Depends if we already have a means for reading the messages or not. If the multiple universes concept is correct then I guess we'd probably be getting an infinite number of messages though.. might be kind of hard to read such a message. Maybe we already are getting an infinity of such messages in our background radiation.. [insert further stupid idea here]
More like because it wouldn't really be "travelling back in time", it would (if it worked) be spawning different realities, or communicating with already existing realities which are separate from our own. Slightly creepy, and also it doesn't seem that plausible. Not that it's impossible..
The question, because you have exactly the same elitist attitude I had before I played the game. The. Game. Is. Fun. Even if you play the real instruments and play in a band. If you are not willing to even try the game, then please don't bother to complain about it, you are just causing people to think you are a douche.
You don't sound like you've actually played the games then?
I used to dislike them on principal too, but when I actually played one (Guitar Hero III).. like I said, I had a hell of a lot of fun. When Rock Band came out with the drums, it was even better. My drumming was already nice and solid, but my skills shot up quickly over a month or two of learning new rhythms on Rock Band.
I felt a lot more rewarded after completing Rock Band than I did when I was drumming in a band, because I learned a lot more. Of course I prefer playing original songs over covers in a real band, but as a learning tool and a way of measuring your accomplishments and skill, Rock Band is nice.
BTW, playing guitar on Guitar Hero and Rock Bands of old is obviously nothing like playing a real guitar, but playing Rock Band 3 guitar is getting almost as closer to playing real guitar as playing Rock Band drums gets to playing real drums..
I don't see what's wrong with looking down if you're shifting all the way up to around the 8th-12th fret from open stringed chords.. I mean some guys can probably do it by feel, but I don't play very often. I can still play open chords without looking, but if I'm going to be going all over the neck I'll need to glance down from time to time.
What musicians may want is the ability to play songs with a backing track, without paying for a practice room.. not everyone has a garage they can play in, and friends who are ready to jam at a moment's notice, 24/7!
I think there are already apps for that.. though I haven't looked.
I just learned myself from looking at tabs and trying to play along to recordings.. no other person necessary! Rock Band 3 does really have the right idea, though it's bloody difficult.
There are different types of Rock Band 3 pro guitar. One has buttons and sucks. However, one is a guitar that you can plug into an amp and play as you would with any electric guitar. How is that not "real"?:p
The Rock Band 3 tutorials do go through scales for piano and guitar, so there is indeed some value even for those who like to improvise:) I find it bloody hard though, I'd much prefer if the tab went horizontally like I'm used to.. also I wasn't playing on a real guitar, I was playing with the buttoned one, so it's harder to coordinate your fingers.. on a real guitar I guess you can notice slightly by the change in position/tension which strings are currently being fretted (without having to look down I mean).
If you skip the game, you won't be held down to actually keeping a rhythm. You could buy a metronome or backing tracks, but the point is that the game is fun.. it's like having your own backing band, without any of the drama. I learned a lot about drumming rhythm and limb separation that I didn't pick up even after going through a "teach yourself drums" book and playing in a band for a year, just by trying to beat all the songs on Rock Band.
Playing in a band and recording your songs is nice, but I think I'd say I actually feel more of an achievement having completed all the songs on Rock Band at expert level, because some of those songs are nuts.. in a real band if your leg gets tired then you can switch to a simpler beat.. which you can do to an extent in these games, but you can't do it for long, otherwise you just fail the song. There's actually much more pressure to perform well than playing in front of a live audience.
I can already play real guitar and drums, and have played in a band in the past, but I find the game a hell of a lot of fun, without any of the hassles of being in a band. Quit whining.
The point is that no matter what their views, they have been giving rather than taking. MS have done a whole lot of taking, but thanks to their monopoly position and lack of drive for innovation, parts of the computing world have been held back for years and only now things starting to get better. Since Firefox helped to drive web standards adoption (and I suppose you could say since Flash got ported to other OSes:/ ), it's been much more convenient to use any OS you want at home. In the workplace MS still have a pretty solid grip just because of the number of "Windows Only" apps, though hopefully things will keep heading in the direction of diversity there too. And there's always WINE/Crossover I guess, though I haven't tried either for any "serious" apps or games for a few years.. I just have a VM for when I need to do Windows development (also means I don't need to go through the hassle of reinstalling/authenticating Windows and MS Office when I get new hardware), and I do all my gaming on consoles now.
The scary thing is that I'm starting to wonder if there are actually just some people out there who really think like that. Not that I would even care.. I'm used to being in a minority position when it comes to my views on OSes etc. It would just be sad if some people actually fell for the act. I am trying to be more level headed in my thinking on MS these days. I even bought a 360 at the end of last year just so I could play online with friends who can't afford a PS3 *hangs head in shame* but I really wouldn't be upset to just see them disappear off the face of the planet..
They're also slowly becoming irrelevant as cross-platform technologies emerge and people become more able to to use other devices for their online/gaming fix.. took long enough deitiesdamnit.
it's impossible to do something wrong when you're that big and make so many decisions
There's a big difference between "impossible [not] to do something wrong" and "convicted monopolist who bribe/bully people into only selling their products" as MS and Intel have been convicted of.
It does apply if they try to charge you per IP. I'd sure as hell NAT my devices then. Try reading the context to his post. I'd think it would also be useful if you have any still useful IPv4-only devices at home, an IPv6 NAT could enable that device to interface with the outside world by doing IPv6 DNS resolution, etc for it.
The part that you don't get is that it's going to be replaced by more douches who do the same thing - ignore anyone but the ones who give them "donations" and such. I don't get why that is allowed at all. You need to change the actual laws before the politicians will no longer be so corrupt. It's not like the politicians are going to put through any laws which reduce their lavish lifestyle though, so it looks like the only real change will come around if you have a proper uprising. I expect a lot of people would die in such a situation though, and whatever President you have would probably still be being a douche from a bunker somewhere.
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What is the correct terminology then? I'm just self taught.
It varies by song (ie Run To The Hills uses the left pad as the hi-hat as you need to do "thundersticks"), plus you can get cymbal attachments..
Depends if we already have a means for reading the messages or not. If the multiple universes concept is correct then I guess we'd probably be getting an infinite number of messages though.. might be kind of hard to read such a message. Maybe we already are getting an infinity of such messages in our background radiation.. [insert further stupid idea here]
More like because it wouldn't really be "travelling back in time", it would (if it worked) be spawning different realities, or communicating with already existing realities which are separate from our own. Slightly creepy, and also it doesn't seem that plausible. Not that it's impossible..
The question, because you have exactly the same elitist attitude I had before I played the game. The. Game. Is. Fun. Even if you play the real instruments and play in a band. If you are not willing to even try the game, then please don't bother to complain about it, you are just causing people to think you are a douche.
Hell yeah :)
You don't sound like you've actually played the games then?
I used to dislike them on principal too, but when I actually played one (Guitar Hero III).. like I said, I had a hell of a lot of fun. When Rock Band came out with the drums, it was even better. My drumming was already nice and solid, but my skills shot up quickly over a month or two of learning new rhythms on Rock Band.
I felt a lot more rewarded after completing Rock Band than I did when I was drumming in a band, because I learned a lot more. Of course I prefer playing original songs over covers in a real band, but as a learning tool and a way of measuring your accomplishments and skill, Rock Band is nice.
BTW, playing guitar on Guitar Hero and Rock Bands of old is obviously nothing like playing a real guitar, but playing Rock Band 3 guitar is getting almost as closer to playing real guitar as playing Rock Band drums gets to playing real drums..
I don't see what's wrong with looking down if you're shifting all the way up to around the 8th-12th fret from open stringed chords.. I mean some guys can probably do it by feel, but I don't play very often. I can still play open chords without looking, but if I'm going to be going all over the neck I'll need to glance down from time to time.
What musicians may want is the ability to play songs with a backing track, without paying for a practice room.. not everyone has a garage they can play in, and friends who are ready to jam at a moment's notice, 24/7!
I think there are already apps for that.. though I haven't looked.
I just learned myself from looking at tabs and trying to play along to recordings.. no other person necessary! Rock Band 3 does really have the right idea, though it's bloody difficult.
There are different types of Rock Band 3 pro guitar. One has buttons and sucks. However, one is a guitar that you can plug into an amp and play as you would with any electric guitar. How is that not "real"? :p
The Rock Band 3 tutorials do go through scales for piano and guitar, so there is indeed some value even for those who like to improvise :) I find it bloody hard though, I'd much prefer if the tab went horizontally like I'm used to.. also I wasn't playing on a real guitar, I was playing with the buttoned one, so it's harder to coordinate your fingers.. on a real guitar I guess you can notice slightly by the change in position/tension which strings are currently being fretted (without having to look down I mean).
If you skip the game, you won't be held down to actually keeping a rhythm. You could buy a metronome or backing tracks, but the point is that the game is fun.. it's like having your own backing band, without any of the drama. I learned a lot about drumming rhythm and limb separation that I didn't pick up even after going through a "teach yourself drums" book and playing in a band for a year, just by trying to beat all the songs on Rock Band.
Playing in a band and recording your songs is nice, but I think I'd say I actually feel more of an achievement having completed all the songs on Rock Band at expert level, because some of those songs are nuts.. in a real band if your leg gets tired then you can switch to a simpler beat.. which you can do to an extent in these games, but you can't do it for long, otherwise you just fail the song. There's actually much more pressure to perform well than playing in front of a live audience.
I can already play real guitar and drums, and have played in a band in the past, but I find the game a hell of a lot of fun, without any of the hassles of being in a band. Quit whining.
The point is that no matter what their views, they have been giving rather than taking. MS have done a whole lot of taking, but thanks to their monopoly position and lack of drive for innovation, parts of the computing world have been held back for years and only now things starting to get better. Since Firefox helped to drive web standards adoption (and I suppose you could say since Flash got ported to other OSes :/ ), it's been much more convenient to use any OS you want at home. In the workplace MS still have a pretty solid grip just because of the number of "Windows Only" apps, though hopefully things will keep heading in the direction of diversity there too. And there's always WINE/Crossover I guess, though I haven't tried either for any "serious" apps or games for a few years.. I just have a VM for when I need to do Windows development (also means I don't need to go through the hassle of reinstalling/authenticating Windows and MS Office when I get new hardware), and I do all my gaming on consoles now.
The scary thing is that I'm starting to wonder if there are actually just some people out there who really think like that. Not that I would even care.. I'm used to being in a minority position when it comes to my views on OSes etc. It would just be sad if some people actually fell for the act. I am trying to be more level headed in my thinking on MS these days. I even bought a 360 at the end of last year just so I could play online with friends who can't afford a PS3 *hangs head in shame* but I really wouldn't be upset to just see them disappear off the face of the planet..
They're also slowly becoming irrelevant as cross-platform technologies emerge and people become more able to to use other devices for their online/gaming fix.. took long enough deitiesdamnit.
it's impossible to do something wrong when you're that big and make so many decisions
There's a big difference between "impossible [not] to do something wrong" and "convicted monopolist who bribe/bully people into only selling their products" as MS and Intel have been convicted of.
Now you want to turn the volume up? There's some more potential for other people to hear it! That'll be ( $100 ^ increase in decibels) thanks.
It does apply if they try to charge you per IP. I'd sure as hell NAT my devices then. Try reading the context to his post. I'd think it would also be useful if you have any still useful IPv4-only devices at home, an IPv6 NAT could enable that device to interface with the outside world by doing IPv6 DNS resolution, etc for it.
The part that you don't get is that it's going to be replaced by more douches who do the same thing - ignore anyone but the ones who give them "donations" and such. I don't get why that is allowed at all. You need to change the actual laws before the politicians will no longer be so corrupt. It's not like the politicians are going to put through any laws which reduce their lavish lifestyle though, so it looks like the only real change will come around if you have a proper uprising. I expect a lot of people would die in such a situation though, and whatever President you have would probably still be being a douche from a bunker somewhere.
Cameron and Tyler like this. *thumbs up*
Some do, some don't (I live in the UK btw). I think new trainees are more likely to do it.
What happens if you actually happen to find someone who is doing the country some good? Would it not be better to allow them to stay in power?