dra-co-ni-an adj. Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.
I'd say it's fairly accurate to call laws that find an individual guilty until proven innocent draconian. The whole idea of a legal and judicial process is that guilt is not established until the summary of the court (or tribunal) proceedings and all sides have been heard. Normally police (in criminal cases) or solicitors (in civil cases) need to establish evidence to prove this guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but this law allows 'rights owners' to merely suggest that someone has broken a law to have them denied of a service they have paid another company for.
Have you SEEN the price that Newton's command these days? Oh believe me, they're still around. Oh, and the newest models are still being manufactured - I think they call them the iPod touch/iPhone now instead.
I don't know, these Graphical User Interfaces - just a fad - they'll never catch on!;p
The damning indictment of the education system in general missed by the existence of this website is that the kids haven't figured out that Google is FREE!:o
It's shocking the number of kids on Yahoo! Answers who ask questions (obviously for homework assignments) that a simple Google search would answer for them.
[FLAMEBAIT] Plus, many guitarists struggle to get their heads around drummers playing triplets over time signatures like 21/16! So for THEIR sake a click can be handy;P [/FLAMEBAIT]
You're missing the point saying that click tracks make for soulless music.
What click tracks allow, in a studio setting, is for the drummer to keep time more closely with a sequencer. The sequencer's tempo in bpm can be set to match the drummer's initial tempo, but with all the audio being recorded into a DAW (ProTools, Cubase, Logic, Nuendo etc) it's much easier to sync the final takes (visually as well as audibly) when you're producing the completed tracks.
Quite often the drums, even with correct mic placement (a combination of overheads, close mics and ambient room mics), can sound wrong for the guitar sound in a track, so the drums themselves will be recorded both as audio and via piezo triggers on the drums as midi data. This means you can swap the original drum sounds themselves (or individual drums, such as the kick or the snare) for alternatives from a sample library using velocity-mapped multi-samples and the listener would never know!
There's nothing to stop a producer 'dequantising' the final sequencer track which is quite easy actually on any modern sequencer, and some allow you to design the 'groove' yourself shifting particular beats before or after the click in a semi-random manner to bring an organic feel back to the music. Just because you listen to a track and think it sounds organic, you'll never know whether or not a click was used to record it (invariably it WAS, as I've found from experience).
For live work a click can also be useful, as most drummers will testify to generally being shoved at the back of the stage with all amps pointing forwards and unable to hear the other musicians a great deal of the time. A click helps them to stay on track and know they've not got lost or lost the other musicians along the way. And if you're playing to some sequenced stuff a click is necessary (unless you use an app that 'listens' to your tempo and adjusts the midi clock to compensate).
I've been a working musician (as drummer and percussionist) and producer for many a year, and believe me, clicks are a great aid for many things and bands who refuse to use them, particularly in the studio, just make everything ten times harder to get right.
From TFA: "any emails sent could not be necessarily accessed via the Freedom of Information Act."
Surely that's the point!? He's a known and wanted international war criminal, the last thing he wants is for a trail of emails incriminating him any further to be accessible through FOI Act requests... I'd have thought that obvious.
I guess the handsets will come... what's there at the moment is merely an introduction, a proof of concept in the marketplace if you will.
Channel 5's (UK) 'Gadget Show' roadtested the G1 and compared it like for like against the iPhone, and came to the conclusion that it's better in certain respects, worse in others, but overall too close to call and worth looking at if you're looking at a serious (maybe even the only REAL) alternative to an iPhone. The main presenter is a big Apple fan, so it's no faint praise.
I see no sign of global warming making this place snowfree anytime soon.
Now you do see the problem with your statement don't you?
You see no sign of GLOBAL warming having a LOCAL warming effect? This is one of the big problems - people assuming that 'global warming' means every single micro-climate in every single locale on the planet will experience a warming effect, rather than the reality that they'll probably experience more extremes of weather pattern (places with wet climates will get wetter, places with dry climates will get drier - to grossly generalise).
What GLOBAL warming shows us is that the mean temperature across the entire planet is increasing, not just in your local neighbourhood (if in your local neighbourhood at all).
They don't have to - all they need to do is TELL the authorities in Britain to arrest a particular individual and extradite that individual to the US.
It's already happened, and thanks to an agreement our govt signed with the Bush administration, we haven't a legal defence to stop it happening. We are ALL at the mercy of the great satan indeed.
This is a weird bug we found - try exporting an excel file (from any version of excel that I've tried so far, on both Mac and Win) as a dBase4 (dbf) file and see the data truncated! It appears to export only the data that is visible on-screen, so any data that is wider than a column cuts short at the 'column width' in the exported database file. The only way around this is to expand every column in the excel file so that ALL the data in each cell of that column is fully visible.
So is this a bug, or is it a 'feature' - a true representation of WYSIWYG in action!? heh;)
FWIW I regularly have to open Word files into OpenOffice and resave as ordinary doc files, because the docx format appears to be borked in MSOffice. If it weren't for OO I'd be jiggered. So even if you aren't switching everybody to OO as their mainstay office app, it's probably as well giving everybody a copy of it, just to bypass a lot of the bugs in the MS suite.
I'm not defending the church, but unless you're fireproof it's probably never a good idea to ridicule an authority that can easily have you killed for some phoney-baloney religious reason.
Really? So, then my public chants of "Wetsboro Baptist Church Armed Extremist Military Wing are a bunch of pussies!" isn't such a good idea is it? mwuhaha
Yes it does. He shows the best vantage point on the moon to see the greatest collection of moonbats. Simply stand and look up towards Earth and you'll see them all. They're called Homo Sapiens - each and every one of them is a complete moonbat!
Not to mention the fact that he was attacked and imprisoned by the church for simply stating the TRUTH. He was not only a great scientist, he was also a great role model for every other scientist who has had to fight off the wackjob creationists and the anti-environment mentalist moonbats.
Can I throw it on my Linux based laptop and listen to it on the road? Can I stream it to my XBMC like any other audio file?
Yes you can, so what's the problem? How many times does it need to be pointed out that there's a pretty feckin simple way around the Fairplay DRM (if you even buy the DRM tracks from the standard iTMS).
If you're on a Mac, use an Applescript to do this for you - just set up a scripted folder that watches for new music and automatically adds it to your iTunes library;)
Applescript is still very very cool and useful and widely underused for automating exactly this kind of thing:D
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I'd say it's fairly accurate to call laws that find an individual guilty until proven innocent draconian. The whole idea of a legal and judicial process is that guilt is not established until the summary of the court (or tribunal) proceedings and all sides have been heard. Normally police (in criminal cases) or solicitors (in civil cases) need to establish evidence to prove this guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but this law allows 'rights owners' to merely suggest that someone has broken a law to have them denied of a service they have paid another company for.
I'm hoping the Maori peoples stand up and say no to this - I wouldn't like to fight them! ;D
Have you SEEN the price that Newton's command these days? Oh believe me, they're still around. Oh, and the newest models are still being manufactured - I think they call them the iPod touch/iPhone now instead. I don't know, these Graphical User Interfaces - just a fad - they'll never catch on! ;p
...and nobody's thinking of the children!!! :O
The damning indictment of the education system in general missed by the existence of this website is that the kids haven't figured out that Google is FREE! :o
It's shocking the number of kids on Yahoo! Answers who ask questions (obviously for homework assignments) that a simple Google search would answer for them.
Aha, and a valuable lesson is learnt. Always do your homework before launching business plan ;)
I think Banksy should be allowed to fix the Mona Lisa!
[FLAMEBAIT] Plus, many guitarists struggle to get their heads around drummers playing triplets over time signatures like 21/16! So for THEIR sake a click can be handy ;P [/FLAMEBAIT]
You're missing the point saying that click tracks make for soulless music.
What click tracks allow, in a studio setting, is for the drummer to keep time more closely with a sequencer. The sequencer's tempo in bpm can be set to match the drummer's initial tempo, but with all the audio being recorded into a DAW (ProTools, Cubase, Logic, Nuendo etc) it's much easier to sync the final takes (visually as well as audibly) when you're producing the completed tracks.
Quite often the drums, even with correct mic placement (a combination of overheads, close mics and ambient room mics), can sound wrong for the guitar sound in a track, so the drums themselves will be recorded both as audio and via piezo triggers on the drums as midi data. This means you can swap the original drum sounds themselves (or individual drums, such as the kick or the snare) for alternatives from a sample library using velocity-mapped multi-samples and the listener would never know!
There's nothing to stop a producer 'dequantising' the final sequencer track which is quite easy actually on any modern sequencer, and some allow you to design the 'groove' yourself shifting particular beats before or after the click in a semi-random manner to bring an organic feel back to the music. Just because you listen to a track and think it sounds organic, you'll never know whether or not a click was used to record it (invariably it WAS, as I've found from experience).
For live work a click can also be useful, as most drummers will testify to generally being shoved at the back of the stage with all amps pointing forwards and unable to hear the other musicians a great deal of the time. A click helps them to stay on track and know they've not got lost or lost the other musicians along the way. And if you're playing to some sequenced stuff a click is necessary (unless you use an app that 'listens' to your tempo and adjusts the midi clock to compensate).
I've been a working musician (as drummer and percussionist) and producer for many a year, and believe me, clicks are a great aid for many things and bands who refuse to use them, particularly in the studio, just make everything ten times harder to get right.
...Buddy Rich on the other hand :D
From TFA: "any emails sent could not be necessarily accessed via the Freedom of Information Act."
Surely that's the point!? He's a known and wanted international war criminal, the last thing he wants is for a trail of emails incriminating him any further to be accessible through FOI Act requests... I'd have thought that obvious.
I guess the handsets will come... what's there at the moment is merely an introduction, a proof of concept in the marketplace if you will.
Channel 5's (UK) 'Gadget Show' roadtested the G1 and compared it like for like against the iPhone, and came to the conclusion that it's better in certain respects, worse in others, but overall too close to call and worth looking at if you're looking at a serious (maybe even the only REAL) alternative to an iPhone. The main presenter is a big Apple fan, so it's no faint praise.
Two words. Steam Punk.
er... that's FOUR words. ;P
"Despite launching on the T-Mobile G1 with little mainstream fanfare..."
Waddyamean little mainstream fanfare? Big coverage by the BBC on TV and Radio news (and news website) on it's launch as the 'iPhone killer'
...there's something strange about the ground. Oh, the government's made it slope.
But there's more. Something about the texture of it... what is it? Can't quite put my finger on it.
Oh wait, no, I got it - it's slippery
We're all fscked!
Quick, photograph a policeman and get yourself arrested now that THAT'S illegal too - it's the only way out of this Orwellian nightmare for us proles
Now you do see the problem with your statement don't you?
You see no sign of GLOBAL warming having a LOCAL warming effect? This is one of the big problems - people assuming that 'global warming' means every single micro-climate in every single locale on the planet will experience a warming effect, rather than the reality that they'll probably experience more extremes of weather pattern (places with wet climates will get wetter, places with dry climates will get drier - to grossly generalise).
What GLOBAL warming shows us is that the mean temperature across the entire planet is increasing, not just in your local neighbourhood (if in your local neighbourhood at all).
They don't have to - all they need to do is TELL the authorities in Britain to arrest a particular individual and extradite that individual to the US. It's already happened, and thanks to an agreement our govt signed with the Bush administration, we haven't a legal defence to stop it happening. We are ALL at the mercy of the great satan indeed.
This is a weird bug we found - try exporting an excel file (from any version of excel that I've tried so far, on both Mac and Win) as a dBase4 (dbf) file and see the data truncated! It appears to export only the data that is visible on-screen, so any data that is wider than a column cuts short at the 'column width' in the exported database file. The only way around this is to expand every column in the excel file so that ALL the data in each cell of that column is fully visible.
So is this a bug, or is it a 'feature' - a true representation of WYSIWYG in action!? heh ;)
FWIW I regularly have to open Word files into OpenOffice and resave as ordinary doc files, because the docx format appears to be borked in MSOffice. If it weren't for OO I'd be jiggered. So even if you aren't switching everybody to OO as their mainstay office app, it's probably as well giving everybody a copy of it, just to bypass a lot of the bugs in the MS suite.
Really? So, then my public chants of "Wetsboro Baptist Church Armed Extremist Military Wing are a bunch of pussies!" isn't such a good idea is it? mwuhaha
Actually, the earth rotates whilst it REVOLVES around the sun ;D
Yes it does. He shows the best vantage point on the moon to see the greatest collection of moonbats. Simply stand and look up towards Earth and you'll see them all. They're called Homo Sapiens - each and every one of them is a complete moonbat!
There, fixed that for YOU ;p
...what about the Geotagging? THAT's what we really want to know... WHERE was it taken? ;P
Can I throw it on my Linux based laptop and listen to it on the road? Can I stream it to my XBMC like any other audio file?
Yes you can, so what's the problem? How many times does it need to be pointed out that there's a pretty feckin simple way around the Fairplay DRM (if you even buy the DRM tracks from the standard iTMS).
If you're on a Mac, use an Applescript to do this for you - just set up a scripted folder that watches for new music and automatically adds it to your iTunes library ;)
Applescript is still very very cool and useful and widely underused for automating exactly this kind of thing :D