I play minecraft. on linux.

Whatever it is like to be a cockroach, it is almost certainly nothing like what it is like to be a human.

What you mean hiding in secluded dark places waiting patiently for the moment of total world domination? The only difference between us and the cockroaches is we have computers.

---wow just replied to your previous post and then saw this where you basically outline a non orthodox rig that gets the sound you like. Nice. I agree with your assessment of the zoom compression. I don't have a pedal but I do have the same effect unit build in to my handy dandy portable four track.

Hell, I used to play into a Roland effects unit (forgot the model) and from that straight into a dual 300W RMS Jands PA power amp driving a split 1x18" + 2x10" cabinet. It looked awful but sounded awesome. Clean, fat, effortless and very loud, even down tuned 3 semis. Play bass one meter from a rig like that with loose underwear and you can generate a very pleasant sensation between your legs if you get the notes right....

You're kind of saying the same thing as the technobabble but you're using a different paradigm. I agree with the valve for guitar, transistor for bass thing. The kind of compression you want in a bass sound is very different to the rounded waveform you get over-driving a tube (that warmth can turn to mud at lower frequencies). I tend towards all solid state with dedicated compression circuits for bass sounds, be they from a bass guitar or synth, and tubes for guitars.

I do sometimes like a harsh transistor distortion on guitars too, so I'm a huge fan of using a two channel set up with the choice of either a valve or transistor preamp driving a transistor power amp. If you keep the power amp well within it's range, can choose from a faithful reproduction of the valves "warmth" with the option to go for a harsher transistor sound with a stomp on a pedal. Sure it doesn't look as cool as playing through some Marshall rig that glows, but it can sound a heap better, especially if you like variety.

Cold war commie thing again?

(too much repetition I'm told) Idiots.

Exactly what I was thinking. It looks to me lie a cheap headless server. Sure it has VGA, but I would only every use that to install/configure a decent OS. From then on it's a file/media/home automation server and not bad for the price.

That's an interesting distinction, and I suppose the continuous version I would use is "what have you got?" rather than "what have you gotten?". While it's a request for inventory ignoring the process of acquisition, the verbicular acquisition is redundant due to an implication that that which has been acquired has been so from a starting point of nil. (See what I did there? I just adjectivised a verb! Ooooh, I just verberated a noun too!!!!)

So I guess the truly pedantic version are as follows (US English - English).

Obtained (infinite): "What have you gotten?"; "What have you got?" (funnily enough using the past tense)
Obtained (past tense): "What did you get?"; "What did you get?" (funnily enough using the infinitive)
Possessive: "What have you got?"; "What have you?"

The last one is correct, but as an Australian English speaker I also tend to (incorrectly) add the word "got" to the end of the sentence even though I know it has my late grandfather (an ex-linguist) spinning in his grave. He hated that as much as the incorrect substitution of "I" with "me" as in this common mistake made by uneducated people attempting to sound educated like my friends and I. Bad grammar was something up which he would never put, while I find myself content to totally split infinitives, for example. I guess languages evolve and diverge and old rules cease to apply, but generally in Australian English, while it's now common to misspell gaol and refer to 10^9 as 1 billion, we do tend to adhere to stricter English English in f***in' anal^W formal settings.

But I digress.... Where were we?

Like I said, I have been lucky that the colours have worked. I've used a domestic laser printer that supports CMYK to do proofs. My usual work doesn't involve CMYK so it's not worth the investment having done two print graphics jobs in the past 3 years. Also, I prefer the workflow I have on a gnome2+compiz desktop so dual boot or wine for PS is not ideal.

But see that's the thing about the pentagram. The symbol with positive connotations has a single point at the top, the satanic one has a single point at the bottom. Like the swastika, the ancient symbol is made up of horizontal and vertical lines, the mid 20th century corruption of it has all the lines at 45 degree angles.

A classic example of the correct use of the swastika in WW2 was by the Finnish air force.which used a swastika the correct way round. Sure they were allies with the Germans for a while, but only out of neccesity. When the Germans said "you must do something about the jewish problem, the finns said "what problem?".

Actually rather than "off of" or "off", Non American English speakers would say "from" when someone builds and adjective from a verb. At least those with a grasp on grammar. Like the correct version of "What have you gotten?" would be "What did you get?".