@tchrist; Portuguese? Essa música é mesmo bem lá do fundo do baú, tive que revirar tudo mas consegui encontrar, acho que pouquíssimas pessoas vão se lembrar dela mas podem curtir que é um som bem maneiro e gostoso de se ouvir. Saudações gente querida.
> Esa música está muy bien ahí desde el suelo de [somebody], tuve que mover(?) todo pero conseguí encontrar, creo que poquísimas personas van a acordarse de ella, pero pueden apreciar que es un sonido fresco e agradable de escuchar. Saludos gente querida.
I dunno, the damned mismatches on ser/estar between Spanish and Portuguese are really annoying.
I think it means that it sounds good, so estar works better there in Spanish. I think.
That was some O'Reilly conference, and I'll be damned if I can figure it out. I may have to ask someone.
@Robusto YES!!!
That's what Portuguese sounds like. And she's reasonably easy to understand. There are much much worse. The main trick is figuring out which word she said, not what the word means.
When you just let it wash over you, once you're over the weird Russian sounds, you can hear the language so very close to Spanish that's almost completely hidden underneath all that.
I'm trying to figure out whether she was too miked or whether she's that plosive.
Sometimes it sounded like fireworks going off.
Once you're used to the Slavic sounds and the various sorts of French-like elisions, it makes a lot more sense.
Professional voice recording is done with a big mic like a Neumann or EV and they have a special, very fine screen between the mouth of the talent and the mic, so that the screen absorbs the plosions.
A pop filter or pop shield is an anti-pop noise protection filter for microphones, typically used in a recording studio. It serves to reduce or eliminate 'popping' sounds caused by the mechanical impact of fast moving air on the microphone during recorded speech and singing. It also keeps moisture off the microphone which can cause mold growth. It can also protect against the accumulation of saliva on the microphone element. Salts in human saliva are corrosive and thus use of a pop filter may prolong the life of the microphone.
A typical pop filter is composed of one or more layers of acoustically...
> Popping sounds occur particularly in the pronunciation of aspirated plosives (such as the first 'p' in the English word "popping"). Pop filters are designed to attenuate the energy of the plosive, which otherwise might exceed the design input capacity of the microphone, leading to clipping. Pop filters do not appreciably affect hissing sounds or sibilance, for which de-essing is used.
When I was in advertising I had to produce a lot of audio for commercials, so I am quite familiar with that stuff.
@Mitch You might notice it at the break.
... Of fear, rage red, manalive, Molten and mountainous to stream Over the wound asleep Sheep white hollow farms
To Wales in my arms. Hoo, there, in castle keep, You king singsong owls, who moonbeam The flickering runs and dive ...
@Robusto But still, that's a weird set of constraints mostly because its effect is totally intellectual, you just could not hear it beyond maybe those two middle lines.
Can a person just buy lengths of chain somewhere? Survey says no so far.
By sheer serendipitous happenstance, a local bike shop is having a swap meet this weekend. We're going to look at existing gear and chain systems and figure some things out.
So a 10-speed bike chain is longer than an 8-speed chain.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes. Don't worry about finding a long enough chain. Just buy enough chains and link them together. You get yourself a chain link extractor and you can just open a link and splice together from there.
Speaking of coffee, don't go any place. There are only 3 locations worldwide where coffee does not consist of 101% liquid feces, and none of these 3 locations are places.
Here's my question. What does the tech expert Bill Thompson say in the attched clip after the words ''I stroke my shiny ???'' Thank you for your time!
The link
In the francique mosellan dialect I am speaking, there's a semi-mocking, yet not really offensive in the least, and perhaps even friendly, expression "Voulez-vous die Gruweschuh ?" — "Non, merci, mir reiche die !", used to poke fun at the French, or the French language.
I have a two-part questi...
> Ultimately, the judge ruled that no evidence existed that the Summy Co. -- the original company to assert a copyright claim -- ever legally obtained the rights to the "Happy Birthday To You" song from whomever wrote it.
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (/ˈɡeɪmən/; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was...
> The movie reminded me of a great British entomologist who had classified hundreds of species of beetles, perhaps the most widely varying form of life on Earth. Late in his career, he spoke to a group of churchgoers about his work. Feeling metaphysical, they asked him to reflect on what science had taught him about the mind of God.
“I’ve deduced,” he replied, “that God is incredibly fond of beetles.”
What Haldane really said:
> The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature.
“There are many ways to improve air quality, such as planting trees, decrease the gas emission, use more environment protection material and cultivate the awareness of environment and so on.”
To make the comparison more explicit: English.SE has twice as many questions (and questions per day) as Mathematica.SE, but nearly five times the number of users. So to keep the review queue manageable should not be difficult if people are doing review tasks regularly. Given that, an important question seems to be: how and why did this situation arise in the first place? — Oleksandr R.6 mins ago
Okay so reading his complete comments in chronological order he basically says what I would say.
The one thing I feel like adding is that the whole point of SE is that nothing in one community translates to anything in another community, which is why SE is not one community but hundreds.
As a simple example, RegDwight has been a registered user with ELU for 5 years, and with Mathematica.SE for 4 years. You can deduce jack shit from there.
@OleksandrR.: I question your conclusion. We may have five times the number of users, but that doesn't mean we have that many dedicated users. The problem is only a few of us ever try to close questions, and this can lead to fatigue and a sense of hopelessness. Why bother if my close votes are mostly wasted on dumb questions that will remain open forever? — Robusto14 secs ago
And my point is that it does come to this, this mountain of should-be-closed questions, precisely because we have not had the tools we need to deal with it. Which is going to be the easier thing to do: inspire legions of EL&U users to do their community duty, or give the ones who are recognized for doing that duty the tools needed to get the job done? — Robusto30 secs ago