Usually, when someone suggests that Al Gore invented the internet, they are making a joke about how rediculous that whole thing was. Nobody would seriously belive that Al Gore invented the internet. Unless I had reason to belive the person writing the post was a complete idiot, I would assume it was a sarcastic remark.
Sorry you missed the train. The next sarcasm train is coming along at 3:14. Hope you can make that one!
I know you can buy harpsichord kits. A quick Google search for "harpsichord kit" turns up many results, but I don't know what company would be best, so I can't really recommend anything. I am thinking of doing one of those myself one of these days. Its a fun instrument to play. The harpsichord makes a really unique sound.
Well, the ideal is to have a constant fps equal to the refresh rate of your monitor. My monitor runs at 75hz. The ideal for me would be 75fps. Any more than that, and it makes no difference, because my monitor will only DISPLAY 75 of them each second. Any lower than that, and I am not using my equipment to its fullest. There probably is no real difference between 60 and 75fps, but since my monitor runs at 75hz, I might as well have 75fps.
And also increase the risk of your fuel/air mixture getting too lean, and causing detonation, which can result in very expensive damage to engine components. It is better to err on the side of too rich than too lean. They probably are leaving a bit to wide of a buffer, but make sure you know what you are doing, and do not make it TOO lean. As boost increases you need more fuel to keep the fuel/air mixture at the right level. If you decrease the amount of fuel you run the risk of leaning out at higher levels of boost.
Still would be about the same amount of time, I think. The ability to just tap the device would speed it up a lot more than the ringtone being the CEO's voice. That, in itself, would not make any difference, because I would still have to register the phone ringing, and dig it out of my pocket. However, it still would not be instant. The computer needs to know where to route the call, so the CEO would still have to get through "CEO to Adam" or something like that before the computer would know where to route the call to. Even if it can hear that, and find the proper route instantly, it still needs to wait for him to finish saying where he wants the call to go. Maybe if it broadcast to all the devices, but only let me answer it?
Nope. Worf would have to answer immediately. NOBODY does this. When the phone rings, do you answer it 1/10 of a second into the first ring? No. I don't always even answer the phone on the first ring. It is usually on the second ring by the time I get it out of my pocket and answer it.
Yeah, I was getting a check engine light, and the car was almost stalling when I was at stop lights. I took it to autozone, they hooked it up, "EGR Pintle Position Error." I bought an EGR valve gasket and a can of carb cleaner, pulled off the EGR valve, it was all full of soot, cleaned it off with the carb cleaner, and put it back on with the new gasket. Not a problem since. Total cost: $8.
Car companies should not abuse their powers by making proprietary codes nobody can read. Otherwise, I would have had to go to the dealer, and probably pay $200 for someone to do the same damn thing I did myself for $8.
But that is still the job of the GUIs. A text program is very easy to interface with. All the GUI needs to do is send its output to LilyPond, watch the error/warning messages that LilyPond gives, and grab the pretty, typeset output file when LilyPond is done.
It is not even that. The problem is with Acrobat Reader displaying stuff on the screen. If you zoom in, you can see that the jaggies are reduced. If you print it, you get perfectly smooth slurs with no jaggies whatsoever. The PDF is fine, but for some reason Acrobat Reader makes it look horrible.
That is the point of LaTeX. It is not meant to be flexible. It is meant to let you worry about the content of the document, rather than the format. You tell it you are writing an article, and type up your article, it does the rest. The predefined styles look VERY nice, and if you don't like something about it, you can always edit it a bit. Besides, once you know one, the other is VERY easy.
Think of LilyPond as the back end. It takes the music, and makes it pretty. This is how things are done in Unix. You do one thing, and you do it well. In the case of LilyPond, this one thing is typesetting music, and it happens to do it VERY well.
It is the job of another software program to provide an interface to LilyPond and make it easy to use.
Yeah, the spacing is a bit weird. Measure 17 it looks like its caused by the lyrics. I don't know why 8, 9 and 10 are so squished up, I would have tried to make it do the same number of measures per line. The slurs I think can be moved. Whoever was typesetting that should have noticed the slur was a problem in 21 and moved it up a bit. 13 is also a bit weird in spacing. It looks like lyrics throw it off. Look at some stuff on Mutopia without lyrics.
Try zooming in. They only look jagged in Acrobat when it is zoomed out. Did you try printing it? I am sure they are perfectly smooth in the printout. I have printed things produced by LilyPond, and they look beautiful. Nothing is jagged.
The thing with software like this is that since it uses a fairly straightforward textual input format, it is quite easy to create other programs that can translate another format into LilyPond. I think it is a rather poor idea for projects to get spread out too thin. LilyPond does one thing: typesets music. And it does it very well. Leave it up to somebody else to make a program to translate from MIDI into LilyPond, or provide a GUI score editor for LilyPond, and let the LilyPond developers concentrate on making the output look as good as it possibly can.
You are right. This is not the software to use to make a simple score for band class. This is software that you use to make your printed music look GOOD. The same reason most people, even people who really like LaTeX, will probably not use LaTeX to write a letter to Aunt May.
From what I can tell, this is not meant for a musician to enter his music into it quick & dirty, just to get a quick, reasonably well typeset score. It is more for someone who already has the music WRITTEN, and wants to print out a really nice looking piece of sheet music.
Um, its a music typesetting program, not a sequencer. I am sure it would be fairly easy to convert from a MIDI file to LilyPond, so use a sequencer to get the music into the computer properly, and clean it up in the sequencer, then convert to LilyPond to print it out nice and pretty.
But I still remember the general rule being that if I put something onto a floppy, it would work 90% of the time. Making two copies almost guranteed that I would still have my data. Now, the general rule seems to be if I put something on a floppy, it will NOT work 90% of the time. I have to make three or four copies, and cross my fingers, and even then, there is a good possibility my data will be gone.
Well, there might have been a problem writing it, but the point is, I didn't have as many of these problems back in the early/mid 90s, when floppies cost a dollar each rather than five cents each, and a floppy drive cost more than $8.95. Manufacturers are getting sloppy, because people don't use floppies much anymore, and aren't willing to pay as much for them, because they have CDRs.
Floppies were always slow, but have only gotten unreliable in the last few years. I remember old floppy disks used to be quite reliable, back around 1995 and earlier. Most of the old floppies I have are still readable today. Since then, as floppies were replaced by CDRs, they have gotten cheaper and crappier. Now, I rarely have a floppy hold data for more than an hour or so. I had a friend write a file to a floppy for me when my Resnet was disconnected for downloading the Windows 2000 source code, and it was corrupt by the time he got it to my dorm room.
Bah, I will probably buy a super-extended box set if it comes out too. But I don't buy many DVDs. I own the extended editions of the first two movies, will definately buy that of the third movie, and will probably buy a box set, but I only buy DVDs of movies I think I am going to watch often. If I am only going to watch it once or twice, then stick it on a shelf and forget about it, I rent it. Thus I own only about 15 DVDs.
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Usually, when someone suggests that Al Gore invented the internet, they are making a joke about how rediculous that whole thing was. Nobody would seriously belive that Al Gore invented the internet. Unless I had reason to belive the person writing the post was a complete idiot, I would assume it was a sarcastic remark.
Sorry you missed the train. The next sarcasm train is coming along at 3:14. Hope you can make that one!
I know you can buy harpsichord kits. A quick Google search for "harpsichord kit" turns up many results, but I don't know what company would be best, so I can't really recommend anything. I am thinking of doing one of those myself one of these days. Its a fun instrument to play. The harpsichord makes a really unique sound.
I hope you're not seriously suggesting that grandparent was not sarcasm.
Well, the ideal is to have a constant fps equal to the refresh rate of your monitor. My monitor runs at 75hz. The ideal for me would be 75fps. Any more than that, and it makes no difference, because my monitor will only DISPLAY 75 of them each second. Any lower than that, and I am not using my equipment to its fullest. There probably is no real difference between 60 and 75fps, but since my monitor runs at 75hz, I might as well have 75fps.
And also increase the risk of your fuel/air mixture getting too lean, and causing detonation, which can result in very expensive damage to engine components. It is better to err on the side of too rich than too lean. They probably are leaving a bit to wide of a buffer, but make sure you know what you are doing, and do not make it TOO lean. As boost increases you need more fuel to keep the fuel/air mixture at the right level. If you decrease the amount of fuel you run the risk of leaning out at higher levels of boost.
Still would be about the same amount of time, I think. The ability to just tap the device would speed it up a lot more than the ringtone being the CEO's voice. That, in itself, would not make any difference, because I would still have to register the phone ringing, and dig it out of my pocket. However, it still would not be instant. The computer needs to know where to route the call, so the CEO would still have to get through "CEO to Adam" or something like that before the computer would know where to route the call to. Even if it can hear that, and find the proper route instantly, it still needs to wait for him to finish saying where he wants the call to go. Maybe if it broadcast to all the devices, but only let me answer it?
Nope. Worf would have to answer immediately. NOBODY does this. When the phone rings, do you answer it 1/10 of a second into the first ring? No. I don't always even answer the phone on the first ring. It is usually on the second ring by the time I get it out of my pocket and answer it.
Yeah, I was getting a check engine light, and the car was almost stalling when I was at stop lights. I took it to autozone, they hooked it up, "EGR Pintle Position Error." I bought an EGR valve gasket and a can of carb cleaner, pulled off the EGR valve, it was all full of soot, cleaned it off with the carb cleaner, and put it back on with the new gasket. Not a problem since. Total cost: $8.
Car companies should not abuse their powers by making proprietary codes nobody can read. Otherwise, I would have had to go to the dealer, and probably pay $200 for someone to do the same damn thing I did myself for $8.
But that is still the job of the GUIs. A text program is very easy to interface with. All the GUI needs to do is send its output to LilyPond, watch the error/warning messages that LilyPond gives, and grab the pretty, typeset output file when LilyPond is done.
It is not even that. The problem is with Acrobat Reader displaying stuff on the screen. If you zoom in, you can see that the jaggies are reduced. If you print it, you get perfectly smooth slurs with no jaggies whatsoever. The PDF is fine, but for some reason Acrobat Reader makes it look horrible.
That is the point of LaTeX. It is not meant to be flexible. It is meant to let you worry about the content of the document, rather than the format. You tell it you are writing an article, and type up your article, it does the rest. The predefined styles look VERY nice, and if you don't like something about it, you can always edit it a bit. Besides, once you know one, the other is VERY easy.
Right.
Think of LilyPond as the back end. It takes the music, and makes it pretty. This is how things are done in Unix. You do one thing, and you do it well. In the case of LilyPond, this one thing is typesetting music, and it happens to do it VERY well.
It is the job of another software program to provide an interface to LilyPond and make it easy to use.
Yeah, the spacing is a bit weird. Measure 17 it looks like its caused by the lyrics. I don't know why 8, 9 and 10 are so squished up, I would have tried to make it do the same number of measures per line. The slurs I think can be moved. Whoever was typesetting that should have noticed the slur was a problem in 21 and moved it up a bit. 13 is also a bit weird in spacing. It looks like lyrics throw it off. Look at some stuff on Mutopia without lyrics.
Try zooming in. They only look jagged in Acrobat when it is zoomed out. Did you try printing it? I am sure they are perfectly smooth in the printout. I have printed things produced by LilyPond, and they look beautiful. Nothing is jagged.
The thing with software like this is that since it uses a fairly straightforward textual input format, it is quite easy to create other programs that can translate another format into LilyPond. I think it is a rather poor idea for projects to get spread out too thin. LilyPond does one thing: typesets music. And it does it very well. Leave it up to somebody else to make a program to translate from MIDI into LilyPond, or provide a GUI score editor for LilyPond, and let the LilyPond developers concentrate on making the output look as good as it possibly can.
You are right. This is not the software to use to make a simple score for band class. This is software that you use to make your printed music look GOOD. The same reason most people, even people who really like LaTeX, will probably not use LaTeX to write a letter to Aunt May.
From what I can tell, this is not meant for a musician to enter his music into it quick & dirty, just to get a quick, reasonably well typeset score. It is more for someone who already has the music WRITTEN, and wants to print out a really nice looking piece of sheet music.
What about the slurs? They look OK to me. Maybe a bit far from the notes, but that can be adjusted by the user.
You might want to look here: Linux-sound.org
This is not for reproducing sound. It is a music typesetting program. Like TeX, but for music.
Um, its a music typesetting program, not a sequencer. I am sure it would be fairly easy to convert from a MIDI file to LilyPond, so use a sequencer to get the music into the computer properly, and clean it up in the sequencer, then convert to LilyPond to print it out nice and pretty.
I still have good success rates with old floppies. Its only floppies I have purchacsed in the last 5 years or so that are crap.
Probably not, as I am only 19.
But I still remember the general rule being that if I put something onto a floppy, it would work 90% of the time. Making two copies almost guranteed that I would still have my data. Now, the general rule seems to be if I put something on a floppy, it will NOT work 90% of the time. I have to make three or four copies, and cross my fingers, and even then, there is a good possibility my data will be gone.
Well, there might have been a problem writing it, but the point is, I didn't have as many of these problems back in the early/mid 90s, when floppies cost a dollar each rather than five cents each, and a floppy drive cost more than $8.95. Manufacturers are getting sloppy, because people don't use floppies much anymore, and aren't willing to pay as much for them, because they have CDRs.
Floppies were always slow, but have only gotten unreliable in the last few years. I remember old floppy disks used to be quite reliable, back around 1995 and earlier. Most of the old floppies I have are still readable today. Since then, as floppies were replaced by CDRs, they have gotten cheaper and crappier. Now, I rarely have a floppy hold data for more than an hour or so. I had a friend write a file to a floppy for me when my Resnet was disconnected for downloading the Windows 2000 source code, and it was corrupt by the time he got it to my dorm room.
Bah, I will probably buy a super-extended box set if it comes out too. But I don't buy many DVDs. I own the extended editions of the first two movies, will definately buy that of the third movie, and will probably buy a box set, but I only buy DVDs of movies I think I am going to watch often. If I am only going to watch it once or twice, then stick it on a shelf and forget about it, I rent it. Thus I own only about 15 DVDs.