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And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:59:40 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> did
spake thusly:
> Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocain freeserve co uk> 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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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> On 4/27/2010 12:59 PM, nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New escreveu:
>>> nemesis wrote:
>>>> BTW, don't you guys find it funny that ADSL is "dial-up" too?
>>>
>>> Not really. It's built into the line card, so you're not actually
>>> dialing anything. You're just using the same wires you would be
>>> dialing on.
>>
>> really? I used to connect without a line filter in my other telephone
>> across the room and, thus, if you happened to pick up the nearby phone
>> while it was connecting, you would listen to a bit of that "folkloric"
>> well-known old-modem dialing-up tune.
>>
>
> probably hearing some artifacts from the out-of-band signaling the ADSL
> modem is doing. Which is why you need the filter ;) I remember back when
> I had ADSL forgetting a filter on a phone jack, and picking up that
> phone. It was more like I had a bad connection than anything, though.
I heard white noise in the phone with no filter and in the one next to
the PC with a filter, I heard in the distance the very same connection
"song" of old modems as it was connecting. Once connected, no further
noise.
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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> On 4/27/2010 11:23 AM, nemesis wrote:
>
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> seems like Andrew still got some 30 years ahead to fully get to grips
>> with the real world...
>>
>
> Why doesn't my Atari 2600 do HD?
I was talking about modern game consoles.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Tapping midway between beats with variable accuracy is NOT valid. ;-)
Of course it is. It's called jazz.
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On 28/04/2010 2:23 PM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
> Pah bent-tape-measure, professionals use ferrets :-)
Ee oop lad. I’ve told thee to keep thy ferret to thy self :-P
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