In fact, most censorship comes from everyday people. The whole "political corectness" movement sought to censor our everyday speech and the worst part is that we're supposed to police each other. Paul Graham wrote a little paper on this and other forms of censorship. It has appeared previously on/. .
I agree that Walmart's music selection sucks, but there are more kinds of music than just Deathmetal, bubblegum pop and Country.
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While it's true that some bacteria would be transported to Europa, how much? If Europa is cold enough to freeze water, then it's cold enough to keep bacteria GROWTH to a standstill, right? The bacteria would just lay dormant, wouldn't it?
Perhaps there's some biology nerds out there who can offer us some insight.
3) From here the following happens, either somebody notices the machine is being attacked, investigates and reacts, leading the original victim to shut off it's counter-attack. Or an automated script in the Zombie machine packet sniffs the retaliatory attack and shuts itself down and/or notifies admin for further action. ..or the zombie host is also running the counter-strike software and fires back.. which prompts another volley..
..is if SCO actually goes through with this and sues someone: Where are they going to find impartial jurors?
*Everyone* with enough technical background to fully understand the issue has been following this case in the news and lets face it: Most programmers have a pet OS. We're not the most impartial bunch.
Anyone without the IT backround could potentially be fooled by the silver-tongued army of SCO lawyers.
This is a must-have for any professional recording studio. When used subtly it can make background vocal harmonies ring clearly and in perfect tune. If deliberately overused, it makes a neat effect that was in vogue a few years ago. Remember "Do you believe in life after love" by Cher from a little while ago? That's a pretty good example of a blatant overuse of antares autotune. The pitch correction has a tolerance level which, if set too sensitive, will "snap" your pitch to the next [low/high]er note when you've deviated from one it recognizes by "too much". When set more subtly it will gently bend or guide your pitch to where it "should" be.
It's not just for vocals either. It works great for instruments, too!
Wind instruments can play notes that fall "between the cracks" of the piano ("equal temperament") quite easily. The specific technique for doing so varies from instrument to instrument but here is the gist of it:
Woodwind players (sax, clarinet, etc) tend to open the throat in a yawning motion to make a larger chamber for the air column and thus lower the pitch. They can also pull pitches upwards by using jaw tension, and varying the size of their aperture (the opening of the mouth). On instruments with open holes (holes which are covered with the fingertips as opposed to pads controlled by keys) a musician can "half-hole" or allow air to partially escape from the hole to lower the pitch a bit. Flute players will "roll [in/out]" which is litterally rotating the flute [towards/away] from your face to allow [more/less] air into the opening in order to pull the pitch [down/up]
Brass players (trumpet, trombone, tuba, etc) will "lip up/down". By using specific muscles in the embrochure (including but not limited to the muscles surrounding the mouth and jaw) and also by raising/lowering the elevation of the tongue to make the airstream move faster/slower (think: airplane wing). They also have other techniques at their disposal, too: Instruments with valves can "half-valve". This is when the musician places the valve halfway in between the open and closed positions. This allows them to play an arbitrary pitch in between the usual 12. These "bent" pitches don't have as clear a tone as ones played with the valve either closed or open but it's a neat effect often used in jazz.
And of course, trombonists have slides. They can play any note a little sharper or flatter than "in tune" and they frequently do. Particularly after a few Guinness.
All of the above techniques are essential for any wind player worth their salt. Most instruments, even the top of the line professional ones, don't play perfectly in tune so these techniques are often necessary to force the instrument to pitch correctly.
No way, man. Maybe I'm a bit of a control freak or something but I don't think I could handle this.
Every once in a while I need to disconnect something and it had better be accessible. If I had to crawl under my desk to undo the cables she had so nicely braided for me I think I'd lose it.
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In fact, most censorship comes from everyday people. The whole "political corectness" movement sought to censor our everyday speech and the worst part is that we're supposed to police each other. Paul Graham wrote a little paper on this and other forms of censorship. It has appeared previously on /. .
I agree that Walmart's music selection sucks, but there are more kinds of music than just Deathmetal, bubblegum pop and Country.
While it's true that some bacteria would be transported to Europa, how much? If Europa is cold enough to freeze water, then it's cold enough to keep bacteria GROWTH to a standstill, right? The bacteria would just lay dormant, wouldn't it?
Perhaps there's some biology nerds out there who can offer us some insight.
3) From here the following happens, either somebody notices the machine is being attacked, investigates and reacts, leading the original victim to shut off it's counter-attack. Or an automated script in the Zombie machine packet sniffs the retaliatory attack and shuts itself down and/or notifies admin for further action. ..or the zombie host is also running the counter-strike software and fires back.. which prompts another volley..
yeah, I thought that was implicit in my post. Perhaps should have been clearer.
..is if SCO actually goes through with this and sues someone: Where are they going to find impartial jurors?
*Everyone* with enough technical background to fully understand the issue has been following this case in the news and lets face it: Most programmers have a pet OS. We're not the most impartial bunch.
Anyone without the IT backround could potentially be fooled by the silver-tongued army of SCO lawyers.
NASA released the report a day after a spacesuit malfunction...
guess what? you can!
http://www.antarestech.com/
This is a must-have for any professional recording studio. When used subtly it can make background vocal harmonies ring clearly and in perfect tune. If deliberately overused, it makes a neat effect that was in vogue a few years ago. Remember "Do you believe in life after love" by Cher from a little while ago? That's a pretty good example of a blatant overuse of antares autotune. The pitch correction has a tolerance level which, if set too sensitive, will "snap" your pitch to the next [low/high]er note when you've deviated from one it recognizes by "too much". When set more subtly it will gently bend or guide your pitch to where it "should" be.
It's not just for vocals either. It works great for instruments, too!
Wind instruments can play notes that fall "between the cracks" of the piano ("equal temperament") quite easily. The specific technique for doing so varies from instrument to instrument but here is the gist of it:
Woodwind players (sax, clarinet, etc) tend to open the throat in a yawning motion to make a larger chamber for the air column and thus lower the pitch. They can also pull pitches upwards by using jaw tension, and varying the size of their aperture (the opening of the mouth). On instruments with open holes (holes which are covered with the fingertips as opposed to pads controlled by keys) a musician can "half-hole" or allow air to partially escape from the hole to lower the pitch a bit. Flute players will "roll [in/out]" which is litterally rotating the flute [towards/away] from your face to allow [more/less] air into the opening in order to pull the pitch [down/up]
Brass players (trumpet, trombone, tuba, etc) will "lip up/down". By using specific muscles in the embrochure (including but not limited to the muscles surrounding the mouth and jaw) and also by raising/lowering the elevation of the tongue to make the airstream move faster/slower (think: airplane wing). They also have other techniques at their disposal, too: Instruments with valves can "half-valve". This is when the musician places the valve halfway in between the open and closed positions. This allows them to play an arbitrary pitch in between the usual 12. These "bent" pitches don't have as clear a tone as ones played with the valve either closed or open but it's a neat effect often used in jazz.
And of course, trombonists have slides. They can play any note a little sharper or flatter than "in tune" and they frequently do. Particularly after a few Guinness.
All of the above techniques are essential for any wind player worth their salt. Most instruments, even the top of the line professional ones, don't play perfectly in tune so these techniques are often necessary to force the instrument to pitch correctly.
hope this helps.
No way, man. Maybe I'm a bit of a control freak or something but I don't think I could handle this.
Every once in a while I need to disconnect something and it had better be accessible. If I had to crawl under my desk to undo the cables she had so nicely braided for me I think I'd lose it.
I like that 3" split cable idea.