Agreed, I looked into 'cleaning up beating' in my dissertation and found that Sethares' book Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale had the design space pretty well covered.
IIRC the only suggestion I added was doctoring the sound spectrum to remove beating right where it occurs, which works regardless of the choice of scale and timbre.
For the current discussion, the takeaway from the book is that excessive beating/roughness, excessive dissonance, and perceived unpleasantness really are the same thing.
This explains why:
Otherwise pleasant music sounds terrible when played on bells
Gamelan is listenable despite its scale not corresponding to harmonic intervals
Pianos are tuned slightly 'off' (stretched tuning) to compensate for the string vibration modes being slightly inharmonic
I don't see how the view espoused in TFR explains the above phenomena. A better explanation of their study results is perhaps that abnormal test subjects are sometimes, well y'know, abnormal.
Maybe the salespeople can dumb it down with a car analogy...
You've got your petrols, and you've got your diesels. They look the same on the outside, but inside they've got different engines. Anyway, the important thing to remember is, fill 'er up with the wrong stuff and yer fucked.
You're right, it's not. It's about the fact that he isn't a "viable" candidate, and in general will have exactly zero impact on the outcome of this election.
FTFY
It's not game over when the results come in. The road to the top is long and winding.
The stock market is not a zero sum game. On the contrary, it's an enormous wealth creation (or destruction) machine.
Even a small trade can have a significant effect on a stock's price, which directly affects the wealth of anyone with a position in that stock. Where does that money come from (or go to) I ask you?
If at some point in future, all stock positions were to be completely and liquidated, maybe then it would be zero-sum. But there's no reason to suppose that will ever happen.
That almost makes sense up to the point where you can't actually run 360* software on a PC or vice-versa.
If anything this encourages consumers *not* to buy an Xbox if they already have a PC, or vice-versa. Not only do they not get access to many extra titles, they also have to pay for them twice to play on both.
In contrast, people are often happy to pony up for second (or third) console in order to get all the games they want.
* Since you're using the present tense, I'm presuming your comment covers the 360.
You might also be able to save a bit on your home energy costs by buying fresh packs of meat during winter, freezing them, and waiting until summer before defrosting and eating them.
Expanding on that JSONP mention to hopefully save someone a googling...
XMLHTTPRequest calls are subject to single-origin policy, so can't be used for XSS. However, SCRIPT tags don't have this restriction, even for tags that are dynamically created using JavaScript. JSONP is a trick that leverages this to implement XSS.
The main limitation is that JSONP can't be used to call non-JSONP web services. So changes to the third-party service may be needed in order to support JSONP.
As an aside, dynamically loading images cross-domain is also permitted. Not useful for the current discussion though.
Or even a 1c fee for placing or modifying an order, payable even if the order isn't executed. Round the fees down to the dollar at the end of the day to save administration.
As I recall, a lot of HFT activity is placing orders that are promptly cancelled.
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I'm shocked that humans aren't considered apes.
And dictionary flies like a... DUCK!
WOOSH!
HTTPS content can be cached in the browser, and why not?
You can expect to lose proxy caching though.
(Unless your corporate proxy is kind enough to decrypt your traffic and then cache it...)
Agreed, I looked into 'cleaning up beating' in my dissertation and found that Sethares' book Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale had the design space pretty well covered.
IIRC the only suggestion I added was doctoring the sound spectrum to remove beating right where it occurs, which works regardless of the choice of scale and timbre.
For the current discussion, the takeaway from the book is that excessive beating/roughness, excessive dissonance, and perceived unpleasantness really are the same thing.
This explains why:
I don't see how the view espoused in TFR explains the above phenomena. A better explanation of their study results is perhaps that abnormal test subjects are sometimes, well y'know, abnormal.
Put the aforementioned time machine to good use, and tell that to the Spanish Empire...
Maybe the salespeople can dumb it down with a car analogy...
You've got your petrols, and you've got your diesels. They look the same on the outside, but inside they've got different engines. Anyway, the important thing to remember is, fill 'er up with the wrong stuff and yer fucked.
There's a long history of Apple prototypes that get built and never shipped, because of various reasons.
Never say never... how do you think they're planning on selling the next high-end MacBook Pro to the folks who just re-mortgaged to get the Retina?
That may be, but if lets you use your old applications is on the official sales script here, or even implied, Microsoft is going to get lynched.
That's an issue they really need to educate potential customers on.
Unfortunately I can't recommend his TV show The Enemies of Reason.
There may have been some good bits, but all I remember is a stern-faced Dawkins trolling a New Age festival looking for a fight.
Penn & Teller had already done it better with Bullshit. Or rather, Penn did it better, while Teller shot fish in a barrel.
You're right, it's not. It's about the fact that he isn't a "viable" candidate, and in general will have exactly zero impact on the outcome of this election.
FTFY
It's not game over when the results come in. The road to the top is long and winding.
The stock market is not a zero sum game. On the contrary, it's an enormous wealth creation (or destruction) machine.
Even a small trade can have a significant effect on a stock's price, which directly affects the wealth of anyone with a position in that stock. Where does that money come from (or go to) I ask you?
If at some point in future, all stock positions were to be completely and liquidated, maybe then it would be zero-sum. But there's no reason to suppose that will ever happen.
That almost makes sense up to the point where you can't actually run 360* software on a PC or vice-versa.
If anything this encourages consumers *not* to buy an Xbox if they already have a PC, or vice-versa. Not only do they not get access to many extra titles, they also have to pay for them twice to play on both.
In contrast, people are often happy to pony up for second (or third) console in order to get all the games they want.
* Since you're using the present tense, I'm presuming your comment covers the 360.
That'd be due to a chip on the shoulder, since the vast majority of Taiwanese are indeed Chinese. Ethnically, if nothing else.
Ask them if they celebrate Spring Festival...
$700 for Appell Pete Corp?
Try AAPL.
Maybe her smartphone didn't have a decent flash...
Glad I'm not the only one who has trouble pronouncing that name.
The closest I can get is 'Charlatan'.
People still know who I'm talking about.
When starting a new project, please select a name that isn't already in common use. It's so much easier to google.
Or the alternative hypothesis, that our primitive ape ancestors consumed pan-fried pig fat on a daily basis AND had a life expectancy of over 50?
Oh right, you meant vacuumed... or, plunged a toilet!
Last time I come here for housekeeping advice... but how are you on DIY vacuum cleaner repairs?
You might also be able to save a bit on your home energy costs by buying fresh packs of meat during winter, freezing them, and waiting until summer before defrosting and eating them.
Now if only someone could come up with a highly profitable (and inconspicuous) use for large quantities of running water... hmmm...
Expanding on that JSONP mention to hopefully save someone a googling...
XMLHTTPRequest calls are subject to single-origin policy, so can't be used for XSS. However, SCRIPT tags don't have this restriction, even for tags that are dynamically created using JavaScript. JSONP is a trick that leverages this to implement XSS.
The main limitation is that JSONP can't be used to call non-JSONP web services. So changes to the third-party service may be needed in order to support JSONP.
As an aside, dynamically loading images cross-domain is also permitted. Not useful for the current discussion though.
50.25% of us are wise to it. Only the other 49.75% matter.
Or even a 1c fee for placing or modifying an order, payable even if the order isn't executed. Round the fees down to the dollar at the end of the day to save administration.
As I recall, a lot of HFT activity is placing orders that are promptly cancelled.
Just use the same rules as applied to opening and closing auctions.