- If you would kill people who do this, they won't do it again.
The shooter in Norway was reported to have peacefully given up when the police team arrived, despite of having plenty of ammunition left for booth his guns. Do you think that would have been a just as likely scenario if Norway practiced death penalty?
That's really interesting. I've always wondered why I have passed these CAPTCHAs even when I had to make wild guesses on some of the words because they were so hard to read.
However, how long will it be before a lot of users realize that it is irrelevant what you enter for the unknown word? Even if you don't know for sure which of the word that is the unknown one, knowing the above I think the risk is high that you just type nonsense if you can't read one of the words.
If enough people do this the system will be quite ineffective. reCAPTCHA will probably not accept the wrong solution very often, but it will take a lot of time to get enough users with the same solution to accept it. But with a massive amount of users, even a small amount of the total might be enough to keep it running?
You can get an exact match by using one 1920x1200 center wide screen and two 1600x1200 4:3 screens on the sides. Will also match symmetrically. With a 24-25" center screen and 20" side screens they will also be pretty close in pixel size.
Finally i would also like to recommend getting some kind of LCD monitor arms. With 3 screens on your desk, it's really nice to free up some space. You can push/put stuff away without haveing monitor stands in the way.
One curious thing about music machines: I have never heard a midi piano that sounded as good as the most sterile yamaha piano. Why is that? I would suppose you could do a decent physical simulation of the interior of a piano these days, capturing such things as interaction with other undampened strings. But they don't do that. The sostenuto pedal is usually just an echo effect...
Actually, there are digital pianos today that do a pretty good job at simulating effects like that. Not that they sounds perfectly like a acoustic piano, but they are getting quite close. You can get things like damper and string resonance that simulates how strings are interacting with each other. They can also recreate key-off effects to simulate the subtle sound you get when you release a key on a real piano. In more advanced models you can even find speakers placed inside the cabinet that produce sounds to be captured by a microphone in order simulate how sound resonances in a real piano.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another. -- Adam Smith
