Comment: Re:this is one more reason (Score 1) 79
Apostrophe abuse included deliberately.
Slashdot videos: Now with more Slashdot!
We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
Comment: Re:this is one more reason (Score 2) 79
There is no reason what so ever that any government should get involved in peoples personal financial decisions
Last I heard, mega was a business. The banks terminated their business dealings with mega.
Banks do business with their customers who do things like tell the bank to give X dollars to business Y. The bank's aren't doing business with MEGA, they are doing business with their customers.
Comment: Re:Just (Score 1) 156
Thank you. That's good information.
Comment: Re:I prefer Rocksmith (Score 1) 156
Looks like a good program. Too bad it requires uPlay.
Dunno about that. I just run it from Steam.
Comment: Re:I prefer Rocksmith (Score 1) 156
Yes it does bass and typically the bass playing is more accessible. You can sound better quicker.
Comment: Re:I prefer Rocksmith (Score 1) 156
Latency is undetectable on my Ivy Bridge games machine.
Comment: Re:Just (Score 1) 156
But that's just where the usefulness ends. Sure, you now appreciate rock music, but can you play it in real life on real instruments? Millions of kids bought Guitar Hero and Rock Band to realize their dreams of actually becoming ROCK MUSICIANS. Sadly, all the games do is to train you to press colored buttons in sequence with colored lights. Those skills are not transferable to real instruments, and in fact, won't even get you an audition.
Yes, as a matter of fact I can play it on a real instrument, provided that you consider an electronic drumset "real". (And I don't mean the toy drums designed for Rock Band: I use a low end Yamaha set. I have neighbors who would not appreciate the volume of a normal drumset, so this is the best I can do.) The same drumset that I play as a standalone instrument is also my controller for Rock Band 3, thanks to a $20 MIDI adapter.
I'll never be a great drummer--I'm passable at best, and don't have the drive to improve beyond that--but I did develop some of my early skills using Rock Band games.
So how are the electronic drums? Same problem, we want drums but can't have the noise. Are these a reasonable substitute? Would they work for home studio recording? We've seen them in the store, but dropping $500 on something that might be horrible doesn't sound like a plan.
Comment: Re:Just (Score 1) 156
Because that would get in the way of my career in technology.
Comment: Re:I said GoodBye to MSFT in 2010 (Score 0) 124
It's typical for Linux zealots to pop on and gloat about their switch, but really I have to feel sorry for you. Even on my 4 year old machine, my Windows 8 OS PC runs faster than your computer, never needs backing up, never crashes, and only reboots for the occasional update (which is better than only updating the files and leaving unpatched libraries in RAM as Linux does), Best of all, I have the ability to run the largest selection of software on the planet from commercial to FOSS. Enjoy the slow performance of X, the endless dependency shenanigans, half-backed FOSS programs, and desktop environments that look like they were slapped together by someone with Down's syndrome.
But if you open a shell and try to run GCC, it doesn't work.
Comment: Re:As a former guitarist myself.... (Score 1) 156
I don't play guitar to seek fame and fortune. I play guitar because it's hugely rewarding to make music. Designing cryptographic circuits and systems pays the bills and finances my guitar habit. Rocksmith is excellent to get out of a rut. You can just dial up some songs outside your current rut and it drags you right out.
Comment: Re:MAKE SOMETHING NEW! (Score 1) 156
So you think it should all be about learning improvisation, over theory and technique?
All three are necessary and Rocksmith is perfect for the technique end of things. The is no moral difference between playing Rocksmith from the screen and playing from written music. It's just a form of notation.
Comment: Re:Huh? (Score 1) 126
No redundancies?
Redundancies cost money.
They do if your accounts are worth what they are paid.
Comment: Re:MS can't give up decades old practice (Score 1) 124
Like I said. I don't like their products. That doesn't make me want to bypass their authorization, it makes me want to install a different OS. But the world is such that that isn't always an option.
Comment: Re:MAKE SOMETHING NEW! (Score 1) 156
Way more fun than any of the "sim" guitar games but requires a bit more commitment. Love to see lots of new players getting exposed to guitars through Rocksmith and actually learning to play.
Like her?
Comment: Re:Thieves looking to steal metal? lolwut? (Score 2) 126
That doesn't even make sense. There have got to be a bunch of easier ways to steal metal than going out of your way to find the exposed pipe that just happens to contain out a bunch of important fibre.
These police are complete fucking idiots if they think this was the motive. It's quite obvious the objective wasn't theft, it was just to cause damage.
Or maybe they were smart criminals who had some other crime to perform but wanted the communications of the emergency services to be impaired before they got down to some serious doing of crimes. There may be a bank somewhere in Northern AZ that is still trying to call the police.
