God, where are my mod points when I need them. Parent could not be more right.
I am sick and tired of people claiming tubes sound better. Tubes sound different, but they don't possess any of the characteristics to make sound. But I start to meander off topic, so I'll conclude with:
I'll second the support of Sibelius. I've spent the last three days working heavily on an arrangement, and I must say it is much better than Finale. Some features of note:
Better input using the standard keyboard (not MIDI) than Finale. Finale's input is slow unless you have MIDI. Sibelius has a much more useful system to get around this handicap.
More intuitive responses to changes in the score. Finale is not nearly as intelligent.
MacOS X native. To the best of my knowledge, Finale is still an OS9 app. Points to Sibelius for making the switch.
There are some bugs, but overall Sibelius is a much better piece of software. Sadly, the price will prevent me from owning my own copy, but as long as I continue to work with my collaborator, I will have access to his. Sweet deal...
I'm confused how you make this assumption. Let's look at some numbers....
According to this osOpinion.com article Apple claims 5 million users for OS X (as of January, this year). Assuming no one else started using OS X since then (pretty poor assumption, but whatever), we see that 5 million users downloaded 2 million songs in 16 days. This is a rate of 125,000 songs per day. At 365 days a year, we see 45.6 million songs per year. Spread across our 5 million users we see 9.12 songs per year. Admittedly not huge, but still 3x larger than your numbers.
Admittedly, this is based on some schetchy assumptions. 1) Purchasing rates won't remain at this level. 2) The number of OSX users I'm sure is higher now than it was in January.
In my wandering web searches, I've come across ICEPower at least once. Frankly, it's mostly marketing, but it's novel nonetheless.
For those familiar with amplifier topologies, ICEPower is a Class D amp. For those unfamiliar here's a brief description (by someone who is far from an EE but still interested in electronics): Class D amps work by turning an analog sound wave into a series of discrete pulses (Pulse Width Modulation). Higher frequency waves have more pulses per second than low frequency pules. A power transistor is then turned on and off very rapidly to amplify the signal. As a result, the audio signal traveling to the loudspeaker is actually a set of pulses, but the loudspeaker naturally smoothes these out, and your ear really can't tell the difference.
Class D amps are something of a mixed bag. On one hand, they are extremely efficient. They don't waste much power on heat. On the other hand, they are very difficult to engineer and don't have the proven audiofile track record. That being said, I expect interesting things to come out of Class D science in the future, but for now I'll keep building my Class ABs.
Anyway, as I said, I'm no expert. Feel free to correct me.
As to the Sunfire, I don't know. I can't really tell if that amp is Class D.
Ah! Not so! While the height of Keanu's head would be 5x larger the VOLUME would increase by a factor of 125! So, we see that IMAX Keanu would have a 12,500% increase in vacuousness.
I think these displays ring the death knell for screen savers. Consider that your power consumption will increase when you have the ubiquitous starfield or lame marquee scrolling across your screen. It kind of negates the benefits of low power consumption.
(I might take this time to note that screen savers don't really have a place on a modern desktop other than eye-candy. But hey, I like eye-candy too.)
He may not have web support. Take for example the cell phone I got from AT&T. First, I don't think it has web support. Second, I wouldn't want to pay for their PocketNet service anyway. However, it does apparently have AIM connectivity (for a fee). Basically, there is a gateway between SMS and AIM that I can send to like any other SMS number. In this situation, using the web wouldn't be an option. But using AIM would.
I'm glad to see that this study isn't claiming more than it logically can. From the article,
"There could have been a cognitive difference, in that the babies with the mittens received more experience in being an actor on the world and being able to produce observable consequences that created the differences," she said. "Or, it could have been that just the extra attention the mitten-using babies received from the parents -- perhaps motivating them to pay attention to objects or systematically bringing the babies' attention to objects."
This was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the brief. In fact, I would have said a better method would have been to use three groups to control for parental interaction.
Group One: This group would have the sticky mittens and the 10-minute per day regimine.
Group Two: This group would have similar toys and similar instructions to parents for interaction, but without the mittens.
Group Three: This group would have neither of the above. Purely control.
I think the results for such a study would be much more externally valid. This study would have really benefitted from controlling for the variable of parental interaction.
Is it one of those VL-Bus (Video Local Bus) cards? Talk about a dead technology. Even in its "hay day." I remember having one in my old 486 and when I upgraded to a pentium I was psyched because it gave me a reason to buy a 1mb PCI card. Sweet....
If you dare to travel into the domain of Novell, their ZenWorks system is quite robust. It allows for selective and forced installation, and the packaging system always struck me as quite sophisticated.
I don't think that this instrument precludes strings. I read the article pretty quickly but I never saw any phrases that indicated that strings weren't on the violin, only that they weren't responsible for transmitting information to the computer. The bow serves this function, along with pressure sensors in the finger board. Strings can still be used, but they information that the MIDI input gathers has no relation to them.
Bear in mind that the current government was huge improvement over the KMT (Kuomintang a.k.a the Nationalists led by Jinag Jieshi (Chinag Chi-Shek)). In its early years the PRC was a great boon to the peasants. The KMT had been massively corrupt and the economy was in shambles. After the October Revolution the CCP was able to turn both of those issues around. Because of these beginnings, the Chinese have been very supportive of their government on the whole. Combine this with constant misinformation and propaganda and it explains why the CCP still maintains power despite its policies.
As a student currently studying China, this information rings very true. Misinformation abounds. The Great Leap Forward rural policies caused nation wide famine, but most Chinese attributed the problem to local conditions; most were shocked to later learn that the entire country experienced "local famine." Many Chinese today are unaware of the deaths at Tiannamen Square. It just goes to show the what the ability to control media can do to the people's perception of events.
I think it would be more fair to say that Martin Guerre was based upon The Prince and the Pauper. The Principle and the Pauper takes more from Martin Guerre than from the Twain novel. The key pointed shared by both Martin Guerre and the Simpsons is that an individual is seemingly killed in battle and then later returns to claim his rightful place in a community. In The Prince and the Pauper the two characters voluntarily change places to see what the other's life is like.
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I have to disagree. Like many of the earlier Simpsons epidodes, The Principle and the Pauper is a parody of an earlier famous work. In this case it is taken directly from Martin Guerre, a musical.
You may have mixed opinions about using famous literature/film/theatre for the basis for Simpsons episodes, but I, for one, think that's what makes the show intelligent. Most of the best material is a parody of great works. Rosebud (the episode where Burns searches for his bear Bobo) is often shot for shot a copy of Citizen Kane.
I will be the first to agree that the Simpsons has gone down hill, but I would contend that it is because they've stopped alluding to famous works.
Also, this was an opportunity for me to be pedantic, which I would hate to miss.;)
I think you misinterpret the the goals of the Honeypot project. These people aren't doing it to market some super system, but rather to provide information about actual cracking techniques to the Whitehat community. They regularly have "competitions" where people analyze various types of attacks. I don't think these usually have prizes. The Honeypot project then provides all the information they have, in addition to the information uncovered by the participants.
Perhaps you take a look at their site and some of their previous work before you assume an ulterior motive. The Honeypot project provides some really interesting looks into the minds of the Blackhat community.
Another "value added" component of HP's product may be that it is in fact a distro.
The NSA's work has only been to patch the kernel, patch many of the common utilities, and create a few specialized utilities. It must be installed over a previous distro, which might discourage some less confident admins from using it.
A 3 grand price tag might not be so bad, if HP is providing a turn key solution. For $3000, new admins can avoid the pain of patcing and manipulating their systems, and they also recieve support from HP. The NSA does provide any kind of support.
Also, 3K is that much if the license permits unlimited implementation. If companies don't need to buy an additional license for each box, that is. Compared to licensing costs for Microsoft products, this would be fantastic. (I don't know if the license permits this. Like most slash readers, I didn't actually look at the article.:)
While I don't see myself using this product, I see how other situations might warrant it.
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I am sick and tired of people claiming tubes sound better. Tubes sound different, but they don't possess any of the characteristics to make sound. But I start to meander off topic, so I'll conclude with:
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- Better input using the standard keyboard (not MIDI) than Finale. Finale's input is slow unless you have MIDI. Sibelius has a much more useful system to get around this handicap.
- More intuitive responses to changes in the score. Finale is not nearly as intelligent.
- MacOS X native. To the best of my knowledge, Finale is still an OS9 app. Points to Sibelius for making the switch.
There are some bugs, but overall Sibelius is a much better piece of software. Sadly, the price will prevent me from owning my own copy, but as long as I continue to work with my collaborator, I will have access to his. Sweet deal...I'll second. One of my favorite reads. I always seem to come back to it every few years. Now if I can just remember who I loaned it to last.....
According to this osOpinion.com article Apple claims 5 million users for OS X (as of January, this year). Assuming no one else started using OS X since then (pretty poor assumption, but whatever), we see that 5 million users downloaded 2 million songs in 16 days. This is a rate of 125,000 songs per day. At 365 days a year, we see 45.6 million songs per year. Spread across our 5 million users we see 9.12 songs per year. Admittedly not huge, but still 3x larger than your numbers.
Admittedly, this is based on some schetchy assumptions. 1) Purchasing rates won't remain at this level. 2) The number of OSX users I'm sure is higher now than it was in January.
But still, not what you claim.
For those familiar with amplifier topologies, ICEPower is a Class D amp. For those unfamiliar here's a brief description (by someone who is far from an EE but still interested in electronics): Class D amps work by turning an analog sound wave into a series of discrete pulses (Pulse Width Modulation). Higher frequency waves have more pulses per second than low frequency pules. A power transistor is then turned on and off very rapidly to amplify the signal. As a result, the audio signal traveling to the loudspeaker is actually a set of pulses, but the loudspeaker naturally smoothes these out, and your ear really can't tell the difference.
Class D amps are something of a mixed bag. On one hand, they are extremely efficient. They don't waste much power on heat. On the other hand, they are very difficult to engineer and don't have the proven audiofile track record. That being said, I expect interesting things to come out of Class D science in the future, but for now I'll keep building my Class ABs.
Anyway, as I said, I'm no expert. Feel free to correct me.
As to the Sunfire, I don't know. I can't really tell if that amp is Class D.
Ah! Not so! While the height of Keanu's head would be 5x larger the VOLUME would increase by a factor of 125! So, we see that IMAX Keanu would have a 12,500% increase in vacuousness.
(I might take this time to note that screen savers don't really have a place on a modern desktop other than eye-candy. But hey, I like eye-candy too.)
He may not have web support. Take for example the cell phone I got from AT&T. First, I don't think it has web support. Second, I wouldn't want to pay for their PocketNet service anyway. However, it does apparently have AIM connectivity (for a fee). Basically, there is a gateway between SMS and AIM that I can send to like any other SMS number. In this situation, using the web wouldn't be an option. But using AIM would.
How about a port port?
You raise a good point. If they were to board a plane and be detained by customs, they might have a legitimate claim to habeas corpus.
"There could have been a cognitive difference, in that the babies with the mittens received more experience in being an actor on the world and being able to produce observable consequences that created the differences," she said. "Or, it could have been that just the extra attention the mitten-using babies received from the parents -- perhaps motivating them to pay attention to objects or systematically bringing the babies' attention to objects."
This was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the brief. In fact, I would have said a better method would have been to use three groups to control for parental interaction.
- Group One: This group would have the sticky mittens and the 10-minute per day regimine.
- Group Two: This group would have similar toys and similar instructions to parents for interaction, but without the mittens.
- Group Three: This group would have neither of the above. Purely control.
I think the results for such a study would be much more externally valid. This study would have really benefitted from controlling for the variable of parental interaction.Is it one of those VL-Bus (Video Local Bus) cards? Talk about a dead technology. Even in its "hay day." I remember having one in my old 486 and when I upgraded to a pentium I was psyched because it gave me a reason to buy a 1mb PCI card. Sweet....
If you dare to travel into the domain of Novell, their ZenWorks system is quite robust. It allows for selective and forced installation, and the packaging system always struck me as quite sophisticated.
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I don't think that this instrument precludes strings. I read the article pretty quickly but I never saw any phrases that indicated that strings weren't on the violin, only that they weren't responsible for transmitting information to the computer. The bow serves this function, along with pressure sensors in the finger board. Strings can still be used, but they information that the MIDI input gathers has no relation to them.
Wow. i'm an idiot. next time I'll use the preview button. promise.
Learn how to spell check. I'm done trolling now.
They could just do what Patrick at Slackware did and jump three or so version numbers in a single release.
Hmm, but does this prove that the desktop version can be modular? I would say yes, but I'd be interested to hear other opinions.
Bear in mind that the current government was huge improvement over the KMT (Kuomintang a.k.a the Nationalists led by Jinag Jieshi (Chinag Chi-Shek)). In its early years the PRC was a great boon to the peasants. The KMT had been massively corrupt and the economy was in shambles. After the October Revolution the CCP was able to turn both of those issues around. Because of these beginnings, the Chinese have been very supportive of their government on the whole. Combine this with constant misinformation and propaganda and it explains why the CCP still maintains power despite its policies.
As a student currently studying China, this information rings very true. Misinformation abounds. The Great Leap Forward rural policies caused nation wide famine, but most Chinese attributed the problem to local conditions; most were shocked to later learn that the entire country experienced "local famine." Many Chinese today are unaware of the deaths at Tiannamen Square. It just goes to show the what the ability to control media can do to the people's perception of events.
I think it would be more fair to say that Martin Guerre was based upon The Prince and the Pauper. The Principle and the Pauper takes more from Martin Guerre than from the Twain novel. The key pointed shared by both Martin Guerre and the Simpsons is that an individual is seemingly killed in battle and then later returns to claim his rightful place in a community. In The Prince and the Pauper the two characters voluntarily change places to see what the other's life is like.
</pedantic>
You may have mixed opinions about using famous literature/film/theatre for the basis for Simpsons episodes, but I, for one, think that's what makes the show intelligent. Most of the best material is a parody of great works. Rosebud (the episode where Burns searches for his bear Bobo) is often shot for shot a copy of Citizen Kane.
I will be the first to agree that the Simpsons has gone down hill, but I would contend that it is because they've stopped alluding to famous works.
Also, this was an opportunity for me to be pedantic, which I would hate to miss. ;)
Perhaps you take a look at their site and some of their previous work before you assume an ulterior motive. The Honeypot project provides some really interesting looks into the minds of the Blackhat community.
The NSA's work has only been to patch the kernel, patch many of the common utilities, and create a few specialized utilities. It must be installed over a previous distro, which might discourage some less confident admins from using it.
A 3 grand price tag might not be so bad, if HP is providing a turn key solution. For $3000, new admins can avoid the pain of patcing and manipulating their systems, and they also recieve support from HP. The NSA does provide any kind of support.
Also, 3K is that much if the license permits unlimited implementation. If companies don't need to buy an additional license for each box, that is. Compared to licensing costs for Microsoft products, this would be fantastic. (I don't know if the license permits this. Like most slash readers, I didn't actually look at the article.:)
While I don't see myself using this product, I see how other situations might warrant it.