The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XV

[PeteAtoms]

To the guitarists out there:

When I'm reading a tab, and I see a slide that look like this "0/4," how exactly do I slide an open string to the fourth fret? Don't you need a finger on a fret somewhere to do a slide?

 

[madviking]

Screenshot of the tab in question?

//guitar n00b

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Sounds like a hammer on rather than a slide.

 

[PeteAtoms]

I could play it on the next string over the 0/4 would be 5/9 on that, but my movement up and down the neck isn't very fast yet.

Thanks though. I'll just rewrite it to play on the other strings further up (down?) the neck.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Depends on the book. But the common novel, half a year to a year. For nonfiction, they often come out in what they call the trade paperback, which is the paperback which is the size of a hardcover book, in a year or so.

Are those the tiny ones that like to fall apart?

 

[Cutlass]

Are those the tiny ones that like to fall apart?

The poor manufacture of some books doesn't change when they are published.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

Why does Dave Franco resemble Christina Ronaldo so much?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The poor manufacture of some books doesn't change when they are published.

I have some books over 100 years old that are in better shape than cheap paperbacks less than a year old.

 

[Love]

To the guitarists out there:

When I'm reading a tab, and I see a slide that look like this "0/4," how exactly do I slide an open string to the fourth fret? Don't you need a finger on a fret somewhere to do a slide?

Bad tab, use hammer-on or 4/9.

 

[Cutlass]

I have some books over 100 years old that are in better shape than cheap paperbacks less than a year old.

Cheap process to save money. Most books aren't kept all that long.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

What's the difference between last.fm and Pandora? Which one is better?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What's the difference between last.fm and Pandora? Which one is better?

Since Pandora is named for a certain sci-fi moon, and since so many people here hate that movie, it should be plainly obvious which channel people here think would be better.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Since Pandora is named for a certain sci-fi moon, and since so many people here hate that movie, it should be plainly obvious which channel people here think would be better.

What moon? I thought Pandora was some stupid Greek chick that opened a box when a man clearly told her not to (hence all the world's demons).

 

[cardgame]

What's the difference between last.fm and Pandora? Which one is better?

Try them yourself.

Last.fm is ridiculously superior in every way that matters.

 

[Cashie]

The National Bolsheviks are rising.

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But also...

 

[Cashie]

What's the difference between last.fm and Pandora? Which one is better?

If you're outside the US, you can't use Pandora, which I'd never heard of before.
Last.fm is great.

 

[cardgame]

Pandora's method for finding different music sucks compared to last.fm's and it has waaaaaay more ads.

 

[Tee Kay]

I have a floor lamp. Something like this (actually, exactly like this):

So, after an incident involving me falling from a great height and landing on the lamp, the aluminium pole snapped in two at where the wire leads into it (it's not damaged otherwise). If possible, how best should I put it back together again, short of welding it together.?

 

[Shekwan]

Tape the top end to a wall. This isn't a joke, I would do that. Job done in like sixty seconds.

 

[Zelig]

Buy a new lamp from whatever people in Australia use instead of craigslist.