As good as it is, Lilypond is not a professional typesetting tool. You might be able to get pro-quality results out of it if you know what you're doing and put a lot of work into it, but I've never heard of an actual music publisher using it. As you can read on the Lilypond web site, music typesetting is an art, and people are still better at it than computers.
Also, what's copyrighted isn't just the typesetting but the editing. Scores are usually edited by either famous musicians (for example, violin scores might be edited by Kreisler, Oistrakh, Flesch, Galamian, etc.) or by composers (for example, Brahms' editions of Mozart symphonies). The task of editing also involves a lot of work and decisions to be made - fingerings, performance notes, etc.
There are a lot of fine distinctions to be made in this process. For example, I'm looking at a section of the Dvorak Violin Concerto (Galamian edition) where the violinist is playing sixteenth note double and triple stops all around the instrument, but if you listen to a good recording you can hear two distinct alternating "voices", cutting each other off as if they're having an arguement. The notes in the score are barred and stemmed so as to reflect this - so the stems go up for one voice, and down for the other (among other subtle cues). This is the sort of thing Lilypond will never be able to do by itself, although it's powerful enough that I imagine that a good editor who knew how to use it could get good results out of it.
Not even that. According to Wikipedia, shuttles have traveled 424,700,332 miles and there have been 14 deaths. That's one death every 30 million miles. Meanwhile, about 40000 people die in the US every year in car accidents, while Americans drive 1,600,000,000,000 miles. That's one death every 40 million miles. So the shuttle and cars are in roughly the same ballpark, safety wise.
But of course mileage is a pointless benchmark for shuttle fatalities, because we don't use the shuttle for travel. Actually, comparing the fatality rate at all is pretty useless; cars and shuttles are different entities entirely. It's like asking, "Which is more dangerous, using a digital camera or being a giant tortoise?"
Chances are good that you drive a car, which is a helluva lot more dangerous than this is
Let's not exaggerate too much here. 1 out of every 56 shuttle launches/landings have ended with the death of the crew and loss of the shuttle. If you had a 1/56 chance of violent death every time you accelerated/braked your car, I think you'd think twice about driving too.
Unfortunately, your brand of conservatism is not very popular these days. If all self-professed "conservatives" thought as you do, we'd be much better off. But the current crop of neocon Republicans seems to fit in much better with the parent's description of conservative beliefs than yours.
When liberals say "Pro-corporate", we mean giving legal benefits to corporations (copyright extensions, etc.) when such benefits aren't for the common good. By "anti-taxes", we mean in favor of cutting taxes even before you've cut spending, thus running up huge deficits (which is not traditionally a conservative trait, but seems to be popular with current Republicans). You seem to have misinterpreted the parent.
And I have no idea what you're trying to say about environmental regulations and euthanasia. Those responses are barely coherent.
Because no one has ever made an indisputably unbiased portrayal of anything. Feel free to look for counterexamples.
Note that the presence of bias doesn't invalidate an argument; in fact, arguments could be described as nothing more than a reasoned presentation of bias.
Think about all the other changes in Vice City though. Bikes, helicopters, new weapons, property/assets, and so on. It's a lot more than just the same game in a different setting, which is what calling it GTA3: Vice City would imply.
Or the ESRB could just say "We made the right decision in rating San Andreas; content that can only be unlocked by hacking the game internals and data files doesn't count as part of the game." Then they would avoid the whole scenario.
Yes, it should be, but Rockstar didn't want to associate these games too closely with the older GTA3 technology. Even though they use the same basic engine, Vice City and San Andreas do have a lot of improvements over GTA3.
My understanding is that the video game developers are required to submit footage from the game that is representative of the maximum level of offensive content the player is going to experience
And since the sex minigame is not actually part of the game, and the user never experiences it, Rockstar was quite justified in not submitting it. The game was rated properly and this guy is an asshat.
Yeah, I know it was a joke. But this is/., so I have to be pedantic and make stupid semantical arguments.:-)
The Wikipedia article on pitch defines it as the perception of frequency, so even if you interpret "note" as meaning "a tone of definite pitch", then notes in different octaves are clearly different notes because they have different frequencies and their pitches are percieved differently. So any way you look at it, there are more than twelve notes.
Okay. I'm done ruining the joke now. Sorry about that.
The grandparent read correctly. Apple gives away 10 iPods (the grand prize) plus 22million/100K = 220 iPod minis, one for each 100000 song purchaser. That's 230 iPods total.
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Book reviews != recommendations. A harsh review can be just as useful as a glowing one, if it helps you make a purchasing decision.
Depends on the file. Torrents of individual web pages are a stupid idea because, as you say, it takes a while for torrents to get started and ramp up to speed. But if you're consistantly getting only 2k/s on larger, well-seeded torrents, you're doing something wrong.
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Also, what's copyrighted isn't just the typesetting but the editing. Scores are usually edited by either famous musicians (for example, violin scores might be edited by Kreisler, Oistrakh, Flesch, Galamian, etc.) or by composers (for example, Brahms' editions of Mozart symphonies). The task of editing also involves a lot of work and decisions to be made - fingerings, performance notes, etc.
There are a lot of fine distinctions to be made in this process. For example, I'm looking at a section of the Dvorak Violin Concerto (Galamian edition) where the violinist is playing sixteenth note double and triple stops all around the instrument, but if you listen to a good recording you can hear two distinct alternating "voices", cutting each other off as if they're having an arguement. The notes in the score are barred and stemmed so as to reflect this - so the stems go up for one voice, and down for the other (among other subtle cues). This is the sort of thing Lilypond will never be able to do by itself, although it's powerful enough that I imagine that a good editor who knew how to use it could get good results out of it.
Of course, assuming there are no other laws to the contrary. That's what seems to be the issue here.
Performances of Beethoven symphonies are not public domain. They are owned by the performer, same as any other recording.
But of course mileage is a pointless benchmark for shuttle fatalities, because we don't use the shuttle for travel. Actually, comparing the fatality rate at all is pretty useless; cars and shuttles are different entities entirely. It's like asking, "Which is more dangerous, using a digital camera or being a giant tortoise?"
The sibling asked for a +1, Tasteless, not -1, Tasteless.
Let's not exaggerate too much here. 1 out of every 56 shuttle launches/landings have ended with the death of the crew and loss of the shuttle. If you had a 1/56 chance of violent death every time you accelerated/braked your car, I think you'd think twice about driving too.
Unfortunately, your brand of conservatism is not very popular these days. If all self-professed "conservatives" thought as you do, we'd be much better off. But the current crop of neocon Republicans seems to fit in much better with the parent's description of conservative beliefs than yours.
When liberals say "Pro-corporate", we mean giving legal benefits to corporations (copyright extensions, etc.) when such benefits aren't for the common good. By "anti-taxes", we mean in favor of cutting taxes even before you've cut spending, thus running up huge deficits (which is not traditionally a conservative trait, but seems to be popular with current Republicans). You seem to have misinterpreted the parent. And I have no idea what you're trying to say about environmental regulations and euthanasia. Those responses are barely coherent.
Because no one has ever made an indisputably unbiased portrayal of anything. Feel free to look for counterexamples.
Note that the presence of bias doesn't invalidate an argument; in fact, arguments could be described as nothing more than a reasoned presentation of bias.
The singular "their" is a fairly standard usage in informal English. "Defence", as already posted, is an acceptable variant of "defense".
He's saying that XP is not an improvement over 2000.
Think about all the other changes in Vice City though. Bikes, helicopters, new weapons, property/assets, and so on. It's a lot more than just the same game in a different setting, which is what calling it GTA3: Vice City would imply.
Or the ESRB could just say "We made the right decision in rating San Andreas; content that can only be unlocked by hacking the game internals and data files doesn't count as part of the game." Then they would avoid the whole scenario.
Yes, it should be, but Rockstar didn't want to associate these games too closely with the older GTA3 technology. Even though they use the same basic engine, Vice City and San Andreas do have a lot of improvements over GTA3.
And since the sex minigame is not actually part of the game, and the user never experiences it, Rockstar was quite justified in not submitting it. The game was rated properly and this guy is an asshat.
You must not ever have played Starcraft.
Actually, from what I've heard, it can get pretty violent.
The Wikipedia article on pitch defines it as the perception of frequency, so even if you interpret "note" as meaning "a tone of definite pitch", then notes in different octaves are clearly different notes because they have different frequencies and their pitches are percieved differently. So any way you look at it, there are more than twelve notes.
Okay. I'm done ruining the joke now. Sorry about that.
Then explain to me why my piano has 88 keys. Are you claiming that A3, A4, and A5 are all the same note?
The grandparent read correctly. Apple gives away 10 iPods (the grand prize) plus 22million/100K = 220 iPod minis, one for each 100000 song purchaser. That's 230 iPods total.
Book reviews != recommendations. A harsh review can be just as useful as a glowing one, if it helps you make a purchasing decision.
So do both - tell them, submit (subtly flawed) patches, and claim their reward. Meanwhile, anonymously release your work.
Unless the HTTP server is swamped or on a low-bandwidth line, in which case you're much better off with BT.
Depends on the file. Torrents of individual web pages are a stupid idea because, as you say, it takes a while for torrents to get started and ramp up to speed. But if you're consistantly getting only 2k/s on larger, well-seeded torrents, you're doing something wrong.
No one said that everything natural is good for you.