Whether it be Star Office, Open Office, Word Perfect, ABI Word, Apple Works, etc.
At a time when a lot of US Companies are looking at China as a smorgesboard of potential opportunity as it slowly evolves from a Communistic to Capitalistic society, no doubt Microsoft has looked there as well.
Personally, I don't have a problem with China inventing their own CPU, or word processing software, but if they'd like to play nicely with others in this global economy, here's hoping that they at least stick to open and published standards.
My Harmon Kardon Soundsticks (USB) connected to my PowerMac sound *incredible*.
Of course, part of the reason is the design of the speakers and subwoofers; however because the only signal passing across the wire is pure digital, there's no signal loss.
With the Kardon's, the amplifier and decode circuitry is contained within the speakers.
On the flipside, I have noticed a small problem with my Plantronics DSP-500 USB headset/ microphone combo.
When recording audio, listening to audio, and printing a long document on my USB laser printer, every once in a while the recording audio will get distorted.
Not sure if this is related to the USB 1.1 bus being overloaded on the particular hub that all those devices are plugged into.
Another anomaly I've noticed is that since both the input audio and output audio has to be buffered and re-encoded, there is a slight (125 ms.) delay if I have the headset speakers in "monitor" mode (i.e. listening to my own voice) which can be a bit disturbing at times.
But, as long as I'm not doing all that, the audio quality is fantastic.
In addition, I don't notice the same symptoms if I'm playing audio through my Soundsticks and recording audio at the same time through my microphone, even though both devices are on the same USB hub so part of the problem may just be the Plantronics headset.
I used to have such a deterrant to USB audio, thinking that it could never match or surpass the quality of good line-level output and a good amplifier until I bought the soundsticks and those have definitely turned my thinking around.
So, bottom line I suppose is you get what you pay for with USB audio, just like with most other things.
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Yes, but even if the Apple logo is taped over, one still recognizes it *as* an Apple. I thus contend that Apple *doesn't* need to plop any money down because they're already getting free publicity and product placement.
Anyone remember the Drew Carrey episode where Drew was dancing with his iMac in his office?
Since Apple's machines are as much about style as they are substance, one doesn't necesarily need to see the Apple logo to know it is one.
I had to stop meta-moderaing when I came to your original post because I just had to comment here.
What most Linux users fail to recognize is that FreeBSD is able to run just about any Linux x86 app *natively*, so saying that FreeBSD doesn't have as many apps as Linux is kind of a misnomer, since FreeBSD has all of its apps (native ports what have you) plus the myriad of Linux-specific apps which are out there.
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You mean like AOL?
Domain Name: AOL.COM
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To take your point even further, there is absolutely no free speech rights guaranteed in the constitution that any person or organization must grant another.
The First Amendement simply states that the *Government* can't limit your speech.
There's a big difference than changing a channel and hitting a delete button on an Email.
When I tune into a channel on TV, I am _requesting_ the program, and optionally commercials, to be pushed down to me.
I initiated the act at watching the commercial or show.
However, when UCE enters my Inbox, I had _no choice_. There's no "V-Chip" for a lot of UCE. It's not like I can tell my Email client, "Send me all UCE from Apple, because I like their products, but none from Microsoft because I can't stand those."
However, with television, I can _choose_ to watch HBO and get no advertisements for penis enlargements or choose to watch UPN at 3am and be bombarded with increasing my "stamina & drive" to make my woman happy.
I think you're confusing DRM with copy-protection.
Unless you create the content yourself, you don't necessarily own the content. DRM is, and can be used, to restrict how you use content which was created by someone else.
If you do create content, then you can employ that same DRM to dictate how you want everyone else to use your content (i.e. by not adding any restrictions).
Copy control, on the other hand, is a whole other beast. One *should* have the right to make backups of the media (and the content which is contained on the media) for archival purposes.
But while copy-control/protection & DRM seem to be lumped together under the DMCA, they are in fact two distinct different things.
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Whether it be Star Office, Open Office, Word Perfect, ABI Word, Apple Works, etc.
At a time when a lot of US Companies are looking at China as a smorgesboard of potential opportunity as it slowly evolves from a Communistic to Capitalistic society, no doubt Microsoft has looked there as well.
Personally, I don't have a problem with China inventing their own CPU, or word processing software, but if they'd like to play nicely with others in this global economy, here's hoping that they at least stick to open and published standards.
I disagree.
My Harmon Kardon Soundsticks (USB) connected to my PowerMac sound *incredible*.
Of course, part of the reason is the design of the speakers and subwoofers; however because the only signal passing across the wire is pure digital, there's no signal loss.
With the Kardon's, the amplifier and decode circuitry is contained within the speakers.
On the flipside, I have noticed a small problem with my Plantronics DSP-500 USB headset/ microphone combo.
When recording audio, listening to audio, and printing a long document on my USB laser printer, every once in a while the recording audio will get distorted.
Not sure if this is related to the USB 1.1 bus being overloaded on the particular hub that all those devices are plugged into.
Another anomaly I've noticed is that since both the input audio and output audio has to be buffered and re-encoded, there is a slight (125 ms.) delay if I have the headset speakers in "monitor" mode (i.e. listening to my own voice) which can be a bit disturbing at times.
But, as long as I'm not doing all that, the audio quality is fantastic.
In addition, I don't notice the same symptoms if I'm playing audio through my Soundsticks and recording audio at the same time through my microphone, even though both devices are on the same USB hub so part of the problem may just be the Plantronics headset.
I used to have such a deterrant to USB audio, thinking that it could never match or surpass the quality of good line-level output and a good amplifier until I bought the soundsticks and those have definitely turned my thinking around.
So, bottom line I suppose is you get what you pay for with USB audio, just like with most other things.
Yes, but even if the Apple logo is taped over, one still recognizes it *as* an Apple. I thus contend that Apple *doesn't* need to plop any money down because they're already getting free publicity and product placement.
Anyone remember the Drew Carrey episode where Drew was dancing with his iMac in his office?
Since Apple's machines are as much about style as they are substance, one doesn't necesarily need to see the Apple logo to know it is one.
I had to stop meta-moderaing when I came to your original post because I just had to comment here.
What most Linux users fail to recognize is that FreeBSD is able to run just about any Linux x86 app *natively*, so saying that FreeBSD doesn't have as many apps as Linux is kind of a misnomer, since FreeBSD has all of its apps (native ports what have you) plus the myriad of Linux-specific apps which are out there.
You mean like AOL?
.COM, .NET, and .ORG that were registered through
Domain Name: AOL.COM
Registrant:
America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Created on..............: Jun 22 1995 12:00AM
Expires on..............: Nov 23 2003 7:02AM
Record Last Updated on..: Aug 1 2003 1:14PM
Registrar...............: America Online, Inc.
http://whois.registrar.aol.com/whois/
Administrative, Technical Contact:
AOL Domain Administration (America Online, Inc.)
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Tel. 703 265 4670
Email: domains@aol.net
Domain servers:
DNS-01.NS.AOL.COM
152.163.159.232
DNS-02.NS.AOL.COM
205.188.157.232
DNS-06.NS.AOL.COM
149.174.211.8
DNS-07.NS.AOL.COM
64.12.51.132
WHOIS data is only provided by this server for domains ending
in
America Online, Inc's Domain Registration Service.
The previous information has been obtained either directly from the
registrant or a registrar of the domain name other than Network Solutions.
Network Solutions, therefore, does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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That explains George Bush.
To take your point even further, there is absolutely no free speech rights guaranteed in the constitution that any person or organization must grant another.
The First Amendement simply states that the *Government* can't limit your speech.
There's a big difference than changing a channel and hitting a delete button on an Email.
When I tune into a channel on TV, I am _requesting_ the program, and optionally commercials, to be pushed down to me.
I initiated the act at watching the commercial or show.
However, when UCE enters my Inbox, I had _no choice_. There's no "V-Chip" for a lot of UCE. It's not like I can tell my Email client, "Send me all UCE from Apple, because I like their products, but none from Microsoft because I can't stand those."
However, with television, I can _choose_ to watch HBO and get no advertisements for penis enlargements or choose to watch UPN at 3am and be bombarded with increasing my "stamina & drive" to make my woman happy.
I think you're confusing DRM with copy-protection.
Unless you create the content yourself, you don't necessarily own the content. DRM is, and can be used, to restrict how you use content which was created by someone else.
If you do create content, then you can employ that same DRM to dictate how you want everyone else to use your content (i.e. by not adding any restrictions).
Copy control, on the other hand, is a whole other beast. One *should* have the right to make backups of the media (and the content which is contained on the media) for archival purposes.
But while copy-control/protection & DRM seem to be lumped together under the DMCA, they are in fact two distinct different things.