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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Treecko posted:

Are you implying I should fire myself into the sun and pretend I'm Matt Damon?

What would you grow on a one acre space that also has some vertical potential?

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Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!

redshirt posted:

What would you grow on a one acre space that also has some vertical potential?

Potatoes

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
How do I get audio from a Moog Theremini to a computer? I have the appropriate USB cable. I just don't know anything about MIDI. Well, beyond that I used to download and save MIDI versions of Space Quest themes long ago, in the ages of myth. It looks like this is simpler on Macs, which I don't have.

Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!
Typical apple user

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

:catdrugs:


I know you are, but what am I?
No, really, what?

Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!
You're a Grey cat

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Animal-Mother posted:

How do I get audio from a Moog Theremini to a computer? I have the appropriate USB cable. I just don't know anything about MIDI. Well, beyond that I used to download and save MIDI versions of Space Quest themes long ago, in the ages of myth. It looks like this is simpler on Macs, which I don't have.

MIDI is for control messages ("play a middle C"), not audio. From the look of it, the Theremini speaks MIDI so you can use it as a synth engine - which means you use a keyboard, a midi file, or some sort of composing software to send it notes to play. There may also be some Moog software to configure it over the same MIDI-over-USB link.

To get audio into a PC, plug the line out into line in on a sound card. The one on your motherboard will work as a proof of concept, but something nicer will add less background noise. If you're on a laptop, you probably need a USB sound card of some sort?

Note that while it has both headphone and line out, and they do similar things, line out is standardised as ±1V from ground as peak volume, while headphone out depends on the volume settings but often goes higher.

As for MIDI files, playing them on a PC back in the day meant using your sound card as a synth engine and sending it the MIDI commands from the file. I think Windows has a software synth to play them these days?

Computer viking fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Oct 27, 2023

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Animal-Mother posted:

How do I get audio from a Moog Theremini to a computer? I have the appropriate USB cable. I just don't know anything about MIDI. Well, beyond that I used to download and save MIDI versions of Space Quest themes long ago, in the ages of myth. It looks like this is simpler on Macs, which I don't have.



Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4th Gen USB Audio Interface https://a.co/d/fiJXI0Z

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
Holy Toledo, thank you.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Why can't every day be Friday?

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


We don't have enough Rebeca Blacks

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Where could we get more from?

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Can't, we've hit Peak Black decades ago.
In fifty years or so we might be all out!

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Then there's no hope? We may as well give up on the laws of God or man and live as beasts, driven only our most base urges?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

What's at the very very center of the Sun? Gold?

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with



Grimey Drawer

redshirt posted:

What's at the very very center of the Sun? Gold?

Right now? Helium, i suppose.

Zeniel
Oct 18, 2013
An inert helium core with assorted trace elements which are also inert from the previous two star generations that formed before.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Zeniel posted:

An inert helium core with assorted trace elements which are also inert from the previous two star generations that formed before.

So, some gold, right? And silver and iron and even uranium?

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
do ants fart

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



How many animal murders have I been involved in?

It’s easy to look up “how many cows have I eaten” but those results usually add up the weight to find the equivalent number of cows.

I want to know how many deaths I’ve been complicit in, how many animal souls haunt me. Every chicken nugget contains the meat of how many chickens? How many cows are in an average burger? Add that to every little shrimp, and it really starts adding up.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

Snowy posted:

How many animal murders have I been involved in?

It’s easy to look up “how many cows have I eaten” but those results usually add up the weight to find the equivalent number of cows.

I want to know how many deaths I’ve been complicit in, how many animal souls haunt me. Every chicken nugget contains the meat of how many chickens? How many cows are in an average burger? Add that to every little shrimp, and it really starts adding up.

this but animal rape.

"oh look honey, 2 birds flying around, singing!"

meanwhile one of them is desperately trying to evade the other's carnal intention

theres very little consensual sex in the animal kingdom. it makes 'nature' a lot less beautiful once you start to realize it.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

So my theory, based on nothing, is at the heart of every older star is a small secondary nuclear reaction from the very dense material compacted at the center of the sphere of fusion. Like uranium is down there, getting squeezed - forever.

Crazy, right?

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



https://metro.co.uk/2014/11/08/one-mcdonalds-burger-could-contain-meat-from-more-than-100-cows-4940137/

Now I’m guessing that the average person has consumed the meat of millions of animals

E- let’s say average American adult

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!
How do wireless chargers work? Like, how does the electricity get to phone?

I could look this up, but the answers here will probably be more entertaining.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
Is it too soon to dress up like lowtax for Halloween?

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Disco Pope posted:

How do wireless chargers work? Like, how does the electricity get to phone?

I could look this up, but the answers here will probably be more entertaining.

Very inefficiently

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

Disco Pope posted:

How do wireless chargers work? Like, how does the electricity get to phone?

I could look this up, but the answers here will probably be more entertaining.

magnets. no actually, i think im being serious. I used one once and it had that same sort of pull as you get from a fridge door, only very faint.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

What is Halloween officially (or technically) celebrating?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
in tennis why do they call it a forehand if you only use one hand?

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

Disco Pope posted:

How do wireless chargers work? Like, how does the electricity get to phone?

I could look this up, but the answers here will probably be more entertaining.

Induction. An alternating magnetic field can induce current in another wire or antenna nearby. So if you have a loop of wire and alternate the current really fast, like 100khz, it can be used to induce current in another loop placed in line with it.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

why are they making a "reboot" of Frasier but missing all of the characters that made the original show work

if Frasier was just Kelsey Grammer doing the Kelsey Grammar bit it would have been utter crap and thats what the reboot looks like

Unkempt
May 24, 2003

...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...
Do dead ducks float?

(Not a joke, I actually want to know this for reasons)

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Snowy posted:

How many animal murders have I been involved in?

It’s easy to look up “how many cows have I eaten” but those results usually add up the weight to find the equivalent number of cows.

I want to know how many deaths I’ve been complicit in, how many animal souls haunt me. Every chicken nugget contains the meat of how many chickens? How many cows are in an average burger? Add that to every little shrimp, and it really starts adding up.

You're likely not eating the same cow twice, so two burgers = 2 cows. I assume if you're a Westerner you've eaten meat once or twice a day since you were about 3. Let's just say 1.5 animals a day. 547 a year. Just multiply that by how many years its been since you started eating meat.

Using that math I've eaten about 21000 animals, mostly chickens and pigs.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



Funky See Funky Do posted:

You're likely not eating the same cow twice, so two burgers = 2 cows. I assume if you're a Westerner you've eaten meat once or twice a day since you were about 3. Let's just say 1.5 animals a day. 547 a year. Just multiply that by how many years its been since you started eating meat.

Using that math I've eaten about 21000 animals, mostly chickens and pigs.

Two burgers might equal one cow if you butcher it yourself. But like the article says, a McDonald’s burger can have meat from up to 100 cows mixed in. I have no idea if that’s anywhere near right but I’d bet the answer is closer to that than 1 cow.

I need to know how many animal souls will be waiting to get vengeance when I meet them in hell. If there’s any bit of that animal in my food then I’m complicit in their death.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

The Management posted:

Is it too soon to dress up like lowtax for Halloween?

it's not "too soon" but it does raise the question of where exactly are you going to be celebrating halloween where anyone would even recognize the costume

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


The Management posted:

Is it too soon to dress up like lowtax for Halloween?

How would you even do that? the man just went from one style of 'generic disgusting nerd' to another.
Unless you intend to make a placard reading "I will hit my spouse for expensive cookies and mangosteen juice" no one will know.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Mince is complicated. I don't know how you could possibly account for it. Christ then there's just regular processed meats, your salamis and bologna. Let's just say it's a vast vast number, well into the 10s of thousands.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Mince is complicated. I don't know how you could possibly account for it. Christ then there's just regular processed meats, your salamis and bologna. Let's just say it's a vast vast number, well into the 10s of thousands.

and that's just eating. how many horses did you murder doing arts and crafts with glue as a child?

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club
If you buy a single slice of Arby's roast beef I guarantee you there are ten thousand cows contributing

It's just liquefied solidified cow

Earwicker posted:

and that's just eating. how many horses did you murder doing arts and crafts with glue as a child?

I was that annoying kid in school where, once I found out glue was made from horses I made sure everyone knew it, and all the girls would cry*

*like first grade, I'm talking about

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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

why did Jeffrey Jones continue to have a career in tv and film for like two decades after being arrested for child porn?

like its weird that he was never brought up in any of the discourse around "cancel culture". and it's not like people were overlooking it due to him being a particularly popular actor/celeb or anything, he's always played fairly small roles and most of his characters are kind of annoying, and he's unattactive to boot.

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