If you're using pro audio software, you're more than likely using ASIO drivers.
There are some USB devices out there that have a low latency, such as the Emagic 2|6, and (not quite as good) the M-Audio Quattro.
The problem seems to be that developing decent low latency drivers is a major part of the cost of these devices, so a lot of the low end ones just use the generic USB audio drivers provided with either Win or Mac. These drivers both suck.... lots...
For a decent roundup of effective latency on various cards, check out KVR's site.
Man, I get so sick of watching it nerds saying the only use for a faster processor is to 'scrape time from a kernel recompile'....
If you're like me, and you make music with computers, and try and do it entirely with real time apps such as Reaktor, Max/MSP, Supercollider, software synths in VST/Logic, faster processors make a big difference... as most people these days are limited purely by their processing power.
If someone gave me some mythical 10 Ghz machine, it would probably only take me a week or two to get used to that being the bottleneck....
The ST is *still* used by a hell of a lot of musicians.
Having a MIDI port built in to the computer was an amazing thing really. I know several musicians who still swear by Notator on the ST, and (being a VST man myself...) I can see their point. Notator on the ST is a rock solid MIDI sequencing platform, and if you've got one of those crazy boxes with SMTPE etc, you've got an incredibly flexible sequencer, with a windowing system that is really really easy to work around.
They didn't actually say very much in that article... seemed to be full of "N/A" and "I don't know" answers...
The interesting bit I thought was the 'running in a sandbox' bit... So Amiga, Inc are dumping the old OS in favour of an emulation mode similar to OS X/Classic....
ah-hah! someone who gets it...
The 'will to power' is a really strong theme throughout 2001, along with the corollaries of 'beyond good and evil' and the whole ubermensch thing.
so many quotes that can seem relevant...
I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man. from Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra, p.3,4,5, Walter Kaufmann transl.
OK, so he may have gone a bit far in his Ulysses allegory, but what about the Zarathustra side? There seem to be an awful lot of links between 2001 and Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Nietzsche.
There's the tone poem of the same name by Strauss played at the beginning, the whole Superman theory of those who have 'overcome' humanity to evolve to a higher consciousness.
Surely these analogies were better discussed in the book?
I know it's hardly mainstream users, but personally I can't find a computer fast enough to do everything I want with software based synths and effects for audio production.
I know I could use up all the processing power a 3 GHz machine would give me, and then some... Software synths are getting better and better sounding, but more cpu hungry. And don't 32 bit reverbs sound delicous, but....
So you're doing Cocoa development then? I've been weighing up options for a little while now, and have just been reluctant to jump to Cocoa, what with getting burnt by Apple regarding the upgrade from OS X Server 1.02 to 1.2... having to reinstall two servers doesn't make me delerious with joy....;-)
I think that's a pretty big assumption, saying that Cocoa is going to be the way of the future. At an Apple Dev Conf I was at recently, a whole lot of programmers were basically discussing this issue, and it's just hard to justify coding in Cocoa just yet. Most people are concentrating on Carbonizing existing applications, and can't justify jumping into Cocoa yet. The Apple reps weren't hugely pushing Cocoa either....
What do you mean, not out yet? There's a Developer Preview 3 out, 4 is coming soon, so if you want to code for it, you can get it, or there is even Mac OS X Server 1.2, which is more like OS X than 1.02 was.
The question here is, Are Apple really behind it? Or will it be just another roadside casualty in the OS changeover...? It's an interesting question...
have you got any links showing that iMacs are made with bisphenol-A ?
IE 5 for Mac looks like Aqua...
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If you've checked out the new IE 5 for Macintosh, you'll see an interesting look to it....
It sort of looks like a cross between the look of Mozilla, and the upcoming Aqua GUI for Mac OS X. Looks like MS have made the jump to the new GUI before it's even arrived...
Impressions? Well it's much much much much faster than any other browser out the for MacOS. Very sexy looking....
I've always found doing webdev for IE on Mac an pain in the arse. Different to IE on PC and Netscape on both. I'm finding that IE 5 on Mac is now responding pretty much the same way as the PC version. thank god.
if (document.all) { RubAshesIntoHair(lots_of_ash) } if (document.layers) { WearSackCloth(itchy_fabric) } if (navgator.appVersion.indexOf('Mac') != -1){ repeat from 1 to infinity{flagellation} }
Now, what I'd like to know is why they didn't just adopt Linux for the kernel and toss a MacOS API on top of that. Oh yeah-- and do something about making QuickTime available for Linux, too.
Isn't the problem with QuickTime for Linux the various codecs that are used by it, like Sorensen? I thought that was the reason there isn't a client for Linux that can play most of the movies that are on the web.
There is however a library for QuickTime at this page.
This is from that page.
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you know as "Quicktime 4" is really a distribution of libraries which contain certain compression formats not found in previous versions Quicktime. Regardless of the version number, each Quicktime distribution is able to read and write a basic set of compression formats that you can manipulate on Linux or any system not officially supported by Apple. Only a few of these compression formats are built in Quicktime for Linux because 99% of Linux developers can't use any commercial code in their software. Since 1998 Apple has licensed all the internet video formats for their own use. What you can do is create Quicktime movies.
I don't suggest a Mac server because I can't testify to the reliability to PPC linux or MacOS X.
Well I can testify to the stability of OS X Server streaming QuickTime and file serving mp3s. At our campus I've used it to do live streaming of QuickTime audio/video and it has been rock solid, even under very heavy loads. This is running on a blue and white G3 350, 512Mb RAM. No SCSI drives, no multi-port ethernet card.
Everyone goes on about the cost of OS X server, but no-one ever mentions that when you buy it you can install it on up to 5 machines legally...
I just called the Australian distributers, Sheldon & Hammond Pty.Ltd,and they said that the CyberTool won't be available in australia until *sometime* next year.... pfft.
There's always Mac OS X, plays Quake2 better than MacOS. Things will only get better for OS X Client when it appears, as it will have an new PowerPC native microkernel core. OS X should run fine on the new iMacs...
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USB does not have to be too slow for audio...
If you're using pro audio software, you're more than likely using ASIO drivers.
There are some USB devices out there that have a low latency, such as the Emagic 2|6, and (not quite as good) the M-Audio Quattro.
The problem seems to be that developing decent low latency drivers is a major part of the cost of these devices, so a lot of the low end ones just use the generic USB audio drivers provided with either Win or Mac. These drivers both suck.... lots...
For a decent roundup of effective latency on various cards, check out KVR's site.
Man, I get so sick of watching it nerds saying the only use for a faster processor is to 'scrape time from a kernel recompile'....
If you're like me, and you make music with computers, and try and do it entirely with real time apps such as Reaktor, Max/MSP, Supercollider, software synths in VST/Logic, faster processors make a big difference... as most people these days are limited purely by their processing power.
If someone gave me some mythical 10 Ghz machine, it would probably only take me a week or two to get used to that being the bottleneck....
The ST is *still* used by a hell of a lot of musicians.
Having a MIDI port built in to the computer was an amazing thing really. I know several musicians who still swear by Notator on the ST, and (being a VST man myself...) I can see their point. Notator on the ST is a rock solid MIDI sequencing platform, and if you've got one of those crazy boxes with SMTPE etc, you've got an incredibly flexible sequencer, with a windowing system that is really really easy to work around.
No, BETA lost out because of the booming porn industry.
Sony apparently refused to let pornos be released on BETA, so VHS took over.
They didn't actually say very much in that article... seemed to be full of "N/A" and "I don't know" answers... The interesting bit I thought was the 'running in a sandbox' bit... So Amiga, Inc are dumping the old OS in favour of an emulation mode similar to OS X/Classic....
I think Apple really needs an "undo update".
/Library/Receipts
I haven't actually tried this with an update, as nothing's broken on mine, but if you go to:
on your OS X drive, you'll see receipts for the updates, which under OS X Server at least, you could doubleclick to uninstall the updates.
ah-hah! someone who gets it...
The 'will to power' is a really strong theme throughout 2001, along with the corollaries of 'beyond good and evil' and the whole ubermensch thing.
so many quotes that can seem relevant...
I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.
from Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra, p.3,4,5, Walter Kaufmann transl.
OK, so he may have gone a bit far in his Ulysses allegory, but what about the Zarathustra side? There seem to be an awful lot of links between 2001 and Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Nietzsche.
There's the tone poem of the same name by Strauss played at the beginning, the whole Superman theory of those who have 'overcome' humanity to evolve to a higher consciousness.
Surely these analogies were better discussed in the book?
I know it's hardly mainstream users, but personally I can't find a computer fast enough to do everything I want with software based synths and effects for audio production. I know I could use up all the processing power a 3 GHz machine would give me, and then some... Software synths are getting better and better sounding, but more cpu hungry. And don't 32 bit reverbs sound delicous, but....
So you're doing Cocoa development then? I've been weighing up options for a little while now, and have just been reluctant to jump to Cocoa, what with getting burnt by Apple regarding the upgrade from OS X Server 1.02 to 1.2... having to reinstall two servers doesn't make me delerious with joy.... ;-)
I think that's a pretty big assumption, saying that Cocoa is going to be the way of the future.
At an Apple Dev Conf I was at recently, a whole lot of programmers were basically discussing this issue, and it's just hard to justify coding in Cocoa just yet. Most people are concentrating on Carbonizing existing applications, and can't justify jumping into Cocoa yet. The Apple reps weren't hugely pushing Cocoa either....
What do you mean, not out yet? There's a Developer Preview 3 out, 4 is coming soon, so if you want to code for it, you can get it, or there is even Mac OS X Server 1.2, which is more like OS X than 1.02 was.
The question here is, Are Apple really behind it? Or will it be just another roadside casualty in the OS changeover...? It's an interesting question...
I went through those links you posted.
sure, it looks like there are concerns regarding bisphenol-a, but is that what an iMac is made from?
It's made from a polycarbonate, but isn't that just a general term? Do all polycarbonates cause harm to rats/shrink testicles/etc?
have you got any links showing that iMacs are made with bisphenol-A ?
If you've checked out the new IE 5 for Macintosh, you'll see an interesting look to it....
It sort of looks like a cross between the look of Mozilla, and the upcoming Aqua GUI for Mac OS X. Looks like MS have made the jump to the new GUI before it's even arrived...
Impressions? Well it's much much much much faster than any other browser out the for MacOS. Very sexy looking....
I've always found doing webdev for IE on Mac an pain in the arse. Different to IE on PC and Netscape on both. I'm finding that IE 5 on Mac is now responding pretty much the same way as the PC version. thank god.
if (document.all) { RubAshesIntoHair(lots_of_ash) }
if (document.layers) { WearSackCloth(itchy_fabric) }
if (navgator.appVersion.indexOf('Mac') != -1){ repeat from 1 to infinity{flagellation} }
Really? I thought that the "digit may not be the first character of a label" had been removed.
for example, I've got http://4trak.net/cindii
The only problem I've ever had with it is some web forms that reject email addresses like cindii@4trak.net. nigel
Now, what I'd like to know is why they didn't just adopt Linux for the kernel and toss a MacOS API on top of that. Oh yeah-- and do something about making QuickTime available for Linux, too.
Isn't the problem with QuickTime for Linux the various codecs that are used by it, like Sorensen?
I thought that was the reason there isn't a client for Linux that can play most of the movies that are on the web.
There is however a library for QuickTime at this page.
This is from that page.
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you know as "Quicktime 4" is really a distribution of libraries which contain certain compression formats not found in previous versions Quicktime. Regardless of the version number, each Quicktime distribution is able to read and write a basic set of compression formats that you can manipulate on Linux or any system not officially supported by Apple. Only a few of these compression formats are built in Quicktime for Linux because 99% of Linux developers can't use any commercial code in their software. Since 1998 Apple has licensed all the internet video formats for their own use. What you can do is create Quicktime movies.
I don't suggest a Mac server because I can't testify to the reliability to PPC linux or MacOS X.
Well I can testify to the stability of OS X Server streaming QuickTime and file serving mp3s. At our campus I've used it to do live streaming of QuickTime audio/video and it has been rock solid, even under very heavy loads.
This is running on a blue and white G3 350, 512Mb RAM. No SCSI drives, no multi-port ethernet card.
Everyone goes on about the cost of OS X server, but no-one ever mentions that when you buy it you can install it on up to 5 machines legally...
I just called the Australian distributers, Sheldon & Hammond Pty.Ltd,and they said that the CyberTool won't be available in australia until *sometime* next year.... pfft.
netsrek
worth buying, if some good OS supported them.
There's always Mac OS X, plays Quake2 better than MacOS. Things will only get better for OS X Client when it appears, as it will have an new PowerPC native microkernel core. OS X should run fine on the new iMacs...