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A method of creating music using frequencies to represent instruments. As you can imagine, this does not create beautiful and complex music, but flat, lifeless electronic sounds. It was useful--and often used--in early video games before wavetable synthesis became widespread.
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FM synthesis - http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-sbc10jun10,1,4839600.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-businessThe firm is ordered to cease its practice of refusing to provide theservice to people who switch phone carriers.By James S. Granelli, Times Staff WriterSBC Communications Inc. is violating California law by refusing tomake its high-speed Internet service SBC-Yahoo DSL availableto customers who switch their local voice service to rival carriers,according to a decision Wednesday.The ruling by a Public Utilities Commission administrative law judgestates that SBC's refusal "is not just or reasonable" and thatCalifornia's dominant local phone company must cease the practice.The decision becomes effective in 30 days unless any party files anappeal to the PUC, or a commissioner requests a review.Competitors have complained that SBC has unfairly maintained itscontrol over local phone service partly by tying that to its DSL, ordigital subscriber line, service.SBC executives, who have not yet seen the decision, insisted Wednesdaythat the company didn't have to provide its DSL service to customerswho wanted to move their local phone service to a rival.Full story at:http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-sbc10jun10,1,4839600.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business
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