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Well, my point is: you can also have 5 listeners or for that matter 12 listeners at 96 or 128 kbps instead of 24.

We could run this on my server. It has plenty of bandwidth, which would mean it can support more listeners than dasjoe's - I haven't actually had time to listen to a show on that yet, but it seems to be his own PC on his home connection, since it's on No-IP. Worth it, do you think?

Found it boring.

Here's something much longer that sadly goes in a similar direction, but is occasionally funny. The rest of that site is more worth reading.

Esseb was faster with the extension, but I have something to add: nobody ought to use AvantBrowser, it's nothing but an IE wrapper. Which means it may have better usability than IE by itself, but is every bit as obsolete and insecure. Avoid.

whee!

I actually think that Robbie Williams could do a good job, too.

Surely you mean Robin Williams.

If we're all going to list our favourite comics, I can think of a few as well.

I've been reading it for a while. Not my favourite, but I too like it a lot and yes, people should be reading it.

Or maybe all you need is some anticyclone spray.

I've never experienced anything that could reasonably be called a natural disaster either - fairly heavy storms, occasionally, but never anything that did much more than take a few shingles of somebody's roof, or abduct a sunshade, or temporarily flood a street. Lots of forest/brush fires when I was on vacation in Italy last year, though, but almost all seen only from afar.

There are two reasonable situations in which lossless storage of audio makes sense: One, if the sounds are going to be changed and reencoded (since errors tend to pile up). Two, many kinds of acoustic research. Neither applies to game speech. Keep lossless copies if you want/must, but there is no reason to use these for the actual game.

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Cheap, I know. But effective.

"The Bicentennial Man" is a story by Asimov. "The Positronic Man" is a novel based on that story, written in cooperation with Robert Silverberg.

Maybe not, but the name isn't something else. This is a movie that shouts "HI, I'M BASED ON ASIMOV'S WORKS!" at your face, then (judging from basically everything I've read about it, though admittedly I haven't seen it) proceeds to dump everything that made Asimov interesting and gives the audience a bunch of explosions and Will Smith and whatnot instead.

Midi is part of the heritage of gaming. And, as was pointed out before, adds depth and nostalgia which is seldom found in most mp3's.

Oh, come on, that's just silly. Adds depth? As for nostalgia - you're entitled to that, but for me game music nostalgia belongs much more to old FM chips such as the YM3812 (OPL2). MIDI music as used in games today rather reminds me of badly made shareware games for Windows 3.1.

A "red herring" is something that looks like a clue, but leads nowhere. In an adventure game, that would be items or background objects that seem interesting but have no actual purpose - I think the fridge in Simon the Sorcerer 1 was one.

The red herring in Monkey Island was a joke about this - it actually was useful. You needed it to pass a troll blocking a bridge on Mêlée Island.

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Haha, so my god is having no god? Exactly how do you come by that logic? I never did really understand that. The problem is that you have little or no understanding of exactly what science is and how it works. It isn't a belief system, and scientists don't believe in every theory there is. They're theories, which have possibilities of being true, and if they are proven beyond a doubt then they cease to be theories. They say, "How did this happen? Well maybe it was this.. or this.."

I don't agree with saying that about everyone who isn't religious either. I have, however, come across people who are very aggressive about these matters, whose fervour for spreading their message of atheistic salvation doesn't fall short of, say, Jehova's Witnesses' efforts by all that much - the chief difference being that they're usually not organized, and I can't recall ever hearing of such people coming to people's houses about it. Still, it's certainly appropriate for these.

However, I think you're missing the point of the science/religion thing, which is that there isn't one. It makes little sense to yell "Science! Science! Occam's Razor!" at religious beliefs unless they cross a certain line - if Peary's expedition to the North Pole had seriously looked for Santa's workshop, that would be quite deserving of your ridicule. If Gagarin's comment about not seeing God in space had been caused by surprise that this was so, you'd have any amount of justification you could possibly want to point and laugh. You can scratch your head at the people who seriously think they've found Noah's Ark, and at the medieval funnymen who burned "witches" and whatnot.

But religious beliefs that aren't mere superstitions about the physical world should not be confused with these, but should be taken a little more seriously - though whether you have anything in that direction or not is your affair, and I for my part don't mind if you poke a little fun at the mythology that is linked to or part of my beliefs. The most important of these is that God isn't a heartless jerk, everything else follows from that.

My entry is here.

Or here if you want the real entry for some reason.

I strongly protest the bans, as the stuff said that lead to it was your everyday #ags talk.

Yes. Yes, it was. The reason for the bans was what everyday #ags talk had become.