Need the right hardwareand/or the right coniguration of the software, it sounds like.
I've got a fatality platinum (the input is just too handy, and the price was right) and have no noticeable latency whatsoever; it's good enough to play live with other musicians.
The default settings were completely inadequate and my latency was terrible, but a little googling showed me where i was going wrong and now i'm pretty happy.
only gotcha is ive got vista x64 (4GB ram, still have free slots) and there's STILL not drivers for the Kontrol (I bought the HW version) after more than a year of promises from NI.
It's still fine to use the software side, I just get no floor unit to interact with my presets (bummer).
So there's my only complaint - Native Instruments completely inadequate development cycle/support.
When it came onboard, it was in fact a nearly harmless variety of the common cold. However,exposure to cosmic rays and near zero gravity conditions have forced it to mutate and gain special powers!
I demand they blow the infected laptops out of the airlock rather than bring them back to earth for study, and perhaps use as biotechnological weapons...
If you're going to start placing artificial emphasis on my words, I'm going to start correcting your grammar. Alternatively, we could stick to valid arguments.
Regarding the Olympic Ceremony, I think you may confusing the subject with the delivery. And maybe I'm confusing the delivery with the subject.
I guess I should restate what I see as my biggest sticking point. I see criticism of China faking part of its opening ceremony (now including the 9 year old girl who was miming to a different girls voice). I ask what does it mater if China is faking something that is already an invention?
What was "Real" about the Opening Ceremony to begin with? China doesn't just DO this kind of thing when the world isn't looking. They don't go cartwheeling through the streets and doing dance-caligraphy on the sidewalks or engaging in massive scale choreography to traditional instruments, just on some whim.
The entire thing is a performance. It's ALL contrived. It's ALL fake. The guy who was running around the top of the stadium...? Fake - he was held up by wires! GASP!
China is easily criticised for not only contriving the Opening Ceremony, but the entire country for western consumption during the olympics to project to not only the outside world, but also to local Chinese, that their government is great and powerful. The Olympics are easily earmarked as an excercise in propaganda - because that's what they are.
Not just in China - Everywhere.
Greece in 2004, Australia in 2000 and yes, even the US. Every nation uses the Olympics as a demonstration of their superiority. Australia even pressured the International Olympics Comittee into calling Sydney "The Best Games Ever".
It's all fake, it's always BEEN fake, and it boggles the mind that people can sit up and call bullshit because they got a peek at the man behind the curtain.
Wake up, Dorothy, there IS no great and powerful Oz.
Have you READ 1984? Because, you know, as someone who has, things were, you know, a LITTLE more extreme than this.
I hate how readily people bandy about 1984 in any discussion like this. In case you didn't RTFA there WERE real fireworks, and people who weren't too cheap to get off their lazy asses and buy a ticket to the Olympics had the opportunity to see them.
People who sat on their couch at home and watched it for free in the comfort of their living room now have the gall to complain?
There's a whole real world out there. Go experience it, if what you see on TV is a problem.
There needs to be some kind of Orwell's law, to parallel Godwin's law for how long it takes someone to trot out this tired old chestnut in any discussion about government or other authority.
... But what else have they changed? Am looking forward to details when they emerge.
What's interesting to me, however, is the unrated version of the game should still be illegal in Australia. This means anyone buying their copy from Amazon etc etc online because it's 1/3 the Australian store price - a right guaranteed in the courts by the ACCC several years ago - will be getting an illegal copy.
So, it would seem the classification board has perhaps inadvertently become a party to anti-competitive trade practices.
Oh get over yourselves. How about you get no televised fireworks at all, and fork out for a ticket to Beijing like the other people who went there themselves and actually saw the real fireworks.
And if this "reveal" pissed you off - Batman uses a stuntman, Crow is a puppet, not a real robot, and Jamie Hyneman is, in fact, computer generated. All fake.
Firstly, this bill doesn't go far enough. Ban the use of mobiles, blackberries, whatever in pubs, on busses, at sporting events. Force these loud talking assholes to take their hands off their surrogate cocks for a few minutes and give the rest of us some peace.
Secondly, if airlines are going to have phone and phone-free sections, I demand smoke and smoke-free sections so i can have a cigarette mid-flight.
If the phone users can indulge their compulsive behaviours inflight, I want to indulge mine.
It's convenient enough for Canadians to tell how they saved Americas Bacon during the war for Independence, but the second you blame them for Americas rise to world domination, they get all defensive...
Should teachers be subject to legal action for what they teach in the classroom? Or is that the job of parents to complain about lousy teachers and either force changes in the school or take their kids to a better school?
Nothing improves in our Democracy without us forcing it to change. Letting other people make the changes and complaining gets us nowhere.
drifting a little off topic, but on the stories tags.. When did this lame meme become a slashdot mantra? It's more casually thrown about than whatcouldpossiblygowrong.
Anything anyone disagrees with and suddenly it's correlationisnotcausation time
The front page has a non-collapsed article on the phoenix lander getting dirt into its oven.
If you give a shit about yet-another-mars-lander, you probably already knew this. If you work for NASA, you definitely already knew this. If you don't follow Mars exploration, you probably don't care about this.
Go ahead and mod me troll, but seriously... this is news?
Oh wait - it IS news, because some people DO give a shit about it. Just because Slashdot doesn't run every story by YOU for editorial approval doesn't mean NO ONE cares.
I must be new here, because the conceit in this place continues to baffle me.
... For being excited by the prospect of learning everything you need to learn to actually BUILD one of these drives?
Think about it, at some point someone somewhere had to make one of these from scratch before they went into mass production. As a one man job with 1980 technology it was achieveable and affordable.
How hard could it be in the modern day?
Every time I read an old history on Microsoft or Apples early days, I start itching to reproduce what they did when they first implemented these technologies.
It'd be like building your very own Wright Bros flyer:)
Every time I read a citation of 1984 in regards to privacy concerns I wonder if there is an Orwellian equivalent to Godwin's Law. In any discussion on privacy, it is inevitable someone will cite 1984 - sooner, rather than later. And in my experience it is as often as not by people who understand the premise, but have either not read the book, or really didn't care to when they were forced to read it in school.
I didn't grow up during McCarthy. I never saw Nixon live on Television. I hadn't heard of J Edgar Hoover until he was already dead. Let's face it, Orwell's intent with 1984 is culturally irrelevant to me and most people in my generation. The concepts explored are very important, hell, they're fundamental to our modern notions of freedom, but while 1984 is arguably more relevant to us now than ever, citing it in relation to privacy concerns opens the door for arguments that derail the entire debate.
Besides, there was more to the book than just issues of privacy.
Here's my thought about not knowing when we're being watched - there is a serious danger that the conservative movement might come to a profound realization: If there IS a God, he's ALREADY watching us all day every day from every angle. We should ALREADY be moderating our behaviour based on this fact. Are we really giving up anything by adding man-made technology to this Holy Truman Show?
After all, if we aren't moderating our behaviour and are doing wrong, we're not just breaking secular laws, we're sinning against God Himself.
I think Orwell was as concerned about this evil root taking hold in our society as much as any fear of communism destroying our freedoms.
Communists, Terrorists, they come and go generationally. Humans faith in God has been directing our cultural and social evolution for thousands of years. Will people give up freedoms in the name of God that they wouldn't give up in the name of the war against terror?
And people wonder why the founding fathers had such a hard-on for the separation of church and state.
I don't know anything about cosmology, let's get that out in the open right away. Astronomy and Astrology are close cousins in my ignorant mind:)
So it's taken the light 12 odd billion years to arrive here, It always makes me wonder whether the galaxy is 12 billion years old, or 12 billion years away - and if it is the latter, does that in any way compare to the former?
Could you conceivably see the big bang with Hubble if the universe is only 13.5 billion years old? Does this mean they know roughly where the universe began and are looking in that direction? If they looked in the other direction, would they run out of things to see because nothing in the universe has traveled out that far yet?
And to see things that happened 12 billion years ago, would you need to look 12 billion years in the other direction from where they actually happened?
Slashdot Mirror
You'll find a lot more beatles covers played in pubs any night of the week than mozart covers.
Need the right hardwareand/or the right coniguration of the software, it sounds like.
I've got a fatality platinum (the input is just too handy, and the price was right) and have no noticeable latency whatsoever; it's good enough to play live with other musicians.
The default settings were completely inadequate and my latency was terrible, but a little googling showed me where i was going wrong and now i'm pretty happy.
only gotcha is ive got vista x64 (4GB ram, still have free slots) and there's STILL not drivers for the Kontrol (I bought the HW version) after more than a year of promises from NI.
It's still fine to use the software side, I just get no floor unit to interact with my presets (bummer).
So there's my only complaint - Native Instruments completely inadequate development cycle/support.
Also, Native Instruments Guitar Rig is well worth a look for simulated effects/cabinets/heads.
Particularly if you actually own a guitar.
...Is obviously "a linux" running WINE
We scientifically understand everything?
Holy shit, the LHC sure came up with results quick!
We can't even identify 96% of the universe. By any measure, science tells us we understand sweet fuck all.
Sounds like you've got a case of dogmatic superstition there, my friend.
When it came onboard, it was in fact a nearly harmless variety of the common cold. However,exposure to cosmic rays and near zero gravity conditions have forced it to mutate and gain special powers!
I demand they blow the infected laptops out of the airlock rather than bring them back to earth for study, and perhaps use as biotechnological weapons...
That raises a good point. If AMD don't use Intels sockets and chipsets, why should nVidia?
Chipsets shouldn't prove a problem to them...
The speculation on lawsuits in the OP summary may be just that - speculation.
If nVidia were to use Intel chipsets and sockets for their CPU then perhaps the summary would be correct, but is nVidia going to do that at all?
Why should they?
If you're going to start placing artificial emphasis on my words, I'm going to start correcting your grammar. Alternatively, we could stick to valid arguments.
Regarding the Olympic Ceremony, I think you may confusing the subject with the delivery. And maybe I'm confusing the delivery with the subject.
I guess I should restate what I see as my biggest sticking point. I see criticism of China faking part of its opening ceremony (now including the 9 year old girl who was miming to a different girls voice). I ask what does it mater if China is faking something that is already an invention?
What was "Real" about the Opening Ceremony to begin with? China doesn't just DO this kind of thing when the world isn't looking. They don't go cartwheeling through the streets and doing dance-caligraphy on the sidewalks or engaging in massive scale choreography to traditional instruments, just on some whim.
The entire thing is a performance. It's ALL contrived. It's ALL fake. The guy who was running around the top of the stadium...? Fake - he was held up by wires! GASP!
China is easily criticised for not only contriving the Opening Ceremony, but the entire country for western consumption during the olympics to project to not only the outside world, but also to local Chinese, that their government is great and powerful. The Olympics are easily earmarked as an excercise in propaganda - because that's what they are.
Not just in China - Everywhere.
Greece in 2004, Australia in 2000 and yes, even the US. Every nation uses the Olympics as a demonstration of their superiority. Australia even pressured the International Olympics Comittee into calling Sydney "The Best Games Ever".
It's all fake, it's always BEEN fake, and it boggles the mind that people can sit up and call bullshit because they got a peek at the man behind the curtain.
Wake up, Dorothy, there IS no great and powerful Oz.
"Here we're in Orwell's 1984, not less"
Have you READ 1984? Because, you know, as someone who has, things were, you know, a LITTLE more extreme than this.
I hate how readily people bandy about 1984 in any discussion like this. In case you didn't RTFA there WERE real fireworks, and people who weren't too cheap to get off their lazy asses and buy a ticket to the Olympics had the opportunity to see them.
People who sat on their couch at home and watched it for free in the comfort of their living room now have the gall to complain?
There's a whole real world out there. Go experience it, if what you see on TV is a problem.
There needs to be some kind of Orwell's law, to parallel Godwin's law for how long it takes someone to trot out this tired old chestnut in any discussion about government or other authority.
inbeforeliteraturenazi
... But what else have they changed? Am looking forward to details when they emerge.
What's interesting to me, however, is the unrated version of the game should still be illegal in Australia. This means anyone buying their copy from Amazon etc etc online because it's 1/3 the Australian store price - a right guaranteed in the courts by the ACCC several years ago - will be getting an illegal copy.
So, it would seem the classification board has perhaps inadvertently become a party to anti-competitive trade practices.
Someone should get the ACCC onto this...
Oh get over yourselves. How about you get no televised fireworks at all, and fork out for a ticket to Beijing like the other people who went there themselves and actually saw the real fireworks.
And if this "reveal" pissed you off - Batman uses a stuntman, Crow is a puppet, not a real robot, and Jamie Hyneman is, in fact, computer generated. All fake.
Does anyone even remember this one? I was young enough for it to be hysterically funny at the time...
Firstly, this bill doesn't go far enough. Ban the use of mobiles, blackberries, whatever in pubs, on busses, at sporting events. Force these loud talking assholes to take their hands off their surrogate cocks for a few minutes and give the rest of us some peace.
Secondly, if airlines are going to have phone and phone-free sections, I demand smoke and smoke-free sections so i can have a cigarette mid-flight.
If the phone users can indulge their compulsive behaviours inflight, I want to indulge mine.
inb4 masturbation (oh wait, wrong forum)
It's convenient enough for Canadians to tell how they saved Americas Bacon during the war for Independence, but the second you blame them for Americas rise to world domination, they get all defensive...
Sounds like hearsay to me. Boy are you lucky!
Perhaps it was sealed in an interesting fashion?
With ear wax, for example. Or by a team of weaver ants.
He can put that on his resume and get a job with all the other pseudo-scientists who work for the Government then.
Should teachers be subject to legal action for what they teach in the classroom? Or is that the job of parents to complain about lousy teachers and either force changes in the school or take their kids to a better school?
Nothing improves in our Democracy without us forcing it to change. Letting other people make the changes and complaining gets us nowhere.
drifting a little off topic, but on the stories tags.. When did this lame meme become a slashdot mantra? It's more casually thrown about than whatcouldpossiblygowrong.
Anything anyone disagrees with and suddenly it's correlationisnotcausation time
The front page has a non-collapsed article on the phoenix lander getting dirt into its oven.
If you give a shit about yet-another-mars-lander, you probably already knew this. If you work for NASA, you definitely already knew this. If you don't follow Mars exploration, you probably don't care about this.
Go ahead and mod me troll, but seriously... this is news?
Oh wait - it IS news, because some people DO give a shit about it. Just because Slashdot doesn't run every story by YOU for editorial approval doesn't mean NO ONE cares.
I must be new here, because the conceit in this place continues to baffle me.
You must be new here
TESTING? What kind of nerd ARE you? It's all about blind production implementation, baby! Testing is for service packs! ;)
... For being excited by the prospect of learning everything you need to learn to actually BUILD one of these drives?
:)
Think about it, at some point someone somewhere had to make one of these from scratch before they went into mass production. As a one man job with 1980 technology it was achieveable and affordable.
How hard could it be in the modern day?
Every time I read an old history on Microsoft or Apples early days, I start itching to reproduce what they did when they first implemented these technologies.
It'd be like building your very own Wright Bros flyer
Every time I read a citation of 1984 in regards to privacy concerns I wonder if there is an Orwellian equivalent to Godwin's Law. In any discussion on privacy, it is inevitable someone will cite 1984 - sooner, rather than later. And in my experience it is as often as not by people who understand the premise, but have either not read the book, or really didn't care to when they were forced to read it in school.
I didn't grow up during McCarthy. I never saw Nixon live on Television. I hadn't heard of J Edgar Hoover until he was already dead. Let's face it, Orwell's intent with 1984 is culturally irrelevant to me and most people in my generation. The concepts explored are very important, hell, they're fundamental to our modern notions of freedom, but while 1984 is arguably more relevant to us now than ever, citing it in relation to privacy concerns opens the door for arguments that derail the entire debate.
Besides, there was more to the book than just issues of privacy.
Here's my thought about not knowing when we're being watched - there is a serious danger that the conservative movement might come to a profound realization: If there IS a God, he's ALREADY watching us all day every day from every angle. We should ALREADY be moderating our behaviour based on this fact. Are we really giving up anything by adding man-made technology to this Holy Truman Show?
After all, if we aren't moderating our behaviour and are doing wrong, we're not just breaking secular laws, we're sinning against God Himself.
I think Orwell was as concerned about this evil root taking hold in our society as much as any fear of communism destroying our freedoms.
Communists, Terrorists, they come and go generationally. Humans faith in God has been directing our cultural and social evolution for thousands of years. Will people give up freedoms in the name of God that they wouldn't give up in the name of the war against terror?
And people wonder why the founding fathers had such a hard-on for the separation of church and state.
I don't know anything about cosmology, let's get that out in the open right away. Astronomy and Astrology are close cousins in my ignorant mind :)
:)
So it's taken the light 12 odd billion years to arrive here, It always makes me wonder whether the galaxy is 12 billion years old, or 12 billion years away - and if it is the latter, does that in any way compare to the former?
Could you conceivably see the big bang with Hubble if the universe is only 13.5 billion years old? Does this mean they know roughly where the universe began and are looking in that direction? If they looked in the other direction, would they run out of things to see because nothing in the universe has traveled out that far yet?
And to see things that happened 12 billion years ago, would you need to look 12 billion years in the other direction from where they actually happened?
Now none of this makes sense