At the time the Klipsch speakers were not yet available. In fact the particular set I have no longer appears to be available. They're the original high quality, music oriented speakers. Guess there wasn't much of a market.
If I were in the market for surround sound for games/movies, yeah, I'd give a serious look/listen to the Klipsch THX certified stuff.
I happen to like stereo, and don't particularly care about effects bass. Call me an old fuddy duddy.
This has nothing to do with Party Politics, and everything to do with party politics.
The times are different, the people are different, the passion is nonexistant, and Bush is no Jack Kennedy (neither are Gore or Kerry, for that matter).
The "Mars Program" was a nonstarter from the first, and purely political posturing, which is why it will get shot down. Everyone knows it, and knew it from the start, except for a few people who got so excited about seeing the words "Going to Mars" that they couldn't see anything else.
I'd love to see a man on Mars before I die. I'm afraid I didn't get excited at all by the announcement of the program. In fact, I got a bit depressed since I knew that the end effect of this would likely be the delaying of a real Mars mission. Not because the Democrats will kill it. Because the politics, by both parties, will kill it. Dead.
I've just been through my kitchen. There is not one advertised food item in it. Not one.
With the exception of my Sharp Microwave (acquired used) none of its major fittings are advertised either. I have some Calphalon, bought at discount, and some Pyrex(tm).
Ok, looking through my clothes closet, my shoes are advertised, but I decided to buy them in the store previously unaware that the brand existed. They looked nice. They felt good. They were on sale.
My furniture. All used/antique, or handmade. No Ikea, Sullivan or other modern advertised crap products.
My TV's a Sony. Heavily advertised. Didn't affect my purchase much though. It was a nice TV. On sale.
All of my computer gear was selected by word of mouth recommendations, with the single exception of my Cambridge Soundworks speakers. I bought those strictly on the reputation of the maker. I've had a pair of Kloss's AR-4 speakers for God knows how long. Love 'em. Bought his new stuff. Love it. I did have to pay an advertising "tax" on some of it though, since decent computer gear is still pretty much all patented nongeneric stuff. I tend to buy behind the cycle at closeout prices though, often at well below manufacturers original cost of production.
Oh yeah. I run Linux.
Commercial computer games I don't buy until someone I trust tells me it's worth the price, and even then usually wait until it gets down to the twenty buck rack.
I have found exactly two items in my house that are not only advertised, but where that advertising had any affect on my purchasing. The first is my Serengeti Drivers sunglasses. It was highly targeted advertising, by a local manufacturer (Corning Glass) and my Coulter Optical 10" Newtonian primary was selected entirely on the basis of advertising, also, and obviously, a highly targeted bit of advertising. Not exactly your typical consumer good.
One the whole it's perfectly easy to buy unadvertised goods where those goods are generic, like lentils, peas, pants and furnishings (or simply produce your own), and to purchase those goods which are, by necessity advertised (CPUs) at below cost and avoid the advertising "tax." Maybe it helps if you were raised a Scot or a Yankee.
In the latter case, I have to admit, I'm letting other people pay the tax for me.
I bike to work as well. I don't even own a car anymore.
As for chances of fatality, well, that's highly variable. If you're an average cyclist you're far more likely to be injured on a bicycle than in a car, but less likely to have any of those injuries prove life threatening, so overall your risk per mile is only a few times greater than in a car, and then only if you're riding in close proximity to cars.
If you are an experienced cyclist who is trained in, or applies the techniques of Effective Cycling (tm) (with whom I have no affiliation) your chances of a fatal accident on a bicycle, even while mixing it with cars, is only about 1/10th that of driving a car.
Save your life, have some fun at the same time. Join a good touring club in your area. Bicycles aren't anywhere near as dangerous as some people like to think, and even then, it's really the bloody cars that are dangerous, not the bike.
Yes, this is what makes the thing so magnetically attractive to the wing nut crowd. It's true. Yellowstone is a super caldera. It will very likely erupt again. . . someday.
Maybe when the asteroid hits it. Of which there is also certainly a chance.
Simple, factual uncertainty wigs some people out more than anything else.
"My God! We're all going to die!"
Well yeah, Sparky. Get used to it. But on the whole the greatest risk you face over the next several years is your drive to work. That ought to scare you silly. Roll over in bed. See your sweetie lying there? You're more likely to die at his/her hand than by a volcanic eruption. Even if you live in Hawaii. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Dig a hole. Crawl in. Die in the cave in because you were afraid of shoddy workmanship by contractors (paid off by the government, no doubt) and did a much worse job yourself.
Either that or just lighten up, ferchristsake. Here, have a nice glass of cognac and a cigar to relax.
Hey, why are you running away?
Oh. Yeah. The government has told you that will kill you, nearly on the spot.
Ain't it funny how people chose to chose what they want to believe about what the government tells them? I can't figure it out.
I am smoking a nice cut cavendish, thank you, as is my wont. Very nicely cured, with a hint of vanilla, making me a more pleasant companion in the noses of some than when I choose the latakia ladden British blends that I'm also fond of.
Nor has MLB refused to use Real. In fact, they have agreed to do so. Had they refused there would be no suit.
Perhaps your own pipe needs a bit of looking after?
If a PC shop took delivery of a certain number of Apple products and then failed to pay for them, as per contract, yes, I think Apple would sue. That's really all that's at stake here. A simple contractual disagreement.
In this case though, it's more like the PC shop signed a contract with Apple to display Apple products for the summer, and Apple is claiming that summer starts as soon as the snow melts, not on June 21.
So do I, but this suit has nothing at all to do with technology. It's a simple contract dispute over streaming rights.
And a pretty stupid one, I might add.
And it all really comes down to "content providers" such as MLB wishing to control the content from cradle to grave. The cost of this suit is to be legitimately charged against their unwillingness to stream in an open standard format.
It's all about DRM and who gets to tell your eyeballs what they can and cannot look at, what they must look at, and when.
Pretty much, yeah. And what do you think drove the "woodcut industry" in the first place? Why, those same naughty woodcuts. What do you fueled the translation of the world's literature into European colloquial languages? Check out the unexpergated version of the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (The Arabian Nights to you and me), available at . . ..Project Gutenberg, in seventeen volumes. What do you suppose they were doing some of those nights?
Naughty Woodsman stories have always been the staple of the printing trade.
Naughty figurines go back as far as man made objects. What do you suppose drove the world porcelain trade, tea cups? The Victorian "gentleman" had a fine taste for delicate China dolls that had a "surprise" when you upended them.
Who woulda thunk that a species which reproduces sexually and without "season" would be eternally mindful of sex.
And woulda thunk that such would become pornography and "obscene"?
Gimme that old time religion.
Let us pray with Aphrodite Let us play with Aphrodite She wears that see through nighty And that's good enough for me!
. ..end up leaving the jewel cases and discs at my parents to save space and clutter.
This is what we in the information technology trade refer to as an "offsite backup."
If it's no skin off your parent's nose to safely store a box of CDs somewhere it's a Good Thing, and your backups are the full, uncompressed version.
There are certain benefits to ripping your own. Another of which is to buy used. This last not only saves you money, but has the added benefit, in the case of the copy protected "CDs," of not directly supporting the protection scheme with your dollars.
Well, to play a bit of Devil's Advocate here, pouring money into it to what purpose? What value do you see in said monetary cataract?
I suppose a deluge of money could pay for a deluge of code, but a small handful of the right code is of far more value than everybody and his dog trying to find a profitable niche in the commercial Linux market. For the most part, for a coporation, producing a handful of good code is antithetical to their profit motives.
Better hardware support from vendors would be nice, but that's more a function of user base and looking to maximize hardware profits than pouring money into Linux.
Just get enough people using Linux and Linux can pretty much take care of itself without massive infusions of liquid capital, pouring or otherwise. World Domination is just a side effect.
Yeah, yeah, and the Italian version, which switches sides in the middle of the attack.
The Andorran version, well, the ethernet cable is really just for show, for ceremonial purposes you understand. We aren't actually hooked up to the net and the "attack' is a just a script we run once a year.
The Laotian version, "Pedal faster, I think we're winning!"
The Tahitian version, well, that's just the French version really, in a box with a palm tree on it.
That Australian version, "Phhhhhh! That's not a DDoS. THIS is a DDoS!"
The Mexican version, "Manana."
The Burmese version, which preemptively attacks itself.
The desktop version for Jewish mothers, which when attacked just issues a popup saying, "No, that's ok. Don't worry about me. I'll just sit here alone in the dark. You never give me any network traffic anyway."
Does that me that mean I have any more of a moral right to beat my spouse?
Do you and your city consider your spouse as your private property?
If not then your example is so off base as to be ridiculous.
Is so, then yes, per the laws of every nation that has so held.
Nevermind the fact that you're confusing real crimes with civil violations of "intellectual property," and your victim's compensation link is for physical injury, and thus part of the socialized medical program as much as anything else, and explicitly not for any issues of property.
And why Jefferson hated them so fiercely, and yet essentially founded the PTO. Would we still followed his precepts though. Then the whole Selden affair never would have happened, nevermind "One Click Shopping."
Actually, this has worked to my advantage. I've had the interesting experience of learning my own songs from someone else.
Had other people not valued them and preserved them they would have been lost. I consider the fact that other people valued and preserved them as reasonable evidence that they were worth a certain amount of preservation, even though I myself had negelected them.
The authoritarian past in Europe is not that distant - Spain. ..
I once had the lovely experience of being held under armed military guard for attending a religious service in Spain - in 1973. The military was aware of our service because, of course, we had to apply to the government to be allowed, otherwise we would have all gone to prison instead of being guarded, and then "released." You may be exagerating, but it was a bit of an eye opener for an American, and obviously part of my living memory.
I have no doubt there are still some here and there in Spain who think of those times as "the good old days," but I'd posit they're in the minority.
Still, it bears keeping a watchful eye when I begin to suspect that like events might one day soon be taking place in America if we aren't very, very careful.
"One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry."
Traditionally that country would have been America. Go figure.
However, as long ago as 1870, when Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he had Captain Nemo note that the only place left free in the world was 30 feet under the surface of the sea, as even the sea's surface was no longer safe from police states.
Nowadays, of course, all the police states have hunter submarines.
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At the time the Klipsch speakers were not yet available. In fact the particular set I have no longer appears to be available. They're the original high quality, music oriented speakers. Guess there wasn't much of a market.
If I were in the market for surround sound for games/movies, yeah, I'd give a serious look/listen to the Klipsch THX certified stuff.
I happen to like stereo, and don't particularly care about effects bass. Call me an old fuddy duddy.
KFG
Kennedy was a liberal Democrat.
This has nothing to do with Party Politics, and everything to do with party politics.
The times are different, the people are different, the passion is nonexistant, and Bush is no Jack Kennedy (neither are Gore or Kerry, for that matter).
The "Mars Program" was a nonstarter from the first, and purely political posturing, which is why it will get shot down. Everyone knows it, and knew it from the start, except for a few people who got so excited about seeing the words "Going to Mars" that they couldn't see anything else.
I'd love to see a man on Mars before I die. I'm afraid I didn't get excited at all by the announcement of the program. In fact, I got a bit depressed since I knew that the end effect of this would likely be the delaying of a real Mars mission. Not because the Democrats will kill it. Because the politics, by both parties, will kill it. Dead.
It's the times.
KFG
I've just been through my kitchen. There is not one advertised food item in it. Not one.
With the exception of my Sharp Microwave (acquired used) none of its major fittings are advertised either. I have some Calphalon, bought at discount, and some Pyrex(tm).
Ok, looking through my clothes closet, my shoes are advertised, but I decided to buy them in the store previously unaware that the brand existed. They looked nice. They felt good. They were on sale.
My furniture. All used/antique, or handmade. No Ikea, Sullivan or other modern advertised crap products.
My TV's a Sony. Heavily advertised. Didn't affect my purchase much though. It was a nice TV. On sale.
All of my computer gear was selected by word of mouth recommendations, with the single exception of my Cambridge Soundworks speakers. I bought those strictly on the reputation of the maker. I've had a pair of Kloss's AR-4 speakers for God knows how long. Love 'em. Bought his new stuff. Love it. I did have to pay an advertising "tax" on some of it though, since decent computer gear is still pretty much all patented nongeneric stuff. I tend to buy behind the cycle at closeout prices though, often at well below manufacturers original cost of production.
Oh yeah. I run Linux.
Commercial computer games I don't buy until someone I trust tells me it's worth the price, and even then usually wait until it gets down to the twenty buck rack.
I have found exactly two items in my house that are not only advertised, but where that advertising had any affect on my purchasing. The first is my Serengeti Drivers sunglasses. It was highly targeted advertising, by a local manufacturer (Corning Glass) and my Coulter Optical 10" Newtonian primary was selected entirely on the basis of advertising, also, and obviously, a highly targeted bit of advertising. Not exactly your typical consumer good.
One the whole it's perfectly easy to buy unadvertised goods where those goods are generic, like lentils, peas, pants and furnishings (or simply produce your own), and to purchase those goods which are, by necessity advertised (CPUs) at below cost and avoid the advertising "tax." Maybe it helps if you were raised a Scot or a Yankee.
In the latter case, I have to admit, I'm letting other people pay the tax for me.
Thanks guys. 'preciate it.
KFG
I bike to work as well. I don't even own a car anymore.
As for chances of fatality, well, that's highly variable. If you're an average cyclist you're far more likely to be injured on a bicycle than in a car, but less likely to have any of those injuries prove life threatening, so overall your risk per mile is only a few times greater than in a car, and then only if you're riding in close proximity to cars.
If you are an experienced cyclist who is trained in, or applies the techniques of Effective Cycling (tm) (with whom I have no affiliation) your chances of a fatal accident on a bicycle, even while mixing it with cars, is only about 1/10th that of driving a car.
Save your life, have some fun at the same time. Join a good touring club in your area. Bicycles aren't anywhere near as dangerous as some people like to think, and even then, it's really the bloody cars that are dangerous, not the bike.
KFG
(I assume you're new here).
You must be new here.
KFG
Yes, this is what makes the thing so magnetically attractive to the wing nut crowd. It's true. Yellowstone is a super caldera. It will very likely erupt again. . . someday.
Maybe when the asteroid hits it. Of which there is also certainly a chance.
Simple, factual uncertainty wigs some people out more than anything else.
"My God! We're all going to die!"
Well yeah, Sparky. Get used to it. But on the whole the greatest risk you face over the next several years is your drive to work. That ought to scare you silly. Roll over in bed. See your sweetie lying there? You're more likely to die at his/her hand than by a volcanic eruption. Even if you live in Hawaii. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Dig a hole. Crawl in. Die in the cave in because you were afraid of shoddy workmanship by contractors (paid off by the government, no doubt) and did a much worse job yourself.
Either that or just lighten up, ferchristsake. Here, have a nice glass of cognac and a cigar to relax.
Hey, why are you running away?
Oh. Yeah. The government has told you that will kill you, nearly on the spot.
Ain't it funny how people chose to chose what they want to believe about what the government tells them? I can't figure it out.
KFG
Supermarkets.
KFG
I am smoking a nice cut cavendish, thank you, as is my wont. Very nicely cured, with a hint of vanilla, making me a more pleasant companion in the noses of some than when I choose the latakia ladden British blends that I'm also fond of.
Nor has MLB refused to use Real. In fact, they have agreed to do so. Had they refused there would be no suit.
Perhaps your own pipe needs a bit of looking after?
KFG
If a PC shop took delivery of a certain number of Apple products and then failed to pay for them, as per contract, yes, I think Apple would sue. That's really all that's at stake here. A simple contractual disagreement.
In this case though, it's more like the PC shop signed a contract with Apple to display Apple products for the summer, and Apple is claiming that summer starts as soon as the snow melts, not on June 21.
KFG
So do I, but this suit has nothing at all to do with technology. It's a simple contract dispute over streaming rights.
And a pretty stupid one, I might add.
And it all really comes down to "content providers" such as MLB wishing to control the content from cradle to grave. The cost of this suit is to be legitimately charged against their unwillingness to stream in an open standard format.
It's all about DRM and who gets to tell your eyeballs what they can and cannot look at, what they must look at, and when.
KFG
Well, right after that Smell-O-Vision thingy, I'd guess Feel-Around.
Spam that reaches right out grabs you by the balls.
KFG
Pretty much, yeah. And what do you think drove the "woodcut industry" in the first place? Why, those same naughty woodcuts. What do you fueled the translation of the world's literature into European colloquial languages? Check out the unexpergated version of the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (The Arabian Nights to you and me), available at . . . .Project Gutenberg, in seventeen volumes. What do you suppose they were doing some of those nights?
Naughty Woodsman stories have always been the staple of the printing trade.
Naughty figurines go back as far as man made objects. What do you suppose drove the world porcelain trade, tea cups? The Victorian "gentleman" had a fine taste for delicate China dolls that had a "surprise" when you upended them.
Who woulda thunk that a species which reproduces sexually and without "season" would be eternally mindful of sex.
And woulda thunk that such would become pornography and "obscene"?
Gimme that old time religion.
Let us pray with Aphrodite
Let us play with Aphrodite
She wears that see through nighty
And that's good enough for me!
KFG
However, unlike downloading a few songs, handing out 10,000 copies would be criminal infringement under the current definition.
. . .end up leaving the jewel cases and discs at my parents to save space and clutter.
This is what we in the information technology trade refer to as an "offsite backup."
If it's no skin off your parent's nose to safely store a box of CDs somewhere it's a Good Thing, and your backups are the full, uncompressed version.
There are certain benefits to ripping your own. Another of which is to buy used. This last not only saves you money, but has the added benefit, in the case of the copy protected "CDs," of not directly supporting the protection scheme with your dollars.
KFG
Well, to play a bit of Devil's Advocate here, pouring money into it to what purpose? What value do you see in said monetary cataract?
I suppose a deluge of money could pay for a deluge of code, but a small handful of the right code is of far more value than everybody and his dog trying to find a profitable niche in the commercial Linux market. For the most part, for a coporation, producing a handful of good code is antithetical to their profit motives.
Better hardware support from vendors would be nice, but that's more a function of user base and looking to maximize hardware profits than pouring money into Linux.
Just get enough people using Linux and Linux can pretty much take care of itself without massive infusions of liquid capital, pouring or otherwise. World Domination is just a side effect.
KFG
Yeah, yeah, and the Italian version, which switches sides in the middle of the attack.
The Andorran version, well, the ethernet cable is really just for show, for ceremonial purposes you understand. We aren't actually hooked up to the net and the "attack' is a just a script we run once a year.
The Laotian version, "Pedal faster, I think we're winning!"
The Tahitian version, well, that's just the French version really, in a box with a palm tree on it.
That Australian version, "Phhhhhh! That's not a DDoS. THIS is a DDoS!"
The Mexican version, "Manana."
The Burmese version, which preemptively attacks itself.
The desktop version for Jewish mothers, which when attacked just issues a popup saying, "No, that's ok. Don't worry about me. I'll just sit here alone in the dark. You never give me any network traffic anyway."
Ad nearly infinitum.
KFG
That's funny. That's what people keep telling me about the way I use spreadsheets.
KFG
Sorry, it was the end of my day, laregely spent reading Moby Dick, an act prone to put one out of humor, and yep, I ran out.
KFG
Does that me that mean I have any more of a moral right to beat my spouse?
Do you and your city consider your spouse as your private property?
If not then your example is so off base as to be ridiculous.
Is so, then yes, per the laws of every nation that has so held.
Nevermind the fact that you're confusing real crimes with civil violations of "intellectual property," and your victim's compensation link is for physical injury, and thus part of the socialized medical program as much as anything else, and explicitly not for any issues of property.
KFG
And why Jefferson hated them so fiercely, and yet essentially founded the PTO. Would we still followed his precepts though. Then the whole Selden affair never would have happened, nevermind "One Click Shopping."
KFG
Actually, this has worked to my advantage. I've had the interesting experience of learning my own songs from someone else.
Had other people not valued them and preserved them they would have been lost. I consider the fact that other people valued and preserved them as reasonable evidence that they were worth a certain amount of preservation, even though I myself had negelected them.
KFG
The authoritarian past in Europe is not that distant - Spain. . .
I once had the lovely experience of being held under armed military guard for attending a religious service in Spain - in 1973. The military was aware of our service because, of course, we had to apply to the government to be allowed, otherwise we would have all gone to prison instead of being guarded, and then "released." You may be exagerating, but it was a bit of an eye opener for an American, and obviously part of my living memory.
I have no doubt there are still some here and there in Spain who think of those times as "the good old days," but I'd posit they're in the minority.
Still, it bears keeping a watchful eye when I begin to suspect that like events might one day soon be taking place in America if we aren't very, very careful.
KFG
Oooooooo, low blow. :)
"One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry."
-- Terry Pratchett
KFG
Traditionally that country would have been America. Go figure.
However, as long ago as 1870, when Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he had Captain Nemo note that the only place left free in the world was 30 feet under the surface of the sea, as even the sea's surface was no longer safe from police states.
Nowadays, of course, all the police states have hunter submarines.
KFG
I'm sorry, but Goon is the IP of Paramount Studios. Prepare to be boarded, matey. I hope you ate your spinach today.
KFG