Yeah, thats how I know about this problem in the first place, since I'm Australian.
Rail has come a long way since the 1800's, especially in the standards department. I daresay the rebuilding of Europe after WW2 might've had a little to do with that...
I think its far too early to be saying that Hubble is a piece of History... the program is barely 20 years old already.
What is this with Americans thinking that every piece of space machinery they've ever made is 'a piece of history'? This ability to propel everything a culture does into history is sure a good one...
I guess its true. History is made by those who write it.
The only problem with this kind of high-end equipment is that traditional capitalistic methods cannot bring prices down through competition.
I work in this (Synthesizer) business and I can tell you that there are -plenty- of traditional capitalistic methods in force which bring prices down... if you don't think there's a normal capitalistic hardware battle going on between Yamaha, Roland, Korg and the rest of us, well... you can't have been paying much attention.
What the Neko64 does is wrap up PC components into a musician-friendly package. Essentially bringing synth design into the realm of PC case and Joystick peripheral manufacturing... and if that doesn't scream 'capitalistic market practices', I don't know what will...
I saw it at NAMM last year, the sliders didn't move and the knobs were glued on.
Hopefully this year they'll have gotten the control surface working.
Now, since I work for a prominent synthesizer manufacturer, I can't really comment on this system much more (though I would like t) except to repeat what I've already said about it, and that is that its a PC in a box... you will still have to put up with plugin management issues, the PC crashing, Windows, etc.
Its just that it'll all be in a nice plastic grey box. That is all.
Germans working with Chinese directly is International, and I would say 'very' considering that they are not exactly neighbors... not to mention, on any massive engineering project like this, there are countless opportunities for international work and coordination... from design and architecture review/sub-contracting all the way down to ground-work construction management.
Look, the original point has been last in this squabble, but the point still remains: rail is cheap.
i disagree. linux has many orders of magnitude simpler and better ways to have an impact on the desktop, and even linus hinted at it with his photo frame...
i think if you s/Linux on the/GNOME or KDE on the/ then yours is a more accurate reflection.
but this 'desktop' thing seems to me to be a straw man now, because there is still tons and tons of room left on peoples desktops...
I'm sorry Scott, if my review here on/. appeared harsh, but I was disappointed with my purchase. Not -so much- that I felt warranted to request a refund, alas.
If I have any suggestions, it is to get some real clothing designers to work with you on the pattern. Maybe adapt your existing know-how for 'wired clothing' into some more old-school fashion-conscious design ideals... maybe its time for a new product line with consumer electronics in mind? I found that there was no comfortable place to put my ipod without it bouncing and trouncing around, or yanking the light fabric of the vest into an awkward mis-fit. carrying an ipod, a clie and a cell phone, the whole vest just got clanky.
Sorry, but most clothing just isn't designed to -carry- a few extra pounds of weight, only conceal it. I didn't feel like the vest fit properly when it was 'loaded', nor carried things particularly well... but that could just be my frame.
No, but you're -again- missing the point, which is that its the -standards- that count.
rail is the size that it is because of the horse standard, incidentally... a factor which also influenced the diameter of the shuttles booster rockets, or so the urban legends would have it...
Well, there is such a thing as international law, and yes, were they to violate those laws they would be 'bad guys', but then again, we all know there is already no lack of those in the world market...
If it were truly cheaper to maintain in the long run it would be in much wider use, ESPECIALLY in command economies like China. Welcome to the world of Economics.
Uh, whatever. Just because the current administration has budgets and targets to meet, does not mean that they're going to be ambivalent when choosing the 'best option'.
Maglev is unproven on grand-order scales. Rail is seriously proven technology, and more to the point: standard. If the Chinese gov't want to outsource the mfr/design/engineering of super-fast rail-based carriage systems, they can: because these systems exist in an International market, and will be developed. As has already been noted, existing rail systems can be developed to support high-speed/efficiency carriage platforms.
Were there actually maglev implementations committed and standardized in such areas as Europe, the US, perhaps even Australia, then China may have invested a little more in the long-run into grand-order scale (i.e. not just going from here across town) engineering required to do maglev across their vast distances.
They had the potential to do maglev, and do it well, but they also had the potential to end up with a lame duck system which nobody else was using, and therefore which became expensive in the reality of the New World Economy.
Ummm... any large-scale engineering effort of these sorts of things are usually a -very- international effort.
This does matter, to China, and any other government with strong business to maintain, on an International level.
Flippantly assuming that just because the Chinese are the 'Bad Guys' they'll ignore all business regulation, well... thats just a tad ignorant my friend, and extremely blissless.
i guess i did sorta feel guilty, but covered it with the realization that i'd probably spent 1000's of dollar$ on videogames in my teens, and wasted countless hours of sunshine, so was still getting my moneys' worth by reaping a mame-site or two every now and then...
the few gigs of MAME rom's I've got floating around my universe.
i haven't put a quarter (or 50 cents) into a videogame machine in years. MAME was like the 'nirvana'-point of arcade gaming for me... all that investment, and finally, i get something out of it: free access to all the arcade games i could possibly ever want to play.
maglev is cheaper to run and maintain in the long run, but given that rail technology (existing rail technology) is cheap, prevalent, easy on industry, and doesn't require as much beaureaucratic rubbish and nonsense as maglev does (welcome to a world where 'intellectual property' is serious business...), then it stands to reason that the chinese gov't is simply taking the 'cheapest right here right now' option.
the big draw to existing rail systems is that they are -standardized-... and not just the 'so-easy-grandma-can-use-it' kind of standard, but industrially standardized... i.e. thousands of contractors can make rail, and thousands of contractors can make the foundries to make the rail, etc.
due to patents, maglev is a minefield of dangers in the licensing/sub-licensing realm. either invest in -tons- of research to find work-arounds to other teams' intellectual property, or put all that money back in the tried and true: rail.
well, if you intend to make lists of things, you'd better put music at 3rd place, because while it may not be louder than war, or space exploration, it sure lasts longer.
of course, thats just my subjective opinion. objectively, i'd put music at 1st place.
no shit dude, i'm australian, grew up on the good dr., and about had a heart attack when i attended a los angeles-area dr. who 'video club', after a 10-year stint away from all things bbc. sheesh.
those guys knew how to party. i'll never, ever forget the tardis they had.
nothing is more hardcore than a dr. who fan in los angeles.
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Dude, I love that game, the Oric rocks it...
Yeah, thats how I know about this problem in the first place, since I'm Australian.
...
Rail has come a long way since the 1800's, especially in the standards department. I daresay the rebuilding of Europe after WW2 might've had a little to do with that
I think its far too early to be saying that Hubble is a piece of History ... the program is barely 20 years old already.
...
What is this with Americans thinking that every piece of space machinery they've ever made is 'a piece of history'? This ability to propel everything a culture does into history is sure a good one
I guess its true. History is made by those who write it.
The only problem with this kind of high-end equipment is that traditional capitalistic methods cannot bring prices down through competition.
... you can't have been paying much attention.
... and if that doesn't scream 'capitalistic market practices', I don't know what will...
I work in this (Synthesizer) business and I can tell you that there are -plenty- of traditional capitalistic methods in force which bring prices down... if you don't think there's a normal capitalistic hardware battle going on between Yamaha, Roland, Korg and the rest of us, well
What the Neko64 does is wrap up PC components into a musician-friendly package. Essentially bringing synth design into the realm of PC case and Joystick peripheral manufacturing
I saw it at NAMM last year, the sliders didn't move and the knobs were glued on.
... you will still have to put up with plugin management issues, the PC crashing, Windows, etc.
Hopefully this year they'll have gotten the control surface working.
Now, since I work for a prominent synthesizer manufacturer, I can't really comment on this system much more (though I would like t) except to repeat what I've already said about it, and that is that its a PC in a box
Its just that it'll all be in a nice plastic grey box. That is all.
This is a fancy PC case, and nothing more.
Its not open even in the slightest.
Germans working with Chinese directly is International, and I would say 'very' considering that they are not exactly neighbors... not to mention, on any massive engineering project like this, there are countless opportunities for international work and coordination... from design and architecture review/sub-contracting all the way down to ground-work construction management.
Look, the original point has been last in this squabble, but the point still remains: rail is cheap.
Not in this case. Most patents are held by Thyssen and Siemens, both of which are German companies.
Then duh, it would be an International effort then, wouldn't it, since its the Chinese we're talking about.
Either way, no maglev for them.
i disagree. linux has many orders of magnitude simpler and better ways to have an impact on the desktop, and even linus hinted at it with his photo frame...
...
i think if you s/Linux on the/GNOME or KDE on the/ then yours is a more accurate reflection.
but this 'desktop' thing seems to me to be a straw man now, because there is still tons and tons of room left on peoples desktops
I'm sorry Scott, if my review here on
If I have any suggestions, it is to get some real clothing designers to work with you on the pattern. Maybe adapt your existing know-how for 'wired clothing' into some more old-school fashion-conscious design ideals
Sorry, but most clothing just isn't designed to -carry- a few extra pounds of weight, only conceal it. I didn't feel like the vest fit properly when it was 'loaded', nor carried things particularly well... but that could just be my frame.
No, but you're -again- missing the point, which is that its the -standards- that count.
... a factor which also influenced the diameter of the shuttles booster rockets, or so the urban legends would have it ...
rail is the size that it is because of the horse standard, incidentally
Well, there is such a thing as international law, and yes, were they to violate those laws they would be 'bad guys', but then again, we all know there is already no lack of those in the world market ...
If it were truly cheaper to maintain in the long run it would be in much wider use, ESPECIALLY in command economies like China. Welcome to the world of Economics.
Uh, whatever. Just because the current administration has budgets and targets to meet, does not mean that they're going to be ambivalent when choosing the 'best option'.
Maglev is unproven on grand-order scales. Rail is seriously proven technology, and more to the point: standard. If the Chinese gov't want to outsource the mfr/design/engineering of super-fast rail-based carriage systems, they can: because these systems exist in an International market, and will be developed. As has already been noted, existing rail systems can be developed to support high-speed/efficiency carriage platforms.
Were there actually maglev implementations committed and standardized in such areas as Europe, the US, perhaps even Australia, then China may have invested a little more in the long-run into grand-order scale (i.e. not just going from here across town) engineering required to do maglev across their vast distances.
They had the potential to do maglev, and do it well, but they also had the potential to end up with a lame duck system which nobody else was using, and therefore which became expensive in the reality of the New World Economy.
Welcome to that, by the way...
Ummm... any large-scale engineering effort of these sorts of things are usually a -very- international effort.
... thats just a tad ignorant my friend, and extremely blissless.
This does matter, to China, and any other government with strong business to maintain, on an International level.
Flippantly assuming that just because the Chinese are the 'Bad Guys' they'll ignore all business regulation, well
i guess i did sorta feel guilty, but covered it with the realization that i'd probably spent 1000's of dollar$ on videogames in my teens, and wasted countless hours of sunshine, so was still getting my moneys' worth by reaping a mame-site or two every now and then ...
the few gigs of MAME rom's I've got floating around my universe.
... all that investment, and finally, i get something out of it: free access to all the arcade games i could possibly ever want to play.
i haven't put a quarter (or 50 cents) into a videogame machine in years. MAME was like the 'nirvana'-point of arcade gaming for me
the new stuff doesn't interest me.
maglev is cheaper to run and maintain in the long run, but given that rail technology (existing rail technology) is cheap, prevalent, easy on industry, and doesn't require as much beaureaucratic rubbish and nonsense as maglev does (welcome to a world where 'intellectual property' is serious business...), then it stands to reason that the chinese gov't is simply taking the 'cheapest right here right now' option.
... and not just the 'so-easy-grandma-can-use-it' kind of standard, but industrially standardized... i.e. thousands of contractors can make rail, and thousands of contractors can make the foundries to make the rail, etc.
the big draw to existing rail systems is that they are -standardized-
due to patents, maglev is a minefield of dangers in the licensing/sub-licensing realm. either invest in -tons- of research to find work-arounds to other teams' intellectual property, or put all that money back in the tried and true: rail.
duh, freakin' heck, how unimaginative can you get...
.mp3 file (digitally, woohoo!), etc ...
a p2p node for starters, of course.
your own automated call-handler, answers the phone, delivers an
the list goes on. wake me up, though, when someone does python.
well, if you intend to make lists of things, you'd better put music at 3rd place, because while it may not be louder than war, or space exploration, it sure lasts longer.
of course, thats just my subjective opinion. objectively, i'd put music at 1st place.
or something like that.
man, i can't wait to find out what 64-bits is going to mean to my hash tables.
its fun to think that here we are today, about to get into 64-bit computing with massive memory architectures. 8gigs in a laptop? 64-bits?
this is going to make for some very fun software.
its okay, there's gotta be a few dr. who fans in the mod pool who will get it ... give it time ... hah hah!
no, it was not a threat, it was a rhetorical proposition.
if you go around the world ostracizing nations and other people, who will you turn to when you need help?
or do you think that america is beyond the help of other nations?
straight up, everyone knows you're supposed to use the sonic screwdriver, damn ..
no shit dude, i'm australian, grew up on the good dr., and about had a heart attack when i attended a los angeles-area dr. who 'video club', after a 10-year stint away from all things bbc. sheesh.
those guys knew how to party. i'll never, ever forget the tardis they had.
nothing is more hardcore than a dr. who fan in los angeles.
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