Apple has a new Supplier Responsibility page up on their website. You guys probably already know this, but I'd like to think I tipped you on it if an article comes out of it. :D
If you're like me, until your house is beaming juice to your gadgets wirelessly, you will resolutely consider charging stuff a pain in the ass. The Idapt i4 gets where we're coming from and offers one word of consolation: consolidation.
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I know we've got VirtualNES.com for awesome, in-browser retro gaming fun, but is there anything similar for other consoles? Something for the Game Boy? That'd be fucking ace.
@Buddy Ruddy: Not quite as elegant as VNES, but still better than nothing. The default screen size resulted in a super high frame rate though. Made Super Mario Land considerably more difficult than I remember it being though :)
@Captain K'nuckles: Was default the 2x or 1x for you? 'Twas 1x for me. Yea, not quite as smooth as desired, but like you say "better than nothing" I 'spose.
When it comes to cell phone radiation, everyone thinks they're an expert. Recently, however, GQ talked to the real experts, and though there's no consensus, one thing's clear: the rest of the world is worried. The U.S. is not.
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@RT100: Correct. Usernames are, stars are not. Being that I only surf Kotaku and this wonderful site, however, I don't get a lot of mileage out of the convenience.
@badhatharry: I received my on Kotaku about a year or so ago. Back when I used to do my wall-of-text thing. I find that I don't have the patience for that sort of thing anymore, though. I get more enjoyment out of these sites' pseudo-fourms now.
@Captain K'nuckles: The site-specific stars came about during the last major comment system overhaul (the one that introduced the red comments, and promoting comments). All stars before that work everywhere.
@badhatharry: "The site-specific stars came about" a few weeks after the last major comment system overhaul. OCEntertainment and other early "new generation" starred commenters have universal stars. Unfortunately, I was a week or two off the cut off mark.
@Scotland: I thought you had yours before the new system, lost it in some sort of bug, and Rosa gave it back. If I remeber correctly, it was within a day or two of the new system. Yours doesn't work everywhere? It certainly should.
@badhatharry: Hmm..
If Rosa hadn't given me my star back before lots of people (which I was grateful for), would I still have a "universal star"?
I used to have a "universal star" but then all the new starred commenters lost their stars. Then I made a "hilarious" comment and Rosa re-starred me and it became Gizmodo only.
(Damn me and my great comments which result in early re-starrings.)
@cormack: Usernames are global across all of the Gawker Media sites. Stars and approvals are not (with the exception of some who were grandfathered from the old comments system.)
@badhatharry:
I got my star on the 14th of August (I think)
The first phase of the new system was in June/July (I think)
I lost the universal star on the 15th of October and received a Gizmodo star a few hours later (I think)
How much of your music do you regularly use? (That dusty stack of cassettes and the 8 hard drives of stolen material under your desk don't count, because you don't actually listen to them. But the LPs probably do, because you put them on when dates come over.)
I keep just over 40G in iTunes and on my iPod that I almost always listen to on shuffle. That's 30 days of constant music that makes up my "regular rotation." Really too much for one person, but I'm guessing less than many of you?
@92BuickLeSabre: About 120 gigs of music, perhaps 70-80GBs of which I truly adore and couldn't bear to part with. File sizes can be a bit misleading though, as that can speak more about your encoding preferences than it does about the amount of music you actually have.
But that's an unnecessary tangent :) Sorry.
I recently had to back-up my computer before a Win 7 install, so all of music is actually elsewhere. I was considering doing some serious pruning, but I hate the idea of deleting music. I'm a digital packrat, I suppose. #whitenoiseReply
@92BuickLeSabre: I have a playlist called '200 newest songs' and that is fine for me. also, i have a 5* playlist that i listen to on repeat, that has 94 songs, just over 1 GB. So yeah i have 25 GB total, and don't listen to anywhere near that much
@92BuickLeSabre: I have 149.83G. For pleasure, I use maybe 50G. For work/hobby (more of a hobby because I do it in my spare time, and mostly for free), I am a sound designer for local theater. I use a wide variety of the remainder in those shows. I love it, but I can't listen to a lot of 20th Century classical music for funsies.
And even then, with the 50G, I usually gravitate towards Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Death Cab For Cutie, and Sigur Ros.
@92BuickLeSabre: I still haven't finished listening through my collection (probably about 40G). That's mainly due to the fact that I tend to put certain songs on repeat depending on my mood. One day, though, I WILL finish.
however i basically know all of my 4000-odd songs, and I've picked out these as my favorites. I don't always stick to those 94, though. Sometimes I'll put it on shuffle and play through those, but there's a surprising amount of my own music that I don't even like haha
what are your absolute favorites, as a suggestion? I'm always looking for new stuff
addendum:
iTunes said I've only completely played through 1800/4000 songs, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. More often than not, I'll skip through a song if i don't like it
new playlist: 2300 not-played all through nor rated. I'll get on that
@92BuickLeSabre: Penderecki, Ligeti, Part, John Cage, etc. You watch Kubrick Films? The music on "Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite" or whatever the end is called, is Atmospheres by Ligeti. The music from Eyes Wide Shut is also Ligeti. Have you seen Children of Men? The music when he's chasing the mother and her kid through Bexhill and into the apartment building in one long shot? Penderecki. The same piece is also used in The Shining. There Will Be Blood? Most of that music is either Arvo Part, or Jonny Greenwood biting Arvo Part's rhymes.
This doesn't encapsulate all of it, but one major characteristic of 20th Century classical is an absence of melody, and use of more experimental music theory such as note clusters. The piece from Children of Men is a famous one called "Threnody To The Victims of Heroshima." It uses a number of string instruments all playing semitones apart (a fraction of the difference between one note and another. It is easiest to do this on a stringed instrument with no frets).
But really, all classical music written after 1900 is 20th Century classical.
@RT100: I was in a few bands in high school and college. We wrote our own stuff, but were not very good. Our biggest hit was a spanish cover of We Got The Beat entitled "Tenemos El Beat." I actually don't have a lot of background in theory. I only know the western major scale. My degree is in sound design for theater, and I tried to take as many music classes as I could, but the theory ones were limited to music majors. I mainly took general lecture classes. #whitenoiseReply
@badhatharry: As much as I enjoy Threnody, I must admit that I find quite a bit of Penderecki to be taxing. Actually, I find most the atonalists to be taxing. Taking Schoenberg too literally should be considered a criminal offense. It's as insufferable as romanticism for me. The best music is dramatic and dynamic, it's both major and minor, consonant and dissonant.
But I do really appreciate several modern composers. Arvo Part comes to mind, since you mentioned him earlier :)
I hate it when commentators say a cross-court pass is a good one. It almost never is a good pass. If it makes it it's a lucky pass, not a good one. id10ts
@Buddy Ruddy:
Well, I think if the defense is out o position (especially in the zone happy NCAA ) a good cross court pass can give you one of those open 3s that college ball is all about.
Personally I hate college ball. The 3 point line is to close, defenses generally suck, and the style of play is boring.
Nowadays in the NBA team ball is win so you don't see all the boring ISO plays of the 90s. #whitenoiseReply
You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that she's an imposter.
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Wonder if it would be possible to get a notification when someone hearts you (or unhearts you), that would link to the comment that led to the heart (or unheart).
I'm always curious which of my comments moved someone to love me (and which ones moved them to unlove me.)
@92BuickLeSabre: To take this one step further, I think it would be a good idea to get a notification when a starred commenter promotes one of your posts.
Because everyone enjoys a self esteem boost, no matter how internet-y it is.
@92BuickLeSabre: You know, it shouldn't be that hard to implement either. Only thing is that they've had serious issues with the commenting/hashtag system as-of-late.
Honestly, at first, I thought it was a bug or something that it didn't notify you of these things.
Don't you get a notification if an editor promotes a comment, though? #whitenoiseReply
When I got stared a notification was sent saying Brian stared me.
No notification of which post I wrote that got me the star / promoted by Brian was given though.
So at least for me, no I haven't gotten any form of notification when something I write gets promoted by an editor.
I got a notification that I was stared, but no notification that the comment was promoted.
- Though I might be misunderstanding and rambling on about something different then what you're talking about.
.. I've been known to do that on more than one occasion.
@SeventhExile Speaks: You weren't already starred though. If you are already a star, and an editor likes what you wrote they can promote it again. In this instance you are informed on the mainpage.
Also, try promoting an older comment of yours. One you made before being starred. You will also get a notification of that on the main page.
@92BuickLeSabre: I think I hearted you during Operation Pony Keg. I hearted everyone who was involved and had not already hearted. Before that, I didn't want to look like I was just trying to follow the cool kids.
Word Of The Day is a new daily feature for whitenoise by modestmouse, highlighting tech-related terms you may or may not have heard of before.
Todays word: Asshat |as-hat| noun
Definition: A close cousin of the Ass-clown, asshat is typically identified by a jovial expression and an outward misunderstanding of how he/she is perceived, combined with a generally misguided conception of what is sociably acceptable amongst his/her fellow peers.
Said persons' frequent attempts at humor usually lead to he/she making an ass out of his/herself. Not to be confused with ass-hole.
An asshat can also be described as: A person, of either gender, whose behavior displays such ignorance/obnoxiousness that you would like to make them wear their own ass as a hat.
Or: One who has their head up their ass, thus wearing their ass as a hat. Someone who is very ignorant, stubborn or dull.
Example(s): "Quit throwing pennies at that homeless man, you asshat."
or
"Hey asshat, thanks for double parking."
Recent Event: [gizmodo.com] was recently banned for calling Jesus Diaz an asshat.
"@Jesus Diaz: Woh there cowboy; as it happens I used to be a director at a major 3D Asset Marketplace and have worked in the Uk game industry, so 3D did actually used to be one of my things.
I wasn't even complaining, just wondering if the other visual aspects were accurate; which I think is a very fair point.
Anyway, if you can send me the source 3D file I'll be happy to re-render it more realistically (assuming I can get some source photography and luminescent data); I patiently await the file.
People have been twisting balloons into squeaky little animals for decades, but Willy Chyr's work marks an evolution in the craft. Instead of dogs and bunnies, he makes gigantic, science-inspired sculptures of jellyfish, neurons, and zooids. Huh?
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