supporting music for your programs?
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does anyone else ever feel the need to add supporting music to their programs? on one of my current projects (a data conversion program) i have told the program to play the Imperial March from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back while it is running, so long as it can find the audio file. it adds the right sort of atmosphere, and helps to remind us that Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) was created specifically for these data conversions :rolleyes: nothing else seemed appropriate really :) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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does anyone else ever feel the need to add supporting music to their programs? on one of my current projects (a data conversion program) i have told the program to play the Imperial March from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back while it is running, so long as it can find the audio file. it adds the right sort of atmosphere, and helps to remind us that Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) was created specifically for these data conversions :rolleyes: nothing else seemed appropriate really :) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
feline_dracoform wrote: Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) That's Murphy's law[^]. :) Moore's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law[^] Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions". "I think the internet has been online for too long." – Joesox.
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does anyone else ever feel the need to add supporting music to their programs? on one of my current projects (a data conversion program) i have told the program to play the Imperial March from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back while it is running, so long as it can find the audio file. it adds the right sort of atmosphere, and helps to remind us that Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) was created specifically for these data conversions :rolleyes: nothing else seemed appropriate really :) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
I would assume that you have some strong licenseing issues ahead of you then. George Lucas might want some cash.. or at very least John Williams (if I rememebr him as the one who wrote that music).
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall." George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the asshole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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does anyone else ever feel the need to add supporting music to their programs? on one of my current projects (a data conversion program) i have told the program to play the Imperial March from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back while it is running, so long as it can find the audio file. it adds the right sort of atmosphere, and helps to remind us that Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) was created specifically for these data conversions :rolleyes: nothing else seemed appropriate really :) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
When I was younger, I used to get a kick out of putting similiar easter-eggs into my apps. Now it justs seems unprofessional to me and also extra code that needs testing and checking for security issues. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I would assume that you have some strong licenseing issues ahead of you then. George Lucas might want some cash.. or at very least John Williams (if I rememebr him as the one who wrote that music).
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall." George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the asshole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
i purchased the 6 CD set of the film sound tracks at Christmas i was under the impression that i was fine to listen to the mp3 format of the music i own. since it is an internal program the only copy of the mp3 file is my file. i was under the impression this was OK. if i was distributing the file i can see this would be a problem. perhaps i should have been more clear on this front. do you know if i am correct in this? i think i am, but now i am wondering following your comment. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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When I was younger, I used to get a kick out of putting similiar easter-eggs into my apps. Now it justs seems unprofessional to me and also extra code that needs testing and checking for security issues. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
on this occasion it only added 2 lines of code, since there was an existing library function to do the work for me. i have become so used to the endless list of changes that need to be made to our software that this view never really occurred to me in this context. food for thought certainly. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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does anyone else ever feel the need to add supporting music to their programs? on one of my current projects (a data conversion program) i have told the program to play the Imperial March from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back while it is running, so long as it can find the audio file. it adds the right sort of atmosphere, and helps to remind us that Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) was created specifically for these data conversions :rolleyes: nothing else seemed appropriate really :) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
I added an easter egg to our (desktop) product, which plays an instrumental version of "All Along The Watchtower" (Hendrix) while displaying a list of credits. The MIDI file is stored in the app as a custom resource. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
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feline_dracoform wrote: Moore's law (if it can go wrong it will. if it cannot go wrong it will go wrong anyway) That's Murphy's law[^]. :) Moore's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law[^] Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions". "I think the internet has been online for too long." – Joesox.
Isn't it Murphy's law applied to quoting Moore's law? :-D:laugh:
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I added an easter egg to our (desktop) product, which plays an instrumental version of "All Along The Watchtower" (Hendrix) while displaying a list of credits. The MIDI file is stored in the app as a custom resource. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
Easter Eggs are yummy! :D I haven't put any easter eggs in anything I've written yet, but none of my stuff has been distributed outside of the company I work for, so my audience is limited :) I'm trying to figure out OpenGL right now, so maybe I'll put a present in my stuff once I've got a good handle on it. When I review my code before people use it, I'm usually too busy cleaning up code and removing test functions to add anything extra. "It's not a question of whose habitat it is, it's a question of how hard you hit it. " The Late, Great, Douglas Adams.
