The point is, in parts of England, 10 to 30 feet can mean a lot of people. It's not unrealistic to imagine that this transmitter could cause havoc in... say... an old-age pensioners housing community, where they listen to the radio avidly.
Just think of the damage that could be done. Ever heard of "War of the Worlds"?
I've replaced the external case on my Rev. A tiBook *3* times. I wouldn't wish this fate on anyone, not even my worst enemy, not even once. It is a terrible task. It is like trying to get a deadly sharks guts put back into it once you've cut it wide open, and then hoping it still swims again later. *3* times.
I have two pieces left I cannot figure where they came from - but hey, my laptop still works somehow.
AppleCare is worth it, even though it is expensive, it is nice to know I'll never have to do such a thing again in my entire life.
... same thing happens here in Germany, incidentally.
All ATM records are analyzed, and spending-behaviour patterns are monitored... if you suddenly show up in one big city with a big credit card purchase, whereas hours before you used an ATM at a small country town, you can find yourself declined... until their system counts down and finds your habits again in the other city/other credit network.
Pretty tricky. I guess this is what happens when you let criminals and criminality drive the demands of the culture...
Oh, fine then, that makes life much easier, LOL. I'll go back to Windows right away, Mr. Gates, Sir.
No OS can guarantee total security right now, but there are some OS'es that can guarantee that you won't be completely butt-raped by security problems every week... unlike M$ Windows.
I dig my NX70V... it is most righteous being able to read slashdot.org anywhere in my pad, wirelessly. I can even go across the road to the park with it.
In my opinion, PDA's are getting better and better every month...
After that, head into Arizona, preferably in a restored muscle car from the early 70s.
Funny you should mention that actually, my best friend in LA drives a big fat red convertible 1969 Chevvy Impala which he bought off the side of the road in Arizona (where he is from).
... who lived in LA for 15 years (before moving to Europe last year) I would have to say that you definitely need to see LA. Climb Griffith Park, look out on that big bad city, and smile - there is *nothing* like that in Australia.
Then turn around and look out over The Valley, just for a followup.
Check out all the usual geek stuff: Fry's, the Sony center in SF, etc. Then leave California behind and head out to Arizona, the Grand Canyon, Nevada, etc. America has some great big wide open spaces - not quite as great, and big, and wide, and open as ours, mind you, but they do have some.
I would definitely do the LA->SF drive up the coast, also, it is worth it just to get a feel for the state of California coastline (not as good as ours, but still good).
Then when you're finished, go home and have a swim! The Yanks don't have beaches anywhere like ours!
(Or the Germans either, curse it!!! CURSE THE RUHRGEBEIT IN SUMMER TIME!)
You've probably used more RealBasic apps on your Windows and Mac platforms than you realize.
And you're not getting my point (or trying to divert from it, troll!) which is that *Enterprises*, given a simple easy to use RAD environment for developing their own easy to use, simple, standard good-quality *custom* apps for their own uses internally, will be more easily swung over to the Linux camp now that RealBasic - a development system targetting Win, Mac and Linux in one fell swoop - is available.
The computer application sphere isn't just dominated by $10 shareware or shelf apps. There are hundreds of thousands of applications out there which you will never see: ones built, custom-wise, specifically for internal use within an organization.
I've got a list of 8 potential customers I could go to now that RealBasic is available for Linux, where before there wouldn't have been a chance to even get Linux in the door - because a cross-platform RAD tool for developing business apps wasn't available.
I once found my old Yggdrasil boot CD's floating around at the bottom of an old dusty box, and just for grins I fired it up on a PC I had spare at the time.
Holy smokes, was Yggdrasil ever FAST!!!:) I remember having to wait 20 minutes for my old 486 box to boot from those CD's (well, okay, I was using the 'live CD' boot to X feature of Ygg, heh heh heh...) but these days, on the PC's we have now, holy smokes is all I can say!
Really fun to see the old Linux distro's, anyway. If you ever find a 1.0 release from a Linux distro - keep it!
I mean, really. Kylix doesn't run under OSX yet? Pffttt.
With this move to supporting Linux, RealBasic is now what Delphi should have been... oh, say, 2 years ago.
I for one look forward to the *thousands* of simple, easy to use, well-written RealBasic apps that can now be relatively easily ported to Linux.
I think that having a RAD tool like RealBasic around is going to be very positive for Linux - even in the light of other RAD tools, such as Kylix, the Gnome stuff (whatsitcalled?), &etc. RealBasic has been responsible for a lot of good, simple, easy apps under MacOS and Windows, from checkbook balancing programs to automatic downloaders, to email programs, etc.
Having all of these new apps for Linux may well give a lot of companies the incentive to re-consider Linux on the desktop - well, in fact, having the ability to port RealBasic apps from Windows or OSX -> Linux will do a *lot* for Linux on the desktop, in my opinion.
In my days as a consultant focusing exclusively on implementing Linux solutions for customers, there were plenty of examples of when a small to medium sized business would've run Linux if only there were (perceived to be) an easier "VB" style app development environment for Linux. This was supposed to happen with Kylix, but somehow that fell sort of flat (didn't it?).
I hope RealBasic kicks some serious ass in this arena, and we start to see really interesting new apps being developed for Linux which don't just do the same old thing...
Well yes of course there is, but this doesn't make us a software synth manufacturer. The fact is, our software exists for one purpose - to make our custom-designed hardware function properly. We will never write synth softwaare for PC's or Mac's - we write synth software exclusively for our own custom-designed, modern, synthesizers.
We're not Native Instruments. We're a hardware synth manufacturer - one of the last 'new ones'. Not all of our products are DSP-based synthesizers, either... our core focus is hardware development.
Yes, of course it would be possible, but I don't work for a software synthesizer manufacturer, I work for a hardware synthesizer manufacturer.
We actually make money (soft synth guys don't, pity for them). This means it is more seductive for someone to require us to license something like this technology.
We'd rather just come up with it ourselves.
Either way though, the lesson to be learnt from MIT is that there is a loooot of room for improvement in the control surface side of things.
It's not always practical to apply this technology to the music-instrument market, though. The economy of the musical instrument market is a pretty tight one, sometimes - licensing things like this for incorporation into a product can make or break a product. I don't think the D-Beam or any of the other Ir-based controllers, for example, resulted in any kind of increased revenues, but they sure did cost a bundle to license.
As far as integrating alternative-control methods into musical instruments, we're actively engaged in research, within certain constraints.
There may well be some interesting new synthesizers on the horizon...
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I don't get it. What is this from?
I'll tell you why not: because its PERL!
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I can't imagine it was good at 1.0, considering how crap it is at its current whatever-it-is release
The point is, in parts of England, 10 to 30 feet can mean a lot of people. It's not unrealistic to imagine that this transmitter could cause havoc in ... say ... an old-age pensioners housing community, where they listen to the radio avidly.
Just think of the damage that could be done. Ever heard of "War of the Worlds"?
I've replaced the external case on my Rev. A tiBook *3* times. I wouldn't wish this fate on anyone, not even my worst enemy, not even once. It is a terrible task. It is like trying to get a deadly sharks guts put back into it once you've cut it wide open, and then hoping it still swims again later. *3* times.
I have two pieces left I cannot figure where they came from - but hey, my laptop still works somehow.
AppleCare is worth it, even though it is expensive, it is nice to know I'll never have to do such a thing again in my entire life.
... same thing happens here in Germany, incidentally.
... until their system counts down and finds your habits again in the other city/other credit network.
All ATM records are analyzed, and spending-behaviour patterns are monitored... if you suddenly show up in one big city with a big credit card purchase, whereas hours before you used an ATM at a small country town, you can find yourself declined
Pretty tricky. I guess this is what happens when you let criminals and criminality drive the demands of the culture...
"All machines are vulnerable."
Oh, fine then, that makes life much easier, LOL. I'll go back to Windows right away, Mr. Gates, Sir.
No OS can guarantee total security right now, but there are some OS'es that can guarantee that you won't be completely butt-raped by security problems every week... unlike M$ Windows.
Bah! You only say that cause you're probably a crap C programmer.
..."
...
Real C programmers never think "never program in language unless you have to".
Real C programmers think "I can make any new computer language under the sun in C, so why should I switch from C in the first place
"(void *)(void *);"
... flaws ... whats next?
... a year.
Hey, it isn't news any more. Windows security, that is.
I'll go back to considering the possibility of using Microsoft profucts when I haven't heard a single security problem for
In the meantime, I've completely stopped using all Microsoft products. For good. Anyone else?
Have you not seen the new Sony Clie UX-series yet?
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I dig my NX70V... it is most righteous being able to read slashdot.org anywhere in my pad, wirelessly. I can even go across the road to the park with it.
In my opinion, PDA's are getting better and better every month
In Soviet Russia ... joke get sick of you!
I guess "Microsoft Haters Society" would be better?
... YOU spam SPAMMERS!!!
Or something like that. Shit, I'm never good at being funny.
The media hate videogames because both videogames and media are competing for your attention.
If you're playing videogames, you're not watching TV.
After that, head into Arizona, preferably in a restored muscle car from the early 70s.
:)
Funny you should mention that actually, my best friend in LA drives a big fat red convertible 1969 Chevvy Impala which he bought off the side of the road in Arizona (where he is from).
Man, I miss those two!
"And don't you forget it!"
Can you guess who I'd install as the new CEO at SCO?
... who lived in LA for 15 years (before moving to Europe last year) I would have to say that you definitely need to see LA. Climb Griffith Park, look out on that big bad city, and smile - there is *nothing* like that in Australia.
Then turn around and look out over The Valley, just for a followup.
Check out all the usual geek stuff: Fry's, the Sony center in SF, etc. Then leave California behind and head out to Arizona, the Grand Canyon, Nevada, etc. America has some great big wide open spaces - not quite as great, and big, and wide, and open as ours, mind you, but they do have some.
I would definitely do the LA->SF drive up the coast, also, it is worth it just to get a feel for the state of California coastline (not as good as ours, but still good).
Then when you're finished, go home and have a swim! The Yanks don't have beaches anywhere like ours!
(Or the Germans either, curse it!!! CURSE THE RUHRGEBEIT IN SUMMER TIME!)
That's the one! I've still got one sealed - I bought two copies, and saved a sealed one ... just in case!
I'm no collector, but even then I figured I'd do it for posterity.
You've probably used more RealBasic apps on your Windows and Mac platforms than you realize.
And you're not getting my point (or trying to divert from it, troll!) which is that *Enterprises*, given a simple easy to use RAD environment for developing their own easy to use, simple, standard good-quality *custom* apps for their own uses internally, will be more easily swung over to the Linux camp now that RealBasic - a development system targetting Win, Mac and Linux in one fell swoop - is available.
The computer application sphere isn't just dominated by $10 shareware or shelf apps. There are hundreds of thousands of applications out there which you will never see: ones built, custom-wise, specifically for internal use within an organization.
I've got a list of 8 potential customers I could go to now that RealBasic is available for Linux, where before there wouldn't have been a chance to even get Linux in the door - because a cross-platform RAD tool for developing business apps wasn't available.
I once found my old Yggdrasil boot CD's floating around at the bottom of an old dusty box, and just for grins I fired it up on a PC I had spare at the time.
:) I remember having to wait 20 minutes for my old 486 box to boot from those CD's (well, okay, I was using the 'live CD' boot to X feature of Ygg, heh heh heh ...) but these days, on the PC's we have now, holy smokes is all I can say!
Holy smokes, was Yggdrasil ever FAST!!!
Really fun to see the old Linux distro's, anyway. If you ever find a 1.0 release from a Linux distro - keep it!
I mean, really. Kylix doesn't run under OSX yet? Pffttt.
... oh, say, 2 years ago.
...
With this move to supporting Linux, RealBasic is now what Delphi should have been
I for one look forward to the *thousands* of simple, easy to use, well-written RealBasic apps that can now be relatively easily ported to Linux.
I think that having a RAD tool like RealBasic around is going to be very positive for Linux - even in the light of other RAD tools, such as Kylix, the Gnome stuff (whatsitcalled?), &etc. RealBasic has been responsible for a lot of good, simple, easy apps under MacOS and Windows, from checkbook balancing programs to automatic downloaders, to email programs, etc.
Having all of these new apps for Linux may well give a lot of companies the incentive to re-consider Linux on the desktop - well, in fact, having the ability to port RealBasic apps from Windows or OSX -> Linux will do a *lot* for Linux on the desktop, in my opinion.
In my days as a consultant focusing exclusively on implementing Linux solutions for customers, there were plenty of examples of when a small to medium sized business would've run Linux if only there were (perceived to be) an easier "VB" style app development environment for Linux. This was supposed to happen with Kylix, but somehow that fell sort of flat (didn't it?).
I hope RealBasic kicks some serious ass in this arena, and we start to see really interesting new apps being developed for Linux which don't just do the same old thing
Well yes of course there is, but this doesn't make us a software synth manufacturer. The fact is, our software exists for one purpose - to make our custom-designed hardware function properly. We will never write synth softwaare for PC's or Mac's - we write synth software exclusively for our own custom-designed, modern, synthesizers.
... our core focus is hardware development.
We're not Native Instruments. We're a hardware synth manufacturer - one of the last 'new ones'. Not all of our products are DSP-based synthesizers, either
We don't sell software. We sell only hardware.
No, we only sell hardware ... (okay indigo TDM is 'soft' but you still need custom hardware to run it...)
We dont do softsynths.
If access would like to give me one of those oh so pretty indigo2's i'd be happy to help out with some gestural control oriented patches for it. ;)
:)
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We already have patches like that in our patch archive, but nice try!
As for the D-Beam, I think its time is not yet upon us, but like so many aspects of the synthesizer industry, it may yet come one day
Yes, of course it would be possible, but I don't work for a software synthesizer manufacturer, I work for a hardware synthesizer manufacturer.
We actually make money (soft synth guys don't, pity for them). This means it is more seductive for someone to require us to license something like this technology.
We'd rather just come up with it ourselves.
Either way though, the lesson to be learnt from MIT is that there is a loooot of room for improvement in the control surface side of things.
(We know that already, though.)
I watch out for this stuff all the time.
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It's not always practical to apply this technology to the music-instrument market, though. The economy of the musical instrument market is a pretty tight one, sometimes - licensing things like this for incorporation into a product can make or break a product. I don't think the D-Beam or any of the other Ir-based controllers, for example, resulted in any kind of increased revenues, but they sure did cost a bundle to license.
As far as integrating alternative-control methods into musical instruments, we're actively engaged in research, within certain constraints.
There may well be some interesting new synthesizers on the horizon