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I have a friend who can whistle 300 baud. I'll surf to goatse and hand him the phone while the page loads.

.. wait for it.

Ok. here goes

If you think that Linus Torvalds is a reasonable person, and won't ask for anything unreasonable, then what about his heirs? What if Microsoft decides to buy the Linux trademark from him for a billion dollars? (He's a sane individual and would take the money.)

BINGO! The LMI Sublicense Agreement is written in such a way that it gives total control over ALL licensed distributions, businesses, services, and organizations to the owner of the trademark. All in one neat little package that would easily be worth $1 billion to a company like Microsoft, or IBM, or Sun. In fact, a bidding war between those three companies alone could bring a much higher price.

Even if Linus won't sell, nobody lives forever, and eventually his heirs will control the name. Or he may get legally outmanuevered by others who like the idea of becoming billionaires. It wouldn't be the first time in history that trusted associates turned against someone.

People need to read this agreement and think rationally about what's in it, and the potential for abuse that it contains, instead of just going ba-aah whenever they hear "Linus says."

I am sure that none of us would want to hear any jitter that sounds like ass--i.e. like this--but that doesn't mean that any of us would buy a $1900.00 USB cable. Also, the USB power is strong enough to power the iGrill (which is great, by the way, because now I don't have to carry around the bulky Zero-Point generator while I'm hunting when I have a laptop anyway), so we also don't have to worry about the power line impedance so much, unless we use kilometres long USB cables, which is not so popular as it used to be with null modems any more, since we have an easy access to the Interweb.

Now seriously, I have noticed that people usually stop listening when I start talking about the "science stuff" so they don't really care if it is Fourier series or quantum cleaning of dirty electrons, since they don't listen anyway. As long as it sounds scientific, it is scientific, for all they care. And of course I must be lying to them because I am only their friend while the guy who just sold them a wooden potentiometer knob for $500 must be an expert, because otherwise he wouldn't have a job selling expensive equipment, right? Here the cognitive dissonance kicks in: "I am not a sucker, but I have just bought an ugly wooden knob for $500, therefore people who say that buying ugly wooden knobs for $500 is dumb must be mistaken."

Now, when they say that it was an "expert" in the audiophile store who has told them--or the "expert" in the Stereophile Magazine who has written--what they are telling you about, what they need here is a good ipse dixit and argumentum ad populum, for they won't listen to any other argument at all.

At that point, I usually shout at them: "Does Deutsche Grammophon use this junk to 'purify' their music while they record it? No? Then why on Earth do you think I need it to listen?! Now, will you excuse me, I need to drink my snake oil," and I leave in furious anger. Later when I talk to them, they sometimes ask me: "Are you serious that the record industry don't use such cables? Why?" To which I answer: "Because they are not bloody idiots, that's why! Do you need to spend millions on sound equipment? Then go to the recording studio, see what they use, and buy the same stuff. You will still be a sucker to buy something that you don't need, but at least you will have something that actually works."

It is surprisingly difficult to explain the truth to anyone who have bought audiophile lacquer or the wine clip, but it is still nothing compared to e.g. homeopathy or any other quackery when we are talking about peoples' health and lives, not just some useless junk. People will just not accept that they are suckers. Remember this story?

I want a soundtrack for my life. Like when something goes good.... I only have this site for when I mess up.

This one might be good for when you really mess up your life.... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP______ :-)

Other sound-sample sites include: http://www.synthzone.com/sampling.htm
http://www.ilovewavs.com/
http://www.thewavplace.com
http://www.tintagel.net/resources/Multimedia/Audio /
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/

http://www.modarchive.com/ also has some assorted samples.

Dunno if it's what you're looking for, but a quick look on google showed this page

SB

I dunno, but this looks like a good start. :)