There is such a thing as tuning by eye - using a device called a strobe tuner (Peterson is the most well-known manufacturer). Basically a light, strobed at the frequency you're tuning to.
You know your string is in tune when it appears to stop moving when plucked.
Sorry - with most guitars, using equal temperement, tuning IS an art, not a science, becaue the guitar can never be perfectly in tune.
What constitutes in-tune turns out to be subjective, since the octaves are spread out in such a way that they are never 100% consonant.
Not to mention the inaccuracies of imperfect fret-spacing measurements - your guitar, even when well-set up and intonated, can be in-tune in one position, and out of tune in another.
The Buzz Feiten tuning system aims to help correct some of these issues, but as long as you're wed to equal temperement, you're never 100% in tune.
"Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
is that if I'm mugged, it's at the mugger's discretion whether to let me walk away in one piece.
If this RFID thing were to replace cash, I'd have to worry about being cut up or killed, as the thief attempts to retrieve the tag, or kidnapped and coerced into paying for stuff.
To sum it up: with RFID, when the fool and his money are parted, so too are several of his fingers.
Seems to me this whole plan is merely an attempt by Phoenix to make their product more desirable by throwing more features into it. We've seen this pattern before with disk controllers, disk drives, network cards, motherboards, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc.
Unfortunately for them, aside from Microsoft's "let's integrate security with hardware" gambit, the trend has been to rely less and less on the BIOS.
Sorry, I don't really want my BIOS to do any more than get my machine started up, thank you very much. Simple=beautiful.
The Phoenix BIOS Business Plan:
Step 1: Pile on the complexity Step 2: Become more important to the consumer Step 3: Profit!
I've had material on MP3.com for several years now. Never paid for the service, so I had less to lose than those that took the Gold Membership, etc. But I still don't understand the griping.
The era of free multimedia serving is over. There's just too much overhead to justify providing that much free bandwidth.
For those of you who bitching about MP3.com, just accept this unfortunate reality.
Who's been screwed? OK, maybe the folks that signed up for Gold Membership. But it seems like it's pointless to bitch about what's happened - it's all just business.
It's not the same as being ripped off by your producer [Beach Boys and countless others], or cheated out of payment by a venue after a performance [an ever-present risk in a business rife with unscrupulous people].
There's always an element of risk, whatever endeavour you undertake. There's no guarantee that a party with whom you have entered into a contract and paid money for future services will not go out of business, or sell out to another party. That's just a fact of life.
Fortunately, there are still plenty of free and low-cost music-hosting alternatives [sorry, I haven't checked ALL these links recently, but most should still be good. I
am
a lazy sod.]:
Damn Microsoft!!! This article is just more evidence that Redmond's Most Evil Corporation continues to research ways of distorting the truth!!! Give me non-distorting aspherical lenses or give me death!!!! Linux Rules!!!! Yaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!!
Lots of good advice in these articles. Some questionable advice. I agree with the notion that you don't want to act like a pretentious "I'm-a-big-corporation" poser.
However, some degree of professionalism is in order. If I called in need of tech support and got an outgoing message from "Monkey Boy," (one of the author's helpful examples) I think I'd hang up and call some friends for another recommendation.
On second thought, forget the legislative solution....let's turn to the technological solution!
For those of us that prefer more dynamic range, we can always run our tunes through a stereo expander (for you non-audio geeks, this piece of equipment actually exists, it's just the opposite of a compressor).
...and everyone will be working 20 hours a week, making minimum-wage, or have no job at all. At the same time, the US economy will gradually transform into a medieval-style barter economy. Now THAT's progress!
I don't believe it's exclusive to ADD, however. I am definitely not AD(H)D, but I have identical hearing issues. And I don't consider them entirely negative, either.
I have trouble filtering sounds in crowded rooms. It's extremely difficult for me to have a conversation with someone when surrounded by 20 or 30 chatting people, even if they are two feet away from me.
I've had the experience of being the only one not able to pick out exactly what the teacher is saying in class because of background noise. This happened to me in high school, and it definitely made things difficult for me. My complaints of not being able to hear were met with disbelief, and I was accused of simply daydreaming.
In my day job as a programmer, I am easily distracted by even quiet conversations in adjoining cubicles. I often listen to music through headphones to mask out surrounding noise that most other people seem to be able to ignore.
Conversely, I am able to dissect recordings, isolating individual instruments, identifying processing techniques (dynamics, phase distortion, clipping, equalization, reverberation, echoes, etc) and subtleties of performance that others cannot. While I have not developed perfect pitch, I am extremely sensitive to pitch differences; even marginally out-of-tune instruments and singers are intensely irritating to me.
So, to me, it may be a disorder in social contexts, but it's a great advantage to me as an amateur musician and recording engineer.
I've been told that these qualities are common among musicians. I'd be curious to hear if anyone reading this shares the same experience (and are not AD(H)D.
Well, he is an economist, after all. He's thinking in terms of the economic opportunities inherent in this admittedly underutilized resource. However, this is just one of many perspectives.
I think some readers have rightly pointed out that not everyone has cable or satellite. I would argue that there are millions of people that have access to network television programming that don't have the economic means to have access to subscription-based TV services (cable and satellite).
Aren't there valid uses for that spectrum that don't boil down to maximizing profit? What about as a public-service infrastructure like radio?
IMHO, some things shouldn't be handed over to corporations. These include public parks, sidewalks, streets, town halls, the air we breathe, and some segment of the radio spectrum. or am I being to hippy-dippy radical?
FireWire makes sense because of many existing digital audio products - computer interfaces from Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU), Digidesign, M-Audio, and others, not to mention several high-end digital signal processors.
So the networked toaster didn't work out....hey - let's do a guitar!!!!
Great. A 100 meter guitar cable. So much more useful than a 4 meter cable. Me, somehow I get by with a 2 meter cable. God. How do I do it?
Firewire is at least supported by existing audio devices that a guitarist is likely to want to connect to. Hell, even USB would be good enough for a guitar signal. You don't need 1Gb of bandwidth.
If I buy one of these retarded Gibson Magic guitars today, I can plug it into a Cisco router. Yay.
Actually, I strongly advise everyone who has the money to buy one of these guitars, keep it wrapped up and never, ever play it. They're gonna be collector's items twenty years from now.
I couldn't agree more.
Brin may have credentials up the wazoo as a sci-fi/fantasy author, but he completely missed the boat on TLOTR. It's a mythic story, delineating fundamental truths within each of us concerning good and evil.
Anyone who buys into Brin's PC line of thinking with regard to this story needs to forget the damn movies, re-read TLOTR and the Silmarillion and get back in touch with what Tolkien was actually doing.
Anyway, who's going around lamenting the loss of feudalism for chrissakes? It's alive and well in our corporations and making strong headway under the current Bush administration. And ain't it grand.....
I have a 900MHz PowerPC, running MacOS X "Jaguar." I am a programmer, but I have not developed anything for OS X, so I can only offer my opinion as a user.
Is the OS slow? I think it depends on what aspect you're talking about. Overall, I have to say, no, it's not a slow OS.
At times, the GUI seems a little sluggish. Windows don't always pop as rapidly as one might be accustomed to on a comparable PC running NT/200/XP. I understand that Quartz can be pretty demanding of CPU and graphics processor time (or at least the latter).
I browse occasionally from this box, and it is my subjective opinion that network performance may not be the swiftest. However, I haven't studiously timed anything, and I haven't taken into account the network it is attached to (like eliminating the long wire run I did, the cheap hub it's plugged into, and attaching it directly to my broadband modem). This subjective impression may also be influenced by vague memories of some posts to Macintouch.com concerning sluggish network performance.
I run strictly audio apps on my Mac. It's easily apparent to me that the audio facilities of MacOS X are anything BUT slow. More like "jaw-dropping." My main app is eMagic Logic 5, and it is astounding what it can do. The amount of data that it can process in realtime - at least some of it courtesy of OS X Core Audio functionality - is amazing. If OS X was a slug in all departments, we wouldn't be enjoying such incredible performance. It's clear to me that the process-handling facilities of OS X (scheduler, etc) and the audio libraries are definitely up to par, at least inasmuch as they don't get in the way of the PowerPC and its Altivec.
Looking forward to reading other responses to this topic.
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The Celtic tradition was not to put out fires on Samhain (the precursor to All Hallow's Eve/Halloween), but rather to re-light the ever-burning hearthfires against the looming dark.
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There is such a thing as tuning by eye - using a device called a strobe tuner (Peterson is the most well-known manufacturer). Basically a light, strobed at the frequency you're tuning to.
You know your string is in tune when it appears to stop moving when plucked.
Sorry - with most guitars, using equal temperement, tuning IS an art, not a science, becaue the guitar can never be perfectly in tune.
What constitutes in-tune turns out to be subjective, since the octaves are spread out in such a way that they are never 100% consonant.
Not to mention the inaccuracies of imperfect fret-spacing measurements - your guitar, even when well-set up and intonated, can be in-tune in one position, and out of tune in another.
The Buzz Feiten tuning system aims to help correct some of these issues, but as long as you're wed to equal temperement, you're never 100% in tune.
"...group of hardware and software hobbiests..." that's spelled hobbits, thank you very much.
"Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
:)
Yup. It's called "Bandwagon."
I fondly remember my old TI99/4A. Still ahead of it's time.
is that if I'm mugged, it's at the mugger's discretion whether to let me walk away in one piece.
If this RFID thing were to replace cash, I'd have to worry about being cut up or killed, as the thief attempts to retrieve the tag, or kidnapped and coerced into paying for stuff.
To sum it up: with RFID, when the fool and his money are parted, so too are several of his fingers.
Seems to me this whole plan is merely an attempt by Phoenix to make their product more desirable by throwing more features into it. We've seen this pattern before with disk controllers, disk drives, network cards, motherboards, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc.
Unfortunately for them, aside from Microsoft's "let's integrate security with hardware" gambit, the trend has been to rely less and less on the BIOS.
Sorry, I don't really want my BIOS to do any more than get my machine started up, thank you very much. Simple=beautiful.
The Phoenix BIOS Business Plan:
Step 1: Pile on the complexity
Step 2: Become more important to the consumer
Step 3: Profit!
I've had material on MP3.com for several years now. Never paid for the service, so I had less to lose than those that took the Gold Membership, etc. But I still don't understand the griping.
The era of free multimedia serving is over. There's just too much overhead to justify providing that much free bandwidth.
For those of you who bitching about MP3.com, just accept this unfortunate reality.
Who's been screwed? OK, maybe the folks that signed up for Gold Membership. But it seems like it's pointless to bitch about what's happened - it's all just business.
It's not the same as being ripped off by your producer [Beach Boys and countless others], or cheated out of payment by a venue after a performance [an ever-present risk in a business rife with unscrupulous people].
There's always an element of risk, whatever endeavour you undertake. There's no guarantee that a party with whom you have entered into a contract and paid money for future services will not go out of business, or sell out to another party. That's just a fact of life.
Fortunately, there are still plenty of free and low-cost music-hosting alternatives [sorry, I haven't checked ALL these links recently, but most should still be good. I am a lazy sod.]:
AMP3.com
AmpCast
Audiogalaxy
efolk
etree.org (SHN)
Listen.com
Lycos Music Search
MP3.com
nzmp3
peoplesound
SoundClick
stationMP3
gdlive.com
FurtherNet
CD Baby
IUMA
BeSonic
My Local Bands
SoundClick
VITAMINIC
archive.org etree listing (SHN's)
emusic
listensmart
My music (if you're curious, totally bored, and looking for something to listen to).
Damn Microsoft!!! This article is just more evidence that Redmond's Most Evil Corporation continues to research ways of distorting the truth!!! Give me non-distorting aspherical lenses or give me death!!!! Linux Rules!!!! Yaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!!
Penrose tiles. Much tastier, and less fattening.
Computer viruses make systems more secure because if there weren't computer viruses, the systems would be more vulnerable to....um...computer viruses.
Car accidents make cars safer...
Terrorism makes a society more safe...
Lots of good advice in these articles. Some questionable advice. I agree with the notion that you don't want to act like a pretentious "I'm-a-big-corporation" poser.
However, some degree of professionalism is in order. If I called in need of tech support and got an outgoing message from "Monkey Boy," (one of the author's helpful examples) I think I'd hang up and call some friends for another recommendation.
On second thought, forget the legislative solution....let's turn to the technological solution!
For those of us that prefer more dynamic range, we can always run our tunes through a stereo expander (for you non-audio geeks, this piece of equipment actually exists, it's just the opposite of a compressor).
Can you say 'market opportunity'?
I'd love it if music publishers were forced to label every recording with the % of the album waveform that is limited.
Much like I can see how much sugar and additives are in my cornflakes.... :)
...and everyone will be working 20 hours a week, making minimum-wage, or have no job at all. At the same time, the US economy will gradually transform into a medieval-style barter economy. Now THAT's progress!
You sit on your keyboard?????!!!!!!
I don't believe it's exclusive to ADD, however. I am definitely not AD(H)D, but I have identical hearing issues. And I don't consider them entirely negative, either.
I have trouble filtering sounds in crowded rooms. It's extremely difficult for me to have a conversation with someone when surrounded by 20 or 30 chatting people, even if they are two feet away from me.
I've had the experience of being the only one not able to pick out exactly what the teacher is saying in class because of background noise. This happened to me in high school, and it definitely made things difficult for me. My complaints of not being able to hear were met with disbelief, and I was accused of simply daydreaming.
In my day job as a programmer, I am easily distracted by even quiet conversations in adjoining cubicles. I often listen to music through headphones to mask out surrounding noise that most other people seem to be able to ignore.
Conversely, I am able to dissect recordings, isolating individual instruments, identifying processing techniques (dynamics, phase distortion, clipping, equalization, reverberation, echoes, etc) and subtleties of performance that others cannot. While I have not developed perfect pitch, I am extremely sensitive to pitch differences; even marginally out-of-tune instruments and singers are intensely irritating to me.
So, to me, it may be a disorder in social contexts, but it's a great advantage to me as an amateur musician and recording engineer.
I've been told that these qualities are common among musicians. I'd be curious to hear if anyone reading this shares the same experience (and are not AD(H)D.
Well, he is an economist, after all. He's thinking in terms of the economic opportunities inherent in this admittedly underutilized resource. However, this is just one of many perspectives.
I think some readers have rightly pointed out that not everyone has cable or satellite. I would argue that there are millions of people that have access to network television programming that don't have the economic means to have access to subscription-based TV services (cable and satellite).
Aren't there valid uses for that spectrum that don't boil down to maximizing profit? What about as a public-service infrastructure like radio?
IMHO, some things shouldn't be handed over to corporations. These include public parks, sidewalks, streets, town halls, the air we breathe, and some segment of the radio spectrum. or am I being to hippy-dippy radical?
FireWire makes sense because of many existing digital audio products - computer interfaces from Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU), Digidesign, M-Audio, and others, not to mention several high-end digital signal processors.
Firewire isn't just a camcorder interface!
So the networked toaster didn't work out....hey - let's do a guitar!!!!
Great. A 100 meter guitar cable. So much more useful than a 4 meter cable. Me, somehow I get by with a 2 meter cable. God. How do I do it?
Firewire is at least supported by existing audio devices that a guitarist is likely to want to connect to. Hell, even USB would be good enough for a guitar signal. You don't need 1Gb of bandwidth.
If I buy one of these retarded Gibson Magic guitars today, I can plug it into a Cisco router. Yay.
Actually, I strongly advise everyone who has the money to buy one of these guitars, keep it wrapped up and never, ever play it. They're gonna be collector's items twenty years from now.
Wonder if it'll run Java...
Perhaps trolls are real, then....
I couldn't agree more.
Brin may have credentials up the wazoo as a sci-fi/fantasy author, but he completely missed the boat on TLOTR. It's a mythic story, delineating fundamental truths within each of us concerning good and evil.
Anyone who buys into Brin's PC line of thinking with regard to this story needs to forget the damn movies, re-read TLOTR and the Silmarillion and get back in touch with what Tolkien was actually doing.
Anyway, who's going around lamenting the loss of feudalism for chrissakes? It's alive and well in our corporations and making strong headway under the current Bush administration. And ain't it grand.....
Don't you mean that the information's quality is only as good as its LEAST trustworthy member?
I have a 900MHz PowerPC, running MacOS X "Jaguar." I am a programmer, but I have not developed anything for OS X, so I can only offer my opinion as a user.
Is the OS slow? I think it depends on what aspect you're talking about. Overall, I have to say, no, it's not a slow OS.
At times, the GUI seems a little sluggish. Windows don't always pop as rapidly as one might be accustomed to on a comparable PC running NT/200/XP. I understand that Quartz can be pretty demanding of CPU and graphics processor time (or at least the latter).
I browse occasionally from this box, and it is my subjective opinion that network performance may not be the swiftest. However, I haven't studiously timed anything, and I haven't taken into account the network it is attached to (like eliminating the long wire run I did, the cheap hub it's plugged into, and attaching it directly to my broadband modem). This subjective impression may also be influenced by vague memories of some posts to Macintouch.com concerning sluggish network performance.
I run strictly audio apps on my Mac. It's easily apparent to me that the audio facilities of MacOS X are anything BUT slow. More like "jaw-dropping." My main app is eMagic Logic 5, and it is astounding what it can do. The amount of data that it can process in realtime - at least some of it courtesy of OS X Core Audio functionality - is amazing. If OS X was a slug in all departments, we wouldn't be enjoying such incredible performance. It's clear to me that the process-handling facilities of OS X (scheduler, etc) and the audio libraries are definitely up to par, at least inasmuch as they don't get in the way of the PowerPC and its Altivec.
Looking forward to reading other responses to this topic.
The Celtic tradition was not to put out fires on Samhain (the precursor to All Hallow's Eve/Halloween), but rather to re-light the ever-burning hearthfires against the looming dark.
t ivals.html/ 6729/celtic. html#samhain
Online References:
http://www.geocities.com/~huathe/fes
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin
or visit your local public library...