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Is Caps Lock Dead?
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I believe you may be confused about the/. population. First of all, you must use the characters/. whenever referring to the site, and use of the CAPS LOCK key for single letters is encouraged. In fact, you should deactivate and activate the key between each letter.
While you're at it, get rid of SysRq
Yeah, but that's also the printscreen key, used to take screenshots by many users of the obscure "Microsoft Windows" family of operating systems.
Re:Perhaps you'd like another Windows Key
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Yeah, but how much would you have used it if you weren't typing CAPS LOCK (I just used shift for that and didn't even break a sweat) all the time? Do you do that often enough to need the key?
I think he meant that the travel of the rod would not allow the button to be pushed too far, mashing the switch inside. You could hit it as hard as you liked without damaging the delicate bits. Unfortunately, making it travel far enough to press the button but not far enough to damage the CD player is a fairly precise task.
Actually, gaming with the Gyration mouse is very intuitive, and comfortable. It never loses track in the air, and your viewpoint rotates in exactly the same way the mouse does. It's amazing, and I'd never go back to a ground crawler (I've used it for a couple years).
A key change sounds awful when using a pythagorean scale because the intervals between the notes will not be the correct intervals. This is why we use an equally tempered scale. Every twelve semitones the frequency doubles, and each semitone is larger than the last by an unchanging ratio. Each semitone the same size. This means that we can start at any point in this sequence on semitones, and the scale we play will be reasonably in tune. It is equally in tune no matter what key you play in, but it's also equally out of tune. The scale is called 12 tone equal temperament, or 12TET
The pythagorean scale does not have equally spaced notes. As I recall, the notes will be slightly sharp after you go up an octave. The farther you go, the sharper you get, making the scale play out of tune over large intervals. A choir sings in tune because each singer adjusts their pitch slightly to make the current chord in tune.
Pianos and guitars have a hell of a time playing in tune, because they can't make minor pitch adjustments like a singer can. A piano tuner tunes the low strings slightly flat and the high strings slightly sharp (that may be backwards) to compensate for the imperfect intervals inherent in 12TET. A guitarist can't adjust, since that would require different fret spacings for each string and rule out frets that go straight across. It would be hard to play, and bends would be out of the question.
He's probably heard it called the "Cher effect", otherwise, why would he have said it. Maybe you just haven't heard it called that.
Ahhh.... Now on to musical differences. I do agree that pich correction is a lazy cheat. It's a way to avoid the mountains of practice required to obtain skill. Those years are important, because in them, you learn much more than how to sing the right pitch. You get a lot more out of them than mere technical skill.
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That's about it. Carmack came up with the smooth scrolling routine, and when he showed it to Tom Hall, they decided to play a prank. By 5 AM, they had recreated the first level of Super Mario 3. It was called Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement.
I wonder if that could be because a phone number has seven digits (in the U.S. at least, I don't know about elsewhere). I can't think of very many non-phone numbers that long that people need to remember, so maybe people hadn't developed the ability to remember more. I haven't found myself having difficulty remembering an extra 3 for the area code, so maybe it's a case of rising to the occasion.
I can't wait until I can put a seperate effect on every string. Anyone who has tried to play a seventh chord on a distorted guitar knows that it just won't work and that you practically have to stick to fifths and fourths to get any level of consonance. Finally I'll be able to play whatever notes I want to together.
I don't mind an all digital signal from the pickups on. I happen to like the sound of a solid state amp. No tubes for me. Flame on!
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I believe you may be confused about the /. population. First of all, you must use the characters /. whenever referring to the site, and use of the CAPS LOCK key for single letters is encouraged. In fact, you should deactivate and activate the key between each letter.
Hmm.... Now that I think about it, Caps Lock is useful after all. I can easily identify posts I want to skip, without having to read a word of them.
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End! You must not write code, or indeed type anything longer than a paragraph.
While you're at it, get rid of SysRq Yeah, but that's also the printscreen key, used to take screenshots by many users of the obscure "Microsoft Windows" family of operating systems.
Yeah, but how much would you have used it if you weren't typing CAPS LOCK (I just used shift for that and didn't even break a sweat) all the time? Do you do that often enough to need the key?
Well, that's kind of funny, but that's more Grammar Nazi behavior than Typing Nazi behavior.
Because it's a waste to hit caps lock again after only one letter.
copyright'd
Ah, the efficiency of abbreviation.
If I want to hear something new, I just make up a little tune and hum it.
That's a good idea.
Don't bother to support the arts.
It's hardly the singers and musicians grubbing for money. They make very little from album sales anyway.
Well, that's not the only stonehenge site.
I think he meant that the travel of the rod would not allow the button to be pushed too far, mashing the switch inside. You could hit it as hard as you liked without damaging the delicate bits. Unfortunately, making it travel far enough to press the button but not far enough to damage the CD player is a fairly precise task.
They sell electronics, although their selection isn't what it could be. A useful button is probably not available.
Should we also use a microwave we don't care about?
Actually, gaming with the Gyration mouse is very intuitive, and comfortable. It never loses track in the air, and your viewpoint rotates in exactly the same way the mouse does. It's amazing, and I'd never go back to a ground crawler (I've used it for a couple years).
I like the original there better than that parody by the Kinks.
A key change sounds awful when using a pythagorean scale because the intervals between the notes will not be the correct intervals. This is why we use an equally tempered scale. Every twelve semitones the frequency doubles, and each semitone is larger than the last by an unchanging ratio. Each semitone the same size. This means that we can start at any point in this sequence on semitones, and the scale we play will be reasonably in tune. It is equally in tune no matter what key you play in, but it's also equally out of tune. The scale is called 12 tone equal temperament, or 12TET
The pythagorean scale does not have equally spaced notes. As I recall, the notes will be slightly sharp after you go up an octave. The farther you go, the sharper you get, making the scale play out of tune over large intervals.
A choir sings in tune because each singer adjusts their pitch slightly to make the current chord in tune.
Pianos and guitars have a hell of a time playing in tune, because they can't make minor pitch adjustments like a singer can. A piano tuner tunes the low strings slightly flat and the high strings slightly sharp (that may be backwards) to compensate for the imperfect intervals inherent in 12TET. A guitarist can't adjust, since that would require different fret spacings for each string and rule out frets that go straight across. It would be hard to play, and bends would be out of the question.
He's probably heard it called the "Cher effect", otherwise, why would he have said it. Maybe you just haven't heard it called that.
Ahhh.... Now on to musical differences. I do agree that pich correction is a lazy cheat. It's a way to avoid the mountains of practice required to obtain skill. Those years are important, because in them, you learn much more than how to sing the right pitch. You get a lot more out of them than mere technical skill.
That's about it. Carmack came up with the smooth scrolling routine, and when he showed it to Tom Hall, they decided to play a prank. By 5 AM, they had recreated the first level of Super Mario 3. It was called Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement.
I wonder if that could be because a phone number has seven digits (in the U.S. at least, I don't know about elsewhere). I can't think of very many non-phone numbers that long that people need to remember, so maybe people hadn't developed the ability to remember more. I haven't found myself having difficulty remembering an extra 3 for the area code, so maybe it's a case of rising to the occasion.
Since Venetian blinds are operated by pulling the string to the side, a longer string would only serve to make them inoperable.
From what I hear, the Japanese do not have the best English comprehension skills either.
First step, mountain is mountain.
Second step, mountain is not mountain.
Third step, mountain is mountain.
I can't wait until I can put a seperate effect on every string. Anyone who has tried to play a seventh chord on a distorted guitar knows that it just won't work and that you practically have to stick to fifths and fourths to get any level of consonance. Finally I'll be able to play whatever notes I want to together. I don't mind an all digital signal from the pickups on. I happen to like the sound of a solid state amp. No tubes for me. Flame on!