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OOO!!! This sounds like an excellent time to revive both Conway's Game of Life and Corewars -- Just imagine defining a system to generate cube "Shooters";->
Hmmm... implies that calling into a radio station to request a song is not allowed --- this would be encouraging someone else to reproduce or distribute or otherwise use...
Obligatory caveat: I happen to own an Audiotron, and am extremely pleased with it.
Think of the audiotron as a friendly front end to the P90 with multiple drives (multiple 80G, not 20G... depends on the collection, I guess)
From my point of view, there are three basic advantages:
1) it looks and feels like a stereo component. This implies, among other things, high SoAF (Significant other Acceptance Factor). In our house, it also means we listen to more of our collection, and look for more interesting material, than we used to either working with just CDs or when I had the old P90 hooked directly to the stereo
2) it uses my already ripped collection off the house server (the house server is what happened to the old P90 that used to be hooked directly to the stereo). So, in my case, incorporating it into the other systems in the house was easy. We had ripped the CD collection for eas of portability (easier to carry bits already on the laptop than add a CD player, easier to transport bits from point A to point B on an already existing network...)
3) this device (as opposed to other similar devices) supports a decent sound quality due to its support of S/PDIF out and lack of fan. (admittedly, you have to have additional supporting gear, like a digital ready receiver or an outboard DAC to take advantage of this, not an issue in my case) Yes, you can duplicate this with a decent (non-SB) sound card (e.g. M-Audio Audiophile 2496), but you've ended up spending the same $ anyway. (plus, you've still got to contend with monitor, fan, etc., near your stereo & analog electronics)
(standard caveats: I own one, I don't have any affiliation with the companies, I do own CD copies of the 15,000+ songs, IANAL, IAAM, YMMV, )
There's a dangerous assumption in here: "... most of us expect code to be stolen from GPL products and stuck into proprietary products..." -- this is exactly what the GPL is meant to prevent! Speaking only for myself, I do not expect GPL'd material to show up in proprietary systems.
I happen to have a Covad-supplied line through a formerly-well-respected regional ISP, and have been pleased with QoS, etc., since the line was installed over a year ago. So I would be happy to pay for the service. Trouble is, I have never, in the last 12 months, received any invoice for this service. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
I do not know in which billing system I do not exist (Covad's or the ISP's).
FWIW, I had a similar experience (no bill for several years for the then-state-of-the-art dialup account) from a now-defunct national ISP.
(I keep telling my SO it's just clean living...)
salary comparison calculator: note it does not take into account local tax variations, etc. (they've got a page that goes into details on the source material)
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For those who are unfamilliar with him, here's a recent Frontline interview.
From the Hitchhiker's Guide series:
"let us bow our heads in payment"
OOO!!! This sounds like an excellent time to revive both Conway's Game of Life and Corewars -- Just imagine defining a system to generate cube "Shooters" ;->
Ha! Network 23 -- M-m-m-m-max Headroom!
Hmmm... implies that calling into a radio station to request a song is not allowed --- this would be encouraging someone else to reproduce or distribute or otherwise use...
Obligatory caveat: I happen to own an Audiotron, and am extremely pleased with it.
Think of the audiotron as a friendly front end to the P90 with multiple drives (multiple 80G, not 20G... depends on the collection, I guess)
From my point of view, there are three basic advantages:
1) it looks and feels like a stereo component. This implies, among other things, high SoAF (Significant other Acceptance Factor). In our house, it also means we listen to more of our collection, and look for more interesting material, than we used to either working with just CDs or when I had the old P90 hooked directly to the stereo
2) it uses my already ripped collection off the house server (the house server is what happened to the old P90 that used to be hooked directly to the stereo). So, in my case, incorporating it into the other systems in the house was easy. We had ripped the CD collection for eas of portability (easier to carry bits already on the laptop than add a CD player, easier to transport bits from point A to point B on an already existing network...)
3) this device (as opposed to other similar devices) supports a decent sound quality due to its support of S/PDIF out and lack of fan. (admittedly, you have to have additional supporting gear, like a digital ready receiver or an outboard DAC to take advantage of this, not an issue in my case) Yes, you can duplicate this with a decent (non-SB) sound card (e.g. M-Audio Audiophile 2496), but you've ended up spending the same $ anyway. (plus, you've still got to contend with monitor, fan, etc., near your stereo & analog electronics)
(standard caveats: I own one, I don't have any affiliation with the companies, I do own CD copies of the 15,000+ songs, IANAL, IAAM, YMMV, )
There's a dangerous assumption in here: "... most of us expect code to be stolen from GPL products and stuck into proprietary products..." -- this is exactly what the GPL is meant to prevent! Speaking only for myself, I do not expect GPL'd material to show up in proprietary systems.
Anyone who is active in EFF / CAFE involved in this yet? (sheepishly -- I pitch in with $$)
I do not know in which billing system I do not exist (Covad's or the ISP's). FWIW, I had a similar experience (no bill for several years for the then-state-of-the-art dialup account) from a now-defunct national ISP. (I keep telling my SO it's just clean living...)
salary comparison calculator: note it does not take into account local tax variations, etc. (they've got a page that goes into details on the source material)
http://www.homefair.com/calc/intsalcalc.html
rough conversion weights:
http://www.expatforum.com/Resources/icol.htm
YMMV