It was a myth made by people who felt hurt by the outsourcing, it was just a convenient reply. The dialogue would go like this:
"They're outsourcing all the programming jobs to India! I can't get a decent job anymore."
'That's oh-so-holy free trade for you.'
"It's not! They keep their currency artificially low so we can't compete."
'Then, why don't you move to India?'
"I would, but they don't like foreigners there, and it's almost impossible to emigrate and get one of those jobs because they keep them to their own people."
Please note, this is a generalization. But that was a fine paraphrase of at least one back and forth I've seen and very similar to many more. I myth to allow, *ahem*, outsourcing of blame, but also to keep faith in some concept of free trade.
George Bush Senior, made the term "New World Order" famous, remember. He would, surreally, frequently refer to "building a New World Order". All those neo-con, Straussian-types have that sort of bizarre teleological goal. They stopped using that phrase, I guess, cause of the negative connotation it built up from the "conspiranoids". But it is still a real thing, wether the signifiers have changed or not.
This makes me think of the democratic nominees in 1992. There was 6 major ones(over ~1% support), but the media didn't report one, Larry Agron(sp?); his platform was that the defense budget should be cut in half(holy shit that's a lot of money) and be put into education(you'd have the fucking smartest people ever; well, assuming you spent right). At one point I think he was even in 3rd?(maybe 4th) place in some polls. But the press was just like "we don't cover people who don't have a certain level coverage; you're just not a serious contender".
The point is, the candidates are, for a large part(totally?), controlled. And there's basically no way anyone who goes against what the dominant culture wants, will get represented, so, elected.
To the bourgeois ruling class, it's all just a game now. They're just trying to see how ridiculous they can make things. I'm sure they're suprised themselves.
"Okay, we'll even name this one the Matrix."
"There's no way that'll work man! They had the movie and everything!"
"We already had Operation: Iraqi Freedom and the Patriot Act go through, you'll see."
(1 year later...)
"Holy shit! They didn't even protest once! Amazing."
I swear to god guys, there will be a security project called "Big Brother" or something similarly bizarre in the near future. The guys in charge have just grown bored of having endless money and material goods, and they've moved to something more exciting for them: seeing how tightly they can squeeze the litte folk.
Yeah, I was chilling with Ted Turner last night, we were smoking some dope and talking about how corporations suck and discussing Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Didn't Happen". That guy really hates the big multi-nationals(you should have heard the things that came out of his mouth about Wal-mart). And he agreed with Mr. Baudrillard: I guess that's why CNN was really critical, and never hyped the Gulf War or anything.
I agree. Fun is important. And it may, or may not, be solely what makes a game good, but it's obviously not what makes games sold and used solely. Unlike, a chocolate cake, a game can be "enjoyed" over and over again. They're not selling very many copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 anymore, despite the fact that it was, and still is, fun. Actually, they sell so few, that Nintendo doesn't even sell it anymore. They sell new games as "replacements" for the old games. These new games may be fun, but, are they anymore, purely, fun than games of past? This is doubtful, no doubt.
Then why do people still buy, and enjoy, new games, if there are already thousands of extremely purely fun games out? There's obviously more to games then just pure gameplay fun. New stories, new graphics and who knows what else, also effect what games people get and use.
So yes, perhaps if you define "good" as "pure fun", then, tautologically, you're right, "fun = good game", but if you consider what people buy and use in the definition of fun, then there must be more to it than "pure fun".
I discussed this a tad with some people. We concluded that all you "need"(like how it was used earlier; no other parameters), if anything, is "to exist". As you existing is a requirement for you to be, so, to need. Kind of Betrand Russell like, I suppose. Actually, I should read him more, he probably says something exactly like it.
Yeah, it's a shielding problem. Most likely in the speaker case itself, so getting different cables, probably won't do it, but you can try. You can try getting some shielding paint and painting the inside of the speakers, if you can easily access the insides that is. Most PC speakers are just plastic cheapos really, that's the problem.
Depends what you mean by silent. Percieved or not? 0dB is supposed to be the threshold of hearing for humans. So, effectively silent yes. But a "sound" of 0dB can still technically be a sound, I suppose.
Okay, I wrote before to a previous poster about having a family. This of course didn't apply to taking care of your family as well. I said "you can live on $11, 000 comfortablly". YOU can. This would of course be different if you have to pay for 2 other people as well. I'm sure anyone could read that in. You must admit, a single person can live comfortable in plenty of places in the states for $11g. Don't have kids, it's not that hard. If you've already had kids, that was your choice, and you have to figure out how to pay for them. I hated that aspect of my parents when i was growing up, they were always worrying about bills and they would always complain that we kids took too much money. No kids, no worry. If you've chosen to have kids, then you've taken the choice to worry about keeping a $30,000 income.
You're probably be right, I thought maybe if you get an annual bus pass it's pretty cheap. But even if it's $500, that doesn't really hurt my point.
Yeah, I agree, it would be different if you have a family, of course. My post was obviously referring to a single person. "Once you have a kid": won't ever happen for me, that's for sure. My suggestion would be to not have kids, then your priorties don't have to change. If you already have kids, this would of course not be for you. If one chooses to have kids(please don't use "i didn't choose, it just happened"), then that's their choice, but then it's also their choice to live worrying overtly about things like income.
Welcome to the post-modern, where everything has become ironically excess.
Also...
What are people talking about they can't live comfortably in the US with $11000 a year? TIP: quit buying new clothes(that they make to look old anyway) and eating at fast food places. $500 a month to rent a room: $6000. $200 a month to eat(quite well mind you): $2400. $50 a month for very good internet: $600. $20 a month for phone service: $240. $50 a year for bus service: $50. $6000 + $2400 + $600 + $240 + $50 = $9290. With the ~$1800 leftover go buy yourself a guitar, some art-damaged clothes from a thrift store, some Deleuze and Guatarri, some Baudrillard, and go fight the oppresion in the best way possible: with true art.
Volume a large factor of course, but it's extremely complex. All sorts of things like high-frequency "presence" and attack speeds, etc. all affect where your brain places sounds in the spatial field. You can get "surround sound" effects with regular stereo headphones and regular stereo recordings too. A lot of ambient artists try to play with creating surround sound in stereo. And of course, any good engineer will talk about where things go in "the field", and they are referring to more than simple panning.
That's my campus. Half of everything is owned by Coke. Walk around campus, you'll read "Coca-Cola" more than anything else. You can't buy juice on campus, anywhere, without supporting them. I tried setting up a "Don't support coke." lemonade stand, and I was strong-armed off.
Guys, It's -34 degress celsius outside right now. I have poor circulation(it's actually a major problem for playing guitar, cause I have to warm my hands up a lot to get going). I also have to walk everywhere(or take the bus when available, actually). Do you know what I do? I put on some regular, big, warm mittens. And guess what? Every is alright then!!! Jesus christ. If people ever buy a product like this, ever, I'm going to start selling shit-on-a-stick. Cause, I'll know for certain that people will buy anything.
Yeah, like Rolling Stone magazine can really communicate any relation to subversion of dominant culture. This guy is far from a true subversive. Call me when he starts talking about "hypertelia" and he means it.
Well, if I'm a fresh high school graduate choosing my future University I may just pass right over that one where half the students got busted for file-sharing.
Not really good for business to have students sued for an activity that is, really, quite popular among that demographic.
Even in completely not-related games like the ever great Subspace Trench Wars; the equivalent of "campers" in TW, are even worse. Stupid leviathans that hide in the safe zones off to the sides and sneak out just to lob blasts across the screen towards where everyone is. They purposely pick a frequency so no one else is on their team, so they can kill as much as they can. They get their kill ratio to like 1000 to 0, and just slow the game down for everyone else.
Just another example of the "people flaw" you talk about.
It's much better to get a laptop and an MIDI controller. The point of integrating the two is silly, IMO. I could destroy that thing with my setup no problem, and it's MUCH cheaper. I can put whatever program on, and yes, it can run Linux! The only thing it wins in is portability, and even that is questionable. I'd rather carry around my laptop and a nice small light controller than that.
This is good as like any other powerful keyboard. It's good for lame session players doing lame comping, IMO; and who can't be assed to learn about all the various softsynths that are available and to get them to work.
As someone mentioned before about studios and universities. I would serverly frown on any music institution that took this over a good computer and a controller.
As I mentioned(with the "he was addicted to playing bass" thing), that last point applies to more than just drugs.
I think you can easily realize that an opiate addict's primary concern is not with getting "hired" as you mention, so I still don't see how it's bad. They don't care as much about getting hired, so if it injures their chances of getting hired they don't care as much. Not everyone's addiction is their job and money. (note: the guy I knew held done his job finely, he just lived in a shitty apartment, had no car and had no major appliances, but does he care? No, he's too "voided"-out to).
No, they shouldn't I've known at least one opiate addict. Perfectly fine and nice person. He would ask "what's so bad about addiction?"
The dangers he would say lied in dirty needles with regards to injection of opiates. He knew of no ill-effects, apart from the supposed "addiction", but he just didn't believe addiction was bad. I personally don't know of any substantiated ill-effects of opium either, so...
I'm not Republican(not from the States) and not "conservative" by any measure either.
On a side note: I had another friend who once told me: "addiction is how people become great at things." (he was addicted to playing bass). I'll never forget that.
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Why can't that "greater need", be something other than national protection, or an external God?
Don't you think that your theory is at least somewhat naively empirical?
It was a myth made by people who felt hurt by the outsourcing, it was just a convenient reply. The dialogue would go like this:
"They're outsourcing all the programming jobs to India! I can't get a decent job anymore."
'That's oh-so-holy free trade for you.'
"It's not! They keep their currency artificially low so we can't compete."
'Then, why don't you move to India?'
"I would, but they don't like foreigners there, and it's almost impossible to emigrate and get one of those jobs because they keep them to their own people."
Please note, this is a generalization. But that was a fine paraphrase of at least one back and forth I've seen and very similar to many more. I myth to allow, *ahem*, outsourcing of blame, but also to keep faith in some concept of free trade.
George Bush Senior, made the term "New World Order" famous, remember. He would, surreally, frequently refer to "building a New World Order". All those neo-con, Straussian-types have that sort of bizarre teleological goal. They stopped using that phrase, I guess, cause of the negative connotation it built up from the "conspiranoids". But it is still a real thing, wether the signifiers have changed or not.
This makes me think of the democratic nominees in 1992. There was 6 major ones(over ~1% support), but the media didn't report one, Larry Agron(sp?); his platform was that the defense budget should be cut in half(holy shit that's a lot of money) and be put into education(you'd have the fucking smartest people ever; well, assuming you spent right). At one point I think he was even in 3rd?(maybe 4th) place in some polls. But the press was just like "we don't cover people who don't have a certain level coverage; you're just not a serious contender".
The point is, the candidates are, for a large part(totally?), controlled. And there's basically no way anyone who goes against what the dominant culture wants, will get represented, so, elected.
To the bourgeois ruling class, it's all just a game now. They're just trying to see how ridiculous they can make things. I'm sure they're suprised themselves.
"Okay, we'll even name this one the Matrix."
"There's no way that'll work man! They had the movie and everything!"
"We already had Operation: Iraqi Freedom and the Patriot Act go through, you'll see."
(1 year later...)
"Holy shit! They didn't even protest once! Amazing."
I swear to god guys, there will be a security project called "Big Brother" or something similarly bizarre in the near future. The guys in charge have just grown bored of having endless money and material goods, and they've moved to something more exciting for them: seeing how tightly they can squeeze the litte folk.
Yeah, I was chilling with Ted Turner last night, we were smoking some dope and talking about how corporations suck and discussing Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Didn't Happen". That guy really hates the big multi-nationals(you should have heard the things that came out of his mouth about Wal-mart). And he agreed with Mr. Baudrillard: I guess that's why CNN was really critical, and never hyped the Gulf War or anything.
I agree. Fun is important. And it may, or may not, be solely what makes a game good, but it's obviously not what makes games sold and used solely. Unlike, a chocolate cake, a game can be "enjoyed" over and over again. They're not selling very many copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 anymore, despite the fact that it was, and still is, fun. Actually, they sell so few, that Nintendo doesn't even sell it anymore. They sell new games as "replacements" for the old games. These new games may be fun, but, are they anymore, purely, fun than games of past? This is doubtful, no doubt.
Then why do people still buy, and enjoy, new games, if there are already thousands of extremely purely fun games out? There's obviously more to games then just pure gameplay fun. New stories, new graphics and who knows what else, also effect what games people get and use.
So yes, perhaps if you define "good" as "pure fun", then, tautologically, you're right, "fun = good game", but if you consider what people buy and use in the definition of fun, then there must be more to it than "pure fun".
I discussed this a tad with some people. We concluded that all you "need"(like how it was used earlier; no other parameters), if anything, is "to exist". As you existing is a requirement for you to be, so, to need. Kind of Betrand Russell like, I suppose. Actually, I should read him more, he probably says something exactly like it.
That's happened to me as well. They just phone up: "you better start downloading less, or we'll cut you off for a week."
They supply no actual numbers, nothing.
Yeah, it's a shielding problem. Most likely in the speaker case itself, so getting different cables, probably won't do it, but you can try. You can try getting some shielding paint and painting the inside of the speakers, if you can easily access the insides that is. Most PC speakers are just plastic cheapos really, that's the problem.
Depends what you mean by silent. Percieved or not? 0dB is supposed to be the threshold of hearing for humans. So, effectively silent yes. But a "sound" of 0dB can still technically be a sound, I suppose.
Okay, I wrote before to a previous poster about having a family. This of course didn't apply to taking care of your family as well. I said "you can live on $11, 000 comfortablly". YOU can. This would of course be different if you have to pay for 2 other people as well. I'm sure anyone could read that in. You must admit, a single person can live comfortable in plenty of places in the states for $11g. Don't have kids, it's not that hard. If you've already had kids, that was your choice, and you have to figure out how to pay for them. I hated that aspect of my parents when i was growing up, they were always worrying about bills and they would always complain that we kids took too much money. No kids, no worry. If you've chosen to have kids, then you've taken the choice to worry about keeping a $30,000 income.
You're probably be right, I thought maybe if you get an annual bus pass it's pretty cheap. But even if it's $500, that doesn't really hurt my point.
Yeah, I agree, it would be different if you have a family, of course. My post was obviously referring to a single person. "Once you have a kid": won't ever happen for me, that's for sure. My suggestion would be to not have kids, then your priorties don't have to change. If you already have kids, this would of course not be for you. If one chooses to have kids(please don't use "i didn't choose, it just happened"), then that's their choice, but then it's also their choice to live worrying overtly about things like income.
Welcome to the post-modern, where everything has become ironically excess.
Also...
What are people talking about they can't live comfortably in the US with $11000 a year? TIP: quit buying new clothes(that they make to look old anyway) and eating at fast food places. $500 a month to rent a room: $6000. $200 a month to eat(quite well mind you): $2400. $50 a month for very good internet: $600. $20 a month for phone service: $240. $50 a year for bus service: $50. $6000 + $2400 + $600 + $240 + $50 = $9290. With the ~$1800 leftover go buy yourself a guitar, some art-damaged clothes from a thrift store, some Deleuze and Guatarri, some Baudrillard, and go fight the oppresion in the best way possible: with true art.
Volume a large factor of course, but it's extremely complex. All sorts of things like high-frequency "presence" and attack speeds, etc. all affect where your brain places sounds in the spatial field. You can get "surround sound" effects with regular stereo headphones and regular stereo recordings too. A lot of ambient artists try to play with creating surround sound in stereo. And of course, any good engineer will talk about where things go in "the field", and they are referring to more than simple panning.
That's my campus. Half of everything is owned by Coke. Walk around campus, you'll read "Coca-Cola" more than anything else. You can't buy juice on campus, anywhere, without supporting them. I tried setting up a "Don't support coke." lemonade stand, and I was strong-armed off.
Guys, It's -34 degress celsius outside right now. I have poor circulation(it's actually a major problem for playing guitar, cause I have to warm my hands up a lot to get going). I also have to walk everywhere(or take the bus when available, actually). Do you know what I do? I put on some regular, big, warm mittens. And guess what? Every is alright then!!! Jesus christ. If people ever buy a product like this, ever, I'm going to start selling shit-on-a-stick. Cause, I'll know for certain that people will buy anything.
Yeah, like Rolling Stone magazine can really communicate any relation to subversion of dominant culture. This guy is far from a true subversive. Call me when he starts talking about "hypertelia" and he means it.
Well, if I'm a fresh high school graduate choosing my future University I may just pass right over that one where half the students got busted for file-sharing.
Not really good for business to have students sued for an activity that is, really, quite popular among that demographic.
Even in completely not-related games like the ever great Subspace Trench Wars; the equivalent of "campers" in TW, are even worse. Stupid leviathans that hide in the safe zones off to the sides and sneak out just to lob blasts across the screen towards where everyone is. They purposely pick a frequency so no one else is on their team, so they can kill as much as they can. They get their kill ratio to like 1000 to 0, and just slow the game down for everyone else.
Just another example of the "people flaw" you talk about.
It's much better to get a laptop and an MIDI controller. The point of integrating the two is silly, IMO. I could destroy that thing with my setup no problem, and it's MUCH cheaper. I can put whatever program on, and yes, it can run Linux! The only thing it wins in is portability, and even that is questionable. I'd rather carry around my laptop and a nice small light controller than that.
This is good as like any other powerful keyboard. It's good for lame session players doing lame comping, IMO; and who can't be assed to learn about all the various softsynths that are available and to get them to work.
As someone mentioned before about studios and universities. I would serverly frown on any music institution that took this over a good computer and a controller.
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As I mentioned(with the "he was addicted to playing bass" thing), that last point applies to more than just drugs. I think you can easily realize that an opiate addict's primary concern is not with getting "hired" as you mention, so I still don't see how it's bad. They don't care as much about getting hired, so if it injures their chances of getting hired they don't care as much. Not everyone's addiction is their job and money. (note: the guy I knew held done his job finely, he just lived in a shitty apartment, had no car and had no major appliances, but does he care? No, he's too "voided"-out to).
No, they shouldn't I've known at least one opiate addict. Perfectly fine and nice person. He would ask "what's so bad about addiction?"
The dangers he would say lied in dirty needles with regards to injection of opiates. He knew of no ill-effects, apart from the supposed "addiction", but he just didn't believe addiction was bad. I personally don't know of any substantiated ill-effects of opium either, so...
I'm not Republican(not from the States) and not "conservative" by any measure either.
On a side note: I had another friend who once told me: "addiction is how people become great at things." (he was addicted to playing bass). I'll never forget that.
Oh god, nevermind, I reread(now that i think about it, I probably skipped right over) the original and it mentions cost-effectiveness.