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  1. Re:Wait...what? by commodore64_love · · Score: 1 · on Hotels Lead the Industry In Credit Card Theft

    >>>"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. "
    >>>LOL sad

    Yep. This link might work, although you won't get to see her sexy asian-european-american body :-( http://s0.ilike.com/play#Michelle+Branch:Are+You+Happy+Now:28704:s526903.8517444.2883784.0.2.20%2Cstd_b74cb0d1d0f64605a4ed1cfaaef4553a

  2. Re:They called it the streak? by Daengbo · · Score: 1 · on Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device

    Thanks for the laugh. I had that on 8 track in the 70s.

  3. Am I the only one... by Sfing_ter · · Score: 1 · on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water

    Am I the only one that whenever they hear of these types of technology (virus batteries, gmo food, virus water molecule splitting), gets the Devo song Mongoloid streaming to their brain????!!!

  4. A Novelty At Best by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful · on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music
    I'm betting these models have parameters selected by the researchers. For instance, the Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff sample would probably be coded to parametize the delay between notes in order to capture the similar pacings he put in other recordings. The loudness parameterized to implement similar crescendos, sforzandos, decrescendos, etc. How would Rachmaninoff play a rallentando? No matter, just take all recordings of him playing it, statistically analyze the appropriate parameters and apply it to the synthesized notes in the piece. Those synthesized notes have come a long way in the same manner. They used to sound like pure wavelengths produced by an oscillator. Because they were. But analyze the beginning and end of piano notes struck at various force and held for various durations and you can synthesize it by analyzing the statistical aberations in the wavelengths.

    This will take you only so far, however, and for each artist parametized and 'reproduced' will require as much analysis and attention to detail on the researcher's part than had that researcher picked up their own instrument and created new music. The science will, effectively, become an art. Did it matter that Rachmaninoff's were freakishly large (sometimes looking as long as the keys themselves)? Will you be able to build the physics of those hands into your model and simulation?

    In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists.

    Oh, how humorously short sighted a statement that is. And I don't mean that as a Luddite, I mean that as a fan of the evolution of music. How would early David Bowie's growth to late David Bowie be modeled and reproduced? You'll hear guitar in both those songs. Good luck on that parameterization producing anything but garbage!

    This will be a novelty and one I look forward to enjoying it as such. But nothing more. No more a replacement for music than grand pianos were replaced by early synthesizers. You might be able to convince me at some point it will suffice (like a live piano performance may employ an electric piano) but I dare say the parameters are far too many and far too complicated.

  5. A Novelty At Best by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful · on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music
    I'm betting these models have parameters selected by the researchers. For instance, the Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff sample would probably be coded to parametize the delay between notes in order to capture the similar pacings he put in other recordings. The loudness parameterized to implement similar crescendos, sforzandos, decrescendos, etc. How would Rachmaninoff play a rallentando? No matter, just take all recordings of him playing it, statistically analyze the appropriate parameters and apply it to the synthesized notes in the piece. Those synthesized notes have come a long way in the same manner. They used to sound like pure wavelengths produced by an oscillator. Because they were. But analyze the beginning and end of piano notes struck at various force and held for various durations and you can synthesize it by analyzing the statistical aberations in the wavelengths.

    This will take you only so far, however, and for each artist parametized and 'reproduced' will require as much analysis and attention to detail on the researcher's part than had that researcher picked up their own instrument and created new music. The science will, effectively, become an art. Did it matter that Rachmaninoff's were freakishly large (sometimes looking as long as the keys themselves)? Will you be able to build the physics of those hands into your model and simulation?

    In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists.

    Oh, how humorously short sighted a statement that is. And I don't mean that as a Luddite, I mean that as a fan of the evolution of music. How would early David Bowie's growth to late David Bowie be modeled and reproduced? You'll hear guitar in both those songs. Good luck on that parameterization producing anything but garbage!

    This will be a novelty and one I look forward to enjoying it as such. But nothing more. No more a replacement for music than grand pianos were replaced by early synthesizers. You might be able to convince me at some point it will suffice (like a live piano performance may employ an electric piano) but I dare say the parameters are far too many and far too complicated.

  6. King Missile by FilthCatcher · · Score: 1 · on Thief Steals $40K in Cheesecakes

    "The truck was stolen"?

    Sounds like the guy from this song finally decided to come back home...

    http://www.ilike.com/artist/King+Missile/track/Cheesecake+Truck

  7. iLike by NMerriam · · Score: 1 · on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music?

    I...like...using iLike, because they have an iTunes plugin for mac and windows that automatically goes through your tracks, your ratings, etc and recommends Garageband artists with similar music. You can click and download free tracks (sometimes entire free albums!) right there from the recommendations drawer that it adds to iTunes, no browser windows or extra program interfaces to deal with. it's retty much ideal if you actually use itunes as your music player.

    last.fm is older and more established on the social networking side, but I think it's a little less convenient for the actual music part.

  8. Same problem with "cTunes" as with "jTunes", eh? by Parker51 · · Score: 1 · on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear

    Much the same problem with regard to lack of access for U.S. customers can be found at the Canadian iTunes store. For example, there's more tracks available from "The Tragically Hip", a Canadian group that has a small, but strong, fan base here in the States, including me. In particular, there are several iTunes-exclusive download albums of live concert material of "The Hip" called "Live 10", which are unavailable to U.S. downloaders.

    *SIGH*

    "At the hundredth meridian, at the end of the mesa, where the Great Plains begin..." (Fully Completely)

  9. Same problem with "cTunes" as with "jTunes" (Eh?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear

    Much the same problem with regard to lack of access for U.S. customers can be found at the Canadian iTunes store. For example, there's more tracks available from The Tragically Hip", a Canadian group that has a small, but strong, fan base here in the States, including me. In particular, there are several iTunes-exclusive download albums of live concert material of "The Hip" called "Live 10" which are unavailable to U.S. downloaders.

    *SIGH*

    "At the hundredth meridian, at the end of the mesa, where the Great Plains begin..." (Fully Completely)