Time for those who have the skills or the desire to code, I would assume.
It's not ridiculous to expect someone to learn how to properly modify something if they insist something be changed.
Want your e-mail application to sync wirelesly with your iphone? Code it yourself. Don't want to? Find someone else to do it or find another program (or just wait till someone else decides to do it).
Want your Saturn to have a 6 disc, in dash, Blu-ray player with a 20inch HDTV and 7.1 surround sound, as well as hookups for any game console? Learn how to install it or get someone else to do it for you.
So, the black box is your standard vibrato stabilizer...
And no, by the simple mechanics of how a vibrato works, one bridge will not stay "in tune" better than another when doing double bends, double stops or other techniques. For floating bridges, everything is balanced between the string and spring tension, increasing one will move the bridge. This can be remedied by using various vibrato stabilizers like that Blackbox, or the Hipshot Tremsetter, but at the cost of increasing the stiffness in the bar's movement (and it's still not perfect)
For semi-blocked bridges (lower pitch only), it's a matter of how tight you have the bridge against the body. If you have the bridge just barely resting on the body, then any bending will move it. If you crank it down tight, it won't move unless you use the bar. Again, however, you make it much more stiff to use. This particular setup is how 99% of people with the vintage 6-screw "Fender" bridge have theirs set up.
Wilkinson stays in tune better than a Floyd? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I'm sorry, I just had to laugh.
Wilkinsons are great, they're my favourite non-locking bridge, but they're just not at the level of a properly set up Floyd Rose. As far as the setup goes, I've never needed more than 20 minutes to set up my Floyd-equipped guitar, and that's taking all the strings off at once for a complete setup. Just block your bridge so that it stays in place (parallel to the body) while you tune. Once everything is set up and solid, remove the block, and adjust the spring claw till it's back in tune.
Yes, there are people who use a vintage style 6 screw vibrato effectively, even doing some amount of whammy accrobatics, but they take a lot of time carefully setting up their bridges/nuts/tuners. Hell, EVH used a vintage Fender bridge while recording Eruption, but he spent hours trying to keep it in tune, and still had to retune mid-song. He was also one of the first users of the Floyd Rose, and contributed to it's final design.
Oh, and what's this blackbox you mention? The only item I could find was one of M-Audio's amp modelers.
Oh, and this self-tuning Gibson guitar? Hasn't Jimmy Page been using a guitar with an autotuner for some time now? It looks a little different, but his would allow you to store and change between several different tunings at the touch of a button.
Maybe because the Microsoft thing was a contest, not a normal occurrence? Something like the 30-Hour Famine, where people around the world refuse food and drink (save for water) for 30 hours for charity?
Hell, what about the Navy SEAL's Hell Week? Very basic nutrition and maybe 3 hours sleep over a 5-day period?
Besides, that was a competition, where I assume it was voluntary to participate.
WOW now takes place on multiple worlds (heheh). However, they JUST released Burning Crusade, and they're just about to release a patch that unlocks the final dungeon. I really doubt that they're going to announce another MMORPG. How many people would be willing to spend the time/money on both? How many Starcraft fans aren't also Warcraft fans?
When they start paying me for it, or giving tuition credit/refunds for projects turned in, sure. Don't give me that "They're 'paying' us with our grades," crap, as I can't buy groceries with grades.
Printers are an issue? Well, maybe if you buy the $30 Zellers special. If you do, then you deserve any trouble you get. Just go out and buy a good printer. In the long run it's cheaper (arguably more efficient with ink, and quite often the ink is cheaper, too, or it lasts longer), and it will last you a lot longer. I bought an HP deskjet 4 years ago, it was on sale (the store was having a clearance sale to make way for the new models of various products), and it still prints like it did when it was new. Much better than my mom's year old Lexmark 3-in-1 (and it's more quiet).
I've also had zero problems installing it in Linux. Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and even the brief time I had OpenSuse installed. All I had to do was plug it in, turn it on and run the printer utility. 2 minutes later (including a test print), and I was good to go.
Ummm, I'd hate to burst your bubble, but Chretien put us in Afghanistan. Harper just extended the mission a couple years. Hell, Harper wasn't even the Conservative leader till 2004 (FYI we went into Afghanistan in '01), and didn't become PM till last year.
I doubt George's going to have the time to put the US in Iran before he's done. He's got what, less than a year to go, and he's still having trouble getting troops for Iraq, right?
I was just focusing on Eddie Van Halen. I doubt many people would argue that no one since Hendrix shocked the guitar playing world like Eddie did when Eruption was first played. Not Paige, not Clapton, not any of the blues greats. There are some whos style was original and revolutionary, like Holdsworth, McLaughlin, DiMeola (etc.), but they were never as popular or widespread as Van Halen was.
As I said, others did it before EVH, but no one brought it all together and packaged it in a format that the average joe would listen to and enjoy.
And Paige wasn't alone in ripping off blues guitarists, every guitarist in Rock and Roll has been doing that from it's inception.
Yes, I know Zappa, but if you ask random people on the street, I'm sure more of them will recognize EVH over Zappa. Some people would only know Frank Zappa from when he was mentioned in Smoke On The Water.
Hell, I'd wager that Van Halen (both the band and Eddie Van Halen himself) have been at least as influencial to the music industry as most rap/hip-hop artists out today combined. They not only brought about the beginnings of rock and metal in the 80's, popularizing guitar heroes like no one before, but Eddie redefined how to play the guitar (yes, many, if not most of his popular techniques have been used before, but he popularized them like no other) and redefined the guitar itself (not many people before him put humbuckers in Strats, and he helped develop the Floyd Rose vibrato bridge)
But it's not similar at all. As I said, entrapment is where Party A coerces Party B into commiting an illegal act, and using that as a basis to arrest Party B.
Here, Party A (MPAA) is posting bogus files designed to detect Party B when they commit an illegal act. They're not convincing Party B to commit the act, they're just waiting to respond when Party B decides to commit the illegal act.
It's not entrapment, it's just a trap (or ambush, or sting, or whatever).
It's not entrapment. They're not forcing you to download, or encouraging you to. They're uploading bogus files so that those who choose to download copyrighted materials illegally via torrents might end up downloading the bogus file and therefore get caught.
Entrapment would be a cop undercover as a drug dealer pushing drugs on someone who might not have bought them normally, and then arresting them for purchase/posession of an illegal substance.
Apt works with non-official repositories. What the parent wants is the official, default, debian sources to be slimmed down to something more managable, the main packages people use, while the rest of it can be set to third-party repositories that people can add in (or activate) as they need. Hell, they could be included in the sources.list file, just commented out until those who need them activate them (like Ubuntu does).
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My package is at least that big.
Oh come on, someone had to say it.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/
Yeah, well.......maybe not
Time for those who have the skills or the desire to code, I would assume.
It's not ridiculous to expect someone to learn how to properly modify something if they insist something be changed.
Want your e-mail application to sync wirelesly with your iphone? Code it yourself. Don't want to? Find someone else to do it or find another program (or just wait till someone else decides to do it).
Want your Saturn to have a 6 disc, in dash, Blu-ray player with a 20inch HDTV and 7.1 surround sound, as well as hookups for any game console? Learn how to install it or get someone else to do it for you.
What's so ridiculous about that?
Another round?
So, the black box is your standard vibrato stabilizer...
And no, by the simple mechanics of how a vibrato works, one bridge will not stay "in tune" better than another when doing double bends, double stops or other techniques. For floating bridges, everything is balanced between the string and spring tension, increasing one will move the bridge. This can be remedied by using various vibrato stabilizers like that Blackbox, or the Hipshot Tremsetter, but at the cost of increasing the stiffness in the bar's movement (and it's still not perfect)
For semi-blocked bridges (lower pitch only), it's a matter of how tight you have the bridge against the body. If you have the bridge just barely resting on the body, then any bending will move it. If you crank it down tight, it won't move unless you use the bar. Again, however, you make it much more stiff to use. This particular setup is how 99% of people with the vintage 6-screw "Fender" bridge have theirs set up.
Wilkinson stays in tune better than a Floyd? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I'm sorry, I just had to laugh.
Wilkinsons are great, they're my favourite non-locking bridge, but they're just not at the level of a properly set up Floyd Rose. As far as the setup goes, I've never needed more than 20 minutes to set up my Floyd-equipped guitar, and that's taking all the strings off at once for a complete setup. Just block your bridge so that it stays in place (parallel to the body) while you tune. Once everything is set up and solid, remove the block, and adjust the spring claw till it's back in tune.
Yes, there are people who use a vintage style 6 screw vibrato effectively, even doing some amount of whammy accrobatics, but they take a lot of time carefully setting up their bridges/nuts/tuners. Hell, EVH used a vintage Fender bridge while recording Eruption, but he spent hours trying to keep it in tune, and still had to retune mid-song. He was also one of the first users of the Floyd Rose, and contributed to it's final design.
Oh, and what's this blackbox you mention? The only item I could find was one of M-Audio's amp modelers.
Oh, and this self-tuning Gibson guitar? Hasn't Jimmy Page been using a guitar with an autotuner for some time now? It looks a little different, but his would allow you to store and change between several different tunings at the touch of a button.
Maybe because the Microsoft thing was a contest, not a normal occurrence? Something like the 30-Hour Famine, where people around the world refuse food and drink (save for water) for 30 hours for charity?
Hell, what about the Navy SEAL's Hell Week? Very basic nutrition and maybe 3 hours sleep over a 5-day period?
Besides, that was a competition, where I assume it was voluntary to participate.
Live action D&D, like this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw
"The story of recovering the Death Star plans?"
Covered in the game Dark Forces (the precurser to Jedi Knight/Outcast), among other games.
WOW now takes place on multiple worlds (heheh). However, they JUST released Burning Crusade, and they're just about to release a patch that unlocks the final dungeon. I really doubt that they're going to announce another MMORPG. How many people would be willing to spend the time/money on both? How many Starcraft fans aren't also Warcraft fans?
So, don't go with Ubuntu, go with Red Hat, or Suse, or one of the other major name, corportate backed distros.
Seriously? I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic or not (damn internet).
Oh, please, the recreational facility is a waste disposal site.
Might set a bad precedent in the courts, though. Next thing you know is every school's going to be doing this and asking for their free licences.
When they start paying me for it, or giving tuition credit/refunds for projects turned in, sure. Don't give me that "They're 'paying' us with our grades," crap, as I can't buy groceries with grades.
Printers are an issue? Well, maybe if you buy the $30 Zellers special. If you do, then you deserve any trouble you get. Just go out and buy a good printer. In the long run it's cheaper (arguably more efficient with ink, and quite often the ink is cheaper, too, or it lasts longer), and it will last you a lot longer. I bought an HP deskjet 4 years ago, it was on sale (the store was having a clearance sale to make way for the new models of various products), and it still prints like it did when it was new. Much better than my mom's year old Lexmark 3-in-1 (and it's more quiet).
I've also had zero problems installing it in Linux. Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and even the brief time I had OpenSuse installed. All I had to do was plug it in, turn it on and run the printer utility. 2 minutes later (including a test print), and I was good to go.
Ummm, I'd hate to burst your bubble, but Chretien put us in Afghanistan. Harper just extended the mission a couple years. Hell, Harper wasn't even the Conservative leader till 2004 (FYI we went into Afghanistan in '01), and didn't become PM till last year.
I doubt George's going to have the time to put the US in Iran before he's done. He's got what, less than a year to go, and he's still having trouble getting troops for Iraq, right?
Longhorn == Vista
I was just focusing on Eddie Van Halen. I doubt many people would argue that no one since Hendrix shocked the guitar playing world like Eddie did when Eruption was first played. Not Paige, not Clapton, not any of the blues greats. There are some whos style was original and revolutionary, like Holdsworth, McLaughlin, DiMeola (etc.), but they were never as popular or widespread as Van Halen was.
As I said, others did it before EVH, but no one brought it all together and packaged it in a format that the average joe would listen to and enjoy.
And Paige wasn't alone in ripping off blues guitarists, every guitarist in Rock and Roll has been doing that from it's inception.
Yes, I know Zappa, but if you ask random people on the street, I'm sure more of them will recognize EVH over Zappa. Some people would only know Frank Zappa from when he was mentioned in Smoke On The Water.
80's rock, hair metal, grunge, to name a few.
Hell, I'd wager that Van Halen (both the band and Eddie Van Halen himself) have been at least as influencial to the music industry as most rap/hip-hop artists out today combined. They not only brought about the beginnings of rock and metal in the 80's, popularizing guitar heroes like no one before, but Eddie redefined how to play the guitar (yes, many, if not most of his popular techniques have been used before, but he popularized them like no other) and redefined the guitar itself (not many people before him put humbuckers in Strats, and he helped develop the Floyd Rose vibrato bridge)
But it's not similar at all. As I said, entrapment is where Party A coerces Party B into commiting an illegal act, and using that as a basis to arrest Party B.
Here, Party A (MPAA) is posting bogus files designed to detect Party B when they commit an illegal act. They're not convincing Party B to commit the act, they're just waiting to respond when Party B decides to commit the illegal act.
It's not entrapment, it's just a trap (or ambush, or sting, or whatever).
It's not entrapment. They're not forcing you to download, or encouraging you to. They're uploading bogus files so that those who choose to download copyrighted materials illegally via torrents might end up downloading the bogus file and therefore get caught.
Entrapment would be a cop undercover as a drug dealer pushing drugs on someone who might not have bought them normally, and then arresting them for purchase/posession of an illegal substance.
Apt works with non-official repositories. What the parent wants is the official, default, debian sources to be slimmed down to something more managable, the main packages people use, while the rest of it can be set to third-party repositories that people can add in (or activate) as they need. Hell, they could be included in the sources.list file, just commented out until those who need them activate them (like Ubuntu does).
And how, exactly would you prove that?