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And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:53:51 +0200, scott <sco### [at] scott com> did
spake thusly:
>> My dad wired it himself. ;-)
>>
>> (As in, he literally chiselled out chunks of wall and then plastered it
>> over again.)
>
> Before they came up with cavity wall insulation you could just drop your
> cables down between the inner and outer brickwork, drill a hole through
> the wall where you want the socket, use the old bent-tape-measure trick
> to grab the cable and wire it up to a socket. Job done.
Pah bent-tape-measure, professionals use ferrets :-)
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> On 4/27/2010 4:12 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
>
>> Government regulators, for whom being safe is generally more important
>> than being right, had a major role in the determination of the standard.
>> The standard had to allow for broadcast within a strictly-defined
>> frequency band, and this limit was chosen based on technology that is
>> now ready for deployment to your local museum, because these decisions
>> were made years ago.
>>
>> If I am remembering things correctly, there was even some insistence
>> that the signal be displayable by sets designed for the old broadcast
>> standard. If that sounds thinking-impaired, well, that's the FCC for you.
>
> kind of like how NTSC color was kludged on top of the existing black and
> white broadcast signal in the name of backwards compatibility?
Isn't "NTSC color" like "ATM machine"?
Oh wait, "Never Twice Same Color" is not the official acronym meaning? :)
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Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> My father will happily sing and tap along half-a-beat out to music that he
> likes. Drives me mad.
Accenting the off-beat is a completely valid form of rythm. Ever heard
eg. reggae music?
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Warp wrote:
> Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> My father will happily sing and tap along half-a-beat out to music that he
>> likes. Drives me mad.
>
> Accenting the off-beat is a completely valid form of rythm.
Sure. If you are consistently accenting the same beat.
Tapping midway between beats with variable accuracy is NOT valid. ;-)
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And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:59:40 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did
spake thusly:
> Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> My father will happily sing and tap along half-a-beat out to music that
>> he
>> likes. Drives me mad.
>
> Accenting the off-beat is a completely valid form of rythm. Ever heard
> eg. reggae music?
Not the way he does it, he thinks he's perfectly in time with the music.
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Invisible wrote:
> You'd think she could hear the difference, but no...
I figured out that's why my wife can't sing. There was an experiment at a
science museum where it would play a tone and you try to match it. But you
couldn't here two tones at the same time. I usually got within one Hz of the
same tone. She was regularly off by 5 or 10 Hz. I'd play the two
alternating, and she's say she couldn't hear the difference.
It doesn't stop enthusiastic bad singing, tho.
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Invisible wrote:
> And then we replaced the Ethernet router with a wireless one. Um... OK.
Unfortunately, I only had two wires strung down to the first floor.
Fortunately, I could drill from the closet into the phone jack in the
kitchen from behind, so I could put stuff in the closet, including a
wireless AP and a hub to run the wire under the carpet to the entertainment
center.
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>> You'd think she could hear the difference, but no...
>
> I figured out that's why my wife can't sing. There was an experiment at
> a science museum where it would play a tone and you try to match it. But
> you couldn't here two tones at the same time. I usually got within one
> Hz of the same tone. She was regularly off by 5 or 10 Hz. I'd play the
> two alternating, and she's say she couldn't hear the difference.
>
> It doesn't stop enthusiastic bad singing, tho.
You know that pitch perception is logarithmic, right?
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Invisible wrote:
> probably due more to server load than end-user bandwidth though.)
Probably not. Probably due to bottlenecks between you and the backbone.
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Invisible wrote:
> You know that pitch perception is logarithmic, right?
She was still off by 10x as much as I was. Things that sounded the same
were a good semitone or even full tone different.
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