Well no, I'm just tired of people saying that "midi is so bad it sounds socrap it suxx". In fact, it does kind of suck.. but for wholly different reasons, and it's still very usable. Sorry for the flames, maybe I should find some lowly flameforum and torch the place.
Could you people please stop talking about midi as an instrument, a sound format, or anything of the sort. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. Use.mid+soundfont if you want to suggest something usable, but otherwise you sound like an idiot. MIDI is a protocol for triggering events, that can also be recorded into a file, known as a.mid file. It does NOT, I repeat, it does NOT produce any sound.
It is similar to a mod only if you have a mod devoid of any samples or soft synthesizers. It is not similar to a file containing Super Nintendo music, because that file is played by a SNES sound chip emulator. The only way to reproduce it with midi is to create a soundfont with all the possible sounds that a SNES can produce. And there is nothing like "basic" or "low class midi", there is only "basic soundfonts", "low class synths", or "mediocre samples". If you think your midi files sound bad, it's your own business. Change that Microsoft soft synth to something else. So there. [/rant]
My japanese phone allows me to select between these sounds:
A classic clunky camera sound
A kind of kchick-bzzzt-motor sound
A variety of voices: "say cheese! 'click'", or "Action! 'click'"
All of these sounds are kind of loud-ish, but not ear-damaging. They certainly can be easily heard if you want to shoot up someones skirt (no personal experience). Hut, well.. if you want to cover up the sound from it, you'll cover up your ringing sounds as well. And even if you put tape over it, the whole body of the phone still resonates with it, it's part of the design.
Well that's the thing isn't it. The Nullsoft developers, had the ability, and had a clue. That's why Winamp is good.
[disclaimer]I haven't used Freeamp in a while now..[/disclaimer]..but last time I used it, I ended up going back to winamp again (2.8 as it was). Since then, winamp has just gotten better, more polished, and they even fixed all the crap that came with version 3. So how would it be a bad idea to continue on a seriously good player? Why would it be a better idea to choose something which is not yet at the stage that winamp has achieved? Hell, in it's current state, you could just re-create the plugins in open source, plonk the original binary in an emulator, and there you go.. already close! (at least in simple terms)
Ah, damn. I thought there was something missing in my scenario.. too quick to post:)
Re:Solution: You authorise the bank first
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Sure, I'd say that's good enough, but someone could still check you account balance whenever he wants. (I'm assuming the login thing never changes) In my case, you need the one-time pass even before that, and the paper they come on can be folded and put in the wallet too:). After doing your business, you confirm with a pass from a second list, that you can store separately if you want.. you could for example do all money transfers from one location, and then confirm everything from another computer/city/country entirely. I don't know if knowing the balance is a significant risk of anything though..
What the hell? My Real-World bank gives me encrypted communications, works perfectly in any browser, although they recommend the lates version that supports SSL (obviously). Hell, they even say that if you're behind a slow connection, Opera would be the best alternative. The pages use Javascript, but don't require it. AND, I have a long list of one-time login passwords, complemented by a bunch of reusable confirmation passwords (that I could memorize if I really wanted, but they change with every list of login passswords). And the login ID is not connected to my name, my account numbers, or anything related to me, it is random, as far as I'm concerned. The server OS is BSD. So there. The only question mark is the server itself, Netcraft says it's running TANTAU Application Server/2.1.1. Googling for it doesn't return much, seems like a custom job... does anyone know what it is?
Re:Solution: You authorise the bank first
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Good point, but suppose this happens:
Your DNS, or the DNS for your area, is hijacked, and everybody who use that DNS is called up and told to log on to their bank in order to do something important?
Second solution is: One-time passwords. I have a long list of login passwords and confirmation passwords, and a numerical customer ID known only to me. When they start running low, I can easily get a new one (mailed to me). So what if I happen to login to some fake site? The worst that can happen is that I waste some time and a little bandwidth, since they can't do anything with only one part out of three (the ID), and anything I do with the fake stuff won't happen anyway. Besides, I'd be mighty suspicious if the balance of the account(s) isn't correct, since that is what I see the moment I login.
There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."
But weapons escalate the dangerousness of men... I find this whole discussion quite amusing and scary at the same time. I live in the North of Europe, and I hope I never have to see some of the guys who post some of the things I've read here. What I'm interested in is: if the person robbing your home is unlikely to carry a weapon in the first place, what's the point in having a gun yourself? (as opposed to any long-ish heavy object). That is: why do everybody assume that the criminal WILL have a weapon? Is this the norm in the US? I know of the slightly dubious facts in "Bowling for Columbine", but it does seem like fear drives the whole gun-thing in America.
More detail please. Why does this prohibit efficient paper-voting? I can perfectly understand the advantage of voting with a dynamic touch-screen interface. That's something worthy of this century. But why are papers unreliable to count? If anything, they should be MORE reliable, now that all ballots will be valid, without hanging chads, without unclearly written stuff on it, without you-name-it.
Various dictionaries say: "A small natural or artificial satellite." So how is it different from an asteroid? According to google results they seem to be associated with Saturns rings, and Wikipeia is silent... astronomers, please fill in information here: ____________
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Well no, I'm just tired of people saying that "midi is so bad it sounds socrap it suxx". In fact, it does kind of suck.. but for wholly different reasons, and it's still very usable. Sorry for the flames, maybe I should find some lowly flameforum and torch the place.
Not the bird that's been sunbathing on my roof for the last 7 years.
That's interesting.. have you ever seen a live e xample of that AAC lossless encoding?
Also, certainly iTunes can be flexible, if you say so, but WinAmp is moreso. I mean, how could it get MORE flexible than it already is?
Could you people please stop talking about midi as an instrument, a sound format, or anything of the sort. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. Use .mid+soundfont if you want to suggest something usable, but otherwise you sound like an idiot. MIDI is a protocol for triggering events, that can also be recorded into a file, known as a .mid file. It does NOT, I repeat, it does NOT produce any sound.
It is similar to a mod only if you have a mod devoid of any samples or soft synthesizers. It is not similar to a file containing Super Nintendo music, because that file is played by a SNES sound chip emulator. The only way to reproduce it with midi is to create a soundfont with all the possible sounds that a SNES can produce. And there is nothing like "basic" or "low class midi", there is only "basic soundfonts", "low class synths", or "mediocre samples". If you think your midi files sound bad, it's your own business. Change that Microsoft soft synth to something else. So there. [/rant]
But winamp has ogg support too! What version are you dragging along?
All of these sounds are kind of loud-ish, but not ear-damaging. They certainly can be easily heard if you want to shoot up someones skirt (no personal experience). Hut, well.. if you want to cover up the sound from it, you'll cover up your ringing sounds as well. And even if you put tape over it, the whole body of the phone still resonates with it, it's part of the design.
What the hell is that??
Let me guess: The law of inevitable commercialization of any popular event (such as christmas), aka the Santa clause. Sure, I believe in that!
Hey, almost a good haiku. That's the first time ever... you just need to work on the "whistles softly", too constructed there.
Why would a recount automatically help Kerry?
Hold on, I'll download that license and check it out...
Oh, I can't find it except if I download it attached to a windows cd-image.. well, ok then.
Well that's the thing isn't it. The Nullsoft developers, had the ability, and had a clue. That's why Winamp is good. ..but last time I used it, I ended up going back to winamp again (2.8 as it was). Since then, winamp has just gotten better, more polished, and they even fixed all the crap that came with version 3. So how would it be a bad idea to continue on a seriously good player? Why would it be a better idea to choose something which is not yet at the stage that winamp has achieved? Hell, in it's current state, you could just re-create the plugins in open source, plonk the original binary in an emulator, and there you go.. already close! (at least in simple terms)
[disclaimer]I haven't used Freeamp in a while now..[/disclaimer]
Ah, damn. I thought there was something missing in my scenario.. too quick to post :)
Sure, I'd say that's good enough, but someone could still check you account balance whenever he wants. (I'm assuming the login thing never changes) In my case, you need the one-time pass even before that, and the paper they come on can be folded and put in the wallet too :). After doing your business, you confirm with a pass from a second list, that you can store separately if you want.. you could for example do all money transfers from one location, and then confirm everything from another computer/city/country entirely. I don't know if knowing the balance is a significant risk of anything though..
What the hell? My Real-World bank gives me encrypted communications, works perfectly in any browser, although they recommend the lates version that supports SSL (obviously). Hell, they even say that if you're behind a slow connection, Opera would be the best alternative. The pages use Javascript, but don't require it. AND, I have a long list of one-time login passwords, complemented by a bunch of reusable confirmation passwords (that I could memorize if I really wanted, but they change with every list of login passswords). And the login ID is not connected to my name, my account numbers, or anything related to me, it is random, as far as I'm concerned. The server OS is BSD. So there. The only question mark is the server itself, Netcraft says it's running TANTAU Application Server/2.1.1. Googling for it doesn't return much, seems like a custom job... does anyone know what it is?
Good point, but suppose this happens:
Your DNS, or the DNS for your area, is hijacked, and everybody who use that DNS is called up and told to log on to their bank in order to do something important?
Second solution is:
One-time passwords. I have a long list of login passwords and confirmation passwords, and a numerical customer ID known only to me. When they start running low, I can easily get a new one (mailed to me). So what if I happen to login to some fake site? The worst that can happen is that I waste some time and a little bandwidth, since they can't do anything with only one part out of three (the ID), and anything I do with the fake stuff won't happen anyway. Besides, I'd be mighty suspicious if the balance of the account(s) isn't correct, since that is what I see the moment I login.
There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."
But weapons escalate the dangerousness of men... I find this whole discussion quite amusing and scary at the same time. I live in the North of Europe, and I hope I never have to see some of the guys who post some of the things I've read here. What I'm interested in is: if the person robbing your home is unlikely to carry a weapon in the first place, what's the point in having a gun yourself? (as opposed to any long-ish heavy object). That is: why do everybody assume that the criminal WILL have a weapon? Is this the norm in the US? I know of the slightly dubious facts in "Bowling for Columbine", but it does seem like fear drives the whole gun-thing in America.
What the hell is DRMA? Is it a multi-winged demon-combination materialized from our worst nightmares: the Digital Rights Management Act??
"Do you know how much debt the average American is in"
2900$
No, the point is that now it's really easy to pay for that Simply Red concert ticket. That's what they say, man!
I can trade it for Coating of Protection +2.
More detail please. Why does this prohibit efficient paper-voting? I can perfectly understand the advantage of voting with a dynamic touch-screen interface. That's something worthy of this century. But why are papers unreliable to count? If anything, they should be MORE reliable, now that all ballots will be valid, without hanging chads, without unclearly written stuff on it, without you-name-it.
You're all wrong.
I did it!
..And speaking of that, has anyone else noticed the ugly worm crawling towards the US flag on the main page? Ominous sign?
Ok, but are they really moons then? SHouldn't they be called moonlets?
Various dictionaries say: "A small natural or artificial satellite." So how is it different from an asteroid? According to google results they seem to be associated with Saturns rings, and Wikipeia is silent... astronomers, please fill in information here: ____________