Exactly. I thought it seemed pretty well in tune; it was the timing that was off.
If the creator is reading Slashdot: perhaps you could make some of your source material public, so we can see how you programmed each device to play its notes? Perhaps we could help work out some of the rhythmic details.
The timing is definitely off, and with the timing of each "instrument" a little off, they're not in sync with each other. It's close enough that you can tell what it should sound like, but it doesn't actually sound like that.
For example, the rhythm of "easy come, easy go" starting at 0:36 is clearly wrong. The bass part starting around 1:30 isn't bad by itself, but it's not in sync with the other parts. 3:09 to 3:31 is pretty bad too.
I suspect it was easier to get the timing right with some "instruments" than others. The bass part, by itself, seems very rhythmically solid, particularly from 3:29 all the way through to the end, it's just that the other parts aren't in sync with that.
Overall, a brilliant piece of work. If these minor timing details could be cleaned up, it would be awesome.
I too disagree with Obama's position on immunity for telecom companies, and sent him an e-mail expressing my concern after he voted in support of a bill to grant immunity last year.
However, I'm not particularly interested in punishment for the companies involved. I just want transparency - the kind of transparency that only a lawsuit can bring. I want the public to know exactly what happened, why it happened, and who was responsible. What's important to me is that these these people not be protected from public scrutiny. I see no need to punish them further.
On the other hand, I do support Obama's position on not prosecuting CIA operatives who committed acts of torture. If the Stanford Prison Experiment has taught us anything, it's that following the crowd is human nature. These people were assured that the actions they were taking were both legal and necessary. They had explicit approval from the United States Department of Justice. The people at the bottom should not be held responsible.
You can also bring your Mac to an Apple Authorized Service Provider; simple repairs can be done on-site, or they'll ship the machine to Apple if necessary. I've been quite pleased with Apple's service.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for hydrogen fuel cells. Another poster said all NYC taxis return to a garage every 12 hours anyway, and they refuel there. Swapping out an empty fuel cell and refilling it overnight should be easy.
1) Eliminate pollution from gasoline exhaust 2) Reduce noise (not a lot, but multiply by 13,000) 3) Save money by reducing energy consumption (due to regenerative braking, not wasting fuel while stopped) 4) Protect against sudden increases in oil prices 5) Reduce dependence on foreign energy sources
Please stop responding to SPAM. If no one responds to it, then they won't make any money and they'll stop.
You have a very simplistic view of the vast world of spam (which, by the way, should not be written in all capital letters). Spammers can make money from spam, without anyone ever buying anything from them.
Rule #1: spammers lie. Spammers can offer to advertise your product on a double-opt-in targeted mailing list, for a fee. Once you've paid them up front, of course, they send out spam to every address they've scraped off the web, then quietly disappear while an angry mob runs you out of business. In theory, the spammers should be able to get away with this trick without ever actually sending any spam at all, but it's probably a lot easier to prosecute them for that.
Authors generally write text, which is a hugely important part of building a good web site, but has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.
The word "author" also conjures up a sense of creating something from nothing, and no web developer worth anything is going to do that. (I created my home page entirely by myself, with 3,000+ lines of Perl, but that's because I was bored and wanted a project to experiment and play with; this is NOT a professional approach.)
I think you also underestimate the complexity of "doing HTML" well. We don't really do static pages anymore, so you need to be generating the HTML dynamically; a good CSS stylesheet is absolutely essential; if your site has any user interaction, you'd better be using JavaScript to make the UI easier, and probably AJAX where appropriate. All of this has to be tested against Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and 8, Firefox 2 and 3 on Windows and Mac and Linux, Safari 3 and 4 on Mac and Windows, Google Chrome, and it wouldn't hurt to throw in a few versions of Opera. I wouldn't worry about any others, unless your site is HUGE and you really need to make sure it works in everything.
This is the problem with the term "Web Designer": that first design step you mentioned (often done in Photoshop) is something that a lot of people are really good at, but they don't know anything about CSS. I am not at all good at coming up with an elegant and clean design, but I can do all the coding. Obviously, if you can do both, more power to you, but these are very different skills, and these things are usually done by very different people. The guy who does HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Perl/SQL is not a "Web Designer" and should not be called one.
XSLT doesn't seem like a bad idea if all your data happens to be in XML format. It's a standard means of translating from XML on the backend to HTML on the frontend, so you don't have to write the code for that yourself, you can just use existing tools.
It's not what I do, but it sounds reasonable, if you're already using XML anyway.
Of course, if you're not and have no good reason to, shoehorning everything into XML just so you can use XSLT is probably a terrible idea.
I don't recall how to do it, but I'm almost positive there's a simple way to disable that feature. I'm thinking there's an option you can pass to open(), but I'm too lazy to investigate. I've always had great luck asking about such things in #perl on FreeNode, though.
...his followers to name the module after one of the phrases flashed during the opening sequence of his show. I would have loved to see it named "Multigrain".
You know, that actually would be a great name for an ISS node.
My favorite of Colbert's opening adjectives was one he used for only a couple of days, while the Pope was visiting the United States: "infallible".
I think they'll be naming it after him just based on the question: if they don't plan to announce the name is Colbert, why would they go on his show to announce it?
Why wouldn't they?
NASA showing up on The Colbert Report, acknowledging Colbert's overwhelming personality and the strength of his fan base, will make his fans happy, regardless of whether they name the ISS node after him or not.
I think, judging by their chosen venue, the name they release will be obvious. To do otherwise would just be tacky.
You forget, tackiness is the whole point of The Colbert Report! The host thinks with his gut, doesn't like facts, is proud of his narcissism, and has an irrational fear of bears. When introducing a guest, he himself runs around in front of the audience accepting their applause while the guest remains seated. His book is titled "I Am America (And So Can You)". He calls himself "Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D. F. A." after receiving an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Knox College and recently being knighted by the Queen of Jordan. He periodically has debates with himself through the use of camera tricks, in a segment called "Formidable Opponent".
I don't think tackiness will be a huge obstacle here.
Another reason is training and support. Vista and Windows 7 are so much more different from Windows XP. If someone calls "Tech Support", tech support will have to have a completely different script/list for Windows 7.
No, they are not. Even my wife was able to sit down and continue working as usual.. she required no new training to use Vista after we left XP. It's not identical, but it's no different than going from 95 to 98, or 98 to 2000.
Sure, an intelligent user such as your wife can get around just fine. That's very different from what the original poster was saying, which is that tech support staff will need new training and materials.
If tech support people are telling users to open the "Add/Remove Programs" or "Display" control panels, or open the "Documents & Settings" folder, or right-click the "My Computer" icon, go to Properties, click the Hardware tab, then click the Device Manager button, there will be confusion. In Vista, these have all moved to "Programs and Features" and "Personalization", "Users", and although there is a link in the sidebar from System Properties to Device Manager, Device Manager is now a stand-alone control panel.
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Exactly. I thought it seemed pretty well in tune; it was the timing that was off.
If the creator is reading Slashdot: perhaps you could make some of your source material public, so we can see how you programmed each device to play its notes? Perhaps we could help work out some of the rhythmic details.
You'd be wrong. The composition is under copyright, regardless of what bizarre contraptions you choose to perform it on.
Nothing to do with the RIAA, though.
The timing is definitely off, and with the timing of each "instrument" a little off, they're not in sync with each other. It's close enough that you can tell what it should sound like, but it doesn't actually sound like that.
For example, the rhythm of "easy come, easy go" starting at 0:36 is clearly wrong. The bass part starting around 1:30 isn't bad by itself, but it's not in sync with the other parts. 3:09 to 3:31 is pretty bad too.
I suspect it was easier to get the timing right with some "instruments" than others. The bass part, by itself, seems very rhythmically solid, particularly from 3:29 all the way through to the end, it's just that the other parts aren't in sync with that.
Overall, a brilliant piece of work. If these minor timing details could be cleaned up, it would be awesome.
File-sharing is an on-demand service, people don't browse through looking for titles of songs that sound nifty
We did, back in the original Napster days.
I too disagree with Obama's position on immunity for telecom companies, and sent him an e-mail expressing my concern after he voted in support of a bill to grant immunity last year.
However, I'm not particularly interested in punishment for the companies involved. I just want transparency - the kind of transparency that only a lawsuit can bring. I want the public to know exactly what happened, why it happened, and who was responsible. What's important to me is that these these people not be protected from public scrutiny. I see no need to punish them further.
On the other hand, I do support Obama's position on not prosecuting CIA operatives who committed acts of torture. If the Stanford Prison Experiment has taught us anything, it's that following the crowd is human nature. These people were assured that the actions they were taking were both legal and necessary. They had explicit approval from the United States Department of Justice. The people at the bottom should not be held responsible.
The people at the top should hang.
That's very weird. I've been using iTunes for a long time, and I don't recall ever having the problems you describe.
You can also bring your Mac to an Apple Authorized Service Provider; simple repairs can be done on-site, or they'll ship the machine to Apple if necessary. I've been quite pleased with Apple's service.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for hydrogen fuel cells. Another poster said all NYC taxis return to a garage every 12 hours anyway, and they refuel there. Swapping out an empty fuel cell and refilling it overnight should be easy.
1) Eliminate pollution from gasoline exhaust
2) Reduce noise (not a lot, but multiply by 13,000)
3) Save money by reducing energy consumption (due to regenerative braking, not wasting fuel while stopped)
4) Protect against sudden increases in oil prices
5) Reduce dependence on foreign energy sources
OK, so aside from stopping the cabbies from pissing in water bottles, what other changes can be made to get you from point A to point B better?
Please stop responding to SPAM. If no one responds to it, then they won't make any money and they'll stop.
You have a very simplistic view of the vast world of spam (which, by the way, should not be written in all capital letters). Spammers can make money from spam, without anyone ever buying anything from them.
Rule #1: spammers lie. Spammers can offer to advertise your product on a double-opt-in targeted mailing list, for a fee. Once you've paid them up front, of course, they send out spam to every address they've scraped off the web, then quietly disappear while an angry mob runs you out of business. In theory, the spammers should be able to get away with this trick without ever actually sending any spam at all, but it's probably a lot easier to prosecute them for that.
Authors generally write text, which is a hugely important part of building a good web site, but has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.
The word "author" also conjures up a sense of creating something from nothing, and no web developer worth anything is going to do that. (I created my home page entirely by myself, with 3,000+ lines of Perl, but that's because I was bored and wanted a project to experiment and play with; this is NOT a professional approach.)
I think you also underestimate the complexity of "doing HTML" well. We don't really do static pages anymore, so you need to be generating the HTML dynamically; a good CSS stylesheet is absolutely essential; if your site has any user interaction, you'd better be using JavaScript to make the UI easier, and probably AJAX where appropriate. All of this has to be tested against Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and 8, Firefox 2 and 3 on Windows and Mac and Linux, Safari 3 and 4 on Mac and Windows, Google Chrome, and it wouldn't hurt to throw in a few versions of Opera. I wouldn't worry about any others, unless your site is HUGE and you really need to make sure it works in everything.
This is the problem with the term "Web Designer": that first design step you mentioned (often done in Photoshop) is something that a lot of people are really good at, but they don't know anything about CSS. I am not at all good at coming up with an elegant and clean design, but I can do all the coding. Obviously, if you can do both, more power to you, but these are very different skills, and these things are usually done by very different people. The guy who does HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Perl/SQL is not a "Web Designer" and should not be called one.
XSLT doesn't seem like a bad idea if all your data happens to be in XML format. It's a standard means of translating from XML on the backend to HTML on the frontend, so you don't have to write the code for that yourself, you can just use existing tools.
It's not what I do, but it sounds reasonable, if you're already using XML anyway.
Of course, if you're not and have no good reason to, shoehorning everything into XML just so you can use XSLT is probably a terrible idea.
I don't recall how to do it, but I'm almost positive there's a simple way to disable that feature. I'm thinking there's an option you can pass to open(), but I'm too lazy to investigate. I've always had great luck asking about such things in #perl on FreeNode, though.
...his followers to name the module after one of the phrases flashed during the opening sequence of his show. I would have loved to see it named "Multigrain".
You know, that actually would be a great name for an ISS node.
My favorite of Colbert's opening adjectives was one he used for only a couple of days, while the Pope was visiting the United States: "infallible".
Perl 5.8 and higher do just fine with Unicode. With older versions, though, yeah, that was a problem.
I would point to 1 Corinthians 14 and demand a translation. Crazy Pentecostals.
Alphabet? You don't work with Perl much, do you?
Those "lobsters" today... they're not even furry! A disgrace.
I think they'll be naming it after him just based on the question: if they don't plan to announce the name is Colbert, why would they go on his show to announce it?
Why wouldn't they?
NASA showing up on The Colbert Report, acknowledging Colbert's overwhelming personality and the strength of his fan base, will make his fans happy, regardless of whether they name the ISS node after him or not.
I think, judging by their chosen venue, the name they release will be obvious. To do otherwise would just be tacky.
You forget, tackiness is the whole point of The Colbert Report! The host thinks with his gut, doesn't like facts, is proud of his narcissism, and has an irrational fear of bears. When introducing a guest, he himself runs around in front of the audience accepting their applause while the guest remains seated. His book is titled "I Am America (And So Can You)". He calls himself "Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D. F. A." after receiving an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Knox College and recently being knighted by the Queen of Jordan. He periodically has debates with himself through the use of camera tricks, in a segment called "Formidable Opponent".
I don't think tackiness will be a huge obstacle here.
But that's not usually how small businesses do it, and there are lots of them.
Another reason is training and support. Vista and Windows 7 are so much more different from Windows XP. If someone calls "Tech Support", tech support will have to have a completely different script/list for Windows 7.
No, they are not. Even my wife was able to sit down and continue working as usual.. she required no new training to use Vista after we left XP. It's not identical, but it's no different than going from 95 to 98, or 98 to 2000.
Sure, an intelligent user such as your wife can get around just fine. That's very different from what the original poster was saying, which is that tech support staff will need new training and materials.
If tech support people are telling users to open the "Add/Remove Programs" or "Display" control panels, or open the "Documents & Settings" folder, or right-click the "My Computer" icon, go to Properties, click the Hardware tab, then click the Device Manager button, there will be confusion. In Vista, these have all moved to "Programs and Features" and "Personalization", "Users", and although there is a link in the sidebar from System Properties to Device Manager, Device Manager is now a stand-alone control panel.
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You're right, it is called Remote Login (in System Preferences, Sharing, Services). However, as others have said, it is off by default.