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cybrbeast (Member Profile)

Ornthoron says...

It is not Air on a G string either; that one is an adaption for solo violin and piano. The music in the video is the real thing, by Bach himself.

Edit: Although it should be mentioned that the title "Air on a G string" is often misattributed to any version of this tune.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
I think it might be Bach after all.

Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String

*edited again

A Soothing Pretty Cloudy Timelapse set to Bach

Air Force One Stunt freaks out New Yorkers

EDD says...

I don't understand what any of you are complaining about - obviously, there was careful cost/benefit analysis involved in the planning:

Avg cost of what, 20 man-hours of pro-Photoshopping?
Roughly $3000 (it's a single plane against cloudy background, c'mon).

Avg cost of several hours' VC-25 fuel + crew salary + scaring millions of people to death?
Priceless.

DIY lights from 2-liter soda bottles with NO electricity

DIY lights from 2-liter soda bottles with NO electricity

ajkido says...

>> ^Bhruic:
It's a nice idea, but I'd like to see what happens with them on a cloudy day.


I suppose they turn the electric lights on then.

That is actually a very nice way of saving energy. I wonder if this kind of technology could be used in buildings that have more than just a thin sheet of metal for a roof. Natural light in a room with no windows is just cool!

DIY lights from 2-liter soda bottles with NO electricity

Ayn Rand's chilling 1959 interview on 21st century ills

dannym3141 says...

^ People are disagreeing with what they think ayn rand thinks. I'm no expert, i don't know what her manifesto might have been, but she had some good ideas and thoughts about human nature, imo.

The only bad thing about ayn rand, imo, is the book atlas shrugged, in which not only does she describe every brain process of every character involved and cloudy up an otherwise fantastic novel, but she puts her own views into it on male/female sexuality, ties it to "instrinsic human nature" and makes me feel sick.

But other than that a lot of the views she expressed in it were clever and astute. Maybe i should check her out a bit more.

Edit: In fact i'll say some more..

Everything she says here is 100% fine, it makes sense and it's true as far as i understand it. However, i feel it suffers from the same thing as communism. The system would only work if everyone was perfect (which shows in her book atlas shrugged, where all masters of industry are fair and honest and true), and unfortunately that is not the case. In her world, a steel manufacturer would be allowed to make a monopoly on the steel industry, put every other steel company out of business using skill and acumen, and continue to improve the product and offer fair services and prices to everyone. However, in our world, that isn't the case. Political palm-greasing, schemers and scammers, 'grab all you can' types.. it'd never work out how she thinks it'd work out. It'd be great if it did, if everyone was perfect, but it never would happen. You could almost take microsoft as a living example of how a monopoly can lead to poor service. Take betamax vs. videotape.

That's aside from the fact that someone who has a monopoly on such things may not have the best system or idea. Let's say microsoft are a monopoly and they wipe out every other form of operating system. They had the best operating system in 1990-2000. But after 2000, their operating system was really poor and didn't get the best out of our computers. But there would be no one to offer an alternative because no one would be willing to research and develop such an idea, they'd never get any sales, or they'd be bought out, or they'd never even begin to start with because the knowledge would have been lost to all but microsoft. So as far as we all know, that system is the best system available. Even microsoft think so. But that's only one perspective, and humans have mostly always arrived at the best system through review and competition.

blah, rambling again

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009) - Official Trailer

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009) - Official Trailer

I. What is a Free Market? (Blog Entry by imstellar28)

imstellar28 says...

^how would that be a trade, as you are not exchanging anything for the hose? trade, I define, is the exchange of goods, services, or information. what you describe is theft (one-sided exchange). if you had left a note or some other object, it would be trade of sorts as it would be an exchange of goods between two parties. however, it would neither be voluntary or "free" trade as you would have forced it upon me.

I am saying that a free market is an environment where trade occurs between two parties, voluntarily, and in the absence of physical force, compulsion, or coercion. I cleaned up the wording to try to make it more clear. If it is still cloudy, feel free to suggest alternative phrasing.

Wipeout -=- The Surfaris

Impressive Tornado Footage

drattus says...

It strange the different conditions a tornado can spawn in. I live just south of where the Jarrell tornado (F5) hit a few years ago, same storm even took the roof off a supermarket west of us. We had another set of hooks with hail go right over us in the last few weeks though it didn't spawn one that time. There's always been at least heavy wind and rain, generally hail as well associated with them in this area.

It's weird given what I've seen in this area (central Texas) to have one right in front of them on what seems an otherwise calm but cloudy day.

The Great VideoSift Coming -Out Thread (Happy Talk Post)

Zero Punctuation: Grand Theft Auto IV

Abel_Prisc says...

LOTS of nitpicking, and although I almost always agree with Yahtzee, I'd have to disagree with quite a few of his points.

He's right about the turning, but only because it's a rough transition after so many years of GTA car-turning being so loose and arcadey. This is more realistic, but also a bit stiff. Which leads me to my next point.

I think Yahtzee should rethink his point about games trying to become too realistic over arcade-style. All of the GTA3 games had very arcade-like reactions and physics to it. Take for example, the headshot, making the head disappear, and in it's place a stream of blood shooting straight upwards for several feet from the neck, before the body just falls over. Now, that's funny at first, but after so much of that, it got a bit too cartoony, and I was hoping for a more 'realistic' reaction. Now look at GTA4's physics. They're jaw-dropping. When you hit somebody with a car, they act so accordingly, thanks to the Euphoria physics engine (basically a much smarter, and more natural ragdoll type of physics). I mean, hell, the cars had Euphoria as well. When you hit another car hard enough, the driver dies from the impact, and his face plants into the steering wheel, leaving the car horn blaring continuously. Little details like that also make it really cool. Is Yahtzee honestly saying he'd rather a cartoon reaction over something so impressive as the Euphoria physics?

And the coloring of the city was not brown and grey. Only during cloudy/rainy/foggy days were they greyish/blue, and some point of the day was the city brown. Other than that, I was absolutely AMAZED with how pretty the daytime was. Noon-time actually looked like noon, with a natural looking sun beating down on the sidewalk and cars, etc. Dawn looks like dawn, and so forth.

All in all, he seemed to have liked it. I was a skeptic of GTA4 before I got it, and I honestly was THAT impressed with it, that I'll argue in it's defense against one of my all-time favorite reviewers. Different strokes for different folks, but I think sometimes people should take a step back from their nit-picking, and appreciate what I'd like to consider real quality. I mean, people love ripping on bad games, and rightly so. But I think we as gamers have become somewhat spoiled in the sense that we feel we should rip apart absolutely everything. I'm not directing this towards Yahtzee specifically, but sometimes it just seems that people will have a problem with something just for the sake of having something to complain about to the point of missing the entire point of healthy criticism. This game wasn't perfect, but it's obvious that instead of putting out much of the same, they came together and made something if good quality, and I think people should at least acknowledge that. Whew, sorry about that.

But he's absolutely r ight about one thing. What the hell was Rockstar thinking when they made trees the only thing in the whole game completely indestructible? You can run through newspaper stands. You can bulldoze straight through trash-cans, leaving trash littered in it's path, etc etc etc....and then smash straight into a tree without it budging an inch. The effect of flying through your windshield is really awesome though .

Bless Us, O Holy Garage Door



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