You have a bit of a chip on your shoulder, don't you? Only someone with an agenda would take such a leap, based on those previous comments.
The fact of the matter is, for all the anti-US banners, flag burnings, etc., the...locals (Arabs, Muslims, Islamists, whatever) are killing far more of their countrymen than we are. And whereas we hopefully tend to target the guilty as accurately as possible, they are purposefully targeting innocents they live amongst.
I'm not sure how you manage to support and reconcile that, and then sleep at night. You're far worse than what you imagined the previous poster to be.
Are you sure about the GPL not being tested in a US court? Groklaw says this, in the matter of Wallace v. FSF:
"So, the end result is, the GPL went to court, and the judge not only upheld it, he said this:
[T]he GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more innovation."
...if I was in his position (National Intelligence Director). Unfortunately, if they promise one thing and then do the opposite, telecos are going to be sued. That's pretty obvious, I should think.
Interesting. I wonder how this will affect iRiver's Clix player, that was developed with MS and MTV.
'Course, on the other hand, we told iRiver they were making a mistake by moving away from (more or less) open mp3 and ogg players. Maybe they'll see the light, now...especially with DRM seemingly being abandoned more and more.
The poster who said you can hear the difference between 320kbps and a CD is right on. The problem is that iPods are NOT a quality sound system. Few portable players are. The more esoteric units like the (older) iRivers might qualify, and the iAudio M5...but the silicon chips used in the iPod certainly are not. This is not a flame or a troll; look at the specs. Compare the iPod's (fairly atrocious) Wolfson audio chips with the iRiver's UDA1380. Actually, there IS no comparison. You won't hear the difference with the cheap ear-buds that come with the iPod perhaps, but throw on a set of Grados with a clean headphone amp, and the difference is like night and day. To be fair, the Shuffle's Sigma Tel STMP3550 was a welcomed improvement. Still, it's the limitations imposed by the ear-bud 'phones that make the biggest difference.
Now, the human ear can be amazingly adaptive...years ago I drove to a high-end stereo store in a friend's car. His sound system wasn't too shabby. In the car's environment it sounded, well, fine. But after listening to some Martin-Logan speakers for an hour, returning to the car's audio system was pure hell. Suddenly it WASN'T "fine." It was awful. But you know, by the time we got home, it sounded okay.
And it's this kind of "lowest common denominator" acceptance that TFA is talking about. I've never understood why people would pay money for compressed music. I understand the storage limitations and the trade-offs that are required to house your entire music collection on only 40GB, but why would you not pay for the uncompressed CD (or at least FLAC downloads), especially when you know, as a music enthusiast that the technology is only going to improve? Once you have the uncompressed CD, you can always re-encode with newer, better codecs in order to fit into the same amount of storage capacity. For that matter, as storage capacity improves, and you know it will, you won't even need to compress your music.
But, as long as people listen to mid-range players with mid-range sound transducers, especially in noisy environments, they will continue to be satisfied with the music industry's 128-256-320 kbps compressed offerings.
At this point I would normally launch into a rant about DRM and actually PAYING for less freedom for your music, but that's a different argument.:-/
Hmmm. Only partially. You don't go far enough. In Sagan's Dragons Of Eden, he shows that the extreme amount of time between now and the big bang is more than enough for entire civilizations to have flourished and died out. Hell, it's happened on this planet. Both of our civilizations would have to exist at the same point in time, and be close enough to each other in order for the popular concept of "aliens" to occur.
...or are you going to legislate its use, too? And I, personally, don't know of anyone who actually uses the current V-chip. Most people I know tend to do this somewhat old-fashioned thing called "parenting."
No, you should buy it. Then report back, so the rest of us can know if it's above board. But I've never heard of this Medison company, and although it appears to be Swedish, googling "Valdi Ivancic" (the name in the whois data) shows a LinkedIn account in San Francisco. Couple that with the 4-6 week delivery time and the "phone lines are temporarly closed" of their webpage...nah, it's a scam.
But if you do RTA, he never actually says the ST was superior: "The Atari ST was ultimately kicked into touch by IBM PCs and Apple Macs -- even the Amiga managed to get the boot in before disappearing itself."...although he certainly implies it. He is obviously deranged.
Why do we in this country insist on trying to legislate morality?
It doesn't work. We can see it doesn't work (Prohibition in the 1920's, the current prohibition on pot and drugs [you know, the one we laughingly call "The War On Drugs"], abortion, etc.). And yet we pass law after law in the vain attempt to change human nature into something else.
It's owned by Thomson (well, not "owned" by them, but they enforce the owners' wishes). I believe they've been known to go after F/OSS authors that allow encoding (but I can't check, 'cause my employer blocks the phrase "MP3" from the interwebz... ).
I dunno...when everything is said and done, it's just a word processor. And one that isn't all that dissimilar to Word. "Training" issues often seem to be overblown, in my experience. Personal likes and dislikes, however, are another story. As is resistance to change, which can be almost insurmountable.
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There is help available, brother:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/
Why am I replying to an AC? Oh, well.
You have a bit of a chip on your shoulder, don't you? Only someone with an agenda would take such a leap, based on those previous comments.
The fact of the matter is, for all the anti-US banners, flag burnings, etc., the...locals (Arabs, Muslims, Islamists, whatever) are killing far more of their countrymen than we are. And whereas we hopefully tend to target the guilty as accurately as possible, they are purposefully targeting innocents they live amongst.
I'm not sure how you manage to support and reconcile that, and then sleep at night. You're far worse than what you imagined the previous poster to be.
Then again, what did I expect from an AC?
Are you sure about the GPL not being tested in a US court? Groklaw says this, in the matter of Wallace v. FSF:
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"So, the end result is, the GPL went to court, and the judge not only upheld it, he said this:
[T]he GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more innovation."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060320
...if I was in his position (National Intelligence Director). Unfortunately, if they promise one thing and then do the opposite, telecos are going to be sued. That's pretty obvious, I should think.
Interesting. I wonder how this will affect iRiver's Clix player, that was developed with MS and MTV.
'Course, on the other hand, we told iRiver they were making a mistake by moving away from (more or less) open mp3 and ogg players. Maybe they'll see the light, now...especially with DRM seemingly being abandoned more and more.
I cannot tell you just how much my wolf-in-sheep's-clothing detector is tingling (okay, it's just the hairs on the back of my neck, but still).
Be verwy, verwy careful...
The poster who said you can hear the difference between 320kbps and a CD is right on. The problem is that iPods are NOT a quality sound system. Few portable players are. The more esoteric units like the (older) iRivers might qualify, and the iAudio M5...but the silicon chips used in the iPod certainly are not. This is not a flame or a troll; look at the specs. Compare the iPod's (fairly atrocious) Wolfson audio chips with the iRiver's UDA1380. Actually, there IS no comparison. You won't hear the difference with the cheap ear-buds that come with the iPod perhaps, but throw on a set of Grados with a clean headphone amp, and the difference is like night and day. To be fair, the Shuffle's Sigma Tel STMP3550 was a welcomed improvement. Still, it's the limitations imposed by the ear-bud 'phones that make the biggest difference.
:-/
Now, the human ear can be amazingly adaptive...years ago I drove to a high-end stereo store in a friend's car. His sound system wasn't too shabby. In the car's environment it sounded, well, fine. But after listening to some Martin-Logan speakers for an hour, returning to the car's audio system was pure hell. Suddenly it WASN'T "fine." It was awful. But you know, by the time we got home, it sounded okay.
And it's this kind of "lowest common denominator" acceptance that TFA is talking about. I've never understood why people would pay money for compressed music. I understand the storage limitations and the trade-offs that are required to house your entire music collection on only 40GB, but why would you not pay for the uncompressed CD (or at least FLAC downloads), especially when you know, as a music enthusiast that the technology is only going to improve? Once you have the uncompressed CD, you can always re-encode with newer, better codecs in order to fit into the same amount of storage capacity. For that matter, as storage capacity improves, and you know it will, you won't even need to compress your music.
But, as long as people listen to mid-range players with mid-range sound transducers, especially in noisy environments, they will continue to be satisfied with the music industry's 128-256-320 kbps compressed offerings.
At this point I would normally launch into a rant about DRM and actually PAYING for less freedom for your music, but that's a different argument.
"That's the Sagan argument."
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Hmmm. Only partially. You don't go far enough. In Sagan's Dragons Of Eden, he shows that the extreme amount of time between now and the big bang is more than enough for entire civilizations to have flourished and died out. Hell, it's happened on this planet. Both of our civilizations would have to exist at the same point in time, and be close enough to each other in order for the popular concept of "aliens" to occur.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/act2/
Sorry...I don't buy the self-replicating probes bit. Reminds me too much of Star Trek's "V-ger."
"Even in 1990 the market for usability disasters was just not that big."
Then please explain Windows 3.0.
...or are you going to legislate its use, too? And I, personally, don't know of anyone who actually uses the current V-chip. Most people I know tend to do this somewhat old-fashioned thing called "parenting."
I always heard it called a mouse clit...
(How about clit-mouse? A tufted clit-mouse?)
What was the name of that old Dig-it-all labs site that Compaq and later, HP disappeared?
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Where? Cambridge, Palo Alto, or Paris?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Co
Indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotoad#Hypnotoad
Really fast airport, there.
"Scary, loud, like an airport breaking the sound," Jackson said.
No, you should buy it. Then report back, so the rest of us can know if it's above board. But I've never heard of this Medison company, and although it appears to be Swedish, googling "Valdi Ivancic" (the name in the whois data) shows a LinkedIn account in San Francisco. Couple that with the 4-6 week delivery time and the "phone lines are temporarly closed" of their webpage...nah, it's a scam.
But if you do RTA, he never actually says the ST was superior: "The Atari ST was ultimately kicked into touch by IBM PCs and Apple Macs -- even the Amiga managed to get the boot in before disappearing itself." ...although he certainly implies it. He is obviously deranged.
Why do we in this country insist on trying to legislate morality?
It doesn't work. We can see it doesn't work (Prohibition in the 1920's, the current prohibition on pot and drugs [you know, the one we laughingly call "The War On Drugs"], abortion, etc.). And yet we pass law after law in the vain attempt to change human nature into something else.
You'd think we would figure it out.
'Aluminum' bothers me too (both the pronunciation and the spelling). The spelling makes me uncomfortable because it seems 'too short'.
But that's what Davy wanted to call it.
"Refrigerator-freezer" seems "too long," too, but I don't call it a refrigideezer (although George Carlin does).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling
...Is it time yet?
It's owned by Thomson (well, not "owned" by them, but they enforce the owners' wishes). I believe they've been known to go after F/OSS authors that allow encoding (but I can't check, 'cause my employer blocks the phrase "MP3" from the interwebz... ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_SA
But the innocent have nothing to hide/fear, doncha know.
True, but it would seem to me to undercut much of the Novell deal if a large percentage of the software in the distribution went to GPL3.
Wow, that was last updated 10 months ago and forecasts development all the way through... uh...
What are you talking about? The roadmap was updated July 9th, 2007. Try looking at the "Roadmap of ongoing 2.x/3.0 development."
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features
I dunno...when everything is said and done, it's just a word processor. And one that isn't all that dissimilar to Word. "Training" issues often seem to be overblown, in my experience. Personal likes and dislikes, however, are another story. As is resistance to change, which can be almost insurmountable.
What, then, might this page be about?
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/