I completely disagree with this, and to be honest people with a strong natural talent aren't probably the best people to ask. Learning to tune is a feedback loop - traditionally, if you didn't just get it, you had to simply learn over time the in-tune sound of your instrument, a long slow process. A tuner breaks that feedback loop and speeds up your learning. Of course you have to stop using the tuner eventually but take it from me, it speeds up- the process.
I do agree though that the easy availability of post-processing tools is damaging poular music. It's so easy to not bother with the third or fourth take and say "we'll fix it later", and then you end up with records where the first and third choruses are identical, or you have big ugly edits jumping out of the vocal line. As for the Beatles - they never respected equal temperement, and thank God for that. They break rules all over the place, but funnily it's only the obvious ones like the Abbey Road recording people bang on about.
Fucking moron indeed. If you can't teach someone to tune a guitar (it isn't black magic) then there is something seriously wrong with your teaching skills. That said, there are more bad guitar teacher out there than anything else, IMO. Go find a decent tutor and prove him wrong.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that the people who make major strategic decisions on IT don't have a clue what they are talking about. It's happening in my company right now - a consultant is being paid vast amounts of money to essentially write an ERP from scratch, for a company that doesn't need anything more complex than a decent accounting package that can handle more than one operating site. The guy is being paid a monthly fee and has no written specification or brief. He has no deadline and no agreed feature set. On a regular basis he turns up and spouts off his latest idea, solving a problem we don't have. The bosses, who know their business but don't know technology, are completely clueless and are pretty much at the whim of this chancer.
And have you actually applied this theory to any police officers who may have, for whatever reason, formed the initial suspicion that you may be a source of danger? If you are waving around electronics and blinking lights in an airport, that is reasonable grounds for taking a closer look. If that person then behaves in such a way as to deepen your suspicions, you had better choose between exercising your rights and carrying on breathing. A little proportion is called for in these circumstances.
Hmmph. Speaking as someone who lives in this wonderland, let me tell you what actually happens. Sure, workers enjoy all sorts of (very good, generally) protection. We are protected from sacking, not being paid, illness, etc. The flip side is employers are exceedingly reluctant to take on a worker because if it doesn't work out getting rid of them ain't easy. For the employer it's like getting married after a first date. They have to be picky.
Typically this doesn't "just happen". A company up against the wire goes on for quite a while, and gradually you squeeze the supplier's terms harder and harder, they get used to it, you kick the backside out of the overdraft, your cashflow becomes over-exposed, the wages are regularly paid early or late (if cash flow is ropey, companies will get wages out the door early to make sure they're paid for another month), this whole situation is normal because you're part of the team that's managing the problem and then one supplier files suit, then another, then the word gets out and winding up orders are issued, and suddenly the emperor is seen to be naked (can you tell I've been there?).
Most auto-tuners just go for even temperament, though any other system would be arbitrarily as easy.
Something I've been meaning to do for ages is an attempt at an algorithm that accepts a MIDI tone row from an even temperament source (ie keyboard) and attempts to fit it into one of the closed systems - such a system would let a pianist stick to a system he knows while providing more attracive harmonies - I hate listening to a piano which has been tuned dead straight.
Most people with a bit of training can produce and recognise various reference pitches - it's often made easier in that most instruments' tone varies with pitch, so people can learn to recognise the in-tune tone of their instrument. If you have that ability, naming other pitches by recognising the interval is not that far behind.
What is rare is true perfect pitch, and if you have real perfect pitch you will have no problem distinguishing a G# from an A. Not only that, you would most likely be able to nail it down to a few cents.
That is pure unadulterated rudeness. Just because you happen to know something another poster doesn't is not a good enough reason to swear and describe them as 'retarded'.
Yes, a few back of the envelope calculations will show that a nuke isn't going to supply enough energy to get such a massive object up to escape velocity, never mind solar escape velocity, but you could just say so and maybe even supply a few numbers instead of behaving 'fucking retarded'.
You are correct up to a point. That said, a huge number of those truckers are carrying less immediately important things, like PS3s. As for training, the military is very good at training large numbers of people very fast. And if it was me, I would have experienced personnel at either end to handle loading and unloading the rigs and use my newly trained personnel to do the driving in a straight line bit. Given America's road system, that seems pretty feasible.
Warehouse staff and truck drivers can be replaced fast, by soldiers if need be, to keep distribution moving (if your government has a clue (not sure about this) it has a pretty detailed plan for this). Day traders are more difficult to replace at short notice. And before someone questions the neccessity of the latter over the former, try buying food when your pension fund just went belly up.
And it's not the test they did. They did a good quality randomised double blind trial, and found there is no relationship between mast activity and reported symptoms when the subject did not know if the mast was on or off. If the subject is told it is on, a correlation suddenly emerges.
Yup. I had a ML-1210 that ran till I dropped it down a flight of stairs (it still printed blank pages afterwards), then replaced with a ML1610 which is a stripped down 1210. Perfectly functional laser printer, cost £59.99 (about $120) and hasn't had a new toner ~18 months later. Oh and it's running this crap...Samsung's UK helpdesk is now closed but I will be hitting them up in the morning.
If you think that, try having your CD-R rejected by a mastering house for having too many in-stream errors. It is amazing how many errors a supposedly all-digital system can introduce. Most don't result in audible artifacts, but it doesn't mean they're not there.
The really at-risk group are growing companies who are getting just beyond the stage where the person inputting the invoice knows the business well enough to sanity-check it, but haven't yet put in place decent procedures for authorising invoices. Happily, it only takes a couple of stupid mistakes to be caught before such procedures are introduced.
Very simply: it is very difficult to define mass in terms of something else. With distance, time, etc, it has been fairly easy to define these as so many wavelenths or so many vibrations, but measuring out a specific mass of something (by counting atoms, in this case) has until very recently been impossible. Metrology (the science of measuring) is a subject area rather taken for granted, but it does underpin everything else we do. How else do you know your voltmeter/light meter/kitchen scales/power supply/ruler is accurate enough to do the job you need it to do?
Use your ears. If it jumps out your stereo for the first 10-15 seconds and sound really good, and then becomes monotonous, then this is what's happened to it.
The problem is there is no standard for SPL in CD audio - in movie sound, the average is set to a standard (of 83dB IIRC) and so there is dynamic headroom. With CD, the only limit is 1111111111111111.
No. Linux has already been through this once already when they moved to GPL2. All Linus has to do is give notice that the terms of the licence will be changing on such and such a date and make a reasonable effort to get it publicised (eg, on the front page of/.). Dissenters are talked out of their objections and the kernel becomes GPL3. No mess, no fuss.
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I do agree though that the easy availability of post-processing tools is damaging poular music. It's so easy to not bother with the third or fourth take and say "we'll fix it later", and then you end up with records where the first and third choruses are identical, or you have big ugly edits jumping out of the vocal line. As for the Beatles - they never respected equal temperement, and thank God for that. They break rules all over the place, but funnily it's only the obvious ones like the Abbey Road recording people bang on about.
Fucking moron indeed. If you can't teach someone to tune a guitar (it isn't black magic) then there is something seriously wrong with your teaching skills. That said, there are more bad guitar teacher out there than anything else, IMO. Go find a decent tutor and prove him wrong.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that the people who make major strategic decisions on IT don't have a clue what they are talking about. It's happening in my company right now - a consultant is being paid vast amounts of money to essentially write an ERP from scratch, for a company that doesn't need anything more complex than a decent accounting package that can handle more than one operating site. The guy is being paid a monthly fee and has no written specification or brief. He has no deadline and no agreed feature set. On a regular basis he turns up and spouts off his latest idea, solving a problem we don't have. The bosses, who know their business but don't know technology, are completely clueless and are pretty much at the whim of this chancer.
And have you actually applied this theory to any police officers who may have, for whatever reason, formed the initial suspicion that you may be a source of danger? If you are waving around electronics and blinking lights in an airport, that is reasonable grounds for taking a closer look. If that person then behaves in such a way as to deepen your suspicions, you had better choose between exercising your rights and carrying on breathing. A little proportion is called for in these circumstances.
Hmmph. Speaking as someone who lives in this wonderland, let me tell you what actually happens. Sure, workers enjoy all sorts of (very good, generally) protection. We are protected from sacking, not being paid, illness, etc. The flip side is employers are exceedingly reluctant to take on a worker because if it doesn't work out getting rid of them ain't easy. For the employer it's like getting married after a first date. They have to be picky.
Typically this doesn't "just happen". A company up against the wire goes on for quite a while, and gradually you squeeze the supplier's terms harder and harder, they get used to it, you kick the backside out of the overdraft, your cashflow becomes over-exposed, the wages are regularly paid early or late (if cash flow is ropey, companies will get wages out the door early to make sure they're paid for another month), this whole situation is normal because you're part of the team that's managing the problem and then one supplier files suit, then another, then the word gets out and winding up orders are issued, and suddenly the emperor is seen to be naked (can you tell I've been there?).
Something I've been meaning to do for ages is an attempt at an algorithm that accepts a MIDI tone row from an even temperament source (ie keyboard) and attempts to fit it into one of the closed systems - such a system would let a pianist stick to a system he knows while providing more attracive harmonies - I hate listening to a piano which has been tuned dead straight.
What is rare is true perfect pitch, and if you have real perfect pitch you will have no problem distinguishing a G# from an A. Not only that, you would most likely be able to nail it down to a few cents.
Yes, a few back of the envelope calculations will show that a nuke isn't going to supply enough energy to get such a massive object up to escape velocity, never mind solar escape velocity, but you could just say so and maybe even supply a few numbers instead of behaving 'fucking retarded'.
You are correct up to a point. That said, a huge number of those truckers are carrying less immediately important things, like PS3s. As for training, the military is very good at training large numbers of people very fast. And if it was me, I would have experienced personnel at either end to handle loading and unloading the rigs and use my newly trained personnel to do the driving in a straight line bit. Given America's road system, that seems pretty feasible.
Yes, but if the stock market goes belly up, so does your bank, your pension, and your insurer. Good luck buying that food now.
Warehouse staff and truck drivers can be replaced fast, by soldiers if need be, to keep distribution moving (if your government has a clue (not sure about this) it has a pretty detailed plan for this). Day traders are more difficult to replace at short notice. And before someone questions the neccessity of the latter over the former, try buying food when your pension fund just went belly up.
True, but there is only one way to learn that it is really good advice.
And it's not the test they did. They did a good quality randomised double blind trial, and found there is no relationship between mast activity and reported symptoms when the subject did not know if the mast was on or off. If the subject is told it is on, a correlation suddenly emerges.
The advertiser's rule of thumb, in general, is that half the money is wasted. The trouble is knowing which half.
Yup. I had a ML-1210 that ran till I dropped it down a flight of stairs (it still printed blank pages afterwards), then replaced with a ML1610 which is a stripped down 1210. Perfectly functional laser printer, cost £59.99 (about $120) and hasn't had a new toner ~18 months later. Oh and it's running this crap...Samsung's UK helpdesk is now closed but I will be hitting them up in the morning.
Really?
If you think that, try having your CD-R rejected by a mastering house for having too many in-stream errors. It is amazing how many errors a supposedly all-digital system can introduce. Most don't result in audible artifacts, but it doesn't mean they're not there.
You can do topless at 16 in the UK, or could until recently, not certain if it's still the case.
The really at-risk group are growing companies who are getting just beyond the stage where the person inputting the invoice knows the business well enough to sanity-check it, but haven't yet put in place decent procedures for authorising invoices. Happily, it only takes a couple of stupid mistakes to be caught before such procedures are introduced.
Very simply: it is very difficult to define mass in terms of something else. With distance, time, etc, it has been fairly easy to define these as so many wavelenths or so many vibrations, but measuring out a specific mass of something (by counting atoms, in this case) has until very recently been impossible. Metrology (the science of measuring) is a subject area rather taken for granted, but it does underpin everything else we do. How else do you know your voltmeter/light meter/kitchen scales/power supply/ruler is accurate enough to do the job you need it to do?
The problem is there is no standard for SPL in CD audio - in movie sound, the average is set to a standard (of 83dB IIRC) and so there is dynamic headroom. With CD, the only limit is 1111111111111111.
Oh really?
And if you haven't come across it yet, this is what you need to deal with these annoying numbers.
No. Linux has already been through this once already when they moved to GPL2. All Linus has to do is give notice that the terms of the licence will be changing on such and such a date and make a reasonable effort to get it publicised (eg, on the front page of /.). Dissenters are talked out of their objections and the kernel becomes GPL3. No mess, no fuss.