story, and the latter is a show all about girls concerning themselves with things other than boys for once. Neither makes sense on american tv, though both are great.
And yes, as an otaku i do prefer sequential anime, but that's because i can watch shows on my own schedule. it's not a broadcast model suitable for US cable right now, though. until networks like CN are ready to make a real commitment to marketing these shows as a sequential event (like a mini-series is publicized), continuous story arcs don't make sense. I'd much rather see something like Doraemon, Ranma, Tonde Buurin or any syndicated-style show that doesn't rely so much on sex or violence (which CN edits out anyway!)
And when will we get Ninja Scroll shown already? Talk about drawing in an audience for anime, there is no better film to show. Has the upcoming TV series been picked up yet?
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds me of the time a couple months ago that I upgraded my heatsink, and for whatever reason absentmindedly left my old copper block on my toaster oven. Weeks later I noticed the toaster was not working quite as well as it used to, and I realized the heatsink was to blame!
Then I realized that the toaster was just fucked up and that I was just an idiot.
And that's not a flame?
Can you name more than say, zero of the existing audio looping software out there right now? Maybe one?
Well guess what, everyone and their mothers will know about GarageBand once every kid with a mac starts using it. Thanks to the amazing marketing of Apple, it will become FAR more mainstream than any of the existing tools like acid or fruityloops.
It will be cheap, and it will be ubiquitous.
And yes, all those other programs heralded as bringing real music production down a peg actually _did_ accomplish that. The fact that folks like you already have no problem acknowledging musicians who can't do anything but drag-n-drop another musician's loops and call it their own, is proof that it has already happened.
There is also a huge difference between little console music makers like mario paint, where you actually have to "create", and something like garageband which allows you to "borrow" and "pretend".
Finally, yes, I do continue to believe that in order to be a composer, you need to actually write the notes. If that's elitist, so be it.
flamebait?? the proliferation of loop-based music is a disturbing phenomenon with deleterious effects on the music industry, and apple happens to be fanning the flames, not me.
how is calling attention to an alarming trend flamebait?
with all the bustling fervor over the new mini iJiblet and its transparent pricing ploy, it seems we've forgotten to scorn GarageBand properly.
i don't have the numbers, but i would have to imagine that apple's target audience is largely a mass of rich boys generally untrained in music (and no, being able to play "More Than Words" on your brother's guitar does not make you "trained). all of apple's pro audio people are already deeply entrenched in Logic, for which purpose Apple ate emagic already. it seems likely that a significant percentage of these target-people will _not_ be using a MIDI input device to make their music, let alone a guitar, a suspicion upheld by apple's inclusion of over 2,000 prerecorded loops. that's a SHITLOAD of someone else's work going into macboy's bragging.
bitterness aside, the point of this comment is that apple is marketing GarageBand as a "way to unleash your inner Mozart", and offering "instant fame" via iTunes, to which GarageBand is intimiately tied.
as a musician, and a resident of nyc, i see two things wrong with this. first, and most pernicious, is the furthering of the idea that someone who arranges someone else's loops is a "musician" or "composer" at all in the first place (they're not, they're an "arranger"). how many folks who would otherwise have legitimately learned to play a keyboard or guitar will say "fuck it, i'll never make music that sounds as good as john mayer's loops" and never attempt music again? this is a piece of software which promotes the mindset which is going to eventually destroy music.
second is the boost to these rich boys' egos that they could not possibly need LESS, given the fact that their lives are status-oriented enough to spend their trust fund money on a 2 grand apple to begin with. what does this have to do with my being from nyc? well, if you were here and could see the despicable iPod cult of hipsters, you would understand. just _picturing_ one of those williamsburg loft-living, $300 vintage clothing-wearing, $400 antique schwinn-riding jerkoffs saying to their friend "listen to the new track i made" is enough to cause my rectum to shoot out through my anus and strangle me.
the only joy greater than agitating a nerd to the point where he provides you with "research" (aka links 2 and 3 from a google search), is causing him to do so when you're not even being serious
Will it be iNugget? iNiblet? Or perhaps more accurately for those too poor to afford the 20gb version, iPov?
It's not that breast feeding is perceived as "perverted" per se; Americans are just loathe to witness a baby suckling, and in so doing realize that our foreplay methods betray us as being sexually attracted to our moms.
The term "case modder" implies that you have some artistic vision to take something boring and through hard work and craftsmanship you modify it to make something unique.
... and some game logo fan grill or alien-approval case badge.
Just about every single user-modded case I have ever seen has been the same absurdly tasteless conglomeration of 20 ugly fans and tube lights, the same UV reactive motherboard and IDE cables, tacky black or silver plastic frame with plexiglass window, with fan-control knobs and dials and laughable temperature displays
And this is "artistic" and "unique"?
The artsy fartsy, psuedo-nouveau WHR I can imagine being shown on CN, but Wolf's Rain? This is a top-notch show, but has mention been made that this is basically an anime about very pretty boys basically adoring each other and bonding in a not-altogether-nonsexual way?
Is it possible to craft a dub that leans away from the limp-pawed, disaffected bishoujo-style angsty dialogue and still maintain the essential character of this show? It really _is_ about sexily-dressed guys bonding, I don't know how well that will go over with, well, anyone...
On a positive note, the fabulous opening sequence could be kept intact, being that it's all English (thanks to Sting-wannabe doofus Steve Conte).
If you are browsing for information, then Flash is indeed positively aggravating. If you are checking out a graphic artist's site, or an audio producer's site, or any other business or individual concerned with content creation of any kind, then good Flash makes a site sticky, and can and does go a long way towards getting the deal signed. Flash has its place.
actually i was just making sure you guys were awake.
Since all my KaZaA downloads end at about 4% anyway, will my payment be reduced 94%?
one that will supplant science fiction in content, but not in perspective.
Having just returned from an utterly serious debate on whether or not humanity will be extinct within 100 years, I'm convinced that even though we may have stepped over a significant boundary as far as technology is concerned, other questions about the future will emerge.
Whereas before, the question was "what type of robots will there be", the new question will be "now what?" We have a weird, weird future ahead of us (well, those of us who aren't dying from AIDS), and imaginations will soar again, just not about stupid goddamn robots anymore.
I can appreciate that the prevailing mode of slashdotters, especially when it comes to piracy, is one of legality and reason (or so they would like to seem). Really though, is a FAQ for anime piracy _truly_ relevant?
... these things run 30 and 40 dollars for the real mccoy.
The reasons that piracy exists in anime is because a) most anime fans do not speak japanese (although they do certainly try, don't they) and therefore require the intermediary of fansubbing (illegal), and b) obtaining imported products, especially soundtracks, are _prohibitively_ expensive. This isn't like "go to Tower and pick up the CD for 15 bucks"
And as others have no doubt already said (or are about to say), this is not a situation where the market conditions are changing per se, as is the case domestically with CD sales; rather, this is a case of a market expanding in a way ultimately beneficial to both consumers and producers.
There hasn't been a single case of a Japanese company cracking down on this in the US, at least that I'm aware, so really in all honesty, this FAQ comes off like that one kid in class who reminds the teacher that she forgot to give homework. So you bought a pirated CD by mistake. What are you going to do now, send it back? Or perhaps write a FAQ about it?
Seems to be the best way to get huge scores is to have him bash against the windshield and rattle around in there.
... at least people won't rattle around inside their cars until they die, and can enjoy the true freedom of flying before landing on a fire hydrant.
Let's learn from this and eliminate windshields from cars
Buying bespoke garments may be a viable option for you well-off titular servants with your lucrative, stable civil service jobs, but 90 bucks a smock for us glass-sorters and bacon-miners means that at least 7 of the 12 kids don't get their cabbage water.
I'm still looking for some nice rags. Does Brooks Brothers make rags? I prefer either soot-soiled or tattered...
After looking at this and all other articles pertaining to MIT generating massive amounts of ingenuity and vigilant social intelligence such as this bizarre device, my question is: how many more years will pass until MIT's home-grown nerd-mercenaries release their top-secret 9 Android Devils of Cambridge on the earth, therein enslaving man in a gruesome and enlightening web of technology, power and fashion emergencies?
This is right on the ball.
It's worth considering the corollaries of this concept in other realms of society; in business, as the incorporation of many companies under the umbrella of a single larger corporation, or in politics as the diminution of state power and increase in central governmental control. These are ideas which cause distress to many of the same people who would support the automation and conglomeration of one's home electronics.
And think of what the remote control did to components: they removed controls from the actual unit, giving all power to a single unreliable piece of battery-operated equipment that is easily misplaced or crushed (if sat on by a fat man). Would the system this article talks about cause the eventual removal of even more controls from components?
Personally I won't buy anything that doesn't have every single major function on the remote available on the main box.
I've played X-Plane several times on my roommate's computer (he's a flight sim freak), and I've come to the conclusion that it is an amazing simulation of flight, but a very poor simulation of fun.
For real flight sim fun with accurate physics models, might I recommend Starfox for SNES?
If irritating yuppie culture were sugar, this apple-VW synergy would give me tons upon tons of diabetes.
Do hackers even care any more about creating something useful or ingenious?
Because more and more, it seems like this has all become a race to see who can do the most useless thing with the most obsolete item, and spend the most amount of time and money doing so.
And then brag to the internet about how their wives left them because of the project.
From this number, would I be wrong in assuming that there are many people besides spammers themselves who have no problem at all with spam remaining legislation-free? I had no idea anti-spam was such a lucrative business, and I suspect many others hadn't either.
Sony was successful in pulling the console market out from under nintendo; why have they basically left nintendo free to dominate the hand-held market? One would have to imagine sony could put out a rad product, perhaps using memory stick for game dl'ing instead of proprietary cartridges.
The problem is not just that voice-overs are done by drunk canadians ... it's also physically difficult to fit a thoughtfully-delivered english line into the same space as the equivalent japanese line, which is often one 4-syllable word which means the same thing.
it's not at all artsy fartsy groaning. I'm very aware that not all anime will fly in this country. To use your examples, Grave of the Fireflies is powerful (in a heavy-handed, drill-the-point-home-with-a-dremel kind of way), and Azumanga is indeed genius. But the former is just a ridiculously depressing war story, and the latter is a show all about girls concerning themselves with things other than boys for once. Neither makes sense on american tv, though both are great.
And yes, as an otaku i do prefer sequential anime, but that's because i can watch shows on my own schedule. it's not a broadcast model suitable for US cable right now, though. until networks like CN are ready to make a real commitment to marketing these shows as a sequential event (like a mini-series is publicized), continuous story arcs don't make sense. I'd much rather see something like Doraemon, Ranma, Tonde Buurin or any syndicated-style show that doesn't rely so much on sex or violence (which CN edits out anyway!)
And when will we get Ninja Scroll shown already? Talk about drawing in an audience for anime, there is no better film to show. Has the upcoming TV series been picked up yet?