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My phone is a dirty old man
Crossing the Bosphorus on the vapur (ferry) to Besiktas, Istanbul
Glenn Branca - The Peak of the Sacred
No. I just popped into this thread to ask how your 3D is going
Not really what I want. I'm not interested in laying down beats- and I play keyboard so the best way I know to get notes into a sequencing program is via the keyboard interface.
That machine you linked to just now though- you should be able to easily make a virtual touchscreen version of that, suitable for tablets. I'm just trying to cut down on gear/junk. If you could get a serviceable touchscreen keyboard controller (with a practical emphasis on 'serviceable', and a drumpad type thing- and your control surfaces, etc... that would be very neat.
Sure. When you said midi controller I started thinking in terms of keyboard controllers- which I need to buy sometime here. I don't need anything too fancy actually- just something that will let me quickly throw some notes into Cubase or something.
This sounds like a fun use for a tablet- but how would the touch screen go when it comes down to precise control? All the touchscreens I've used have been quite finicky and prone to lag- just checking the web now there seems to be atleast one professional use touchscreen midi controller by Jazzmutant but they don't look to be in production anymore.
I'm looking for reasons to get a tablet myself sometime- and using it for midi sounds like another idea, but I just wonder how practical this really is?
edit: this software might be worth checking out, but it's directed more at Dj's currently.
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Ten hours sounds completely reasonable. Even on a 24 hour flight from Melbourne to Istanbul, where you can't do much else apart from stare at the seat in front of you- I'd imagine most people would only be able to watch 2 or 3 films before they'd had enough.
This is something I'm unsure about with iPads. Do they support most video/music/ebook formats?
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The original TRON came about at the perfect time- when the culture was much more naive about computers. It was easier to sell the imaginative idea of little people running around inside machines and carryng out programs. These days- a good 'computer graphics' type of movie might be better suited to something like a movie adaption of Verner Vinge's 'Rainbows End', a novel about the evolution of the internet and augmented reality technologies. Actually, Scott Pilgrim is a very cartoony realisation of those ideas.
The quality of the iRacing tracks just seems to be getting better and better
TRON indeed looked great. I would have maybe preferred more time given to the exploration of the computer generated world than character development, since all of the characters felt very unconvincing anyway. The plot really was pretty crap.
The 'Games' scenes managed to be awesome the second time around.
The 'Games' scenes managed to be awesome the second time around.
That's going to be one big database.
Rock is way dead. It doesn't have to be like that... there are just very few creative bands around.
Bit of a bump-
It's not an iPad but I'm becoming a little smitten with this new tablet PC, just released-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1q1UY&feature=channel
It's called an ExoPC- it runs W7, and has a nice, custom, touch friendly UI layer that supposedly makes the tablet experience more pleasant. Looking through various youtube videos, it seems quite responsive to user input and powerful enough to run photoshop (although a little slow at times).
Looks like I may be commuting quite a bit next year (on ferries) so I'm starting to like the idea of taking a tablet with me on these journeys- and I'm also starting to imagine its usefulness as a small, second monitor to my main 3d workstation at home.
Anyway, I'm completely un-experienced with tablets in general and what's out there- today was the first day I'd ever seen the iPad in the flesh for eg.- another nice looking device, but I'm almost a die hard Windows user these days and I just like the thought of being able to run windows apps on a tablet.
Anyone got any other suggestions for a good tablet, or thoughts/experiences with this one?
edit: a review
It's not an iPad but I'm becoming a little smitten with this new tablet PC, just released-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1q1UY&feature=channel
It's called an ExoPC- it runs W7, and has a nice, custom, touch friendly UI layer that supposedly makes the tablet experience more pleasant. Looking through various youtube videos, it seems quite responsive to user input and powerful enough to run photoshop (although a little slow at times).
Looks like I may be commuting quite a bit next year (on ferries) so I'm starting to like the idea of taking a tablet with me on these journeys- and I'm also starting to imagine its usefulness as a small, second monitor to my main 3d workstation at home.
Anyway, I'm completely un-experienced with tablets in general and what's out there- today was the first day I'd ever seen the iPad in the flesh for eg.- another nice looking device, but I'm almost a die hard Windows user these days and I just like the thought of being able to run windows apps on a tablet.
Anyone got any other suggestions for a good tablet, or thoughts/experiences with this one?
edit: a review
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Steve McIntrye on Climategate and Wikileaks
http://climateaudit.org/2010/11/30/assange-on-climategate/
http://climateaudit.org/2010/11/30/assange-on-climategate/
Not one of my faves. Seemed as though he was on automatic with this one, imo.
For my money, Match Point serves as a much better example of great recent Woody Allen. It's far from a romance drama though, and becomes extremely dark towards the conclusion.
As Woody Allen said, religion is just a club. It enforces barriers between people to greater or lesser degrees. As an Australian non-Jew, I was never accepted by my Jewish girlfriends family, for example. My current partners grandparents are Muslim, and initially they were terrified their granddaughter was dating a 'Christian', even though I have nothing to do with Christianity. Once I'd actually met them and gotten to know them, and they me- the terror subsided
and now everything is fine between us. There are just occasionally people around who will take to explosives and blowing themselves and other people up for a cause. This is in no way limited to Arabic cultures and beliefs. There was a guy in the USA just a few months ago who strapped on explosives and took a group of people hostage, because he was concerned about saving frogs...
There's a certain American type of attitude that really tends to rub Europeans and people of other western countries the wrong way, and probably many Americans as well! 
I think the main problem stems from what many probably perceive to be this weird, naive reverence you guys have for your leaders.. wanting to turn Obama into a God for eg, or forgiving the sins of Bush by voting for him twice! There's this apparent idea that America can do no wrong, or when it does it's actually somebody elses fault. What people outside of that viewpoint see is probably something more akin to the metaphor of someone going around and poking hornets nests with sticks. It can be quite scary to watch. And then those in countries who's politicians just slavishy go along with whatever the Americans are doing, a lot of us resent that we're poking those hornets nests as well and sometimes getting stung...
I'm no America 'basher', though. But then I only tend to focus on the more intelligent or exciting aspects of American culture, of which there are numerous examples. I don't buy the idea that America innovates simply because it has money. Some of America's best exports are its musicians... Look at the developments of jazz, blues, rap/hiphop, techno, etc. All American movements, and in every case the innovators of these styles were black and thus underprivileged. Techno was incubated in a city which is probably now well below third world standards. The most creative rock music imo came out of NY at a time when the city was broke and falling apart...
More realistically, America- just like everywhere else, is complex enough that you can call it a hole at the same time you can conceive of it as a crucible of unlimited potential and greatness. The insufferable American attitude though, is that this crucible stops at the borders, and that the rest of the world is simply fertiliser for the American seed/jewel. Which is just nonsense.
I think the main problem stems from what many probably perceive to be this weird, naive reverence you guys have for your leaders.. wanting to turn Obama into a God for eg, or forgiving the sins of Bush by voting for him twice! There's this apparent idea that America can do no wrong, or when it does it's actually somebody elses fault. What people outside of that viewpoint see is probably something more akin to the metaphor of someone going around and poking hornets nests with sticks. It can be quite scary to watch. And then those in countries who's politicians just slavishy go along with whatever the Americans are doing, a lot of us resent that we're poking those hornets nests as well and sometimes getting stung... I'm no America 'basher', though. But then I only tend to focus on the more intelligent or exciting aspects of American culture, of which there are numerous examples. I don't buy the idea that America innovates simply because it has money. Some of America's best exports are its musicians... Look at the developments of jazz, blues, rap/hiphop, techno, etc. All American movements, and in every case the innovators of these styles were black and thus underprivileged. Techno was incubated in a city which is probably now well below third world standards. The most creative rock music imo came out of NY at a time when the city was broke and falling apart...
More realistically, America- just like everywhere else, is complex enough that you can call it a hole at the same time you can conceive of it as a crucible of unlimited potential and greatness. The insufferable American attitude though, is that this crucible stops at the borders, and that the rest of the world is simply fertiliser for the American seed/jewel. Which is just nonsense.
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