There could be a million variables going on between what they have in the lab and what you have on top of your building. Variances in shielding, wiring, proximity....
Just drop some lab rats into the top floor of this building, put the cages up near the ceiling.
That will both give you a decent test AND improve morale. Who wouldn't enjoy working with rats suspended over their heads?
Welcome to Slashdot, where electrical engineers, or people who think of it as a hobby, will swear backwards and forwards that they know and understand every effect of radiation.
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Neverwinter Nights is 4 years old now. Considering the speed of the gaming cycle, that's practically ancient. I'm not knocking it as a game, I think it's great, but I'd love to have something new to play.I played NWN until I was sick of it about 3 years ago.
I'm just DROOLING over the new MOTU UltraLite. 8 ins, 10 outs, and not just Firewire, but bus-powered. Drag a laptop and this unit to gigs and you can multi-track everything.
I'm also an electronic drummer, and I use Ablton Live, so with this unit I could chop live loops of ANYONE on stage.
Of course, I don't have $550 to drop on one. So I'm looking at the Berhinger uca202, a $29 USB box that's stereo in/out. I'm running Sonar on a MacBook with Boot Camp, and the drivers for this internal card just blow. Really badly. Really, really badly. The latency's outrageous.
Cakewalk Sonar? Uh, hello? Have you met Garageband, Logic Express, or even Logic PRO if you want to get super serious?
Sure, I've used them all, although my favorite these days is Ableton Live. It's the bomb.
The problem i that I'm in a band in which everyone uses Sonar, so at the end of the night when we wander off to mix down our own stuff, the file on my usb keychain drive is a Cakewalk bundle, and I need to be able to open it to mix down my drums, as I'm an electronic drummer.
Also, truth be told, Sonar's an awesome program. I really wish they'd port it to OSX. Cakewalk is finally dabbling in moving *some* programs over, but I'm not hopeful they'll ever go that far with it.
Wow a computer from a major manufacturer? Let's see... Only several hundred of them, desktops, servers, laptops from Dell, IBM, Apple, Toshiba, Acer and others, since 1994
Ever look at a Dell driver CD? It's got hundreds of drivers, all named something like "902378346.exe" that don't tell you what they're for. You have to use their horrible little gui interface, and hope that the audio driver that you pick is for the hardware in your machine.
This was my first experience with a single Installshield executable that installed CD/DVD, 802.11g, ethernet, video, bluetooth, firewire, audio, etc. I've never seen that from any manufacturer that I've worked with.
And there are indeed lots of other reasons to think the dual-booting is cool, although there's really only one Windows app that I need, Cakewalk Sonar. If it wasn't for that single app, I'd be done with Windows completely.
While it's nice to be able to boot into Windows on this Macbook, I have to say that it hurts to do so, and I get in and out of it as fast as I can.
I didn't say it was anything special, I was just saying that I haven't really seen it applied to Windows.
I've used Sun boxes for a decade now. I've never tried to boot Windows on one:]
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It's kinda cool that Apple can essentially release ONE drivers disk and be done with it. A lot has been said over the years about Apple's benefits of having known hardware...
This is how it works out with Windows. Here, have one installer. It will work on all our machines, and support everything in it. One Installshield script. It was the fastest WinXP or ANY Windows installs I've ever done.
I've never seen it go this fast, it told me "Setup will complete in approximately: 36 minutes, and then 2 minutes later it was down to 19.
I need to run Cakewalk's Sonar to deal with some projects I'm recording. I generally use Ableton Live in OSX, but I need to be able to open Cakewalk bundles too. Hey look, now I can....
I was stuck in a hotel all weekend and wanted to talk to my wife, so I installed it, and within 5 minutes I got a call from security saying that my machine was scanning the network. It was Skype trying to find a way out.
When I got back to work on Monday, my Thinkpad was taken away and reformatted, and handed back to me -- without local admin privileges.
Now I work for a University. It's a whole other world.
A Tale In The Desert cost me an average of 3 hours per day weekdays, and 5-6 on weekends. call it an average of 3.5, since I didn't always play both days on weekends.
3.5*365=1227.5 hours a year, which comes out to a little over 7 weeks, or almost 2 months.
Some people say time is money,but I think time's worth a lot more. That's time I could've spent with my family, or drumming, writing songs, remodeling the bathroom, etc.
Once I started to look at it that way, "grinding" started to hurt. As much as I'd like to escape to a second world, I'm much happier in the real one if I invest that time more wisely.
I'm not preaching, just saying what worked for me...
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...while also arguing for a National ID card, most likely with an RFID chip.
Is being "irony-challenged" a requirement to run for Congress?
There could be a million variables going on between what they have in the lab and what you have on top of your building. Variances in shielding, wiring, proximity....
Just drop some lab rats into the top floor of this building, put the cages up near the ceiling.
That will both give you a decent test AND improve morale. Who wouldn't enjoy working with rats suspended over their heads?
Welcome to Slashdot, where electrical engineers, or people who think of it as a hobby, will swear backwards and forwards that they know and understand every effect of radiation.
Now write some games that don't suck.
It'd be much higher than a $2 cost to them. They don't look at it in terms of how much it cost to make, but in terms of lost revenue.
Or get thyself some Stevia. It's a natural sweetener, although it may be a bit of an acquired taste. It rocks in tea, though.
Slashdot, a small website which once viewed on the users computer, enables teh Intarweb to systematically flood Blue Frog's website with web traffic; much to the headache of the poor frog.
Unfortunately, America's Army for Linux and OSX are going away.
Neverwinter Nights is 4 years old now. Considering the speed of the gaming cycle, that's practically ancient. I'm not knocking it as a game, I think it's great, but I'd love to have something new to play.I played NWN until I was sick of it about 3 years ago.
The review is done by what will be the main seller of it! That rocks!
I'm just DROOLING over the new MOTU UltraLite. 8 ins, 10 outs, and not just Firewire, but bus-powered. Drag a laptop and this unit to gigs and you can multi-track everything.
I'm also an electronic drummer, and I use Ablton Live, so with this unit I could chop live loops of ANYONE on stage.
Of course, I don't have $550 to drop on one. So I'm looking at the Berhinger uca202, a $29 USB box that's stereo in/out. I'm running Sonar on a MacBook with Boot Camp, and the drivers for this internal card just blow. Really badly. Really, really badly. The latency's outrageous.
Ridiculous, shrink this trackpad and give me dual-layer support.
That's just lame.
Can't we just put him out to pasture?
Honestly, he's turning into the Timecube guy.
Cakewalk Sonar? Uh, hello? Have you met Garageband, Logic Express, or even Logic PRO if you want to get super serious?
Sure, I've used them all, although my favorite these days is Ableton Live. It's the bomb.
The problem i that I'm in a band in which everyone uses Sonar, so at the end of the night when we wander off to mix down our own stuff, the file on my usb keychain drive is a Cakewalk bundle, and I need to be able to open it to mix down my drums, as I'm an electronic drummer.
Also, truth be told, Sonar's an awesome program. I really wish they'd port it to OSX. Cakewalk is finally dabbling in moving *some* programs over, but I'm not hopeful they'll ever go that far with it.
But does Slashdot have to post them all?
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Really, we haven't thought of this here on
We haven't had dozens of threads debating this very topic already.
Can we please beat this dead horse a little more?
Wow a computer from a major manufacturer? Let's see... Only several hundred of them, desktops, servers, laptops from Dell, IBM, Apple, Toshiba, Acer and others, since 1994
Ever look at a Dell driver CD? It's got hundreds of drivers, all named something like "902378346.exe" that don't tell you what they're for. You have to use their horrible little gui interface, and hope that the audio driver that you pick is for the hardware in your machine.
This was my first experience with a single Installshield executable that installed CD/DVD, 802.11g, ethernet, video, bluetooth, firewire, audio, etc. I've never seen that from any manufacturer that I've worked with.
And there are indeed lots of other reasons to think the dual-booting is cool, although there's really only one Windows app that I need, Cakewalk Sonar. If it wasn't for that single app, I'd be done with Windows completely.
While it's nice to be able to boot into Windows on this Macbook, I have to say that it hurts to do so, and I get in and out of it as fast as I can.
I didn't say it was anything special, I was just saying that I haven't really seen it applied to Windows.
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I've used Sun boxes for a decade now. I've never tried to boot Windows on one
It's kinda cool that Apple can essentially release ONE drivers disk and be done with it. A lot has been said over the years about Apple's benefits of having known hardware...
This is how it works out with Windows. Here, have one installer. It will work on all our machines, and support everything in it. One Installshield script. It was the fastest WinXP or ANY Windows installs I've ever done.
Thank you for playing, have a nice day.
Everything's up and working, dual-head, the command key is a Windows key, sound, networking, the whole 9 yards.
It's wicked fast, too. Now where's my Half Life installer?
I've never seen it go this fast, it told me "Setup will complete in approximately: 36 minutes, and then 2 minutes later it was down to 19.
I need to run Cakewalk's Sonar to deal with some projects I'm recording. I generally use Ableton Live in OSX, but I need to be able to open Cakewalk bundles too. Hey look, now I can....
Thank you, Apple.
I was stuck in a hotel all weekend and wanted to talk to my wife, so I installed it, and within 5 minutes I got a call from security saying that my machine was scanning the network. It was Skype trying to find a way out.
When I got back to work on Monday, my Thinkpad was taken away and reformatted, and handed back to me -- without local admin privileges.
Now I work for a University. It's a whole other world.
Hey, me too.
I use a different method...
A Tale In The Desert cost me an average of 3 hours per day weekdays, and 5-6 on weekends. call it an average of 3.5, since I didn't always play both days on weekends.
3.5*365=1227.5 hours a year, which comes out to a little over 7 weeks, or almost 2 months.
Some people say time is money,but I think time's worth a lot more. That's time I could've spent with my family, or drumming, writing songs, remodeling the bathroom, etc.
Once I started to look at it that way, "grinding" started to hurt. As much as I'd like to escape to a second world, I'm much happier in the real one if I invest that time more wisely.
I'm not preaching, just saying what worked for me...
That was an awesome Molyneux game.
Or another Magic Carpet? Or another Populous?
Or something completely new and kickass instead of another sequel?
qemu has been ported to the Mactels, as is WinTel from openosx.com.
Of course, there's always Darwine as well.