Mono has always been controversial, in the sense of "Are you fscking out of your mind, what the hell do you think you are doing?". I hardly think it is representative of the whole OSS community. Maybe it is that proportion of the OSS community that can be temporarily immobilized by an intentional plan of Microsoft to put up a tar-baby and then discard it later.
I don't know- I signed on to the recently established government do-not-call list, and have ended up barraged with telemarketing machines leaving prerecorded, non-interactive messages on my answering machine. It could be just coincidence. It's to the point where it would be too disruptive to deal with right now, so I have my ringer off, and as a result I have effectively no incoming phone. That's not good. So telemarketers bother me MORE than email spam, even though I hate the telephone in general- and am on only a 56K modem.
Only if Microsoft needs to control possible methods of open communications. Could be important at some time in the future, otherwise people will start using free stuff to network with each other.
If I were them, I'd be focussing on controlling communications, means of production (that CD duplicator in New Zealand) and all that, in countries substantially weaker than MS is, and I'd get things the way I wanted them everywhere else but at home. You would be applying to me, Microsoft, for wi-fi licensing, for duplicating anything that might constitute IP.
Then it's just a matter of convincing the USA to 'harmonize' its laws with those of the rest of the world. And of course building a police force that is techsavvy enough to understand things like wireless networking.
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*snrk* my God, you guys are such nerds it hurts:)
But- what in the world gives you the idea that Microsoft is NOT fighting GNU/Linux at the absolute, flat-out, top limit of their considerable ability?
That's the amazing thing- they are running flat out even now, they are doing absolutely everything they can legal or illegal, public or private. Did you expect butterfly-colored ninjas? Be realistic, they are trying to lock down the means of production (i.e. duplication in New Zealand) even. If you can't see this I don't know how to get it across to you: they are fighting with everything they got. You're just confused because they backstab. Some of us have figured that part out already.
Indeed. If pragmatism is the only thing in the world that matters, let it be that if you cooperate with Microsoft, you die as a business.
Take the guy out. He doesn't have a right to run a business. It's a privilege, and when rendering assistance to Microsoft became more important, that privilege expired. There are LOTS of duplicators more worthy of existence than this.
Not if you intend to win, and you're anything like evenly matched.
It is possible Microsoft likes fuzzy because they have armies of lawyers and can beat the United States of America: that is not true for most people.
In any normal healthy situation, very clear-cut noncompete agreements that don't get greedy or overreach are WAY better, because if you go to court with them, you won't lose. If it's fuzzy or greedy or ridiculous, there's a good chance your noncompete agreement will lose, and you'll wind up with nothing.
Seems like monopolists distort EVERYTHING, right up to and including what is to be considered normal and sensible in the legal sphere. NO, if you are not a corporation more powerful than any individual nation-state in the f**king world, you should not make your legal contracts ambiguous and plan to march upon a road of FUD... in fact in any healthy society it will be better to communicate clearly, draw clear boundaries and be honest. That is a winning social strategy among peers, because it means you can be interacted with predictably, and trusted to do what you say.
What Microsoft does is Mob thinking. I'd love to see them all jailed. I suppose killed would be nice, too. Not a joke, I would like to see that happening. I honestly think the damage these people does, goes WAY beyond the obvious.
Like several people have already said: mp3.com IS RIAA. They are the property of Vivendi International. Don't give them any money, and don't give them any attention- don't let your friends store music there (they're getting screwed, they agree legally to let Vivendi have their music forever with no compensation) and don't listen there.
Do you understand how totally absurd it is to be complaining about not getting 128K streams NOW, after all else that has gone down? It was the artist agreement changes that drove me away- Vivendi can change it unilaterally on about three days notice and don't have to get any acknowledgement that you're aware of their changes, even.
Just boycott them. You should have been boycotting them LONG ago...
It seemed to me to be a bit of Microsoft astroturf, in a big way. "There are many reasons why you might want to take apart your XBox, but one of the best ones I can imagine is making it easier for people who can't see, hear or move too well to play the same video games as the rest of us." Because of course we ALL have xboxen, isn't that right? It's a bit weird when more than half the MS stories on/. are MS pimping. I guess you get what you pay for.
"If you release your software under the freeticket of GNU/GPL (which many people blindly do) then you can't do anything against it from not being looted by other people. And what can you do about it? To say the truth, you can do a shit about that. As soon as you release your intellectual work as open source, as soon someone else is able to take your work, derivate it, code around it, release it as source again."
...in which case it falls through to copyright and to an absence of any permission to use the IP. It's not like it falls through to public domain, you know.
But even so, there's no case for the requirements being torturous and unenforceable. You don't like them, write your own damn software. This isn't a complicated thing...
If it's a distro, I don't see as there's any chance that he could possibly close it. I write a no-profit GPLed program myself (Mastering Tools) and I could dual-license it or begin releasing different-licensed versions, but only because I wrote every line. Even so I'm dubious, because some time ago I took ideas for skipping over AIFF chunks from a GPLed mp3 routine: since I didn't come up with that one myself, I think Mastering Tools is perma-GPL now unless I track down who the other contributor was and get them to agree that it was OK for me to learn AIFF reading from them. The actual code is a port to another language...
Bottom line, you can't un-GPL a thing. That's the whole point of the license.
Why pay the execs anything? It's not like they need to do anything but release statements.
All this could be taken care of very nicely just with the division of Microsoft lawyers working pro bono (or for SCO ownership, a sort of barter). There's no reason for Microsoft to pay SCO a penny for doing this- all they have to do is explore the situation and try moves and countermoves behind the facade of an SCO legal team. I'm sure the Microsoft lawyers are on salary and not working hourly. The SCO execs need only be seduced by MS execs- 'do this, we'll make you powerful and together we'll stomp IBM and OSS, just repeat what our legal team tells you to say'. Microsoft's legal team is capable of dealing with anything IBM's legal team throws at them in the way of overdocumentation.
Can't speak to that. In _this_ case, it's 'who benefits' and modus operandi. Those guys at Microsoft are smart enough, they're just a little compulsive... you can safely predict what their motive is going to be.
Anybody want to bet that SCO is using pro bono Microsoft lawyers? I don't think they're devious enough to come up with twists like this on their own, but Somebody wants to see them be effective.
The neat thing is, Jobs knew perfectly well that it wouldn't work, innovative concept or no innovative concept. This was a beautiful excerpt, it really was- if you ever intend to be a heavy hitter in everything you WILL deal with guys like Jobs. I understand Jean-Louis Gassee (Apple, Be) is quite the same way.
When you're on that level you're dead if you can't think on your feet, adapt, and be right. You don't just parrot back what the guy's saying because he might have been just running off at the mouth and won't be impressed by having his own malarkey fed back to him. The neat thing about this story is how it shows Jobs taking a bit of time off from running two companies, and really doing his level best to help the Segway people. Unfortunately, their plan DID suck.
Loved his comment about reverse engineering, too- and he understands internet information fluidity and the strength of a bad message.
I'd love to have a Jobs Moment on some of the stuff I do- what a short-cut that would be. But it'd scare the piss out of me because the guy is apparently impossible to bullshit. But what a resource. The Segway people were luckier than they knew.
Reading the comments about 'Death March' suggests a fascinating metaphor that readers might find interesting- especially the libertarian pile-it-on types.
Consider the corporate world as composed of entities in a sort of society. There's not much in the way of rules- human society is MUCH more regimented. In human society you're not allowed to kick old ladies, mug people, or eat the wounded, and in corporate life this is not only expected but celebrated.
At the same time, each corporation has not only a volition, but 'muscles' to do what it wishes to do. Those muscles are you.
Consider the weight-lifter. He develops additional strength through straining himself and actually damaging his muscles so they'll grow back stronger- he tries to find an optimum where he's damaging his muscles enough to make them desperately try to be huge to meet his expectations, but not to the point where his body breaks down completely.
That's you with your 84 hour work week right there- you're the muscle, and you're being tortured for the benefit of the larger organism, which is the corporation.
A lot of you seem ONLY interested in that total breakdown point: beat me, whip me, make the corporation stronger! Half-kill me for the good of the company!
This only makes sense if you're tying your own survival to the corporate survival, and in addition are committed to an eat-the-wounded corporate ethic in which there is actually no civilisation in the corporate sphere at all- you're looking for it to be like wild beasts fighting each other, possibly because it's exciting, and you're pledging your body and your life to your Corporate Fighting Unit.
Under those circumstances, it makes a kind of sense that some people are cheering the 84 hour work week sans over time. They are identifying directly with their corporate owner (if you're the 'muscle' you're part of it and it owns you) and looking to beat up the other corporations and companies.
Human life doesn't work that way.
Corporate life is, in the final analysis, a constructed thing, following rules that define it- without rules there IS no corporation in the first place.
Think about it. In some ways, this is about questioning the very legitimacy of the corporate battlefield. Either go whole hog and permit me as an individual to kick your butt and take your money (I'm sure I'm physically bigger and meaner than some of the yay-corporate-death-march weenies;) if they're so secure why are they subordinating their identities to a fictional construct?)...
...or consider extending the benefits of civilisation into the corporate sphere. We already have welfare, but only the hulking giants really get it, because they beat up anyone else trying to grab it. We don't have simple law enforcement beyond a very minimal and scattered set of guidelines- and we have no effective penalties so it's moot anyway. If you fine a corporation and it massages the books or uses it like 'Win XP for schools as a punishment' or writes the fine off on its taxes and dares you to try its lawyers, then there's no punishment- and it might put its lawyers on Death March duty too- probably does, if it means to have the toughest legal arm around.
Time to examine these collective entities as entities, not just as 'yay business!'.
That's right. I'm an X-Plane fan too, though my hardware isn't up to handling the current versions. And avarame is right- you can log time for an airline transport certificate on a full-motion simulator driven by X-Plane. No other sim can claim that, though with Virtual Wings and Elite you can log time towards an instrument rating- in controlled conditions of course, not just sitting at home.
Austin (who writes X-Plane- yeah, one Stallman-esque virtuoso lone hacker) has been creating spaceship sims too- the guy is amazing. One look at x-plane.com and all the information about real-life planes being designed using X-Plane modelling as an unofficial computer aid, the images of the light plane with all the lift and force vectors for each blade element drawn in- this is nerd candy, it's just too cool to live.
And yes, it's the same sim engine that can be used for an airline air transport cert. A few other sims can be used for an instrument rating.
MS Flight Simulator cannot be used for ANY of these things, because it is a bloated and pointless toy, and as an aero geek I get quietly pissed off even _seeing_ it touted on slashdot, even indirectly. *g* which is ok- but geez, guys, recognize your kindred spirits when you see them.
The trouble is, Microsoft are not end users by nature. They're market-driven, not itch-driven. For that reason they will NEVER, NEVER produce products that are really elegant and tailored to any specific needs- possibly excepting Office, and I admit that's not that elegant but it's a closer match to what Microsoft does all day, and so they're pretty good at it.
Apple are sweater-wearing barefoot arty geeks, so naturally you get iMovie, Final Cut Pro and so on: Apple people _do_ those things as much as Microsoft people _do_ 'office' things. This might have something to do with why Microsoft is a larger business, but it has a lot to do with why that larger business can't make brilliant products for 'content creators' (the original phrase around the introduction of the Mac was 'knowledge workers').
I would want to hire Microsoft as marketing consultants (I suppose studying how they position and explain things would suffice). I wouldn't want to get their help in anything else because they're not qualified- they don't DO that- they just sit around throwing together stuff to feed into the marketing machine and everything else is secondary. It's a killer business strategy if your goal is to be a killer business, but nobody pretends the products you get are anything special- as always, except maybe for Office, because Microsoft use that themselves extensively.
Maybe they should drop everything else and develop Office into 'essential tools for being a killer corporation' with lots of intelligent aggregate information-gathering and distilling tools forming a sort of symbiosis with all the corporate drones so the resulting corporation is like a sort of Borglike monster, capable of latching onto new information, transmitting it to thousands of human 'cells', grabbing the optimal response from whichever 'cell' is smartest (and possibly weighting that cell more heavily in the corporate structure) and formulating a corporate response as quickly as a single organism could react, but with far greater resources.
The interesting thing is, if that were the case actual corporations would be hackable by more than simply social engineering- you could get at the brain of the corporation (limbic system?) which would be software on computers, and do stuff to disrupt it.
"In the news today, Microsoft again began hallucinating. It is unclear what it thought it saw, but the corporation leveled several small towns in Arizona and sent operatives to assassinate an individual in Oregon- who didn't exist. The operatives were apprehended by law enforcement, which is how it was learned that the target was a fictional person and not in government records. Microsoft, in spite of the hallucinating, remained sharp and coherent enough to secure the freedom of the automatic-weapon-bearing operatives by political maneuvering, though it is possible that this was essentially a reflex action or autonomic function. Reports indicate that more than two-thirds of other aggregate entities both corporate and governmental have heightened their attention several grades."
mmmm- not so, at least not for D/As with a reconstruction filter. You don't have only 6 discrete wavefront angles because the reconstruction filter can reconstruct frequencies at different phases. If you don't have a reconstruction filter (some DACs don't, it's an alternate style of DAC with distinct advantages and disadvantages) then yeah, you'd have that limit.
I think I've quantified warmth (have posted on this in another post). Combination of resolution and specific nonlinearities that mimic the behavior of air (which is itself nonlinear). Exaggerating the nonlinearity properly gives you warmth, and quite a lot of analog recording media have the right kind of nonlinearities.
I don't agree that CDs are so inadequate- it's possible to get lots of warmth out of them, and this is an old analog snob mastering tweak saying this. However, the fact is, most of what you've heard is wretched- and most of the people arguing with you couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag- and in fact going for utter perfect distortionless accuracy won't get you all the way there either.
Be of good cheer. Things will get better for the CD. You can't do THAT much with the playback (though you can do a fair amount) but you would be astonished to realize how much it's possible to do with the data. Digital is so malleable. Simply sampling something is laughably primitive by today's standards- state of the art is more along the lines of 64-bit floating point math and processing, diabolically cunning wordlength reduction algorithms (MegaBitMax, and my MBM-inspired stuff), and digitally modeled transfer function irregularities (Crane Song HEDD)
I do open source versions of that kind of stuff, trust that I know what I'm talking about. I could master a CD for you and _make_ it sound as analog as you wanted, given reasonably good resolution for the input files.
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Mono has always been controversial, in the sense of "Are you fscking out of your mind, what the hell do you think you are doing?". I hardly think it is representative of the whole OSS community. Maybe it is that proportion of the OSS community that can be temporarily immobilized by an intentional plan of Microsoft to put up a tar-baby and then discard it later.
I don't know- I signed on to the recently established government do-not-call list, and have ended up barraged with telemarketing machines leaving prerecorded, non-interactive messages on my answering machine. It could be just coincidence. It's to the point where it would be too disruptive to deal with right now, so I have my ringer off, and as a result I have effectively no incoming phone. That's not good. So telemarketers bother me MORE than email spam, even though I hate the telephone in general- and am on only a 56K modem.
If I were them, I'd be focussing on controlling communications, means of production (that CD duplicator in New Zealand) and all that, in countries substantially weaker than MS is, and I'd get things the way I wanted them everywhere else but at home. You would be applying to me, Microsoft, for wi-fi licensing, for duplicating anything that might constitute IP.
Then it's just a matter of convincing the USA to 'harmonize' its laws with those of the rest of the world. And of course building a police force that is techsavvy enough to understand things like wireless networking.
But- what in the world gives you the idea that Microsoft is NOT fighting GNU/Linux at the absolute, flat-out, top limit of their considerable ability?
That's the amazing thing- they are running flat out even now, they are doing absolutely everything they can legal or illegal, public or private. Did you expect butterfly-colored ninjas? Be realistic, they are trying to lock down the means of production (i.e. duplication in New Zealand) even. If you can't see this I don't know how to get it across to you: they are fighting with everything they got. You're just confused because they backstab. Some of us have figured that part out already.
Take the guy out. He doesn't have a right to run a business. It's a privilege, and when rendering assistance to Microsoft became more important, that privilege expired. There are LOTS of duplicators more worthy of existence than this.
It is possible Microsoft likes fuzzy because they have armies of lawyers and can beat the United States of America: that is not true for most people.
In any normal healthy situation, very clear-cut noncompete agreements that don't get greedy or overreach are WAY better, because if you go to court with them, you won't lose. If it's fuzzy or greedy or ridiculous, there's a good chance your noncompete agreement will lose, and you'll wind up with nothing.
Seems like monopolists distort EVERYTHING, right up to and including what is to be considered normal and sensible in the legal sphere. NO, if you are not a corporation more powerful than any individual nation-state in the f**king world, you should not make your legal contracts ambiguous and plan to march upon a road of FUD... in fact in any healthy society it will be better to communicate clearly, draw clear boundaries and be honest. That is a winning social strategy among peers, because it means you can be interacted with predictably, and trusted to do what you say.
What Microsoft does is Mob thinking. I'd love to see them all jailed. I suppose killed would be nice, too. Not a joke, I would like to see that happening. I honestly think the damage these people does, goes WAY beyond the obvious.
Do you understand how totally absurd it is to be complaining about not getting 128K streams NOW, after all else that has gone down? It was the artist agreement changes that drove me away- Vivendi can change it unilaterally on about three days notice and don't have to get any acknowledgement that you're aware of their changes, even.
Just boycott them. You should have been boycotting them LONG ago...
I dunno man- that's a very low UID, you should reconsider :)
Holy crap. Disposable income is three times what I live on? I'm not sure I can relate to your figures there, prak.
The technology is so far behind modern PCs by now that they've gotta be turning a profit, even at not-amazing volume...
and: turning Slashdot into a Microsoft-pimping fan site- priceless.
It seemed to me to be a bit of Microsoft astroturf, in a big way. "There are many reasons why you might want to take apart your XBox, but one of the best ones I can imagine is making it easier for people who can't see, hear or move too well to play the same video games as the rest of us." Because of course we ALL have xboxen, isn't that right? It's a bit weird when more than half the MS stories on /. are MS pimping. I guess you get what you pay for.
Gee... like it's intended to be? o_O
Some people... sheesh...
But even so, there's no case for the requirements being torturous and unenforceable. You don't like them, write your own damn software. This isn't a complicated thing...
Bottom line, you can't un-GPL a thing. That's the whole point of the license.
Buy more microsoft software! Buy more microsoft hardware! Buy mod chips for microsoft hardware!
Slashdot's weird, man. What happened?
All this could be taken care of very nicely just with the division of Microsoft lawyers working pro bono (or for SCO ownership, a sort of barter). There's no reason for Microsoft to pay SCO a penny for doing this- all they have to do is explore the situation and try moves and countermoves behind the facade of an SCO legal team. I'm sure the Microsoft lawyers are on salary and not working hourly. The SCO execs need only be seduced by MS execs- 'do this, we'll make you powerful and together we'll stomp IBM and OSS, just repeat what our legal team tells you to say'. Microsoft's legal team is capable of dealing with anything IBM's legal team throws at them in the way of overdocumentation.
Can't speak to that. In _this_ case, it's 'who benefits' and modus operandi. Those guys at Microsoft are smart enough, they're just a little compulsive... you can safely predict what their motive is going to be.
Anybody want to bet that SCO is using pro bono Microsoft lawyers? I don't think they're devious enough to come up with twists like this on their own, but Somebody wants to see them be effective.
When you're on that level you're dead if you can't think on your feet, adapt, and be right. You don't just parrot back what the guy's saying because he might have been just running off at the mouth and won't be impressed by having his own malarkey fed back to him. The neat thing about this story is how it shows Jobs taking a bit of time off from running two companies, and really doing his level best to help the Segway people. Unfortunately, their plan DID suck.
Loved his comment about reverse engineering, too- and he understands internet information fluidity and the strength of a bad message.
I'd love to have a Jobs Moment on some of the stuff I do- what a short-cut that would be. But it'd scare the piss out of me because the guy is apparently impossible to bullshit. But what a resource. The Segway people were luckier than they knew.
Consider the corporate world as composed of entities in a sort of society. There's not much in the way of rules- human society is MUCH more regimented. In human society you're not allowed to kick old ladies, mug people, or eat the wounded, and in corporate life this is not only expected but celebrated.
At the same time, each corporation has not only a volition, but 'muscles' to do what it wishes to do. Those muscles are you.
Consider the weight-lifter. He develops additional strength through straining himself and actually damaging his muscles so they'll grow back stronger- he tries to find an optimum where he's damaging his muscles enough to make them desperately try to be huge to meet his expectations, but not to the point where his body breaks down completely.
That's you with your 84 hour work week right there- you're the muscle, and you're being tortured for the benefit of the larger organism, which is the corporation.
A lot of you seem ONLY interested in that total breakdown point: beat me, whip me, make the corporation stronger! Half-kill me for the good of the company!
This only makes sense if you're tying your own survival to the corporate survival, and in addition are committed to an eat-the-wounded corporate ethic in which there is actually no civilisation in the corporate sphere at all- you're looking for it to be like wild beasts fighting each other, possibly because it's exciting, and you're pledging your body and your life to your Corporate Fighting Unit.
Under those circumstances, it makes a kind of sense that some people are cheering the 84 hour work week sans over time. They are identifying directly with their corporate owner (if you're the 'muscle' you're part of it and it owns you) and looking to beat up the other corporations and companies.
Human life doesn't work that way.
Corporate life is, in the final analysis, a constructed thing, following rules that define it- without rules there IS no corporation in the first place.
Think about it. In some ways, this is about questioning the very legitimacy of the corporate battlefield. Either go whole hog and permit me as an individual to kick your butt and take your money (I'm sure I'm physically bigger and meaner than some of the yay-corporate-death-march weenies ;) if they're so secure why are they subordinating their identities to a fictional construct?)...
Time to examine these collective entities as entities, not just as 'yay business!'.
And you're penalizing any competing employer who insists on paying their workers fairly.
Austin (who writes X-Plane- yeah, one Stallman-esque virtuoso lone hacker) has been creating spaceship sims too- the guy is amazing. One look at x-plane.com and all the information about real-life planes being designed using X-Plane modelling as an unofficial computer aid, the images of the light plane with all the lift and force vectors for each blade element drawn in- this is nerd candy, it's just too cool to live.
And yes, it's the same sim engine that can be used for an airline air transport cert. A few other sims can be used for an instrument rating.
MS Flight Simulator cannot be used for ANY of these things, because it is a bloated and pointless toy, and as an aero geek I get quietly pissed off even _seeing_ it touted on slashdot, even indirectly. *g* which is ok- but geez, guys, recognize your kindred spirits when you see them.
Apple are sweater-wearing barefoot arty geeks, so naturally you get iMovie, Final Cut Pro and so on: Apple people _do_ those things as much as Microsoft people _do_ 'office' things. This might have something to do with why Microsoft is a larger business, but it has a lot to do with why that larger business can't make brilliant products for 'content creators' (the original phrase around the introduction of the Mac was 'knowledge workers').
I would want to hire Microsoft as marketing consultants (I suppose studying how they position and explain things would suffice). I wouldn't want to get their help in anything else because they're not qualified- they don't DO that- they just sit around throwing together stuff to feed into the marketing machine and everything else is secondary. It's a killer business strategy if your goal is to be a killer business, but nobody pretends the products you get are anything special- as always, except maybe for Office, because Microsoft use that themselves extensively.
Maybe they should drop everything else and develop Office into 'essential tools for being a killer corporation' with lots of intelligent aggregate information-gathering and distilling tools forming a sort of symbiosis with all the corporate drones so the resulting corporation is like a sort of Borglike monster, capable of latching onto new information, transmitting it to thousands of human 'cells', grabbing the optimal response from whichever 'cell' is smartest (and possibly weighting that cell more heavily in the corporate structure) and formulating a corporate response as quickly as a single organism could react, but with far greater resources.
The interesting thing is, if that were the case actual corporations would be hackable by more than simply social engineering- you could get at the brain of the corporation (limbic system?) which would be software on computers, and do stuff to disrupt it.
"In the news today, Microsoft again began hallucinating. It is unclear what it thought it saw, but the corporation leveled several small towns in Arizona and sent operatives to assassinate an individual in Oregon- who didn't exist. The operatives were apprehended by law enforcement, which is how it was learned that the target was a fictional person and not in government records. Microsoft, in spite of the hallucinating, remained sharp and coherent enough to secure the freedom of the automatic-weapon-bearing operatives by political maneuvering, though it is possible that this was essentially a reflex action or autonomic function. Reports indicate that more than two-thirds of other aggregate entities both corporate and governmental have heightened their attention several grades."
mmmm- not so, at least not for D/As with a reconstruction filter. You don't have only 6 discrete wavefront angles because the reconstruction filter can reconstruct frequencies at different phases. If you don't have a reconstruction filter (some DACs don't, it's an alternate style of DAC with distinct advantages and disadvantages) then yeah, you'd have that limit.
I don't agree that CDs are so inadequate- it's possible to get lots of warmth out of them, and this is an old analog snob mastering tweak saying this. However, the fact is, most of what you've heard is wretched- and most of the people arguing with you couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag- and in fact going for utter perfect distortionless accuracy won't get you all the way there either.
Be of good cheer. Things will get better for the CD. You can't do THAT much with the playback (though you can do a fair amount) but you would be astonished to realize how much it's possible to do with the data. Digital is so malleable. Simply sampling something is laughably primitive by today's standards- state of the art is more along the lines of 64-bit floating point math and processing, diabolically cunning wordlength reduction algorithms (MegaBitMax, and my MBM-inspired stuff), and digitally modeled transfer function irregularities (Crane Song HEDD)
I do open source versions of that kind of stuff, trust that I know what I'm talking about. I could master a CD for you and _make_ it sound as analog as you wanted, given reasonably good resolution for the input files.