Highly addictive and very playable 3D- titles, like Super Monkey Ball, prove the point. Can't wait for Mario and Zelda... Miyamoto- san knows playability like no other.
Please see the Tascam US-428 for a USB- connecting MIDI and Audio (Analog and Digital, XLR, half-inch jacks) In and Out- Box.
It has knobs and sliders, pre- configured for Cubase, which you assign as you please.
Personally, I use it for Reason, where I like to tweak those filter sweeps physically.
Latency? No problem for me - try it out, it's faster than MIDI.
The Soundblaster thing might be great adding surround to my system, but dunno about it's Mac- friendliness. They make a card for the Mac, but who knows - when it doesn't state any platforms, it's bound to be Windows- only...
The Tascam, of course, works perfectly with any USB- Mac.
Judge_Fire
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Messaging != Talking!
Think about it. The people designing these phones a few years ago couldn't anticipate the SMS craze.
But people actually want it so much they're ready to tap text messages on the hugely uncomfortable numeric keypad - not bleeding edge early adopters, but even grandmas and grandpas. It's a billion business here, and the threshold is soooo much lower than 1) get PC, 2) get ICQ, 3) sit around PC waiting for something to happen.
So there must be something to it. Messaging is closer to email in form, than telephony.
I believe the cultures of email and messaging will merge, become mobile and omnipresent, and just like cell phones, perfectly culturally acceptable to keep turned off when you prefer some privacy. (Busy, away, leave a message... same thing.)
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"I'm picking playability over 3d anyday
Get both, get a GameCube.
Highly addictive and very playable 3D- titles, like Super Monkey Ball, prove the point. Can't wait for Mario and Zelda... Miyamoto- san knows playability like no other.
J
.. linguistic input.
The may issue of Wired has this story on battlefield bots. On page 2, a custom glove for controlling them via American Sign Language is mentioned.
Things in favor of sign language might be it's low noise emission and existing work on using gestures as macros?
J
You might be referring to Osmosis, where one controls movement through a stereoscopic 3D/VR world using breathing techniques and balancing.
J
This cool game, tranquility, can help you relax in that flowing, feeling-like-plankton kinda way, you know?
... and more weird stuff that I've found myself addicted to.
There's no dying, all levels are custom built for you by with help from their server
Works with OS X, OS 9, Win 98 - XP, while a Linux version is in the works.
J
The more cumbersome Classic OS 9 feels, the more it drives home Apple's point of getting developers to OS X.
If users feel the pain, too, they'll bitch about what a pain Classic is and how everything is cool in OS X.
I bet Apple wants to avoid a pro- longed two- system situation, for example by NOT making it nice and comfy.
Judge_Fire
Please see the Tascam US-428 for a USB- connecting MIDI and Audio (Analog and Digital, XLR, half-inch jacks) In and Out- Box.
It has knobs and sliders, pre- configured for Cubase, which you assign as you please.
Personally, I use it for Reason, where I like to tweak those filter sweeps physically.
Latency? No problem for me - try it out, it's faster than MIDI.
The Soundblaster thing might be great adding surround to my system, but dunno about it's Mac- friendliness. They make a card for the Mac, but who knows - when it doesn't state any platforms, it's bound to be Windows- only...
The Tascam, of course, works perfectly with any USB- Mac.
Judge_Fire
Messaging != Talking!
Think about it. The people designing these phones a few years ago couldn't anticipate the SMS craze.
But people actually want it so much they're ready to tap text messages on the hugely uncomfortable numeric keypad - not bleeding edge early adopters, but even grandmas and grandpas. It's a billion business here, and the threshold is soooo much lower than 1) get PC, 2) get ICQ, 3) sit around PC waiting for something to happen.
So there must be something to it. Messaging is closer to email in form, than telephony.
I believe the cultures of email and messaging will merge, become mobile and omnipresent, and just like cell phones, perfectly culturally acceptable to keep turned off when you prefer some privacy. (Busy, away, leave a message... same thing.)
J