User: pompomtom

selection criteria

On: Why You Don't Have a Broadband Connection

I thought height was the biggie...

Re:realtime useability

On: Reborn 1.0 And The State of Linux Audio

Software synth Plus hardware makes realtime possible

Which is a long way from "Unless you have a touch screen monitor, that you keep face up, you can never achive realtime useability with a software synth."

Bollocks indeed, indeed!

vehiculates??

On: New Problem Could Ground Space Shuttle Fleet

I really hope that's a joke.

realtime useability

On: Reborn 1.0 And The State of Linux Audio

you can never achive realtime useability with a software synth.

Bollocks. Just map the CC numbers between a hardware synth and your pc. I use a qm309 and an su700, and that's not even considering dedicated control boxes like your phatboys....

LOCs

On: Atomic Scale Memory

What's that in libraries of congress?

as if?

On: SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University

and acting as if they're above the law.

All the rights, and bugger all of the responsibilities... the day that corporations became above the law passed a long long time ago....

Home of the brave?????????

On: Robots Go Spelunking

Yanks crack me up!

BugCentral?? Don't you mean...

On: What, Me Worry?

Bugdhad?

Re:Quick, before it's too late

On: A Rock Moves In Space

Regardless you're right, why bother worrying about potentially a few _billion_ people?


Sort of like the Bush administration's response to climate change....

Scarcity

On: Will Earth Expire By 2050?

When certain resources become scarce, they will become expensive, and people will be forced to stop using them and seek alternatives.

No, they will become expensive, so only rich people will use them up.

Re:raising prices indefinitely

On: RIAA to Sue You Now

Your points are valid, but I wasn't talking about the RIAA. What I meant is that copyright grants an artificial monopoly over the work in question. That's what it is.

oh, and:

5. Discover unsigned bands, and ask them for a CD.

raising prices indefinitely

On: RIAA to Sue You Now

$20 CDs kinda fuck up that equation, but I don't recall the part of copyright law that says you can raise prices indefinitely without consequence

It's there alright. Which part of 'monopoly' didn't you get?

Re:Ummm, "Microwavable Pizza"? They sell it.

On: A Foundry in Every Kitchen

It's still sacrilege...

MOD PARENT UP!

On: World Cup Final

please... informative, if you will!

cost shifting

On: Shocked, Shocked at Payola

You're just shifting the cost to the consumer.... like that'll work.

Experts

On: CD Copying Kiosks Endorsed in Australia

Compared to the Herald-Sun, just about anybody is an expert.

Re:Bloat? or not (off topic)

On: A Web Browser in Your BIOS?

You need to get yourself an accoustic coupler...

All economics...

On: The Economics of File Sharing

...is based on bullshit assumptions, and has been since Smith.

Re:Economics 101

On: Freecharge Windup Mobile Phone Power Source

Way to miss the point.....

Re:The question is...

On: Rockbox Replaces Archos Firmware

Do they have a DMCA in Sweden?

Who's stopping weapons inspectors?

On: E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool

The Bush administration....

Read about the removal of Jose Bustani... it's Bush that's creating the situation here...

Shipping is a service.

On: CDs Want To Be Free

What's wrong with making a profit on that?

Free CD not good enough for you?

Fence?

On: The Great Firewall of .... Kuwait?

and sometimes it's interesting to see
someone on *this* side of the political fence

LOL....

+5 TROLL!!

VST

On: Software Based Echo Cancellation?

You could use a VST fx host, and use VST software gate plugins...

Question: 98lite

On: MS Judge to Allow Demonstration of Modular Windows

Why have I never seen discussion about 98lite which is a stripped down windows?

I'd've thought that proved it....