Hi.
I'm looking to upgrade my studio rig after 3 years of not making music (after 17 years of actually making music). I would like to pick your brains, as we say in the UK? Still stuck on SX but would like to upgrade. Could do with some SW/HW advice if you have the time.
We have a film critic called Mark Kermode. Now, I have no problem with his critique of the film industry on the whole, he seems to be fair and balanced as far as cinema goes. But the few times he has mentioned video games, he goes rabid, not stopping short of calling it a waste of time, and generally an immature medium (paraphrasing here, but you know what I mean). In short, he is not far off the sort of reaction I have heard from Ebert over the past few years. Curmudgeonly is but one phrase. Scared is more accurate to my mind. They both sound very afraid of a medium they do not know or understand pulling the rug from beneath their cosy world entertainment viewpoint.
Adapt and survive boys.
Might be redundant here, but have wanted to have my say on this for some time, so please don't mod me down for it if I do. Big chip on shoulder about it.
I was born with a lazy eye. One of the muscles in my right eye has since birth (despite numerous ops at an early age), and always will to a certain extent, be weak. So I lack stereoscopic vision. This is why I think I am a geek and not a jock - Shit at anything that needs a ball (though if it wasn't for my geek knees I'd outrun the fucking lot of you). The other side effect is that there is not a decent photo of me in existence that doesn't need a good photoshopping (incidentally when are they going to come up with a wonky eye macro...?). But I digress.
Anyway, a lot of this 3D cinema stuff is passing me by, I worry about the so called 3D TV (and eventually console, whatever form *that* takes) tsunami that is supposed to hit us this year or next... What I am trying to say is that if the parent is correct and there are approximately 10% of the population of the world that don't have depth of vision, will we be catered for?
One of the first posters said that it would be easy to provide a pair of pseudo 3D glasses with the same polarisation in each eye to cancle out the 3D effect. Something tells me this wont work either...?
Don't even start me on the craze of the 90's where they published pictures you had to focus on to see the 'hidden' picture...
From the summary.. The Amigas had a similar problem.. I worked in computer retail late 80's to mid 90's . the easiest money we made In that place was fixing the old 'green screen bootup' (precursor to BSOD). Take £30 off sucker, take Amiga out the back, smoke and drink coffee for half hour. Drop amiga 2 inches from floor. Happy kids, very happy parents. I should have really got into garbage collection round thAt time.
Unfortunately for me, I've had an incurable lazy eye since birth, ergo no depth perception. I think it's to blame for me being a (proud) geek as although I was athletic I had no depth perception. Man, could I run though. Anyhoo, I love the idea of 3d movies, but I am concerned that people like me will get more and more excluded ad 3d becomes de-facto. Please please include 2d versions as much as possible, even if only on the DVD/blu-ray. I'm sure I'm not in that much of a minority?
Really Netpixie? England (including London) has its faults, like most other places, but it also has a hell of a lot to offer to make up for that. Can we ask where you come from? I can name any number of countries and cities I have visited where I have had negative experiences, but I wouldn't dream of posting my feelings on a public forum like that. Yes, I live in (born and raised) London. You, sir, are a fucking troll.
.. but I have to say (sorry never experienced the swiss socket someone posted about already) that the British plug just seems to give so much more secure a connection when plugged into the wall, very stable. When using a euro or US plug I always feel like it is just going to fall out of the wall of its own accord. And yes the on off switch we have next to each socket saves a lot of wear and tear on plugging/unplugging - you know - to save the planet. Yes, its a little bit more bulky, but is that a real reason not to like it unless you are a weakling (most/. readers maybe?). Doesn't make a difference to me. Up there with the best. Makes me proud to be British (small tear trickles down cheek).
The EU commission is only trying to protect the EU's interests... That's what it's there for, right? Nobody on/. seems to mind when they take Microsoft to task. I wouldn't expect a European company to be able to take advantage of their position in the U.S. without due process, so why the fuck should we put up with the same. Xenophobia at the geek level? Now that is news for nerds... Submission has elements of troll in it. Mod submission down..
I'm just about to go back to working from home. I did it for seven years, but left a job today where I'd been in the office 9-5 with the same people, and I got to say I was sad to leave primarily because the last year there has been so good from the point of view of having people to bounce things off and just as importantly have fun with. As a consequence I have been thinking about this very thing. It won't be practical (or even desirable) to work in a coffee shop all day everyday, but I will make some effort to get out there more often to some local Wifi hotspots. OK, so I'm not going to necessarily talk to anyone, but the hustle and bustle of a public location has got to be better than sitting around in my flat, eating cereal and scratching my nuts. (mental note don't scratch in public).
l0pht may well be intelligent enough to realise that very fact, which is very true. But it might not mean the same to a bunch of North Korean/Chinese/Russian hackers, who might not have anything to lose and want to cause maximum disruption. Hell, they might even think they are so good/out of jurisdiction of the relevent authorities they don't care about anything except maximum disruption. What's your point again?
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This fits in with my 'I'm too pretty to go to prison!' plea.
Yeah, next they'll be telling us Jupiters lost one of its rings. Pfffft.
Hi. I'm looking to upgrade my studio rig after 3 years of not making music (after 17 years of actually making music). I would like to pick your brains, as we say in the UK? Still stuck on SX but would like to upgrade. Could do with some SW/HW advice if you have the time.
We have a film critic called Mark Kermode. Now, I have no problem with his critique of the film industry on the whole, he seems to be fair and balanced as far as cinema goes. But the few times he has mentioned video games, he goes rabid, not stopping short of calling it a waste of time, and generally an immature medium (paraphrasing here, but you know what I mean). In short, he is not far off the sort of reaction I have heard from Ebert over the past few years. Curmudgeonly is but one phrase. Scared is more accurate to my mind. They both sound very afraid of a medium they do not know or understand pulling the rug from beneath their cosy world entertainment viewpoint. Adapt and survive boys.
Might be redundant here, but have wanted to have my say on this for some time, so please don't mod me down for it if I do. Big chip on shoulder about it. I was born with a lazy eye. One of the muscles in my right eye has since birth (despite numerous ops at an early age), and always will to a certain extent, be weak. So I lack stereoscopic vision. This is why I think I am a geek and not a jock - Shit at anything that needs a ball (though if it wasn't for my geek knees I'd outrun the fucking lot of you). The other side effect is that there is not a decent photo of me in existence that doesn't need a good photoshopping (incidentally when are they going to come up with a wonky eye macro...?). But I digress. Anyway, a lot of this 3D cinema stuff is passing me by, I worry about the so called 3D TV (and eventually console, whatever form *that* takes) tsunami that is supposed to hit us this year or next... What I am trying to say is that if the parent is correct and there are approximately 10% of the population of the world that don't have depth of vision, will we be catered for? One of the first posters said that it would be easy to provide a pair of pseudo 3D glasses with the same polarisation in each eye to cancle out the 3D effect. Something tells me this wont work either...? Don't even start me on the craze of the 90's where they published pictures you had to focus on to see the 'hidden' picture...
castration, DRM, the british (hi there!) DEB, net neutrality, smartphone bandwidth redux.... Is HAM radio the new internet?
Adopters. Early Adapters? WTF??
Sorry, but no. Input audio circuitry - line in - will be analog. SPDIF out will be output circuitry, and digital to boot. No driver can change that.
From the summary.. The Amigas had a similar problem.. I worked in computer retail late 80's to mid 90's . the easiest money we made In that place was fixing the old 'green screen bootup' (precursor to BSOD). Take £30 off sucker, take Amiga out the back, smoke and drink coffee for half hour. Drop amiga 2 inches from floor. Happy kids, very happy parents. I should have really got into garbage collection round thAt time.
An article about Bill without the Borg icon in place..
Unfortunately for me, I've had an incurable lazy eye since birth, ergo no depth perception. I think it's to blame for me being a (proud) geek as although I was athletic I had no depth perception. Man, could I run though. Anyhoo, I love the idea of 3d movies, but I am concerned that people like me will get more and more excluded ad 3d becomes de-facto. Please please include 2d versions as much as possible, even if only on the DVD/blu-ray. I'm sure I'm not in that much of a minority?
Really Netpixie? England (including London) has its faults, like most other places, but it also has a hell of a lot to offer to make up for that. Can we ask where you come from? I can name any number of countries and cities I have visited where I have had negative experiences, but I wouldn't dream of posting my feelings on a public forum like that. Yes, I live in (born and raised) London. You, sir, are a fucking troll.
.. but I have to say (sorry never experienced the swiss socket someone posted about already) that the British plug just seems to give so much more secure a connection when plugged into the wall, very stable. When using a euro or US plug I always feel like it is just going to fall out of the wall of its own accord. And yes the on off switch we have next to each socket saves a lot of wear and tear on plugging/unplugging - you know - to save the planet. Yes, its a little bit more bulky, but is that a real reason not to like it unless you are a weakling (most /. readers maybe?). Doesn't make a difference to me. Up there with the best. Makes me proud to be British (small tear trickles down cheek).
If they want the start menu to load *ten times* slower, then they are indeed fetishizing to the extreme. Perverts.
You should consider changing your ID to BetterAnalogyGuy.
The EU commission is only trying to protect the EU's interests... That's what it's there for, right? Nobody on /. seems to mind when they take Microsoft to task. I wouldn't expect a European company to be able to take advantage of their position in the U.S. without due process, so why the fuck should we put up with the same. Xenophobia at the geek level? Now that is news for nerds... Submission has elements of troll in it. Mod submission down..
Now I'll finally be able to buy that copy of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre I was too young to buy when I was 17 in 1991!
Steve! Hows the new liver working out? Glad to see you back in the office.
+1 at the very least
LSD's alright then? Trippy!
But wouldn't Apple LOVE to be a monopoly? And then what?
I'm just about to go back to working from home. I did it for seven years, but left a job today where I'd been in the office 9-5 with the same people, and I got to say I was sad to leave primarily because the last year there has been so good from the point of view of having people to bounce things off and just as importantly have fun with. As a consequence I have been thinking about this very thing. It won't be practical (or even desirable) to work in a coffee shop all day everyday, but I will make some effort to get out there more often to some local Wifi hotspots. OK, so I'm not going to necessarily talk to anyone, but the hustle and bustle of a public location has got to be better than sitting around in my flat, eating cereal and scratching my nuts. (mental note don't scratch in public).
My personal hard drive nemesis have ALL been Maxtors.
l0pht may well be intelligent enough to realise that very fact, which is very true. But it might not mean the same to a bunch of North Korean/Chinese/Russian hackers, who might not have anything to lose and want to cause maximum disruption. Hell, they might even think they are so good/out of jurisdiction of the relevent authorities they don't care about anything except maximum disruption. What's your point again?
BadAnalogyGuy has just posted something similar... I *swear* it wasn't there when I posted...