I see two possibilites to this, from an artistic standpoint. The first is, since music is abstract, you use abstract imagery. Kaleidoscopic designs and the like would be great to scratch, methinks.
The second is, many music videos have little bits where there is time distortion. Stuff like somebody walking backwards then forwards again for a split-second. In the video "Never Come Back Down", BT bluescreens a breakdancer being scratched over a normal scene. It's really quite impressive.
Because most people can't spare two pockets. I know I can't. I have to keep track of my wallet, keys, iPod, sometimes gum, sometimes other miscellany.
Because Apple uses all-in-one policies. They created the iMac, remember. Also, you're probably the kind of people who would like to see smaller laptops without trackpads so you could use an external mouse.
My concert hall is small and tinny. The music quality is barely perceptible because the onboard engineers aren't any good.
Am I the only one who would rather see more spent on building a better concert-going experience rather than on hiring actual musicians to make some *live* music?
Is there any way the screen can be fixed/remedied/replaced? Or how about a way to minimizing the fading? My TiBook is slowly fading in the corners after about a year of owning it.
That's great. Too bad there's this thing called lighting that can make CLOTHES SEEM A DIFFERENT COLOR. They also used 3D scanners that can scan down to 12 microns. The characters are proportional. They use those scanners on/statues/. If you use them on art, you expect them to be top-notch, otherwise people would/really/ complain.
Attack of the Clones was pathetic, comparatively, as when Obi-Wan goes to Camino, it's quite obvious he was green-screened; the lighting is quite a bit off and his edges are a bit jagged.
Vagrant Story was such a brilliant game on so many levels; besides having great graphics for a Playstation One game (I oftentimes would spend a couple minutes looking around at the scenery), but the music was brilliant whenever it came around (somewhat in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics), though even when it wasn't around the ambient effects, such as whistling wind, shuffling, or screaming was great (especially with surround sound).
The Shakespearean plot and dialogue only added to the experience.
Maybe it's because in the original scripts they used human brains as basically a beowulf cluster-- not batteries, but as a bunch of processors running in parallel.
Talk has been centering on the Power4 processor by IBM, which could be twice as fast as the comparative AMD processor. In addition, there are two processors per chip, meaning that the first generation Power4 (already in use on IBM servers) is nearly 4 times as fast as a comparable AMD. Because they run the same programs as Apple computers, this could be the alternative Apple is looking for.
In addition, many sources (some quite reliable) have reported that Apple may switch to these within two years. Hold your breath.
Darwin, the core to Mac OS X, has already been released on x86-based machines, albeit in beta form. By looking up darwin and x86 on the apple website, one should be able to come up with some links.
Apparently it ran somewhat slow, but development is continuing. Keep in mind that OS X is partially open-source, which allowed this to happen in the first place.
As a new driver, I have been acquanted with difficulties inherent in attempting to concentrate (ADD style, i.e. fully) on many details at once. This has proven especially difficult when trying to keep over the yellow and white lines (U.S.).
Bottom line? This could be the end-all solution for driving schools, especially public ones, which get funding from various places. Of course, at 10 mil this is a bit high, but presumably it will drop.
Although not explicitly a game, programs such as Reason that have synthesizers and samplers of various sorts organized as rackmount synthesizers are as entertaining as any game, and are indeed used to make real music too. propellerheads.se. Just looking at the screenshots should be enough to get you hooked. For example, you can flip the synthesizers around and rewire them and every single knob is tweakable.
Also, Mac/MSP (only available for Mac) is a music program that has been likened to legos, for one puts together various tone generators and input devices to create complex digital synthesizers. For an analogous game, try Widget Workshop from Maxis.
For games, don't forget SimCity 4 and the rest of the Sim games, which are still being churned out at a good clip.
There is a difference between Dance music and other electronica. All of the "Ibiza" stuff as well as Digweed would be considered Dance which is seems more separated from the other forms of electronica. Just compare Dance to Industrial to IDM.
Anyway, depending on your tastes you would like these:
Metal:
Industrial music such as Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly, and ohGR
Dance (Like Sasha and John Digweed):
DJ Tiesto
The Cynic Project
Anything called "Psytrance", "Trance", "Goa", "Happy Hardcore", "Techno", or "Electro"
Jazz:
Squarepusher
St. Germain
Thievery Corporation
The magazine MacAddict did this a year ago with an iBook... it was built from scratch (except for the quickcam for visuals and the iBook itself) and was controlled by AppleScript over an airport network. It was called the iBorg. There is probably still plenty of information at MacAddict
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Since I saw this post while I was asking my friends on campus if they had some, I'd say it's pretty much a given.
I see two possibilites to this, from an artistic standpoint. The first is, since music is abstract, you use abstract imagery. Kaleidoscopic designs and the like would be great to scratch, methinks.
The second is, many music videos have little bits where there is time distortion. Stuff like somebody walking backwards then forwards again for a split-second. In the video "Never Come Back Down", BT bluescreens a breakdancer being scratched over a normal scene. It's really quite impressive.
Max/MSP is still around, just ported to Windows and Mac OS X.
Because most people can't spare two pockets. I know I can't. I have to keep track of my wallet, keys, iPod, sometimes gum, sometimes other miscellany.
Because Apple uses all-in-one policies. They created the iMac, remember. Also, you're probably the kind of people who would like to see smaller laptops without trackpads so you could use an external mouse.
Only the people actively fighting you[n/t]
My concert hall is small and tinny. The music quality is barely perceptible because the onboard engineers aren't any good.
Am I the only one who would rather see more spent on building a better concert-going experience rather than on hiring actual musicians to make some *live* music?
Is there any way the screen can be fixed/remedied/replaced? Or how about a way to minimizing the fading? My TiBook is slowly fading in the corners after about a year of owning it.
That's great. Too bad there's this thing called lighting that can make CLOTHES SEEM A DIFFERENT COLOR. They also used 3D scanners that can scan down to 12 microns. The characters are proportional. They use those scanners on /statues/. If you use them on art, you expect them to be top-notch, otherwise people would /really/ complain.
Attack of the Clones was pathetic, comparatively, as when Obi-Wan goes to Camino, it's quite obvious he was green-screened; the lighting is quite a bit off and his edges are a bit jagged.
The Shakespearean plot and dialogue only added to the experience.
Maybe it's because in the original scripts they used human brains as basically a beowulf cluster-- not batteries, but as a bunch of processors running in parallel.
Talk has been centering on the Power4 processor by IBM, which could be twice as fast as the comparative AMD processor. In addition, there are two processors per chip, meaning that the first generation Power4 (already in use on IBM servers) is nearly 4 times as fast as a comparable AMD. Because they run the same programs as Apple computers, this could be the alternative Apple is looking for.
In addition, many sources (some quite reliable) have reported that Apple may switch to these within two years. Hold your breath.
Darwin, the core to Mac OS X, has already been released on x86-based machines, albeit in beta form. By looking up darwin and x86 on the apple website, one should be able to come up with some links.
Apparently it ran somewhat slow, but development is continuing. Keep in mind that OS X is partially open-source, which allowed this to happen in the first place.
As a new driver, I have been acquanted with difficulties inherent in attempting to concentrate (ADD style, i.e. fully) on many details at once. This has proven especially difficult when trying to keep over the yellow and white lines (U.S.).
Bottom line? This could be the end-all solution for driving schools, especially public ones, which get funding from various places. Of course, at 10 mil this is a bit high, but presumably it will drop.
Although not explicitly a game, programs such as Reason that have synthesizers and samplers of various sorts organized as rackmount synthesizers are as entertaining as any game, and are indeed used to make real music too. propellerheads.se. Just looking at the screenshots should be enough to get you hooked. For example, you can flip the synthesizers around and rewire them and every single knob is tweakable.
Also, Mac/MSP (only available for Mac) is a music program that has been likened to legos, for one puts together various tone generators and input devices to create complex digital synthesizers. For an analogous game, try Widget Workshop from Maxis.
For games, don't forget SimCity 4 and the rest of the Sim games, which are still being churned out at a good clip.
There is a difference between Dance music and other electronica. All of the "Ibiza" stuff as well as Digweed would be considered Dance which is seems more separated from the other forms of electronica. Just compare Dance to Industrial to IDM. Anyway, depending on your tastes you would like these: Metal: Industrial music such as Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly, and ohGR Dance (Like Sasha and John Digweed): DJ Tiesto The Cynic Project Anything called "Psytrance", "Trance", "Goa", "Happy Hardcore", "Techno", or "Electro" Jazz: Squarepusher St. Germain Thievery Corporation
The magazine MacAddict did this a year ago with an iBook... it was built from scratch (except for the quickcam for visuals and the iBook itself) and was controlled by AppleScript over an airport network. It was called the iBorg. There is probably still plenty of information at MacAddict