I've been dual booting Windows and Linux ever since I first got into Linux because of various music applications that I needed for school (Finale, McGamut, etc.). To this day I still reboot to play League of Legends, my games on Steam, and talk to friends on Vent. I don't know about Steam, but with this new release I think I may try to get Vent and League of Legends running on my Slackware installation.
A friend of mine and I installed the game and instantly joined a PuGed group. All we did was steal the rovers, do sick moon jumps off of small ledges, and sing "We're Whalers on the Moon"...much to the chagrin of our "teammates".
I think NASA taught everyone in that game something valuable.
My roommate just recently began playing Eve again and, naturally, tried to get me to buy into the game. However, every time I see clips or streams of the game I...I just...I....*SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE*
I had something very much like this happen to me last night. Before going to sleep I had been playing World of Goo as well a dose of the latest Pokemon game (MANCHILD ALERT). I remember my dream last night had something to do with me blowing out the tires on my new car and basically making a wreck of the whole machine. What I ALSO remember is explicitly telling myself, mid-dream, that "Oh well, at least it's just a dream. But it sucks that I have to deal with this wreck until I wake up."
Direct causation? Not even close. But still it's an interesting idea that control over our "synthetic" virtual worlds might also translate, to a certain degree, over to our more "natural" virtual worlds.
I, personally, would drop my jaw if he dropped KDE from the default package. I may be a rarity but I do use Slackware for my day to day email reading, movie watching, and music listening. It is nice to have that extra bit of eye candy available as an option for us who want to use it.
I started using Slackware when I began college, and I still use it today. I'm sort of a "medium" user. I can work the scripts and the config files, and I even compiled some custom kernels in the past. But I'm not a CS guy - I majored in music. Even I, with my liberal arts degree, find Slackware delightful to use and I appreciate it's lack of fluff and its overall feel of being MY computer.
Every single one of my friends and I have resigned ourselves to the fact that we can NEVER run for public office thanks to our many AIM, vent, and forum conversations.
The money they're asking for is compensation they were promised for Modern Warfare 2 and never received, not for the MW3 game they don't even want to make.
From the perspective of a classically trained musician that does it for a living, I am not feeling too threatened by this for several reasons:
1) I am not a luddite
2) It's impressive, but it's hardly threatening. The examples given in the article were simple in most terms. The color and timbre are uniform throughout and it felt stagnant. It was basically a rhythmic idea and arpeggiated chord changes. While indeed pleasant sounding, the results so far still do not come even close to the names being thrown around.
3) Choices and experiences. For this machine to be truly challenging to mankind it will have to make CHOICES like we can. Not only that but it has to draw on inspiration from the world and it's "life". Composers use techniques that mimic the sounds of life, spell a loved one's name, or paint imagery. This machine would have to WANT to do these things.
4) Don't let the Music Theory 101 courses that we teach fool you. There ARE no rules. At the end of the day, it is all sound. What we call "rules" are simply techniques that we have identified as producing agreeable sounds. In reality you are as free to follow or abandon these ideas as you see fit. You can abandon western tonality and invent your own system if you want. John Cage's "As Slow as Possible" began being performed in 2000...and it'll finish in 639 years. One piece is a recording of the electromagnetic fields of the Earth. Musical innovation is still very much alive. If this machine can't have the desire, inspiration, or the INTELLIGENCE, to innovate such things on its own then us musicians will still have jobs for a very long time....that is until Skynet goes live and hurls a "New"clear World Symphony at us (by Dvorak the computer keyboard and not Antonín Dvoák)!
So here's a piece written by a human: The Serpent's Kiss by Bolcom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzorssRJce4 . Tell me THAT was composed by a computer and THEN I'll rethink my career choice.
You know, I kind of figure I got WoW beat myself. I'm in a top 100 US guild and we play...two nights a week. We go in, win, and leave. If you can't make a certain night because of some sort of pressing engagement, or you just have too much work to do that night, you don't get kicked (just please let us know).
I imagine if they included Mandelbrot fractals as something you can roll up in Katamari, then there would no longer be ANY need to experiment with psychedelic drugs ever again.
It's honestly REALLY fun to read dozens of people trying to rationalize the appeal of Stradivarius violins as being some sort of grand, elitist, social experiment.
They're fantastic instruments, they're old, they're relatively rare, and they have a lot of history and legends behind them. Music is the full emotional effect. You can make an instrument that sounds as a good as a Stradivarius, but there are plenty of people that are swept away by the romanticism and mysticism of the original.
Oh I always rather liked having a little hidden cheat code that you had to look up to activate. It was kind of charming in its own way. But is this just going to be straight up in the menu? "Start Demo Mode New Game"? That would seem a bit hokey.
Asking for your online hangouts is in poor taste, but asking for your USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS is in absolutely horrendous practice. It'll probably breed an entire employee base that's comfortable with putting in their user name and password into a site that TOTALLY looks like their bank's website except it has some odd porn ads for some reason.
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"..or getting started on Diablo 4."
hahahahahahahahaha ....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Pft. Firewire can cook an entire pig - INSTANTLY
Stopping saying "hook up". It doesn't mean what you think it means.
I've been dual booting Windows and Linux ever since I first got into Linux because of various music applications that I needed for school (Finale, McGamut, etc.). To this day I still reboot to play League of Legends, my games on Steam, and talk to friends on Vent. I don't know about Steam, but with this new release I think I may try to get Vent and League of Legends running on my Slackware installation.
A friend of mine and I installed the game and instantly joined a PuGed group. All we did was steal the rovers, do sick moon jumps off of small ledges, and sing "We're Whalers on the Moon"...much to the chagrin of our "teammates". I think NASA taught everyone in that game something valuable.
My roommate just recently began playing Eve again and, naturally, tried to get me to buy into the game. However, every time I see clips or streams of the game I...I just...I....*SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE*
Good God, when I first saw a picture of this on 4chan I thought it was a photoshop.
Whoa, slow your roll. I reckon his comment was a joke as it's a direct quote from the beginning of Bioshock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVR2gZANx10.
I had something very much like this happen to me last night. Before going to sleep I had been playing World of Goo as well a dose of the latest Pokemon game (MANCHILD ALERT). I remember my dream last night had something to do with me blowing out the tires on my new car and basically making a wreck of the whole machine. What I ALSO remember is explicitly telling myself, mid-dream, that "Oh well, at least it's just a dream. But it sucks that I have to deal with this wreck until I wake up."
Direct causation? Not even close. But still it's an interesting idea that control over our "synthetic" virtual worlds might also translate, to a certain degree, over to our more "natural" virtual worlds.
I, personally, would drop my jaw if he dropped KDE from the default package. I may be a rarity but I do use Slackware for my day to day email reading, movie watching, and music listening. It is nice to have that extra bit of eye candy available as an option for us who want to use it.
I started using Slackware when I began college, and I still use it today. I'm sort of a "medium" user. I can work the scripts and the config files, and I even compiled some custom kernels in the past. But I'm not a CS guy - I majored in music. Even I, with my liberal arts degree, find Slackware delightful to use and I appreciate it's lack of fluff and its overall feel of being MY computer.
I salute you Pat. May you keep on Slacking.
Instead of eradicating the phobia I'd rather just eradicate the little bastards that cause the phobia.
Every single one of my friends and I have resigned ourselves to the fact that we can NEVER run for public office thanks to our many AIM, vent, and forum conversations.
Church LF Priest. Need heals and good to go.
The money they're asking for is compensation they were promised for Modern Warfare 2 and never received, not for the MW3 game they don't even want to make.
From the perspective of a classically trained musician that does it for a living, I am not feeling too threatened by this for several reasons:
1) I am not a luddite
2) It's impressive, but it's hardly threatening. The examples given in the article were simple in most terms. The color and timbre are uniform throughout and it felt stagnant. It was basically a rhythmic idea and arpeggiated chord changes. While indeed pleasant sounding, the results so far still do not come even close to the names being thrown around.
3) Choices and experiences. For this machine to be truly challenging to mankind it will have to make CHOICES like we can. Not only that but it has to draw on inspiration from the world and it's "life". Composers use techniques that mimic the sounds of life, spell a loved one's name, or paint imagery. This machine would have to WANT to do these things.
4) Don't let the Music Theory 101 courses that we teach fool you. There ARE no rules. At the end of the day, it is all sound. What we call "rules" are simply techniques that we have identified as producing agreeable sounds. In reality you are as free to follow or abandon these ideas as you see fit. You can abandon western tonality and invent your own system if you want. John Cage's "As Slow as Possible" began being performed in 2000...and it'll finish in 639 years. One piece is a recording of the electromagnetic fields of the Earth. Musical innovation is still very much alive. If this machine can't have the desire, inspiration, or the INTELLIGENCE, to innovate such things on its own then us musicians will still have jobs for a very long time....that is until Skynet goes live and hurls a "New"clear World Symphony at us (by Dvorak the computer keyboard and not Antonín Dvoák)!
So here's a piece written by a human: The Serpent's Kiss by Bolcom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzorssRJce4 . Tell me THAT was composed by a computer and THEN I'll rethink my career choice.
Of course, the rumor mill is that Icecrown Citadel will come out next week, thus effectively "unwinning" the game for this man.
You know, I kind of figure I got WoW beat myself. I'm in a top 100 US guild and we play...two nights a week. We go in, win, and leave. If you can't make a certain night because of some sort of pressing engagement, or you just have too much work to do that night, you don't get kicked (just please let us know).
No destructive, or addictive, behavior here.
I imagine if they included Mandelbrot fractals as something you can roll up in Katamari, then there would no longer be ANY need to experiment with psychedelic drugs ever again.
It's honestly REALLY fun to read dozens of people trying to rationalize the appeal of Stradivarius violins as being some sort of grand, elitist, social experiment. They're fantastic instruments, they're old, they're relatively rare, and they have a lot of history and legends behind them. Music is the full emotional effect. You can make an instrument that sounds as a good as a Stradivarius, but there are plenty of people that are swept away by the romanticism and mysticism of the original.
I am deterred. Not because of the threat of lawsuit, but because they don't make anything worth downloading.
Actually, waiting until everyone is nearly dead would make it LESS trivial, wouldn't it?
Oh I always rather liked having a little hidden cheat code that you had to look up to activate. It was kind of charming in its own way. But is this just going to be straight up in the menu? "Start Demo Mode New Game"? That would seem a bit hokey.
Asking for your online hangouts is in poor taste, but asking for your USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS is in absolutely horrendous practice. It'll probably breed an entire employee base that's comfortable with putting in their user name and password into a site that TOTALLY looks like their bank's website except it has some odd porn ads for some reason.