That is the secret of Britney Spears et al. Lots of money to add effects and manipulate the hell out of the sound to make it palatable.
Now, I myself prefer raw talent with as little production as possible
I heard a perfect illustration of this on the radio this morning in the form of Richard Thompson performing "Oops! I Did It Again" recorded at one of his 1000 years of popular music gigs. Fantastic!
If you want to get started on a low budget then you could do a lot worse than buy a copy of Computer Music Magazine.
They have commisioned their own "CM Studio" suite of software which contains everything you need to get started. It's all reasonably good useable software capable of producing first class results. This is included free on the cover disk each month along with lots of other nice free stuff.
Their sequencer is compatible with the VST plugin format (for virtual effects and instruments) and a quick google search for "free vst plugins" is bound to turn up enough stuff to keep you going for years.
Well I had good karma and could moderate and everything. Then I had one post moderated troll by some poe faced humourles git and of course when I posted again to object that got moderated off topic (I've since noticed that this is normal). My karma has shown as bad ever since and now I can only post at 0. boo hoo!
You're right that saving data about the movements of every tube passenger over a period of time would be pretty pointless. A more practical system would be to search a central database of "interesting" people whenever a passanger uses the tube (or gets money out of the bank, or uses a credit card, or drives down the road, etc).
You are of course right to point out that there is more than one type of average. However when people use the word "average" without specifying the type it is normal to assume that they are refering to the mean. This is backed up by this definition which contains the following paragraph:
"Average is a synonym for arithmetic mean -- which is the value obtained by dividing the sum of a set of quantities by the number of quantities in the set"
Besides, even using the median value it is not always true that half the population will fall below it because it is possible for any number of cases to fall on the median value.
Depends on the key. In the key of C# major the leading note (7th) is B#, In G# major B# is the mediant (3rd) and C is the subdominant (4th), etc. The basic rule is that you start naming from the root note and don't use the same letter twice.
The most anoying thing about this is that when I type a url into my browser I generaly know what I want. The chances are if I type in something that does not exist it is because I have made a simple spelling error. Thanks to this "inovation" I now have to retype the whole url instead of just being able to fix the typo.
But basically correct for small business use. The big sell for IP telephony is that you no longer need to have separate networks for voice and data. But if you try to run them both over the same network the results are bad for both voice and data applications. The conventional wisdom these days is to install a separate network for voice over ip to eliminate this problem and to allow unused wires to be used for phantom power and for signalling during network bootup etc. So what has been gained?
Also modern Cat5 wiring requires a separate cable to each desk from the hub anyway so nothing is gained there either.
Compared to analogue the phones are ridiculously expensive, have poorer speech quality and are less reliable (The one I am working on the software for now contains 16MB of bloated unreliable software (but my bit is perfectly reliable of course!)).
Come back ATM all is forgiven.
I was responding to "5 more detonations would not make our planet significantly more uninhabitable" which appeared in an earlier post by 0111 1110 who obviously misread the post by StressedEd who was the first to mention the 5 detonations per second figure. I don't profess to have any technical knowledge of the subject.
It's interesting to compare and contrast the current discussion with this one. I know that it's not the same people commenting but it seems the typical/. reader believes that blacklisting a whole ISP (or evan an entire country) is acceptable to prevent spam (which is relatively harmless) but not to block child pornography.
Funny but I have full control over what I see using IE. If you don't like popups just don't visit web sites that display them. The sites' owners will soon get the message.
I've written many parsers in java and never once found a need for a regex library. The one time I wrote a parser in perl using regular expresions was a nightmare (What do you mean I can't parse recursive structures). The key to writing a nice clean parser in java is to employ the Interpreter design pattern
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I've got this tune going around and around in my head. Who should I send payment to?
Itcould be because idiot moderators don't look past the subject line and just see "... is dead" therefore must be a troll (ala BSD is dying)
I heard a perfect illustration of this on the radio this morning in the form of Richard Thompson performing "Oops! I Did It Again" recorded at one of his 1000 years of popular music gigs. Fantastic!
They have commisioned their own "CM Studio" suite of software which contains everything you need to get started. It's all reasonably good useable software capable of producing first class results. This is included free on the cover disk each month along with lots of other nice free stuff.
Their sequencer is compatible with the VST plugin format (for virtual effects and instruments) and a quick google search for "free vst plugins" is bound to turn up enough stuff to keep you going for years.
Well I had good karma and could moderate and everything. Then I had one post moderated troll by some poe faced humourles git and of course when I posted again to object that got moderated off topic (I've since noticed that this is normal). My karma has shown as bad ever since and now I can only post at 0. boo hoo!
Whenever you see any news relating to a subject that you know about it turns out to be full of misunderstandings and factual inacuracies.
You're right that saving data about the movements of every tube passenger over a period of time would be pretty pointless. A more practical system would be to search a central database of "interesting" people whenever a passanger uses the tube (or gets money out of the bank, or uses a credit card, or drives down the road, etc).
It is if you run one on every machine. Oh look there is one built in to XP.
Example: Alice has a CSQ (Common Sense Quotient) of 10, Bob has a CSQ of 80, Carol has a CSQ of 90 and David has a CSQ of 100.
The average CSQ is 70; therefore 75% of the sample are above average.
But that member is Eric Idle who IMHO is one of the most talented comic song writers of all time.
the most realistic thing to do would be to throw it in the bin.
Depends on the key. In the key of C# major the leading note (7th) is B#, In G# major B# is the mediant (3rd) and C is the subdominant (4th), etc. The basic rule is that you start naming from the root note and don't use the same letter twice.
The most anoying thing about this is that when I type a url into my browser I generaly know what I want. The chances are if I type in something that does not exist it is because I have made a simple spelling error. Thanks to this "inovation" I now have to retype the whole url instead of just being able to fix the typo.
Whatever happend to CNET TV and more particularly Sofie Formica (if thats how you spell it).
Bring back Sofie I say!
But basically correct for small business use. The big sell for IP telephony is that you no longer need to have separate networks for voice and data. But if you try to run them both over the same network the results are bad for both voice and data applications. The conventional wisdom these days is to install a separate network for voice over ip to eliminate this problem and to allow unused wires to be used for phantom power and for signalling during network bootup etc. So what has been gained? Also modern Cat5 wiring requires a separate cable to each desk from the hub anyway so nothing is gained there either. Compared to analogue the phones are ridiculously expensive, have poorer speech quality and are less reliable (The one I am working on the software for now contains 16MB of bloated unreliable software (but my bit is perfectly reliable of course!)). Come back ATM all is forgiven.
More like an example of how researchers waste public money.
I was responding to "5 more detonations would not make our planet significantly more uninhabitable" which appeared in an earlier post by 0111 1110 who obviously misread the post by StressedEd who was the first to mention the 5 detonations per second figure. I don't profess to have any technical knowledge of the subject.
Ahem. That's 5 detonations per second.
How can anything do less than nothing?
It's interesting to compare and contrast the current discussion with this one. I know that it's not the same people commenting but it seems the typical /. reader believes that blacklisting a whole ISP (or evan an entire country) is acceptable to prevent spam (which is relatively harmless) but not to block child pornography.
Funny but I have full control over what I see using IE. If you don't like popups just don't visit web sites that display them. The sites' owners will soon get the message.
It's quite possible to run IE and Mozilla on the same machine. just use IE when testing your web apps and Mozilla for general web access.
If someone sent another message with the a one time pad then it would not be a one time pad but a two time pad.
I've written many parsers in java and never once found a need for a regex library. The one time I wrote a parser in perl using regular expresions was a nightmare (What do you mean I can't parse recursive structures). The key to writing a nice clean parser in java is to employ the Interpreter design pattern