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RCory wrote:Maybe 4 days to possibly some announcement that something might be ready for a simple final beta of a sampler that could ship somewhere between late winter and early first last frost of a gradual harvest of a cardboard box that might have a picture of....

or maybe not.

I am not a criminal!

SixStringGeek wrote:Just checking.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

SixStringGeek wrote:Just checking.

Well, RELEASED on the 13th and SHIPPED on the 13th are two different things.

Have you placed a pre-order? Has ANYONE???

That gives MOTU a few extra weeks to ship... IF they actually announce on the 13th. I think the odds in the UK are now something like 100 to 1 that they WON'T announce OR ship this month. Sept...?

Of course the reliable sources on the board assure us it WILL do SOMETHING on the 13th. But ship??? Not until you pay. How much was that update again and who do I order from???

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

SixStringGeek wrote:Just checking.

Well, RELEASED on the 13th and SHIPPED on the 13th are two different things.

Have you placed a pre-order? Has ANYONE???

That gives MOTU a few extra weeks to ship... IF they actually announce on the 13th. I think the odds in the UK are now something like 100 to 1 that they WON'T announce OR ship this month. Sept...?

Of course the reliable sources on the board assure us it WILL do SOMETHING on the 13th. But ship??? Not until you pay. How much was that update again and who do I order from???

3over3 wrote:Is it here yet?

garymadi wrote: OK, it's on...
This is the contenty of my email to MOTU. Sent 7-9-07.

Hi

Can I be the first to place an order for the free MachFive V.2 upgrade?

I have my receipt and everything.

Thanks

gary

billf wrote:I know what we can do while we wait for July 13th to arrive. Let's discuss bananas (I'm fairly certain this is one of monkey man's top subjects, but to the rest of us it is all new). But I figure if we spend the next three days debating the banana, then Friday will arrive much sooner.

So, while MachFive II draws ever closer, consider the plight of the banana:

The Cavendish banana, found mostly on western supermarket shelves, has been under attack in some Asian countries by a new strain of Fusarium wilt, also known as "Panama disease."
"What is happening is the inevitable consequence of growing one genotype on a large scale," said Eric Kueneman, Chief of FAO's Crop and Grassland Service. The Cavendish banana is a "dessert type" banana that is cultivated mostly by the large-scale banana companies for international trade. The Cavendish banana is important in world trade, but accounts for only 10 percent of bananas produced and consumed globally, according to FAO. Virtually all commercially important plantations grow this single genotype. Its vulnerability is inevitable and not unexpected. The Cavendish's predecessor, the Gros Michel, suffered the same fate at the hands of fungal diseases, so this is a warning that we may need to find a replacement for the Cavendish banana in the future, FAO said.

So far the problem has only been seen in Southeast Asia. However, Mahmoud Solh, Director of FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division, warned: "The consequences of the problem will be more dramatic if this phenomenon reaches Latin America and the Caribbean, where banana is a major plantation crop and a source of employment and income for a large section of the population."

Fortunately, small-scale farmers around the world have maintained a broad genetic pool which can be used for future banana crop improvement. Banana is essentially a clonal crop with many sterile species, which makes progress through conventional breeding slow and difficult. Because of this, new breeding methods and tools, including biotechnology, will be helpful to develop resistant bananas for cultivation.