There is arguably no one alive today in the west that is culturally conditioned to prefer just intonation. Just intonations is "just", meaning it's mathematically correct - intervals are the ratios of small integers. Other intonations are not. I'm sure peoples' ears can be conditioned to expect anything.
I'm a barbershop singer, and we have to deal with oddities such as having to sing an ascending third sharper than we think it should be when the melody is moving up by that interval, yet when singing the third as part of a harmony, it will have to be flatter to be in tune.
If you want to hear a correct third, just get 50 guys in a room and have them all sing the same vowel, in the intervals root/fifth/root. The third will just jump out and wail away without anyone singing it.
If they knew to begin with where everything was that would be practical. Certainly in areas of new development GPS mapping would be an obvious thing to do. But in areas like New England, where the infrastructure is old, it's likely nobody knows where everything is. Records might have burned, people might have died. The stories from Boston's "big dig" were legend.
I can imagine it might be even worse in some areas of Europe.
I have to concur on the Natural Keyboard 4000. I have two of them. They do have some quality issues.. as in the ":" keys has gone weird on the one I have at home. But there is really nothing else like them for any price.
My gmail spam folder currently shows 16,981. Nyeah! A truly sad commentary, isn't it? I get about 20 a day that aren't caught by gmail's filters.
My work email is pretty clean, but I did start getting a few stock pump image spams after I used my work address to register and download some drivers from iomega.
I'm starting my fourth semester of blackboard classes, and while it sure is nice not to have to trek to a classroom miles away to go to night school, the software really is pathetic. I can only imagine what cool things could be done with it if there was a motivation to innovate.
Oh, wait, that's why there is a patent system isn't it? This is going to be an object lesson in how much better the software (or its competitors) gets real quickly once stupid, overly-broad software patents get overturned.
Of course you are correct, but perhaps the parent poster is trying to say that corporations increase their profits by manipulating markets in various ways.
The prices of new "HD" capable displays are coming down out of the stratosphere, cable and satellite providers offer HD content.
Now Vista hits the street and it's clear Microsoft is trying to use their enormous market power to set themselves (convicted monopolists though they be) to control the entire distribution chain of "premium content", which of course refers to the HD video disks that will be mainstream consumer fodder in 3 to 5 years.
"If we were there'd be laws that allowed them [Microsoft] to stop people from using XP, and just utterly force us..." Actually, I think we'll have to pass laws to prevent them from just forcing us off of XP and W2K and on to Vista. The question is, will this be any easier if the Dems take the White House ?
So what are tne good alternatives to the "corporate edition" products from NAI and Symantec?
Meaning products that centrally report their activity and status? I need to be able to know at a glance (every day)that say, 50 systems all have the latest definitions, all got scanned at 4:30 this morning, and none found any malware.
Know what's important to the bottom line for your employer and adjust your priorities accordingly. This is especially important in smaller outfits.
I'm working for a manufacturer outside the "technology" sector for the first time in my life now. I'm learning as much as I can about every aspect of the business.. from production and distribution to customer service. What else can I do to increase my value to them? They're already getting the full benefit of my technical expertise and experience.
I feel the need to trot out my story of seeing the Smashing Pumpkins at the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg, MA (a small concrete & steel hockey rink) in the mid 90s. They started the show with the chase scene from the movie "Bullit" played at increasingly insane volumes with subharmonic enhancement. I had these aluminum labyrinth earplug things in and escaped without losing any of my hearing (as far as I could tell) but the sound was so intense that my insides were shaking. People's clothing was visibly flapping, I swear. Every time the Ford and the Mopar downshifted it was like a truckload of lumber falling on you.
Can anyone think of a "non-lethal weapon" that wasn't eventually used as a form of torture, whether deliberately or not ?
Rubber bullets that tear off chunks of flesh when they strike glancing blows, tasers, "shock belts" put on unruly prisoners with the trigger given to the judge. Never mind the good old truncheon.
ditto.. I love my E2Cs. The only downside is that they are so sensitive that with my old Gateway 3150 laptop (fireant) that I keep by my recliner, the total noise is just ridiculous. Even with the "mute all" box checked there's still a nasty hiss. And of course you get to hear every disk access etc. I keep the master volume turned down just as low as it will go without being off and it's still plenty of volume with the wav slider about 3/4 the way up. My cheap-o Muvo mp3 player is quiet as can be, though.
At the newspaper where I worked until recently we had a Ricoh Officio (or something like that, forget the model#) that was a printer/scanner/fax etc. You could feed in a stack of paper and push a few buttons and it would either email you a file or drop it on an SMB share for you, in TIF or PDF format. It was a pretty cool device.
Expensive to buy, I bet, but the bosses liked it because it cost something like $40 a month to lease including all supplies (except paper) and all maintenance.
I used to think it was pretty good, but it seems to have deteriorated.
I got about fifty pump & dump spams each beginning with "A MAJOR PR CAMPAIGN IS UNDERWAY FOR" and kept getting them for the next few days. One would think that one would be easy to pick out. Also I get them with "st0ck" in the body all the time. Should be a dead giveaway.
there is Nothing (other than having massive redundent arrays of capacitors) that can be done about under voltaging
My aging APC SmartUPS-600 claims to be able to take incoming power as low as 108V and output 117V.
I actually saw incoming power that low once at my last job, during a heat wave. It burned out the building's well pump and we all had use porta-potties for a couple of days. We had dozens of these SmartUPSes and I was watching the monitoring sw since we had been warned of brownouts.
Dual-conversion may be inefficient but it's clean power.
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There is arguably no one alive today in the west that is culturally conditioned to prefer just intonation. Just intonations is "just", meaning it's mathematically correct - intervals are the ratios of small integers. Other intonations are not. I'm sure peoples' ears can be conditioned to expect anything.
I'm a barbershop singer, and we have to deal with oddities such as having to sing an ascending third sharper than we think it should be when the melody is moving up by that interval, yet when singing the third as part of a harmony, it will have to be flatter to be in tune.
If you want to hear a correct third, just get 50 guys in a room and have them all sing the same vowel, in the intervals root/fifth/root. The third will just jump out and wail away without anyone singing it.
Oh, that's a cheery project name.. or maybe optimistic in kind of an evil-genius way. It brought to mind kind of singularity.
If they knew to begin with where everything was that would be practical. Certainly in areas of new development GPS mapping would be an obvious thing to do. But in areas like New England, where the infrastructure is old, it's likely nobody knows where everything is. Records might have burned, people might have died. The stories from Boston's "big dig" were legend.
I can imagine it might be even worse in some areas of Europe.
I'd like it if they rolled up all of the 80-90 critical patches since SP2.
I have to concur on the Natural Keyboard 4000. I have two of them. They do have some quality issues.. as in the ":" keys has gone weird on the one I have at home. But there is really nothing else like them for any price.
Then there's always 20ma current-loop for those longer runs.. Anyone else remember when "EIA RS232" was the _new_ standard?
My gmail spam folder currently shows 16,981. Nyeah! A truly sad commentary, isn't it? I get about 20 a day that aren't caught by gmail's filters.
My work email is pretty clean, but I did start getting a few stock pump image spams after I used my work address to register and download some drivers from iomega.
Those were two goofballs that get the media and how to use it.
I'm starting my fourth semester of blackboard classes, and while it sure is nice not to have to trek to a classroom miles away to go to night school, the software really is pathetic. I can only imagine what cool things could be done with it if there was a motivation to innovate.
Oh, wait, that's why there is a patent system isn't it? This is going to be an object lesson in how much better the software (or its competitors) gets real quickly once stupid, overly-broad software patents get overturned.
The prices of new "HD" capable displays are coming down out of the stratosphere, cable and satellite providers offer HD content.
Now Vista hits the street and it's clear Microsoft is trying to use their enormous market power to set themselves (convicted monopolists though they be) to control the entire distribution chain of "premium content", which of course refers to the HD video disks that will be mainstream consumer fodder in 3 to 5 years.
That would be some power.
I think they really meant "supplant" rather than "supplement", for one thing.
So what are tne good alternatives to the "corporate edition" products from NAI and Symantec?
Meaning products that centrally report their activity and status? I need to be able to know at a glance (every day)that say, 50 systems all have the latest definitions, all got scanned at 4:30 this morning, and none found any malware.
Absolutely... Wish I had mod points tonight.
Know what's important to the bottom line for your employer and adjust your priorities accordingly. This is especially important in smaller outfits.
I'm working for a manufacturer outside the "technology" sector for the first time in my life now. I'm learning as much as I can about every aspect of the business.. from production and distribution to customer service. What else can I do to increase my value to them? They're already getting the full benefit of my technical expertise and experience.
I feel the need to trot out my story of seeing the Smashing Pumpkins at the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg, MA (a small concrete & steel hockey rink) in the mid 90s. They started the show with the chase scene from the movie "Bullit" played at increasingly insane volumes with subharmonic enhancement. I had these aluminum labyrinth earplug things in and escaped without losing any of my hearing (as far as I could tell) but the sound was so intense that my insides were shaking. People's clothing was visibly flapping, I swear. Every time the Ford and the Mopar downshifted it was like a truckload of lumber falling on you.
They were "pre-grungifying" people's ears.
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Can anyone think of a "non-lethal weapon" that wasn't eventually used as a form of torture, whether deliberately or not ?
Rubber bullets that tear off chunks of flesh when they strike glancing blows, tasers, "shock belts" put on unruly prisoners with the trigger given to the judge. Never mind the good old truncheon.
What FA?
You asked.
ditto.. I love my E2Cs. The only downside is that they are so sensitive that with my old Gateway 3150 laptop (fireant) that I keep by my recliner, the total noise is just ridiculous. Even with the "mute all" box checked there's still a nasty hiss. And of course you get to hear every disk access etc. I keep the master volume turned down just as low as it will go without being off and it's still plenty of volume with the wav slider about 3/4 the way up. My cheap-o Muvo mp3 player is quiet as can be, though.
When they ask "Can I have your home phone number?" I simply reply "No". They will find a way to take your money.
At the newspaper where I worked until recently we had a Ricoh Officio (or something like that, forget the model#) that was a printer/scanner/fax etc. You could feed in a stack of paper and push a few buttons and it would either email you a file or drop it on an SMB share for you, in TIF or PDF format. It was a pretty cool device.
Expensive to buy, I bet, but the bosses liked it because it cost something like $40 a month to lease including all supplies (except paper) and all maintenance.
I used to think it was pretty good, but it seems to have deteriorated.
I got about fifty pump & dump spams each beginning with "A MAJOR PR CAMPAIGN IS UNDERWAY FOR" and kept getting them for the next few days. One would think that one would be easy to pick out. Also I get them with "st0ck" in the body all the time. Should be a dead giveaway.
Mention *my* name in Sheboygan!
My aging APC SmartUPS-600 claims to be able to take incoming power as low as 108V and output 117V.
I actually saw incoming power that low once at my last job, during a heat wave. It burned out the building's well pump and we all had use porta-potties for a couple of days. We had dozens of these SmartUPSes and I was watching the monitoring sw since we had been warned of brownouts.
Dual-conversion may be inefficient but it's clean power.