i don't think it's essential to be a junkie, no -- and i'm not too sure what your point is exactly?
sure, the guy from Sparklehorse has a history of smack, etc - and you can kinda hear it in his music - not to say that one couldn't do music like that without ever having taken drugs.
but you do realise that a lot of the rock artists you're a fan of are, or have been, speed-heads, right? -- and i'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg.
sometimes i think that an artist's experience of drugs, and their effects on their mind, can lead to them creating music which is interesting because it can sometimes envelop stuff that is beyond the spectrum of normal experience for most people. on the other hand, for a lot of people the music can resonate well with them because they too do the same/similar drugs to those taken by the artist. but you surely know all this already?
just to take the first two artists you mention, what kind of music would Megadeth and Slayer have produced if they'd never done all that speed, for example?
the guitar work on that Sparklehorse/DM album isn't awful by a looong stretch- sure it might not be as technical as that played by some of the heavy-rock or speed-metal groups, and sure, Sparklehorse's music is much more down-beat and lacks the balls of some of the heavier music you're in to, but hey-ho, different horses for different courses - i see you also like Tori Amos, so it's not like i'm trying to talk to someone who's a single-genre'd music bigot or anything.;-)
(fwiw, i play myself too, fairly competently - my most beloved guitar is a custom-built 7-string hollow-bodied single pick-up affair, which i picked up cheap from a friend when he 'fell out' with it - but i've also got a strat and a cut-away nylon-stringed classical too)
me again (still as AC and now replying to my own posts) - just to say Turgid, that i also like a lot of the artists you mention - and i'm going to try and check out the one i've not heard of (Bohlen-Pierce) - sounds worth at least a listen to find out.
i think i have stuff by all the other artists mentioned (as listened to both by yourself and your other half) somewhere in my collection - although i must admit i'm not such a fan of rock as i used to be.
it's not even a mashup album - it's a Sparklehorse album and afaik he's just the producer! (fwiw, he's also produced Gorillaz and Beck)
to be fair it would be good if the summary mentioned this - but hey, it is slashdot after all
i'm not really sure where the legal dispute lies, maybe there's some sneaky samples in it which he hasn't cleared? - but i've not heard any samples in it yet, and i am listening to it right now as i type this - it just sounds like Sparklehorse through and through.
it's/produced/ by Danger Mouse - who's also produced the Gorrilaz and Beck - and Danger Mouse himself is a hip-hop artist when he's not producing other kinds of music.
On a Mac, i believe you can get the Quicktime engine to have all the codecs you'll ever need by installing the free open source package Perian and the free (closed source) Flip4Mac WMV, which covers the last few.
Arguably, Apple should pre-install both of these packages - or variants thereof.
Now to get back onto the main topic..
One could also argue that the Apple-provided Quicktime player sucks ass big-time - and of course that is very true - but that's easily fixed by installing NicePlayer (also FOSS) - the other route is to ignore all the Quicktime-based solutions, and use something like VLC.
None of the above will stop an uneducated and/or unsuspecting user from clicking their way through an installer (and giving up an administrator password) believing it to install something great/fun/useful. If you try too hard to protect the naive and/or foolish from their own actions when administering the system then you end up taking the route Microsoft have with Vista (and their earlier Windows, each to a lesser extent) -- Are you sure? Are you really sure? Are you really really certain? Can i get a password with that? -- Ah.. Mac users are getting used to giving passwords during installs - bummer. (Mind you, they don't do it as quickly as the average Windows user/administrator can click Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok)
Being honest though, i don't think naivety or foolishness really enter into the equation - after all, it's a social engineering trick driven by the simple male quest for boobies - a somewhat unstoppable force!
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apparently, at the durrington walls settlement near stonehenge, there is evidence of over 100 of these smaller houses, whereas the remains on skara brae are less than ten houses if i recall correctly. having such a large amount of people living together would necessitate a different social structure to the smaller, more enclosed settlement at skara brae. (sleight aside, maybe the skara brae settlement remains were part of a larger settlement, part of which may now be under sea or buried? - just a thought)
maybe the houses at durrington walls only appear to be more primitive? maybe they only look this way because we only have evidence of the post-holes outlining the house's frame, as opposed to the stone structures at skara brae, which are mostly ceiling height and give a better impression of being living quarters that we can recognise.
perhaps the builders of each of these settlements have the same skills, or rather, very similar skills, and maybe any differences perceived in these houses are more to do with the houses being built from whatever material is most common / readily available in the local area and less to do with how primitive these people were.
just thinking out loud really. interesting stuff all the same.
some of the houses seem not to have been lived in.
the one hundred or so 14ft by 14ft houses all seemed to have been inhabited, and those living there (permanently or otherwise) seemed to have partied quite hard, or at least had a fairly lavish lifestyle comparitive to other living sites in the country.
also, there is evidence of several larger buildings which appear to have been utilised in some way but do not have the same detritus present, suggesting that they have not been (heavily) lived in, and/or the inhabitants were simply much tidier. these larger buildings are outside of the large group of apparently lived-in buiildings, and these larger buildings also had fences around.
furthermore, the smaller buildings have evidence of having had box beds inside them, and i do not believe they said the same thing about the larger buildings,
user-id lengths and expertise in this field of knowledge aside...;o) - the above is what i recall having read/heard, and i've read the bbc article, the national geographic articles, and now the cnn article, also, i have watched the video clips on national geographic and cnn. can't remember exactly where i heard/read which bits of my above points.
(i'm not very technical when it comes to audio, so some of my terminology may be slightly incorrect.)
having two sounds of similar but different frequencies, say 700hz and 703hz will appear to the ear as a sound of "about" 700hz -- but with an audible oscillating 'wahwahwah' sound of 3hz (the difference between the two frequencies) heard as well - this is the siren-like sound you describe in your first paragraph.
this is the same as the effect you get when tuning guitar strings using harmonics: you fire off (pluck) the same harmonic note on two strings, and, when the strings are not tuned correctly, one hears a 'wahwahwah' sound (denoting the difference between each pitch), and, as you bring the two strings more into tune (by twisting a tuning peg) the audible 'wahwahwah' will slow down (there will be less difference between the two pitches) until it disappears.
i don't know how my above explanation helps explain what's happening when one compresses sound into an mp3, but i figured the my real-world example is connected in some way to what you describe, and may be of use to someone.
isn't it stuntmen who are dangerous? -- sorry, i couldn't resist....but, seriously though, i think you make a good point - but why do you define clowns as dangerous???
i'd be interested to hear, especially if it is an answer which/isn't/ simply based on a childhood experience that has caused your coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
There is similar in the book Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. I've not read it for some years, but i recall that in the story the camera crew rely on their lighting to 'protect' them -- so if the lights go out they can be in big trouble.
This is the cause for a simple reason: Imagine you're a programmer making an app that runs properly as a less-privileged user. You do a little developing. You log out. You log back in as a less-privileged user. You test the app, using printf as the main debugging tool. You log out. You log back in. You restart the IDE and get everything back like it was. You do a little developing. And so forth. It's a waking nightmare of the type formerly encountered only in H.P. Lovecraft stories.
...as much as i do enjoy Lovecraft, i believe that a better informed developer would probably just use RunAs to avoid such a scenario.
Microsoft's tools punish you for trying to do the right thing, because they want bad software so the customers expect to be on an upgrade treadmill.
i tried the url in the original post, and it gave an error, as discussed... i then cleaned up the url, resulting in this google query, which is working just fine for me.
some versions of totem use xine as the backed. so if you don't like the look (or something) of xine, and you believe totem offers enough options, then using totem with a xine backed.
unless of course you simply don't like totem or prefer something other than totem.
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i don't think it's essential to be a junkie, no -- and i'm not too sure what your point is exactly?
sure, the guy from Sparklehorse has a history of smack, etc - and you can kinda hear it in his music - not to say that one couldn't do music like that without ever having taken drugs.
but you do realise that a lot of the rock artists you're a fan of are, or have been, speed-heads, right? -- and i'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg.
sometimes i think that an artist's experience of drugs, and their effects on their mind, can lead to them creating music which is interesting because it can sometimes envelop stuff that is beyond the spectrum of normal experience for most people. on the other hand, for a lot of people the music can resonate well with them because they too do the same/similar drugs to those taken by the artist. but you surely know all this already?
just to take the first two artists you mention, what kind of music would Megadeth and Slayer have produced if they'd never done all that speed, for example?
the guitar work on that Sparklehorse/DM album isn't awful by a looong stretch- sure it might not be as technical as that played by some of the heavy-rock or speed-metal groups, and sure, Sparklehorse's music is much more down-beat and lacks the balls of some of the heavier music you're in to, but hey-ho, different horses for different courses - i see you also like Tori Amos, so it's not like i'm trying to talk to someone who's a single-genre'd music bigot or anything. ;-)
(fwiw, i play myself too, fairly competently - my most beloved guitar is a custom-built 7-string hollow-bodied single pick-up affair, which i picked up cheap from a friend when he 'fell out' with it - but i've also got a strat and a cut-away nylon-stringed classical too)
wow i actually managed to get logged in! miracles never cease to amaze me!
me again (still as AC and now replying to my own posts) - just to say Turgid, that i also like a lot of the artists you mention - and i'm going to try and check out the one i've not heard of (Bohlen-Pierce) - sounds worth at least a listen to find out.
i think i have stuff by all the other artists mentioned (as listened to both by yourself and your other half) somewhere in my collection - although i must admit i'm not such a fan of rock as i used to be.
it's not even a mashup album - it's a Sparklehorse album and afaik he's just the producer! (fwiw, he's also produced Gorillaz and Beck)
to be fair it would be good if the summary mentioned this - but hey, it is slashdot after all
i'm not really sure where the legal dispute lies, maybe there's some sneaky samples in it which he hasn't cleared? - but i've not heard any samples in it yet, and i am listening to it right now as i type this - it just sounds like Sparklehorse through and through.
"techno handbag music"???
lmfao - it's a Sparklehorse album! it's psych-folk-rock or something...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparklehorse
it's /produced/ by Danger Mouse - who's also produced the Gorrilaz and Beck - and Danger Mouse himself is a hip-hop artist when he's not producing other kinds of music.
geez - where' my cluestick when i need it!
> Could you tell me how I can short out the brakes on my car? ...with a magnet??
On a Mac, i believe you can get the Quicktime engine to have all the codecs you'll ever need by installing the free open source package Perian and the free (closed source) Flip4Mac WMV, which covers the last few.
Arguably, Apple should pre-install both of these packages - or variants thereof.
Now to get back onto the main topic..
One could also argue that the Apple-provided Quicktime player sucks ass big-time - and of course that is very true - but that's easily fixed by installing NicePlayer (also FOSS) - the other route is to ignore all the Quicktime-based solutions, and use something like VLC.
None of the above will stop an uneducated and/or unsuspecting user from clicking their way through an installer (and giving up an administrator password) believing it to install something great/fun/useful. If you try too hard to protect the naive and/or foolish from their own actions when administering the system then you end up taking the route Microsoft have with Vista (and their earlier Windows, each to a lesser extent) -- Are you sure? Are you really sure? Are you really really certain? Can i get a password with that? -- Ah.. Mac users are getting used to giving passwords during installs - bummer. (Mind you, they don't do it as quickly as the average Windows user/administrator can click Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok)
Being honest though, i don't think naivety or foolishness really enter into the equation - after all, it's a social engineering trick driven by the simple male quest for boobies - a somewhat unstoppable force!
it's here:-
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>Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller
Great wizzards with lizzards!!
hey, that sounds mighty familiar...
apparently, at the durrington walls settlement near stonehenge, there is evidence of over 100 of these smaller houses, whereas the remains on skara brae are less than ten houses if i recall correctly. having such a large amount of people living together would necessitate a different social structure to the smaller, more enclosed settlement at skara brae. (sleight aside, maybe the skara brae settlement remains were part of a larger settlement, part of which may now be under sea or buried? - just a thought)
maybe the houses at durrington walls only appear to be more primitive? maybe they only look this way because we only have evidence of the post-holes outlining the house's frame, as opposed to the stone structures at skara brae, which are mostly ceiling height and give a better impression of being living quarters that we can recognise.
perhaps the builders of each of these settlements have the same skills, or rather, very similar skills, and maybe any differences perceived in these houses are more to do with the houses being built from whatever material is most common / readily available in the local area and less to do with how primitive these people were.
just thinking out loud really. interesting stuff all the same.
cheers!
from what i recall of what i read...
;o) - the above is what i recall having read/heard, and i've read the bbc article, the national geographic articles, and now the cnn article, also, i have watched the video clips on national geographic and cnn. can't remember exactly where i heard/read which bits of my above points.
some of the houses seem not to have been lived in.
the one hundred or so 14ft by 14ft houses all seemed to have been inhabited, and those living there (permanently or otherwise) seemed to have partied quite hard, or at least had a fairly lavish lifestyle comparitive to other living sites in the country.
also, there is evidence of several larger buildings which appear to have been utilised in some way but do not have the same detritus present, suggesting that they have not been (heavily) lived in, and/or the inhabitants were simply much tidier. these larger buildings are outside of the large group of apparently lived-in buiildings, and these larger buildings also had fences around.
furthermore, the smaller buildings have evidence of having had box beds inside them, and i do not believe they said the same thing about the larger buildings,
user-id lengths and expertise in this field of knowledge aside...
hope this helps - apologies if i am incorrect.
Does running a bad app on my Mac bring down the whole of the Internet?
Does it even stop me from surfing?
Does it crash OS X?
Funny, I really can't say I've had any problems with this kind of stuff so far.
Ho hum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6175424.stm
there's not much mention of these 'three objects' that they've found inside him.
i'm no expert - maybe they're not important? -- but i'm sure they'll get to find out when they do the post mortem.
(i'm not very technical when it comes to audio, so some of my terminology may be slightly incorrect.)
having two sounds of similar but different frequencies, say 700hz and 703hz will appear to the ear as a sound of "about" 700hz -- but with an audible oscillating 'wahwahwah' sound of 3hz (the difference between the two frequencies) heard as well - this is the siren-like sound you describe in your first paragraph.
this is the same as the effect you get when tuning guitar strings using harmonics: you fire off (pluck) the same harmonic note on two strings, and, when the strings are not tuned correctly, one hears a 'wahwahwah' sound (denoting the difference between each pitch), and, as you bring the two strings more into tune (by twisting a tuning peg) the audible 'wahwahwah' will slow down (there will be less difference between the two pitches) until it disappears.
i don't know how my above explanation helps explain what's happening when one compresses sound into an mp3, but i figured the my real-world example is connected in some way to what you describe, and may be of use to someone.
but maybe not... who knows?
> and other dangerous people (like clowns)
...but, seriously though, i think you make a good point - but why do you define clowns as dangerous???
/isn't/ simply based on a childhood experience that has caused your coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
/frogg
isn't it stuntmen who are dangerous? -- sorry, i couldn't resist.
i'd be interested to hear, especially if it is an answer which
thanks,
I like the original Max Headroom film a lot! :)
There is similar in the book Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. I've not read it for some years, but i recall that in the story the camera crew rely on their lighting to 'protect' them -- so if the lights go out they can be in big trouble.
yeah nowadays: ignorance = cool
it seems to be a worrying trend even for the thinkers / those who used to be bothered to think.
it's almost as if not-thinking has become the new black, or something.
Can't we just push the moon over a little bit?
If i recall correctly, if you boot the latest version of PHLAK there is an icon on the desktop to install a mini version of PHLAK to removable drive.
It worked for me, took only moments, and didn't require any technical shenanigans (beyond knowing where my usb drive was mounted, i think)
This is all from memory, as the PHLAK site seems unavailable right now.
Of course, it's your decision as to whether PHLAK is any good as a general purpose day-to-day linux distro.
...as much as i do enjoy Lovecraft, i believe that a better informed developer would probably just use RunAs to avoid such a scenario.
rubbish
i tried the url in the original post, and it gave an error, as discussed... i then cleaned up the url, resulting in this google query, which is working just fine for me.
hth? ;o)
my guess why it got into The Times... maybe someone blogged about this subject recently? /me ducks and runs for cover
mastercard 4929 123 123 123 passes luhn10 -- we use it when testing ecommerce systems.
some versions of totem use xine as the backed. so if you don't like the look (or something) of xine, and you believe totem offers enough options, then using totem with a xine backed.
unless of course you simply don't like totem or prefer something other than totem.