Mostly just posting in AoL "Me Too" mode, to say that all the composers on that list are worth checking out. There's some great stuff that gets made as video game soundtracks, even though the music is very good in it's own right. A few additions:
1) Yasunori Mitsuda did the Xenogears soundtrack a long time before Xenosaga Ep1's. The Xenosaga soundtrack draws a lot from the older Xenogears soundtrack, and I think the arranged version of Xenogears, Creid, is one his best albums. Chrono Cross is also amazing.
2) Not as good on average as the ones you listed, but Motoi Sakuraba (Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean, Tales Of *) has some good stuff too.
3) Remix communities (and it's not all techno) have done some really good stuff with existing soundtracks. Check out OC Remix for a good example. Example of non-techno stuff: Chrono Symphonic.
Microsoft doesn't license PC applications, though (like they do with consoles). They can't stop you from creating and selling a program that runs on Windows. The closest thing they have is the "Games for Windows" marketing campaign / "certification." BF2142 isn't certified in this way, and they don't mandate un-skippable promos anyway (at least not in the publicly disclosed requirements, if you feel like wearing your tinfoil).
I think it's more likely that hardware companies like nVidia, ATi, and Intel pay for those promos in bigger PC games. My point above was that it's just an annoying thing from the console that's creeping into bigger PC games because theres some extra cash to be made.
Then please, explain why Battlefield 2142 (a PC exclusive last time I checked) does this. Or did, until I removed the movies from my hard drive.
The fact is, even if it was originally mandated by console manufacturers, a lot of PC game publishers are starting to do this, too. Hopefully it's not too late to get them to cut it out...
Against someone like this, it might be.
Seriously, do you have any idea how many people don't know how to plug in a desktop computer? Power, Monitor, Monitor power, Mouse, Keyboard. That's a lot of plugs!
I'd actually argue that the Final Fantasy games are even further up the chain then "Sequels" (with the exception of X -> X-2). For sequels, look at something like Halo, or God of War, or (the list could go on).
Just thought I'd point out he was on The Screen Savers when Kevin Rose was the host (in 2004 according to Google). I'm sure he at least exchanged a death-stare with his rival-to-be, since Digg was somewhere between not announced and "started yesterday" at that point. It was founded the same month as the interview according to Wikipedia (so it must be true...).
I know I've been here for about 3-3.5 years, and I still only occasionally see a higher UID posting. I've finally started seeing the rare 1e6 UID post. I'd say new membership has definitely fallen off a little since around (or probably before) I joined.
(Bad form to reply to myself...)
Forgot to mention, for those interested, the tag line is:
"Arege na nyuusu to zatsudan saito"
Which means
"Arege* News and Idle Chat site."
*Arege seems to be something they made up themselves. It's spelled in Katakana (the alphabet used for foreign words, spelled close-to phonetically) and used as an adjective. At first I thought it meant "Aggregate" but some after looking at some sites that popped up in google I don't think that's the case any more. It might be some sort of attempt at translating the "News for Nerds" part of (original) slashdot's tag line.
I think this one was in a story some time ago (or I found it some other way maybe...): http://slashdot.jp/
Even closer to the original then Barrapunto (Color scheme and icons). But no, that pole doesn't have a "kaubooi niiru" option on it, either (Slashdot won't let me post this in Katakana:/)
In my defense I did say that I wouldn't favor a GPS based approach (which was really just a nice way of saying I'd be against it), just that there were certainly problems with "Why not use the odometer?" as the parent of my first post said.
Honestly, I don't see a more reliable way to tax road use (short of making every road a toll road), and most methods run into significant problems in the deployment phase. I think that the "Tax at the pump" system is going to be with us for the foreseeable future.
Well, Odometers aren't 100% reliable. For example, the Odometer on my previous car ('87 BMW 3-series) froze at ~190k miles, and all the mechanics I asked said it would probably take a full replacement of the dash display to fix it (which is not cheap). And then, there's always the problem that it adds even more incentive to rewind the odometer, especially on cars that get a lot of mileage.
Not that I'd be in favor of a GPS based system. I'm just pointing out that there are at least a few good reasons not to want to use the odometer.
In short, the wind moves which moves the flag, and your mind interprets that as movement, but regardless of your mind seeing it or not, the flag still flies.
I believe that's probably the point of the last part of his post:
Wind, flag, mind moves.
The same understanding.
When the mouth opens
All are wrong.
All three of these (wind, mind, and flag) are "moving" in some way. All three are correct descriptions of the phenomenon. However, all three of the descriptions given are wrong. Or at least, they are all incomplete (since each focuses on only one aspect of the scene). It could also be interpreted as meaning that all spoken descriptions are by necessity wrong/incomplete even when an event is fully understood.
Maybe what they mean is that it can't be reprogrammed to the way it was before.
Imagine holding a magnet up to a magnetic storage device. It destroys all the data on the device, and you can't just hold up another magnet on the other side and expect the device to have all the old data on it. You need to have any data you want to put on the device stored somewhere else, and go and get it to put it back on.
It could be that Nissan is using some sort of supposedly write-once chip in these keys. Although that's obviously not entirely true, it might be "ROM enough" that they can't set it back exactly to what it was (only strong signals can affect it). Now, if someone smart is involved in this I-Key thing, they should have a record of all the I-Key signals and the keys themselves are probably pretty cheap. They should at least be able to replace them...
If you're looking for a way to connect external devices to your car, I have one recommendation: Mini-Stereo. The line in port on my car stereo works quite nicely with my iPod, as it would with a) Just about any other mp3 player on the market (I'm not aware of anyone trying to push custom head-phone ports just yet) b) Pretty much any older portable player (Tape, CD, Mini-disc, whatever else you can think of that you can carry in your pocket.. though the stereo has it's own CD player). c) Probably anything portable that will come out in the next few decades (I can't think of any tech, even wireless headphones, that has a chance in hell of replacing standard mini-stereo ports on portable audio devices any time soon).
You can get a cable to connect it (and the same cable obviously works with all those players above) for a couple dollars if you don't already have a few lying around from PC speaker connections like I did, and you can also take the player with you when you get to wherever your going.
Only down side is, I have no idea how common these kinds of connections are. Mine came with the car, and looks to have been a quite nice stereo from around the time those "Mp3 CD Player" things were popular.
if( return_val
{
free(a);
free(b);
free(c);
free(d); // and so on
}
return return_val;
} Seems like this should be a good way to get rid of those redundant free statements.
This way you only need 1 free statement per failed alloc statement. Just add a free to the return_val 0 block for each allocation. Only downside is that you keep allocating after a failure, which might be a problem if you have a hell-of-a-lot of allocations to do and you fail early on. But I'm sure there's a solution to get by that without goto, also.
Then you would be prompted with a dialog box that says:
[Confirm File Delete]
[Recycle bin icon] - Are you sure you want to send "Some Random.File" to the Recycle bin?
[Yes] [No]
The only potential problem with this behavior that I can see is that yes is the default action (as in, Delete->Enter moves to recycle bin), but I prefer it that way personally.
Slashdot Mirror
Mostly just posting in AoL "Me Too" mode, to say that all the composers on that list are worth checking out. There's some great stuff that gets made as video game soundtracks, even though the music is very good in it's own right. A few additions:
1) Yasunori Mitsuda did the Xenogears soundtrack a long time before Xenosaga Ep1's. The Xenosaga soundtrack draws a lot from the older Xenogears soundtrack, and I think the arranged version of Xenogears, Creid, is one his best albums. Chrono Cross is also amazing.
2) Not as good on average as the ones you listed, but Motoi Sakuraba (Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean, Tales Of *) has some good stuff too.
3) Remix communities (and it's not all techno) have done some really good stuff with existing soundtracks. Check out OC Remix for a good example. Example of non-techno stuff: Chrono Symphonic.
Microsoft doesn't license PC applications, though (like they do with consoles). They can't stop you from creating and selling a program that runs on Windows. The closest thing they have is the "Games for Windows" marketing campaign / "certification." BF2142 isn't certified in this way, and they don't mandate un-skippable promos anyway (at least not in the publicly disclosed requirements, if you feel like wearing your tinfoil).
I think it's more likely that hardware companies like nVidia, ATi, and Intel pay for those promos in bigger PC games. My point above was that it's just an annoying thing from the console that's creeping into bigger PC games because theres some extra cash to be made.
Then please, explain why Battlefield 2142 (a PC exclusive last time I checked) does this. Or did, until I removed the movies from my hard drive.
The fact is, even if it was originally mandated by console manufacturers, a lot of PC game publishers are starting to do this, too. Hopefully it's not too late to get them to cut it out...
Against someone like this, it might be. Seriously, do you have any idea how many people don't know how to plug in a desktop computer? Power, Monitor, Monitor power, Mouse, Keyboard. That's a lot of plugs!
I'd actually argue that the Final Fantasy games are even further up the chain then "Sequels" (with the exception of X -> X-2). For sequels, look at something like Halo, or God of War, or (the list could go on).
Because there's no way that someone can simultaneously have money and enjoy music...
Just thought I'd point out he was on The Screen Savers when Kevin Rose was the host (in 2004 according to Google). I'm sure he at least exchanged a death-stare with his rival-to-be, since Digg was somewhere between not announced and "started yesterday" at that point. It was founded the same month as the interview according to Wikipedia (so it must be true...).
I know I've been here for about 3-3.5 years, and I still only occasionally see a higher UID posting. I've finally started seeing the rare 1e6 UID post. I'd say new membership has definitely fallen off a little since around (or probably before) I joined.
To stay this young forever in real life...
Also, in the new comment system, there's a "Reply" (to article) button on the floating control panel thing.
Personally, I've always preferred the "Big Red Button" approach.
X11, however, was perfectly fine.
I think I might be able to find some prior art for "Being obnoxious on the Internet," though...
(Bad form to reply to myself...)
Forgot to mention, for those interested, the tag line is:
"Arege na nyuusu to zatsudan saito"
Which means
"Arege* News and Idle Chat site."
*Arege seems to be something they made up themselves. It's spelled in Katakana (the alphabet used for foreign words, spelled close-to phonetically) and used as an adjective. At first I thought it meant "Aggregate" but some after looking at some sites that popped up in google I don't think that's the case any more. It might be some sort of attempt at translating the "News for Nerds" part of (original) slashdot's tag line.
I think this one was in a story some time ago (or I found it some other way maybe...):
:/)
http://slashdot.jp/
Even closer to the original then Barrapunto (Color scheme and icons). But no, that pole doesn't have a "kaubooi niiru" option on it, either (Slashdot won't let me post this in Katakana
Don't you mean "Lulz"?
Boy did i mess that up. My tags got stripped AND I put a ">=" where it should have been "<=".
There are actually 90,000 5-digit IDs (in any ID system where IDs can't start with 0). The IDs below 10000 are >= 4 digits.
And while my UID is fairly high, the first computer I can remember the processor speed of (actually my second or third) was a 333mhz.
Fair enough. :)
In my defense I did say that I wouldn't favor a GPS based approach (which was really just a nice way of saying I'd be against it), just that there were certainly problems with "Why not use the odometer?" as the parent of my first post said.
Honestly, I don't see a more reliable way to tax road use (short of making every road a toll road), and most methods run into significant problems in the deployment phase. I think that the "Tax at the pump" system is going to be with us for the foreseeable future.
Well, Odometers aren't 100% reliable. For example, the Odometer on my previous car ('87 BMW 3-series) froze at ~190k miles, and all the mechanics I asked said it would probably take a full replacement of the dash display to fix it (which is not cheap). And then, there's always the problem that it adds even more incentive to rewind the odometer, especially on cars that get a lot of mileage.
Not that I'd be in favor of a GPS based system. I'm just pointing out that there are at least a few good reasons not to want to use the odometer.
Maybe what they mean is that it can't be reprogrammed to the way it was before.
Imagine holding a magnet up to a magnetic storage device. It destroys all the data on the device, and you can't just hold up another magnet on the other side and expect the device to have all the old data on it. You need to have any data you want to put on the device stored somewhere else, and go and get it to put it back on.
It could be that Nissan is using some sort of supposedly write-once chip in these keys. Although that's obviously not entirely true, it might be "ROM enough" that they can't set it back exactly to what it was (only strong signals can affect it). Now, if someone smart is involved in this I-Key thing, they should have a record of all the I-Key signals and the keys themselves are probably pretty cheap. They should at least be able to replace them...
If you're looking for a way to connect external devices to your car, I have one recommendation: Mini-Stereo. The line in port on my car stereo works quite nicely with my iPod, as it would with .. though the stereo has it's own CD player).
a) Just about any other mp3 player on the market (I'm not aware of anyone trying to push custom head-phone ports just yet)
b) Pretty much any older portable player (Tape, CD, Mini-disc, whatever else you can think of that you can carry in your pocket
c) Probably anything portable that will come out in the next few decades (I can't think of any tech, even wireless headphones, that has a chance in hell of replacing standard mini-stereo ports on portable audio devices any time soon).
You can get a cable to connect it (and the same cable obviously works with all those players above) for a couple dollars if you don't already have a few lying around from PC speaker connections like I did, and you can also take the player with you when you get to wherever your going.
Only down side is, I have no idea how common these kinds of connections are. Mine came with the car, and looks to have been a quite nice stereo from around the time those "Mp3 CD Player" things were popular.
{
nt return_val = 0;
char *a = malloc(100);
if (!a) {
return_val -1;
}
char *b = malloc(100);
if (!b) {
return_val = -2;
}
char *c = malloc(100);
if (!c) {
return_val = -3;
}
char *d = malloc(100);
if (!d) {
return_val = -4;
}
if( return_val {
free(a);
free(b);
free(c);
free(d);
}
return return_val;
}
Seems like this should be a good way to get rid of those redundant free statements.
This way you only need 1 free statement per failed alloc statement. Just add a free to the return_val 0 block for each allocation. Only downside is that you keep allocating after a failure, which might be a problem if you have a hell-of-a-lot of allocations to do and you fail early on. But I'm sure there's a solution to get by that without goto, also.
Then you would be prompted with a dialog box that says:
[Confirm File Delete]
[Recycle bin icon] - Are you sure you want to send "Some Random.File" to the Recycle bin?
[Yes] [No]
The only potential problem with this behavior that I can see is that yes is the default action (as in, Delete->Enter moves to recycle bin), but I prefer it that way personally.
A shame, too. He could have used a katana to fight off the microsoft lackeys MS sent to defend vista...