Well, you're falling for the 'poseur' type of audiophile, which isn't a real audiophile. Real audiophiles understand their equipment, it's characteristics, and also sometimes have an actual appreciation for the programming material. One can not spend one's way into being an 'audiophile' though there are definitely people ready and willing to take your money and reassure you that you're an 'audiophile' in doing so. Reading John H. Newitt's book 'High Fidelity Techniques' (Rhinehart & Company, Inc, 1953) is a good start to understanding what it's all about. Understanding the theory behind a passive crossover network is the kind of thing that is a bare entry level requirement. Do you know the factors that affect the inductance of your speaker's voice coil, etc.
Buying gold plated connectors because there's a store that urges you to do so spells your way out. Enjoy yourself, I suppose.
What do you mean by the phrase 'wood-tone'? I have wooden speakers (Klipsch towers). Wood tone starts to sound like something fake, i.e. 'wood grain' that is revealed to be a halftone image if you get out a magnifying glass.
I don't recall ever typing in the key sequence 'ies4linux' anywhere. I had never heard of whatever it is before somebody (you?) in this discussion typed it in.
I wouldn't run IE4 for Windows with a Windows emulator running inside the virtual Macintosh under under Basilisk II on a NetBSD StrongARM box, either. But it's probably theoretically possible.
I wish some truly innocent person would counter-sue after one of these backdowns for legal costs...
Unfortunately, 'some truly innocent person' hasn't been nailed yet. Just lots of of 'gray area' offenders with varying degrees of wiggle room to get out of the charges.
And to further skew the statistics, there are folks like me, who don't download ANY music content off the Internet, instead choosing to rip CDs checked out of the library.
However, it's probably important for us to maintain there is a large body of CD-buying rippers out there, to keep them from 'cracking down on our fun.'
To catch an eagle, you can use a traditional Native American method. You dig a small pit. You put some carrion in the pit. You hide beneath the carrion.
Eagles are basically a more attractive version of the vulture, a carrion bird. They land on the carrion, you nab them.
It's a mystery to some of us why the U.S. picked a dirty roadkill eater as the National Symbol. Every time you hear the word 'eagle' used in a majestic fashion, prepend the letter 'b' and think of 'The Flying Beagles' - a loopy bunch of semi-harmless dogs. It will change your outlook some, in ways that make life fun.
By 'the rest of us' you, of course, mean the small group of nutroots types who congregate at DU and Kossopia.
'Fess up. It's a stinky partisan fight. The news media is in general biased. The American public know this. Why do you think the majority of Americans are so cynical about politics?
Airdrops of food to rural areas would be viewed as hostile action. It would be termed 'destabilizing the regime' and roundly condemned. Probably the US would face sanctions for taking such action.
You apparently don't understand that Microsoft released a Solaris binary version of IE4 for the Sparc processor.
And, ummm, anything can be run on Sparc that is 'x86' by means of Bochs (though you'd be dumb to run it under Wine, you'd just run 'Windows proper' on the Bochs virtual machine, but that is not within the context of what I was talking about at all. On the most screaming fast UltraSparc hardware you'd probably get 386DX-grade performance. You could run IE4 that way, but as I said, Microsoft released a Sparc-native binary of IE4 to run on Sun's Solaris OS.
I still say that I'd prefer Chavez because he's not spending my money to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
You have a point. Chavez isn't spending YOUR money to kill and repress a proportional number of people to those you claim 'Bush' is killing and repressing unless you are a citizen of Venezuela. That's kind of a technicality in the context of the discussion, of course.
Chavez has a bit more power to accumulate before he becomes a 'Mass murder/genocide' class of dictator. Right now he's just a second rate populist thug.
Your terminology is unclear. 'Faux News' is a generic term to describe CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX/CNN, etc. It is a noun. FOX News is a specific brand of faux news. It is a proper noun.
Was it a grammatical error, or were you just being partisan?
They could always go the NetBSD pkgsrc route, where the source tarball is generic but the NetBSD package build tree contains all the patches and tweaks to build it.
I downloaded it, I installed it. I discovered it didn't include Composer, so I couldn't 'cut and paste' web content to the format I wanted and save it, within a single app.
So I uninstalled it and put Seamonkey back on.
Firefox certainly isn't as bad as Internet Explorer. I'll give it that. . .
It's my understanding that one of the DVD publishers/vendors failed to properly 'secure' a key, and that 'key' made it far easier to reverse-engineer CSS. I may be wrong, as I don't get that carried away with this stuff. But my full understanding was that 'DVD Jon' is one of those 'in the right place, right time' sorts of guys.
In fact, you can take it to your friend's house, and load MP3 files into it, just like any other portable USB drive. Then you can carry it back home, copy the MP3 files onto your own computer, then use iKludge (or any of the other fine proprietary-protocol programs that kinda work) to merge the music into your database so the files are 'music' and not just MP3 files you can't play directly. It's really that simple!
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Well, you're falling for the 'poseur' type of audiophile, which isn't a real audiophile. Real audiophiles understand their equipment, it's characteristics, and also sometimes have an actual appreciation for the programming material. One can not spend one's way into being an 'audiophile' though there are definitely people ready and willing to take your money and reassure you that you're an 'audiophile' in doing so. Reading John H. Newitt's book 'High Fidelity Techniques' (Rhinehart & Company, Inc, 1953) is a good start to understanding what it's all about. Understanding the theory behind a passive crossover network is the kind of thing that is a bare entry level requirement. Do you know the factors that affect the inductance of your speaker's voice coil, etc.
Buying gold plated connectors because there's a store that urges you to do so spells your way out. Enjoy yourself, I suppose.
At what level of power output? You sound like you're just quoting specs.
What do you mean by the phrase 'wood-tone'? I have wooden speakers (Klipsch towers). Wood tone starts to sound like something fake, i.e. 'wood grain' that is revealed to be a halftone image if you get out a magnifying glass.
I don't recall ever typing in the key sequence 'ies4linux' anywhere. I had never heard of whatever it is before somebody (you?) in this discussion typed it in.
I wouldn't run IE4 for Windows with a Windows emulator running inside the virtual Macintosh under under Basilisk II on a NetBSD StrongARM box, either. But it's probably theoretically possible.
I wish some truly innocent person would counter-sue after one of these backdowns for legal costs ...
Unfortunately, 'some truly innocent person' hasn't been nailed yet. Just lots of of 'gray area' offenders with varying degrees of wiggle room to get out of the charges.
And to further skew the statistics, there are folks like me, who don't download ANY music content off the Internet, instead choosing to rip CDs checked out of the library.
However, it's probably important for us to maintain there is a large body of CD-buying rippers out there, to keep them from 'cracking down on our fun.'
To catch an eagle, you can use a traditional Native American method. You dig a small pit. You put some carrion in the pit. You hide beneath the carrion.
Eagles are basically a more attractive version of the vulture, a carrion bird. They land on the carrion, you nab them.
It's a mystery to some of us why the U.S. picked a dirty roadkill eater as the National Symbol. Every time you hear the word 'eagle' used in a majestic fashion, prepend the letter 'b' and think of 'The Flying Beagles' - a loopy bunch of semi-harmless dogs. It will change your outlook some, in ways that make life fun.
isn't the "Faux News" the rest of us realize.
By 'the rest of us' you, of course, mean the small group of nutroots types who congregate at DU and Kossopia.
'Fess up. It's a stinky partisan fight. The news media is in general biased. The American public know this. Why do you think the majority of Americans are so cynical about politics?
Airdrops of food to rural areas would be viewed as hostile action. It would be termed 'destabilizing the regime' and roundly condemned. Probably the US would face sanctions for taking such action.
And he refused to allow thorough UN-sanctioned inspections, to prove that he had no WMDs. Terms that had been agreed to in earlier negotigations.
It's that simple, and laser focused.
You apparently don't understand that Microsoft released a Solaris binary version of IE4 for the Sparc processor.
And, ummm, anything can be run on Sparc that is 'x86' by means of Bochs (though you'd be dumb to run it under Wine, you'd just run 'Windows proper' on the Bochs virtual machine, but that is not within the context of what I was talking about at all. On the most screaming fast UltraSparc hardware you'd probably get 386DX-grade performance. You could run IE4 that way, but as I said, Microsoft released a Sparc-native binary of IE4 to run on Sun's Solaris OS.
I still say that I'd prefer Chavez because he's not spending my money to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
You have a point. Chavez isn't spending YOUR money to kill and repress a proportional number of people to those you claim 'Bush' is killing and repressing unless you are a citizen of Venezuela. That's kind of a technicality in the context of the discussion, of course.
Chavez has a bit more power to accumulate before he becomes a 'Mass murder/genocide' class of dictator. Right now he's just a second rate populist thug.
Your terminology is unclear. 'Faux News' is a generic term to describe CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX/CNN, etc. It is a noun. FOX News is a specific brand of faux news. It is a proper noun.
Was it a grammatical error, or were you just being partisan?
Try this out then:
Think of some random person you know. Say the phrase in your head 's/he is a fox.'
Then think of them again. Say the phrase in your head 's/he is a weasel.'
Ummmm. See the difference?
(the above possibly only works for native English speakers)
Perpetual backporting of security patches seems like a good idea, but it's kinda dangerous to the idea of a cohesive codebase.
They could always go the NetBSD pkgsrc route, where the source tarball is generic but the NetBSD package build tree contains all the patches and tweaks to build it.
Naaaaw.
I wonder if Linux/Sparc users can run the IE4 for Solaris on their boxes?
(are there any Linux/Sparc users left? NetBSD seems a wiser choice- yes, I *could* run IE4 for Solaris on my Sparc....)
Firefox hasn't 'fragmented' my userbase.
I downloaded it, I installed it. I discovered it didn't include Composer, so I couldn't 'cut and paste' web content to the format I wanted and save it, within a single app.
So I uninstalled it and put Seamonkey back on.
Firefox certainly isn't as bad as Internet Explorer. I'll give it that. . .
It's my understanding that one of the DVD publishers/vendors failed to properly 'secure' a key, and that 'key' made it far easier to reverse-engineer CSS. I may be wrong, as I don't get that carried away with this stuff. But my full understanding was that 'DVD Jon' is one of those 'in the right place, right time' sorts of guys.
No. A knife switch. Mounted on the same piece of plywood that the insides of the DVD drive is now screwed to.
Be creative, have fun, etc.
It's kind of ironic that the company vaunted and praised so vigorously for employing Linus now appears to have become a 'Patent portfolio operation.'
You're kidding. You think that without the portion of the Userbase that runs Mozilla on Debian, that Mozilla's usage statistics would plummet???
(disclaimer- I run Mozilla (seamonkey) on NetBSD)
Science is a process, not an institution.
It's hopless to continue the discussion if you can't see that.
You're incorrect on several points.
You can use the iPod as a USB hard drive.
In fact, you can take it to your friend's house, and load MP3 files into it, just like any other portable USB drive. Then you can carry it back home, copy the MP3 files onto your own computer, then use iKludge (or any of the other fine proprietary-protocol programs that kinda work) to merge the music into your database so the files are 'music' and not just MP3 files you can't play directly. It's really that simple!
So you're one of those guys who composes stuff in Flash.
Good for you.
Please don't think you've earned the respect of any of us geeks.
Please don't think your endorsement of Apple products will impress any of us.
Oh, I suspect some people here think that's okay. It's so fash to use the shiney commercial stuff. And as you said, pragmatic, too.
But seriously, at the end you said 'commercial products you trust.'
You trust Adobe and Macromedia???