I agree this guy certainly comes across as a wack job. Anyone who thinks its artisitc to recreate a WWII era germ warfare experiment by shooting (even "harmless") bacteria at gunea pigs off the isle of lewis desreves everything they get in my opinion.
This guy has obviously courted controversy to get exposure for his "art" including breaking the law to obtain bacteria cultures. This should in my opinion be an open and shut case.
People always assume that anything that lasted for that long must be genius but remember the barrier for entry for composing and writing was comparitively much higher during the period these artists worked. These artists from an objective point of view could have such longevity jsut because there are so few extant examples from their time period.
With respect to the reliability I think most businesses want a multi-billion dollar vendoer backing them not because it necesarily means the software is more reliable but rather because they can legitimately expect someone to fix it within a contractually agreed timeframe.
"and this greater thing would be more perfect than God"
A man with a chopstick in his eye is a superset of a man but I wouldnt argue that it is more perfect. Im sure there are numerous other errors but couldnt think of any other amusing counter examples:)
Or more to the point since this property is usually owned by the game publishers anyway there isnt any actual transfer of assets so they have no legal basis for taxation anyway.
Its not just performance really just playing with others is an entirely different dimension of music so much so that I would argue anyone who doesnt isn't a musician of a reasonable standard.
Seriously though I don't understand learning an instrument and not wanting to play in a band / orchestra whatever. Its like learning a language and not wanting to talk to people.
Incidently the restrictions on hand luggage weren't made by your government but by airlines in response to recomendations from the UK police force, MI 5 and the home secretary. Having just broken up a plot early this morning to bring down multiple plains via liquid explosive agents I should hope that you see the rationale behind these measures.
Maybe bayesian filter already do this but I use gmail only so no idea..but this post got me to thinking that you could go further than just spammy and unspammy words and use an n-grams based system to actually try and classify writing style.
The effect would be that anything that sounded like Mark Twain could be recognised as spammy without the individual words themselves becoming indicators.
Dunno how plausible it'd be..wish I'd though of this a year ago and could have done it for my computer linguistics project.
thats the second post about a drumming style game..is there any of this kinda software for the PC..cos I actually have a midi compatible drumkit and it would sure has hell make practicing rudiments less tedious
id like to try those bongo things but seems like quite a spend for a 1 trick device..same with the guitar hero controller thingies.
According to my drummer the donkey kong drumming thingy is pretty fun but trivial if you've got decent rhythmn
Anyone played vib-ribbon on the original playstation btw... that a great laugh and the sountrack you get with it is really freaky and mildly disturbing.
I agree that UT was pretty much the pinnacle of deathmatch gameplay, the updates are pretty good but they still dont feel as manic or brutal as the original somehow.
I think its pretty funny cos normally when people not into games start playing...say a driving games you'll see them physically lean round corners and tilt the game pad and such, or in a platformer you see them mimicing a jumping motion with the controller.
Now the question is making these involuntary actions have actual effects going to help or hinder people. On the one hand you think there is a strong natural urge for people to try to control the game characters in this way. But on the other hand only people who are shit do that, so are they really going to have the resolution of control to utilise an extra dimension or two of control.
It also is guaranteed to make you loook like a retard when your playing it. I remember watching some guy playing a shooting game in an arcade where it tracked you body movement...it was the funniest thing ever!!! But then that still doesnt mean it wont be a success...i mean people love DDR and that makes you look like a retard too.
I really dont get this, i have a mate really into vintage gaming and i just can reconcile the concept in my mind. I mean I loved playing NES/SNES games back in the day but when I come back to play them again theyre utter shite
Its not just the graphics either, the much touted better "gameplay" is usually just a shallower game with less depth and it boosts the ego of people who have been out of the gaming scene who find modern games far too hard. Then theres the nonsensical plots which seem to be derived from poorly translated japanese...i mean some of the dialogue could be incredibly cryptic
You are however right about Nintendos strength being its Intellectual Property, I mean just slap marios face on something and its bound to sell by the bucket load. The SNES and original gameboy really suffered for this with Mario goes shopping, Mario play naughts and crosses (naught means zero for you americans btw), mario poorly translated graphical text adventure, mario hat cleaning..well you get the point. Then they can release them all again with yoshi or wario (man i bet that took hundreds of [possibly dyslexic] man hours to come up with).
Plus at the end of the days nintendo consoles are really for women and little kiddies....Me im going to grow my beard a few inches, drink some beer, eat red meat and play xbox / pc / playstation...possibly in a pickup truck
Im not convinced nintendo really make the gaming experience any better...i thought they were just good a drawing vaguely japanese/anime style cartoon characters.
Seriously though i think its more to do with widely accesible casual titles which dont take hours of time to play that are perfect for multiplayer party style environments...not like lan parties i mean like house parties or something...you know with women and drink and maybe some mario kart on the telly that people can pick up for a few mins.
I dont have any nintendo systems but the xbox has a couple of titles in this category like the 2 burnout games and the tony hawks series.
heh the concept of befriending a movie is quite amusing. It reminds me of a quote from the simpsons.."Instead of writing to movie characters this guy writes to movies..look at this one..'dear die hard you rock'" or something like that
Yeah thats what most people I know use it for as well, my bands myspace gets twice as many hits per month as our registered domain so its a great promotional tool.
Most people use it as a social aid rather than to replace social interaction...but of course for many here they won't be able to see that side of it.
Actually in my experience you can isolate individual sounds, admitedly I use a wave editor like soundforge or cooledit but you can distinctly see gaps in the waveform corresponding to different syllables. This is afterall how early rave scenesters managed to get then british PM Margaret Thatcher to suggest an acid party.
Thats weird coz the only reason I dont use firefow full time is because the load up, UI and page rendering are so slow (this is under windows), oh and the memory leakage "feature". Obv on my linux machines is FF all the time.
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I agree this guy certainly comes across as a wack job. Anyone who thinks its artisitc to recreate a WWII era germ warfare experiment by shooting (even "harmless") bacteria at gunea pigs off the isle of lewis desreves everything they get in my opinion.
This guy has obviously courted controversy to get exposure for his "art" including breaking the law to obtain bacteria cultures. This should in my opinion be an open and shut case.
Or checkout broadband, and you know the year 2007.
But yes i agree flash ads can be plenty obnoxious
So your position is that Courtney Love is a good thing?
People always assume that anything that lasted for that long must be genius but remember the barrier for entry for composing and writing was comparitively much higher during the period these artists worked. These artists from an objective point of view could have such longevity jsut because there are so few extant examples from their time period.
With respect to the reliability I think most businesses want a multi-billion dollar vendoer backing them not because it necesarily means the software is more reliable but rather because they can legitimately expect someone to fix it within a contractually agreed timeframe.
"and this greater thing would be more perfect than God"
:)
A man with a chopstick in his eye is a superset of a man but I wouldnt argue that it is more perfect. Im sure there are numerous other errors but couldnt think of any other amusing counter examples
Or more to the point since this property is usually owned by the game publishers anyway there isnt any actual transfer of assets so they have no legal basis for taxation anyway.
Its not just performance really just playing with others is an entirely different dimension of music so much so that I would argue anyone who doesnt isn't a musician of a reasonable standard.
'cause they're weak.
Seriously though I don't understand learning an instrument and not wanting to play in a band / orchestra whatever. Its like learning a language and not wanting to talk to people.
Incidently the restrictions on hand luggage weren't made by your government but by airlines in response to recomendations from the UK police force, MI 5 and the home secretary. Having just broken up a plot early this morning to bring down multiple plains via liquid explosive agents I should hope that you see the rationale behind these measures.
I take your point but the middle east is hardly the third world
Maybe bayesian filter already do this but I use gmail only so no idea..but this post got me to thinking that you could go further than just spammy and unspammy words and use an n-grams based system to actually try and classify writing style.
The effect would be that anything that sounded like Mark Twain could be recognised as spammy without the individual words themselves becoming indicators.
Dunno how plausible it'd be..wish I'd though of this a year ago and could have done it for my computer linguistics project.
to be fair i actually use IE and what people complain about is that it takes so long for security holes to be fixed
He just told you didnt he. Were you first in line for reading comprehension class?
thats the second post about a drumming style game..is there any of this kinda software for the PC..cos I actually have a midi compatible drumkit and it would sure has hell make practicing rudiments less tedious
id like to try those bongo things but seems like quite a spend for a 1 trick device..same with the guitar hero controller thingies.
According to my drummer the donkey kong drumming thingy is pretty fun but trivial if you've got decent rhythmn
Anyone played vib-ribbon on the original playstation btw... that a great laugh and the sountrack you get with it is really freaky and mildly disturbing.
I agree that UT was pretty much the pinnacle of deathmatch gameplay, the updates are pretty good but they still dont feel as manic or brutal as the original somehow.
I think its pretty funny cos normally when people not into games start playing...say a driving games you'll see them physically lean round corners and tilt the game pad and such, or in a platformer you see them mimicing a jumping motion with the controller.
Now the question is making these involuntary actions have actual effects going to help or hinder people. On the one hand you think there is a strong natural urge for people to try to control the game characters in this way. But on the other hand only people who are shit do that, so are they really going to have the resolution of control to utilise an extra dimension or two of control.
It also is guaranteed to make you loook like a retard when your playing it. I remember watching some guy playing a shooting game in an arcade where it tracked you body movement...it was the funniest thing ever!!! But then that still doesnt mean it wont be a success...i mean people love DDR and that makes you look like a retard too.
I really dont get this, i have a mate really into vintage gaming and i just can reconcile the concept in my mind. I mean I loved playing NES/SNES games back in the day but when I come back to play them again theyre utter shite
..well you get the point. Then they can release them all again with yoshi or wario (man i bet that took hundreds of [possibly dyslexic] man hours to come up with).
...possibly in a pickup truck
Its not just the graphics either, the much touted better "gameplay" is usually just a shallower game with less depth and it boosts the ego of people who have been out of the gaming scene who find modern games far too hard. Then theres the nonsensical plots which seem to be derived from poorly translated japanese...i mean some of the dialogue could be incredibly cryptic
You are however right about Nintendos strength being its Intellectual Property, I mean just slap marios face on something and its bound to sell by the bucket load. The SNES and original gameboy really suffered for this with Mario goes shopping, Mario play naughts and crosses (naught means zero for you americans btw), mario poorly translated graphical text adventure, mario hat cleaning
Plus at the end of the days nintendo consoles are really for women and little kiddies....Me im going to grow my beard a few inches, drink some beer, eat red meat and play xbox / pc / playstation
Im not convinced nintendo really make the gaming experience any better...i thought they were just good a drawing vaguely japanese/anime style cartoon characters.
...you know with women and drink and maybe some mario kart on the telly that people can pick up for a few mins.
Seriously though i think its more to do with widely accesible casual titles which dont take hours of time to play that are perfect for multiplayer party style environments...not like lan parties i mean like house parties or something
I dont have any nintendo systems but the xbox has a couple of titles in this category like the 2 burnout games and the tony hawks series.
heh the concept of befriending a movie is quite amusing. It reminds me of a quote from the simpsons.."Instead of writing to movie characters this guy writes to movies..look at this one..'dear die hard you rock'" or something like that
Yeah thats what most people I know use it for as well, my bands myspace gets twice as many hits per month as our registered domain so its a great promotional tool. Most people use it as a social aid rather than to replace social interaction...but of course for many here they won't be able to see that side of it.
Actually in my experience you can isolate individual sounds, admitedly I use a wave editor like soundforge or cooledit but you can distinctly see gaps in the waveform corresponding to different syllables. This is afterall how early rave scenesters managed to get then british PM Margaret Thatcher to suggest an acid party.
no he was implemented in prolog
Thats weird coz the only reason I dont use firefow full time is because the load up, UI and page rendering are so slow (this is under windows), oh and the memory leakage "feature". Obv on my linux machines is FF all the time.