Unless I see the Government and Industries serious about a Lunar Base where they could mine the Moon, I doubt we'll ever see a Martian Mission, other than more deep probes.
``No telling what has caused the turnabout. Perhaps the writers strike gave both parties time to reflect on their mounting lost revenue.''
I can see it now. We can't buy these iPods because writers are on strike. Not! They [NBC Universal] are losing lots of revenue from the writers strike who drive the advertisers to brand on their network because of volume ratings. Without the writers and no longer having the contract with Apple to sell re-runs it's clear they are leaking badly.
With that said, it's also something you SHOULD BUY. Why? Since having an iBook G4 1Ghz I've had 2 logic boards, second hdd, DVD drive, new TFT LCD and more all replaced on my system. All covered and no cost to me. AppleCare is not only worth the extra expense, it just makes good business sense to buy it.
I'll never buy an Apple, DELL, HP or other small-form factor product WITHOUT their extended Warranty/Care policy.
Apple has a top flight policy and I'll buy it every time.
Have you seen anyone remotely resembling Thomas in Politics, since his death? We have some of the lowest thinking levels in our population since it's nation's founding. My statement is meant to be provocative and an exercise for those who disagree with it to disprove it.
As a Libertarian, Ron Paul is a joke. His Pro-Life stance makes me wanna laugh. Pro-Choice isn't Anti-Life, it's Self-Reliance in all of it's embodiments and responsibilities. No sexual contraceptive is guaranteed to prevent pregnancy. To decide for those who had intercourse how they can then legally decide which options exist for post-intercourse is an affront to the notion of choice. The more the system wants to control the pre and post choices of a supposedly "free nation" the more it creates dissension and revolution.
You don't want the child then don't complain that the perceived loss has made you depressed and less fulfilled.
Don't want the child, but your religious convictions prohibit you from having an Abortion? Wear a condom [or other methods not 100% guaranteed but greatly reduces your Johnson from becoming Mr. Johnson] and stop producing unwanted kids up for adoption that takes years for the system to process legal paperwork and slow down the rest of the Judicial System.
Want the child but can't afford it? Don't use your religious convictions to show how you're morally superior but can't afford it so you extend the level of poverty in this country and thus extend the debt to the general population, all due to your personal beliefs.
Aren't pregnant, Pro-Life and determined to waste our airwaves with your moral superiority? Start adopting all the children from your morally superior and broke brethren and shut up already. Stop making this a State's issue and still ignoring millions of unadopted and unwanted children that you seem content with not helping while you proclaim divine supremacy over your fellow American's Liberties.
Once we can get back to reinvesting in the US Infrastructure most of these social debates will become second or third tier issues right up there with those idiots trying to outlaw Video Games.
Spoken like a Neo-con Republican. As a Libertarian I don't have a dog in this race. However, the Republicans would rather run against a Black Man than a White Woman. It's archaic and wreaks of old world views, but don't kid yourself that a large portion of the Independent Iowa voters who normally vote Republican padded Obama's count and when it came to NH the majority of voters being Women got off their collective asses and realized that they do have a chance to have a woman in the White House.
As a man I'm looking forward to seeing some change but from not just the notion of someone's skin color, but from their sex. Give the ladies a shot at steering the ship for once.
No network integration? What the hell are you spreading? Are you one of those that bitch about sftp and smb not being cleanly integrated into Finder?
Get over it and write a third party app. The entire Linux platform I use daily in KDE3.5.8/4 and GNOME 2.x has a bunch of third party crap written. KIO Slaves has issues and it's being shown in KDE4.x.
I"ll tell you what: When Apple integrates SFTP/SMB into Finder what will you complain about next? The lack of fifty million options to config your menus and turn it into a butt ugly theme?
I completely agree. Both Facebook and MySpace are junk applications but in a world of unsettled APIs and half-implemented standards, Facebook beats MySpace in quality hands down.
Unfortunately, none of them seem to do much for you if most of your friends aren't in such purported collaborative environments. At 38 I expected more to be utilizing it but then mainly they have their ear plugged with their cellphone. They can't type unless their career really requires it and unless they are in a technical field they could give a rat's ass about computers and the Internet. Sports is one allure but they get immediately turned off when the interesting information on sports talent falls under paid subscriptions. They just go grab it off the print rack.
We still haven't seen compelling state-aware collaborative social networking environments be utilized. Stateless models are attempting to put a huge band-aid over it's obvious limitation. I am canceling my MySpace and soon the Facebook. LinkedIn is a useful idea for professional contacts but people just aren't that excited about it.
Too be interested in collaborating in content that adds to your perceived knowledge it just makes sense to have a blog and whoever develops a categorized aggregator that works seamlessly should make a fortune. Then again, Microsoft, Apple and Linux should just have these as client apps allowing one to download offline and read later.
who the hell wants to be alive in 2108? People already are willing to f*** a hole in a stall with their eyes closed and not care whats on the other end, what makes you think they give two s***s about improving the general quality of life for Humanity, now let alone in the future?
Make a legal argument that it is illegal to rip lossless cds of legally purchased cds. Did you guys think this was going to work in the consumer's favor?
Great comeback, but [Halford solo was a blessing personally] I hope they treat Nostradamus with the ear of yesteryear and produce it with as broad a dynamic range as they can. Especially, seeing as there will be classical layering.
From the photograph I'd love to see these effective at a 20 - 30 degree slop from horizontal so as us folks who get SNOW could still utilize these without them becoming a catcher's mitt for heavy snowfall.
It's amazing that half of these threads are a rehashed circle-jerk on analog/digital/mp3 compression concerns. The point of the article is that the music was intentionally made loud and thus the amplitudes of the dynamic range are consistently being chopped in modern recordings, thus nullifying the point of using an independent Amplifier to modify the sound to how you want it.
Take Heavy Metal music of the 1970s to today. Take Judas Priest for an example. The album British Steel showed an incredibly crisp, dynamic sound with distinct separation of all music tracks. If you thought the bass wasn't full enough, you adjusted the eq on your own. Today's latest release of 2004 Angel of Retribution has an album were effectively all songs are AT ELEVEN. It sucks. It produces a muttled sound across the disc.
If you want another example, take a look at RUSH. Take a Wave sampler and compare the same tracks on their original recordings back in 1982 to the re-masters of today. I'll take the absence of sound (greater peak differentials in the Sine Curve) of Signals 1982 than today's remasters. Take a listen to the latest RUSH disc. When Neil Peart's drums sound muffled, you know something is truly screwed up in the recording industry.
How many decades have to be spent on reinventing ways to amuse ourselves? Holy crap! Being a stockholder of Apple I'm pleased the stock is growing. As an engineer I would rather see advances at Apple getting into the traditional Engineering Fields with products that can expand their reach and make OS X a leader in the Auto, Aerospace, Bio-Medical and more fields.
Oh never mind! Trek 69 was just delivered to my AppleTV.
What the hell are you talking about? His TEAM were the talent. He wasn't. Telsa's advances in Electrical Engineering make it possible for practically all modern conveniences with electric field theory/quantum theory.
Many of Tesla's lack of business savvy have also been shown that his compassion towards helping humanity move forward superseded his need to be the world's first billionaire. He wasn't a greedy prig of a man. Edison most certainly showed that title suited him just fine.
No one is denouncing the value of a prudent business mind to make products and drive Industry. That is applauded. It's when a business man controls the progress of Industry and exploits it is when we want to shat on his grave.
From the general state in the decline of average intellect, it's quite obvious that the Republican Party suffers deeply from the lack of critical reasoning, empirical capacity and downright necessary skepticism to grasp basic tenets of Science, Higher Reasoning and Advanced Mathematics--all critical in making sure the human race doesn't turn into a bunch of rabid, inbred, blind flocks of fear mongers. Oh wait! They've been building a cesspool of idiocy for several decades and it's bleeding into the national elections at an alarming rate.
How else can you explain for the collective ca-ca that spews forth from their leadership? I am confident that most of Congress would clearly not pass a science competency exam, but I'd wager 10:1 that the Republicans would have a higher failure rate.
By the way, Warren Buffet invented nothing. If you consider majoring in capitalizing on investing as a sign of genius, then that is your right. At most, he's been an in-genius investor and from his past was well-prepared to tackle the market system.
To cite Warren as an example that would parish in a Democratic run system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett is extremely dense seeing as he was raised within a mix of both parties running Congress and the White House. My own grandfather was a Vice-President of one of the original 12 regional Land Banks in the United States of America. He was raised through the Great Depression [that contrived banking disaster that brought about the Federal Reserve] and lived a frugal life learned from his background and retired a millionaire. He could have been much more wealthy if he had an innately greedy streak. He didn't. Character wise, he would have stomped all over Buffett's character. They do share one commonality: they are both named Warren.
One major difference is the fact that Mr. Buffett was born with a silver spoon and my Grandfather was born without a spoon. I value his fortune greater than Mr. Buffett's whose foundation was set before he was even born. I value Mr. Buffett for exhibiting some compassion in his later years, but then again with $55 Billion he could really capitalize on advances in Energy and lead the way--however we know he's not a visionary. He's just a good Stock Broker.
Please, don't show me the Heritage Foundation as a bastion of hope and erudition. As a man who was raised in a Republican/Democratic mix, and as a Mechanical Engineer I find it appalling to see all these "Foundations" preaching and pointing blame on how this nation has crapped on the US Constitution, the visions of Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Paine, etc., when all they've done is create an elitist position lobbying the Congress and continuing to keep this cluster-f*** from evolving. Both sides share in this orgiastic view of politics with each having their own foundations to lobby and attack the leadership in Congress from both sides.
There is no panacea to point to as a solution or a single socio-political disease to point blame on for how it is we allowed this grand vision to go right into the shi**er. If you study the writings of Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Paine and others you discover that it only took a few decades after the US Constitution was ratified that the lepers were ready to infect the Nation's collective carcass and return to the fantastical that is dogma and seek in guidance from some divinely born lunatic. If it weren't for the steady stewardship of the fathers and later, some wise leadership throughout this nation's history we very well could have seen this dream dead at least a dozen times.
No, it's not the party politics of one party [odd that neither represent the ideals of Jefferson who founded both parties] over another, it's the sheer idiocy of both parties leaders that rears it's ugly heads from time to time only leaving the country to suffer until another election comes just to stave off the mental disease that has become prevalent in Washington D.C.--Power. Instead of being servants of the People they often forget that in times of distress they see the People as their servants.
Where you were correct: The average American today has as smaller vocabulary, lower IQ and more specialized knowledge leading to less understanding across broad subject matter.
Where you were incorrect: It's a Political Party issue. It's mutually inclusive from Both Parties that the general intelligence of the consumer is less broad/less deep today. However, people who flock to social programs tend to be in a state of non-self-determination. Their hands are more tied and thus form lower income strata. The Far Right have equally exploited their ignorant followers through doctrines of Imminent Fear of Terrorism and Immoral Family Values.
To forecast the future outcomes of the Democratically controlled Congress of 2008 and beyond by 2007 is both unscientific and myopic.
After the 2008 Election which sees a Democrat take the Presidency and gain Super Majority in both branches of Congress, judge the progress of their "words" after a year.
I neither speak as a disillusioned Republican or a disgruntled Democrat. I speak as a registered Libertarian. The Republican juggernaut manipulated by dogma and big brother in the guise of "father knows best" has diseased that party to a level unseen for decades. Only a few years of the Democrats failing miserably would ever allow for a third party to get a crack at it.
Either way, the person who called you a racist should have just proclaimed you suffering from a diarrhetic case of partisanship. Show your intelligence and find solutions to improve the landscape through innovation.
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iTunes and Firefox aren't Desktop Environments. KDE is the competitor to Windows Desktop Environment. Two applications that run under Windows obviously wouldn't trump Windows. Two applications running with KDE would. If Apple wants to see Microsoft suck on it's nutsack, just see what happens if Apple releases iTunes for Linux and specifically via say, Qt 4.5 64-bit Cocoa port of Trolltech's Toolkit.
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Unless I see the Government and Industries serious about a Lunar Base where they could mine the Moon, I doubt we'll ever see a Martian Mission, other than more deep probes.
``No telling what has caused the turnabout. Perhaps the writers strike gave both parties time to reflect on their mounting lost revenue.''
I can see it now. We can't buy these iPods because writers are on strike. Not! They [NBC Universal] are losing lots of revenue from the writers strike who drive the advertisers to brand on their network because of volume ratings. Without the writers and no longer having the contract with Apple to sell re-runs it's clear they are leaking badly.
those Scientists working at US Companies doing the work in order for them to file Patents? I wouldn't be surprised to see most of them are Foreign.
Halo effects work in the short-run. The cost of production on this, if it doesn't grow Apple's bottom line, will be written off in a year.
Firstly, AppleCare is extra.
Secondly, It's excellent.
With that said, it's also something you SHOULD BUY. Why? Since having an iBook G4 1Ghz I've had 2 logic boards, second hdd, DVD drive, new TFT LCD and more all replaced on my system. All covered and no cost to me. AppleCare is not only worth the extra expense, it just makes good business sense to buy it.
I'll never buy an Apple, DELL, HP or other small-form factor product WITHOUT their extended Warranty/Care policy.
Apple has a top flight policy and I'll buy it every time.
Agreed. Ron Paul isn't a Libertarian and he's questionable as a libertarian. Hell the closest thing we had before the modern LP is the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)
Have you seen anyone remotely resembling Thomas in Politics, since his death? We have some of the lowest thinking levels in our population since it's nation's founding. My statement is meant to be provocative and an exercise for those who disagree with it to disprove it.
As a Libertarian, Ron Paul is a joke. His Pro-Life stance makes me wanna laugh. Pro-Choice isn't Anti-Life, it's Self-Reliance in all of it's embodiments and responsibilities. No sexual contraceptive is guaranteed to prevent pregnancy. To decide for those who had intercourse how they can then legally decide which options exist for post-intercourse is an affront to the notion of choice. The more the system wants to control the pre and post choices of a supposedly "free nation" the more it creates dissension and revolution.
You don't want the child then don't complain that the perceived loss has made you depressed and less fulfilled.
Don't want the child, but your religious convictions prohibit you from having an Abortion? Wear a condom [or other methods not 100% guaranteed but greatly reduces your Johnson from becoming Mr. Johnson] and stop producing unwanted kids up for adoption that takes years for the system to process legal paperwork and slow down the rest of the Judicial System.
Want the child but can't afford it? Don't use your religious convictions to show how you're morally superior but can't afford it so you extend the level of poverty in this country and thus extend the debt to the general population, all due to your personal beliefs.
Aren't pregnant, Pro-Life and determined to waste our airwaves with your moral superiority? Start adopting all the children from your morally superior and broke brethren and shut up already. Stop making this a State's issue and still ignoring millions of unadopted and unwanted children that you seem content with not helping while you proclaim divine supremacy over your fellow American's Liberties.
Once we can get back to reinvesting in the US Infrastructure most of these social debates will become second or third tier issues right up there with those idiots trying to outlaw Video Games.
Spoken like a Neo-con Republican. As a Libertarian I don't have a dog in this race. However, the Republicans would rather run against a Black Man than a White Woman. It's archaic and wreaks of old world views, but don't kid yourself that a large portion of the Independent Iowa voters who normally vote Republican padded Obama's count and when it came to NH the majority of voters being Women got off their collective asses and realized that they do have a chance to have a woman in the White House.
This country ethnically breaks down as http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/usinterimproj/
As a man I'm looking forward to seeing some change but from not just the notion of someone's skin color, but from their sex. Give the ladies a shot at steering the ship for once.
No network integration? What the hell are you spreading? Are you one of those that bitch about sftp and smb not being cleanly integrated into Finder?
Get over it and write a third party app. The entire Linux platform I use daily in KDE3.5.8/4 and GNOME 2.x has a bunch of third party crap written. KIO Slaves has issues and it's being shown in KDE4.x.
I"ll tell you what: When Apple integrates SFTP/SMB into Finder what will you complain about next? The lack of fifty million options to config your menus and turn it into a butt ugly theme?
I completely agree. Both Facebook and MySpace are junk applications but in a world of unsettled APIs and half-implemented standards, Facebook beats MySpace in quality hands down.
Unfortunately, none of them seem to do much for you if most of your friends aren't in such purported collaborative environments. At 38 I expected more to be utilizing it but then mainly they have their ear plugged with their cellphone. They can't type unless their career really requires it and unless they are in a technical field they could give a rat's ass about computers and the Internet. Sports is one allure but they get immediately turned off when the interesting information on sports talent falls under paid subscriptions. They just go grab it off the print rack.
We still haven't seen compelling state-aware collaborative social networking environments be utilized. Stateless models are attempting to put a huge band-aid over it's obvious limitation. I am canceling my MySpace and soon the Facebook. LinkedIn is a useful idea for professional contacts but people just aren't that excited about it.
Too be interested in collaborating in content that adds to your perceived knowledge it just makes sense to have a blog and whoever develops a categorized aggregator that works seamlessly should make a fortune. Then again, Microsoft, Apple and Linux should just have these as client apps allowing one to download offline and read later.
who the hell wants to be alive in 2108? People already are willing to f*** a hole in a stall with their eyes closed and not care whats on the other end, what makes you think they give two s***s about improving the general quality of life for Humanity, now let alone in the future?
Make a legal argument that it is illegal to rip lossless cds of legally purchased cds. Did you guys think this was going to work in the consumer's favor?
Both. Vapor Trails was worse, but even S&A suffers widely compared to Show Of Hands, let alone Moving Pictures.
Great comeback, but [Halford solo was a blessing personally] I hope they treat Nostradamus with the ear of yesteryear and produce it with as broad a dynamic range as they can. Especially, seeing as there will be classical layering.
From the photograph I'd love to see these effective at a 20 - 30 degree slop from horizontal so as us folks who get SNOW could still utilize these without them becoming a catcher's mitt for heavy snowfall.
You can raise the amplitude on an EQ to raise the loudness to the point it becomes garbage and nothing but a mess of distorted feedback.
It's amazing that half of these threads are a rehashed circle-jerk on analog/digital/mp3 compression concerns. The point of the article is that the music was intentionally made loud and thus the amplitudes of the dynamic range are consistently being chopped in modern recordings, thus nullifying the point of using an independent Amplifier to modify the sound to how you want it.
Take Heavy Metal music of the 1970s to today. Take Judas Priest for an example. The album British Steel showed an incredibly crisp, dynamic sound with distinct separation of all music tracks. If you thought the bass wasn't full enough, you adjusted the eq on your own. Today's latest release of 2004 Angel of Retribution has an album were effectively all songs are AT ELEVEN. It sucks. It produces a muttled sound across the disc.
If you want another example, take a look at RUSH. Take a Wave sampler and compare the same tracks on their original recordings back in 1982 to the re-masters of today. I'll take the absence of sound (greater peak differentials in the Sine Curve) of Signals 1982 than today's remasters. Take a listen to the latest RUSH disc. When Neil Peart's drums sound muffled, you know something is truly screwed up in the recording industry.
How many decades have to be spent on reinventing ways to amuse ourselves? Holy crap! Being a stockholder of Apple I'm pleased the stock is growing. As an engineer I would rather see advances at Apple getting into the traditional Engineering Fields with products that can expand their reach and make OS X a leader in the Auto, Aerospace, Bio-Medical and more fields.
Oh never mind! Trek 69 was just delivered to my AppleTV.
What the hell are you talking about? His TEAM were the talent. He wasn't. Telsa's advances in Electrical Engineering make it possible for practically all modern conveniences with electric field theory/quantum theory.
Many of Tesla's lack of business savvy have also been shown that his compassion towards helping humanity move forward superseded his need to be the world's first billionaire. He wasn't a greedy prig of a man. Edison most certainly showed that title suited him just fine.
No one is denouncing the value of a prudent business mind to make products and drive Industry. That is applauded. It's when a business man controls the progress of Industry and exploits it is when we want to shat on his grave.
From the general state in the decline of average intellect, it's quite obvious that the Republican Party suffers deeply from the lack of critical reasoning, empirical capacity and downright necessary skepticism to grasp basic tenets of Science, Higher Reasoning and Advanced Mathematics--all critical in making sure the human race doesn't turn into a bunch of rabid, inbred, blind flocks of fear mongers. Oh wait! They've been building a cesspool of idiocy for several decades and it's bleeding into the national elections at an alarming rate.
How else can you explain for the collective ca-ca that spews forth from their leadership? I am confident that most of Congress would clearly not pass a science competency exam, but I'd wager 10:1 that the Republicans would have a higher failure rate.
By the way, Warren Buffet invented nothing. If you consider majoring in capitalizing on investing as a sign of genius, then that is your right. At most, he's been an in-genius investor and from his past was well-prepared to tackle the market system.
To cite Warren as an example that would parish in a Democratic run system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett is extremely dense seeing as he was raised within a mix of both parties running Congress and the White House. My own grandfather was a Vice-President of one of the original 12 regional Land Banks in the United States of America. He was raised through the Great Depression [that contrived banking disaster that brought about the Federal Reserve] and lived a frugal life learned from his background and retired a millionaire. He could have been much more wealthy if he had an innately greedy streak. He didn't. Character wise, he would have stomped all over Buffett's character. They do share one commonality: they are both named Warren.
One major difference is the fact that Mr. Buffett was born with a silver spoon and my Grandfather was born without a spoon. I value his fortune greater than Mr. Buffett's whose foundation was set before he was even born. I value Mr. Buffett for exhibiting some compassion in his later years, but then again with $55 Billion he could really capitalize on advances in Energy and lead the way--however we know he's not a visionary. He's just a good Stock Broker.
Please, don't show me the Heritage Foundation as a bastion of hope and erudition. As a man who was raised in a Republican/Democratic mix, and as a Mechanical Engineer I find it appalling to see all these "Foundations" preaching and pointing blame on how this nation has crapped on the US Constitution, the visions of Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Paine, etc., when all they've done is create an elitist position lobbying the Congress and continuing to keep this cluster-f*** from evolving. Both sides share in this orgiastic view of politics with each having their own foundations to lobby and attack the leadership in Congress from both sides.
There is no panacea to point to as a solution or a single socio-political disease to point blame on for how it is we allowed this grand vision to go right into the shi**er. If you study the writings of Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Paine and others you discover that it only took a few decades after the US Constitution was ratified that the lepers were ready to infect the Nation's collective carcass and return to the fantastical that is dogma and seek in guidance from some divinely born lunatic. If it weren't for the steady stewardship of the fathers and later, some wise leadership throughout this nation's history we very well could have seen this dream dead at least a dozen times.
No, it's not the party politics of one party [odd that neither represent the ideals of Jefferson who founded both parties] over another, it's the sheer idiocy of both parties leaders that rears it's ugly heads from time to time only leaving the country to suffer until another election comes just to stave off the mental disease that has become prevalent in Washington D.C.--Power. Instead of being servants of the People they often forget that in times of distress they see the People as their servants.
Is it just me or do you not want to be on the outer edges watching the movie? Either have the screen span the width of the room or just bag it.
Where you were correct: The average American today has as smaller vocabulary, lower IQ and more specialized knowledge leading to less understanding across broad subject matter.
Where you were incorrect: It's a Political Party issue. It's mutually inclusive from Both Parties that the general intelligence of the consumer is less broad/less deep today. However, people who flock to social programs tend to be in a state of non-self-determination. Their hands are more tied and thus form lower income strata. The Far Right have equally exploited their ignorant followers through doctrines of Imminent Fear of Terrorism and Immoral Family Values.
To forecast the future outcomes of the Democratically controlled Congress of 2008 and beyond by 2007 is both unscientific and myopic.
After the 2008 Election which sees a Democrat take the Presidency and gain Super Majority in both branches of Congress, judge the progress of their "words" after a year.
I neither speak as a disillusioned Republican or a disgruntled Democrat. I speak as a registered Libertarian. The Republican juggernaut manipulated by dogma and big brother in the guise of "father knows best" has diseased that party to a level unseen for decades. Only a few years of the Democrats failing miserably would ever allow for a third party to get a crack at it.
Either way, the person who called you a racist should have just proclaimed you suffering from a diarrhetic case of partisanship. Show your intelligence and find solutions to improve the landscape through innovation.
[completeConjecture:withReason]
iTunes and Firefox aren't Desktop Environments. KDE is the competitor to Windows Desktop Environment. Two applications that run under Windows obviously wouldn't trump Windows. Two applications running with KDE would. If Apple wants to see Microsoft suck on it's nutsack, just see what happens if Apple releases iTunes for Linux and specifically via say, Qt 4.5 64-bit Cocoa port of Trolltech's Toolkit.
[/completeConjecture:withReason]
http://www.rosettaproject.org/
Whoever builds a technology to read/write the encoded information to/from the Rosetta Disk that includes both video and audio: http://www.rosettaproject.org/about-us/disk/concept will be a rich company.
at the FBI, NSA and CIA. They are trying to get these programs up and running before the changing of the guard.
Wiccan wear Pentacles and use ritual Pantacles.
Pentagons are a sound dig at the Pentagon of the USA.