First of all, I'll start by saying that I fully agree most of the things you mentioned are wrong, and I as and Israeli citizen do whatever I can to change it - such as voting for a party that object current Israeli policy.I do not think there is an excuse for any occation where innocent people are being killed, and for human rights to be compromised. I think a true partiotism does not equal to blind patriotism. Someone who care about his country should be alert to occations where his government is wrong, and do what he can (legally) to change it.
On the other hand, I thing the world wide media and public opinion (especially in Europe) is unfair to Israel, on several different levels.
First, the media focus in Israel is exaggerated. While Israel does lot of this which are, indeed, wrong, and wrongdoing from Israel get much more attention that any other country. When the US bombed Afganistan and killed hundreds or thousands of people, I did not see the same pictures of ophaned children and dead civilians. This kind of media attention is far from being balanced, and not in favour of Israel.
And second point: If you learn some history, you'll see that any coutry, any nation, that was ever involved in a violent conflict, did this kind of immoral actions, most of the times other nations actions where several times worse than what Israel did. It is quite easy to come and say "He, we are moral people that do no wrong" when you are not involved in any violent conflict. Your true moral nature can be only tested when you do face moral conflict. When you do not face such conflict, telling someone else you are moral than he is, and telling them "do what I do" is not righteousness but self-righteousness that borders on hypocrasy.
Politics aside, without etering the futile discussion whose fault it is, you can sometime learn from others' experience.
History proved thus far that Israeli security system is quite effective in preventing bombing the Israeli train. Till now there were many incidents of suicide bombers on a bus, but never on a train.
A train is relatively easy to secure, and guards at the enterance to each train station may be a nuisance and may violate our privacy but it is quite effective. The security system at train station does not cause long lines, and it doesn't really slow down passengers.
I wish we could live without it, but right now it is a tolerable and effective way to make the train relatively secure.
It is a real pleasure to have the opportunity to chat with you Sir. I am really thrilled to talk to a person who would like to see me dead, just because I happened to be... hmmm... an Israeli.
I am even further excited who much you care for the Israeli Arabs that would be killed as well due to your ingenious Iranian A-bomb plan. You are a true humanitarian, Sir! And I'm sure that would wouldn't be that much bothered when your fellow Palestinians you care about so much would be severely mutilated from nuclear fallout.
How about cleansing the entire human race. Wouldn't it be even better, dear AC?
I am quite bothered by the over-simplistic view of the middle-east situation, represented by this kind of post.
Don't get me wrong. As a left-wing Israeli, I do believe we need to get out of the occupied territories and evacuate the settlements, but yet the view of Europeans (and some Americans) who view the Terror as being Israel's fault, and only Israel's fault, is not only misguided but over-simplistic and patronistic.
First, the Palestinians have choice: Terrorist acts that kill civilians is not the only possible way to resist occupation. Actually, it is the least effective way of resistance. The Palestinians are grown-up people, not children who can not be held responsible for their own actions, and by choosing a morally wrong way of resistance, they are guilty as charged.
The main problem with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mistrust between both sides. Most Israelies would be quite willing to leave occupied territories and evacuate most settlements if they would believe such move would end the conflict. Most Israelies are not convinced this is the situation, and the suicide bombers just play into the hands of the extreem right-wing propaganda - that the goal of the Palestinian resistance is to demolish Israel completely.
Would a palestinian state over the occupied territories end the ME conflict? I cannot tell. There are sure radical groups such as the Hamas that aim to demolish Israel, and there is no way to know for certain what would be its influence after a possible peace agreement. In the meanwhile, anyone who voice his/her oppinion about the ME situation should first understanding those uncertainties and internal conflicts the Israelies are facing.
Paying 2.5$ or more for an answer is not the way to egaletarian society. We need a truely affordable service if we want to make such a service accessible for the poor as well, and bridge the gap.
We are in the 21th centuty. We live in a globalized world.
What we need to to harness the power of the global economy. What we need is "Homework sweetshops", where kids in other parts of the world, earning 0.5$ a day, would solve your homework for 0.05$!
The point isn't whose better. The point is: what's the best way to keep the true spirit of Douglas Adams's books when doing a movie out of it.
True, not everything americans are doing is bad. I like Seinfeld and the Simpsons and Southpark, and lets not forget that the Coen brother are american as well... but yet, when I have to choose, still Monty Python, Douglas Adams and the Black Adder would win (for me), hands-down over the best american show you can think of.
And one more thing: as you can easilly tell from my poor grammar, I'm not english speaker myself, which means I'm neither British nor American.
I think the biggest problem with american works vs. British is the lack of subtely.
In Hollywoodic movies everything needs to be explicit. We need to know who are the good guys and bad guys right ahead. If there is a moral to the story, they make an effort _nobody_ will miss it. If there is a commical situation, they make every effort to make us understand that we just experianced a funny moment - or otherwise Joe sixpacks might miss the fact that someone said something funny, which is not good for their wallet.
And this is exactle what I hope _will not_ happen to HHGTTG. If it will remain a truely British film, they will be able to present the most commical, rediculous and improbable situation with a sence of casuality, as if it were an absolutely normal situation. If it will become a typical an hollywoodic film, every scene will be accompanied with a "Look - what a cool concept this is!", and "wasn't this just hillarious?". Every element in the story will be explained to death.
But since they're not telling use what is the code in Linux they claim they own, and we don't have access to their code, we're just speculating. I agree the poor examples they displayed at the SCOforum is a good indication the number of lines may very well be zero, but we couldn't be 100% sure.
Now at least we have an upper-bound for the number of lines of code they're talking about, and even this upper-bound is not very impressive.
In a recent intreview
here
Chris Sontag, SCO veep, says:
You've said that the offending code cannot be 'cleaned' from Linux. Why not? Sontag: I'm not sure that it can't be. The question becomes, will it? Beyond the 80 or so lines of code that we show under nondisclosure to interested parties, we have identified some examples of more than a million lines of code that have gone into Linux in the form of programs and files such as NUMA (non-uniform memory access), RCU (read, copy, update), and the JFS (the Journal File System from AIX).
So all they got is just 80 lines of code, don't they? That's the whole story... after all, even in the unlikely event that the court decides adding RCU,NUMA etc. to linux is a breach of contract, they clearly don't have any IP claims over this code.
In other words: if you follow closely what SCO are saying, you realise that all the IP claims they may (and then again, may not) have is not more than 80 lines of code. Isn't it lovely?
Could someone please tell me what's the deal with this Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and why do they threat to sue Linux? I thought the commies love Linux, why are they suing it all of a sudden?
After reading so much about SCO, I had one conclusion: It is long time since there been such a great investment opportunity! With SCO's stock at 14.5, shorting SCOX looks like a great idea.
Surely SCO's shares behave in a strange way. According to Yahoo's finance, the only analyst covering SCO have a "strong sell" prosition on their stock, but for some reason, inverstors in SCO seem to follow press releases instead...
How do I short a stock? Is it something any person can do? Could a non-US citizen do this? I'm quite puzzled about it...
At first it looked quite innocent, like a genuine interest in the story, but then, it got worse and worse. The story just had everything: Crime, Comedy (Linus: they are smoking crack. SCO: IBM is staging everything. Haaa, that's hillatrious!), bad guys, good guys, all the good stuff!
Soon I've found out I cannot pass the day without reading the daily SCO item on slashdot. But it wasn't enough. Just like any other addiction, I found out I need an increasing dosage every day. When slashdot didn't provide it, I turned on to google news search and started refreshing the "SCO" search every hour and so, but even this wasn't sufficient. There just wasn't enough SCO news to provide my ever growing thirst, so I started making my own SCO stories.
Yes, I will pay the legal fees for such class action. Not the whole sum of course, but some of it.
Just like I've sent money to EFF in the past, I'll be happy to contribute any organization that issue class action against SCO.
Is there a case for such action? I believe we may have a case. IANAL, but it seems to me like SCO's latest move changes their position. Till now, it was between IBM and SCO, but once SCO is trying to extort "protection fee" from Linux users, its time to ask for preliminary injunction against SCO.
I don't think we could afford to wait for SCO vs. IBM case to come to fruition. SCO is deliberately stalling the process. They know they can only benefit from the uncertainty - and it's time to take some action that would counter some of that uncertainty now.
Everybody complains about SCO, but nobody actually does anything.
Say what you may, it seem like SCO is leading this game. They claims may be complete bull$%* but nobody is really facing them. First of all, there is IBM. Remember the way Intel responded when DEC sued them over patent infrigement? They responded quickly by sueing DEC. I would expect IBM to do the same. The fact IBM is so quiest about it is very irritating.
However, it's not just about IBM anymore. It is about the open-source/free(as in speech)-software world in general, and SCO is already making real damage. I think it's time the free-software world would stop being passive here and take the lead from the hands of SCO both by taking legal actions against them and by doing some real protest.
IANAL, but it seems like since you are not living in the US, you are not facing any real risk.
The only legal base ofr the prosecution of Dimitry was that he was allegedly traveling to the US to promote a product that violated the DMCA. If you distribute your code on a european server, then traveling the US should pose no problem as long as in have nothing to do with distributing your code.
As long as you never knowingly distribute your code to the US, no violation is done.
And anyway, it seems to me like, while LucaseArts are not likely to licence their patent to you for free, they are not likely to persue it vigorously either.
My advice is: publish your code on a european server.
In any case they are not likely to sue you without first sending you a warning. In case you get a "cease and desist" letter from LucasArts attornies you may decide to disable iMuse support and remove the old code from the server.
Funny... when I first got to this page, the first humanoid picture I've seen was the one above "gates unveils XP". I didn't know he was running on linux after all...
According to their specs, they are using a 4/8/4 CD-RW (rips music at 4x, writes 8x, write CDRW at 4x). Considering 32/16/10 are the minimal specs for CDRs now, it looks like they's using this box to get rid of outdated CDR stock they got.
I don't know about you... I may be able to live with 8x wirte, but not with 4x riping speed, when I can do it in 40x on my PC.
The general idea of a pc-based entertainment center is, actually, a great idea.
A PC gains more and more entertainment capabilities. You can use a PC for game playing, listening to MP3, watching DVDs, as a smart TV (a-la TiVo), and the list goes on.
There is one problem with a TV, though: it is not designed to sit in your living-room.
So, an entertainment center designed to sit at your living room and function as a combained DVD/CD/MP3 player, TiVo, internet set-top box and play-station is a great idea.
The problem with HP's offering is that it focuses only on the music-related features, and hence it is may end up as a pretty expensive toy that have a relatively small set of features.
Out of the list of suggested features, I may be willing to give-up on the game-playing features (it would be difficult to have a rich game library unless the product is based on an existing gaming platform, or is windows-based PC under the hood). I would like to see a combined DVD/CD/MP3/TiVo with internet conectivity, though.
I cann't understand how this kind of post get rated as 5 - insightfull. The "don't like-it, don't buy it!" arguement is one of the most over-used argumenents here at slashdot at this kind of discussion.
I believe "don't like-it don't buy it" posts are going to surpass the "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" posts. Please, say something new, would you?
... is not their proposed (initial) amendment, as they already agreed to withdraw it, and the newer amendment is mainly there to ensure they would still have the legal loophole they have today (or at least they believe they do).
The real news is that the RIAA is actually admitting they have plans to use those tactics for fighting piracy.
My guess? The RIAA does not plan to hack into individual user's computers and delete their MP3 files - this would not be cost-effective. What they have in mind is a plan in case they loose the case against FastTrack/Music-City. I bet they plan to distrupt the KaZaa/Morpheus network in case they loose the legal fight and FastTrack do not accept their terms in negotiation.
There is a lot that can be done to deliberately sabotage the KaZaa network, and make it unusable. I won't mention the possible ways not to give anyone any ideas, but I think this should serve as a warning for us - we should prepare for a new kind of attack from the RIAA.
Well... Actually, Cognitive Dissonance IS the right word in this context.
Explenation: A cognitive dissonance is a state where there is a gap between your "beliefs" (cognition) and behaviour. Cognitive dissonance is a very unhealthy state to stay in, so people usually "resolve" cognitive dissonance by either altering their beliefs or behaviour. Quite often, the former is easier to alter.
So, in the case of buying an extremely expensive HiFi equipment, if you do not believe the sound quality worth the investment, you will be in cognitive dissonance, and hence to resolve it you convince yourself there is nothing remotely like the 10k USD tube-based amplifier you just bought...
In other words, Cognitive dissonance is not the process of changing your beliefs, but the reason for doing it.
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First of all, I'll start by saying that I fully agree most of the things you mentioned are wrong, and I as and Israeli citizen do whatever I can to change it - such as voting for a party that object current Israeli policy.I do not think there is an excuse for any occation where innocent people are being killed, and for human rights to be compromised. I think a true partiotism does not equal to blind patriotism. Someone who care about his country should be alert to occations where his government is wrong, and do what he can (legally) to change it.
On the other hand, I thing the world wide media and public opinion (especially in Europe) is unfair to Israel, on several different levels.
First, the media focus in Israel is exaggerated. While Israel does lot of this which are, indeed, wrong, and wrongdoing from Israel get much more attention that any other country. When the US bombed Afganistan and killed hundreds or thousands of people, I did not see the same pictures of ophaned children and dead civilians. This kind of media attention is far from being balanced, and not in favour of Israel.
And second point: If you learn some history, you'll see that any coutry, any nation, that was ever involved in a violent conflict, did this kind of immoral actions, most of the times other nations actions where several times worse than what Israel did.
It is quite easy to come and say "He, we are moral people that do no wrong" when you are not involved in any violent conflict. Your true moral nature can be only tested when you do face moral conflict. When you do not face such conflict, telling someone else you are moral than he is, and telling them "do what I do" is not righteousness but self-righteousness that borders on hypocrasy.
Politics aside, without etering the futile discussion whose fault it is, you can sometime learn from others' experience.
History proved thus far that Israeli security system is quite effective in preventing bombing the Israeli train. Till now there were many incidents of suicide bombers on a bus, but never on a train.
A train is relatively easy to secure, and guards at the enterance to each train station may be a nuisance and may violate our privacy but it is quite effective. The security system at train station does not cause long lines, and it doesn't really slow down passengers.
I wish we could live without it, but right now it is a tolerable and effective way to make the train relatively secure.
It is a real pleasure to have the opportunity to chat with you Sir. I am really thrilled to talk to a person who would like to see me dead, just because I happened to be
I am even further excited who much you care for the Israeli Arabs that would be killed as well due to your ingenious Iranian A-bomb plan. You are a true humanitarian, Sir! And I'm sure that would wouldn't be that much bothered when your fellow Palestinians you care about so much would be severely mutilated from nuclear fallout.
How about cleansing the entire human race. Wouldn't it be even better, dear AC?
I am quite bothered by the over-simplistic view of the middle-east situation, represented by this kind of post.
Don't get me wrong. As a left-wing Israeli, I do believe we need to get out of the occupied territories and evacuate the settlements, but yet the view of Europeans (and some Americans) who view the Terror as being Israel's fault, and only Israel's fault, is not only misguided but over-simplistic and patronistic.
First, the Palestinians have choice: Terrorist acts that kill civilians is not the only possible way to resist occupation. Actually, it is the least effective way of resistance. The Palestinians are grown-up people, not children who can not be held responsible for their own actions, and by choosing a morally wrong way of resistance, they are guilty as charged.
The main problem with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mistrust between both sides. Most Israelies would be quite willing to leave occupied territories and evacuate most settlements if they would believe such move would end the conflict. Most Israelies are not convinced this is the situation, and the suicide bombers just play into the hands of the extreem right-wing propaganda - that the goal of the Palestinian resistance is to demolish Israel completely.
Would a palestinian state over the occupied territories end the ME conflict? I cannot tell. There are sure radical groups such as the Hamas that aim to demolish Israel, and there is no way to know for certain what would be its influence after a possible peace agreement. In the meanwhile, anyone who voice his/her oppinion about the ME situation should first understanding those uncertainties and internal conflicts the Israelies are facing.
My bad
You're missing the point here.
Paying 2.5$ or more for an answer is not the way to egaletarian society. We need a truely affordable service if we want to make such a service accessible for the poor as well, and bridge the gap.
We are in the 21th centuty. We live in a globalized world.
What we need to to harness the power of the global economy. What we need is "Homework sweetshops", where kids in other parts of the world, earning 0.5$ a day, would solve your homework for 0.05$!
Isn't it a fine, nobel vision?
I beg to differ.
The point isn't whose better. The point is: what's the best way to keep the true spirit of Douglas Adams's books when doing a movie out of it.
True, not everything americans are doing is bad. I like Seinfeld and the Simpsons and Southpark, and lets not forget that the Coen brother are american as well
And one more thing: as you can easilly tell from my poor grammar, I'm not english speaker myself, which means I'm neither British nor American.
I think the biggest problem with american works vs. British is the lack of subtely.
In Hollywoodic movies everything needs to be explicit. We need to know who are the good guys and bad guys right ahead. If there is a moral to the story, they make an effort _nobody_ will miss it. If there is a commical situation, they make every effort to make us understand that we just experianced a funny moment - or otherwise Joe sixpacks might miss the fact that someone said something funny, which is not good for their wallet.
And this is exactle what I hope _will not_ happen to HHGTTG. If it will remain a truely British film, they will be able to present the most commical, rediculous and improbable situation with a sence of casuality, as if it were an absolutely normal situation. If it will become a typical an hollywoodic film, every scene will be accompanied with a "Look - what a cool concept this is!", and "wasn't this just hillarious?". Every element in the story will be explained to death.
I sure hope this won't happen to this movie.
But since they're not telling use what is the code in Linux they claim they own, and we don't have access to their code, we're just speculating. I agree the poor examples they displayed at the SCOforum is a good indication the number of lines may very well be zero, but we couldn't be 100% sure.
Now at least we have an upper-bound for the number of lines of code they're talking about, and even this upper-bound is not very impressive.
You've said that the offending code cannot be 'cleaned' from Linux. Why not?
Sontag: I'm not sure that it can't be. The question becomes, will it? Beyond the 80 or so lines of code that we show under nondisclosure to interested parties, we have identified some examples of more than a million lines of code that have gone into Linux in the form of programs and files such as NUMA (non-uniform memory access), RCU (read, copy, update), and the JFS (the Journal File System from AIX).
So all they got is just 80 lines of code, don't they? That's the whole story ... after all, even in the unlikely event that the court decides adding RCU,NUMA etc. to linux is a breach of contract, they clearly don't have any IP claims over this code.
In other words: if you follow closely what SCO are saying, you realise that all the IP claims they may (and then again, may not) have is not more than 80 lines of code. Isn't it lovely?
Could someone please tell me what's the deal with this Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and why do they threat to sue Linux? I thought the commies love Linux, why are they suing it all of a sudden?
I'm sooooooo confusied.
(And got Karma to burn
After reading so much about SCO, I had one conclusion: It is long time since there been such a great investment opportunity! With SCO's stock at 14.5, shorting SCOX looks like a great idea.
Surely SCO's shares behave in a strange way. According to Yahoo's finance, the only analyst covering SCO have a "strong sell" prosition on their stock, but for some reason, inverstors in SCO seem to follow press releases instead
How do I short a stock? Is it something any person can do? Could a non-US citizen do this? I'm quite puzzled about it
At first it looked quite innocent, like a genuine interest in the story, but then, it got worse and worse. The story just had everything: Crime, Comedy (Linus: they are smoking crack. SCO: IBM is staging everything. Haaa, that's hillatrious!), bad guys, good guys, all the good stuff!
Soon I've found out I cannot pass the day without reading the daily SCO item on slashdot. But it wasn't enough. Just like any other addiction, I found out I need an increasing dosage every day. When slashdot didn't provide it, I turned on to google news search and started refreshing the "SCO" search every hour and so, but even this wasn't sufficient. There just wasn't enough SCO news to provide my ever growing thirst, so I started making my own SCO stories.
Help! I think I'm an addict. Is there a remedy?
Yes, I will pay the legal fees for such class action. Not the whole sum of course, but some of it.
Just like I've sent money to EFF in the past, I'll be happy to contribute any organization that issue class action against SCO.
Is there a case for such action? I believe we may have a case. IANAL, but it seems to me like SCO's latest move changes their position. Till now, it was between IBM and SCO, but once SCO is trying to extort "protection fee" from Linux users, its time to ask for preliminary injunction against SCO.
I don't think we could afford to wait for SCO vs. IBM case to come to fruition. SCO is deliberately stalling the process. They know they can only benefit from the uncertainty - and it's time to take some action that would counter some of that uncertainty now.
Everybody complains about SCO, but nobody actually does anything.
Say what you may, it seem like SCO is leading this game. They claims may be complete bull$%* but nobody is really facing them.
First of all, there is IBM. Remember the way Intel responded when DEC sued them over patent infrigement? They responded quickly by sueing DEC. I would expect IBM to do the same. The fact IBM is so quiest about it is very irritating.
However, it's not just about IBM anymore. It is about the open-source/free(as in speech)-software world in general, and SCO is already making real damage. I think it's time the free-software world would stop being passive here and take the lead from the hands of SCO both by taking legal actions against them and by doing some real protest.
I still have warm feelings for forth. I remember the first time I got acquainted with forth. It was some 3d framework called graforth.
I was quite impressed with its counter-intuitive reverse-polish-notation syntax:
c a b + = if then
Isn't it much more stylish than writing:
if (a+b==c) {} ?
IANAL, but it seems like since you are not living in the US, you are not facing any real risk.
The only legal base ofr the prosecution of Dimitry was that he was allegedly traveling to the US to promote a product that violated the DMCA. If you distribute your code on a european server, then traveling the US should pose no problem as long as in have nothing to do with distributing your code.
As long as you never knowingly distribute your code to the US, no violation is done.
And anyway, it seems to me like, while LucaseArts are not likely to licence their patent to you for free, they are not likely to persue it vigorously either.
My advice is: publish your code on a european server.
In any case they are not likely to sue you without first sending you a warning. In case you get a "cease and desist" letter from LucasArts attornies you may decide to disable iMuse support and remove the old code from the server.
Funny ... when I first got to this page, the first humanoid picture I've seen was the one above "gates unveils XP". I didn't know he was running on linux after all ...
Ok
According to their specs, they are using a 4/8/4 CD-RW (rips music at 4x, writes 8x, write CDRW at 4x). Considering 32/16/10 are the minimal specs for CDRs now, it looks like they's using this box to get rid of outdated CDR stock they got.
I don't know about you
The general idea of a pc-based entertainment center is, actually, a great idea.
A PC gains more and more entertainment capabilities. You can use a PC for game playing, listening to MP3, watching DVDs, as a smart TV (a-la TiVo), and the list goes on.
There is one problem with a TV, though: it is not designed to sit in your living-room.
So, an entertainment center designed to sit at your living room and function as a combained DVD/CD/MP3 player, TiVo, internet set-top box and play-station is a great idea.
The problem with HP's offering is that it focuses only on the music-related features, and hence it is may end up as a pretty expensive toy that have a relatively small set of features.
Out of the list of suggested features, I may be willing to give-up on the game-playing features (it would be difficult to have a rich game library unless the product is based on an existing gaming platform, or is windows-based PC under the hood). I would like to see a combined DVD/CD/MP3/TiVo with internet conectivity, though.
This one one of the funniest posts I've read in slashdot for a long time!
I cann't understand how this kind of post get rated as 5 - insightfull. The "don't like-it, don't buy it!" arguement is one of the most over-used argumenents here at slashdot at this kind of discussion.
I believe "don't like-it don't buy it" posts are going to surpass the "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" posts. Please, say something new, would you?
... is not their proposed (initial) amendment, as they already agreed to withdraw it, and the newer amendment is mainly there to ensure they would still have the legal loophole they have today (or at least they believe they do).
The real news is that the RIAA is actually admitting they have plans to use those tactics for fighting piracy.
My guess? The RIAA does not plan to hack into individual user's computers and delete their MP3 files - this would not be cost-effective. What they have in mind is a plan in case they loose the case against FastTrack/Music-City. I bet they plan to distrupt the KaZaa/Morpheus network in case they loose the legal fight and FastTrack do not accept their terms in negotiation.
There is a lot that can be done to deliberately sabotage the KaZaa network, and make it unusable. I won't mention the possible ways not to give anyone any ideas, but I think this should serve as a warning for us - we should prepare for a new kind of attack from the RIAA.
Well
Explenation: A cognitive dissonance is a state where there is a gap between your "beliefs" (cognition) and behaviour. Cognitive dissonance is a very unhealthy state to stay in, so people usually "resolve" cognitive dissonance by either altering their beliefs or behaviour. Quite often, the former is easier to alter.
So, in the case of buying an extremely expensive HiFi equipment, if you do not believe the sound quality worth the investment, you will be in cognitive dissonance, and hence to resolve it you convince yourself there is nothing remotely like the 10k USD tube-based amplifier you just bought
In other words, Cognitive dissonance is not the process of changing your beliefs, but the reason for doing it.