LuisBSF

I am a telecom engineer working as development team lead at a large media company, managing a few high volume (posh lady stuffs) sites. I am seeing what my options are to get back to uni to study astronomy however. I don't want to spend my entire professional career doing just one thing.

Same in the UK, the ladies here rinse forest, night and dark like there's no tomorrow. Always found this tune very "masculine" for some reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSg5sP_tvGY

This is really cool music, thanks for sharing!

How about loading windows on a virtual machine (vmware, virtualpc) on your mac? You might have an old license of windows from an old computer knocking about you might be able to use.

tee hee

... how would you know he was a porn actor? ...

Bollocks, I seem to go to all the wrong parties. Tops I've seen is Pam St Clement waiting at a bus shelter up in golders green.

Pretty much anything from Lost and Found, Rubix Qube or Xatrix, or derivative projects thereof, is awesomely chunky, driving psytrance. Konan the Barbarian by Xatrix and Rubix Qube is the manliest trance tune ever.

Doesn't cost you anything to add a feature on the home page, and might help covering costs for a while, if people respond

Fundraising as well?

Just cool music, as far as I'm concerned. Chunky, groovy and driving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSg5sP_tvGY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G4MbMBdCes Awesome!

I believe the last version removes support for SSE2, although it could well be the other way around since the google translation of http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/synmanu/readme.html#rireki is a bit strange.

Eagerly awaiting for my copy.

Just did some research and am I right if I say it's a 2.4 ghz core 2 duo processor? That should do nicely for quite a while. Memory could be a problem at some point, but to start with seems quite appropriate. I've been told Reaper is extremely good with resources. You'd definitely struggle sooner rather than later with Ableton and 2GB of RAM. CD-R a non issue really, I very rarely use optical drives these days unless I'm burning a CD.

I own an oxygen 49 2nd gen and don't really see myself getting rid of it any time soon. The keyboard definitely important, there's no point in not having it. I write all my melodic and most rhytmic parts through it, clicking with a mouse on a piano roll is very uninspiring I find. No monitors for you which is fair enough, so a solid pair of cans instead. If you have the cash please do spend it, don't try save pennies in this department as your monitoring gear fidelity is incredibly important; I can vouch for the accuracy of sennheiser hd600 cans, although please do some research and shop around. Software wise you seem sorted. I am to try Reaper myself soon as I've heard a lot of good stuff about it, particularly when it comes to performance. That M Audio soundcard should serve you nicely as well. Your computer might hold you back, what's the spec on it? So yeah: decent computer + decent cans + decent audio interface + midi controller + daw and virtual instruments and you're set.

I'm Spanish, although I currently live in London.

I really like Psymmetrix and Synthetik Chaos, both in Bom Shanka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70C5KIL5VA4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4NNRsVR2Zo Slightly quicker than Wildthings stuff but not hugely.

Check this friend of mine out:

I was given a full theory of the natural world at Ozora's Magic Garden last week... kinda went like "Dood, the universe is, like, this amAzing thing maan!" followed by why the sun happens to be god. Should put the likes of Rotwang out of business, you might just as well give up.

I am severely out of date and most of that I learned of my own accord in a very patchy way; last physics I studied was purely electromagnetic spectra related (mainly signals) quite a few years ago; surely Rotwang can find a good couple of links to lay out the basics of all this?

I stand corrected.

It couldn't possibly have any. Should the universe be completely symmetric, all matter would've been completely annihilated by antimatter during the first moments of existence, to mention just one direct consequence of it. Plus the law conservation of angular momentum is valid for an object that rotates through a vacuum that exists within space time (any law of physics for all we know is only valid within our universe). The universe might not be such a thing either.

If only by the law of conservation of angular momentum, then yes. But as you say it's dangerous to apply everyday common sense to such matters as there might be other interactions at work that might not be apparent on a first glance, particularly not when the object being observed is the entire universe.