The comparison of a guitar to a sine wave is absurd. Besides, the MIDI specification allows for 127 levels of volume (key velocity) in addition to the ability to manipulate and filter the audio after synthesis.
And it is VERY easy to dynamically adjust tempo of synthesized music. If it's being synthesized in real-time, simply change the rate at which the note-on and note-off messages are sent. It's as easy as dynamically adjusting say the speed of a car in a driving game. In addition to that, modern digital signal processing techniques allow you to alter the speed of the audio while retaining the original pitch.
I've got a sample CD made with this synth, and it can make some very complex and interesting tones. Game systems used to have character and personality based on what sounds their hardware could produce. Now they just seem to be used as a CD player and a straightforward sampler.
were actually linked to by the SAME image in thumbnail, as opposed to having thumbnails that link to completely different pics most of the time. You'd think they'd proofread or something.
It's as if I tried to create "beer culture" or "vodka culture" or maybe "swiss cheese culture" and pass it off as a valid lifestyle choice.
Yeah, like "music culture" or "computer culture" or how about "surfer culture". Utterly invalid.
How dare you get people with a common interest together and call it a culture?
Many are showing their ignorance on the subject
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They think drugs are something that bad people do in back alleys somewhere. They probably killed someone to get their fix. They've been told that rational, reasonable, responsible people could never use recreational substances on occasion without turning into homocidal maniacs.
It's pretty sad, really.
Glad to see you've been indoctrinated
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with the same ol' propogandist bullshit they've been spewing since the beginning of the War on (some) Drugs. Your brainwashing is now complete, you can move on.
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Don't use Promise, for one thing
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Promise and Highpoint (and any other cheap raid card) in my experience are no more than an IDE card with RAID software that eats up CPU cycles. Recovery options for a lost drive member are usually limited and unreliable. If you want reasonable reliability, go with one of the drives that uses SCSI hardware adapted to an SATA interface (such as WD Raptor). I would personally recommend Adaptec for your host controller needs, as they do the RAID in hardware.
but I run my own domains. If I don't make a big online publicity push, don't publish my email addresses, and don't list my page with any directories or search engines, it will at very least take much longer for them to find my address. If it takes them six months to get ahold of me, I'm 50% less likely to get spam the first year.
However, if I add one email address from my domain, they then have another domain name against which to run a dictionary attack.
Depending on your level of web presence, there's a much greater chance they/won't/ have your email address if you don't send it to them in a list. At the very least, a new domain will take longer for them to locate and try dictionary attacks against than if they have your domain name provided to them.
That was the first game I played for the PS, and it was a great one. The graphics were great, and the cartoonish gameplay was a lot of fun after you get used to it.
DJing is the artform of presenting and combining songs in new ways, setting the mood and telling a story with music (not to mention turntablism). If you just want to pick a song and have it played at your command, buy a Wurlitzer.
Absolutely NOBODY is preventing this guy from running whatever server he wants to.
You're right. I was commenting on the grandparent's assertion that the best way to deal with the situation if you don't like it is to take the ISP's advice and just not send your own mail (without relaying through their servers). I think a better approach is to swithch to an ISP that gives a crap about your blacklist status, and might even help you get off it.
There's obviously no real hinderance to free speech, but I just feel that responsible people should be allowed to run whatever servers they want to. The DIY nature of the internet is part of what makes it great, and running your own server is one of the best ways to learn configuration and administration skills.
There are ISPs like Speakeasy that let their customers run servers and even resell their bandwidth. I'd just rather switch to one of them than be complacent to yet another restriction the mainstream providers want put on our access to gain a little convenience on their end.
Is that what the Internet has become? Forget free speech and the ability to be an independant voice? It's not like that would even make an impact on spam, since most of it comes from China anyway. What exactly constitutes a "full on mail hub" and someone "pretending to be a full on mail hub", and who are you to make that distinction?
The parent (I meant to post as a reply to the existing reply) implied that they concede the fact that firewall rulesets with Linux and iptables are so unwieldy that a GUI interface is required, but still asserted that this is superior to pf which is easily manageable via a text session.
I don't honestly believe you think I was advocating replacing an OpenBSD firewall with a Windows machine under any circumstances. Windows ISA Server is by far the worst firewall I've ever had the misfortune of deploying.
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It's another way of digitally representing an analog audio signal. In fact, it's of significantly less resolution and quality than vinyl.
The comparison of a guitar to a sine wave is absurd. Besides, the MIDI specification allows for 127 levels of volume (key velocity) in addition to the ability to manipulate and filter the audio after synthesis.
And it is VERY easy to dynamically adjust tempo of synthesized music. If it's being synthesized in real-time, simply change the rate at which the note-on and note-off messages are sent. It's as easy as dynamically adjusting say the speed of a car in a driving game. In addition to that, modern digital signal processing techniques allow you to alter the speed of the audio while retaining the original pitch.
http://www.sidstation.com/
I've got a sample CD made with this synth, and it can make some very complex and interesting tones. Game systems used to have character and personality based on what sounds their hardware could produce. Now they just seem to be used as a CD player and a straightforward sampler.
were actually linked to by the SAME image in thumbnail, as opposed to having thumbnails that link to completely different pics most of the time. You'd think they'd proofread or something.
Boring scenery where every screen looked the same, boring castles where every room looked the same, boring music that, well, you know.
My dad actually spent the weeks required to beat the game, but I never saw the point.
Yeah, like "music culture" or "computer culture" or how about "surfer culture". Utterly invalid.
How dare you get people with a common interest together and call it a culture?
They think drugs are something that bad people do in back alleys somewhere. They probably killed someone to get their fix. They've been told that rational, reasonable, responsible people could never use recreational substances on occasion without turning into homocidal maniacs.
It's pretty sad, really.
with the same ol' propogandist bullshit they've been spewing since the beginning of the War on (some) Drugs. Your brainwashing is now complete, you can move on.
clue:(Tech Itch is the name of a drum n bass producer)
Promise and Highpoint (and any other cheap raid card) in my experience are no more than an IDE card with RAID software that eats up CPU cycles. Recovery options for a lost drive member are usually limited and unreliable. If you want reasonable reliability, go with one of the drives that uses SCSI hardware adapted to an SATA interface (such as WD Raptor). I would personally recommend Adaptec for your host controller needs, as they do the RAID in hardware.
If you're going to go that route.
but I run my own domains. If I don't make a big online publicity push, don't publish my email addresses, and don't list my page with any directories or search engines, it will at very least take much longer for them to find my address. If it takes them six months to get ahold of me, I'm 50% less likely to get spam the first year.
However, if I add one email address from my domain, they then have another domain name against which to run a dictionary attack.
Depending on your level of web presence, there's a much greater chance they /won't/ have your email address if you don't send it to them in a list. At the very least, a new domain will take longer for them to locate and try dictionary attacks against than if they have your domain name provided to them.
Don't hand the spammers what would probably be the worlds largest distribution list on a silver platter.
Had I known that installing both these packages would cause a new version release the next day, I would have done it much sooner.
Time to go wash my car.
It's got the info it needs, and that's all. Must be a member of the Bandwidth Conservation Society. Fine with me.
That was the first game I played for the PS, and it was a great one. The graphics were great, and the cartoonish gameplay was a lot of fun after you get used to it.
DJing is the artform of presenting and combining songs in new ways, setting the mood and telling a story with music (not to mention turntablism). If you just want to pick a song and have it played at your command, buy a Wurlitzer.
Absolutely NOBODY is preventing this guy from running whatever server he wants to. You're right. I was commenting on the grandparent's assertion that the best way to deal with the situation if you don't like it is to take the ISP's advice and just not send your own mail (without relaying through their servers). I think a better approach is to swithch to an ISP that gives a crap about your blacklist status, and might even help you get off it.
There's obviously no real hinderance to free speech, but I just feel that responsible people should be allowed to run whatever servers they want to. The DIY nature of the internet is part of what makes it great, and running your own server is one of the best ways to learn configuration and administration skills.
There are ISPs like Speakeasy that let their customers run servers and even resell their bandwidth. I'd just rather switch to one of them than be complacent to yet another restriction the mainstream providers want put on our access to gain a little convenience on their end.
Is that what the Internet has become? Forget free speech and the ability to be an independant voice? It's not like that would even make an impact on spam, since most of it comes from China anyway. What exactly constitutes a "full on mail hub" and someone "pretending to be a full on mail hub", and who are you to make that distinction?
Afterhours, of course.
It's the techniques, not Technics.
The parent (I meant to post as a reply to the existing reply) implied that they concede the fact that firewall rulesets with Linux and iptables are so unwieldy that a GUI interface is required, but still asserted that this is superior to pf which is easily manageable via a text session.
I don't honestly believe you think I was advocating replacing an OpenBSD firewall with a Windows machine under any circumstances. Windows ISA Server is by far the worst firewall I've ever had the misfortune of deploying.