I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say- If a MIDI file is made from the sheet music, it may have the dynamics and tempo changes per the sheet music, and be "technically correct" in the sense that all the notes are being played as written, but it will not have the "feeling". Even attempts to humanize are not close to a human playing it.
Yes, if you record MIDI of the human playing it, it'll be the same (although standard MIDI may not have quite the resolution to fool a discerning ear as far as time and volume is concerned, thus this "high-resolution" MIDI)
Is this the Bosendorfer piano? I have a recording of Mozart sonatas from probably 15 years ago that called itself the "First transoceanic recording" because it was played by the pianist (Philippe Entremont) in Austria, where the HiFi MIDI recorded it and the pianist then went back in the computer and tweaked it to perfection, and then it was played back by computer in a sound studio in the US where it was recorded. A fantastic record.
uhh... no, it's really not like that. if that were the case, there would be nothing special about a great pianist. they're not just excellent "button pushers".
the score doesn't indicate with that much precision how the notes are supposed to be played- it'll give the rhythms, general tempo and volume changes, but it's the subtleties that make it difficult. a good pianist is one who reads the music and interprets it with the appropriate feeling, which often means playing notes behind/ahead of the beat, playing certain notes slightly louder or softer, or shorter/faster. if ordinary sheet music had notation for all of these things, it would be too complex to be readable (it's bad enough as it is, IMHO)
this software is translating a master performance into a high resolution form of MIDI- a form of musical notation that has the capability to record all those subtleties. ordinary computers can play a MIDI file that is technically correct, but sounds totally lame for lack of feeling. it's like Data's poetry.
I think it would be good if schools taught children how to recognize PR/Marketing.
Individuals who recognize when they are being manipulated are less susceptible to manipulation, whether it's politics, products, or religion. People who get what they want instead of what they are told they want generally are happier.
maybe the truth is that MS has no idea how Office works themselves anymore. It started off simple enough, but by the millionth patch, added feature, etc, there are lines in there that nobody knows what they do, and they dare not remove...
he didn't mean literally mining the land, as in digging for gold- he meant mining the land in the sense of viewing it as a finite resource to be consumed once (over a period of a few years), instead of a renewable one (and letting it lie fallow every now and then).
BTW, is that blinking ad illegal in some countries and harming people with eye sight disability?
I don't know about blinking anything being illegal anywhere, but the danger is not in it harming anyone's eyes. The danger in blinking things (and I don't know if a banner ad is enough to do it) is that they can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy and those with other similar neurological diseases.
I am serious. What's ridiculous about that? up until the past 30-40 years (in the US, at least) mixed-race romantic relationships were taboo. They're still taboo in many places. Many white people would never even consider a romantic relationship with a black person, and the same vice-versa.
If these people keep pushing it, soon lots more free sites will be entirely done in flash (or some other proprietary format) where you can't disable the ads; and the ads will become the content itself
GOOD then I'll just quit going to those sites. There are tons of sites out there that are published by people who aren't out to make money. I have a website (shameless plug, and yes, ironically, it's all done in flash) and I don't expect to make money off of it. I just made it to share with my friends/the world.
People expressing themselves, their thoughts, experiences, and ideas is what the internet should be all about. I don't want to wade through tons of shitty content that was put out for the sole purpose of pushing ads to find something REAL.
are you sure you know what adblock is? it's not typically used as a spyware-blocking tool, as your comment seems to suggest you believe. it blocks banner ads.
but i sorta agree with your sentiment anyway- even if an advertiser isn't installing software through holes in the browser or anything overtly malicious, they have hijacked the internet, which was designed as an information-sharing tool, by converting it into another advertising channel/revenue stream.
do they have the right to publish HTML docs and put ads in them? you bet. do i have a right to download the HTML and then decide what parts of it I want to see? you bet.
If adblock or similar tools become widespread, you'll probably see a move by corporate websites to put all their "actual content" images in the same directories with the ads, and remove any sort of ad-indication from the filenames so that they will be difficult to block without rendering the site (at least an ordinary graphical one) somewhat ugly.
This is interesting, as it leads me to think about the human situation with regard to race. Separated for so long before trade and slavery began to redistribute people, humans too became where they would not mate with populations of a different color.
So, are those of us who live in fairly diverse environments and have been cultured to be oblivious to ethnicity as far as attraction is concerned now undergoing a process of de-speciation? food for thought...
it sounds fishy to me, too- if m became infinite as c approached 0, and these researchers have already managed to at least briefly stop light, wouldn't they would have created an object of infinite mass? wouldn't that create a black hole? shouldn't we all be sucked in by now?:)
perhaps you should read the messages! he wasn't being ignorant- he was responding to my (admittedly, somewhat tongue-in-cheek) message suggesting that the doors just close anyway after the first bounceback and a warning.
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I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say- If a MIDI file is made from the sheet music, it may have the dynamics and tempo changes per the sheet music, and be "technically correct" in the sense that all the notes are being played as written, but it will not have the "feeling". Even attempts to humanize are not close to a human playing it.
Yes, if you record MIDI of the human playing it, it'll be the same (although standard MIDI may not have quite the resolution to fool a discerning ear as far as time and volume is concerned, thus this "high-resolution" MIDI)
so you realize you're an idiot. good.
Is this the Bosendorfer piano? I have a recording of Mozart sonatas from probably 15 years ago that called itself the "First transoceanic recording" because it was played by the pianist (Philippe Entremont) in Austria, where the HiFi MIDI recorded it and the pianist then went back in the computer and tweaked it to perfection, and then it was played back by computer in a sound studio in the US where it was recorded. A fantastic record.
uhh... no, it's really not like that. if that were the case, there would be nothing special about a great pianist. they're not just excellent "button pushers".
the score doesn't indicate with that much precision how the notes are supposed to be played- it'll give the rhythms, general tempo and volume changes, but it's the subtleties that make it difficult. a good pianist is one who reads the music and interprets it with the appropriate feeling, which often means playing notes behind/ahead of the beat, playing certain notes slightly louder or softer, or shorter/faster. if ordinary sheet music had notation for all of these things, it would be too complex to be readable (it's bad enough as it is, IMHO)
this software is translating a master performance into a high resolution form of MIDI- a form of musical notation that has the capability to record all those subtleties. ordinary computers can play a MIDI file that is technically correct, but sounds totally lame for lack of feeling. it's like Data's poetry.
I think it would be good if schools taught children how to recognize PR/Marketing. Individuals who recognize when they are being manipulated are less susceptible to manipulation, whether it's politics, products, or religion. People who get what they want instead of what they are told they want generally are happier.
I use audioscrobbler to find out what people who like what I like are listening to. then I go to DC++ and download it. piece of cake...
Isn't is kinda scary?
is sure is kinda scary, but are and were are the ones that really keep me up at night...
do you work for VH1?
That's "Last" as in final, right?
We can only hope...
HEHEH... I guess it's lucky for me there's not a -1, Obvious mod... :)
they both imply that Microsoft will provide more robust features with the release of Longhorn.
It's pretty easy to make empty promises with a product that won't even be released until next year. The point is, OSX has this feature NOW...
They've found that if you don't want to do something, it's totally sufficient to not do it and then repeat to the press over and over that you did it.
hmm... who does that sound like?
maybe the truth is that MS has no idea how Office works themselves anymore. It started off simple enough, but by the millionth patch, added feature, etc, there are lines in there that nobody knows what they do, and they dare not remove...
;)
at least, that's how my programs usually work
he didn't mean literally mining the land, as in digging for gold- he meant mining the land in the sense of viewing it as a finite resource to be consumed once (over a period of a few years), instead of a renewable one (and letting it lie fallow every now and then).
clearly what we need is floating point currency!
(...just my $2e-2)
BTW, is that blinking ad illegal in some countries and harming people with eye sight disability?
I don't know about blinking anything being illegal anywhere, but the danger is not in it harming anyone's eyes. The danger in blinking things (and I don't know if a banner ad is enough to do it) is that they can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy and those with other similar neurological diseases.
I am serious. What's ridiculous about that? up until the past 30-40 years (in the US, at least) mixed-race romantic relationships were taboo. They're still taboo in many places. Many white people would never even consider a romantic relationship with a black person, and the same vice-versa.
If these people keep pushing it, soon lots more free sites will be entirely done in flash (or some other proprietary format) where you can't disable the ads; and the ads will become the content itself
GOOD then I'll just quit going to those sites. There are tons of sites out there that are published by people who aren't out to make money. I have a website (shameless plug, and yes, ironically, it's all done in flash) and I don't expect to make money off of it. I just made it to share with my friends/the world.
People expressing themselves, their thoughts, experiences, and ideas is what the internet should be all about. I don't want to wade through tons of shitty content that was put out for the sole purpose of pushing ads to find something REAL.
are you sure you know what adblock is? it's not typically used as a spyware-blocking tool, as your comment seems to suggest you believe. it blocks banner ads.
but i sorta agree with your sentiment anyway- even if an advertiser isn't installing software through holes in the browser or anything overtly malicious, they have hijacked the internet, which was designed as an information-sharing tool, by converting it into another advertising channel/revenue stream.
do they have the right to publish HTML docs and put ads in them? you bet. do i have a right to download the HTML and then decide what parts of it I want to see? you bet.
If adblock or similar tools become widespread, you'll probably see a move by corporate websites to put all their "actual content" images in the same directories with the ads, and remove any sort of ad-indication from the filenames so that they will be difficult to block without rendering the site (at least an ordinary graphical one) somewhat ugly.
I sure wish I had a browser with adblock on my iPaq. If you think ad-full pages waste a lot of your bandwidth on dialup, try GPRS..
This is interesting, as it leads me to think about the human situation with regard to race. Separated for so long before trade and slavery began to redistribute people, humans too became where they would not mate with populations of a different color.
So, are those of us who live in fairly diverse environments and have been cultured to be oblivious to ethnicity as far as attraction is concerned now undergoing a process of de-speciation? food for thought...
yeah, and we've hardly had them since... wtf has happened to amtrak? american passenger rail is pathetic.
it sounds fishy to me, too- if m became infinite as c approached 0, and these researchers have already managed to at least briefly stop light, wouldn't they would have created an object of infinite mass? wouldn't that create a black hole? shouldn't we all be sucked in by now? :)
what's ignorant about that? i proposed a hypothetical situation, and he was merely making a valid argument against it.
perhaps you should read the messages! he wasn't being ignorant- he was responding to my (admittedly, somewhat tongue-in-cheek) message suggesting that the doors just close anyway after the first bounceback and a warning.