After a pleasant rest day in Adelaide, it was back on the road, with just a short stint up to Wallaroo to catch the SeaSA ferry across the Spencer Gulf.
The two hour gulf crossing gave us time to sit back, relax with a coffee, and discuss what we’d already done and what was still ahead of us.
The original plan for today had been to head to Elliston to stay at a farmstay called Nationdale. But google queries had revealed people saying that back in September, they had had no luck contacting the operators of Nationdale and that it must have shut down. I had sent them an e-mail the night before and had still received no reply.
We decided that if we landed at Lucky Bay (the ferry terminus on the eastern side of the Spencer Gulf) and there was still no answer from Nationdale, that we would then alter our destination to Streaky Bay (a little further west).
No e-mail was forthcoming, so we made for Streaky Bay. Glad we did. The sunset there was an absolute corker!
Tomorrow, we start the long trek across the Nullarbor.
Hey Hey Hey! Audio Sensei,
Did you really think you were gonna get rid of me and my pesky questions?
Well boo-hoo if you did. It has been a long time since we last exchanged some sort of update and first things first:
Merry X-mas and happy new year: Lots of health to you and your loved ones. I wish you all health and nothing else (you know why).
I have a few updates to share: I succumbed and now I am the proud owner of a galaxy note 2. (Did you upgrade yet? or you still have the note one?)
that means that I will be able to see “yer tweets” (yes I agree: kogan fail) more often and follow things as they happen. (it was about time for me to upgrade my ancient mp3 player only technology)
As the future becomes mobile and you jumped ship to reaper I am thinking that sooner than later you will jump ship to a tablet DAW?
Well, lower your eyebrow, I did not think you would say “yes” but the whole market is moving there and since audio is somehow less intensive than video editing, well, it seems we will see the advent of “cloud rendering” or in other words the thin tablet client serves as the mixing interface and the heavier rendering of the whole project is deferred to the cloud (we can now see early indications of this via Adobe creative cloud services ) it will (if no breakthroughs are to take place) come with a heavy set of tradeoffs for the sake of tablet adoption (checking your mix with multple plugins will be more disappointing for us older spoiled users) plus the biggest downside of it all: Cloud based means no local installation of your software (“what for?” some will argue “if you do not have the processing power to run and render with the software behemoth?”) which only opens the door for less piracy and a soft-dictatorship brought to you courtesy of
Adobe/Amazon farms. (If Amazon ever buys Adobe, things are gonna get ugly… but if Google does, well things will get bloody, apple-bloody).
Anyways enough of my ramblings,
Throw me a line, a bone, candy or rared picture sets of nude female swimmers, anything!
Bomar
PS
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed”
William Gibson
Bomar,
While I appreciate your ‘ramblings’, this is my photography site, not my audio home!
But we’re here now, so what the hell!
Merry christmas and a happy new year to you too. 🙂
Tablet-based DAW’s? Ye gods.
I shudder at the concept, but confess that you are right… it’s only a matter of time before people start heading that way. I haven’t even looked at Adobe Cloud Services. Wouldn’t know what it does, or how.
Google buying Adobe? Mmmm, I can’t see that happening to be honest. Google doesn’t want to be a software company. At least, not as best as I can tell.
But who knows?
And no, I can’t imagine tablets running plug-ins either, but then, that’s just thinking with today’s knowledge.
Hell, in 1982, Bill Gates once mocked “Who will ever need more than 256k of memory?”
Sure, we can’t imagine TODAY’S tablets running plugins, but within the next 5 years, tablets will be as powerful as today’s desktop machines, have just as much RAM, SSD’s equivalent in size to today’s hard disk drives, and battery life that will survive days and days of hardcore use.
But most people will never USE that power becasue they will be using cloud-based services, as you suggested.
Getting back to battery levels, I have even seen reports of (companies or universities, don’t recall which) who are working on creating devices with low enough energy requirements that they will run off the electricity within the human body. Imagine picking up a device and it powering up because of the sub-cutaneous electrical signals it can detect and use! The future just gets more and more awesome as the days go by! ‘Bicentenntial Man’ (the Robin Williams movie) is coming, but it won’t be androids wanting to be more human…. it will be humans wanting more and more computing components inserted into their bodies. Mark my words.
Anyway, how ’bout them photos, eh? 🙂
Cheers.