I would just get like an 88 key from Costco if you're just learning. Yamaha or something. Runs about $400 or so. If money is no object I'd look into a workstation for longevity. But they're $1500 at the cheapest usually.
If you're planning on composing music, get something with USB. The M-Audio Keystation 61ES or 88ES (61 and 88 key, respectively) are both really nice and you can use Air Ignite (free and good) with them handily. They're both sub $200. Unfortunately, they are midi controllers and, thus, have no speakers of their own. They would always have to be connected to a computer (or midi synth).
Oh god. I used to take lessons, and when I got my keyboard but before I started lessons I practiced a little with pairs sensitivity turned off. Then I went to my first lesson and they tested me on an actual piano and I was atrocious.
If you're planning on composing music, get something with USB. The M-Audio Keystation 61ES or 88ES (61 and 88 key, respectively) are both really nice and you can use Air Ignite (free and good) with them handily. They're both sub $200. Unfortunately, they are midi controllers and, thus, have no speakers of their own. They would always have to be connected to a computer (or midi synth).
I would probably say go midi, get a converter. Ideally you would have two separate devices for both these functions but to set up a usb keyboard for a live performance is a pain in the ass and usually doesn't work well. There are midi to usb converters although I haven't used one so I'm not sure how well they work. Although I assume they're okay because a lot of mods only have midi and people capture them on PCs well enough it seems.
Does anyone on the forums have any insight into the game development and nVidia's 'GameWorks' platform.
AMD also has it's own proprietary Mantle technology too but there seem to be stories going left and right on the subject controlled mostly by fanboys and marketing from both companies.
Something that when it dies, you carry the weight of it's life on the scars on your skin.
Shower Thought: Is condescending ever useful? Ever? A lot of negative attitude things have a purpose. I'm actually stuck on figuring out why someone would ever be condescending...
Stephen Colbert is condescending. He's condescending so artfully that his progressive message reaches millions of people who are so enamored of it that they share it with their friends on social media and quote it in conversation. That's useful condescension.
Although, depending on how meta you wanna get, polarization is one of the worst problems facing the US, so... I dunno. Fuck man I had shit to do today.
I absolutely agree, but that doesn't mean it isn't also wrecking the country. I don't think it's reconcilable at this point. It'll take a crisis of epic proportions to have any real reform. It won't be a revolution as long as people have console games and televisions, so I dunno.
One thing most Americans seem to have in common is that "Right" or "Left" (what passes for left these days), everybody seems pretty enamored of the aristocracy. The "1%", celebrities, etc. Lots of my Dem friends like to use the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quote to mock conservatives but the truth is that the same bias is fundamental to their own thinking as well (imho).
Polarization is unavoidable in a two-party system over time (IMHO).
Two party system is unavoidable due to our current voting system.
Both are academic. So, what does anybody do about it? That's the actually interesting question. It's a fucking doozy, too, because I don't mean "What would a technical or functional spec for improved democracy look like?" I mean "How are you going to sell it and get it implemented in the present-day United States of America?"
Polarization is unavoidable in a two-party system over time (IMHO).
Two party system is unavoidable due to our current voting system.
Both are academic. So, what does anybody do about it? That's the actually interesting question. It's a fucking doozy, too, because I don't mean "What would a technical or functional spec for improved democracy look like?" I mean "How are you going to sell it and get it implemented in the present-day United States of America?"
Good luck...
The same way the world always changes. One funeral at a time. Whether you artificially increase the rate of said funerals is your choice.
The US is becoming more liberal in some ways and far more conservative in others. Maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction of aging old farts who are angry about the gays marrying, but I think dismissing it as that is probably wishful thinking.
Increasing productivity is gonna create a permanent underclass eventually. In a lot of ways it's already happened. There's not a whole lot of Americans who will admit it on either side.
Look how fast OWS fell out of fashion. If people are comfortable, they don't care how bad society at large is getting robbed.
Look how fast OWS fell out of fashion. If people are comfortable, they don't care how bad society at large is getting robbed.
Er, there's a number of reasons for that, almost none of which have to do with people being comfortable, ranging from a complete and utter failure to form a cohesive plan or goal other than a laundry list of vague demands, and the fact they were rapidly taken over by the Libertarian movement which understandably turned a lot of people off.
Stephen Colbert is condescending. He's condescending so artfully that his progressive message reaches millions of people who are so enamored of it that they share it with their friends on social media and quote it in conversation. That's useful condescension.
I'm not positive if that counts because it's facetious. As another example, I'm sure that being condescending is a great tool to use if you are trying to be a heel in professional wrestling. Or when acting in any other form where it's appropriate.
I guess it has a use if you want to get someone angry and pull a reaction out of them, though that too is deception or manipulation.
Well OK yes, OWS was way too fragmented and there was no agreement on the primary goals, but again: polarization. It's really damned easy to drive wedges. Especially when there's such a laundry list of issues truly deserving of attention.
Wasn't it the Tea Party that was ruined by Libertarians? I wonder how concerted that was, actually.
Still, people have XBOXes and porn, by and large. There's not too many people who can fathom that billions of dollars being siphoned out of the economy by rentier capitalists actually matters to them day to day.
It's absurd that anybody in this society is working 80 hour weeks, etc, because a class of powerful people want to be absurdly wealthy to a point beyond all utility.
Stephen Colbert is condescending. He's condescending so artfully that his progressive message reaches millions of people who are so enamored of it that they share it with their friends on social media and quote it in conversation. That's useful condescension.
I'm not positive if that counts because it's facetious. As another example, I'm sure that being condescending is a great tool to use if you are trying to be a heel in professional wrestling. Or when acting in any other form where it's appropriate.
I guess it has a use if you want to get someone angry and pull a reaction out of them, though that too is deception or manipulation.
His support for Right Wing politics is facetious, but he's pretty extremely condescending of them through that pretense.
I'm am by many accounts a far leftist with a deep desire for in many cases heavy-handed socialism, and yet I had no interest in or sympathy for OWS. Their movement was a non-movement with no goals beyond "raising awareness" about a hodgepodge of unrelated causes.
OWS was, in my mind, a ping attempt with the goal of gauging support. Places like reddit are so badly gamed that it's hard to get an accounting of who and how many really buy into the issues that OWS was trying to put a spotlight on.
The disdain for OWS I think was largely engineered and the morons who ended up in front of cameras were chosen by the cameras for being morons.
Well, I work next to where OWS was. I walked past it multiple times a day.
It was a collection of people who all had completely different goals. There was trash everywhere. It looked like a hobo campsite, not a protest. The "9/11 was an inside job" people were some of the most visible protesters there, alongside the anti-GMO people.
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AMD also has it's own proprietary Mantle technology too but there seem to be stories going left and right on the subject controlled mostly by fanboys and marketing from both companies.
Is the consumer just screwed in this situation?
Shower Thought: Is condescending ever useful? Ever? A lot of negative attitude things have a purpose. I'm actually stuck on figuring out why someone would ever be condescending...
Although, depending on how meta you wanna get, polarization is one of the worst problems facing the US, so... I dunno. Fuck man I had shit to do today.
One thing most Americans seem to have in common is that "Right" or "Left" (what passes for left these days), everybody seems pretty enamored of the aristocracy. The "1%", celebrities, etc. Lots of my Dem friends like to use the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quote to mock conservatives but the truth is that the same bias is fundamental to their own thinking as well (imho).
Good luck...
Increasing productivity is gonna create a permanent underclass eventually. In a lot of ways it's already happened. There's not a whole lot of Americans who will admit it on either side.
Look how fast OWS fell out of fashion. If people are comfortable, they don't care how bad society at large is getting robbed.
I guess it has a use if you want to get someone angry and pull a reaction out of them, though that too is deception or manipulation.
Wasn't it the Tea Party that was ruined by Libertarians? I wonder how concerted that was, actually.
Still, people have XBOXes and porn, by and large. There's not too many people who can fathom that billions of dollars being siphoned out of the economy by rentier capitalists actually matters to them day to day.
It's absurd that anybody in this society is working 80 hour weeks, etc, because a class of powerful people want to be absurdly wealthy to a point beyond all utility.
OWS was a joke.
The disdain for OWS I think was largely engineered and the morons who ended up in front of cameras were chosen by the cameras for being morons.
The practical effect, obviously, is the same.
How fix?
It was a collection of people who all had completely different goals. There was trash everywhere. It looked like a hobo campsite, not a protest. The "9/11 was an inside job" people were some of the most visible protesters there, alongside the anti-GMO people.
How fix?