Electric accordions have been around since the 1960s. I repaired electric organs, amplifiers, various musical electronics paying my way through schoolin the 60s and 70s. There were several electronic accordions - Titano and Elka are two manufacturers that come to mind. The polkas did sound different, but it was a neat thing at the time. This was even before MIDI became popular!
grammer nazi
Is there not a rule that any post complaining about spelling or _grammar_ will contain an error of its own ?
(I read this over several times to make sure I am not guilty.)
DC transmission can be more efficient. In Northern Quebec, Canada, there is a power development that converts the output from the generators to high voltage DC for the long distance transmission. With AC, the capacitance between the ground and the wires becomes appreciable, with DC the 'capacitor' charges up once, and no energy is lost in the constant recharging (with its attendant losses). However, you're right that the end circuitry is quite a bit more complex.
I use and recommend knoppix - it seems to have pretty well everything that you are asking for. (I run it on four systems, including a server, (used for teaching), my laptop, my home desktop machine and my home fileserver). It's a breeze to set up. Updates with apt-get, or for those who like gui frontends, there's synaptic.
Since it boots from the CD it makes a great troubleshooting tool also.
I was checking out the survey link on your web site, and got to this message:
You must be using a really crappy browser considering it couldn't manage to send the map location you clicked on. Use a different one and try again, please
FYI, my "crappy browser" is
Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9
running on the Knoppix distro 3.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200.
Several years ago I used gramofile, found at http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/ t o convert some old vinyl LPs to CD format for a family member. It worked well - separates into individual tracks, reduces surface noise, etc.
For a presumably intelligent (?) journalist, I'm surprised he does not know the difference between finish (as in done, end) and the Finnish nationality.
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this relevant publication:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39082
Electric accordions have been around since the 1960s. I repaired electric organs, amplifiers, various musical electronics paying my way through schoolin the 60s and 70s. There were several electronic accordions - Titano and Elka are two manufacturers that come to mind. The polkas did sound different, but it was a neat thing at the time. This was even before MIDI became popular!
Is there not a rule that any post complaining about spelling or _grammar_ will contain an error of its own ?
(I read this over several times to make sure I am not guilty.)
DC transmission can be more efficient. In Northern Quebec, Canada, there is a power development that converts the output from the generators to high voltage DC for the long distance transmission. With AC, the capacitance between the ground and the wires becomes appreciable, with DC the 'capacitor' charges up once, and no energy is lost in the constant recharging (with its attendant losses). However, you're right that the end circuitry is quite a bit more complex.
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More details at:
http://www.hydroquebec.com/transenergie/en/reseau
And here I thought dire straights were these scary anti-gay guys with baseball bats.
I have seen a t-shirt with the manufacturer's label saying in Canada's two official languages:
"Made in Turkey" and "Fabrique en Dinde".
The French "Dinde" is the bird, while the country's name is Turquie in French.
I use and recommend knoppix - it seems
to have pretty well everything that you are
asking for. (I run it on four systems, including
a server, (used for teaching), my laptop, my home
desktop machine and my home fileserver). It's a
breeze to set up. Updates with apt-get, or for
those who like gui frontends, there's synaptic.
Since it boots from the CD it makes a great
troubleshooting tool also.
I was checking out the survey link on your web site, and got to this message:
You must be using a really crappy browser considering it couldn't manage to send the map location you clicked on. Use a different one and try again, please
FYI, my "crappy browser" is
Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9
running on the Knoppix distro 3.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200.
Several years ago I used gramofile, found at
t o convert some old vinyl LPs to CD format for a
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/
family member. It worked well - separates into
individual tracks, reduces surface noise, etc.
For a presumably intelligent (?) journalist, I'm
surprised he does not know the difference
between finish (as in done, end) and the Finnish nationality.