MadKeithV

And now that i've quit that band my desire to start another metal band is almost gone, it's more fun to listen to metal then play it IMO Actually I'm the opposite. It's more fun to play (sport metal!) than to listen to

I like good music...Metal or otherwise... This. Good music, is good music. Show me a good country & western song and I'll probably like it. The odds are low, but it's not impossible. Heck, I loved some of the True Blood background music.

Line6 HD147 - looking for around

What does EVH even stand for? Electromagnetic Visibility Hardware. It's a class term for devices that reflect light in cool ways.

I heard EVH found some reflectors at a truck stop, put them on the front of his guitar because they would reflect the light in cool ways on stage, but then realized they were reflecting only on the audience in cool ways, so he then put them on the back of his guitar so they would reflect light on HIM in cool ways.

Hey man... You all keep saying the same thing. What is this? Some sort of joke? That remark does not reflect on you in a cool way. Have you been spending too much time at truck stops?

Unfortunately, I never really went that far in set theory... I was a physics major so most of my math was based on calculus and a little probability. But I had a good dose of (introductory) number theory along the way. Aleph null infinity is "countable" - like the set of integers. They are infinite, but there is only a finite number of integers in any interval. Aleph one infinity is not countable - like the set of real numbers. Any interval of the real numbers has an infinite number of real numbers.

The problem here is that many people don't understand what infinity means, mathematically. Which isn't surprising; it's a tough concept, especially seeing as infinity (arguably) doesn't really exist in the world that we experience. But mathematically, it is very real and very well understood. Aleph null, or aleph one infinity? ;-)

If there are an infinite number of points possible between two points...how can someone walk over an infinite number of points? (one of Xeno's paradoxes) hint: "infinite number?" There's a fundamental wrong assumption in that paradox, assuming that a mathematical infinity maps onto reality. Reality seems to be discrete, i.e. if you break it down far enough you end up with the "smallest possible size" - see Planck Length.

Well goddamn. Once you get into infinite-dimensional integrals, things get a bit more hairy though.

Could the difference between 1 and .9_ be written as .1x10^-? Probably yes, but why bother if 0 is much shorter.

.999_ is less than 1 by an infinitely small difference, but a difference nonetheless. No, it isn't smaller than 1. Several proofs have been posted already. See also 0.9 Recurring, in Wikipedia. The misconception usually seems to stem from the idea that the decimal system has only one representation for a number. There's no question that 1.0 is the *preferred* representation, but 0.9 recurring is the same number with a different representation. Another way to look at it: there is no "infinitely small" real number that you could add to 0.9 recurring to get one. If you have any small number greater than zero, then there is a smaller number between that small number and zero as well. The real numbers are continuous. This is also known as the intermediate value theorem.

LMFAO! This thread is fantastic! Yeah, it is Reminds me of a discussion about compression on another forum (the zip kind, not the audio kind). With someone repeatedly claiming they could beat information theory all the time, in the general case...

lol at BerkleeBill for digging this old gem up. Different scene of folks back then... Not really ;-)

Originally posted by amiller For testing, I'm just trying to play a simple mp3 file using quicktime or any playback software. The file plays but there are dropouts every couple of seconds. I had a similar problem with my UA-25 - dropouts outside of professional recording applications, when playing back MP3s with WinAmp etc. It's since gone away, by messing around with buffers and the like. The wierd part is that it never interfered with its proper functioning inside Ableton Live or Cubase, even when it was glitching like mad in winamp. I guess these recording interfaces weren't really made for general audio use. Have you tried it from within an ASIO-enabled sequencer, to see if it is working there?