"The UK authorities have a problem (too much traffic in London)"
No, they don't. The PROBLEM is that the crappy infrastructure in London doesn't allow for the amount of traffic that there is, and has always been. Road infrastructure provision in London is a joke - and the chaos is exacerbated at every turn by incompetent politicians (eg John Prescott) implementing ridiculous schemes like the M4 bus lane. None of the congestion charging crap is necessary, the money would be far better spent ironing the creases and bottlenecks out of the existing system and then upgrading it in a strategic fashion. By the time anything like that happens I'll probably be taking the flying pig express to work.
we callhim "the new Enya". it's a shame really, play isn't a bad work, and "Go" lives with "Stakker Humanoid", "Energy Flash" and others as a TRUE classic.
Plaid copied Aphex Twin? Get a grip! black Dog were doin' it good fro years, Aphex may have influenced but so did many - you need to broaden your horizons and do more listening. Plaid are PLAID - go back to when they were Black Dog and listen to gems like "Object Orient" and "Olivine". If you said Mike Paradinas copied Aphex you'd be right, but it didn't stop him producing some incredible stuff. Does anyone else LOVE LFO too?
what's wrong with Techno? It's a MUCH better name than "electronica" whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean in these days of vocoder-tune pop kids. Techno fits - from Kraftwerk to Marshall Jefferson, from Neu to Transwave, from LFO to Squarepusher.
I totally agree with you about Plaid - their last 3 albums have all been magnificent - and the P-Brane EP is an outstanding foretaste of another to come. Squarepusher, again is incredible - to experience it live is orders of magnitude more moving than the best Acid Trance night will ever be. I'd have to add Aphex Twin to your list - for moments of inspiration he is the absolute king - tracks like "start as you mean to go on", "heliosphan", "polynomial-c" etc etc are just beathtaking.
Beethoven should have had a Korg Prophecy - he was born at the wrong time!
I would add, for the really dedicated listener, Stockhausen, Raymond Scott, Isao Tomita, Jean Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk all made very important contributions. Probably the most extraordinary talent working today is Aphex Twin, closely followed (IMHO) by Squarepusher and Plaid. But I still listen to Krafwerk's "Computer Welt" at least once every week - it's a staggering accomplishment, a real trip.
originating the PDA? what the fuck was the Newton then? credit where it's due, man - shame it was only Palm that realised people would prefer a SMALL PDA to a good one - this new device seems to follow that logic too.
I do. You know, the ones that post on Slashdot all the time. Not owning a Webster dictionary myself, I do sometimes wonder if it's just American English at work - but people like you seem to confirm that it's just plain ignorance. If we can't rely on nerds to be anal about this kind of crap, we might as well through away our dictionaries now.
not fair - Toast is an absolutely fantastic burning pachage, miles better than Nero. Looks to me like the best option is NOT to run the 5.1.4 updater - I haven't and I won't after reading all this.
wrong. People who put Celine Dion into their iMacs had to have them hard reset by a service center. These fuckers are actually SELLING trojans to you now as entertainment.
your post is actually rather interesting, and it's an issue that I was not aware of. It seems extremely odd that UMA chipset based machines should bother to support ADB at all, but I'm assuming that the idea is to save USB bandwidth (or, more likely, laziness). I would also expect that some future revisio of UMA will drop ADB support entirely, but I would hardly consider ADB "broken by design". It wa merely a design choice with some unfortunate consequences - as have many design choices. That's life.
actually, I was in the back of a London TAxi awhile ago and it had a built-in LCD screen that was supposed to be spewing advertising crap at me. It couldn't though, because it had bluescreened - the driver was blissfully unaware - and I figured it would be fair not to tell him. What a joke.
i think it would look better if he'd hacked a Mac - iTunes would be beautiful in my car. Still, nice work, shame it's Windows...
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actually, I've got an old Syquest EZ Flyer drive that i bought about five years ago - I hardly use it now, but every disk I've got for it (25) work absolutely perfectly. In contrast, I've been through FOUR Jaz drives and I've got a box full of unusable Jaz disks - and those bastards were pretty expensive.
wow! that's a bold statement. You've got a "Quickhoover" and you're saying it's quiet? OK, a PC might be louder, but the Mac is still pretty loud. Anyone who's used to a Cube, iMac or laptop would be offended. I've got a load of Powermacs - the oldest is a B&W G3 550 (overclocked) which is virtually silent, same goes for a first generation G4 400 (same noise), a 450dp G4 and a 500dp - (acceptably quiet), a 733 DA G4 (sounds like a hoover three rooms away) and a 1000dp (quite noticeable). having said all that, our PC workstations HAVE TO live in a amchine room because of their offensively loud Pabst fans.
not 100% sure, but the mug that I'm drinking my tea out of RIGHT NOW says "Goonhilly Down". I bought it from BT's shop at their facility. Despite it being BT operated, the tour is quite interesting - definitely worth a look if you're down that way. Believe it or not, they actually have a small BT "high street" phone down there too. Just in case you were driving past the Earth Station and felt an urgent need for a new BT Response 'phone. Truly risible. Dishes are great, though!
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actually NO Macs come with floppy drives, and haven't done for about 3-4 years now. Not that it matters, the floppy disk is the second most unreliable medium in the history of IT - just pipped by the Jaz disk
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"The UK authorities have a problem (too much traffic in London)"
No, they don't. The PROBLEM is that the crappy infrastructure in London doesn't allow for the amount of traffic that there is, and has always been. Road infrastructure provision in London is a joke - and the chaos is exacerbated at every turn by incompetent politicians (eg John Prescott) implementing ridiculous schemes like the M4 bus lane. None of the congestion charging crap is necessary, the money would be far better spent ironing the creases and bottlenecks out of the existing system and then upgrading it in a strategic fashion. By the time anything like that happens I'll probably be taking the flying pig express to work.
we callhim "the new Enya". it's a shame really, play isn't a bad work, and "Go" lives with "Stakker Humanoid", "Energy Flash" and others as a TRUE classic.
Plaid copied Aphex Twin? Get a grip! black Dog were doin' it good fro years, Aphex may have influenced but so did many - you need to broaden your horizons and do more listening. Plaid are PLAID - go back to when they were Black Dog and listen to gems like "Object Orient" and "Olivine". If you said Mike Paradinas copied Aphex you'd be right, but it didn't stop him producing some incredible stuff. Does anyone else LOVE LFO too?
what's wrong with Techno? It's a MUCH better name than "electronica" whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean in these days of vocoder-tune pop kids. Techno fits - from Kraftwerk to Marshall Jefferson, from Neu to Transwave, from LFO to Squarepusher.
I totally agree with you about Plaid - their last 3 albums have all been magnificent - and the P-Brane EP is an outstanding foretaste of another to come. Squarepusher, again is incredible - to experience it live is orders of magnitude more moving than the best Acid Trance night will ever be. I'd have to add Aphex Twin to your list - for moments of inspiration he is the absolute king - tracks like "start as you mean to go on", "heliosphan", "polynomial-c" etc etc are just beathtaking.
Beethoven should have had a Korg Prophecy - he was born at the wrong time!
I would add, for the really dedicated listener, Stockhausen, Raymond Scott, Isao Tomita, Jean Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk all made very important contributions. Probably the most extraordinary talent working today is Aphex Twin, closely followed (IMHO) by Squarepusher and Plaid. But I still listen to Krafwerk's "Computer Welt" at least once every week - it's a staggering accomplishment, a real trip.
Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Plaid, FSOL, Underworld, Orbital. You might as well start as you mean to go on.
originating the PDA? what the fuck was the Newton then? credit where it's due, man - shame it was only Palm that realised people would prefer a SMALL PDA to a good one - this new device seems to follow that logic too.
I'm terribly sorry, that should have been "throw away". It wasn't underlined you see... :-]
I do. You know, the ones that post on Slashdot all the time. Not owning a Webster dictionary myself, I do sometimes wonder if it's just American English at work - but people like you seem to confirm that it's just plain ignorance. If we can't rely on nerds to be anal about this kind of crap, we might as well through away our dictionaries now.
not fair - Toast is an absolutely fantastic burning pachage, miles better than Nero. Looks to me like the best option is NOT to run the 5.1.4 updater - I haven't and I won't after reading all this.
that's not fair - it's AMERICANS that say Duel, Definately, Loose etc etc etc
wrong. People who put Celine Dion into their iMacs had to have them hard reset by a service center. These fuckers are actually SELLING trojans to you now as entertainment.
your post is actually rather interesting, and it's an issue that I was not aware of. It seems extremely odd that UMA chipset based machines should bother to support ADB at all, but I'm assuming that the idea is to save USB bandwidth (or, more likely, laziness). I would also expect that some future revisio of UMA will drop ADB support entirely, but I would hardly consider ADB "broken by design". It wa merely a design choice with some unfortunate consequences - as have many design choices. That's life.
G5 Quicksilvers? Next!
the Mazda Cosmo from nearly ten years ago had something similar - VERY gorgeous, albeit CRT based!
actually, I was in the back of a London TAxi awhile ago and it had a built-in LCD screen that was supposed to be spewing advertising crap at me. It couldn't though, because it had bluescreened - the driver was blissfully unaware - and I figured it would be fair not to tell him. What a joke.
i think it would look better if he'd hacked a Mac - iTunes would be beautiful in my car. Still, nice work, shame it's Windows...
actually, I've got an old Syquest EZ Flyer drive that i bought about five years ago - I hardly use it now, but every disk I've got for it (25) work absolutely perfectly. In contrast, I've been through FOUR Jaz drives and I've got a box full of unusable Jaz disks - and those bastards were pretty expensive.
wow! that's a bold statement. You've got a "Quickhoover" and you're saying it's quiet? OK, a PC might be louder, but the Mac is still pretty loud. Anyone who's used to a Cube, iMac or laptop would be offended. I've got a load of Powermacs - the oldest is a B&W G3 550 (overclocked) which is virtually silent, same goes for a first generation G4 400 (same noise), a 450dp G4 and a 500dp - (acceptably quiet), a 733 DA G4 (sounds like a hoover three rooms away) and a 1000dp (quite noticeable). having said all that, our PC workstations HAVE TO live in a amchine room because of their offensively loud Pabst fans.
not 100% sure, but the mug that I'm drinking my tea out of RIGHT NOW says "Goonhilly Down". I bought it from BT's shop at their facility. Despite it being BT operated, the tour is quite interesting - definitely worth a look if you're down that way. Believe it or not, they actually have a small BT "high street" phone down there too. Just in case you were driving past the Earth Station and felt an urgent need for a new BT Response 'phone. Truly risible. Dishes are great, though!
actually NO Macs come with floppy drives, and haven't done for about 3-4 years now. Not that it matters, the floppy disk is the second most unreliable medium in the history of IT - just pipped by the Jaz disk
it's just GOONHILLY DOWN - there's no extra "s"
Yeah? Well you're an anonymous bastard. Come back with your childish threats when you've grown some balls and logged in.
we're already in a literacy dark age if Americans REALLY THINK that's how you spell DEFINITELY.
LEARN TO SPELL YOU FUCKING MORON.