bad analogy, because bittorrent can be (and is) used for completely legal things, while "drugs" (as you seem to intend in your wording) are always illegal...
with this, I'd like to frankenstein a cheap-ass casio keyboard to be a VST host, remove all the general midi controls and printing on the case, and replace with a knob controller...
damn. why aren't people selling this. (or better yet, selling a DIY kit)... I really hope to see DIY projects like this come on line with these little PCs...
Ok, you know how there are VST software synths, many of which emulate real hardware, and do a great job of it?
ok... merge these ideas... make tiny boxes the size of a TB303 or so, with MIDI knobs and buttons mounted on the top with a tiny PC running only a dedicated VST on the inside...
I imagine you could design a box that would run several different VSTs, selectable from the outside...
Add a 3" LCD screen, and kickass.
ok... someone make this into a DIY project so I can build one. yeah, i'm that lazy.
for example, lots of satellite customers will move to cable to use cablecards with the tivo S3...:) especially now that directv has dropped tivo, the best Tivo set top box now is the TivoS3...
robots only have feelings if we program feelings into them
dogs (and most animals) have feelings because that's how they evolved
that's the way they are, and so we have to work within this paradigm... now... if you want to make robots hurt, go ahead and program them to hurt, so we can kick them and make them feel bad...
so what's more unethical. giving feeling to silicon and metal, or kicking silicon and metal...
>> What matters is what you like to play, and which console will give you that.
what matters is how much profit each company makes.
i.e. if Sony's taking a loss on each overpriced console, they make no money. While Nintendo with last gen tech (Wii's a souped up gamecube) will probably make a large profit...
(speculation of course, I haven't looked at either company's revenue reports)..
Then there's the issue of who's more fun, and who will have a larger installbase... Again, PS3 didn't deliver many units so they probably wont be very profitable to themselves or publishers next year. Which hurts them in many areas... I also heard GTA will be on x360, so that's another reason not to need a PS3...
Wii is a cool, but underpowered machine. which is ok, because devs focus on gameplay, not shiny... Making this console really fun.
PS3 is slower than x360 (GPU specs.) and is way overpriced, and lacks rumble. PS3 has bad games (for now). With graphics that are worse than x360 (when comparing same games). PS3 is cool because of linux, but doesn't really have a game dev SDK for homebrew devs... Sony's controllers are exactly the same as PS2 controllers - BUT - feel cheap and lightweight, and lack rumble. The tacked-on and flimsy USB port looks bad too.
x360 is pretty cool, has a homebrew game SDK (called XNA), and is easy to develop for (relative to the PS3 - which is very difficult to develop for). They actually got the controllers right this time, and out of the 3 I believe are the best dual stick controller (Sony used to have the coolest controllers back when it was PS2 vs XBOX, though I know some people even liked those huge XBOX controllers, weirdos...:)).
sounds like it I'd bet that's why no one has ever heard of this eBay express. I know I haven't.
geez, you'd think they could advertise or something... or... why the hell are they duplicating a feature that eBay already has, and that I already like and use? Of course I'm not going to know about this "express" thing...
it would help if people knew what "eBay express" was... I've never heard of it. no wonder.
I'd totaly shop there. I HATE bidding.... Buy it now rules.
of course, maybe I hadn't heard of "express", since I've been simply using eBay and their Buy It Now buttons... No reason for another site. especially if you haven't heard of it!:)
can't we solve this by narrowing the types of robots we build to those that don't feel? don't add "pain" sensors. or if we do, don't let those sensors create negative emotion in the brain...
just don't create a robot that needs rights, and you'll be fine... keep them simple state machines...
(to entertain this being???) what's the point of existance?
I'm not saying I don't want to exist, I like existing, it's fun... But I don't need some other being for me to justify living, or keep from diving off a cliff...
Ever seen stargate? They're all just false gods anyway...:)
>> A progressive Christian is someone who actually does what the Bible says to do:
the problem with this statement is that the bible says many many things, many which contradict each other.
there's love. sure...
there's also a lot of intolerance (do we hate gays or love them... do we kill nonbelievers or reach out to them..)
just saying your statement, while i get what you're saying, isn't all that solid... you should reword it to "A progressive Christian is someone who does what the good parts of the Bible says to do: "
which of course means picking and choosing and doing the completely arbitrary thing (we can't trust everyone to pick and choose the same thing, cause frankly some of us are nutjobs)...
sounds like you have it figured out (except he used flstudio not scripts). so where's yours?
>> How about we post every video that gets a million hits on "youtube"? Is this geek news? you have a better example of geek news?
it's newsworthy because out of the millions of kids, this kid got in the WSJ... and it's entertaining to watch... and geeky because it's not played like a "real" musician (in real time)... and compared to many music apps, flstudio's pretty geeky (though not the geeky-est, i.e. i'd put buzz, renoise, modplugtracker, as more geeky, cubase, sonar, nuendo, abelton, sibelius as much less nerdy... on the scale of apps fl's stong on the programming side (step sequencers! woo), though in a very intuitive nice way (still has pianorolls and all the other really awesome things the others have - except notation of course)...)
fruity is still pretty cheap for the base version. $100 USD cheap!
then you can add on as you need to (or add on your own external non-fruity VSTs)
fruity's good stuff. very scalable. you can bang out very simple things with minimal mouse clicks. or arrange very complex things. the app scales very very well. which i find to match my own work style and creativity well... (because of this scalability, FL doesn't get in the way of creativity, this is _killer_)
I wont buy the PS3 since it doesnt have rumble now... that combined with lack luster launch titles (ridge racer is the best???). and the high price...
I'd take a Wii any day over the ps3... xbox just did everything right this time. i used to love ps2. but they just screwed up the controller this time.
(from above), that said, rumble as it is today, is a poor (or low res?) method of force feedback.
but... some is better than none.
i.e. in ICO, whack a wall with a stick, and you feel the hit in your controller. now do it without rumble. it feels dead, like swiping through vapor...
some games use rumble incorrectly of course. so make sure you're playing a good representation before you complain or advocate rumble is better left off the ps3.
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1st broken after 2mos, 3 flashing lights of death. error code 0102
2nd one still running for 6mos no signs of failure.
could m$ have gotten the replacements right?
bad analogy, because bittorrent can be (and is) used for completely legal things, while "drugs" (as you seem to intend in your wording) are always illegal...
with this, I'd like to frankenstein a cheap-ass casio keyboard to be a VST host, remove all the general midi controls and printing on the case, and replace with a knob controller...
damn. why aren't people selling this. (or better yet, selling a DIY kit)...
I really hope to see DIY projects like this come on line with these little PCs...
really it's just tuning through statistical means.
tuning == always important
tuning through statistical means == might work, assuming that statistical means yields something fun for the player.
ok, you know how people build MAME cabinets?
Ok, you know how there are VST software synths, many of which emulate real hardware, and do a great job of it?
ok... merge these ideas...
make tiny boxes the size of a TB303 or so, with MIDI knobs and buttons mounted on the top with a tiny PC running only a dedicated VST on the inside...
I imagine you could design a box that would run several different VSTs, selectable from the outside...
Add a 3" LCD screen, and kickass.
ok... someone make this into a DIY project so I can build one. yeah, i'm that lazy.
which by the way, here's the obligitory zero point module link
zero point modules generate power using zero point energy of course.
that's energy from the quantum foam
>> ZPM
no kidding. i was going to post the same thing
warp core.. sheesh, that's so yesterday
for example, lots of satellite customers will move to cable to use cablecards with the tivo S3...
especially now that directv has dropped tivo, the best Tivo set top box now is the TivoS3...
does anyone have example questions?
i'd be curious to see how relevent they are...
robots only have feelings if we program feelings into them
dogs (and most animals) have feelings because that's how they evolved
that's the way they are, and so we have to work within this paradigm...
now... if you want to make robots hurt, go ahead and program them to hurt, so we can kick them and make them feel bad...
so what's more unethical. giving feeling to silicon and metal, or kicking silicon and metal...
>> What matters is what you like to play, and which console will give you that.
what matters is how much profit each company makes.
i.e. if Sony's taking a loss on each overpriced console, they make no money. While Nintendo with last gen tech (Wii's a souped up gamecube) will probably make a large profit...
(speculation of course, I haven't looked at either company's revenue reports)..
Then there's the issue of who's more fun, and who will have a larger installbase... Again, PS3 didn't deliver many units so they probably wont be very profitable to themselves or publishers next year. Which hurts them in many areas... I also heard GTA will be on x360, so that's another reason not to need a PS3...
Wii is a cool, but underpowered machine.
:)).
which is ok, because devs focus on gameplay, not shiny...
Making this console really fun.
PS3 is slower than x360 (GPU specs.) and is way overpriced, and lacks rumble.
PS3 has bad games (for now). With graphics that are worse than x360 (when comparing same games).
PS3 is cool because of linux, but doesn't really have a game dev SDK for homebrew devs...
Sony's controllers are exactly the same as PS2 controllers - BUT - feel cheap and lightweight, and lack rumble. The tacked-on and flimsy USB port looks bad too.
x360 is pretty cool, has a homebrew game SDK (called XNA), and is easy to develop for (relative to the PS3 - which is very difficult to develop for). They actually got the controllers right this time, and out of the 3 I believe are the best dual stick controller (Sony used to have the coolest controllers back when it was PS2 vs XBOX, though I know some people even liked those huge XBOX controllers, weirdos...
except that hard core gamers should not get the PS3, because it's GPU is actually _slower_ than the x360...
and because there's no rumble (i still can't believe sony left this off).
boycott the ps3 until they add rumble back on!
>> is that a duplication of function.
sounds like it
I'd bet that's why no one has ever heard of this eBay express.
I know I haven't.
geez, you'd think they could advertise or something...
or...
why the hell are they duplicating a feature that eBay already has, and that I already like and use?
Of course I'm not going to know about this "express" thing...
They should fire their marketing department. Wow.
it would help if people knew what "eBay express" was...
I've never heard of it. no wonder.
I'd totaly shop there.
I HATE bidding....
Buy it now rules.
of course, maybe I hadn't heard of "express", since I've been simply using eBay and their Buy It Now buttons...
No reason for another site.
especially if you haven't heard of it!
can't we solve this by narrowing the types of robots we build to those that don't feel?
don't add "pain" sensors. or if we do, don't let those sensors create negative emotion in the brain...
just don't create a robot that needs rights, and you'll be fine...
keep them simple state machines...
>> There is purpose in our existence.
:)
which would be... what?
(to entertain this being???)
what's the point of existance?
I'm not saying I don't want to exist, I like existing, it's fun...
But I don't need some other being for me to justify living, or keep from diving off a cliff...
Ever seen stargate? They're all just false gods anyway...
>> A progressive Christian is someone who actually does what the Bible says to do:
the problem with this statement is that the bible says many many things, many which contradict each other.
there's love. sure...
there's also a lot of intolerance (do we hate gays or love them... do we kill nonbelievers or reach out to them..)
just saying your statement, while i get what you're saying, isn't all that solid...
you should reword it to "A progressive Christian is someone who does what the good parts of the Bible says to do: "
which of course means picking and choosing and doing the completely arbitrary thing (we can't trust everyone to pick and choose the same thing, cause frankly some of us are nutjobs)...
i love you.
good post.
sounds like you have it figured out (except he used flstudio not scripts).
so where's yours?
>> How about we post every video that gets a million hits on "youtube"? Is this geek news?
you have a better example of geek news?
it's newsworthy because out of the millions of kids, this kid got in the WSJ... and it's entertaining to watch... and geeky because it's not played like a "real" musician (in real time)... and compared to many music apps, flstudio's pretty geeky (though not the geeky-est, i.e. i'd put buzz, renoise, modplugtracker, as more geeky, cubase, sonar, nuendo, abelton, sibelius as much less nerdy... on the scale of apps fl's stong on the programming side (step sequencers! woo), though in a very intuitive nice way (still has pianorolls and all the other really awesome things the others have - except notation of course)...)
sorry, i ramble.
fruity is still pretty cheap for the base version.
$100 USD cheap!
then you can add on as you need to (or add on your own external non-fruity VSTs)
fruity's good stuff. very scalable.
you can bang out very simple things with minimal mouse clicks.
or
arrange very complex things.
the app scales very very well.
which i find to match my own work style and creativity well...
(because of this scalability, FL doesn't get in the way of creativity, this is _killer_)
I wont buy the PS3 since it doesnt have rumble now...
that combined with lack luster launch titles (ridge racer is the best???).
and the high price...
I'd take a Wii any day over the ps3...
xbox just did everything right this time.
i used to love ps2.
but they just screwed up the controller this time.
has anyone considered that maybe the games industry doesn't need to change, rather, women need to change?
hmmm?
maybe it's not the industry who is broken.
we just need to convince women that "playing unfair" and "violence and crime" is the new designer purse...
(yeah, like this would work...)
theres always the lilypond music...
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
(from above), that said, rumble as it is today, is a poor (or low res?) method of force feedback.
but... some is better than none.
i.e. in ICO, whack a wall with a stick, and you feel the hit in your controller. now do it without rumble. it feels dead, like swiping through vapor...
some games use rumble incorrectly of course. so make sure you're playing a good representation before you complain or advocate rumble is better left off the ps3.