The concept behind your argument is sound, but you're wrong on a few points:
Strumming - ask it to strum a chord. It can't. Individual picks for each string is kind of cool, but won't sound any good when playing any songs recorded in the past 80 years.
Did you listen to the Layla sound clip? It's strumming in there.
String selection - a good guitarist will pick particular strings for playing a particular note. These sound completely different because of a few reasons - an A on the bottom E string (fifth fret) compared with playing an A on the A string (open) will have a very different timbre. Doesn't look like that's possible here.
This is more a function of the fretboard range of the device than anything. There's nothing stopping the programmers from choosing one string over another.
Personally, I've composed MIDI music to play guitar tracks that sounded quite realistic. As you may imagine, a lot of this had to do with the fact that I have been playing guitar for 30 years, so I know what a guitar "sounds like." My point, though, is that it's not impossible - it simply takes some thought to do it.
The only thing that came along that was better was OS/2, and IBM made the fatal mistake of making it incompatible with Win32 and Windows drivers (which meant no software). Microsoft learned that compatibility was everything; IBM didn't. I even recall that IBM shipped OS/2 and Win 3.1 as a dual-load for awhile. It defaulted to OS/2, and you actually had to go through some steps to delete OS/2 and install Win 3.1, and people STILL installed Win 3.1.
No. IBM's fatal mistake was that they couldn't sell a heater to an eskimo at the time. I know. I was fired from my seemingly unassailable position in IBM's Research Division for pissing off too many folks internally by calling them on their shit, specifically this. (Anyone on the OS/2 fora on USENET around early May 1991 may remember the "J'accuse" posting slamming IBM's inability to sell anything.)
OS/2 ran Windows 3.1 applications (in Standard Mode even, starting with 2.0...or was that 2.1?) far better than Windows 3.1 ever did.
I recall one time at PC Expo in NYC where Steve Ballmer snuck over to the IBM booth, inserted a floppy into one of the machines running OS/2 and ran a program that used an undocumented API to crash the system. That's how threatened they felt about OS/2 as an operating system. And, yes, I was there when this happened (but given his reputation as the Dancing Monkey Boy I don't think anyone would deny his overzealousness for all things MS).
Undoubtedly they measure it by the effect it has on its surroundings. Mass equates to gravitational pull, which can manifest itself in the curvature of light as it passes by it.
Preservation of giant catfish is part of the WWF's mission, too, in Thailand & Cambodia. Just this month four giant catfish bred in captivity were released into the Mekong. So Giant Catfish are real in the Amazon, Europe, Asia, etc., but cryptozoological here in the States. Would be cool if they weren't, though.
Yeah, I didn't believe the story either until I saw Hulk Hogan say it was true.
I still recall fondly how you could soft reboot the Apple ][ and not lose the contents of RAM. We would play Ultima III on the computer, bring up the map, reboot, and pull up the map in our favorite printing program.
It took us forever, but we eventually had a very large scale map of the Ultima III world on our dorm room wall.
One question about that 128K machine: can you boot Linux on it?
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Having the approval of another does not make it a good book.
I also get scared when I start to see typographical errors in the text. Worse is when I find them in the code because then I know that the code wasn't taken from a working project.
The day companies like New Line legitimatly dont cook the books and underpay directors and writers etc, is the day the earth will be consumed by 500,000 mile tall aliens as a snack.
Catb.org is a tad incorrect. The correct Chinese (Mandarin) is "mei you" (pronounced "may yo" with the "y" at the end of the first word hanging a bit).
Literally, it translates to "don't have."
The equivalent in Cantonese (which, until the 1949 Revolution was the official language) is "m'o" where the "m" is overpronounced a bit. This may be the version that escaped into Japan, but I doubt it since the Japanese assimilated Chinese many centuries ago when, I imagine, China was still a collection of feudal provinces replete with a smorgasboard of dialects.
Yeah, I know. There was absolutely no free content on the Internet available until Yahoo conceived of selling advertising space on their website, thus spawning the whole e-advertising devolution.
You are correct, but he is as well. It's the malicious intents of others that cause the headache in the first place. Granted, you could choose to ignore the headache, take some placebo (i.e. use a crappy OS with little protection) or take something effective (Oxycontin LOLOLOLOL), but the fact still remains that the headache is the cause of the problem. Just because you are ineffectively dealing with it doesn't mean the headache doesn't exist.
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I wonder how my imaginary girlfriend will feel about this...
But you neglected to mention this.
Strumming - ask it to strum a chord. It can't. Individual picks for each string is kind of cool, but won't sound any good when playing any songs recorded in the past 80 years.
Did you listen to the Layla sound clip? It's strumming in there.
String selection - a good guitarist will pick particular strings for playing a particular note. These sound completely different because of a few reasons - an A on the bottom E string (fifth fret) compared with playing an A on the A string (open) will have a very different timbre. Doesn't look like that's possible here.
This is more a function of the fretboard range of the device than anything. There's nothing stopping the programmers from choosing one string over another.
Personally, I've composed MIDI music to play guitar tracks that sounded quite realistic. As you may imagine, a lot of this had to do with the fact that I have been playing guitar for 30 years, so I know what a guitar "sounds like." My point, though, is that it's not impossible - it simply takes some thought to do it.
I guess you'd have to order employees to stop biting their fingernails too.
No. IBM's fatal mistake was that they couldn't sell a heater to an eskimo at the time. I know. I was fired from my seemingly unassailable position in IBM's Research Division for pissing off too many folks internally by calling them on their shit, specifically this. (Anyone on the OS/2 fora on USENET around early May 1991 may remember the "J'accuse" posting slamming IBM's inability to sell anything.)
OS/2 ran Windows 3.1 applications (in Standard Mode even, starting with 2.0...or was that 2.1?) far better than Windows 3.1 ever did.
I recall one time at PC Expo in NYC where Steve Ballmer snuck over to the IBM booth, inserted a floppy into one of the machines running OS/2 and ran a program that used an undocumented API to crash the system. That's how threatened they felt about OS/2 as an operating system. And, yes, I was there when this happened (but given his reputation as the Dancing Monkey Boy I don't think anyone would deny his overzealousness for all things MS).
Mebbe, but I bet they still use hamsters on wheels for electricity. :P
But can they boot up with Linux? And when the supervisory mathematicians added a new table for them to use, did you have to recompile them? :D
Rumor has it that he originally wanted to call it Bitt-ARRRRRR-ent.
Undoubtedly they measure it by the effect it has on its surroundings. Mass equates to gravitational pull, which can manifest itself in the curvature of light as it passes by it.
Yeah, I didn't believe the story either until I saw Hulk Hogan say it was true.
Fixed. A tad ironic, eh? :D
He wrote it in Word. Microsoft has so much power than they can change the English language thru t3h intarbutt!!!!!11!!1!
It took us forever, but we eventually had a very large scale map of the Ultima III world on our dorm room wall.
One question about that 128K machine: can you boot Linux on it?
I also get scared when I start to see typographical errors in the text. Worse is when I find them in the code because then I know that the code wasn't taken from a working project.
Those damned terrorist crustaceans are at it again. >:(
Be careful what you wish for.
Catb.org is a tad incorrect. The correct Chinese (Mandarin) is "mei you" (pronounced "may yo" with the "y" at the end of the first word hanging a bit).
Literally, it translates to "don't have."
The equivalent in Cantonese (which, until the 1949 Revolution was the official language) is "m'o" where the "m" is overpronounced a bit. This may be the version that escaped into Japan, but I doubt it since the Japanese assimilated Chinese many centuries ago when, I imagine, China was still a collection of feudal provinces replete with a smorgasboard of dialects.
Damn, this must be so sensitive to Sony that my corporate firewall blocks access to the site describing the hack. :(
Please check your history first.
Microsoft's answer, though, will be to buy India outright. That'll solve the problem of call center employees selling your personal data too.
This makes me think that http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.htmlthi s is maybe more true than I thought originally.
You are correct, but he is as well. It's the malicious intents of others that cause the headache in the first place. Granted, you could choose to ignore the headache, take some placebo (i.e. use a crappy OS with little protection) or take something effective (Oxycontin LOLOLOLOL), but the fact still remains that the headache is the cause of the problem. Just because you are ineffectively dealing with it doesn't mean the headache doesn't exist.
Two females and lots of hardware: a geek's dream.
[Ding dang dong]
[Psssssssssh]
Player 1: I hate smoke grenades
[Pow!]
Player 2: pwnz0rd!
Player 1 (Spectator): Wallhax!
Elsewhere, Kazaa has developed a command-line version of its file download capabilities:
"GET AmericanIdiot.mp3"
[Duh duh-duh DUH duh-duh duh duh-duh duh duh]
"Don't wanna be an American Idiot..."