It depends. It could be completely screwed if it hasn't had a humidifier fitted, or is one of the earlier Kawai imports that suffered from not having suitably dried wood.
That said, if it hasn't suffered too badly, then it's tuning will have dropped quite a bit (even though it is in tune with itself) and you will need a course of 2-4 tunings at say 4 month intervals to bring it back up. I usually pay between 35 and 50 GBP per tuning, but no idea what the US rates are (probably 70-100 US assuming $2 to the pound).
I suppose piano strings, particularly the lower ones, are quite slack.
I think it is the other way round (or at least that's how it has been explained to me) - the bass strings are at a higher tension than the treble ones (they are much much longer and thicker)
My father in law was diagnosed 4 years ago with it. At the time he was still driving, but he was forgetting things, and shortly afterwards he lost the ability to speak coherently. Now he can't speak *at all*, he cannot feed or dress himself, he cannot walk, use the toilet, etc. However, he has flashes where he's quite obviously there - he'll call you over and point at your chin and then tap your nose etc. So he probably does know what situation he's in - he certainly did when it was diagnosed and in the stages leading up to his current condition. Massively degrading.
I've been reading Slashdot since just after it started (around Feb 98, it was the start of my 2nd semester at university anyway), including most of the comments, and learnt a great deal. I never wanted to post - I just wanted to read and learn, so why should I have signed up for an account? Now I wish I had, because I'd have a ridiculously low id and get around the "oh, your userid is high so you can't have anything worthwhile to say - like this post for example;-)
S/PDIF is a consumer interface, but is popular on "prosumer" equipment and PCs. Professionals tend use AES/EBU as it is both balanced and incorporates error correction - neither of which are supported on S/PDIF - and uses standard XLR cables for transmission, rather than non-standard coaxial cinch/rca/phono cables.
No, the number of characters typed so far is known. Pattern matching is then performed against the start of words in a dictionary that match the pattern, starting with the shortest matches.
This is exactly like stealing a bike. In the UK most broadband is metered - ie I pay for 20GB of download per month on my ADSL. If you sit there using it, you are denying me some of that, and potentially costing me more money in over-bandwidth charges.
I think it has probably always been this way, but people probably only started exploiting the length in later years. Certainly it was uncommon to see eve 74minute CDs in the early days. By the time I did "work experience" as a teenager in the early 90's, Nimbus Records/Technology (at the time they were one of the biggest manufacturers of pressing equipment in the world) of Monmouth UK were pushing the length to the limit (I think 78 mins 56 seconds or something they quoted me for normal CDs).
The length of a CD is up to 78 minutes, as defined by the standard (although this requires a slightly narrower track pitch allowed by the specification initially as a manufacturing tolerance).
I take it that there are no security cameras in private establishments in the US then? Actually, I know that to be false because I counted as many, if not more, than I would expect in the UK on my last visits to Baltimore, Columbia, and DC. Pretty much every business in the UK that deals with cash has at least one CCTV camera up, and I imagine it must be similar in the USA.
Also, a huge number of the cameras in the UK are on our highways. These are immensely useful for reporting traffic incidents to local/national radio and the highways agency travel website which then provides data to companies such as TomTom so that SatNav devices can route around problems. I find it immensely useful.
Yes, those cameras also get used during police pursuits or other crimes, such as the recent M40 shooting, but as a law abiding citizen, what difference does it make?
Surely ancient secular music, would be the equivalent of modern pulp pop, with Byrd, Palestrina et al being the ancient equivalent of modern day "songs of praise"?
This isn't strictly true, at least not on the Apple JVM, and presumably others too now for java code, and certainly isn't true for the large parts of the underlying APIs that have to be implemented as native code - see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java:
Less Memory, Faster Start
On other platforms, each Java application consumes some system memory, so you might end up using more memory than you need to when running multiple Java applications. Other languages, such as C or C++, solve this problem using what's called shared libraries. Apple developed an innovative new technology that allows Java code to be shared across multiple applications. This reduces the amount of memory that Java applications normally use. And it fits right into Sun's Java HotSpot VM, allowing Mac OS X to remain compatible with standard Java. In addition, Apple has given this implementation to Sun so the company can deploy it on other platforms. It's just one example of how Apple supports standards and shares ideas to benefit all.
Why is this absurd? If you call 5 times and get 5 different people of course you are going to get different answers.
FWIW I'm in the UK, and my organisation has bought Dell servers with 3yr bronze support, and we've never had any problems. An engineer turns up the next working day to do the swaps, and that's the end of the problem (everything from a failed fan unit in a disk array through to complete motherboard, ram, and cpu, and PSU replacement.
True, but the professional jewellers won't guarantee the watch is still waterproof unless you have a new seal. My experiences have been that without a new seal they are right - I've had a couple of watches ruined when I went swimming without having a new seal (think about the pressure of water when you move your arm through the water etc)
Windows (at least XP anyway) IS a stable platform for music production - but you have to be sensible about what hardware and software you use. Pretty much every instability I've seen recently on well managed Windows systems has been due to bad hardware drivers (obvious from the BSOD error message).
If you are overclocking your system, don't as it's likely to cause some instability, especially if you end up increasing any bus speeds in the process - professional audio cards can be very picky about the state of the slots they are in. Certain motherboards / chipsets have problems with particular RAM configurations too, and machines can be just as unstable in Linux or any other OS if this is the case.
Anyway, Ardour is a very impressive bit of software that is aiming to be a usable alternative for protools - not an easy feat! MIDI support is supposed to be added during the Google summer of code this year I think, so hopefully there will be a massive boost this year!
I agree - I can browse through and LISTEN to music on Amazon on iTunes and then, if I like anything, either buy the CD or just get the tracks I want from iTunes or similar.
Internet radio offers far more variety than the local radio stations here in the UK - I've lost count of the number of CDs I've bought after hearing them through Pandora or other more traditional online stations. I can easily find a station playing the music styles I want to listen to, rather than .
Maybe Elton should consider the benefits the Internet can offer, rather than concentrating on the negatives such as illegal p2p filesharing that the record companies spoonfeed everyone.
As a musician myself (piano/keys in a jazz quartet and also a corporate/party band) I really appreciate what the internet has done for us: we get lots of our gigs through people finding our website (or being directed there from other sites / recommendations / business cards) and downloading / listening to the live demo tracks. Granted, the site needs a major update, but without the internet I'd be stuck running off demo CDs and leaflets and posting them to agents / venues.
Ardour, Audacity/Sweep/Rezound, Freecycle, LinuxSampler, etc, depending on what you want to do. There is a low-latency audio framework called "Jack" which allows you to hook most apps up together, and also a whole bunch of LADSPA/LV2 plugins. You can use VST plugins using a VST bridge.
Take a look at either Studio64 or Ubuntu with UbuntuStudio if you want an easy way to install this stuff. You can do it on any distro of course, but be sure to install a low latency kernel, and check your sound card is supported (mine isn't and probably never will be as I don't have the time to reverse engineer a driveR).
Actually, many watches require a special tool to remove the back before you get to the battery. You then need a new seal to put the thing back together or it won't be waterproof anymore.
Not really that different to opening an iPod or iPhone is it in this case?
So you meant using your iPod with the apple photo connector, rather than taking a laptop with you then? There are devices that allow you to copy between two media devices, such as card and hard drive, but they are bigger than the iPod agreed.
The iPod photo connector I bought for my 60GB iPod "Color" is useless because it takes longer to copy 1GB of photos from a fast compact flash card than the iPod had available power. Maybe it got fixed and I should have taken mine back as not-fit-for-purpose or something.
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This is ideal - not everyone reads the article :)
You mean like them pesky 9/11 hijackers?
It depends. It could be completely screwed if it hasn't had a humidifier fitted, or is one of the earlier Kawai imports that suffered from not having suitably dried wood.
That said, if it hasn't suffered too badly, then it's tuning will have dropped quite a bit (even though it is in tune with itself) and you will need a course of 2-4 tunings at say 4 month intervals to bring it back up. I usually pay between 35 and 50 GBP per tuning, but no idea what the US rates are (probably 70-100 US assuming $2 to the pound).
I think it is the other way round (or at least that's how it has been explained to me) - the bass strings are at a higher tension than the treble ones (they are much much longer and thicker)
My father in law was diagnosed 4 years ago with it. At the time he was still driving, but he was forgetting things, and shortly afterwards he lost the ability to speak coherently. Now he can't speak *at all*, he cannot feed or dress himself, he cannot walk, use the toilet, etc. However, he has flashes where he's quite obviously there - he'll call you over and point at your chin and then tap your nose etc. So he probably does know what situation he's in - he certainly did when it was diagnosed and in the stages leading up to his current condition. Massively degrading.
I've been reading Slashdot since just after it started (around Feb 98, it was the start of my 2nd semester at university anyway), including most of the comments, and learnt a great deal. I never wanted to post - I just wanted to read and learn, so why should I have signed up for an account? Now I wish I had, because I'd have a ridiculously low id and get around the "oh, your userid is high so you can't have anything worthwhile to say - like this post for example ;-)
S/PDIF is a consumer interface, but is popular on "prosumer" equipment and PCs. Professionals tend use AES/EBU as it is both balanced and incorporates error correction - neither of which are supported on S/PDIF - and uses standard XLR cables for transmission, rather than non-standard coaxial cinch/rca/phono cables.
No, the number of characters typed so far is known. Pattern matching is then performed against the start of words in a dictionary that match the pattern, starting with the shortest matches.
So they do care about DRM then?
This is exactly like stealing a bike. In the UK most broadband is metered - ie I pay for 20GB of download per month on my ADSL. If you sit there using it, you are denying me some of that, and potentially costing me more money in over-bandwidth charges.
I think it has probably always been this way, but people probably only started exploiting the length in later years. Certainly it was uncommon to see eve 74minute CDs in the early days. By the time I did "work experience" as a teenager in the early 90's, Nimbus Records/Technology (at the time they were one of the biggest manufacturers of pressing equipment in the world) of Monmouth UK were pushing the length to the limit (I think 78 mins 56 seconds or something they quoted me for normal CDs).
The length of a CD is up to 78 minutes, as defined by the standard (although this requires a slightly narrower track pitch allowed by the specification initially as a manufacturing tolerance).
I take it that there are no security cameras in private establishments in the US then? Actually, I know that to be false because I counted as many, if not more, than I would expect in the UK on my last visits to Baltimore, Columbia, and DC. Pretty much every business in the UK that deals with cash has at least one CCTV camera up, and I imagine it must be similar in the USA.
Also, a huge number of the cameras in the UK are on our highways. These are immensely useful for reporting traffic incidents to local/national radio and the highways agency travel website which then provides data to companies such as TomTom so that SatNav devices can route around problems. I find it immensely useful. Yes, those cameras also get used during police pursuits or other crimes, such as the recent M40 shooting, but as a law abiding citizen, what difference does it make?
Surely ancient secular music, would be the equivalent of modern pulp pop, with Byrd, Palestrina et al being the ancient equivalent of modern day "songs of praise"?
So now your machines have no security on their Documents and Settings folder? Or do you somehow magically restore all the permissions afterwards?
This isn't strictly true, at least not on the Apple JVM, and presumably others too now for java code, and certainly isn't true for the large parts of the underlying APIs that have to be implemented as native code - see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java:
Less Memory, Faster Start
On other platforms, each Java application consumes some system memory, so you might end up using more memory than you need to when running multiple Java applications. Other languages, such as C or C++, solve this problem using what's called shared libraries. Apple developed an innovative new technology that allows Java code to be shared across multiple applications. This reduces the amount of memory that Java applications normally use. And it fits right into Sun's Java HotSpot VM, allowing Mac OS X to remain compatible with standard Java. In addition, Apple has given this implementation to Sun so the company can deploy it on other platforms. It's just one example of how Apple supports standards and shares ideas to benefit all.
Why is this absurd? If you call 5 times and get 5 different people of course you are going to get different answers.
FWIW I'm in the UK, and my organisation has bought Dell servers with 3yr bronze support, and we've never had any problems. An engineer turns up the next working day to do the swaps, and that's the end of the problem (everything from a failed fan unit in a disk array through to complete motherboard, ram, and cpu, and PSU replacement.
Maybe it depends what lines you buy from too?
Nah, don't be silly! BMWs have "Ö" rings!
True, but the professional jewellers won't guarantee the watch is still waterproof unless you have a new seal. My experiences have been that without a new seal they are right - I've had a couple of watches ruined when I went swimming without having a new seal (think about the pressure of water when you move your arm through the water etc)
Windows (at least XP anyway) IS a stable platform for music production - but you have to be sensible about what hardware and software you use. Pretty much every instability I've seen recently on well managed Windows systems has been due to bad hardware drivers (obvious from the BSOD error message).
If you are overclocking your system, don't as it's likely to cause some instability, especially if you end up increasing any bus speeds in the process - professional audio cards can be very picky about the state of the slots they are in. Certain motherboards / chipsets have problems with particular RAM configurations too, and machines can be just as unstable in Linux or any other OS if this is the case.
Anyway, Ardour is a very impressive bit of software that is aiming to be a usable alternative for protools - not an easy feat! MIDI support is supposed to be added during the Google summer of code this year I think, so hopefully there will be a massive boost this year!
I agree - I can browse through and LISTEN to music on Amazon on iTunes and then, if I like anything, either buy the CD or just get the tracks I want from iTunes or similar.
Internet radio offers far more variety than the local radio stations here in the UK - I've lost count of the number of CDs I've bought after hearing them through Pandora or other more traditional online stations. I can easily find a station playing the music styles I want to listen to, rather than .
Maybe Elton should consider the benefits the Internet can offer, rather than concentrating on the negatives such as illegal p2p filesharing that the record companies spoonfeed everyone.
As a musician myself (piano/keys in a jazz quartet and also a corporate/party band) I really appreciate what the internet has done for us: we get lots of our gigs through people finding our website (or being directed there from other sites / recommendations / business cards) and downloading / listening to the live demo tracks. Granted, the site needs a major update, but without the internet I'd be stuck running off demo CDs and leaflets and posting them to agents / venues.
Ardour, Audacity/Sweep/Rezound, Freecycle, LinuxSampler, etc, depending on what you want to do. There is a low-latency audio framework called "Jack" which allows you to hook most apps up together, and also a whole bunch of LADSPA/LV2 plugins. You can use VST plugins using a VST bridge.
Take a look at either Studio64 or Ubuntu with UbuntuStudio if you want an easy way to install this stuff. You can do it on any distro of course, but be sure to install a low latency kernel, and check your sound card is supported (mine isn't and probably never will be as I don't have the time to reverse engineer a driveR).
What was it you want to do?
Actually, many watches require a special tool to remove the back before you get to the battery. You then need a new seal to put the thing back together or it won't be waterproof anymore.
Not really that different to opening an iPod or iPhone is it in this case?
So you meant using your iPod with the apple photo connector, rather than taking a laptop with you then? There are devices that allow you to copy between two media devices, such as card and hard drive, but they are bigger than the iPod agreed.
The iPod photo connector I bought for my 60GB iPod "Color" is useless because it takes longer to copy 1GB of photos from a fast compact flash card than the iPod had available power. Maybe it got fixed and I should have taken mine back as not-fit-for-purpose or something.
You mean, next to an external 2.5" USB hard drive, which has a larger capacity and is smaller / lighter?