I've been very dubious about Bluetooth - but recently I've started to see the point.
Infrared transfers are just not an option, due to poor connection reliability, and I still haven't seen any phones with WiFi capability.
A friend of mine also has a bluetooth handsfree thing in his car, and it's a definite winner. He can leave his phone in his bag, and as long as it's inside the car he can make and receive calls over the speakers / in-car-mic.
Wireless transfer of data might not excite the masses, but this kind of real life advantage does - anyone who's had to manically search for a ringing phone in their car will see the benefit.
Whether or not there are slaves / slave children still alive is not the issue - it's whether companies and governments are still benefitting from their part in the slavery.
I think it's safe to say that neither the Pharoahs of Egypt nor the Roman Empire are currently benefitting from their part in the slave trade.
On the other hand, a lot of the 'old money' in the US comes from families that used slave labour to build their fortunes.
If Jimmy T. Oldmoney III is rich because his great-great-grandfather used your descendants as farm machinery, and your family has been poor every since, I would think you have a right to financial redress.
It'd be nice if an untrained person could proceed through the following dialog
Exactly how untrained? I have a CompSci degree and I don't understand that first debug message. I had to google SEGABRT ("did you mean SIGABRT?"). Sure, I'm not a *nix head but it goes to show that a dialogue of the kind you gave still assumes a great deal of system knowledge.
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I think Ultima IV is a very good example of religion / spirituality in a game.
In order to progress in a game, you had to show moral fibre in your actions (ie no thieving or running away from enemies), then meditate at a shrine and answer various questions about the virtue that you were trying to improve. The answers to the questions (along with the location of the shrine etc) could be picked up from talking to NPCs.
I LOVED this game - the moral code that was imposed on your character only made the game FEEL that much more important and real.
And you got an Ankh and a cloth map in the box. *sigh*
The short answer is, people are still paying money for that product. It's right that for a certain period a recording should generate money for the artist, as long as people out there are buying it.
But that doesn't excuse this kind of greed -
As we all know, the record industry is in a bad state right now. New music is being supported less than it ever has been, mainly because the industry majors are structured to make their money from albums recorded decades ago.
If they have to look for new music to make their money from, then maybe they might have start developing bands and finding real talent again! Either that or sell even MORE Britney albums...
I managed to miss out the Where clause on a SQL Update before, changing every single customer in our 25,000 strong database so that they apparently lived in my house.
Oops.
At my girlfriend's gym, they have a couple of exercise bikes that are linked together like those racing games with Link Play.
Along with the obvious racing games, they have a load of fairly abstract 'collect the stars' games; you control your direction with a pad built into the handles, but you have to pedal to control your speed - so if you're playing against a competitive friend you end up pedalling like mad to zip your sprite around and pick up all the things before the other guy does.
Carillon make PC's that are designed to sit in the same room as you record in, so they have to have very quiet components, and little or no vibration noise.
I got very confused when I saw the writing credits for "Put It Where You Want It" by the Average White Band - it was listed (IIRC) as Stuart, Gorrie, Sample.
I couldn't work out how they would have used a sampler back when they recorded it, and why was the credit just listed as 'Sample'..?
It turns out the wrote the song with the keyboard player from The Crusaders - Mr. Joe Sample...
Sliders and touchscreens are nice, but the mark of a good keyboard is how it SOUNDS.
I've seen plenty of Workstation keyboards like the Korg Triton set up in studios, and in every case they were being used just like normal keyboards - the sequencing functionality was completely unused.
The plain fact is that a view screen that points upwards and forces you to lean over every time you even look at it is an ergonomic nightmare.
Excuse my total lack of knowledge on this subject, but is it possible the broadcasts would rebound of celestial bodies in some way - similar to a radar or sonar echo?
If so, would it be possible to record the rebounded signal and use that??
It's static free, there's plenty of content - some of it ad-free - but it's still a local service, with stations like The Groove playing locally on DAB and streaming over the web.
There's no subscription fee, and portable DAB players now available for around 100. Also, the BBC is committed to the new system, with a bunch of new stations only available digitally.
Sigh. No, America does not contain 1000 times more people than the UK.
It's not a case of being unable to count votes manually, but since the US has switched to electronic counting, it's unlikely to move back (no matter how much better the system works).
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ah, so that's what the F in RTFA stands for...
I've been very dubious about Bluetooth - but recently I've started to see the point.
Infrared transfers are just not an option, due to poor connection reliability, and I still haven't seen any phones with WiFi capability.
A friend of mine also has a bluetooth handsfree thing in his car, and it's a definite winner. He can leave his phone in his bag, and as long as it's inside the car he can make and receive calls over the speakers / in-car-mic.
Wireless transfer of data might not excite the masses, but this kind of real life advantage does - anyone who's had to manically search for a ringing phone in their car will see the benefit.
Whether or not there are slaves / slave children still alive is not the issue - it's whether companies and governments are still benefitting from their part in the slavery.
I think it's safe to say that neither the Pharoahs of Egypt nor the Roman Empire are currently benefitting from their part in the slave trade.
On the other hand, a lot of the 'old money' in the US comes from families that used slave labour to build their fortunes.
If Jimmy T. Oldmoney III is rich because his great-great-grandfather used your descendants as farm machinery, and your family has been poor every since, I would think you have a right to financial redress.
But not as shocking as this
It'd be nice if an untrained person could proceed through the following dialog
Exactly how untrained? I have a CompSci degree and I don't understand that first debug message. I had to google SEGABRT ("did you mean SIGABRT?").
Sure, I'm not a *nix head but it goes to show that a dialogue of the kind you gave still assumes a great deal of system knowledge.
I think Ultima IV is a very good example of religion / spirituality in a game.
In order to progress in a game, you had to show moral fibre in your actions (ie no thieving or running away from enemies), then meditate at a shrine and answer various questions about the virtue that you were trying to improve. The answers to the questions (along with the location of the shrine etc) could be picked up from talking to NPCs.
I LOVED this game - the moral code that was imposed on your character only made the game FEEL that much more important and real.
And you got an Ankh and a cloth map in the box. *sigh*
No - this analogy doesn't work.
These are new customers, buying new copies of the product. At this point it's not possible to make copies of houses...
The short answer is, people are still paying money for that product. It's right that for a certain period a recording should generate money for the artist, as long as people out there are buying it.
But that doesn't excuse this kind of greed -
As we all know, the record industry is in a bad state right now. New music is being supported less than it ever has been, mainly because the industry majors are structured to make their money from albums recorded decades ago.
If they have to look for new music to make their money from, then maybe they might have start developing bands and finding real talent again! Either that or sell even MORE Britney albums...
I managed to miss out the Where clause on a SQL Update before, changing every single customer in our 25,000 strong database so that they apparently lived in my house. Oops.
Huh? What about Bez?
At my girlfriend's gym, they have a couple of exercise bikes that are linked together like those racing games with Link Play.
Along with the obvious racing games, they have a load of fairly abstract 'collect the stars' games; you control your direction with a pad built into the handles, but you have to pedal to control your speed - so if you're playing against a competitive friend you end up pedalling like mad to zip your sprite around and pick up all the things before the other guy does.
Now THAT's a good idea!
You live in Selly Oak and you're eating pizza?? :-)
Man, you've got the best Balti places on the planet outside your house...
Not mine.
Carillon make PC's that are designed to sit in the same room as you record in, so they have to have very quiet components, and little or no vibration noise.
Teacher: Who first came up with the concept of reproduction without sex?
Matthew Broderick: Uh, your wife?
I got very confused when I saw the writing credits for "Put It Where You Want It" by the Average White Band - it was listed (IIRC) as Stuart, Gorrie, Sample.
I couldn't work out how they would have used a sampler back when they recorded it, and why was the credit just listed as 'Sample'..?
It turns out the wrote the song with the keyboard player from The Crusaders - Mr. Joe Sample...
...where you can get beaten by smug pre-pubescent punks in the comfort of your own home!
Erm - sorry, but I believe that link refers to the infamous Monkey Man of Tunbridge Wells.
:-)
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No, it's a prank from B3ta.
Yes, but my point still stands -
You have to lean over it to use it, pretty much guaranteeing you back- or neck-ache!
If it's a PC in a nice grey box you want, get a Carillon (for a lot less than $8,000 I might add).
Sliders and touchscreens are nice, but the mark of a good keyboard is how it SOUNDS.
I've seen plenty of Workstation keyboards like the Korg Triton set up in studios, and in every case they were being used just like normal keyboards - the sequencing functionality was completely unused.
The plain fact is that a view screen that points upwards and forces you to lean over every time you even look at it is an ergonomic nightmare.
Excuse my total lack of knowledge on this subject, but is it possible the broadcasts would rebound of celestial bodies in some way - similar to a radar or sonar echo?
If so, would it be possible to record the rebounded signal and use that??
Over here we have a different setup emerging - DAB Digital Radio .
It's static free, there's plenty of content - some of it ad-free - but it's still a local service, with stations like The Groove playing locally on DAB and streaming over the web.
There's no subscription fee, and portable DAB players now available for around 100. Also, the BBC is committed to the new system, with a bunch of new stations only available digitally.
Sigh. No, America does not contain 1000 times more people than the UK. It's not a case of being unable to count votes manually, but since the US has switched to electronic counting, it's unlikely to move back (no matter how much better the system works).