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  1. Re:I just want an Acid-lookalike on European Commission Sponsors Linux Audio Distribution · · Score: 1

    for one, you can use dsp plugins to use effects within acid, without having to launch an external editor.

    and while the slowing down/speeding up of samples is ok, have you ever tried running say 20 odd samples at once, and had a close listen to the output? it sounds pretty muddy and/or mushy, even if you spend forever panning the sound out across the spectrum.

    yeah acid is fun, but it needs quite a bit done to improve its sound quality before it will get wide use. it is pretty much strictly for amateurs/people who just want to try an idea out...

    now making waves... thats a cool easy to use sequencer/tracker, although it also has the problem with shit sound when you use lots of samples...

  2. Re:ya, but who can see it? on Music Meets Steganography · · Score: 1

    Who has a spectrograph? Not me...

    The article says the guy who found the face when he was playing around with WinAmp one evening, soooo, presumably you can get a spectrograph plugin for winamp.

  3. Re:I'm not much of a clubber... on Computer DJ Uses Biofeedback to Mix · · Score: 1

    excuse me, but what is the attraction of techno music? are real instruments and musical skill too "20th century" for you techno bigots?

    You've not heard much electronic music have you? Try these few albums for some of your "real instruments" and "musical skill"

    * Dj Suv - Desert Rose
    * Flytronix - Archive
    * Carlito and Addiction - erm.. the new one :)
    * Tru Playaz - Playaz for real
    * Anything on Hospital records etc etc...
    (sorry i only really listen to drumnbass, no idea about other styles :)

    Have you ever seen the following bands - The Bird, The Hive, Reprazent - all live (with *real* instruments), all drumnbass/breaks, but occasionally mixing it up with other styles...

    I once thought all electronica/techno was Black Box, Technotronic, Guru Josh and bad late 80s/early 90s 'dance' music, but theres a whooooooooooooooole fucking lot of tunes, styles, everything. and theres a whole lot of skill that goes into making these tunes, and theres a whole lot of practice that goes in to becoming a good dj and/or producer.

    But hey - i guess none of it is Rush, Led Zep, or Van Halen, so it will never be considered "real" music by the slightly scarlet necked masses...

  4. Re:On the other hand... on Barney vs. Right to Satire · · Score: 1

    One can only hope

  5. Re:Drink and be merry! on Linux Kernel 2.4.6 Released · · Score: 2

    you just need to know the barman...

    thanks Todd (barman at my local, and flatmate too... lifes good :)

    buuuuuuuuuuurp...

  6. Re:Cooking Easter Island on Australians to Build Spaceport on Christmas Island · · Score: 1

    ummmmmmm, right - Easter Island is in the PACIFIC ocean, a long way off the coast of Chile. Christmas Island is in the INDIAN ocean, off the coast of Indonesia. theres this tiny little place called Australia, that sits in the middle.

    I recommend looking at an atlas to help you get a feel for the distance and difference between the two Islands.

    One has big statues of heads, the other has lots of little red crabs. Christmas Island is certainly not "pristine and untouched" having been both a nuclear testing ground, and now a bird shit mine. Granted, there is some lush rainforest, but anyway... you (hopefully) get the point.

  7. Re:What's world record for amateur rocket height? on Slashback: Shooters, Ire, Boldness · · Score: 2

    http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/207vau ltintospace.html - 8 paragraphs down

    On October 14, the High-Altitude Research Corporation of Hunstville will fly their hybrid-motor powered rocket from a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. HARC flew it's amateur rocket 36 miles in 1997, a Guinness Book World Record.

    dont know if its still current though. Theres other pages there that talk about people launching from high altitude balloons, and getting considerably higher... here's some

  8. from my university's website on Delphion To Start Charging For Patent Access · · Score: 5
  9. Re:debian on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 1

    Ximian have 0.8.1 debs (if you wanted to go ximian), or this place

    deb http://www.markybob.com/mozilla/deb/ ./

    has 0.8 moz packages.

    http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt- so urces/

    to find other unoffical deb's
    theres a few dependency issues with ximians debs - not specifically mozilla related, but just with everything... check out debianhelp and ximian support maillist for further info...

  10. Re:Poop powered? on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds · · Score: 1

    and farting could be like a nitro boost?

    obviously, large farts... :)

  11. Re:This is news? on Yahoo! To Start Selling Porn · · Score: 1

    I mean, other than dirty movies, I can't think of anything else they actually sell

    Among other things - lotsa Manga and Anime prints, books, videos, DVD's, posters, shirts etc, including Hentai, so i guess they've sorta had their hand in on the smuttier side of internet retailing anyways.
    check animenation and you'll notice its all through store.yahoo.com

    GrongBot

  12. Re:left-side traffic on Uncle Sam's Funhouse · · Score: 1

    England has left-side traffic. Only England, mmkay?

    ahem

    So does Australia.

  13. sportscaster crap v tech stylee on Robot Wars Coming Stateside · · Score: 1

    but would you really want a sports caster guy to try to go into the tech side of things? Id rather sit back and laugh at the commentators, when they try to explain whats going on...