EPTIt was pretty interesting and to use his talents like that is pretty ridiculous. I always wondered what phone hacking entailed.
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
It was pretty interesting and to use his talents like that is pretty ridiculous. I always wondered what phone hacking entailed. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
On August 26 2009 03:46 MutaDoom wrote: Harsh, but almost necessary. He's kind of a piece of shit if he's using his Kind of? He's a total piece of shit. I don't care if you're blind, fat, or whatever, what he's done is inexcusable. He should be tried and put in jail for creating panics, etc. He's a fat little douche bag who deserves punishment. Pranking 911 could result in people who really need help losing their lives. And that's not even the worst of it. The little prick stole money from people too. | ||
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TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
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TheMusiC
United States1054 Posts
people with perfect pitch recognize pitches (the frequencies/vibrations of the sounds) much like we recognize words. for example: to us, the word "starcraft" represents to the computer game and nothing else; it is an absolute. to those with perfect pitch, the vibrations of an A or a C# represent those notes specifically and nothing else; they cannot be anything else. it really is quite a remarkable ability. it's generally accepted among musicians i think (in the classical world, at least -- i've been told this from the music theory professors that i've been taught by from juilliard/rice/cleveland/texas) that perfect pitch is not something that can be learned. if you don't have it, then you're out of luck. | ||
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armed_
Canada443 Posts
On August 27 2009 16:03 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote: Kind of? He's a total piece of shit. I don't care if you're blind, fat, or whatever, what he's done is inexcusable. He should be tried and put in jail for creating panics, etc. He's a fat little douche bag who deserves punishment. Pranking 911 could result in people who really need help losing their lives. And that's not even the worst of it. The little prick stole money from people too. I can't help but find this post hilarious. "He could've effectively killed people by abusing the emergency system... BUT FORGET THAT HE STOLE MONEY WTF" | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
On August 27 2009 16:41 armed_ wrote: I can't help but find this post hilarious. "He could've effectively killed people by abusing the emergency system... BUT FORGET THAT HE STOLE MONEY WTF" Could have but didn't, so the actual is worse than the possible. Yes. | ||
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JFKWT
Singapore1442 Posts
On August 25 2009 21:57 Ecorin wrote: I did searching and found a clip of the documentary, it's called "The Ring Of Fire" Turns out it's actually an indonesian who practises Taoism, meditates every day, does yoga etc. And it's controlling the chi energy of one, anyone can do it, but 18 years of daily meditation is a pretty big thing to pay for it. clip: Actually there are such "qigong" masters in other parts of the world too. In a taiwan variety show theres an acupuncturist who generates an electric current in a similar fashion =o | ||
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WeSt
Portugal918 Posts
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JFKWT
Singapore1442 Posts
On August 27 2009 16:40 TheMusiC wrote: perfect pitch means you can pick out a note without hearing any prior pitch; most people at best can only have very good relative pitch (never perfect pitch), and generally require a reference note in order to find notes/intervals. people with perfect pitch recognize pitches (the frequencies/vibrations of the sounds) much like we recognize words. for example: to us, the word "starcraft" represents to the computer game and nothing else; it is an absolute. to those with perfect pitch, the vibrations of an A or a C# represent those notes specifically and nothing else; they cannot be anything else. it really is quite a remarkable ability. it's generally accepted among musicians i think (in the classical world, at least -- i've been told this from the music theory professors that i've been taught by from juilliard/rice/cleveland/texas) that perfect pitch is not something that can be learned. if you don't have it, then you're out of luck. I dunno if its counted as perfect pitch but i've sort of memorised notes on my violin/viola and can then do relative pitching from there if need be, cos sometimes when i try to identify the rarer notes it may not be accurate. Dont know why that happens but it does =X | ||
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TheShizno
United States112 Posts
I think what makes perfect pitch special is how easily they do it, since it's a natural ability to them to hear and differentiate minute differences in sound. | ||
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KaRnaGe[cF]
United States355 Posts
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
i think he's an idiot for not stopping after he turned 18. he probably knew that they were going easy on him because he was a minor. he had his chance to change | ||
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mastuh
United States64 Posts
On August 27 2009 16:14 TheTyranid wrote: The people who are calling this kid a piece of shit have to consider that it is not entirely his fault. The fact that he was born blind, had a horrible father, lived in a poor family and was bullied constantly did insurmountable damage to his developing brain causing him to become what he is. It wausn't his fault he had to live through all that shit, hes just very unfortunate. QTF. We are all products of our environment | ||
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itzme_petey
United States1400 Posts
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
On August 25 2009 16:59 blue_arrow wrote: EDIT: Actually, from watching the video, I can see he already knows how to paint in 3D prior to the test... So another question arises, albeit less relavent: why did the UofT prof even bother 'testing' him and declaring that he had just repeated Filippo Brunelleschi's feat when he already has demonstrated that he can draw in 3D? Octagonal building is a little more complex than a cube. I assume he wanted to see if he could pull off drawing a shape he had never done before, so it couldn't be chalked up to repeated practice. Seriously, it's pretty amazing. It's hard for me to imagine how perspective was discovered. That is to say, it is hard for me to imagine how it took so long. It seems so obvious that things that are farther away are smaller, yet you look at so many Byzantine paintings for example, and you have crowds of people with the ones in back every bit as big as the ones in front. I wish I could ask those people wtf they were doing. Does that guy across the street look as big as I do FFS? Yet somehow, this stuff eluded everyone. What Brunelleschi discovered was more than that though. He figured out how the lines converged to the horizon, and how to accurately draw a shape on a 2d plane, not just vaguely making things in the background smaller. It all seems incredibly obvious to me, and to you. We can look at paintings and drawings and drafts and first person games and see how it works. It seems so obvious we wonder how it was ever not known, yet it was only 600 years ago that it was discovered. The blind guy didn't benefit from having this stuff already known. He guy can't look at 2d drawings of 3d objects, and make the connection with how things that are farther away appear smaller. To make that same leap as Brunelleschi, and without eyes is astonishing. Having him draw the baptistry was I assume (in addition to the stunterific nature of it) to show that he didn't just know how to draw a cube, but could really translate a shape into a 2d representation with perspective. That said, you could see 5 walls of the baptistry in his drawing instead of 3, so it wasn't perfect. I'm pretty willing to cut him a little slack given his lack of eyes. His roof and ground lines did what they were supposed to. I am really amazed. | ||
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