So maybe you don't like the 12 tone scale, but if you play more than one scale in one song you are in BIG trouble if you don't use the system that J.S. Bach introduced.....how do you deal with that?
BTW, most fiddles _had_ frets on them before the days of old Johan Sebastian, if I'm not mistaken. (i might be, I may play fretless bass & upright but I'm no expert)
All that medieval stuff that never leaves the one key drives me barking mad after half an hour, mind you, and the same goes for Irish music even though I do like those long licks that they all play unisono, very nice especially if you have a guiness (or two) while you listen to it:). But after two songs I always think the rest just sounds the same. Don't take it personal, I have the same problem with most Salsa. I guess you'd say I don't understand the music. That's fine with me.
On my fretted bass I have always been struggling to get the frets to match the notes they should play, this is more a physical problem (different strings, different thicknesss, different pitch change when pressed down etc. ) : it takes a sh*tload of carefull adjusting to get it right, and on some of the cheaper makes you just never get it right. Normally you don't notice it unless you go way up to the 12th fret though....(12th fret should be at almost exactly half string length but you need to compensate for the pitch increase you get when pushing the string down, so it is usuallly very very slightly _before_ the actual exact middle, but i'm drifting off here...)
The BOING that every mac makes when it starts up is independent of the OS.
It goes BOING when you boot from OS 9.
It goes BOING when you boot from an UBuntu Live CD.
It's the firmware reporting everything is OK, not the OS....
If it's NOT ok you get a different sound...the chimes of death...I believe they are called.
And changing behaviours (what you eat, how you exercise, how you relate to your fellow human beings etc) is presently more "difficult" (for cultural reasons) than discovering cell manipulation techniques, that is, than intervening (than making a "patch").
Hmm, another important factor would be that farmaceutical companies can't make any money off of 'changing behaviours' whereas by selling pills they make a killing....
I'd love to be able to use Picasa on a Mac....
I use iPhoto and it sort of does what I need it to do, but playing around with Picasa I thought it was a very nice bit of software, at an unbeatable price.
Yeah I know you can dual-boot macs these days, but mine can't. Ah, and Google Earth would be even higher on my list since there's no mac alternative that I know of....
crosseyed:
I once heard that puppeteers purpously make their dolls very very slightly crosseyed to generate the illusion that the doll is looking at you.
They said that if you do not do this, the puppet will appear to have 'dead' look, or appears to be looking right through you.
Maybe the Koreans tried this but overdid it?
...you can not only switch easily frojm one application to another, but you can also cut and paste content from, say, Writely's word processing tool to the Pepper Pad Journal and back again....
Wow, that is übercool...:P
...You are a GNU/Linux gadget lover. Just think, you get to rub your Mac friends' noses in the fact that a Linux device was first to have a touch screen,....
Well, there's no reason you should take my word for it. You are entitled to your own opinion.
If you want to believe viruses have a metabolism, that's fine with me.
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Not sure about american tourists in Ireland, but here in Amsterdam some walk around like they own the place. This upsets people.
General attitude towards tourists here is not very good though, in stead of being proud that so many people want to come here (well, the people that look beyond semi-legal marihuana and prostitution anyways) we treat most tourists badly. Sorry about that!
But to stay slightly on topic: if you want some eco-friendly beer in Amsterdam, check this place out.
Yup, I have to agree with you: Introns are absolutely not junk DNA.
But the Wikipedia seems to think so, and some of he post I read also think Introns are ' just junk'. Off course it may turn out that there is no such thing as junk DNA and all this non coding stuff serves a purpose.
Introns and Exons are found within a gene. They are important for such things as alternative splicing, which can be used to generate diversity 'on demand', for instance this plays a part in the immune response.
It seems that Introns are considered part of 'junk DNA', but given the fact that in some cases introns play an important part I think this is unfair to introns....
Yeah, I remember the huge success that 'Carmageddon' had after some politicians wanted to ban it here (the Netherlands). Banning is a statement, but the effect may not be the desired one...
It is my personal opinion that our society promotes violence as cool, fun, exciting and acceptable.
Just take a look at movies, television shows (even childrens cartoons in some cases) : a majority of them add ' excitement' in the form of violence. Obviously, this is for a reason: we _love_ violence.
So by letting our kids watch all this crap we actually _do_ teach them that violence is cool and Okay.
My post wanted to state that I would have understood it better if the Australians had decided to ban the game for being too violent. Banning it because some people spray paint on a wall in a video game makes very little sense to me. Even though I think most grafitti is crap or just plain old vandalism (mind you, there are some talented people out there..) I do not consider it a bigger problem than the violence in our streets, on the bus, in the train, in the supermarket, in the football stadiums and at schools.
So Spraying a tag on a wall is worse than the old knee-to-the-solar-plexus move? Chigago-Curb-Job? Columbian Necktie?
That makes me very sad. We teach our kids that violence is cool, acceptable, exciting, fun.
Then we complain about all the violence in the streets.
If you want to ban a game, please ban it for excessive violence, not for some paint sprayed on walls.
Hell, Panda even put an icon on my xp LOGIN screen that wouldn't go away after de-install
Well that _is_ awfully sloppy, then again that doesn't make it a bad anti-virus program.
My personal gripe with it is that until it is properly initialised (which appears to be rather late in the XP boot sequence, well after login), it allows no network access: this makes for slooooooowwwww startups....
I did kind of like he simple interface though, compared to what I was used to from Macafee & Norton....
... Except in extreme cases, sales people, management and even customers almost always prefer features and usability enhancements to speed/memory/stability enhancements. Any experienced programmer knows that....
Pfft....Except in extreme cases, sales people, management and even customers dont know their arse from their elbow. Anybody who has worked in IT for more that one year knows that
Still, your point is valid, because in the end, those sales, busines & management types pay us....unfortunately....
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So maybe you don't like the 12 tone scale, but if you play more than one scale in one song you are in BIG trouble if you don't use the system that J.S. Bach introduced.....how do you deal with that? :). But after two songs I always think the rest just sounds the same. Don't take it personal, I have the same problem with most Salsa. I guess you'd say I don't understand the music. That's fine with me.
BTW, most fiddles _had_ frets on them before the days of old Johan Sebastian, if I'm not mistaken. (i might be, I may play fretless bass & upright but I'm no expert)
All that medieval stuff that never leaves the one key drives me barking mad after half an hour, mind you, and the same goes for Irish music even though I do like those long licks that they all play unisono, very nice especially if you have a guiness (or two) while you listen to it
On my fretted bass I have always been struggling to get the frets to match the notes they should play, this is more a physical problem (different strings, different thicknesss, different pitch change when pressed down etc. ) : it takes a sh*tload of carefull adjusting to get it right, and on some of the cheaper makes you just never get it right. Normally you don't notice it unless you go way up to the 12th fret though....(12th fret should be at almost exactly half string length but you need to compensate for the pitch increase you get when pushing the string down, so it is usuallly very very slightly _before_ the actual exact middle, but i'm drifting off here...)
The BOING that every mac makes when it starts up is independent of the OS.
It goes BOING when you boot from OS 9.
It goes BOING when you boot from an UBuntu Live CD.
It's the firmware reporting everything is OK, not the OS....
If it's NOT ok you get a different sound...the chimes of death...I believe they are called.
You can write with that mouse? Damn it must be good then....:)
Woops, missed the memo I guess :)
Thanks guys....
I'd love to be able to use Picasa on a Mac....
I use iPhoto and it sort of does what I need it to do, but playing around with Picasa I thought it was a very nice bit of software, at an unbeatable price.
Yeah I know you can dual-boot macs these days, but mine can't. Ah, and Google Earth would be even higher on my list since there's no mac alternative that I know of....
crosseyed:
I once heard that puppeteers purpously make their dolls very very slightly crosseyed to generate the illusion that the doll is looking at you.
They said that if you do not do this, the puppet will appear to have 'dead' look, or appears to be looking right through you. Maybe the Koreans tried this but overdid it?
...you can not only switch easily frojm one application to another, but you can also cut and paste content from, say, Writely's word processing tool to the Pepper Pad Journal and back again....
...You are a GNU/Linux gadget lover. Just think, you get to rub your Mac friends' noses in the fact that a Linux device was first to have a touch screen,....
Wow, that is übercool...:P
Never heard of the Newton I suppose...
Well, there's no reason you should take my word for it. You are entitled to your own opinion.
If you want to believe viruses have a metabolism, that's fine with me.
Virusses _never_ have a metabolism at any stage.
Viruses do not have a metabolism.....
Not sure about american tourists in Ireland, but here in Amsterdam some walk around like they own the place. This upsets people.
General attitude towards tourists here is not very good though, in stead of being proud that so many people want to come here (well, the people that look beyond semi-legal marihuana and prostitution anyways) we treat most tourists badly.
Sorry about that!
But to stay slightly on topic: if you want some eco-friendly beer in Amsterdam, check this place out.
I believe _you_ :)
Yup, I have to agree with you: Introns are absolutely not junk DNA.
But the Wikipedia seems to think so, and some of he post I read also think Introns are ' just junk'. Off course it may turn out that there is no such thing as junk DNA and all this non coding stuff serves a purpose.
Introns and Exons are found within a gene. They are important for such things as alternative splicing, which can be used to generate diversity 'on demand', for instance this plays a part in the immune response.
It seems that Introns are considered part of 'junk DNA', but given the fact that in some cases introns play an important part I think this is unfair to introns....
Try here.
Not sure where that "chicago" thing came from, but that is somehow what it is known as in the netherlands, must be that alliteration....
Yeah, I remember the huge success that 'Carmageddon' had after some politicians wanted to ban it here (the Netherlands). Banning is a statement, but the effect may not be the desired one...
It is my personal opinion that our society promotes violence as cool, fun, exciting and acceptable.
Just take a look at movies, television shows (even childrens cartoons in some cases) : a majority of them add ' excitement' in the form of violence. Obviously, this is for a reason: we _love_ violence.
So by letting our kids watch all this crap we actually _do_ teach them that violence is cool and Okay.
My post wanted to state that I would have understood it better if the Australians had decided to ban the game for being too violent. Banning it because some people spray paint on a wall in a video game makes very little sense to me. Even though I think most grafitti is crap or just plain old vandalism (mind you, there are some talented people out there..) I do not consider it a bigger problem than the violence in our streets, on the bus, in the train, in the supermarket, in the football stadiums and at schools.
So Spraying a tag on a wall is worse than the old knee-to-the-solar-plexus move? Chigago-Curb-Job? Columbian Necktie?
That makes me very sad. We teach our kids that violence is cool, acceptable, exciting, fun.
Then we complain about all the violence in the streets.
If you want to ban a game, please ban it for excessive violence, not for some paint sprayed on walls.
Evil!
Now we can strap lasers to guppies heads as well....
Uhm I think its the ones with the harddrives that do recording. .wmf or .ogm.....
No they don't play
Ehm...yes.....:)
Did you try this one ?
http://www.kiss-technology.com/ Yes it requires ' their own' server software but people have made their own as well....
Hell, Panda even put an icon on my xp LOGIN screen that wouldn't go away after de-install
Well that _is_ awfully sloppy, then again that doesn't make it a bad anti-virus program.
My personal gripe with it is that until it is properly initialised (which appears to be rather late in the XP boot sequence, well after login), it allows no network access: this makes for slooooooowwwww startups....
I did kind of like he simple interface though, compared to what I was used to from Macafee & Norton....
... Except in extreme cases, sales people, management and even customers almost always prefer features and usability enhancements to speed/memory/stability enhancements. Any experienced programmer knows that....
Pfft....Except in extreme cases, sales people, management and even customers dont know their arse from their elbow. Anybody who has worked in IT for more that one year knows that
Still, your point is valid, because in the end, those sales, busines & management types pay us....unfortunately....