Seeing as email is the only way I know how to communicate and express my thoughts, I'd definitely sacrifice the entire WWW for it.
Seriously though, what is this? The lines between the various types of communication are becoming so blurred that there is absolutely no reason to separate things out like this. Look at SMS and Gmail/Talk. The lines. Blurred!
You should start renting from Tower Records if it's available. It costs $1.49 and $2.99 for new releases to rent a DVD from there. In NYC, it was even $1.99 for most DVDs. I've never seen a movie enough to justify buying the DVD.
I agree. I have not found any decent alternative to Sibelius (the program, that is). At the music conservatory I went to, we were all required to learn the Sibelius basics, and I, dying to get something that worked in Linux (I didn't try WINE or the like), tried hard to find something that could write the complex notation required for my classes. There were no alternatives as of about a year ago. Any ideas would be interesting.
Actually, I looked through some examples, and it seems the stock price usually drops of significantly VERY quickly (within the day). Shorting might work there, if your broker allows it! Of course, if the price shoots up, you'll be screwed...
Typically they have to spend the first year or so in remedial training.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "remedial" training. At Juilliard there is no "remedial" training for students' primary instruments. Everyone already knows how to play their primary instruments proficiently. If your cousin went in on piano, then it was his primary instrument. The pianists of course don't need to take the remedial training, as don't the other music students who already know how to play piano. I had to take one year because I knew a little (I'm terrible at piano, though!).
The difference between the music division and the acting division at Juilliard is that the music students are finishing off their studies there. The actors just begin much of their learning at the start of the 4-year program.
As someone with perfect pitch, it definitely is painful for me to hear someone play traditional classical music seriously "out of tune". It doesn't affect me, though, if I can get myself psychologically to think of the music as something that shouldn't be classically "in tune", as in Irish music (which I have studied, but haven't played in a long time!) or in modern classical music that employs things like quartertones and deliberately modified pitches. As a matter of fact, it (non-standard pitches) is enjoyable to me in the same way that people enjoy hearing the tension between consonance and dissonance. I'm not synaesthetic, but I hear each of the 12 pitches as a non-specific color, or a feeling, and everything that exists between each pitch is, well, interesting.
That all said, the vast majority of classical music only uses the standard 12 tones, and there is no reason why any performer in the past (or most classical performers today) would have to learn to hear and play anything in between except to practice intonation.
There are jazz violinists, just not very many (Stephane Grappelli and Regina Carter probably being the most famous). I studied it (aside from classical music), and it's not much different than jazz on any other solo-oriented instrument. That said, improvisation USED to be a major part of what we consider "classical music". It was not just common, but standard for performing musicians to contribute to the composer's notes during the Baroque and Classical periods. The Romantic period and beyond still had some of this, but it was not as common...
I should say a couple things here. Violin isn't a well-suited instrument for chords. That has to do with the curved bridge. Of course double-stops are possible and quite common (limited only by the fingers of the left hand), but any more than two notes at once is typically rolled. My teacher often had me play three notes at once on the violin (requires lots of right arm weight and a flat bow across the strings). But, nearly all violin music deals with the melody (except second violin in Rossini operas!). Folk music, on the other hand, often has the player strumming the violin like a guitar in the absence of a guitar or playing chordal harmony.
Sure, it can be taught, but it also requires a LOT of practice. I know dozens of people with perfect pitch, and they have all been exposed to music extensively throughout their entire childhood. You're at a major disadvantage if you haven't had serious analytic (read: performance, or learning to tell in-tune from out-of-tune) exposure to sound.
E-Ink is truly great. I played around with the Sony Librie a couple months ago (at the Sony building in Ginza, Tokyo), and the screen was completely unlike any LCD monitor. It was crisp and didn't strain my eyes at all. Don't expect any motion yet, as it takes around one second to change the screen (another big benefit, though, is that it doesn't use any batteries when it's not changing the screen).
The Sony Reader's is set to be priced between $299-$399 at Borders book store. I doubt it will deviate much from that price. I'd buy it for $500 because I hate carrying arounds tons of books.
...what happens when the drivers are both drunk and talking on a cellphone? Are the effects twice as bad as either one alone or do they effectively cancel each other out? Or, perhaps, are the effects approximately 1.61803 times as bad?
how millions Africans died needlseely of AIDS because people tried to forbid them from making generics by suing in the world court.
You're taking the fact that AIDS drugs exist for granted, though. If there had not been any financial incentive for companies to develop and produce the drugs, then they certainly wouldn't have done so. Yes, companies are greedy and the pharmas are (probably) gouging, but there is more to the picture than it seems...
Zimbabwe wasn't third world, but it is now, with inflation over 1000% and rising. It's one of the few world economies that has shrunken dramatically over the past decade, thanks to poor (well, terrible) government policies. I'd be interested in hearing how locals really view Mugabe, incidentally...
Sure, but they can take everything out of it, leaving you with a spacious empty cave! (I don't really know if the law includes the things inside the house...)
I'd like to add that it was unable to open up two of three.xls files I tested it out with, for unknown reasons. That said, it really is quite functional for basic spreadsheets. It's also interesting to see how Google decided to handle menus.
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Seeing as email is the only way I know how to communicate and express my thoughts, I'd definitely sacrifice the entire WWW for it. Seriously though, what is this? The lines between the various types of communication are becoming so blurred that there is absolutely no reason to separate things out like this. Look at SMS and Gmail/Talk. The lines. Blurred!
You should start renting from Tower Records if it's available. It costs $1.49 and $2.99 for new releases to rent a DVD from there. In NYC, it was even $1.99 for most DVDs. I've never seen a movie enough to justify buying the DVD.
There's one benefit to owning a CDMA phone!
I agree. I have not found any decent alternative to Sibelius (the program, that is). At the music conservatory I went to, we were all required to learn the Sibelius basics, and I, dying to get something that worked in Linux (I didn't try WINE or the like), tried hard to find something that could write the complex notation required for my classes. There were no alternatives as of about a year ago. Any ideas would be interesting.
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Mod parent up...this is at least the third time someone had to repeat this!
Actually, I looked through some examples, and it seems the stock price usually drops of significantly VERY quickly (within the day). Shorting might work there, if your broker allows it! Of course, if the price shoots up, you'll be screwed...
The bad thing about this email assault is that it's really the old people who are hurt the most.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "remedial" training. At Juilliard there is no "remedial" training for students' primary instruments. Everyone already knows how to play their primary instruments proficiently. If your cousin went in on piano, then it was his primary instrument. The pianists of course don't need to take the remedial training, as don't the other music students who already know how to play piano. I had to take one year because I knew a little (I'm terrible at piano, though!).
The difference between the music division and the acting division at Juilliard is that the music students are finishing off their studies there. The actors just begin much of their learning at the start of the 4-year program.
That all said, the vast majority of classical music only uses the standard 12 tones, and there is no reason why any performer in the past (or most classical performers today) would have to learn to hear and play anything in between except to practice intonation.
There are jazz violinists, just not very many (Stephane Grappelli and Regina Carter probably being the most famous). I studied it (aside from classical music), and it's not much different than jazz on any other solo-oriented instrument. That said, improvisation USED to be a major part of what we consider "classical music". It was not just common, but standard for performing musicians to contribute to the composer's notes during the Baroque and Classical periods. The Romantic period and beyond still had some of this, but it was not as common...
I should say a couple things here. Violin isn't a well-suited instrument for chords. That has to do with the curved bridge. Of course double-stops are possible and quite common (limited only by the fingers of the left hand), but any more than two notes at once is typically rolled. My teacher often had me play three notes at once on the violin (requires lots of right arm weight and a flat bow across the strings). But, nearly all violin music deals with the melody (except second violin in Rossini operas!). Folk music, on the other hand, often has the player strumming the violin like a guitar in the absence of a guitar or playing chordal harmony.
Sure, it can be taught, but it also requires a LOT of practice. I know dozens of people with perfect pitch, and they have all been exposed to music extensively throughout their entire childhood. You're at a major disadvantage if you haven't had serious analytic (read: performance, or learning to tell in-tune from out-of-tune) exposure to sound.
E-Ink is truly great. I played around with the Sony Librie a couple months ago (at the Sony building in Ginza, Tokyo), and the screen was completely unlike any LCD monitor. It was crisp and didn't strain my eyes at all. Don't expect any motion yet, as it takes around one second to change the screen (another big benefit, though, is that it doesn't use any batteries when it's not changing the screen).
The Sony Reader's is set to be priced between $299-$399 at Borders book store. I doubt it will deviate much from that price. I'd buy it for $500 because I hate carrying arounds tons of books.
...what happens when the drivers are both drunk and talking on a cellphone? Are the effects twice as bad as either one alone or do they effectively cancel each other out? Or, perhaps, are the effects approximately 1.61803 times as bad?
Haha, you're right. It would have been even better had the GGP called U2 a "talented British Group".
Oh, wait....
Am I the only one who thought this was an Onion article? Either that, or 1984.
Zimbabwe wasn't third world, but it is now, with inflation over 1000% and rising. It's one of the few world economies that has shrunken dramatically over the past decade, thanks to poor (well, terrible) government policies. I'd be interested in hearing how locals really view Mugabe, incidentally...
Well, because "bazillion" is an indefinite number, the grandparent was neither lying nor telling the truth ;)
Sure, but they can take everything out of it, leaving you with a spacious empty cave! (I don't really know if the law includes the things inside the house...)
I'd like to add that it was unable to open up two of three .xls files I tested it out with, for unknown reasons. That said, it really is quite functional for basic spreadsheets. It's also interesting to see how Google decided to handle menus.
I'm playing around with the spreadsheet right now, and there aren't any ads at all...yet.