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November 3

Naruto or Star Wars?

Is Naruto or Star Wars better overall? Thanks in advance. 71.34.247.114 00:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Since one is a manga and anime TV series and the other is a film franchise there's no meaningful way to compare the two. Exxolon 00:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

For some reason, this is reminding me of Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Sith. What would a Naruto/Star Wars combination be, chakra versus the Force? bibliomaniac15 A straw poll on straw polls 00:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

How do you measure "better"? Star Wars is better if you like sassy robots and emphasemic cyborgs. Naturo is better if you like 2D 6fps animation and antigravity hairdos... and ninjas. Not a whole lot of ninjas in Star Wars. --72.202.150.92 06:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)]

Without stirring up the otaku beehive...Star Wars was a major film sensation, made its way into popular culture, revolutionized special effects in film, and was one of the most successful film franchises in history. Naruto is a ported manga with flying teenage ninjas and giant many-tailed foxes appealing to little more than its core audience. "Better" is subjective, but Star Wars has had much more of an effect on society at large. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 06:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Recording

Hey I'm wondering if I can, if it is even possible, to record sound onto a blank CD with a karoeke microphone? Maybe one needs certain machines to do so?Jwking 02:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, a machine must be used. To record onto a CD, you must alter the backside of the foil. You could mutilate the foil with a microphone, but you'll never record sound by pounding on the CD with the microphone. The easiest thing to do is use the microphone to record a sound file on a computer. Then, use the computer to burn that sound file to the CD. In this case, the computer is your machine. -- kainaw™ 16:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but then computers don't have microphone jacks that big that will suport a full microphone. It has to be a full kareoke microphone and not like a little computer one because unfortunately those computer ones cant handle too much sound or base. Im recording entire concert dvds so that their soundtracks u could say.Jwking 04:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

A computer will do everything you are asking. Here are some options in order of increasing expense:

• If sound quality isn't that important, you can just get a 1/4" to 1/8" mini plug adapter from a place like Radio Shack for maybe $5-8. Hi-fi enthusiasts will cringe at that suggestion because the inside of a computer is usually electromagnetically noisy, and analog connections straight to the computer may make this noise audible in the recording.
• If sound quality is important, an external ADC (Analog-to-digital converters) is usually a good idea. Various ADC's accept what you call "full microphone" input (I presume by this you mean either a 1/4" or XLR connection) — M-Audio and Behringer make a few popular models that accept such input. A store that sells musical instruments can get you one of these, for $30-100 depending on your needs.
• You can avoid using a computer by getting just a standalone component CD recorder. I don't think these ever took off for "professional" recording (which uses tape or hard drives for digital recordings) and I don't know if portable models are available for recording concerts. A standalone CD recorder would probably gain you simplicity at the expense of control. (Having the entire recording on your computer's hard drive makes signal processing with applications like Audacity much easier.) I don't think cheap models (under $100) are available, but you might find something.

If what you are actually trying to do is rip the sound from a DVD and record it to a CD, this is better done with computer software than via speakers and microphone. Ask about that in Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. / edg ☺ ★ 06:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Legal video game emulation

I'd like to know if there are any other websites like World of Spectrum where ROMs or the like are legally, freely avalible for download. The afore mentioned website acquires permission for each game they have for download. Note that abandonware does not count for the purposes of this question.--72.204.45.94 18:53, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

name for music style

I don't know how to describe it but if you have ever watched Tom and Jerry or any other animated series you will know what I am talking about. When tom chases jerrry we have fast, high pitched piano music going on in the background. Does this piano music have a specific name to it? Please help me with it. Wikilinks are very welcome. Regards from a fellow Wikipedian --Kushal^t 19:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC) Oh ... --Kushal^t 00:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I think I know what you're talking about. The only hint I can give you is to look for the song "Merry Go Round Broke Down". This Straight Dope Article might be useful. --Mdwyer 21:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Chase music? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.169.80 (talk) 01:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)