Moreover, the user would only get one really long waiting session, instead of two (poweron to login, login to ready to use). This makes getting up and doing something else in that time more plausible, hence saving the user time.
(3) The toad can't burp - and for some reason can't fart either - so it swells up and eventually explodes.
That has to be the most delightfully disgusting thing I've heard all month.
3) Genetically-engineered organisms: Knee jerk reactions defines the environmental movement. If they haven't listened to real science thus far, what will convince them otherwise?
It is not inconcievable that there be unintended effects of have GMO's, for instance some resilient crop could become a super-weed, disrupting other species. I don't know if this is likely.
Nuclear power: Ethical scientists have already converged on this as a plausible renewable energy source.
I disagree. In the short term such a project could be ditributed like Debian is, with as (crippled) US version, and a worldwide version. I also doubt that every western country will get its own DMCA if thier citezens come into the know about it. You are overestimating the US's influence. Do you think China or the Arab coujntries (non-western, I concede) will get one any time soon? I don't.
I mod this video -1 unfunny. Even though it is usually a pleasure to see Cleese, even he can't breath life into this clinker. The only positive thing I can say is that it had nice production values. I want my seven minutes back. That earlier story about electrically-assisted microbial fuel cells that can be used to produce hydrogen from organic material was a knee-slapper by comparison.
Total agreement here. This ad is a cynical attempt to target IT geeks, under the assumption they all like Python (The comedy troupe, that is...), by rehashing old material (cf. fishes, animated collage, etc.). Even the parody of Clockwork Orange has been done to death before. I am dissappointed Cleese aGREED to this.
There are, but if you really can sing in tune, you'd be better off just entering in the notes yourself (if not by learning your intervals, then by trial and error). Any "singing-input" system is probably going to suck a lot. You can get lots of midi-sequencers free online.
Gould often "spliced" several takes together to make a sort of Frankenstein performance. So when you go to this concert, remember you are listening to a reproduction of a reconstruction of a recording of an imaginary performance played by a dead man. Cool.
Not sure what piano they're using, but the Yamaha Disklavier produces excellent reproductions. I know many professional musicians who cannot tell the difference between the original performance and its subsequent playback. It really does capture the nuance. Unfourtunately there are some silly limitations, like maximum 16 notes sounding at a time (discounting pedal tricks) and it uses floppy disks. Good enough for playing back a single human performance, but not, say for superimposing several, or playing "player piano" music. (Google for "Nancarrow" for example)
His refusal to play Legato (smoothly) upset the status quo of the classical music world. Leonard Berstein, legendary conductor of the New York Philarmonic, deferred to Gould's quirky redition of a work, suggesting that genius of Gould's level should be allowed leeway.
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Moreover, the user would only get one really long waiting session, instead of two (poweron to login, login to ready to use). This makes getting up and doing something else in that time more plausible, hence saving the user time.
I will use this as my sig unless grandparent AC objects
(3) The toad can't burp - and for some reason can't fart either - so it swells up and eventually explodes. That has to be the most delightfully disgusting thing I've heard all month.
Vive les DVDs libres!
Did I say the word "sellout"? Everyone needs to eat. I am a great admirer of his work, but I'm just saying this isn't his best
It is not inconcievable that there be unintended effects of have GMO's, for instance some resilient crop could become a super-weed, disrupting other species. I don't know if this is likely. Nuclear power: Ethical scientists have already converged on this as a plausible renewable energy source.
Renewable? No. Clean? It depends.
I disagree. In the short term such a project could be ditributed like Debian is, with as (crippled) US version, and a worldwide version. I also doubt that every western country will get its own DMCA if thier citezens come into the know about it. You are overestimating the US's influence. Do you think China or the Arab coujntries (non-western, I concede) will get one any time soon? I don't.
Total agreement here. This ad is a cynical attempt to target IT geeks, under the assumption they all like Python (The comedy troupe, that is...), by rehashing old material (cf. fishes, animated collage, etc.). Even the parody of Clockwork Orange has been done to death before. I am dissappointed Cleese aGREED to this.
no, just in the USA
There are, but if you really can sing in tune, you'd be better off just entering in the notes yourself (if not by learning your intervals, then by trial and error). Any "singing-input" system is probably going to suck a lot. You can get lots of midi-sequencers free online.
Gould often "spliced" several takes together to make a sort of Frankenstein performance. So when you go to this concert, remember you are listening to a reproduction of a reconstruction of a recording of an imaginary performance played by a dead man. Cool.
Not sure what piano they're using, but the Yamaha Disklavier produces excellent reproductions. I know many professional musicians who cannot tell the difference between the original performance and its subsequent playback. It really does capture the nuance. Unfourtunately there are some silly limitations, like maximum 16 notes sounding at a time (discounting pedal tricks) and it uses floppy disks. Good enough for playing back a single human performance, but not, say for superimposing several, or playing "player piano" music. (Google for "Nancarrow" for example)
What does this have to do with improvisation??!!
Yeah, but when you need that little extra kick, you can bring it up to 12!
Yeah, but that doesn't make sense ("why windows in the works"-- "what windows in the what??!!?"), and if it did, it wouldn't be funny.
Would you care to explain it for the slower-witted among us?
Sure, but other things are important other than the "business perspective".
Ironically, someone modded this "flamebait".
That is merely a symptom, not the disease. (ducks)
"I think we've largely sucked" ;)
I thought such treatments required huge quantities of donor blood, hence such a large price. Is this correct?
Aww nuts, I thought it was that other hereditary bleeding disorder.
FYI, 1.7.7
Chasitity belts!
But.... tigers don't have horns!