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ronyaronya Arrrrrf.the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
edited November 2011 in Debate and/or Discourse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0

From an interview with Brian Eno:
Q: How did you come to compose "The Microsoft Sound"?

A: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem -- solve it."

The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long."

I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.

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  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Yes, it isn't actually 3.25 seconds long, and pedants everywhere have relentlessly pointed this out since the interview was posted. In 1996.

    ronya on
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Holy shit, Brian Eno composed the Windows sound? That's fantastic.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    I had no idea Brian Eno was behind it. That is madness.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    I highly recommend Eno's "Oblique Strategies" to any creative-type person, by the way, or even just people who need help with an essay or other piece of writing.

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    I mostly remember the poohaa about paying the Rolling Stones 3 gazzillion megabucks to use 'Start Me Up' (Which I seem to recall only played once on a standard install)

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    I had feared I was posting something already well-known in Internet lore. Well, disaster avoided.

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Also, I had entirely forgotten what the startup thing sounded like.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr PEWPEWPEW!!! America's WangRegistered User regular
    SW:ToR is great.

    Seriously people, it's sooo good.

    Steam
    Humphrey Bogart wrote:
    So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    My first computer was a ZX Spectrum.

    16K RAM.

    I figure I could take a bear.
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    MyDcmbr wrote:
    SW:ToR is great.

    Seriously people, it's sooo good.

    is it up? My launcher's "play" button is grayed out.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Hmm, I'm in the beta weekend for that but I doubt I'll have time to try it.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Mojo_Jojo wrote:
    Also, I had entirely forgotten what the startup thing sounded like.

    Here's another jingle, may be familiar:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFpvxXQe6Kk

    Intel still uses it but the barrage of TV advertisements from the megahertz-myth, Intel Inside campaign period is long gone.

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  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    poshniallo wrote:
    My first computer was a ZX Spectrum.

    16K RAM.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

    (non-terrible-compression-artifacts source)

    ronya on
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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    okay the fantastic mr fox

    uncanny valley

    it's all. . .so off.

    DasUberEdward on
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  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr PEWPEWPEW!!! America's WangRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    MyDcmbr wrote:
    SW:ToR is great.

    Seriously people, it's sooo good.

    is it up? My launcher's "play" button is grayed out.

    I dunno, I am at work.

    I was playing it yesterday.

    Steam
    Humphrey Bogart wrote:
    So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    ... no? You are referring to the non-IBM PC, I presume?

    sorry i just assume anybody who knows the bitmap bros as being an amiga fan, which then implies SUPERIOR EUROPEAN QUALITIES

    it's k though... you can be an honorary englishman if you high five your dog

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Hey homps

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g069AFLtL40

  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    Still very much enjoying AssBro, just wish the CP would let me play for longer.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    kosh knows all about imparting a lot of heart and soul into three and a quarter seconds

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Organichu wrote:
    kosh knows all about imparting a lot of heart and soul into three and a quarter seconds

    they were the best 3.25 seconds of your life

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    are you implying that his sexual performance might be characterised by a marked celerity, chu?

    HOW IMPOLITE YOU HIRSUTE JEWESS

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Organichu wrote:
    kosh knows all about imparting a lot of heart and soul into three and a quarter seconds

    they were the best 3.25 seconds of your life

    So jealous...

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Organichu wrote:
    kosh knows all about imparting a lot of heart and soul into three and a quarter seconds

    they were the best 3.25 seconds of your life

    it's a 1:1 ratio of inches to seconds

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    BobCesca wrote:
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Organichu wrote:
    kosh knows all about imparting a lot of heart and soul into three and a quarter seconds

    they were the best 3.25 seconds of your life

    So jealous...

    you should be

    i ran on the cosmos... i scaled difficult cliff faces like a goat. the entire roman harem of gods were the debutantes at my fabulous party.

    best 3.25 of my life

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    chu goin in deep here

    (unlike jacob)

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    man

    i didn't get any sleep. i fell asleep around 5:15 and then my brother woke me up knocking on the front door at 6:30. then he started watching some terrible looking cartoon- it looks sort of like some anime characters playing dreidel but their dreidels also have 'moves' like pokemon- and i just accepted i'm only getting 75 minutes of sleep

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Organichu wrote:
    man

    i didn't get any sleep. i fell asleep around 5:15 and then my brother woke me up knocking on the front door at 6:30. then he started watching some terrible looking cartoon- it looks sort of like some anime characters playing dreidel but their dreidels also have 'moves' like pokemon- and i just accepted i'm only getting 75 minutes of sleep

    ahaaa what

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    why did your brother do this

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Organichu wrote:
    man

    i didn't get any sleep. i fell asleep around 5:15 and then my brother woke me up knocking on the front door at 6:30. then he started watching some terrible looking cartoon- it looks sort of like some anime characters playing dreidel but their dreidels also have 'moves' like pokemon- and i just accepted i'm only getting 75 minutes of sleep

    ahaaa what

    i refuse to ask him what it is because then he'll think i like it

    there's like, a conical, sunken 'platform' and they throw these spinning things in there... they keep rotating (along their own x-axis and also around the little battling area thing) and like, the 'trainers' yell out shit like EAGLE, USE YOUR FIRE SLASHING SWORD and shit and their little dreidel pieces attack each other

    Organichu on
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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    spinning shit surely equals beyblade

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    surrealitycheck wrote:
    spinning shit surely equals beyblade

    ok i youtube'd it

    yep, beyblade it is

    jesus this shit is terrible

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Are they using jiddish? I see a comedy goldmine.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Organichu wrote:
    man

    i didn't get any sleep. i fell asleep around 5:15 and then my brother woke me up knocking on the front door at 6:30. then he started watching some terrible looking cartoon- it looks sort of like some anime characters playing dreidel but their dreidels also have 'moves' like pokemon- and i just accepted i'm only getting 75 minutes of sleep

    ahaaa what

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSd31IP5mmg

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Each player counts to three, then they shout "Let It Rip" which is also the games slogan. There are many beyblades to collect, and many different stadiums (also known as beystadiums) to buy. A beyblade is a spinning top that spins at rapid speeds. As the spinning tops collide with each other in the stadiums, they slow each other down and make loud noises, and the person whos beyblade has stopped spinning loses and the other person wins.

    this sounds way too much like a couple of drunk jewish teenagers

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Playing Wordfeud against a random. She managed 24 points in 4 turns so far.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I'm surprised Beyblade is still being shown. That shit was on when I was like 12

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    what a coincidence, beyblade; let it rip is also the phrase that i scream when torturing domestic animals

    wait i mean

  • SparvySparvy Registered User regular
    Hmm, installing a new graphics card was easier than I remember it being. Only hassle was having to move a hard drive to another slot since my case is pretty small.

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