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Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix
RCTrucker7 writes with a link to a Maximum PC story, which begins: "Details of Dell's surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged. Apparently, the computer manufacturer disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function on certain notebooks to assuage RIAA. The hardware functionality is being disabled without any prior notice and one blogger has even alleged that he was asked by Dell's customer support staff to [shell] out $99 if he desired the stereo mix option. Gateway and Pac Bell are the other two manufacturers to have bowed to RIAA at the expense of their customers' satisfaction and disabled stereo mix without warning." (There are some workarounds posted in the comments of the linked article.)
It's clever, but XVideo in the open source world is much better.
I'm sorry.... are you defending X?
You do realize that we only got the ability to switch resolutions without killing the entire desktop a few years ago. Cut & Paste is only finally beginning to reach a state of usefulness.
I suppose the video layer might be alright (I don't have enough experience to say), but X was an absolute mess until just a few years ago.
Windows may suck, but X11 has traditionally been one of the absolute worst things about Unix.
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Next you are going to expect the Bush administration to provide evidence they torture people. The incentive is there, draw your own conclusions.
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#12 actually. And thanks again...
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