Comment Re:Good job. Need more. (Score 1) 259
As opposed to half the other posts on Slashdot, which read as "I know some basic things about computers and need others to know that I do"? :P
Comment Good job. Need more. (Score 4, Informative) 259
I'd like to see accidentals rendered larger. Check Wikipedia and you'll see they're as large as the note bodies; check this guy's notation and they've gone all squinty. When you're a musician and you're playing notes that suddenly have to be modified, the last thing you want is to break concentration by trying to figure out which modification to apply. These things need to be properly proportioned.
Time signatures would be handy.
All that said, this looks like good proof-of-concept. I'd use the hell out of it should it become available.
Comment Re:Related Questions (Score 4, Insightful) 608
A conduit containing both CAT6 and some fishing line to pull through whatever's in vogue once CAT6 will no longer cut it.
Comment I saw it in digital... (Score 1) 461
...so there were no such things. It looked pretty dang good.
Comment $99? Where? (Score 1) 618
A quick google search reveals nothing under $104.99.
Anyone have some magical fell-off-the-truck source for the sub-$100 price quoted in the article?
Comment British English... (Score 0, Offtopic) 110
Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts.
How does this qualify as a complete sentence?
Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds 249
MaxwellEdison writes "Researchers, oddly enough from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, have found a way to make diamond films using tequila. They were originally testing methods of creating the films with organic solutions like acetone when it was noticed the ideal ratios of water and ethanol turned out to be about 80 proof, or 40% alcohol. '"To dissipate any doubts, one morning on the way to the lab I bought a pocket-size bottle of cheap white tequila and we did some tests," Apátiga said. "We were in doubt over whether the great amount of chemicals present in tequila, other than water and ethanol, would contaminate or obstruct the process, it turned out to be not so. The results were amazing, same as with the ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary to form diamonds."'"
Comment slashdotted before first comment! (Score 4, Funny) 212
is this some sort of record?!
Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever 584
John Hawks writes "A new genomics study in PNAS shows that humans have been evolving new adaptive genes during the past 10,000 years much faster than ever before. The study says that evolution has sped up because of population growth, making people adapt faster to new diseases, new diets, and social changes like cities. Oh, and I'm the lead author. I've been reading Slashdot for a long time, and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."
Journal Journal: another paycheck, another bi-weekly journal...
Got back from Pisgah Forest yesterday. What an excellent weekend - visited a couple of accounts, rocked a 28-mile 5-hour mountain bike ride on Saturday, had dinner at Barley's (one bigass beefalo & feta calzone)... would that all weekends could be that much fun. Spent too much money, but Wednesday will see another piddly direct deposit to checking.
Journal Journal: TEOTWAWKI
Well, Bush just got elected. Can't really say re-elected, because it's not trendy among the circles with which I hang to believe that he was ever elected back in 2000. I've gotta admit, the guy sure does talk purdy; in his first couple of speeches, he's all "reaching out" this and "no president should ever try to impose religion on our society" that... I think that won't hold up for much longer, given that it was the religious who got him into office in the first place. I've no desire to
Journal Journal: fill rate.
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Small six-person call center, inside sales goons taking orders for bicycle parts. Heard from bike shop buyers across the country: "Sorry, I don't have part numbers." "Well, just send me one of every style, and we'll eat the 10% restock fee if we have to." "This is Adam at Hutchinson Tires; you guys need to get a PO in if you want product for 2005." "Sounds like a fill rate of under 50%, but then that's not your problem, it's mine." Sorry, buddy, but if the boss auth
Small six-person call center, inside sales goons taking orders for bicycle parts. Heard from bike shop buyers across the country: "Sorry, I don't have part numbers." "Well, just send me one of every style, and we'll eat the 10% restock fee if we have to." "This is Adam at Hutchinson Tires; you guys need to get a PO in if you want product for 2005." "Sounds like a fill rate of under 50%, but then that's not your problem, it's mine." Sorry, buddy, but if the boss auth
