I see all these threads about how this is a cheap attempt to cash in on the latest Japanese fad in America.
These people are failing to take into account that there is a HUGE asian MMORPG market. Far larger than anything we have here in America. So it would seem they are merely making an attempt to cater to that market with little R&D costs on their side, and if they pick up the Japan fans in America, so much the better.
"2) In order to sell enough copies of the game so that you reach the critical mass of players in order to be profitable, you have to have a boxed game on a store shelf. To completely abandon retail would be suicide. In order to have a store willing to carry a game on a shelf, you can't also be giving the game away for free on the internet."
Funny, last I checked, A Tale in the Desert was doing just fine.
How this got modded up +4 interesting is beyond me.
Its not a bet against him in a foot race, or in a singing contest. Its a battle of the mind, and frankly, he is one of the smarter people in the world, so this would be indeed quite a story to pass on to the grandchildren.
You know, for how much Slashdot seems to love Google, I propose they follow in Googles footsteps in terms of advertisers.
I think they should have a special section at the top of the page where the top three stories are the sponsored stories that always seem to filter in with the rest, but that we inevitably catch.
This story was nothing more than a press release, and Blinkx has practically zero chance of being a threat to google, especially with the way it generates ad revenue (read some of the other posts here to find out how).
Ok, you don't like the majority of a type of music, that doesn't mean its bad music, it just means you have varying tastes.
There is unfortunately no overarching label for those types of music, and I tend to lump them all under the term Electronic Music because that is the broadest category they all fit into.
As to the people who make this music, they can indeed be musicians who create their own loops, but most are considered just producers. DJs don't create the music, they mix it. As to the songs being called tracks, or *shudders as well* choons, that is simply scene jargon, and they are in fact songs as well.
See, I'd like to get rid of my old harddrive and the computer with it. However, the harddrive has many damaged sectors, and I can no longer boot the computer up.
It has sensitive data on it, so I won't get rid of it until I can fix that problem. I have no problem physically destroying the harddrive, but I'm not sure what the best/cheapest way to do it would be.
You seem to have completely missed what I was saying.
There is an actual genre called Rave Music, which is much of that pop crap, and some of the really bad stuff that sounds similar to trance, house, etc.
It is its own separate genre, and sees almost zero playtime at real underground raves.
You are free to consider the genre whatever you want, but you will be wrong on a lot of accounts.
The good stuff, which any good DJ will spin, is not so formulaic as to be offputting, and if it is very formulaic, the skills of the DJ are even more important because they can mix it into something better.
I am well aware of how vast the electronic music world is, but I wanted to correct your misguided notion of what is actually played at raves since you really do seem clueless.
My point was that you were associating the "rave music" genre with actual raves, when in fact there is almost no music from the "rave music" genre that is actually played at them. That genre is totally separate, although related, to house, trance, hardcore, etc.
I was not trying to sound 1337, I was trying to separate the real music from the cheesy pop crud that people incorrectly associate with the real rave scene.
I don't dress like that, but I feel anybody is free to dance in whatever way makes them happy.
And to further show your lack of knowledge of what a real rave is like, there is in fact not nearly as much drug use at raves as you imply. And it is very easy to enjoy the music at a party with good DJs without drugs. You were making a decent attempt at a discussion with me, but blew it by adding that drug bit.
I remember at camp we played with this old laser tag system that was simply the best I've ever used, and never seen anything close to it in stores since, but I've forgotten the name.
They were green guns, that you held with two hands. There were switches to have a wide, but short beam, or a narrow, but long beam. You could also set to single shot, semi auto, or auto I believe. There was an ammo counter as well, and if you slapped the bottom of the grip, it reloaded. The target was either the gun, or a sensor attached to a headband.
It was easily the coolest setup I've ever used, very effective, and didn't look completely dorky, definitely for college age kids, and it had awesome range.
Does anybody have any idea what the name of the system is, and where I might still be able to find one?
And hardly any "rave music" is actually played at real underground raves. The DJs have better taste than that and are playing some of the best sounding house, jungle, trance, breaks, DnB, techno, or w/e tracks out there.
"Rave music" is a mislabeled genre that seeks to catch on to the popularity of the rave scene, but is in fact complete shit that you usually only hear in cheesy clubs that cater to teeny boppers who have no real clue what the rave scene is really like. Sad really.
You've obviously never been to a real rave based on this statement.
It really pisses me off that the cheesy crap that gets labeled as "rave music" would force the DJ to be laughed off the decks if he ever spun it at a REAL rave.
I was in the scene for years, and I found that real raves had FAR better tunes than most clubs who sometimes play "rave music" to sell tickets.
Real underground DJs are on top of the bleeding edge of electronic music, and for you to associate them with this crap is an insult to them and any real raver out there.
Its interesting, I'm a big geek, yet I don't have a cellphone, and only borrow my brothers when necessary. I hate using phones of any sort because its simply more convenient for me to IM someone.
Of course, this is when I have a computer handy, and I'm not saying cellphones aren't useful for the road. But even then, I find it more convenient to text someone. Why? Simply because, when using text, via computer or cell, it doesn't require your immediate attention. When I'm on a computer, I can alt-tab and focus on other things, like webpages, games, pr0n, etc. With txtmessaging on cells, you can do the same thing, leave the msg in your inbox and view it later. Of course, there are times and places where audio data is better than visual data, but I still find I have a preference for texts.
And I'm not saying this because I have an aversion to people, I simply prefer to use text via IMs or cellphones or face to face, I hate the phone.
"I've noticed that many human operators don't seem to know how to answer with a warm greeting, ask for information, put people on hold correctly, or bridge a call to the right person."
Perhaps they have different phone customs in India?
"Whenever I see the make money fast schemes on television or on the internet, my first question is always, "What do they need me for?" Schemes that actually make money sell themselves. All I know initially is that rather than invest money into the scheme itself they are spending it recruiting new people. Does this sound fishy?"
Bingo. My dad told me this when I was very little and I've always followed it since then.
If their scheme is so great, why don't they do it instead of trying to sell me this material? Even more importantly, if this scheme is so great, why are they trying to bring more people into it and create competition for themselves?
Unfortunately, many jokes don't translate to the internet well because of the tone of voice often times needed to convey sarcasm.
If his joke was obviously a joke when spoken because of the tone of voice, it is completely appropriate for him to inform us so that we can read his post with a different "voice" in our head.
That, and there are some really anal mods around here who mod first and ask questions later.
"AFAIK my digital camera is NOT spying on me and my family because I didn't run adaware on it (!)"
Ok, I agree he was jumping the gun with the whole camera on clothing thing, but then I thought about it, and realized why that might not be so farfetched. Just hear me out.
So, in the near future, wireless internet because ubiquitous. You can walk anywhere and be connected.
Cellphone cameras have undergone HUGE innovation enabling more powerful cameras to be made smaller and smaller.
The next step with cellphones is of course to shrink their form factor, and already we are seeing moves to merge the cellphone with clothing.
Well, the camera is now part of the clothing.
As a handy dandy tool, some people might want to turn their cellphone clothing into 24/7 camcorders to record their lives, but since they won't have the HD space on their clothing to store it, they have to transfer it via the web to a home server.
BAM. There's your cellphone digicam that you have to run adaware on once someone makes some spyware for them for the first time.
Now, of course this is HIGHLY unlikely, but it was kind of fun to extrapolate.
Not to mention the fact that until all computers are created equally, there will be performance issues when using certain machines that are dated or underpowered.
It would be like if I owned a Skyline and then borrowed my friends Kia expecting it to behave the same way.
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These people are failing to take into account that there is a HUGE asian MMORPG market. Far larger than anything we have here in America. So it would seem they are merely making an attempt to cater to that market with little R&D costs on their side, and if they pick up the Japan fans in America, so much the better.
Funny, last I checked, A Tale in the Desert was doing just fine.
Isn't it usually right about now that the Autopr0n guy shows up to plug his site?
Its not a bet against him in a foot race, or in a singing contest. Its a battle of the mind, and frankly, he is one of the smarter people in the world, so this would be indeed quite a story to pass on to the grandchildren.
I think they should have a special section at the top of the page where the top three stories are the sponsored stories that always seem to filter in with the rest, but that we inevitably catch.
This story was nothing more than a press release, and Blinkx has practically zero chance of being a threat to google, especially with the way it generates ad revenue (read some of the other posts here to find out how).
There is unfortunately no overarching label for those types of music, and I tend to lump them all under the term Electronic Music because that is the broadest category they all fit into.
As to the people who make this music, they can indeed be musicians who create their own loops, but most are considered just producers. DJs don't create the music, they mix it. As to the songs being called tracks, or *shudders as well* choons, that is simply scene jargon, and they are in fact songs as well.
Because the PR people wouldn't get paid if they wrote a NEGATIVE press release.
It has sensitive data on it, so I won't get rid of it until I can fix that problem. I have no problem physically destroying the harddrive, but I'm not sure what the best/cheapest way to do it would be.
There is an actual genre called Rave Music, which is much of that pop crap, and some of the really bad stuff that sounds similar to trance, house, etc.
It is its own separate genre, and sees almost zero playtime at real underground raves.
You are free to consider the genre whatever you want, but you will be wrong on a lot of accounts.
The good stuff, which any good DJ will spin, is not so formulaic as to be offputting, and if it is very formulaic, the skills of the DJ are even more important because they can mix it into something better.
I am well aware of how vast the electronic music world is, but I wanted to correct your misguided notion of what is actually played at raves since you really do seem clueless.
I was not trying to sound 1337, I was trying to separate the real music from the cheesy pop crud that people incorrectly associate with the real rave scene.
I don't dress like that, but I feel anybody is free to dance in whatever way makes them happy.
And to further show your lack of knowledge of what a real rave is like, there is in fact not nearly as much drug use at raves as you imply. And it is very easy to enjoy the music at a party with good DJs without drugs. You were making a decent attempt at a discussion with me, but blew it by adding that drug bit.
Could they have possibly picked a more random animal for that example?
And won't someone please think of the turtles?!?!?!?!?!
They were green guns, that you held with two hands. There were switches to have a wide, but short beam, or a narrow, but long beam. You could also set to single shot, semi auto, or auto I believe. There was an ammo counter as well, and if you slapped the bottom of the grip, it reloaded. The target was either the gun, or a sensor attached to a headband.
It was easily the coolest setup I've ever used, very effective, and didn't look completely dorky, definitely for college age kids, and it had awesome range.
Does anybody have any idea what the name of the system is, and where I might still be able to find one?
And hardly any "rave music" is actually played at real underground raves. The DJs have better taste than that and are playing some of the best sounding house, jungle, trance, breaks, DnB, techno, or w/e tracks out there.
"Rave music" is a mislabeled genre that seeks to catch on to the popularity of the rave scene, but is in fact complete shit that you usually only hear in cheesy clubs that cater to teeny boppers who have no real clue what the rave scene is really like. Sad really.
You've obviously never been to a real rave based on this statement.
It really pisses me off that the cheesy crap that gets labeled as "rave music" would force the DJ to be laughed off the decks if he ever spun it at a REAL rave.
I was in the scene for years, and I found that real raves had FAR better tunes than most clubs who sometimes play "rave music" to sell tickets.
Real underground DJs are on top of the bleeding edge of electronic music, and for you to associate them with this crap is an insult to them and any real raver out there.
It is a game that is just made up of tons of minigames, most of them very interesting.
Something like this could add a whole new element of control to it.
The first thing that popped into my head was an Operation type mini game where you have to pick bones out of a body.
Yes, unless they thought it would damage their standing with the record labels who's acceptance they require to make ITMS successful.
Ah the irony....
Of course, this is when I have a computer handy, and I'm not saying cellphones aren't useful for the road. But even then, I find it more convenient to text someone. Why? Simply because, when using text, via computer or cell, it doesn't require your immediate attention. When I'm on a computer, I can alt-tab and focus on other things, like webpages, games, pr0n, etc. With txtmessaging on cells, you can do the same thing, leave the msg in your inbox and view it later. Of course, there are times and places where audio data is better than visual data, but I still find I have a preference for texts.
And I'm not saying this because I have an aversion to people, I simply prefer to use text via IMs or cellphones or face to face, I hate the phone.
Perhaps they have different phone customs in India?
Technoligcal Darwinism.
Bingo. My dad told me this when I was very little and I've always followed it since then.
If their scheme is so great, why don't they do it instead of trying to sell me this material? Even more importantly, if this scheme is so great, why are they trying to bring more people into it and create competition for themselves?
Unfortunately, many jokes don't translate to the internet well because of the tone of voice often times needed to convey sarcasm.
If his joke was obviously a joke when spoken because of the tone of voice, it is completely appropriate for him to inform us so that we can read his post with a different "voice" in our head.
That, and there are some really anal mods around here who mod first and ask questions later.
Ok, I agree he was jumping the gun with the whole camera on clothing thing, but then I thought about it, and realized why that might not be so farfetched. Just hear me out.
So, in the near future, wireless internet because ubiquitous. You can walk anywhere and be connected.
Cellphone cameras have undergone HUGE innovation enabling more powerful cameras to be made smaller and smaller.
The next step with cellphones is of course to shrink their form factor, and already we are seeing moves to merge the cellphone with clothing.
Well, the camera is now part of the clothing.
As a handy dandy tool, some people might want to turn their cellphone clothing into 24/7 camcorders to record their lives, but since they won't have the HD space on their clothing to store it, they have to transfer it via the web to a home server.
BAM. There's your cellphone digicam that you have to run adaware on once someone makes some spyware for them for the first time.
Now, of course this is HIGHLY unlikely, but it was kind of fun to extrapolate.
It would be like if I owned a Skyline and then borrowed my friends Kia expecting it to behave the same way.