Sheet music can convey timing, and to a lesser extent nuance, a major advantage over other tabulature forms. While I am not gifted with the ability ( I can't even read sheet ) I have met individuals who can translate the notes on the stave into "mental sound" for want of a better phrase. I believe this is considered the upper epsilon of sight-reading ability.
You may be interested to know that before the blossoming of broadcast and recorded performances, sheet music was the primary form of dissemination for musical compositions ( well, buh ) - but that people would often learn a piece from sheet without ever hearing it played.
You'd need to make a distinction between additional content patches though - otherwise there's even less incentive for aftermarket content such as enjoyed by Crimson Skies, KoToR, etc etc. And if you make that distinction and exempt additonal content patches from fees, I can bet someone is going to try and sneak bugfixes in mixed with some crummy additional feature.
There's even an article on doing this in the "home science" or whatever it's called section of Scientific American sometime in 1961. 1961, folks! Even back then they knew not to do it with something you couldn't afford to drop.
Even Australia had their own X-Men style superhero team - the Southern Squadron, who in Australias owns style tended to be a bit rough around the edges [*]. They were created by David de Vries. This became a quite polished title with it's own sense of identity over time.
I think this brand of localisation is nothing new - and I can't wait to see what comes out of it. Hopefully not a Spiderman Clones saga.
YLFI
* I don't think I've ever seen another comic where a lead comments to another "Besides, who looks at the mantlepiece while you're stoking the fire?" with regards to a prospective date.
I think if you have a look at their homepage you'll see that the PHM is indeed holding some of their stuff. But even the Powerhouse has finite storage space. Even the University of Technology, Sydney, just around the corner from the PHM probably wouldn't be able to stow them - the CompSci faculty recently moved into new and luxurious buildings, but they lack in terms of warehousing capacity or open space to place a free standing exhibit.
Prescient though - a rich hand to hand combat system focusing on individual engagement with small numbers of enemies seems to yield great satisfaction for the player when implemented properly, for example Ninja Gaiden, Shenmue series ( originally Virtua Fighter RPG ) and the upcoming Jade Empire.
I wish NG's developers had just included a straight out deathmatch multiplayer mode. Would have been a scream. Romero! Make us a big multiplayer hand to hand game in the style of Battlefield: 1042 or something.
I agree, to a point. In this house we have OSX boxes ( another game impoverished platform... ) as well as an Xbox, a Gamecube, a PS1, a Dreamcast, an N64, a SNES and an NES, as well as a GBA or two depending on who is home. And they're great fun.
The remaining problem can be eloquently summed up in one word - Counterstrike ( and don't suggest the XBox version, I need keys and mouse ). Sadly, to totally rewrite Herbert, he who controls the Counterstrike controls the multiplayer gaming world.
Ah, but is it better than the Red Sector International demo creator?!
My friend and I used to love playing with this back when I was a kiddie on his Amiga 500. Unfortunately, he used some funny hack to switch his df0: and df1: assignments, as his df0: was dodgy, and one day we ended up overwriting the beginning of the disk with one of our demos.
I'm generally told that anything smaller than a football is unsound. However, if one of my little books on Japanese culture is not leading me down the garden path (... ) apparently the Japanese are known to clean their own ears ( and those of particular intimates ) with small specially designed slivers of wood or plastic.
Maybe they're a bit more confident / and or sure handed than us ham fisted westeners. Can anyone confirm?
Also, nobody trusts the UN because outside of the security council, it's just become a vehicle for US-bashing, and synonymous with ineffectual military pseudo-actions.
Dude, that's a bit sharp. What about UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, etc etc?
If people really want to use it on an ipod, why dont they just get it off iTMS? If youre using an ipod, you are a lot more likely to use music mostly in a digital format.
This will come as a shock, but they sell iPods in countries that don't have iTMS's.
I own two copy protected CD's, both Australian acts, and both ( I think ) signed to EMI. The other night, while buying the second one ( The Cat Empire ), I asked the guys behind the counter about the protection scheme. They considerately riffled through all their copies on file to see if they had a non managed printing I could have for the same price, and when they couldn't find one, said I could bring back the CD if it didn't work with any of my equipment.
So, they're not all dickheads. Both CD's ripped fine in iTunes and play fine on my iPod, incidently... So I'm beginning to wonder if there's really any protection on the disks at all. Maybe this is a case of "the emperors new copy protection".
Skimming the article, this just seems to be polygon aggregation on the model ( not HSR, which is certainly not what grandparent was implying anyway ). It's certainly not a method for compressing the stored mesh, it's just discarding arguably redundant detail.
Desbrun explains that his accomplishment was to simplify such a mesh, by combining as many of the little triangles as possible into larger elements without compromising the actual shape. Nearly flat regions are efficiently represented by one large, flat mesh element while curved regions require more mesh elements.
( My emphasis ). I was pretty sure this was nothing new, although I'm sure a general case algorithm, let alone a fast and accurate general case would be novel. But I was writing polygon aggregation code for my undergraduate computer graphics subjects ( much simpler meshes though ), and I would expect anyone with any CSG education to not confuse the subject matter with an actual storage optimisation.
Cmon, how is it not making you cooler! It's the only console that "goes with your Pumps and your Peralta power deck"! I still have a working Gen 1 Lynx somewhere too.
I think his point is that with big antennas like many war*ers use, you might be able to hear the bssid packets coming out of the hotspot, but unless the person following the map has the same tooled up rig ( and the average laptop wifi user doesn't use much in the way of antennas ), it's going to look like dead air, or at best a horribly unstable link, to them.
This is common sense, again - when you're testing something, test the actual real-world version, not some turbo boosted research version that nobody following you will be able to use.
I know this is offtopic, but you have to be fucking kidding me. This stuff is a biological contamination timebomb waiting to go off. You're basically making a giant tea / sugar / fungus culture, and then drinking the stuff that comes out the bottom.
Now I know Slashdotters aren't always the brightest of people, but surely you see why this isn't a good idea. Here's an
FDA bulletin about contamination risks, a CDC article on possible related illness resulting in death - possibly a result of lactic acidosis brought on by this extremely acid drink. Finally, from my faithful companion the Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin, another report including such delights as rashes, fever, rigors, nausea, vomiting, impaired liver function, elevated white cell count and hepatitis.
I still don't get why people are installing Ape + PA to counter the handlers problem when the obvious solution is to point the handlers to non-dangerous objects using something like RCDefault.app. Why not just write a set of good, non vulnerable rules once, and then be done with it?
I have a device like this, except mine spins the LED bank in a circle, using a mechanism very similar to a football rattle. The only problem is, because the angle you can sweep through is quite limited ( even less so when you've got to wave your frickin' arm around instead of just spinning it on an axel ), so is the length of the message you can display.
And thank god for that. The method for programming messages into mine involved entering letters using something like binary representation, and it was a total pain in the arse. I think I programmed it to say "COCKS" at the last party I took it to, but five minutes after someone else started playing with it, it would only say "4J.XWR:"
Anyway, it's a cute idea, but I certainly wouldn't shell out big money for it on a phone when they can be had for A$20 or so from rave/party supply shops.
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Sheet music can convey timing, and to a lesser extent nuance, a major advantage over other tabulature forms. While I am not gifted with the ability ( I can't even read sheet ) I have met individuals who can translate the notes on the stave into "mental sound" for want of a better phrase. I believe this is considered the upper epsilon of sight-reading ability.
You may be interested to know that before the blossoming of broadcast and recorded performances, sheet music was the primary form of dissemination for musical compositions ( well, buh ) - but that people would often learn a piece from sheet without ever hearing it played.
YLFI,appallingly bad bass & guitar player
You'd need to make a distinction between additional content patches though - otherwise there's even less incentive for aftermarket content such as enjoyed by Crimson Skies, KoToR, etc etc. And if you make that distinction and exempt additonal content patches from fees, I can bet someone is going to try and sneak bugfixes in mixed with some crummy additional feature.
YLFIThere's even an article on doing this in the "home science" or whatever it's called section of Scientific American sometime in 1961. 1961, folks! Even back then they knew not to do it with something you couldn't afford to drop.
YLFIEven Australia had their own X-Men style superhero team - the Southern Squadron, who in Australias owns style tended to be a bit rough around the edges [*]. They were created by David de Vries. This became a quite polished title with it's own sense of identity over time.
I think this brand of localisation is nothing new - and I can't wait to see what comes out of it. Hopefully not a Spiderman Clones saga.
YLFI* I don't think I've ever seen another comic where a lead comments to another "Besides, who looks at the mantlepiece while you're stoking the fire?" with regards to a prospective date.
I think if you have a look at their homepage you'll see that the PHM is indeed holding some of their stuff. But even the Powerhouse has finite storage space. Even the University of Technology, Sydney, just around the corner from the PHM probably wouldn't be able to stow them - the CompSci faculty recently moved into new and luxurious buildings, but they lack in terms of warehousing capacity or open space to place a free standing exhibit.
YLFIPrescient though - a rich hand to hand combat system focusing on individual engagement with small numbers of enemies seems to yield great satisfaction for the player when implemented properly, for example Ninja Gaiden, Shenmue series ( originally Virtua Fighter RPG ) and the upcoming Jade Empire.
I wish NG's developers had just included a straight out deathmatch multiplayer mode. Would have been a scream. Romero! Make us a big multiplayer hand to hand game in the style of Battlefield: 1042 or something.
I agree, to a point. In this house we have OSX boxes ( another game impoverished platform... ) as well as an Xbox, a Gamecube, a PS1, a Dreamcast, an N64, a SNES and an NES, as well as a GBA or two depending on who is home. And they're great fun.
The remaining problem can be eloquently summed up in one word - Counterstrike ( and don't suggest the XBox version, I need keys and mouse ). Sadly, to totally rewrite Herbert, he who controls the Counterstrike controls the multiplayer gaming world.
Ah, but is it better than the Red Sector International demo creator?!
My friend and I used to love playing with this back when I was a kiddie on his Amiga 500. Unfortunately, he used some funny hack to switch his df0: and df1: assignments, as his df0: was dodgy, and one day we ended up overwriting the beginning of the disk with one of our demos.
Oh the humanity!
I'm generally told that anything smaller than a football is unsound. However, if one of my little books on Japanese culture is not leading me down the garden path ( ... ) apparently the Japanese are known to clean their own ears ( and those of particular intimates ) with small specially designed slivers of wood or plastic.
Maybe they're a bit more confident / and or sure handed than us ham fisted westeners. Can anyone confirm?
Dude, that's a bit sharp. What about UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, etc etc?
YLFIArrgh! I passed on picking 3 & 4 of these up because they got panned in the reviews I read. Is this another Eastern tastes / Western tastes thing?
YLFIJumping Jesus, this coming from someone with a Calvin & Hobbes quote in their signature. Oh the delicious ironing!
Strange, the first time I read your message I assumed "Nievy Ynivtar" must be some kind of worldbeat artist.
YLFIThis will come as a shock, but they sell iPods in countries that don't have iTMS's.
YLFII own two copy protected CD's, both Australian acts, and both ( I think ) signed to EMI. The other night, while buying the second one ( The Cat Empire ), I asked the guys behind the counter about the protection scheme. They considerately riffled through all their copies on file to see if they had a non managed printing I could have for the same price, and when they couldn't find one, said I could bring back the CD if it didn't work with any of my equipment.
So, they're not all dickheads. Both CD's ripped fine in iTunes and play fine on my iPod, incidently... So I'm beginning to wonder if there's really any protection on the disks at all. Maybe this is a case of "the emperors new copy protection".
Skimming the article, this just seems to be polygon aggregation on the model ( not HSR, which is certainly not what grandparent was implying anyway ). It's certainly not a method for compressing the stored mesh, it's just discarding arguably redundant detail.
Desbrun explains that his accomplishment was to simplify such a mesh, by combining as many of the little triangles as possible into larger elements without compromising the actual shape. Nearly flat regions are efficiently represented by one large, flat mesh element while curved regions require more mesh elements.
( My emphasis ). I was pretty sure this was nothing new, although I'm sure a general case algorithm, let alone a fast and accurate general case would be novel. But I was writing polygon aggregation code for my undergraduate computer graphics subjects ( much simpler meshes though ), and I would expect anyone with any CSG education to not confuse the subject matter with an actual storage optimisation.
Cmon, how is it not making you cooler! It's the only console that "goes with your Pumps and your Peralta power deck"! I still have a working Gen 1 Lynx somewhere too.
I have no idea what KNewsTicker looks like, but if it's like it sounds, I think there's a Konfabulator widget that might do what you want.
I think his point is that with big antennas like many war*ers use, you might be able to hear the bssid packets coming out of the hotspot, but unless the person following the map has the same tooled up rig ( and the average laptop wifi user doesn't use much in the way of antennas ), it's going to look like dead air, or at best a horribly unstable link, to them.
This is common sense, again - when you're testing something, test the actual real-world version, not some turbo boosted research version that nobody following you will be able to use.
I know this is offtopic, but you have to be fucking kidding me. This stuff is a biological contamination timebomb waiting to go off. You're basically making a giant tea / sugar / fungus culture, and then drinking the stuff that comes out the bottom.
Now I know Slashdotters aren't always the brightest of people, but surely you see why this isn't a good idea. Here's an FDA bulletin about contamination risks, a CDC article on possible related illness resulting in death - possibly a result of lactic acidosis brought on by this extremely acid drink. Finally, from my faithful companion the Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin, another report including such delights as rashes, fever, rigors, nausea, vomiting, impaired liver function, elevated white cell count and hepatitis.
Please don't try this at home.
The Ghost of Usenet Past strikes again!
I think he's trying to say "The lawyers are not the men who will be blamed for nothing."
Not really. All that stuff sounds suspiciously like "dayjob". But PHP spawning a window via an encoded dll for OpenGL? Now that's entertainment.
I still don't get why people are installing Ape + PA to counter the handlers problem when the obvious solution is to point the handlers to non-dangerous objects using something like RCDefault.app. Why not just write a set of good, non vulnerable rules once, and then be done with it?
I have a device like this, except mine spins the LED bank in a circle, using a mechanism very similar to a football rattle. The only problem is, because the angle you can sweep through is quite limited ( even less so when you've got to wave your frickin' arm around instead of just spinning it on an axel ), so is the length of the message you can display.
And thank god for that. The method for programming messages into mine involved entering letters using something like binary representation, and it was a total pain in the arse. I think I programmed it to say "COCKS" at the last party I took it to, but five minutes after someone else started playing with it, it would only say "4J.XWR:"
Anyway, it's a cute idea, but I certainly wouldn't shell out big money for it on a phone when they can be had for A$20 or so from rave/party supply shops.
YLFI