iPad 2

[nicholas]

I think XDelusion's signature speaks for itself here.

[nicholas]

I'll wait to see what the Android manufacturers pull off.

Prevert!

[nicholas]

I have seen / tested Galaxy Tab last month and I was amazed - it has quick response, looks and works good, has cam etc. I decided to buy [it is very very very expensive here, ~1000 EUR!] it but just to check iPad first. When I tried iPad... OMG. It worked 10 times better, faster, smoother than anything I`ve seen! So - after V2 coming, I definitely decided to buy myself one At least it has front HD cam that none of those others has

I have read many tests in computer magazines here - and iPad is definitive - the leading tab.

Anyone played with a Xoom yet?

[nicholas]

*groan*

On a serious note, I hope the guy makes it. No matter what one thinks about Apple, Jobs is one of the original gangstas who pioneered home computing.

Did someone say *cough* stolen Palestinian liver *cough*?

[nicholas]

plus they use Foxconn who is just above slave labor standards

99% of the components in my A3000 have Foxconn labels on them.

[nicholas]

The language is C++

If only it was, perhaps I wouldn't hate it so much! :lol:

[nicholas]

We'll cross that bridge later huh?

I've tried to cross it many times mate, I've given up trying now.

Much as Java also gets on my nerves, it's close enough to C++ to make it tolerable to create Android apps with.

[nicholas]

:lol: Macs are derided for being too simple and user friendly...

$?£>%^<&<%>>?£?@@@!!!!

After the 48hrs of of fiddling I've had to do to get E-UAE to work (By work I mean give more than "2.17 MIPS" rating in Sysinfo) that just isn't funny!

("sudo echo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=536870912; sudo purge" before each run does the trick and no, putting the value in /etc/sysctl.conf AND/OR /etc/rc doesn't work.)

[nicholas]

Metadata my ass - so just because meta data on what... is it CDDB this sorry excuse of a program is using ... is wrong, iTunes has to do it wrong too? Well, with all the screwed data on CDDB, that simply wont work, as I can tell already. And btw - it is not just a matter of changing the meta data, the file structure remains fubar even if I do so. And apart from manually moving the album dicretory into the "compilation" directory, how d I tell iTunes that this is a compilation album by changing meta data? Anyways, my point is that iTunes should already know this, as it is the program that rips the CD in the first place - I've never really stumbled on a ripping program that behaves this silly when it comes to this - heck, most programs even let _me_ decide how to organize my files as I see fit.

Try changing the CDDB server address to http://cddb.musicbrainz.org

Much better quality of meta-data.

Wel, that's if his Royal Jobsness has decreed that you may choose which server to use.

[nicholas]

Of course, problems using Amiga are all roses...

...or at least a careful (and unemotional) working through to research and resolve the issues.

Maybe OSX just isnt for you?

When I bought the MBP I was told by Apple that OSX was UNIX.

Thus I expected it to behave like UNIX. This has turned out not to be the case in many basic areas of operation that are standard across all other UNIX's and clones.

I believe "Epic fail" is the correct meme here.

[nicholas]

The /etc/sysctl.conf file, like a lot of standard unix files in OSX, is just there to confuse you. And they top it off by having man pages that more often than not have nothing to do with the actual binaries they ship, and most of the OSX specific commands have no man pages at all.

"man sysctl.conf" on Snow Leopard returns a pack of lies at best.

Still having trouble with uae because of it. :/

[nicholas]

OSX is based on UNIX in the same way "Escape from Colditz" is based on a true story. There's a kernel (arf arf) of truth in there, but the rest has become unrecognisable. For example, a genuinely UNIX-like OS installation generally isn't hacked in under two minutes

That's the thing though, Apple don't claim it is "based on UNIX", they claim it *IS* UNIX.

Leopard is now an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823040630/http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/unix.html

[nicholas]

It meets the spec...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives-unix-03-certification.ars

/shrug

OSX is fine until one wants to do real work (Work that involves typing) with it and then it falls on it's arse.

[nicholas]

Samplers were once evil hardware for talentless wannabes, so were computer based sequencers, so were virtual instruments, same for time stretching, pitch shifting, auto tune and other effects done in software.

For the last few years a 100% software based studio has been possible due to increasing hardware speeds, this in turn led to the reality of the portable studio due to laptop technology.

A tablet today has the performance of a top spec laptop from a few years ago and with it this opens new areas of innovation and experimentation for producers and musicians just like all the evil new products that came before them such as multitrack tape recorders and guitars that plug into the mains.

[nicholas]

I was thinking of the pioneers of the last 50 years, from the introduction of the electric guitar, the multitrack recording studio, the analogue synth, the sampler and the DAW... All these things have been used and abused... But now we only remember the artists who were good... Not necessarily who were the most popular


not overly impressed by Lady Gaga, she doesn't write or compose the music (she has "input" to get a credit, but that is often little more than sitting with the production team during a session), but her production team have found a formula that does work and they use it well.


I'm no fan of the Prodigy, but Liam Howlett's smapler work on Fat of the Land is exceptional. I would have to say that Fat of the Land was really pushing the boundaries for samplers at the time, it's easy to do all that stuff now... But to do it on a few Roland W-30s and akai samplers in the late 90s was amazing. I would say that if you listen to that album from a technical stand point you will appreciate it more

I stumbled across this little gem of a site last night, i thought you'd appreciate it too!

http://www.synthmania.com/Famous%20Sounds.htm