This is not unique to sciences, but happens with all fields. Why, for instance did so many musical geniuses emerge in Europe during the second half of the 19th century? Was it the water supply? No, it was because at that point there were a whole bunch of new ideas in music emerging. But by some time in the early 20th century, most of these musical ideas had been explored by composers, which is why there were much fewer classical music geniuses in the later 20th century. Same goes with the other arts.
I'm not sure what makes you say that more musical geniuses emerged in Europe in the late-romantic era. The real story is that, generally, the further back in history you go, the harder it is to name 'genuises', not because there were fewer *of* them, but because we simply tend to know more about the recent past than about the distant past. I have one music history text with a timeline of 'important' composers--and i think the composers on the chart reflects the composers you're most likely to encounter on a concert, or in a CD store--and the number of composers on the timeline gets steadily narrower as you approach 0 AD.
as for there being 'fewer' geniuses in the 20th century, that's extremely hard to juge, since art music is in a time of such stylisitic upheaval, although suppose you're right, then i would say it's a situation analogous to the rococco (the period between the baroque and classical eras), when a new musical language was being developed, and most of the music written consisted of failed 'experiments', and the music from that period is largely forgotten. those responsible for the hard work in the transition period get less credit than the people who come like the capstone on an era, like Mozart or JS Bach.
Mod parent up! if you're ripping on windows EAC is really the *only* option, especially if you want to rip archival copies to FLAC--it can often guarantee bit-perfect copies, and it can read past a lot of scratches that other rippers will choke on--that's right, it can fix scratches digitally, essentially. Forget brasso, as another poster mentioned...
i dare anyone on here to show me a better ripper for windows! (yes, i hear cdparanoia is good for linux)
while i am a huge opera fan, i have stopped using it while i wait for a few features that only *firefox* has:
bookmark sync
right clicking to make new folders
slogger (even ie has mulga history collector pro)
so, opera does not have the edge on features overall... i think opera should implement open-source extensions somehow--then features like this would probalby already exist for it...
i'm REALLY waiting for something non-ie to have something like enlighter however (www.enlighter.com). in addition to the highlight and annotation, it automatically archives versions of any page you highlight or annotate, and manages separate versions of the webpage for you.
"Musicians no longer come out of art school wanting to do something novel for their own niche audience; greed has overcome artistic integrity."
Musicians? Art School? do you mean Music School? if so, rock musicians tend to avoid music school like the plague. frankly, i've never understood why--even if you don't want to write *in* the tradition, you can still be informed by it--i'd rather be an educated rebel than an ingnorant reinventor of the wheel.
disclaimer: I am doing a BMus in Composition and a BSc in Cognitive Science
aha, yes, as your story neared the end i was thinking "Yahoo Calendar" -- suprise ending: iCal! lol, ok, same diff.:-)
the moral of the story? calendar software rules!
am i the only one who wants ICQ's real-time chat to show up in other clients?? i remember we used to have this on *UNISYS ICONS* (called co-co)--the future was *then*... the past is now?
well, if i were an employee at sony, and i really hated DRM, i could almost imagine deliberately causing a scandal such as this one--it would have been a brilliant strategy, no?
if, from a young enough age, you had been given work, deadlines, and consequences that forced you to either not procrastinate or fail, you wouldn't have these problems today. it doesn't really matter whose 'fault' it is--the point is that changes could be made in the education system that would make things better for those of us who were never really *pushed* by the education system.
keep in mind that, while these could be fake messages, it could also be that memberships near expiration get higher priority in searches, etc. i imagine this would be legal.
the existence of these technologies does not entail the truth of quantum physics--they are merely consistent with them. no amount of data (such as the sucess of a technology) fully determines a given theory. there will be another theory which can accomodate these technologies and the new one, if it exists, that refutes the existing theory.
in a related news story, unlike humans, for whom 4/4 and other power of 2 metres are the most common, mainstream music in the mice community is almost invariably in (2+4)/4. this is because, while humans, because of their anatomy, march in a duple rhythm (giving rise to 2/x metre which can be grouped in pairs to form 4/x), mice spend some time on 4 legs, and some time on 2--thus (2+4)/4.:^]
does linux run Sibelius? no. does linux have drivers for either of the (good) audio cards i already own? no. does linux run Finale? no. does linux run Gigastudio? no. does linux run ANY of the big three or four sequencers? no.
do i want to learn a non-standard sequencer, when the moment i step into a recording studio to do some work over expensive monitors, i'll be using cubuase, or logic audio, or maybe sonar or digital performer? NO.
you could open the WAV files for MSN in any WAV editor and lower the volume of the wav files. you could even create two sound schemes in control panel--one with quiet wavs and one with loud wavs.
it was a heady time, back in 1998 or so--i thought something like Trillian would be amazing since i would have ONE im client running rather than 3-4. Trillian said it 'worked' with ICQ. I get it all set up. ICQ contact list looks hunky dory. several days later i discover that my girlfriend had been sending real-time chat requests and they *simply did not appear* in trillian. not only did it lack a basic feature of ICQ (i used real-time mode almost exclusively), but it blocked it *silently*, which can have all sorts of unintended social connotations.
i have not gone back to multi-platform clients since. do they support MSN handwriting on my tablet? yahoo game plug-ins? gretting cards in ICQ? remote assistance in MSN real-time chat in ICQ? voice chat in google talk? how do they translate emoticons? i choose a specific emoticon graphic for subtle expressive reasons, i don't want GAIM or Trillian putting words in my mouth and maping emoticons etc. and the bottom-line is that, if you don't support EVERY feature of the 'canonical' client, claiming interoperability, without qualification is a LIE. the truth is that these all-in-ones are POS versions of the various canonical clients.
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I'm not sure what makes you say that more musical geniuses emerged in Europe in the late-romantic era. The real story is that, generally, the further back in history you go, the harder it is to name 'genuises', not because there were fewer *of* them, but because we simply tend to know more about the recent past than about the distant past. I have one music history text with a timeline of 'important' composers--and i think the composers on the chart reflects the composers you're most likely to encounter on a concert, or in a CD store--and the number of composers on the timeline gets steadily narrower as you approach 0 AD.
as for there being 'fewer' geniuses in the 20th century, that's extremely hard to juge, since art music is in a time of such stylisitic upheaval, although suppose you're right, then i would say it's a situation analogous to the rococco (the period between the baroque and classical eras), when a new musical language was being developed, and most of the music written consisted of failed 'experiments', and the music from that period is largely forgotten. those responsible for the hard work in the transition period get less credit than the people who come like the capstone on an era, like Mozart or JS Bach.
they also killed ICQ...
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www.musipedia.org
Mod parent up! if you're ripping on windows EAC is really the *only* option, especially if you want to rip archival copies to FLAC--it can often guarantee bit-perfect copies, and it can read past a lot of scratches that other rippers will choke on--that's right, it can fix scratches digitally, essentially. Forget brasso, as another poster mentioned...
i dare anyone on here to show me a better ripper for windows! (yes, i hear cdparanoia is good for linux)
while i am a huge opera fan, i have stopped using it while i wait for a few features that only *firefox* has:
bookmark sync
right clicking to make new folders
slogger (even ie has mulga history collector pro)
so, opera does not have the edge on features overall... i think opera should implement open-source extensions somehow--then features like this would probalby already exist for it...
i'm REALLY waiting for something non-ie to have something like enlighter however (www.enlighter.com). in addition to the highlight and annotation, it automatically archives versions of any page you highlight or annotate, and manages separate versions of the webpage for you.
(the alternative is iMarkup, btw)
"Musicians no longer come out of art school wanting to do something novel for their own niche audience; greed has overcome artistic integrity."
Musicians? Art School? do you mean Music School? if so, rock musicians tend to avoid music school like the plague. frankly, i've never understood why--even if you don't want to write *in* the tradition, you can still be informed by it--i'd rather be an educated rebel than an ingnorant reinventor of the wheel.
disclaimer: I am doing a BMus in Composition and a BSc in Cognitive Science
aha, yes, as your story neared the end i was thinking "Yahoo Calendar" -- suprise ending: iCal! lol, ok, same diff. :-)
the moral of the story? calendar software rules!
shouldn't that be ??AA ?
5th most recent.
am i the only one who wants ICQ's real-time chat to show up in other clients?? i remember we used to have this on *UNISYS ICONS* (called co-co)--the future was *then*... the past is now?
wow--i never thought of that strategy. time to go home and start practicing "wanting to win badly". :-p
well, if i were an employee at sony, and i really hated DRM, i could almost imagine deliberately causing a scandal such as this one--it would have been a brilliant strategy, no?
if, from a young enough age, you had been given work, deadlines, and consequences that forced you to either not procrastinate or fail, you wouldn't have these problems today. it doesn't really matter whose 'fault' it is--the point is that changes could be made in the education system that would make things better for those of us who were never really *pushed* by the education system.
keep in mind that, while these could be fake messages, it could also be that memberships near expiration get higher priority in searches, etc. i imagine this would be legal.
Edison's whoop-ass comes in cylinders...
damn i'd hate to be that virtual human...
i always thought the point was the aesthetic experience, which has intrinsic value...
does this mean we can get around ANY eula by having others install our software for us?
the existence of these technologies does not entail the truth of quantum physics--they are merely consistent with them. no amount of data (such as the sucess of a technology) fully determines a given theory. there will be another theory which can accomodate these technologies and the new one, if it exists, that refutes the existing theory.
in a related news story, unlike humans, for whom 4/4 and other power of 2 metres are the most common, mainstream music in the mice community is almost invariably in (2+4)/4. this is because, while humans, because of their anatomy, march in a duple rhythm (giving rise to 2/x metre which can be grouped in pairs to form 4/x), mice spend some time on 4 legs, and some time on 2--thus (2+4)/4. :^]
does linux run Sibelius? no.
does linux have drivers for either of the (good) audio cards i already own? no.
does linux run Finale? no.
does linux run Gigastudio? no.
does linux run ANY of the big three or four sequencers? no.
do i want to learn a non-standard sequencer, when the moment i step into a recording studio to do some work over expensive monitors, i'll be using cubuase, or logic audio, or maybe sonar or digital performer? NO.
will i use linux for audio? what the hell for?
you could open the WAV files for MSN in any WAV editor and lower the volume of the wav files. you could even create two sound schemes in control panel--one with quiet wavs and one with loud wavs.
it was a heady time, back in 1998 or so--i thought something like Trillian would be amazing since i would have ONE im client running rather than 3-4. Trillian said it 'worked' with ICQ. I get it all set up. ICQ contact list looks hunky dory. several days later i discover that my girlfriend had been sending real-time chat requests and they *simply did not appear* in trillian. not only did it lack a basic feature of ICQ (i used real-time mode almost exclusively), but it blocked it *silently*, which can have all sorts of unintended social connotations.
i have not gone back to multi-platform clients since. do they support MSN handwriting on my tablet? yahoo game plug-ins? gretting cards in ICQ? remote assistance in MSN real-time chat in ICQ? voice chat in google talk? how do they translate emoticons? i choose a specific emoticon graphic for subtle expressive reasons, i don't want GAIM or Trillian putting words in my mouth and maping emoticons etc. and the bottom-line is that, if you don't support EVERY feature of the 'canonical' client, claiming interoperability, without qualification is a LIE. the truth is that these all-in-ones are POS versions of the various canonical clients.
they never charged for MSIE. why will MSN messenger be any different?