Yes, you do follow the highs more... you might call it "melody.":) (I know, melody is not always in the highest part...)
But, at least culturally, western music seems to enjoy a full and robust sound. We seem to always have bass instruments... even in a lot of folk music.
Ever been to a symphonic concert? Or wind ensemble concert? Or any "classical" music concert (non-amplified)? Or a pipe organ in a cathedral?
I think I know what the bass-obsession people are after. There's a certain energetic feeling to a strong, powerfully present bass. It gets the air... and your chair, and you... vibrating.
Unfortunately, I don't think most sound systems can do what the large group of acoustic instruments can do. I think you hit on one part of it - the modern speakers aren't big enough. My dad also has some old speakers... not quite up to my neck, but enough to fill a cupboard or use as an end table. They sound good, have good lows, and generally have a nice presence.
All that to say... I think there's something to be said for trying to replicate the sound you get in live acoustic concerts. You can really get a large and energetic sound that just doesn't get easily replicated with the modern sound systems.
Ever been to a symphonic concert? Or wind ensemble concert? Or any "classical" music concert (non-amplified)? Or a pipe organ in a cathedral?
I think I know what the bass-obsession people are after. There's a certain energetic feeling to a strong, powerfully present bass. It gets the air... and your chair, and you... vibrating.
Assuming the parent *already* gave his kid a cell phone... what's wrong with the research about said usage? The kid is already using it, wouldn't it just be measuring the results? And if you don't want to give your kid a cell phone, it would still just be measuring the results. It doesn't seem like the study is asking them to do anything different than normal cell phone usage, which they very likely are already doing. Granted, I'm not sure of their actual methods... but since they are trying to find a link or absence of a link between, I assume, normal cell phone usage...
I've had the new market for I think about a two weeks now... it was released I think on July 12th. It wasn't exactly "quiet" (I heard about it the day-of), nor was there any great fanfare.
My house had a variety of DIY stuff - as well as contracted stuff - done to it. It was originally built as a cabin I guess, in the 50s. Most of the funny things kinda make sense, and some of them are cosmetic issues - e.g., the door frame.... gah, I'm totally blanking out on the name, but it's like "baseboard" for the door frame:P - is on crooked. Or, instead of pulling up the linoleum from the 70s, they put particle board + carpet on top and shaved off the bottoms of the doors.
The most baffling one so far, though, is a plumbing one. There's a hose bib attached to the hot water (and only the hot water) line under the sink. Someone thought perhaps it was for a portable dishwasher, but that would require hot and cold, and there's on extra valves on the cold, just one for the sink faucet (well, now another one; put in an under-sink RO system so had to get a dual 3/8" connection in).
We also use the passive voice. "We had the wall replaced" or "we had a leak and had it fixed." Just like I say that I "took my car in for an oil change" not "I changed the oil." Although, sometimes "Yes, I changed the oil last week" slips out, but we all understand that I did NOT change the oil and would not know how to.
I'm a Christian. Pretty conservative one, too, though perhaps not in the typical use of the term.
"Oslo guy" was evil; I don't care which religion he subscribed too. Out of curiosity, was this a knee-jerk reaction comment, or have some Christian groups actually said he wasn't evil?
As a collection of humans, we learn more and know more. Perhaps more knowledge is now necessary to be generically knowledgeable about things in general.
Did I learn super focused job skills with my BSc in Computer Science? No. Did I learn? Yes. Was it useful? Yes, it has been.
Did I learn super focused job skills with my BM in Theory and Composition? No. Did I learn? Yes, tons. Was it useful? Yes, very. Not for my money-making job... but there's more to life than making money.
Not to mention that many android tablets, the early ones, aren't running Honeycomb either. I have a Viewsonic G Tablet and it's running 2.2 and probably won't be running Honeycomb for a while. One million Honeycomb tablets isn't that bad, since HC didn't come out *that* long ago.
I suppose they could have exported to HTML and JS, yes. But isn't that getting to, basically, a PDF vs. word-processor-format (whether open or MS's or word perfect....) issue? Perhaps thise format allows you to control better what it looks like on the other side, without constantly monitoring what browsers and HTML standards are doing...
I don't know. Is it totally useful, the best thing since UNIX? No. But I don't think it's "just another standard" that does what everything else does. It seems like it has the potential to do what it's aiming to do better than other solutions...
From what I read, it looks like they want to do more than *just* interactive graphs... yes, it's possible to do it in html5. On the other hand, it seems harder to control how it looks when you're doing javascript (and I hope you don't have noscript installed...), when you have to deal with whether the person is going to be using IE as opposed to Firefox, all those sorts of things web people run into all the time. Still.
It seems like this is a PDF vs. *insert document format here, like.doc,.rt,.txt, etc*. PDF does allow you to more or less make sure you know what it's going to look like on the other end.
And you really are surprised that these people are listening to McCain?
If we take the number of people who shoot themselves in the calf and have them all vote for McCain, he probably won't get elected.
I disagreed with McCain on a number of things, but he actually seemed to be one of the more straightforward and willing-to-compromise/work-with-the-other-side politicians.
"I'm not religious, therefore you need to play by my non-religious rules."
"But I am religious, so why do you get to make the rules?"
"But religious are all a crock!"
So in other words, it comes down to a "I think they're fake" vs. "I think mine is real" argument.
If anything "should" be happening, this Pastafarian guy should quit lying that he actually believes this, if he even says that to begin with. I'm assuming what I am reading is true, that he is doing this on purpose to prove a point. That would solve this particular problem.
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Yes, you do follow the highs more... you might call it "melody." :) (I know, melody is not always in the highest part...)
But, at least culturally, western music seems to enjoy a full and robust sound. We seem to always have bass instruments... even in a lot of folk music.
Ever been to a symphonic concert? Or wind ensemble concert? Or any "classical" music concert (non-amplified)? Or a pipe organ in a cathedral?
I think I know what the bass-obsession people are after. There's a certain energetic feeling to a strong, powerfully present bass. It gets the air ... and your chair, and you ... vibrating.
Unfortunately, I don't think most sound systems can do what the large group of acoustic instruments can do. I think you hit on one part of it - the modern speakers aren't big enough. My dad also has some old speakers... not quite up to my neck, but enough to fill a cupboard or use as an end table. They sound good, have good lows, and generally have a nice presence.
All that to say ... I think there's something to be said for trying to replicate the sound you get in live acoustic concerts. You can really get a large and energetic sound that just doesn't get easily replicated with the modern sound systems.
Ever been to a symphonic concert? Or wind ensemble concert? Or any "classical" music concert (non-amplified)? Or a pipe organ in a cathedral?
I think I know what the bass-obsession people are after. There's a certain energetic feeling to a strong, powerfully present bass. It gets the air ... and your chair, and you ... vibrating.
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Assuming the parent *already* gave his kid a cell phone... what's wrong with the research about said usage? The kid is already using it, wouldn't it just be measuring the results? And if you don't want to give your kid a cell phone, it would still just be measuring the results. It doesn't seem like the study is asking them to do anything different than normal cell phone usage, which they very likely are already doing. Granted, I'm not sure of their actual methods... but since they are trying to find a link or absence of a link between, I assume, normal cell phone usage ...
Yes, the court does is griefing real life. ;)
I hereby apologize to the entire internet
I, the Internet, in the absence of Al Gore, accept your apology.
;)
I've had the new market for I think about a two weeks now... it was released I think on July 12th. It wasn't exactly "quiet" (I heard about it the day-of), nor was there any great fanfare.
My house had a variety of DIY stuff - as well as contracted stuff - done to it. It was originally built as a cabin I guess, in the 50s. Most of the funny things kinda make sense, and some of them are cosmetic issues - e.g., the door frame .... gah, I'm totally blanking out on the name, but it's like "baseboard" for the door frame :P - is on crooked. Or, instead of pulling up the linoleum from the 70s, they put particle board + carpet on top and shaved off the bottoms of the doors.
The most baffling one so far, though, is a plumbing one. There's a hose bib attached to the hot water (and only the hot water) line under the sink. Someone thought perhaps it was for a portable dishwasher, but that would require hot and cold, and there's on extra valves on the cold, just one for the sink faucet (well, now another one; put in an under-sink RO system so had to get a dual 3/8" connection in).
We also use the passive voice. "We had the wall replaced" or "we had a leak and had it fixed." Just like I say that I "took my car in for an oil change" not "I changed the oil." Although, sometimes "Yes, I changed the oil last week" slips out, but we all understand that I did NOT change the oil and would not know how to.
I'm a Christian. Pretty conservative one, too, though perhaps not in the typical use of the term.
"Oslo guy" was evil; I don't care which religion he subscribed too. Out of curiosity, was this a knee-jerk reaction comment, or have some Christian groups actually said he wasn't evil?
Wow. :)
As a collection of humans, we learn more and know more. Perhaps more knowledge is now necessary to be generically knowledgeable about things in general.
Did I learn super focused job skills with my BSc in Computer Science? No. Did I learn? Yes. Was it useful? Yes, it has been.
Did I learn super focused job skills with my BM in Theory and Composition? No. Did I learn? Yes, tons. Was it useful? Yes, very. Not for my money-making job... but there's more to life than making money.
Your post is "Insightful" ... were you being funny, or serious? (honest question... I'd read an article if you had one :) )
Stay with what you have
How long does Apple continue supporting OS releases? (I have heard it's shorter than MS, but I'm actually pretty ignorant...)
They opened it back, I think. Plus there was a bug that allowed it, somewhere. I'm not sure if they closed that one.
popular music
There's the problem! ;)
Not to mention that many android tablets, the early ones, aren't running Honeycomb either. I have a Viewsonic G Tablet and it's running 2.2 and probably won't be running Honeycomb for a while. One million Honeycomb tablets isn't that bad, since HC didn't come out *that* long ago.
I suppose they could have exported to HTML and JS, yes. But isn't that getting to, basically, a PDF vs. word-processor-format (whether open or MS's or word perfect....) issue? Perhaps thise format allows you to control better what it looks like on the other side, without constantly monitoring what browsers and HTML standards are doing...
I don't know. Is it totally useful, the best thing since UNIX? No. But I don't think it's "just another standard" that does what everything else does. It seems like it has the potential to do what it's aiming to do better than other solutions...
From what I read, it looks like they want to do more than *just* interactive graphs... yes, it's possible to do it in html5. On the other hand, it seems harder to control how it looks when you're doing javascript (and I hope you don't have noscript installed...), when you have to deal with whether the person is going to be using IE as opposed to Firefox, all those sorts of things web people run into all the time. Still.
It seems like this is a PDF vs. *insert document format here, like .doc, .rt, .txt, etc*. PDF does allow you to more or less make sure you know what it's going to look like on the other end.
That's a bit harder to craft than what they are aiming for... an interactive chart in an html document?
It is? Is there another (open) document standard that has this same functionality?
Mindreading, of course.
A depressingly large segment
That's quite vague.
And you really are surprised that these people are listening to McCain?
If we take the number of people who shoot themselves in the calf and have them all vote for McCain, he probably won't get elected.
I disagreed with McCain on a number of things, but he actually seemed to be one of the more straightforward and willing-to-compromise/work-with-the-other-side politicians.
If it was wishful thinking, you'd think he would have gotten it straightened out who Reid is. Most Republicans don't like Reid.
This argument goes something like this.
"I'm not religious, therefore you need to play by my non-religious rules."
"But I am religious, so why do you get to make the rules?"
"But religious are all a crock!"
So in other words, it comes down to a "I think they're fake" vs. "I think mine is real" argument.
If anything "should" be happening, this Pastafarian guy should quit lying that he actually believes this, if he even says that to begin with. I'm assuming what I am reading is true, that he is doing this on purpose to prove a point. That would solve this particular problem.