Admittedly, it uses an initial sample bank from a human singer for the seed phonemes (think an incredibly over the top application of autotune).
For reference, Hatsune Miku's voice is done by Fujita Saki. Hatsune Miku is not the only famous vocaloid, but she's the most famous (and the one getting the concerts).
(dressed like Sailor Moon? Really? It's not even a sailor uniform. Bad article author, bad. Go sit in the corner.)
Having seen some questions asked of other vocaloid actresses, it's an interesting and involved process in recording the voices; it's completely different than normal voice acting (and hours of recording work).
People who tether transfer more data per month than people who do not.
AT&T is charging $20 for tethering and implementing bandwidth caps. So if you gulp down your bandwidth limit with your phone, it costs X. If you gulp down the same bandwidth with your computer, it's X+$20. There's a cap in place, so it takes the "uses more bandwidth" argument out of play (since the tethering plan doesn't increase your cap). There's no reason for it, it's the same bandwidth.
Another fun one to trip people up: A car travels around a 1 mile track. It goes around the its first lap at 30 MPH. How fast does it need to go on its second lap to average 60 MPH?
Tricky! You'd have to teleport the car around the track instantaneously. To average 60MPH around 2 trips around the track (2 miles), you'd have to finish in 2 minutes. Exactly the time it took you to travel the track once at 30MPH.
Depends on the beverage. Single use beverage containers are more likely to be done in fluid ounces (12oz cans, 20 oz bottles). They do sell soda and water in 1L-3L bottles.
Bottom line, we don't have any consistency and apparently only grok liters for some kinds of drink containers. There's no reference for gas, which is always in gallons here. We're a strange culture.
I've got a $20,000 credit limit and could buy tons of them.
Doesn't matter. They were keeping track by CC number (I recall some anecdotal reports of this online). Sure, you could have ordered a bunch from a bunch of non-Apple stores, but it's still another hurdle to jump.
Since the finder of the phone did not follow the law, he/she could be convicted of a crime if charges are pressed.
Which is true. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo jounalist, is not that person, though. They are trying to use his notes and communications(on his computer) to either implicate Gizmodo for this as well, and/or find out who the finder is. However, there is a California law that seems to block this (in Gizmodo's lawyer's opinion); we'll have to see what a judge says.
I was considering buying one recently when I read glowing descriptions of its manual focus, until I ran across a description of what the manufacturer called "manual focus": a menu that requires several "clicks" to find, and lets you choose among 7 different fixed focal lengths.
What camera, pray tell, was this? Focus != focal length.
So is there a way of learning which digital cameras accept a lens with a focus ring?
Most Nikon and Canons, if they're not completely ancient, have a switch on the lens that lets you take the lens out of autofocus mode. Come away from the kit lenses and a great many lenses will let you auto-override the auto focus by turning the focus ring. I'm pretty sure the other majors (Pentax, Sony/Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic) in the SLR space have this type of feature, too.
You may need to take the camera out of continuous auto focus mode (duh, you've told the camera to continually auto focus!) or switch the focus button away from the shutter release (most, if not all the DSLRs have this option, even my lowly D40 can do this).
An issue that might come up every two years? That would hardly warrant a "stop the presses" to Sony.
Actually, the bug would only manifest itself every 4 years. 2012 is a leap year and Feb 29 does exist, so the bug *shouldn't* occur. In 2014, though, we'll see.
I know this is/. and to say "RTFA" is kind of pointless, but, please, RTFA. There's a tweaked sample there for you to try. It will be obvious if you try their sample with whatever graphics program you want to use.
The class definition is the lowest speed. The 15MB/s may be a max speed rating. Case in point, San Disk's Ultra SDHC card. A card marked 15MB/s, yet is only a class 4 card. That means max speed is 15MB/s, but in some cases, it'll drop below 6MB/s. In fact, that 15MB/s is a read speed, it cannot write to the card that fast.
My 2004 Corolla has these metal hooks to hold the floor mats in.
The key is to make sure the mats stay on the hooks.
My car isn't part of the recall; they must have changed something since my car was made. Why the accelerator assembly would be changed is beyond me, but what do I know?
It might not actually work in Parallels and VMWare. I've heard that some of that exam software works oddly and actually doesn't run properly in a virtual environment.
Polaroid? Maybe you haven't seen the whoring out of their brand name; I recall CD burners and silly electronics brandished with their name.
Take a closer look at that list, they're all pretty much companies that aren't the original company anymore, at least when it comes to the use of their brand.
Interlaced DVDs have nothing really to do with VHS. They're not upscaled VHS tapes by any stretch. The used to make some of the DVDs might be interlaced, but almost never are those masters VHS tapes (I say almost never because maybe there's an example of it happening at some point; I'm sure as hell not aware of it). At worst, Betacam tape (not the consumer BetaMax), more likely D2 tape. Well, these days, I'd like to hope it's DigiBeta or some other component format being sent.
The interlacing can come from multiple sources, it's usually from the editing process (via interlaced studio equipment). Sometimes these things were introduced by the Japanese company, sometimes they're introduced by the localization company.
And there's no point in making a BD with DVD level resolution on it; one can just make a DVD, which will play in a BD player (and not cutoff your market).
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(There was once a time when 6 digits was considered too long. Wtf?)
If you're not already there, get on your porch and start yelling at those kids to get off your lawn.
Damn it, my Twitter client is a Java app! (PeraPeraPrv)
I don't think Handbrake is going to be showing up on the Mac App Store anyways, so...
Admittedly, it uses an initial sample bank from a human singer for the seed phonemes (think an incredibly over the top application of autotune).
For reference, Hatsune Miku's voice is done by Fujita Saki. Hatsune Miku is not the only famous vocaloid, but she's the most famous (and the one getting the concerts).
(dressed like Sailor Moon? Really? It's not even a sailor uniform. Bad article author, bad. Go sit in the corner.)
Having seen some questions asked of other vocaloid actresses, it's an interesting and involved process in recording the voices; it's completely different than normal voice acting (and hours of recording work).
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
$20/mo to enable tethering?
People who tether transfer more data per month than people who do not.
AT&T is charging $20 for tethering and implementing bandwidth caps. So if you gulp down your bandwidth limit with your phone, it costs X. If you gulp down the same bandwidth with your computer, it's X+$20. There's a cap in place, so it takes the "uses more bandwidth" argument out of play (since the tethering plan doesn't increase your cap). There's no reason for it, it's the same bandwidth.
Another fun one to trip people up: A car travels around a 1 mile track. It goes around the its first lap at 30 MPH. How fast does it need to go on its second lap to average 60 MPH?
Tricky! You'd have to teleport the car around the track instantaneously. To average 60MPH around 2 trips around the track (2 miles), you'd have to finish in 2 minutes. Exactly the time it took you to travel the track once at 30MPH.
Depends on the beverage. Single use beverage containers are more likely to be done in fluid ounces (12oz cans, 20 oz bottles). They do sell soda and water in 1L-3L bottles.
Bottom line, we don't have any consistency and apparently only grok liters for some kinds of drink containers. There's no reference for gas, which is always in gallons here. We're a strange culture.
12-14 is one thing. You're still constrained. You can't get dozens or hundreds.
I've got a $20,000 credit limit and could buy tons of them.
Doesn't matter. They were keeping track by CC number (I recall some anecdotal reports of this online). Sure, you could have ordered a bunch from a bunch of non-Apple stores, but it's still another hurdle to jump.
Since the finder of the phone did not follow the law, he/she could be convicted of a crime if charges are pressed.
Which is true. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo jounalist, is not that person, though. They are trying to use his notes and communications(on his computer) to either implicate Gizmodo for this as well, and/or find out who the finder is. However, there is a California law that seems to block this (in Gizmodo's lawyer's opinion); we'll have to see what a judge says.
Then he should have said queue up the theme to Jaws.
I was considering buying one recently when I read glowing descriptions of its manual focus, until I ran across a description of what the manufacturer called "manual focus": a menu that requires several "clicks" to find, and lets you choose among 7 different fixed focal lengths.
What camera, pray tell, was this? Focus != focal length.
So is there a way of learning which digital cameras accept a lens with a focus ring?
Most Nikon and Canons, if they're not completely ancient, have a switch on the lens that lets you take the lens out of autofocus mode. Come away from the kit lenses and a great many lenses will let you auto-override the auto focus by turning the focus ring. I'm pretty sure the other majors (Pentax, Sony/Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic) in the SLR space have this type of feature, too.
You may need to take the camera out of continuous auto focus mode (duh, you've told the camera to continually auto focus!) or switch the focus button away from the shutter release (most, if not all the DSLRs have this option, even my lowly D40 can do this).
An issue that might come up every two years? That would hardly warrant a "stop the presses" to Sony.
Actually, the bug would only manifest itself every 4 years. 2012 is a leap year and Feb 29 does exist, so the bug *shouldn't* occur. In 2014, though, we'll see.
duh, 2006 wasn't a leap year either
True, but the PS3 wasn't released until well after February of that year (November).
I know this is /. and to say "RTFA" is kind of pointless, but, please, RTFA. There's a tweaked sample there for you to try. It will be obvious if you try their sample with whatever graphics program you want to use.
Sony did used to make DVD drives at one point.
They merged their optical drive business with NEC's and created Optiarc.
Actually, looks like Sony bought out NEC's share, so Optiarc is all Sony's now. So they are back to making optical drives again. ^_^
The class definition is the lowest speed. The 15MB/s may be a max speed rating. Case in point, San Disk's Ultra SDHC card. A card marked 15MB/s, yet is only a class 4 card. That means max speed is 15MB/s, but in some cases, it'll drop below 6MB/s. In fact, that 15MB/s is a read speed, it cannot write to the card that fast.
On /. for a Star Trek reference that's not even all that obscure (the whole episode was about that)? 0. We only take points away for not knowing.
Woz had almost nothing do with the Mac, go away troll.
My 2004 Corolla has these metal hooks to hold the floor mats in.
The key is to make sure the mats stay on the hooks.
My car isn't part of the recall; they must have changed something since my car was made. Why the accelerator assembly would be changed is beyond me, but what do I know?
(it's also sake, not "saki")
It might not actually work in Parallels and VMWare. I've heard that some of that exam software works oddly and actually doesn't run properly in a virtual environment.
http://maclawstudents.com/blog/law-school-exam-software/
They have valid licenses for decoding MPEG-4.
Polaroid? Maybe you haven't seen the whoring out of their brand name; I recall CD burners and silly electronics brandished with their name.
Take a closer look at that list, they're all pretty much companies that aren't the original company anymore, at least when it comes to the use of their brand.
You don't know what you think you know.
Interlaced DVDs have nothing really to do with VHS. They're not upscaled VHS tapes by any stretch. The used to make some of the DVDs might be interlaced, but almost never are those masters VHS tapes (I say almost never because maybe there's an example of it happening at some point; I'm sure as hell not aware of it). At worst, Betacam tape (not the consumer BetaMax), more likely D2 tape. Well, these days, I'd like to hope it's DigiBeta or some other component format being sent.
The interlacing can come from multiple sources, it's usually from the editing process (via interlaced studio equipment). Sometimes these things were introduced by the Japanese company, sometimes they're introduced by the localization company.
And there's no point in making a BD with DVD level resolution on it; one can just make a DVD, which will play in a BD player (and not cutoff your market).