Apparently it works by you repetitively linking a note with a color, until you hear the colors. An A flat is a red, and a C# is a blue, and so on. So you can hear music as a sequence of colors and makes you super crazy talented.
Ok so the title of this post is an eye grabber, I don't really know whether it's true or not. But I think the data points towards it being possible. Why do you say? Well, I kinda did an undergraduate thesis on it. Let me know if you want to see the paper.
Basically the theory is this: There are those who are born with perfect pitch or at least develop it VERY early in life, and then those who LEARN it later on. Are these two different mechanisms, then? Not necessarily. It's just that those with early "prodigy" perfect pitch have an extremely quick learning curve for discerning between tones. Why? Memory. They have a "permanent" set of tones to which they compare notes to in their head. For example, I play an F# on the piano, the person with absolute, or perfect pitch, compares it, knows what it is, and then can tell you without looking at the piano that it is indeed an F#.
So how on earth can you "learn" it? It's all in the comparison. Music students may be able to more "permanently" obtain these notes in their minds by frequent exposure / practice in relative pitch excercises. Some are faster that others, and this would explain the ones who have absolute pitch early on.
There is so much more on this, but that's at least where the data is pointing, and there is probably a LOT more research out there since my undergrad thesis (1996). Interestingly, I originally got interested in this because my roommate in college was Jason Marsalis, brother of Brandford and Wynton Marsalis, and he has perfect pitch (apparently from birth).
'scuse my ignorance on the laws on this, but aren't pop-ups possibly illegal? Could it not be proven somewhere in some court that these pop ups (and other other for that matter) are indeed a way of "hijacking" a computer? The original intent of a user was to go to a website. Banner ads are ok, similar to something like a billboard. If we are to follow that same analogy, pop ups would be a billboard suddenly appear in the middle of the road and you have to activly avoid it in order to move on.
My own opinion about the store is that it's great, and you need to use it to get a feel for what it's like. For me, to have the service built into the same app that plays the music, and to be able to buy the songs and have them automatically downloaded without you having to physically put them in the correct spot yourself is great. Really I didn't know how much I was going to like the service until I actually used it.
There is a strange thing (perhaps somene could enlighten me on it as to why) - if you listen to a track under headphones and a certain combination of "sound effect" and/or the equalizer is used, the volume seems to wax and wane. I am certain this has something to do with the sound effects preference, as it seems that when something really loud plays, when it stops, the other instruments are not as loud, and tehn they regain their original dynamic. Has anyone else noticed this?
Actually, for all I know, you work for umusic and that's why you made this post.
Well, you know more than I do about their record company - perhaps you work for them? I just liked their music. I heard it off of RadioWazee
Very strange band to pick for the point you are trying to make
Nope, I'm afraid you're wrong. I was under the assumption they were indie or were very under-represented, which is not true. I don't personally care where they come from, I just want the music to be good. And at least with my taste, that good music seems to only come from under-represented artists who tradiationally are on indie labels. And if that is the case then it is less likely that Apple's music service will carry them for now, and to that myself and the original poster would like to object because we apparently enjoy that particular type of music, if you can categorize it.
Sure this is great, but when will i be able to buy individual Fugazi tracks online?
Yes, this is an excellent point. Although it obviously can't compare with the bubblegum music spewed out from the likes of boy bands and dance artists like Boobilicious Spears, indie and under-represented rock certainly is a force with which to be reckoned. Internet radio stations have, for me, picked up the slack that corporate rock could not deliver. Actually, internet radio stations have made me buy MORE music - it's because of them that I've heard artists like My Vitriol, Wayne, and dredg, who all blow me away, and I can't figure out why some stations won't touch them. Well, ok Dredg is a little out there, but My Vitriol deserves some national play at least...
Anyway, I think it would be behoove those decision-makers involved with this service to consider it, especially if geeks like us are on the whole more interested in indie rock than corprock (again, the last statement there being just a projection...)
But this mistake is made OVER and OVER and OVER again on slashdot. I think the spelling of the word lose is in danger of being changed by default!
Well, that is true. As anal retentive as I am, I'm curious why I made the mistake in the first place. I didn't realize I was aiding in the evolution of the english language.
My favorites:
=! instead of !=
it's instead of its (and vice versa)
colour instead of color (oh wait -that's the british...)
I agree. This is what I have waited for. I've always oooed and ahhhed and the iPod but didn't run out and buy one. I WILL now, just for the iPod. But the dang music service - wow - you know I was actually looking for something like this when I wanted to d/l a couple of Til Tuesday tunes the other day (who wants to buy an entire TT album?) and was SO disappointed with the existing services. I think $1 a song is a steal - they might even LOOSE money over this, especially if people are not buying whole albums full of crap like they used to.
Oh crap -- I hope I didn't just upset the Til Tuesday fans...
Sounds interesting, but
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The Cg Tutorial
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Excuse my ignorace in this realm, but why would you want to want to learn Cg when you could extend a C/C++ library to include the various graphics that you want to use?
Seriously, I really would like someone to debunk this idea if possible, because I have picked up an interest in graphics programming and am just starting out - would like to know more. It seems like an easier / pragmatic route (due to code reusability) to go the other route...
I'd love to know why the Clinton administration (remember Jocelyn Elders' views on drugs?) would discount such a study?
In light of the fact that the article does not go into detail on how the study was devised, I can't just blindly accept it. Chances are it was not a true experiment, it sounds epidemiological in nature, without controls, and the website hosting the article doesn't exactly appear unbiased. I'm a scientist - I try to consider the sources in determining causality. What what the N on that study? What was the design? Who funds RAND?
Don't get me wrong, I think extra drug/rehab is a great idea, but getting rid of the enforcement aspect could be quite catastrophic.
Alright this is not a first person account, but it's from a reliable source at any rate...
A few weeks in advance before your interview, you are given some class files and are told to write a solution that fits with the classes/executables you are given. So you download the files and guess what? They don't work. So then you call up and say "hey buddy, the files you gave me don't work."
If you make that call, you're automatically out. Your interview is cancelled. Rather, you're suppossed to work with what you have without prior knowledge that the classes you were given do not work.
Then if you survive that part, you come in for a interview, meet with a person for a hour, and get a 15 minute break. If that interviewer decides you are worth of going to the next interviewer, the first interviewer will forward what s/he considers your weaknesses to the next interviewer. People usually do not make it through lunch, so it gets relaxed at bit if you get to lunch at least...
Spending $10k to have someone go to AA to treat his alcoholism is a whole lot less than the $40k/year when he's in jail after beating his wife in a drunken rage, no?
Sure, if the efficacy of such treatment warrents its appropriateness to switch paradigms. But I'm not sure this sort of idealism works.
Is it me, or is the dude at the bottom center-right of this image of the gathering using a plasma tv as a monitor? If not, sure does look like a 42 inch screen. Maybe it's a new Apple flat panel;-)
634 Pages!?!
That's a pretty goddam big nutshell, if you ask me!
Or some pretty big nuts.
We learned bits and pieces of Python in an Imperative Languages course I took for my CS degree. Enjoyed it, the very little that we covered. I wish the prof had paid more attention to Python than Pascal for that course, but Pascal was his favorite, so that idea got shot down quick...
Ok here's her name: 01011001011011110111010100100111011100100110010100 10000001100001001000000110011001110101011000110110 10110110100101101110011001110010000001101001011001 0001101001011011110111010000101110
And here's her phone number:
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Well then, you'll be waiting a long time. It is not on any of the manufacturer's visible horizon for even pre-production evaluation. At my company (one of the big 5 tablet pc makers) we're looking at 14.1 as being the largest display, and that seems pretty standard for the forseeable (sp?) future. Don't like it and think we're all wrong? Well lots of marketing time and dollars by many companies indicate otherwise.
Sorry bub.
Hold on there, buddy, calm down, it's gonna be ok. Actually 14.1 is near enough 15 inches to peak my interest. All the others I've seen so far look to be 12 inches.
You appear to be upset from a neutral post. Is there something about your industry the rest of us don't know that is potentially job-threatening for you that you haven't told us;-)
OMG, I just realized I'm replying to an A.C. post. WTF, I'll go ahead and post the reply anyway...
Actually, the original thread was entitled "Women Programmers." But I never said s/he was underestimating them. Is that off-topic? Gee, I think if we were not given the liberty to digress slightly from the context of the original thread as long as we keep somewhat near the thread that posts would not be worth reading after the first 2 or 3 becuase they'd be the same thing just different wordings.
he was saying that women tend not to be the socially-maladjusted, emotionally-repressed sort
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Ok so the title of this post is an eye grabber, I don't really know whether it's true or not. But I think the data points towards it being possible. Why do you say? Well, I kinda did an undergraduate thesis on it. Let me know if you want to see the paper.
Basically the theory is this: There are those who are born with perfect pitch or at least develop it VERY early in life, and then those who LEARN it later on. Are these two different mechanisms, then? Not necessarily. It's just that those with early "prodigy" perfect pitch have an extremely quick learning curve for discerning between tones. Why? Memory. They have a "permanent" set of tones to which they compare notes to in their head. For example, I play an F# on the piano, the person with absolute, or perfect pitch, compares it, knows what it is, and then can tell you without looking at the piano that it is indeed an F#.
So how on earth can you "learn" it? It's all in the comparison. Music students may be able to more "permanently" obtain these notes in their minds by frequent exposure / practice in relative pitch excercises. Some are faster that others, and this would explain the ones who have absolute pitch early on.
There is so much more on this, but that's at least where the data is pointing, and there is probably a LOT more research out there since my undergrad thesis (1996). Interestingly, I originally got interested in this because my roommate in college was Jason Marsalis, brother of Brandford and Wynton Marsalis, and he has perfect pitch (apparently from birth).
'scuse my ignorance on the laws on this, but aren't pop-ups possibly illegal? Could it not be proven somewhere in some court that these pop ups (and other other for that matter) are indeed a way of "hijacking" a computer? The original intent of a user was to go to a website. Banner ads are ok, similar to something like a billboard. If we are to follow that same analogy, pop ups would be a billboard suddenly appear in the middle of the road and you have to activly avoid it in order to move on.
I kill me.
There is a strange thing (perhaps somene could enlighten me on it as to why) - if you listen to a track under headphones and a certain combination of "sound effect" and/or the equalizer is used, the volume seems to wax and wane. I am certain this has something to do with the sound effects preference, as it seems that when something really loud plays, when it stops, the other instruments are not as loud, and tehn they regain their original dynamic. Has anyone else noticed this?
This site got slashdotted in LESS TIME than the designer's 911 can do 0-60 ...
Well, you know more than I do about their record company - perhaps you work for them? I just liked their music. I heard it off of RadioWazee
Very strange band to pick for the point you are trying to make
Nope, I'm afraid you're wrong. I was under the assumption they were indie or were very under-represented, which is not true. I don't personally care where they come from, I just want the music to be good. And at least with my taste, that good music seems to only come from under-represented artists who tradiationally are on indie labels. And if that is the case then it is less likely that Apple's music service will carry them for now, and to that myself and the original poster would like to object because we apparently enjoy that particular type of music, if you can categorize it.
Yes, this is an excellent point. Although it obviously can't compare with the bubblegum music spewed out from the likes of boy bands and dance artists like Boobilicious Spears, indie and under-represented rock certainly is a force with which to be reckoned. Internet radio stations have, for me, picked up the slack that corporate rock could not deliver. Actually, internet radio stations have made me buy MORE music - it's because of them that I've heard artists like My Vitriol, Wayne, and dredg, who all blow me away, and I can't figure out why some stations won't touch them. Well, ok Dredg is a little out there, but My Vitriol deserves some national play at least ...
Anyway, I think it would be behoove those decision-makers involved with this service to consider it, especially if geeks like us are on the whole more interested in indie rock than corprock (again, the last statement there being just a projection ...)
Well, that is true. As anal retentive as I am, I'm curious why I made the mistake in the first place. I didn't realize I was aiding in the evolution of the english language.
=! instead of !=
it's instead of its (and vice versa)
colour instead of color (oh wait -that's the britishDon't be such a dickhead. People make mistakes. Deal with it.
Because there might be a small problem with what to call the company ...
Hey now, there's no reason to poke fun at Canadian math skills ...
Oh crap -- I hope I didn't just upset the Til Tuesday fans ...
Seriously, I really would like someone to debunk this idea if possible, because I have picked up an interest in graphics programming and am just starting out - would like to know more. It seems like an easier / pragmatic route (due to code reusability) to go the other route ...
Now I might end my CD-buying boycott, but only for EMI. The rest of you's in that biz can suffer ...
Knew they shoulda sent the Rangers instead ...
Damn Yankees fans, I swear ...
In light of the fact that the article does not go into detail on how the study was devised, I can't just blindly accept it. Chances are it was not a true experiment, it sounds epidemiological in nature, without controls, and the website hosting the article doesn't exactly appear unbiased. I'm a scientist - I try to consider the sources in determining causality. What what the N on that study? What was the design? Who funds RAND?
Don't get me wrong, I think extra drug/rehab is a great idea, but getting rid of the enforcement aspect could be quite catastrophic.
A few weeks in advance before your interview, you are given some class files and are told to write a solution that fits with the classes/executables you are given. So you download the files and guess what? They don't work. So then you call up and say "hey buddy, the files you gave me don't work."
If you make that call, you're automatically out. Your interview is cancelled. Rather, you're suppossed to work with what you have without prior knowledge that the classes you were given do not work.
Then if you survive that part, you come in for a interview, meet with a person for a hour, and get a 15 minute break. If that interviewer decides you are worth of going to the next interviewer, the first interviewer will forward what s/he considers your weaknesses to the next interviewer. People usually do not make it through lunch, so it gets relaxed at bit if you get to lunch at least ...
Spending $10k to have someone go to AA to treat his alcoholism is a whole lot less than the $40k/year when he's in jail after beating his wife in a drunken rage, no? Sure, if the efficacy of such treatment warrents its appropriateness to switch paradigms. But I'm not sure this sort of idealism works.
A cross between a bird and a spider. A Bider? A spird?
Is it me, or is the dude at the bottom center-right of this image of the gathering using a plasma tv as a monitor? If not, sure does look like a 42 inch screen. Maybe it's a new Apple flat panel ;-)
Or some pretty big nuts.
We learned bits and pieces of Python in an Imperative Languages course I took for my CS degree. Enjoyed it, the very little that we covered. I wish the prof had paid more attention to Python than Pascal for that course, but Pascal was his favorite, so that idea got shot down quick ...
And here's her phone number: 00110001001011010011100000110000001100000010110101 00010101000001010101000010110101010011010010000100 100101010100
Hold on there, buddy, calm down, it's gonna be ok. Actually 14.1 is near enough 15 inches to peak my interest. All the others I've seen so far look to be 12 inches.
You appear to be upset from a neutral post. Is there something about your industry the rest of us don't know that is potentially job-threatening for you that you haven't told us ;-)
OMG, I just realized I'm replying to an A.C. post. WTF, I'll go ahead and post the reply anyway ...
Actually, the original thread was entitled "Women Programmers." But I never said s/he was underestimating them. Is that off-topic? Gee, I think if we were not given the liberty to digress slightly from the context of the original thread as long as we keep somewhat near the thread that posts would not be worth reading after the first 2 or 3 becuase they'd be the same thing just different wordings.
he was saying that women tend not to be the socially-maladjusted, emotionally-repressed sort
Anyone who believes that crap should try to think more objectivly.