Aren't you the guy who updates the Slashboxes? Why are old, dead sties still listed in the Slashbox list, while new interesting ones like missingmatter never get added?
A Linux cluster is an expensive, ridiculously overpowered and basically silly way to provide what you need. Professional solutions already exist for massive audio processing.
Symbolic Sound, for example, makes a box called the Capybara which is comprised of 4 DSPs (expandable to 28) and a bunch of RAM, all of it specifically designed for sound computation. This is the box that sound designers for Star Wars, etc. use. Why bother with spending tens of thousands of dollars on a Linux cluster when one Capybara will probably offer more effects power than you'll ever need?
Or, get Pro Tools and use TDMs. Those sound better anyway.:)
They should have sold it back in the days when business.com sold for $7 million... at that time, a "crack portal" would have probably seemed like a good idea, since that's what they must have been on anyway to think business.com was worth $7 million.
The Dreamcast was Sega's last console; I believe they are going to concentrate on software from now on. And, as a software development house, they no longer compete directly with Nintendo.
These days Nintendo is strong among younger kids with the Mario/Pokemon type stuff, whereas Sega commands a (somewhat) older audience because it has a more 'extreme', less family safe image (going all the way back to those "sega!" attitude commercials). Also, Sega has a lot of experience in simulator rides and location-based entertaiment, which is stuff that Nintendo is not strong in. So the companies seem to complement one another very nicely, actually, if you factor out the console war.
Look at his past columns: WebTV: What's the Big Deal Apple's Slide Started with Jobs Microsoft's Greed is Good Place Your Bets on Microsoft More than that, look at the way he flip-flops on Apple. In this column he says Jobs will kill Apple. "History will not be kind to Apple, which is destined to be remembered as successor to Xerox in more ways than one. [...] [they brought] Jobs back to finish off the suicide he had commenced some 15 years before." Then later on in this column: "Movie mogul, high-tech innovator -- can Steve Jobs screw up anything?" Frankly I don't see why he has a job as a technology columnist at all.
The saddest part about all this is how Bungie thinks they can really stay the same, while owned by Microsoft... it's just like when a popular indie artist with a loyal cadre of fans signs with a major label. "Don't worry," they say, "We'll still do everything the way we always have, our Corporate Owners promised not to tell us how to do things. We'll stay true..." Of course, we all know what happens after that.
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Aren't you the guy who updates the Slashboxes? Why are old, dead sties still listed in the Slashbox list, while new interesting ones like missingmatter never get added?
I have used the Sidstation (sometimes two of them) in many of my tracks. Please take a listen!
It's certainly worth wracking your brain to learn how to spell "sophomore".
Um. The person said he was using Cubase VST, which as far as I know is Mac/Windows only.
A Linux cluster is an expensive, ridiculously overpowered and basically silly way to provide what you need. Professional solutions already exist for massive audio processing.
:)
Symbolic Sound, for example, makes a box called the Capybara which is comprised of 4 DSPs (expandable to 28) and a bunch of RAM, all of it specifically designed for sound computation. This is the box that sound designers for Star Wars, etc. use. Why bother with spending tens of thousands of dollars on a Linux cluster when one Capybara will probably offer more effects power than you'll ever need?
Or, get Pro Tools and use TDMs. Those sound better anyway.
Some photos of Ten Nelson's Xanadu displaying hyperlinks in 1972 are here. Hopefully, Prodigy's lawyers will see this.
They should have sold it back in the days when business.com sold for $7 million... at that time, a "crack portal" would have probably seemed like a good idea, since that's what they must have been on anyway to think business.com was worth $7 million.
How old are you anyway, CmdrTaco? As I recall the 3DO came out in 1994...
These days Nintendo is strong among younger kids with the Mario/Pokemon type stuff, whereas Sega commands a (somewhat) older audience because it has a more 'extreme', less family safe image (going all the way back to those "sega!" attitude commercials). Also, Sega has a lot of experience in simulator rides and location-based entertaiment, which is stuff that Nintendo is not strong in. So the companies seem to complement one another very nicely, actually, if you factor out the console war.
Look at his past columns: WebTV: What's the Big Deal Apple's Slide Started with Jobs Microsoft's Greed is Good Place Your Bets on Microsoft More than that, look at the way he flip-flops on Apple. In this column he says Jobs will kill Apple. "History will not be kind to Apple, which is destined to be remembered as successor to Xerox in more ways than one. [...] [they brought] Jobs back to finish off the suicide he had commenced some 15 years before." Then later on in this column: "Movie mogul, high-tech innovator -- can Steve Jobs screw up anything?" Frankly I don't see why he has a job as a technology columnist at all.
The saddest part about all this is how Bungie thinks they can really stay the same, while owned by Microsoft... it's just like when a popular indie artist with a loyal cadre of fans signs with a major label. "Don't worry," they say, "We'll still do everything the way we always have, our Corporate Owners promised not to tell us how to do things. We'll stay true..." Of course, we all know what happens after that.