everyone who has touched a sampler or DAW has done this. it's one of the most basic production techniques. it's like painting a nursery room and thinking you're rothko or strumming an open tuned guitar and thinking you're tal farlow (with fallon clapping like a 4 year old the whole time).

I only played its games briefly from free samplers. They're not bad.

I still have my Kali registration. There's a free sampler of Overload game. Try it now! MW was OK. I am currently trying to finish my old Windows games from a decade ago as an unemployed guy! I finished C&C3:KW and Crysis 1 recently. I am currently playing World in Conflict.

Btw, you should use quote in VS comments. At least I would get e-mail notification of new re(plie/sponse)s.

This is why I need a free sampler.

If you did high school bio, think about what you covered that has any sort of influence on medicine... =)

Frog or rat dissection? Covered that in Bio 101 in the first year of my Applied Chemistry degree (and yes, you can give a rat a Columbian necktie... . Photosynthesis? Mating?

Yeah, Bio was pretty much introducing you to broad concepts and it's nothing that doesn't get rehashed in the first 6 months of Uni via intro subjects. I think of it more as a way to dip the toe in the pool and see if the subject matter excites you enough to try and turn it in to a career.

eg. At 40 now (and having forgotten my chem degree and gone in to IT as a sys admin after working as a chef, bouncer etc), I could go back to uni barely remembering anything about chemistry and start from scratch and be none the worse for it. The keystones you talk about are literacy and numeracy, that's about it. And they are learned in primary school.

Oh sure, it helps if you can do some higher math, but English lit? Physics? Drama? Almost nothing you do at high school has any real defining affect on most of what you do as an adult. It's more like a sampler platter, and of course a way of grading students (on a curve of course, we can't have people's scores based on their own merit) to distinguish what tertiary studies they should be eligible for.

School should be about igniting curiousity as much as practical skills for life. I did "Home Economics" (ie. cooking/sewing/budgets etc) and typing (on real mechanical typewriters no less) as opposed to wood/metal shop ( I was awful at shop). My home ec teacher was always interested in making different food, so we tried some pretty out there things in grade 8 (~13 years old), and I've always been interested in cooking since. Similarly, learning to touch type has made my life radically simpler, particularly in IT (try writing a 40 page instruction manual hunting and pecking).

Most of the high school grads we see as cadets or trainees are essentially useless and have to be taught from scratch anyway. Most of the codified BS we have these days doesn't prepare kids for life, doesn't encourage critical thinking or creativity, it a self justification to keep schools open.

You are completely entitled to your opinion on this track.. not that fond of it myself, tbh.... but pretty much everything else you've said is simply untrue.

First up, digital instruments are still instruments. Some of them require great skill to play in real time (see Beardyman for example).

Some are authoring tools that aren't used for performance. So what? In the past, we called those kinds of tools sheet music, where a composer could write some music and have others perform it.

Second, it's not a zero-sum game. Just because some people use a sampler doesn't take away from people playing guitar.

Finally, there are literally millions of musicians still playing instruments (by which I'm assuming you mean traditional instruments like strings, percussion, wind, etc). With the web as a distribution and learning tool, it has never been easier to learn, write and record music. So if you want to listen to rock or classical or blues or jazz or soul or funk or metal or folk or any combination thereof, it's out there. Go look for it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'music, keyboard, sampler, bye bye blues' to 'music, keyboard, sampler, bye bye blues, mellotron' - edited by Grimm

>> ^enoch:

>> ^ant:
>> ^enoch:
LOL...classic fail.
oh.
and blizzard?
can i speak to you for a moment?
i want my 60 bucks back!

Didn't you play the beta? I did as a playable demo.

nope.i caught a bad case of tard and bought it when it hit the shelves....sighs..


Try playing it for free next time for a sampler!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'nando, beats, reggie watts, beatbox' to 'nando, beats, reggie watts, beatbox, sampler' - edited by xxovercastxx

"Noah Benjamin Lennox[2] (born July 17,[1] 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) also known as Panda Bear, is an experimental musician and a founding member of Animal Collective."

Animal Collective were wildy successful in 2009 - Merriweather Post Pavilion was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2009. Even, Spin selected it as the best album of 2009. Panda Bear's last album "Person Pitch" was named by Pitchfork Media to be the top album of 2007[17] and placed it 9th on the Top 200 Albums of The Decade.

They innovated experimental music with using samplers to create strange rhythmic pop songs. I calmly resent that question because all of you should be at least trying to listen to new and innovative music if you're into music. If you're into music you should try to not be closed-minded... at all. I know it's difficult but if there is a genre or field of music someone has done that style well enough for me to enjoy. For me to resolve this question with - didn't you know Animal Collective's album was the best album of the entire year?! PSHHH... is ridiculous. Bottom-line - listen to music and don't worry about whether you should care or not, just listen and have a good time.


>> ^Sagemind:

Who's Panda Bear?
... and why should we care/take interest?
Not meant as a Troll, I've just never heard of Panda Bear - ever, in any-way, or at any-time as an artist or otherwise.
I could be out of touch, but maybe a better description is required here.

I freakin love this song! I have it on a Sire Records sampler "Just Say Da: Volume IV of Just Say Yes". I had no clue that there was a vid. You rock putty tat!

>> ^dag:

The pay Java download works great. Get it, it's only 10 Euros.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> ant said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/a/ant-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">I wished the game wasn't free to try it. Yes, I know a Java version exists but it is limited.
</div></div></div>

I know, but I need a bigger sampler. I tried the older Java build, but wasn't impressed.

Rosekat:
The premise is what 98% of posts complain about... Plants actually send chemical signals to each other in response to stresses which in turn changes the chemical makeup of plants around them (even in-between different species and for miles around). These signals may make a plant more toxic to a pest or might prepare a plant better for changing environmental stresses. I also really like horror films so that may have made me like it better. The very matter of fact ways that people die is great. I love the teacher character as it reminds me of the kind of personality that many teachers in my experience tend to have. The noises tended to kill the tension in the scenes where something a bit more subtle is called for. Everything in the film is so naturalistic and then they add these sounds that seem to be taken off of the cheapest stock sound sampler they could find.

Truthfully,
It's hard to know if the font you are seeing, is the font I am seeing (or the font others are seeing).
For us to pick up on the font change, We need to have the same font installed on our computers.

What I am seeing looks like a Times Roman font. So I like the Sans font better.

Perhaps these tables can help you decide on which fonts are the most popular across most computers.

Windows: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml
Mac: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-MacResults.shtml
Unix/Linux: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml
***All systems: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResults.shtml

>> ^Duckman33:
I started playing STO thinking it was gonna be a good sci-fi game. Boy was I wrong. Very disappointing! I guess now I'll play it to bide my time until this is released. Hope I get into the beta!


I played the open beta to get a free sampler. It was alright. Nothing special! I always want free samples before buying the games.