. ..if you drum up money for someone else, you might have a better chance of succeeding if you ask people to donate to personal accounts of that person. ..
According to Bob's own website the account is his personal PayPal account.
I didn't thumb my nose at it. I thumbed my nose at everything after sixth grade. Me and Jethro Bodine; soul brothers.
. ..will just cause the college to . ..
Give me a full scholorship? Small, highly regarded private college with ultracompetive admissions. Only place I even applied to. Nor am I unique in this regard. It happens. Depends on the school and who you are. Which is where I came in to this movie.
A prep course isn't absolutely necessary. I didn't take one and did just fine.
Neither are the SATs if it comes to that. I didn't take them and I did just fine. It depends on who you are and the quality of the school. In fact, the better the school, the less necessary they are.
. ..you don't actually equate soldiers with "wife-beaters and axe murderers". Unless the soldiers in your country are directly attacking its own civilians, do you honestly believe that your nation would be better off with no military at all. ..
Plato is the first person known to note the correspondence between soldiers and "wife-beaters and axe murderers." He was also the first person known to have proposed the formation of a permanant, professional army for defense of the state.
He did also note, however, that such soldiers, by the very nature of their profession, would be unfit for living in the civilian population and would require special training in art, music and poetry for them to maintain even a semblence of humanity.
Perhaps my tendency to agree with Plato is based somewhat on the fact that in my own nation the soldiers have been called out against the civilian populace. Our first leader to do so under its current form of government was some guy named George Washington.
Later on I had cause to sing:
"Tin soldiers and Nixon comin'. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin'. Four dead in Ohio."
I don't understand why everyone on messageboards seems to get off on shutting down total strangers.
Because they don't RTFAs.:) S'Ok, I've been guilty myself. But really, sensing sound isn't a difficult proposition. It simply takes a diaphram of sufficient sensitivity to vibrate.
I made the post before reading the article and watching the videos. ..
Haven't been able to watch the videos myself.
. ..if it had been a pitch-based playing along. ..
I would be more suitably amazed, but it's not, so arguments base on that premise are missplaced; however:
First of all, live instruments are not consistently in tune.
I play fiddle. There's no such thing as consistently in tune on a fiddle, which, as it happens, is one of the reasons I play fiddle. Being able to play "out of tune" is the only way to be able to consistently play in tune. Or to consistenly play "out of tune" on purpose. Which is just in tune in a different frame of reference.
. ..no tuner I've seen can accurately pick up note after note in quick succession.
If I had to do that to improvise with other musicians I probably wouldn't be able to do it. In any case, tuners are optimizing for tuning. This doesn't imply that the same technology can't be optimized for other purposes. I only brought up tuners as an example of the basic technolgy being extant.
. ..if there were multiple musicians playing, adequately miking them and then analyzing the mix would be very difficult.
Miking is easy. I make do with two less than a foot apart. I can place them anywhere in the room. Sometimes I can place them out of the room and halfway down the block. In such cases I actually prefer to do so. I could make do with only one if I had to. Analyzing is hard and what this robot is actually all about. The robot part is kinda cool, but it's the AI that's the interesting part.
I don't bother scanning for 'em, at this point if I so much as suspect I have a PET I just call in the exterminator. I've really gotta start bein' more careful about shutting my back door.
The racoons and possums I was able to deal with myself in fairly short order, but it took 18 years to get rid of that damned cat.
I may not know art when I see it, but I know what I like!
I have a certain fondness for Varga(s) and Cartagena myself, although Cartagena rather overdoes the supernaturally long legs. ..in my humble opinion, of course.
I'll tell you why I still play Asteroids; because it's one of the best games.
No, off the top of my head I can't tell you the title of a Blink 187 song, but about half the artists I listen to are under 25 years of age themselves. Some of them well under.
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Isaac Asimov pointed out that the pronunciation 'urinous' is not really an improvemnet.
Yeah, well, I piss on his grave.
KFG
I cheated, the UK is still just a territory. I'm betting on Australia and Canada to beat it to statehood. The colonies have to stick together.
KFG
I don't think Britain EVER had bears.
I can't help it if you think wrong; although I'm surprised you question the bears rather than the lions.
Everyplace in the northern temperate zones had/has bears and big cats, it's where you'll find the biggest of them.
KFG
How many wild bears and cats were in Britain in the first place?
Tens of thousands. Big ones.
Used to be hippos, bison and reindeer as well, the lions and bears had to eat something.
KFG
. . . we're not even the size of America's smallest state.
.
Correct. You are our 12th largest state. Rather larger than my home state of NY, which could fit several of the smaller states inside it.
Our smallest state has an area of only 1500 square miles, much is which is actually nothing more than tidal marsh.
And despite some claims to the contrary, we're not particularly overcrowded. .
How many wild bears and big cats do you have left? If the answer is "none" I'll join the group that thinks you're overcrowded.
KFG
You think Ethiopians have a need for the energy we have?
Yes.
KFG
. . .if you drum up money for someone else, you might have a better chance of succeeding if you ask people to donate to personal accounts of that person. . .
According to Bob's own website the account is his personal PayPal account.
KFG
This is dangerous advice. . .
.realize that thumbing your nose at it . . .
.will just cause the college to . . .
I didn't advise anything at all.
. .
I didn't thumb my nose at it. I thumbed my nose at everything after sixth grade. Me and Jethro Bodine; soul brothers.
. .
Give me a full scholorship? Small, highly regarded private college with ultracompetive admissions. Only place I even applied to. Nor am I unique in this regard. It happens. Depends on the school and who you are. Which is where I came in to this movie.
KFG
Sorry, it got exterminated. Will you settle for something in a Tandy Color Micro?
KFG
A prep course isn't absolutely necessary. I didn't take one and did just fine.
Neither are the SATs if it comes to that. I didn't take them and I did just fine. It depends on who you are and the quality of the school. In fact, the better the school, the less necessary they are.
KFG
. . .you don't actually equate soldiers with "wife-beaters and axe murderers". Unless the soldiers in your country are directly attacking its own civilians, do you honestly believe that your nation would be better off with no military at all. . .
Plato is the first person known to note the correspondence between soldiers and "wife-beaters and axe murderers." He was also the first person known to have proposed the formation of a permanant, professional army for defense of the state.
He did also note, however, that such soldiers, by the very nature of their profession, would be unfit for living in the civilian population and would require special training in art, music and poetry for them to maintain even a semblence of humanity.
Perhaps my tendency to agree with Plato is based somewhat on the fact that in my own nation the soldiers have been called out against the civilian populace. Our first leader to do so under its current form of government was some guy named George Washington.
Later on I had cause to sing:
"Tin soldiers and Nixon comin'. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin'. Four dead in Ohio."
KFG
I don't understand why everyone on messageboards seems to get off on shutting down total strangers.
:) S'Ok, I've been guilty myself. But really, sensing sound isn't a difficult proposition. It simply takes a diaphram of sufficient sensitivity to vibrate.
.
.if it had been a pitch-based playing along. . .
.no tuner I've seen can accurately pick up note after note in quick succession.
.if there were multiple musicians playing, adequately miking them and then analyzing the mix would be very difficult.
Because they don't RTFAs.
I made the post before reading the article and watching the videos. .
Haven't been able to watch the videos myself.
. .
I would be more suitably amazed, but it's not, so arguments base on that premise are missplaced; however:
First of all, live instruments are not consistently in tune.
I play fiddle. There's no such thing as consistently in tune on a fiddle, which, as it happens, is one of the reasons I play fiddle. Being able to play "out of tune" is the only way to be able to consistently play in tune. Or to consistenly play "out of tune" on purpose. Which is just in tune in a different frame of reference.
. .
If I had to do that to improvise with other musicians I probably wouldn't be able to do it. In any case, tuners are optimizing for tuning. This doesn't imply that the same technology can't be optimized for other purposes. I only brought up tuners as an example of the basic technolgy being extant.
. .
Miking is easy. I make do with two less than a foot apart. I can place them anywhere in the room. Sometimes I can place them out of the room and halfway down the block. In such cases I actually prefer to do so. I could make do with only one if I had to. Analyzing is hard and what this robot is actually all about. The robot part is kinda cool, but it's the AI that's the interesting part.
KFG
I've always found that an old monitor box suffices, but what do I know?
KFG
I don't bother scanning for 'em, at this point if I so much as suspect I have a PET I just call in the exterminator. I've really gotta start bein' more careful about shutting my back door.
The racoons and possums I was able to deal with myself in fairly short order, but it took 18 years to get rid of that damned cat.
KFG
How does the robot analyze what's being played?
.it's pretty amazing that he can analyze the pure sound.
It's called a "microphone."
. .
Like a digital tuner, some of which, yes, have metronome functions that will match a beat.
KFG
We'll know robots are truly evolved when they build their own museum. . .
.where they display the people they've designed.
. .
KFG
What do you call someone who likes to hang out with musicians?
A drummer.
Ba-roomp-boomp!
What do you call a robot who likes to hang out with drummers?
Plywood.
KFG
Actually, no ads.. At least with this magazine!
Good Lord! A pig just flew into my picture window. Excuse me while I go clean up the mess.
KFG
Likewise, my favorite cooking magazine has additional content . . . online. . .
More ads. Can you say "CueCat"? I knew ya could.
KFG
I may not know art when I see it, but I know what I like!
.in my humble opinion, of course.
I have a certain fondness for Varga(s) and Cartagena myself, although Cartagena rather overdoes the supernaturally long legs. .
KFG
Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to . . .the door of guy who marketed first.
KFG
That is, if you call pr0n "art".
That depends a good deal on what you call prOn.
KFG
Seriously, isn't Ubuntu basically the "winner" of the "desktop Linux distro" wars?
No.
I just can't think of a reason to use anything *but* Ubuntu on the desktop.
The Linux way might well be summed up as "To Each His Own."
KFG
The downside of the technology is that information may be lost and/or added with each retrieval.
KFG
I'll tell you why I still play Asteroids; because it's one of the best games.
No, off the top of my head I can't tell you the title of a Blink 187 song, but about half the artists I listen to are under 25 years of age themselves. Some of them well under.
I listen to them because they are good.
KFG