Is this Pixar effect Rock Star's reason for GTA IV voice casting? I noticed that they have much less-known actors for IV than they did for III (Joe Pantoliano, Michael Madsen, Michael Rappaport), VC (Ray Liotta, Luis Guzman, Dennis Hopper), or SA (Ice-T, Samuel L Jackson, Chris Penn)...
I saw Nickel Creek in Santa Rosa last spring. They usually throw a few songs from the greater pop/rock genre into their sets to mix things up a little (I've seen them do Dylan, Radiohead, Beck, and Randy Newman), and on that tour they were covering Britney Spears' "Toxic". They were playing the cover using their regular (acoustic) instruments and hamming it up, and in the middle of the song, someone from their crew ran onto the stage, flipped open a laptop that was sitting there, played a three second break, closed the laptop, and ran right off stage again. Best. Use of a laptop for music. Ever.
You can also paste with Shift+Insert, leaving one of those precious control keys free. This does mean that you can't use that shift key for the capital 'O', but you still have the other shift key. Or even caps lock!
This is it? More power to them for accomplishing this, but they don't really *sound* like they're not on a major label... I was hoping a milestone like this would be led achieved by a band with a sound that felt new. Then again, maybe that's the point.
...find a company where you'll get lots of experience with real world, demand/quality driven programming. Go work for a company with good processes, where you can get your hands dirty.
As someone rather disappointed with the caliber of his first job out of school (and a damn good school, too) any suggestions on how to accomplish that?
Would you say the MCSD is useful if you already have a BS from a good school? I graduated last spring and I work for a company that would pay for the training. I like working in.NET, but I'm trying to decide whether (a) I would learn anything and (b) it would be useful to me in this or other jobs.
DOSBox (if that's what you were using) has initial settings that favor way-old games. If you're playing something from the mid-90s on, you'll need to turn up the emulated clock speed before gaining acceptable performance.
Amen. One of my sites has a fixed menu that works very cleanly in Firefox and Opera, and IE just treats it as a normal part of the page and scrolls it. Unless I feel like coding around this (and I don't), this means an inferior experience for IE users. I'd like to have this work properly in IE without having to hack up a fix, since my site uses a really basic layout.
And the About.com article seems inaccurate (on at least one count) to boot. They claim that the Papa character was transformed into Luigi, and Mama became Toad, whereas other sites (like the Mushroom Kingdom one) say that it was the other way around. Not having played DDP, I can't say for sure, but my money's on the Mushroom Kingdom.
Saving revisions with each change? You mean actually committing files as you save them? Maybe you're a way better coder than I am, but I often try a lot of things that have no business going into an actual revision history for a project. It seems that if you're committing code with each save (or even just each build for smaller projects), you're going to end up with a big mess in the history of your repository, wasting space *and* making it difficult to navigate. I don't believe invisible vcs could work well, at least not yet. Commits shouldn't happen on save or build or whatever, but when the developer feels, "Okay, this is a logically cohesive change to the code base". And what about commit comments?
You may be right, but Wikipedia redirects "Nerdore" to "Nerdcore_hip_hop" automatically and I've never heard of nerdcore referring to anything else, unless, like you mentioned, explicitly qualified. It's a moot point, though, since the compilation is limited to nerdcore hip hop (more or less)...
Nerdcore is rap. This guy put together some nerdcore compilations, and Taco posted an article about it to slashdot. That's why rap. I don't mean to sound like an ass, but if you want a non-rap nerd music article, make a compilation and submit a story. Some of us enjoy some rap (witty counter-arguments like "it's not music" and something about a "silent c at the beginning" notwithstanding), especially in goofier guises like nerdcore.
You have now (okay, so it's not exactly the same caliber--pardon the pun--of sniper rifle; an interesting read nonetheless). You may have a point with the tanks and the rockets.
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Is this Pixar effect Rock Star's reason for GTA IV voice casting? I noticed that they have much less-known actors for IV than they did for III (Joe Pantoliano, Michael Madsen, Michael Rappaport), VC (Ray Liotta, Luis Guzman, Dennis Hopper), or SA (Ice-T, Samuel L Jackson, Chris Penn)...
I saw Nickel Creek in Santa Rosa last spring. They usually throw a few songs from the greater pop/rock genre into their sets to mix things up a little (I've seen them do Dylan, Radiohead, Beck, and Randy Newman), and on that tour they were covering Britney Spears' "Toxic". They were playing the cover using their regular (acoustic) instruments and hamming it up, and in the middle of the song, someone from their crew ran onto the stage, flipped open a laptop that was sitting there, played a three second break, closed the laptop, and ran right off stage again. Best. Use of a laptop for music. Ever.
Don't bet on it. I have an ATI card (X1600) and I had that problem. Patch worked for me.
Mod parent up. It's not easy to fix this problem in an idiot-proof way.
Seconded. It also discusses how many C# features are implemented in CLR, giving you a healthy dose of background.
You can also paste with Shift+Insert, leaving one of those precious control keys free. This does mean that you can't use that shift key for the capital 'O', but you still have the other shift key. Or even caps lock!
In case you're wondering, parent is not just talking out of his ass. Mod up.
None of the Grand Theft Autos made the cut?
Ahem... (Granted, I think they're a good fifty percent legally in the right or so, but this isn't exactly warm and fuzzy.)
This is it? More power to them for accomplishing this, but they don't really *sound* like they're not on a major label... I was hoping a milestone like this would be led achieved by a band with a sound that felt new. Then again, maybe that's the point.
As someone rather disappointed with the caliber of his first job out of school (and a damn good school, too) any suggestions on how to accomplish that?
Would you say the MCSD is useful if you already have a BS from a good school? I graduated last spring and I work for a company that would pay for the training. I like working in .NET, but I'm trying to decide whether (a) I would learn anything and (b) it would be useful to me in this or other jobs.
Then share them all, so we can all benefit from this tactic without having to bother buying and ripping the CDs.
DOSBox (if that's what you were using) has initial settings that favor way-old games. If you're playing something from the mid-90s on, you'll need to turn up the emulated clock speed before gaining acceptable performance.
ITYM -> "I think you mean".
Amen. One of my sites has a fixed menu that works very cleanly in Firefox and Opera, and IE just treats it as a normal part of the page and scrolls it. Unless I feel like coding around this (and I don't), this means an inferior experience for IE users. I'd like to have this work properly in IE without having to hack up a fix, since my site uses a really basic layout.
And the About.com article seems inaccurate (on at least one count) to boot. They claim that the Papa character was transformed into Luigi, and Mama became Toad, whereas other sites (like the Mushroom Kingdom one) say that it was the other way around. Not having played DDP, I can't say for sure, but my money's on the Mushroom Kingdom.
Saving revisions with each change? You mean actually committing files as you save them? Maybe you're a way better coder than I am, but I often try a lot of things that have no business going into an actual revision history for a project. It seems that if you're committing code with each save (or even just each build for smaller projects), you're going to end up with a big mess in the history of your repository, wasting space *and* making it difficult to navigate. I don't believe invisible vcs could work well, at least not yet. Commits shouldn't happen on save or build or whatever, but when the developer feels, "Okay, this is a logically cohesive change to the code base". And what about commit comments?
You may be right, but Wikipedia redirects "Nerdore" to "Nerdcore_hip_hop" automatically and I've never heard of nerdcore referring to anything else, unless, like you mentioned, explicitly qualified. It's a moot point, though, since the compilation is limited to nerdcore hip hop (more or less)...
Nerdcore is rap. This guy put together some nerdcore compilations, and Taco posted an article about it to slashdot. That's why rap. I don't mean to sound like an ass, but if you want a non-rap nerd music article, make a compilation and submit a story. Some of us enjoy some rap (witty counter-arguments like "it's not music" and something about a "silent c at the beginning" notwithstanding), especially in goofier guises like nerdcore.
Err, touche. GGP was off by a thousand. Sorry about that.
You're off by a factor of a hundred...
Opera scales its images with font size changes.
You have now (okay, so it's not exactly the same caliber--pardon the pun--of sniper rifle; an interesting read nonetheless). You may have a point with the tanks and the rockets.
I don't think he can. Grandparent will probably claim that the post was censored or the thread removed.