If John Howard thought he could win the next election by having sex on the lawn of Parliament House with the war criminal Philip Ruddock, he would be out there in a second. Howard persues his agenda (John Howard being Prime Minister of Australia) so ruthlessly that he is willing to lie and divide Australia to get votes.
Last election he got votes by telling home-owners that interest rates wouldn't go up if he won and that they would go up if he lost. He won, and they went up, because Australia's interest rates are pretty much tied to rates in the US. The pathetic opposition didn't call him on this and a whole lot of people believed him.
And he (for reasons known only to himself) thinks the sun shines out of Dubya's posterior. During one particularly nauseating trip to the US, someone back home called him an arselicker. It would have been funny if it wasn't so true. Then we followed Dubya right into Iraq.
Please excuse the rant. Eleven years of Howard as Prime Minister will do that one.
I agree. The melody and its harmonization both sound much later than the 15th century. I don't think it would stand serious analysis by someone who really knows their 15th century music.
I've listened to and studied a lot of medieval, renaissance and modern music, and it sounds like what a modern film composer might write for certain bits of a medieval film. To get technical:
The repeating three-note phrase uses begins with the note B over what is essentially an F chord. This didn't happen until about the 18th century.
At the very start of the video when just the trio is singing the word resonare, the final syllable is set to a unprepared dominant 7th chord, which was first used in the early 17th century.
Sodium hydroxide is produced by electrolysis (though if the Arabs could use it for making soap in the 7th century there may be other processes available). Heating something to 900 degrees also takes energy, which would have to be carbon neutral energy for the process not to be pointless. Hopefully the new sorbent uses less energy.
Sadly that is a very good point. After I get married, this fine desktop will probably be going wireless. Luckily when I want to play Warcraft, she'll probably be out, and I can get out my CAT5 cable.
Yes, what's with emailing passwords? My ISP, which I have few complaints otherwise, made me go through an arduous process to pick a password, then the modem arrived pre-configured with the password and the username and password printed out in their letter. It makes it easy for a beginner to configure but makes a mockery of secure passwords.
Or for a real acid test, write out the instructions as you would expect them to be in the published game, get some friends to play it with nothing but the instructions and video them. That's all the help someone buying the game will generally get.
If you're heavily involved with something, other people will miss things that seem blindingly obvious to you.
...if you're not moving around much, use a light little ethernet cable and save yourself all the hassle of wireless. It trumps wireless in speed, reliability and cost.
The only time I've seen an Imax 3D film, using goggles that block one eye as alternate frames are displayed on the screen, I had a huge headache after the 45 minute featurette. It was very immersive though.
Yesterday I researched some informal spoken introductions to music about angels, using Wikipedia as virtually my only source. The article on angels included perspectives from at least five religions, and the individual articles on cherubim, seraphim, archangels and ordinary angels all included qualifications if there was any dispute. For example, Michael, generally known as an archangel is also listed as a notable cherub and as a seraph. Rather than being wrong, I think this reflects the many (not necessarily consistant) perspectives in angelology.
I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a source about Dubya, but then, he's no angel!
However some exceptions will apply to educational institutions and libraries, where an access control TPM damages a product or is obsolete, lost or damaged, and will not apply to region code controls, according to Minter Ellison.
Wow, someone in the government has bought a DVD player!
The brain also seems to have a 'hard restart'. When I was hit by a car and spun in the air, I remember flying but not landing. My friend saw me still for a couple of seconds, then I shuddered or had convusions that woke me up, as if a general 'move' command was being sent to every muscle in my body.
Later in hospital I was dozing and had a flashback. I saw a violent flash, then the same shuddering or convulsing woke me up. It was as if the brain was protecting me from the trauma of the landing, but keeping me alert afterwards for whatever else might happen.
Sorry, this may or may not have anything to do with the thalmus and nitrous oxide, but I've always wondered about it.
Incentivation was a word bandied about Australian political circles for a while. I can hardly believe it began 19 years ago, but I remember the word got short shrift from anyone who cared about the English language.
My employer (I'm an audio engineer) has an old pair of infrared headphones. Nice idea, but if you move your head too much the wrong way you get interference or dropouts. Plus they add an extra AD-DA conversion to the audio chain.
Just recently I've been fooling around with a borrowed Airport Express to listen to iTunes in the kitchen. It may be slightly faulty equipment, but it seems to require a lot of attention to get it going and keep it going. I haven't been able to show them off to anyone as they don't get working within the average patience threshold.
Given that RF signals can also effect improperly shielded analog speakers, I don't imagine there'll be cheap high-end wireless speakers around for a while, at least where the hassle of getting them working is less than the hassle of doing a bit of wiring.
Yes, form can be a good indicator of overall quality. One thing I do is look up choral music made publicly available on the Choral Public Domain Library. There might be two or more editions of the same piece, and I'll choose the one that looks better, just because someone who cares about the look of their score is probably more likely to care that they've got all the notes right (and giving a bad score to a choir wastes a lot of time). It's not always the case, but when you have nothing else to base your decision on, the look can give an indication of how much care has been put into its production.
Now if only Apple would use better internal optical drives...
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Oooh... Muffy wants one please!
If John Howard thought he could win the next election by having sex on the lawn of Parliament House with the war criminal Philip Ruddock, he would be out there in a second. Howard persues his agenda (John Howard being Prime Minister of Australia) so ruthlessly that he is willing to lie and divide Australia to get votes.
Last election he got votes by telling home-owners that interest rates wouldn't go up if he won and that they would go up if he lost. He won, and they went up, because Australia's interest rates are pretty much tied to rates in the US. The pathetic opposition didn't call him on this and a whole lot of people believed him.
And he (for reasons known only to himself) thinks the sun shines out of Dubya's posterior. During one particularly nauseating trip to the US, someone back home called him an arselicker. It would have been funny if it wasn't so true. Then we followed Dubya right into Iraq.
Please excuse the rant. Eleven years of Howard as Prime Minister will do that one.
Yes, I made my hat out of it!
I agree. The melody and its harmonization both sound much later than the 15th century. I don't think it would stand serious analysis by someone who really knows their 15th century music.
I've listened to and studied a lot of medieval, renaissance and modern music, and it sounds like what a modern film composer might write for certain bits of a medieval film. To get technical:
- The repeating three-note phrase uses begins with the note B over what is essentially an F chord. This didn't happen until about the 18th century.
- At the very start of the video when just the trio is singing the word resonare, the final syllable is set to a unprepared dominant 7th chord, which was first used in the early 17th century.
- Once the string pads enter it sounds more like Arvo Pärt than John Dunstaple.
-Sodium hydroxide is produced by electrolysis (though if the Arabs could use it for making soap in the 7th century there may be other processes available). Heating something to 900 degrees also takes energy, which would have to be carbon neutral energy for the process not to be pointless. Hopefully the new sorbent uses less energy.
Men for example. Though I'm getting married soon, so maybe I'll be a responsible 36 year old. There's always hope.
I wonder if these posts will make stop your penis enlargement ads and start sending me superannuation stuff.
An admirable ideal, sir, but all the people who phone and message while they're driving probably won't buy it.
Sadly that is a very good point. After I get married, this fine desktop will probably be going wireless. Luckily when I want to play Warcraft, she'll probably be out, and I can get out my CAT5 cable.
My bad, that was my /.ModerationFS implementation.
Yes, what's with emailing passwords? My ISP, which I have few complaints otherwise, made me go through an arduous process to pick a password, then the modem arrived pre-configured with the password and the username and password printed out in their letter. It makes it easy for a beginner to configure but makes a mockery of secure passwords.
Yes, I don't think I'd be ready for it.
But then a bad day on the WoW trade channel has me despairing for the human race.
Brings a new meaning to the word "instantly"...
Or for a real acid test, write out the instructions as you would expect them to be in the published game, get some friends to play it with nothing but the instructions and video them. That's all the help someone buying the game will generally get.
If you're heavily involved with something, other people will miss things that seem blindingly obvious to you.
...if you're not moving around much, use a light little ethernet cable and save yourself all the hassle of wireless. It trumps wireless in speed, reliability and cost.
Ummm... running Word on Vista maybe?
The only time I've seen an Imax 3D film, using goggles that block one eye as alternate frames are displayed on the screen, I had a huge headache after the 45 minute featurette. It was very immersive though.
I think that once there are tweakable libraries of textures that are useable by artists, procedural textureing will really take off.
Ummm... the all-expenses paid business trip to Las Vegas? ;-)
Yesterday I researched some informal spoken introductions to music about angels, using Wikipedia as virtually my only source. The article on angels included perspectives from at least five religions, and the individual articles on cherubim, seraphim, archangels and ordinary angels all included qualifications if there was any dispute. For example, Michael, generally known as an archangel is also listed as a notable cherub and as a seraph. Rather than being wrong, I think this reflects the many (not necessarily consistant) perspectives in angelology.
I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a source about Dubya, but then, he's no angel!
Wow, someone in the government has bought a DVD player!
The brain also seems to have a 'hard restart'. When I was hit by a car and spun in the air, I remember flying but not landing. My friend saw me still for a couple of seconds, then I shuddered or had convusions that woke me up, as if a general 'move' command was being sent to every muscle in my body.
Later in hospital I was dozing and had a flashback. I saw a violent flash, then the same shuddering or convulsing woke me up. It was as if the brain was protecting me from the trauma of the landing, but keeping me alert afterwards for whatever else might happen.
Sorry, this may or may not have anything to do with the thalmus and nitrous oxide, but I've always wondered about it.
Incentivation was a word bandied about Australian political circles for a while. I can hardly believe it began 19 years ago, but I remember the word got short shrift from anyone who cared about the English language.
My employer (I'm an audio engineer) has an old pair of infrared headphones. Nice idea, but if you move your head too much the wrong way you get interference or dropouts. Plus they add an extra AD-DA conversion to the audio chain.
Just recently I've been fooling around with a borrowed Airport Express to listen to iTunes in the kitchen. It may be slightly faulty equipment, but it seems to require a lot of attention to get it going and keep it going. I haven't been able to show them off to anyone as they don't get working within the average patience threshold.
Given that RF signals can also effect improperly shielded analog speakers, I don't imagine there'll be cheap high-end wireless speakers around for a while, at least where the hassle of getting them working is less than the hassle of doing a bit of wiring.
Yes, form can be a good indicator of overall quality. One thing I do is look up choral music made publicly available on the Choral Public Domain Library. There might be two or more editions of the same piece, and I'll choose the one that looks better, just because someone who cares about the look of their score is probably more likely to care that they've got all the notes right (and giving a bad score to a choir wastes a lot of time). It's not always the case, but when you have nothing else to base your decision on, the look can give an indication of how much care has been put into its production.
Now if only Apple would use better internal optical drives...