iPhoto lets you specify any external editor you want to edit the photos with. It's not designed to be a serious photo editing application; it's designed to organize your photo library with lots of metadata. The newer versions do a very good job of this.
Or to allow terrorists to pop all the service hatches remotely while the plane is flying, causing a crash? It's a terrible idea, (almost) any way you look at it.
Are you out of your mind? Let's have a competition. You get on your segway, and I'll start walking, and we'll see who gets farther before they run out of power. Hint: the segway doesn't stand a chance in hell. The more expensive segway has a range of 8-12 miles. At a *very* relaxed pace, taking lots of time to stop and look at things, poke around, etc, I can cover over 20 miles in a day. If I'm going for distance, I can comfortably do 40 miles per day.
it works because the infrared signals from a remote are fixed-frequency, amplitude modulated. the frequency of the IR carrier signal is high, but the frequency of the amplitude modulation is nice and low. the iPod (or other audio player, to be politically correct) just stores the amplitude envelope, which the IR device uses to modulate the IR signal.
First, the problem isn't all that hard (says the grad student in mathematics). Second, the inaccuracy in the statement
"It is a competition on math proficiency of the high-school level kids"
isn't the use of the word "proficiency"; it's the use of the word "math". The ability to do the sorts of proof-via-silly-trick and contrived-arbitrary-example problems that these competitions involve has as much to do with the ability to do real mathematics as winning freestyle dribbling competitions has to do with winning NBA titles.
I think you're thinking of "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", by Penderecki. Unfortunately, it is not a piece of electronic music, but is actually performed on acoustic intruments by orchestra. I believe it was composed sometime around 1959 or 1960, though I can't remember the exact date. Anyone?
Early pieces of electronic music (including the musique concrete tape-music to which you refer) were carried out in the late 1940s by various people in europe.
I can understand why one might think upon listening that "Threnody" is a piece of musique concrete (it has a lot of sounds that one wouldn't imagine string instruments producing), but it really is an entirely acoustic piece.
are drumsticks/mallets part of a drum?
as a side note, there have been about 2000 knock-offs of the basic idea of the theremin, where the instrument is controlled by electric / magnet fields, video, sound, etc. so it's not the only, but it may have been the first.
someone on/. thinks that max/MSP is hard to use? obscure, and at times rediculous, certainly. but hard to use? c'mon. it's just another programing language (with an admittedly strange syntax), after all.
yeah, but there's a lot more to electronic music than synths. a small sampling of exciting new things in the last 14 or so years:
max/MSP-type control and synthesis becoming sufficently fast to be able to do interesting, complex real-time "interactive" sound art.
real time granular synthesis has become something that's realistic to do.
it's become possible to produce basically arbitrary sound fields with fixed arrays of speakers (wave-field synthesis).
control interfaces, especially gestural interfaces, have become much more nuanced. people have done some really cool things with motion-tracking, wacom tablets, pressure sensitive materials, etc, to control musical processes.
the quality of computer-composed music has vastly increased
Now, I grant that most of these advances have been pretty much confined to the "academic" (i.e. not pop music) domain. But, jesus, this is in the context of "electronic music since 1870", most of which was done in the academic domain.
well, for me, I have an iPod, and I have a computer for which iTunes is available, so ITMS doesn't interfere with what I want to do with my music. I'd hesitate to say that this is the case for "most" people, but I'll happily point out that this applies to "many" people, and quite likely to "most" of the current market for pay music downloads.
what makes you think that GA / neural nets would contribute anything at all to improving computer's go abilities? both ideas have been around for decades - if they were actually going to get us anywhere on the problem of playing go, it would have long since happened.
go has too much global structure to be easily succeptible to GA or neural net approaches with current (or forseeable) hardware.
Yes, pure water would freeze and sublime on Mars, just as you say. The low pressure raises the freezing point, but the salts more than make up for it, allowing the liquid slurry you describe.
Actually, no. The freezing point of water decreases as the pressure increases. This is a rather odd characteristic of water, not shared by most other materials, related to the fact that ice floats in water.
I'm not confused. Are you?
yes, i know. and was was making the point that they weren't. various people have been making electronic music since the 19th century, and have been using computers to do it since the johns were toddlers. I would say that this makes it clear that they were not "among the earliest".
Actually, water can exist as a liquid at lower temperatures when the pressure is *high*, not low. Take another look at that website you referenced; the phase diagram for water is printed farther down the page. the negative slope of the solid-liquid interface shows that the freezing point increases as the pressure decreases.
"grammar", not "linguistics".
linguistics is the scientific study of language. a linguist wants to know the mechanism by which speakers substitute "of" for "have", and what we can deduce from that about the speaker's internal representation of the language. a grammarian, on the other hand, just chews them out for making the mistake and mutters something about young people ruining the language.
"died before he *could* conclusively prove it", not "died before he proved it". The original doesn't have the logical flaw that you've chosen to pick on in your misquoted version.
that is some of the worst logic I've ever read. Tiger might not be 64 bit. The new mobos might have only 4 slots. Far as I can tell, these two events are damn near uncorollated.
"Questionable circumstances" = heart failure, according to the police.
And this is hardly comparable to having a small nuclear reactor; they had some basic lab equipment that you can find in any college freshman genetics class. This is more comparable to the feds confiscating your son's petri dishes that he was using for his science fair project.
The fact that they spout "anti-whatever propaganda" should have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
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iPhoto lets you specify any external editor you want to edit the photos with. It's not designed to be a serious photo editing application; it's designed to organize your photo library with lots of metadata. The newer versions do a very good job of this.
Or to allow terrorists to pop all the service hatches remotely while the plane is flying, causing a crash? It's a terrible idea, (almost) any way you look at it.
it works because the infrared signals from a remote are fixed-frequency, amplitude modulated. the frequency of the IR carrier signal is high, but the frequency of the amplitude modulation is nice and low. the iPod (or other audio player, to be politically correct) just stores the amplitude envelope, which the IR device uses to modulate the IR signal.
Early pieces of electronic music (including the musique concrete tape-music to which you refer) were carried out in the late 1940s by various people in europe.
I can understand why one might think upon listening that "Threnody" is a piece of musique concrete (it has a lot of sounds that one wouldn't imagine string instruments producing), but it really is an entirely acoustic piece.
are drumsticks/mallets part of a drum? as a side note, there have been about 2000 knock-offs of the basic idea of the theremin, where the instrument is controlled by electric / magnet fields, video, sound, etc. so it's not the only, but it may have been the first.
someone on /. thinks that max/MSP is hard to use? obscure, and at times rediculous, certainly. but hard to use? c'mon. it's just another programing language (with an admittedly strange syntax), after all.
- max/MSP-type control and synthesis becoming sufficently fast to be able to do interesting, complex real-time "interactive" sound art.
- real time granular synthesis has become something that's realistic to do.
- it's become possible to produce basically arbitrary sound fields with fixed arrays of speakers (wave-field synthesis).
- control interfaces, especially gestural interfaces, have become much more nuanced. people have done some really cool things with motion-tracking, wacom tablets, pressure sensitive materials, etc, to control musical processes.
- the quality of computer-composed music has vastly increased
Now, I grant that most of these advances have been pretty much confined to the "academic" (i.e. not pop music) domain. But, jesus, this is in the context of "electronic music since 1870", most of which was done in the academic domain.well, for me, I have an iPod, and I have a computer for which iTunes is available, so ITMS doesn't interfere with what I want to do with my music. I'd hesitate to say that this is the case for "most" people, but I'll happily point out that this applies to "many" people, and quite likely to "most" of the current market for pay music downloads.
what makes you think that GA / neural nets would contribute anything at all to improving computer's go abilities? both ideas have been around for decades - if they were actually going to get us anywhere on the problem of playing go, it would have long since happened. go has too much global structure to be easily succeptible to GA or neural net approaches with current (or forseeable) hardware.
Yes, pure water would freeze and sublime on Mars, just as you say. The low pressure raises the freezing point, but the salts more than make up for it, allowing the liquid slurry you describe.
Actually, no. The freezing point of water decreases as the pressure increases. This is a rather odd characteristic of water, not shared by most other materials, related to the fact that ice floats in water. I'm not confused. Are you?
yes, i know. and was was making the point that they weren't. various people have been making electronic music since the 19th century, and have been using computers to do it since the johns were toddlers. I would say that this makes it clear that they were not "among the earliest".
Actually, water can exist as a liquid at lower temperatures when the pressure is *high*, not low. Take another look at that website you referenced; the phase diagram for water is printed farther down the page. the negative slope of the solid-liquid interface shows that the freezing point increases as the pressure decreases.
Look, I like TMBG and all, but they were most definitely not among the earliest electronic musicians, nor were they among the earliest computer musicians.
but it sure as hell isn't a cone, mate. Oh, and what do you call that thing you play rugby with? a ball? yeah, it's not round either.
right, because the Xbox won... what's its market share, again?
will someone please patent the " 'John Doe' litigation process" as a business model, then sue the RIAA for infringement? please?
"grammar", not "linguistics". linguistics is the scientific study of language. a linguist wants to know the mechanism by which speakers substitute "of" for "have", and what we can deduce from that about the speaker's internal representation of the language. a grammarian, on the other hand, just chews them out for making the mistake and mutters something about young people ruining the language.
"died before he *could* conclusively prove it", not "died before he proved it". The original doesn't have the logical flaw that you've chosen to pick on in your misquoted version.
Good, because at AU$374 for the case alone, you'll have to use a cheap processor to be price competetive.
that is some of the worst logic I've ever read. Tiger might not be 64 bit. The new mobos might have only 4 slots. Far as I can tell, these two events are damn near uncorollated.
"Questionable circumstances" = heart failure, according to the police.
And this is hardly comparable to having a small nuclear reactor; they had some basic lab equipment that you can find in any college freshman genetics class. This is more comparable to the feds confiscating your son's petri dishes that he was using for his science fair project.
The fact that they spout "anti-whatever propaganda" should have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
did you actually read the article? there are no "fake bioterror weapons".