I used to post on a message board that was rife with people not being able to spel, punctuate, or use coherent grammar. I eventually posted the following message:
"This is not a fucking chat window, it is a message board where you have time to compose your thoughts. If your message is not important enough for you to spend the effort to type it correctly, then it is not important enough for me to read it."
Note where I said I "used" to post there. I was banned a couple months later. The board's 100% trash nowadays, all of the intelligent posters have been driven away.
Holy shit, I'm in the Twin Cities. Small world. I play drums for this band.
I wouldn't worry about posting a site in a comment, especially one a couple layers deep and not modded up. If you're still not gonna give me the site, at least tell me the name of the band and/or a gig you're playing.
Whenever I need to use some regex, I google for a regex reference and try to figure out how to do what I want to do. Then the next time I need to use regex, I have to do it again. I literally cannot hold regex in my head for more than a day or so.
Music is what comes out of the speakers, not what's done to produce what comes out of the speakers.
So the sound engineer at a concert is a musician because he's mixing the sound that comes out of the speakers? It's certainly a technical skill and an art that requires a good ear for the needs of the music, but that doesn't make him a musician.
So you're saying the turntable just uses an unconventional mode? Or maybe you want to classify it as percussion?
For the record, I don't classify unpitched percussion as a full instrument either, and drums are my primary instrument, out of drums, guitar, bass, and vocals. Also for the record, in case my blues comment misled you, I think blues is one of the least valid musical genres today, which should be evident if you ever go to a blues gig. Literally, two hours of the same three-chord progression in a couple different keys.
My view on percussion is that it only serves to provide an underlying rhythm that the rest of the ensemble can play over. A drum set serves as part of the music, and can be played musically, but a drum solo is not inherently musical. I have basically the same opinion about DJing. Saying that the output sounds like music, therefore it is, is completely ignoring the fact that the DJ didn't create anything, he just mixed a bunch of stuff together. It's like saying the sound engineer is a musician because music came out of his sound board. It's certainly something that requires technical skill and a ear toward the requirements of the music, but the musician is the one who creates something new and unique.
If a painting looks like a photograph, that doesn't make it a photograph. Just because you like looking at a photograph doesn't make it a painting. They're completely different forms of art. I appreciate DJing as a technical skill and as an art, but it's not music.
There's a difference. When I play a musical instrument, I am creating sound. I can play any chord progression or melody line or drum fill I want, by just playing it. DJing is manipulating sound that has already been recorded. While it is certainly a valid sonic art form, it's not music.
When I can tell a DJ to play a blues shuffle at 110 bpm in the key of A, I'll consider it a valid musical instrument.
Take a few deep breaths, you'll get over it. In the meantime, I can spread some disinformation if you want. Hmmm...
The MPEG standard, knowing that porn tends to drive the industry, actually contains several optimizations for drawing things such as skin tones and nipples. Really.
Intensity actually takes most of the bandwidth of an MPEG stream, because human eyesight tends to notice changes in luminance more than changes in chroma. The chroma channels are compressed *extremely* heavily compared to the luma channel, and are actually even at a lower resolution.
I've always been interested in the notion of going completely to a property tax. It makes perfect sense if you say that the government already owns all the land by eminent domain and we're just renting it.
Not allowed in the army because you have an imagination? I guess they just want a bunch of unthinking drones to fill the ranks. I'm glad I'm not going to be in the Israeli army any time soon.
A web site is like a flyer that gets printed up every time the customer accesses it. That's the difference here. Presumably, if you changed all your prices you would have to change all of your in-store material such as menus and signage anyway, the web site is part of that.
Really? I'm quite the opposite. I simply can't stand the thumb models, they're just not precise enough. Thumbs aren't supposed to be precision instruments, that's why you say someone's "all thumbs" when they're clumsy. Some fingertip models aren't that good either, but where the Explorer stands out is a) a large ball, making precise movements easy and b) ergonomic so the ball fits naturally in your fingers. Most trackballs I see are suffering majorly in those departments.
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Oh, god, the irony. "Spel" should have another "l" in it. I'm such a fucking moron.
I used to post on a message board that was rife with people not being able to spel, punctuate, or use coherent grammar. I eventually posted the following message:
"This is not a fucking chat window, it is a message board where you have time to compose your thoughts. If your message is not important enough for you to spend the effort to type it correctly, then it is not important enough for me to read it."
Note where I said I "used" to post there. I was banned a couple months later. The board's 100% trash nowadays, all of the intelligent posters have been driven away.
Holy shit, I'm in the Twin Cities. Small world. I play drums for this band.
I wouldn't worry about posting a site in a comment, especially one a couple layers deep and not modded up. If you're still not gonna give me the site, at least tell me the name of the band and/or a gig you're playing.
Whenever I need to use some regex, I google for a regex reference and try to figure out how to do what I want to do. Then the next time I need to use regex, I have to do it again. I literally cannot hold regex in my head for more than a day or so.
Does your small-time garage band have a web site? I'm always interested in hearing local music.
How could he miss Foobar2000 for playing audio? It's simply the best media player out there, bar none.
93 Million Miles is the distance from the Earth to the nearest star.
1 AU is the mean radius of Earth's orbit. If you still haven't figured it out yet, I salute your stupidity.
Music is what comes out of the speakers, not what's done to produce what comes out of the speakers.
So the sound engineer at a concert is a musician because he's mixing the sound that comes out of the speakers? It's certainly a technical skill and an art that requires a good ear for the needs of the music, but that doesn't make him a musician.
So you're saying the turntable just uses an unconventional mode? Or maybe you want to classify it as percussion?
For the record, I don't classify unpitched percussion as a full instrument either, and drums are my primary instrument, out of drums, guitar, bass, and vocals. Also for the record, in case my blues comment misled you, I think blues is one of the least valid musical genres today, which should be evident if you ever go to a blues gig. Literally, two hours of the same three-chord progression in a couple different keys.
My view on percussion is that it only serves to provide an underlying rhythm that the rest of the ensemble can play over. A drum set serves as part of the music, and can be played musically, but a drum solo is not inherently musical. I have basically the same opinion about DJing. Saying that the output sounds like music, therefore it is, is completely ignoring the fact that the DJ didn't create anything, he just mixed a bunch of stuff together. It's like saying the sound engineer is a musician because music came out of his sound board. It's certainly something that requires technical skill and a ear toward the requirements of the music, but the musician is the one who creates something new and unique.
If a painting looks like a photograph, that doesn't make it a photograph. Just because you like looking at a photograph doesn't make it a painting. They're completely different forms of art. I appreciate DJing as a technical skill and as an art, but it's not music.
There's a difference. When I play a musical instrument, I am creating sound. I can play any chord progression or melody line or drum fill I want, by just playing it. DJing is manipulating sound that has already been recorded. While it is certainly a valid sonic art form, it's not music.
When I can tell a DJ to play a blues shuffle at 110 bpm in the key of A, I'll consider it a valid musical instrument.
I never said it wasn't a credible performance art form, I just said it wasn't music.
I agree with that, I just won't go as far as to call it music.
DJing isn't music. It's a guy taking a bunch of records that *other people made* and mixing them. Sonic artform, yes, music, no.
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I thought it was a Terry Pratchett reference. =P
500 k/sec. Thanks dude.
Take a few deep breaths, you'll get over it. In the meantime, I can spread some disinformation if you want. Hmmm...
The MPEG standard, knowing that porn tends to drive the industry, actually contains several optimizations for drawing things such as skin tones and nipples. Really.
Intensity actually takes most of the bandwidth of an MPEG stream, because human eyesight tends to notice changes in luminance more than changes in chroma. The chroma channels are compressed *extremely* heavily compared to the luma channel, and are actually even at a lower resolution.
There was never any intention to keep a standing army. The intention was to be able to form an army in times of war, then dissolve it again afterward.
I've always been interested in the notion of going completely to a property tax. It makes perfect sense if you say that the government already owns all the land by eminent domain and we're just renting it.
Not allowed in the army because you have an imagination? I guess they just want a bunch of unthinking drones to fill the ranks. I'm glad I'm not going to be in the Israeli army any time soon.
A web site is like a flyer that gets printed up every time the customer accesses it. That's the difference here. Presumably, if you changed all your prices you would have to change all of your in-store material such as menus and signage anyway, the web site is part of that.
Exactly why is a web site a special case from other forms of promotion and advertising?
Really? I'm quite the opposite. I simply can't stand the thumb models, they're just not precise enough. Thumbs aren't supposed to be precision instruments, that's why you say someone's "all thumbs" when they're clumsy. Some fingertip models aren't that good either, but where the Explorer stands out is a) a large ball, making precise movements easy and b) ergonomic so the ball fits naturally in your fingers. Most trackballs I see are suffering majorly in those departments.
I have seen that too, I have to regularly take the ball out and clean the insides.