From my experience it depends on age; I am 34. When I was 21 and would go to a pub, bar, club, etc, I would usually see at least 1 drunk fight. When I was in college at parties, well things would get real crazy. Then when I got about 25, I started seeing more maturity with those who drink, and the drinking responsibly increases with age.
With lower age groups there are a lot more bad eggs, however with older age groups the bad egg count seems to drop considerably and is usually made up of alcoholics/abusive drinkers. Just my $0.02
Ah, thanks for that. Last I checked Fluendo, I only read about the mp3 codec. About $38 USD doesn't seem to bad for all the audo/video codecs. Have you tried it with GStreamer? I dumped GSstreamer a while ago because of issues with it not working well and since have stuck with VLC.
The people making the device you modded have done so on the assumption that they can sell complimentary products for it (games).
So what. Should laws be passed to allow companies to make money based on "assumptions"? Shouldn't a company have to do things to compete like... take risks?
Why should any company be allowed to restrict usage on a physical product after a customer has paid for and bought (not leased) the product?
I will tell you why. Because these companies have bribed our "representatives" heavily to pass laws to make their products more successful and to hinder competition. Products should stand or fail on their own, not because some law limits its use after a purchase.
I wonder how many millions of tax-payer dollars has been spent on this raid instead of oh, I don't know, maybe using it to stop dangerous criminals.
Punish restrictive practices through the market, not by breaking the law.
That is text-book capitalism and it doesn't exist anymore. Companies scheme together in areas to limit competition. For example, look in just about any market where there are only a few dominant companies and you will price fixing, no real service differentiation, etc. Restrictive practices are generally adopted in a similar manner by the big players so customers won't leave one to go to the other.
Look at phones for example. Here in the USA I don't know of any phone company that offers a truly competitive customer-oriented service. I signed up with Verizon and got two Razr phones. After 3 months my wife and I didn't like the phones and I went to BUY new phones and keep my account. The only option I had was to pay $175 to cancel my current account, buy 2 new phones and start a new 2 year agreement. I was so PO about this that I went to ever cell phone company in the city. They all WERE THE SAME. The only other "choice" I had was to get a pay as you go phone where they demanded my SSN and charge outrageous per minute fees.
I, as I am sure many others, could list dozens and dozens of examples with these types of restrictions in just about every market here in the USA. I would like to know where this "free" market exists, because it is not here in the USA.
The only thing we have here in the USA is corrupted capitalism backed by bribed representatives.
Um, the non Free (as in freedom, not price) MP3 packages aren't infringement. MP3 patents (and as far as I know, most multimedia patents) are set up with a royalty basis. The people that own MP3 are quite happy to let you obtain free ones, because it standardizes the format, and lets them get a royalty out of MP3 players and windows.
No, not really. Most/all proprietary codecs require a license for playback. However, the way they are licensed are to developers and manufacturers of software applications and hardware devices. So if you are using a product that did not legally obtain a license, then you are infringing. End of story. Saying things like "they don't mind because it helps create a standard" doesn't seem to make the cut to me.
IANAL, and I do not know about all multimedia patents, I've only looked closely at MP3
Do you have any links from Thomson the holder of mp3, mp3PRO and mp3surround patent and licensing stating that they don't mind if end users use mp3, etc with a non authorized implementation that did not pay for such usage rights?
Note, I have used VLC and MPlayer to handle all my Linux audio/video needs. I doubt Thomson or others would come after individual infringing users such as the RIAA have done. It would push users to other formats and not do anything to make them that much more money. However, I am willing to bet they want every user of their codecs to be using a player/device that is legally licensed to play said format. This is why I would love to see a good Linux distro like Ubuntu (possibly the up coming Red Hat) to have a paid version that includes the proprietary audio/video codecs. I would certainly pay a fair price for that.
There is accountability because managers and execs can bypass blame and point right to Microsoft or another vendor. If they were to do that with a Free OS like Ubuntu, the blame comes back to them for "using something that was free to try to save money". Note, I don't agree with this stupidity, but it seems pervasive in American management.
I cut my teeth on Red Hat and like the way it is set up. The only reason I started to use Ubuntu more is because of how vast the repository is and how well all the packages play together. With Fedora, you can add 3rd party repositories, but you will run in to conflicts. This is the only reason I dropped Fedora for Ubuntu.
I say give Red Hat a chance and wait and see how it turns out. If they include LEGAL codecs, that could be huge. With Ubuntu to play proprietary audio/video codecs you have to use unauthorized software. To a home user this isn't a bid deal, but to companies it is a deal breaker. Most license holders won't go after Joe Linux User for using an MP3 codec. However, with a company, that could lead to some nice cash for infringement.
I have used Linux for many years. I have tried out KDE from the very early versions of KDE/QT. However, the only thing that has always sent me back to Gnome in a day or two has been how farking ugly/blocky the QTwidgetsandtoolkit, etc can be!
Seriously, I never understood how people could like KDE/QT. It has always just been too farking blocky for me. Gnome is so much smoother as far as the GUI drawing goes. Look at some of the screenshots I posted. The corners that are supposed to be "rounded" don't even come close. Oh, and why do the fonts in KDE look like blocky crap, however look so much smoother in Gnome on the same system with the same fonts? Seriously, I log into KDE on a system and look at the fonts and they look like blocky crap. Log out, log in to Gnome and I have very nice AA fonts. Yes, I set up KDE to do AA fonts, etc. I have been using Linux since the early days when Linux GUI was _really_ butt ugly, so I know what I am doing.
Any way, I really am not trolling here, I am just wondering why QT has never hired one graphics designer that could smooth things out so everything is not such a blocking mess. I would love to use QT since it works on Linux, Max and MS Windows. However, on Mac and Linux it looks like total crap. Anyway, I went to OS X since I didn't want to look at an ugly GUI desktop at home. At work I don't have a choice, but at home I do, so I replaced two laptops and two desktops with Intel-Based Macs and have been a happy camper. I _really_ wanted to just find a Linux that looked halfway-decent (Gnome for me) ___and___ supported the hardware I needed.
Oh, by the way, I think Gnome since 2.x as looked pretty nice. Nice rounded corners, softness, etc. I Just never understood why KDE/QT always felt like this big blocky GUI to me. Oh well, "To Each His Own".
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Linux is open source, how exactly would they have an "unpublished" exploit? There are a lot more people looking for bugs for Linux than the FBI have searching Linux for some exploit they could take advantage of. Oh, and the FBI would only be able to use a exploit they found first for a few times before it is patched and all through the Linux Community.
As for MS Windows, if there is an unknown exploit, maybe MS would leave it there with a little nudge and wink from the FBI?
As for OS X, the core is open source *BSD based, so would be the same there as for Linux. However, the proprietary stuff of OS X could have an unpublished exploit. Though I don't think Apple would be as willing to help out the FBI and keep things under wraps. The thing going for Apple are Apple fans. If Apple really screwed over their fans, their business would collapse.
Use Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X and flip the government the birdie! Or don't do stupid stuff
Oh, I just had another idea. Does anyone know of a list of most of these government sites? Why not just block them at the firewall level? Or for n00bs use something like PeerGuardian.
Don't use a MS Windows based OS if you want to do stupid stuff. Odds are that these type of government programs are only targeting the large user base of MS Windows. Use Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X and flip the government the birdie!;-)
Huh? WTF are you talking about? What "backwards" scrollbars? I know from your stupid comments that you have never used OS X for more than a few minutes. Buy a Mac and use it over a few weeks (2-3 weeks) and you will be converted. End of story.
So, you are a stupid, idiot that likes to lick balls!
This isn't even close to OS X. Seriously. This is like making some really crappy "OS" and then saying, hey, we are close to MS Windows 95. I looked at this site, screen shots and other stuff. They just don't come close to the current Mac OS X OS.
And this does happen. Read your direct deposit contracts. If you are over-paid, your "agree", by allowing the deposit, to have your account deducted from. I work at a fortune 500 and I have seen this happen. A buddy of mine had money taken from his account because he was "over paid" on his bonus. He was paid $1,000 USD too much.
Lucky for him it was caught soon and he didn't spend the "extra" money. From his perspective, he was just given a nice bonus, which in most peoples opinion that worked with him, he earned.
Yeah, here in the USA, we are owned by big corporations. I guess we all need to either get use to the fact that big companies tell us what to do or we better start arming our selves and get ready to insert a real government that will represent us.
Your salary estimate is a little high. Many in China make $200-$300 a month. Here is a chart of average salaries in Chinese yuan. For example, the chart shows that an urban worker makes an average, at the national level, of about 897.56 RMB a month which in USD is $118.69 a month! Cost of living is low so they can afford food, housing, etc. However, they could never afford even to spend $50 USD (378.10 Chinese yuan) on an MS Windows/MS Office combo. That is almost half of their monthly income.
To put these costs in perspective, the average US household income is about $43,318 / 12 = $3,609.83 a month. Now imagine paying $1,804.91 for MS Windows and MS Office;-)
How is it a double standard if someone doesn't want to support Microsoft while wanting support a company they like, such as Blizzard? If MS were a better company with better practices, supported standards better and didn't abuse their monopoly position, I am sure there would be a lot more supporters on the side of Microsoft.
Me personally, I won't give any of my bandwidth to Microsoft. Let them pay for it. Now if Microsoft wanted to pay me to use my bandwidth, I would consider that option.
My prayers are with the lost and their loved ones. What a shame. There are two gone, but 4 are still with us, though in really bad shape. So... send your prayers, positive vibes, your "mojo", or your voodoo. It doesn't matter now. These people are working hard to help push our knowledge as humans further. So we should stand by them and do what little we can.
Huh? Are you for real? I have owned 3 Linksys-based Cable/DSL routers. The first two I purchased were based on Linux and I found them to work very well. When the two Linux-based Linksys routers I owned started to show their age, I was able to find a nice firmware update that has allowed me, as a paying customer, to enjoy my product for longer and add some more features.
We all know that over-paid execs don't want customers ("consumers" to them) to enjoy products for any longer than need be. With that said, my latest "Linksys" cable/dsl router whivh is now Cisco branded and has a different non-Linux firmware just sucks. I have had issues with systems not getting an IP, wireless not working, slow network speeds on an 8 Mbps connection and all other crap. Switching back to an earlier Linksys model fixes things right up.
The last time I checked, Microsoft has more of a liberal / left-wing / Democrat bent than a conservative / right-wing / Republican leaning direction.
Nah, MS is a typical corporate whore that gives bribe money where ever they can to maximize profits. If you look at their SOFT MONEY DONATIONS from 1998, 81% went to the Republicans.
With the current Democrat control, MS will obviously send more bribe money their way.
3. I am sure a lot of people will be monitoring now. This guy just noticed increased traffic from suspicious organizations AFTER he installed Vista. Did you see all of the Vista code? Do you know what info Vista sends and to whom?
It sounds like you are trying to apologize for MS. This sounds just like the crap MS would do. All these connection attempts weren't there in XP. "Upgrade" to Vista and now all kinds of "terrorist" scans are taking place? What the hell is Haliburton doing scans for? This seem more than a coincidence to me.
Sure some people would be "legit" and sell the exploits to companies. Others just want to be "l33t" and get them out there on the inter-tubes. If the monetary incentive were good enough, I think the balance would tip, for a time, to selling the exploits to companies.
However, I think this approach would go down in flames in a matter of months. Why? Well I worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and anything that happens in these large companies is very, very slow. Microsoft or any other company buying exploits would need to verify the exploit before paying out the bounty. So some security researcher finds a potential exploit, sends it to MS or another company. Now the fun game of waiting and waiting and waiting begins. If your lucky, you will eventually be paid. Oh, and part of the submittal of the exploit will certainly include an NDA to not release the exploit. If you get tired of waiting to be paid for your work and release the exploit, get ready to be sued.
Another big thing I see happening with closed source companies is non-payment for exploits. For example, MS pays for some big-ticket exploits, creates a patch and in that closed source patch they include some of the smaller ticket exploits and reject those small ticket exploit submissions as not being verified and then don't pay. What recourse would you then have? Sue Microsoft of some other large software company that can keep a court case going for months costing millions? What person submitting an exploit would have millions to spend on a court battle to be paid the $1,000 for their exploit?
I think the only way to get companies to react to exploits is to:
Send the exploit to the company.
Give the company 2-3 weeks to respond.
If no response in 2-3 weeks, release the exploit
If company responds, get a firm date of fix release
If fix is not release in a timely fashion, release exploit
The only thing that motivates these companies is money, loss of money and bad press. If they won't fix their bugs, then force them to buy using one or more of the previous three options.
It's your brain after all, you have more control than you think.
I agree. However I also know that for me it started as physiological. Any imbalance in serotonin levels can cause all kinds of symptoms like depression, anxiety, panic, OCD, etc. There has been a lot of research into serotonin and other neurotransmitters. A big problem though is that one a person has a physiological neurotransmitter imbalance, it is very easy to also develop psychological symptoms like avoidance, irrational phobias, etc.
Thanks for the info. I just started with a therapist and I am trying to find a good relaxation/mediation CD. Do you know of any good CD's for meditaiton/relaxation?
Many years ago I had this cassette tape that had you first focus on breathing and then after that you would go through imagery of your body and repeat things like "my arms are heavy and warm", etc. I wish I still had that. It use to get me so farking relaxed.
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From my experience it depends on age; I am 34. When I was 21 and would go to a pub, bar, club, etc, I would usually see at least 1 drunk fight. When I was in college at parties, well things would get real crazy. Then when I got about 25, I started seeing more maturity with those who drink, and the drinking responsibly increases with age.
With lower age groups there are a lot more bad eggs, however with older age groups the bad egg count seems to drop considerably and is usually made up of alcoholics/abusive drinkers. Just my $0.02
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Uh, yeah because drunk people are noted as the epitome of personal responsibility ;-)
Ah, thanks for that. Last I checked Fluendo, I only read about the mp3 codec. About $38 USD doesn't seem to bad for all the audo/video codecs. Have you tried it with GStreamer? I dumped GSstreamer a while ago because of issues with it not working well and since have stuck with VLC.
Why should any company be allowed to restrict usage on a physical product after a customer has paid for and bought (not leased) the product?
I will tell you why. Because these companies have bribed our "representatives" heavily to pass laws to make their products more successful and to hinder competition. Products should stand or fail on their own, not because some law limits its use after a purchase.
I wonder how many millions of tax-payer dollars has been spent on this raid instead of oh, I don't know, maybe using it to stop dangerous criminals.
That is text-book capitalism and it doesn't exist anymore. Companies scheme together in areas to limit competition. For example, look in just about any market where there are only a few dominant companies and you will price fixing, no real service differentiation, etc. Restrictive practices are generally adopted in a similar manner by the big players so customers won't leave one to go to the other.
Look at phones for example. Here in the USA I don't know of any phone company that offers a truly competitive customer-oriented service. I signed up with Verizon and got two Razr phones. After 3 months my wife and I didn't like the phones and I went to BUY new phones and keep my account. The only option I had was to pay $175 to cancel my current account, buy 2 new phones and start a new 2 year agreement. I was so PO about this that I went to ever cell phone company in the city. They all WERE THE SAME. The only other "choice" I had was to get a pay as you go phone where they demanded my SSN and charge outrageous per minute fees.
I, as I am sure many others, could list dozens and dozens of examples with these types of restrictions in just about every market here in the USA. I would like to know where this "free" market exists, because it is not here in the USA.
The only thing we have here in the USA is corrupted capitalism backed by bribed representatives.
Note, I have used VLC and MPlayer to handle all my Linux audio/video needs. I doubt Thomson or others would come after individual infringing users such as the RIAA have done. It would push users to other formats and not do anything to make them that much more money. However, I am willing to bet they want every user of their codecs to be using a player/device that is legally licensed to play said format. This is why I would love to see a good Linux distro like Ubuntu (possibly the up coming Red Hat) to have a paid version that includes the proprietary audio/video codecs. I would certainly pay a fair price for that.
There is accountability because managers and execs can bypass blame and point right to Microsoft or another vendor. If they were to do that with a Free OS like Ubuntu, the blame comes back to them for "using something that was free to try to save money". Note, I don't agree with this stupidity, but it seems pervasive in American management.
I cut my teeth on Red Hat and like the way it is set up. The only reason I started to use Ubuntu more is because of how vast the repository is and how well all the packages play together. With Fedora, you can add 3rd party repositories, but you will run in to conflicts. This is the only reason I dropped Fedora for Ubuntu.
I say give Red Hat a chance and wait and see how it turns out. If they include LEGAL codecs, that could be huge. With Ubuntu to play proprietary audio/video codecs you have to use unauthorized software. To a home user this isn't a bid deal, but to companies it is a deal breaker. Most license holders won't go after Joe Linux User for using an MP3 codec. However, with a company, that could lead to some nice cash for infringement.
I have used Linux for many years. I have tried out KDE from the very early versions of KDE/QT. However, the only thing that has always sent me back to Gnome in a day or two has been how farking ugly/blocky the QT widgets and toolkit, etc can be!
Seriously, I never understood how people could like KDE/QT. It has always just been too farking blocky for me. Gnome is so much smoother as far as the GUI drawing goes. Look at some of the screenshots I posted. The corners that are supposed to be "rounded" don't even come close. Oh, and why do the fonts in KDE look like blocky crap, however look so much smoother in Gnome on the same system with the same fonts? Seriously, I log into KDE on a system and look at the fonts and they look like blocky crap. Log out, log in to Gnome and I have very nice AA fonts. Yes, I set up KDE to do AA fonts, etc. I have been using Linux since the early days when Linux GUI was _really_ butt ugly, so I know what I am doing.
Any way, I really am not trolling here, I am just wondering why QT has never hired one graphics designer that could smooth things out so everything is not such a blocking mess. I would love to use QT since it works on Linux, Max and MS Windows. However, on Mac and Linux it looks like total crap. Anyway, I went to OS X since I didn't want to look at an ugly GUI desktop at home. At work I don't have a choice, but at home I do, so I replaced two laptops and two desktops with Intel-Based Macs and have been a happy camper. I _really_ wanted to just find a Linux that looked halfway-decent (Gnome for me) ___and___ supported the hardware I needed.
Oh, by the way, I think Gnome since 2.x as looked pretty nice. Nice rounded corners, softness, etc. I Just never understood why KDE/QT always felt like this big blocky GUI to me. Oh well, "To Each His Own".
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Linux is open source, how exactly would they have an "unpublished" exploit? There are a lot more people looking for bugs for Linux than the FBI have searching Linux for some exploit they could take advantage of. Oh, and the FBI would only be able to use a exploit they found first for a few times before it is patched and all through the Linux Community.
As for MS Windows, if there is an unknown exploit, maybe MS would leave it there with a little nudge and wink from the FBI?
As for OS X, the core is open source *BSD based, so would be the same there as for Linux. However, the proprietary stuff of OS X could have an unpublished exploit. Though I don't think Apple would be as willing to help out the FBI and keep things under wraps. The thing going for Apple are Apple fans. If Apple really screwed over their fans, their business would collapse.
Oh, I just had another idea. Does anyone know of a list of most of these government sites? Why not just block them at the firewall level? Or for n00bs use something like PeerGuardian.
Don't use a MS Windows based OS if you want to do stupid stuff. Odds are that these type of government programs are only targeting the large user base of MS Windows. Use Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X and flip the government the birdie! ;-)
Well, as pointed out, Apple doesn't sell PPC-based Macs any more. Maybe Intel also tossed in some spare change to get it on Intel only?
Huh? WTF are you talking about? What "backwards" scrollbars? I know from your stupid comments that you have never used OS X for more than a few minutes. Buy a Mac and use it over a few weeks (2-3 weeks) and you will be converted. End of story.
So, you are a stupid, idiot that likes to lick balls!
This isn't even close to OS X. Seriously. This is like making some really crappy "OS" and then saying, hey, we are close to MS Windows 95. I looked at this site, screen shots and other stuff. They just don't come close to the current Mac OS X OS.
And this does happen. Read your direct deposit contracts. If you are over-paid, your "agree", by allowing the deposit, to have your account deducted from. I work at a fortune 500 and I have seen this happen. A buddy of mine had money taken from his account because he was "over paid" on his bonus. He was paid $1,000 USD too much.
Lucky for him it was caught soon and he didn't spend the "extra" money. From his perspective, he was just given a nice bonus, which in most peoples opinion that worked with him, he earned.
Yeah, here in the USA, we are owned by big corporations. I guess we all need to either get use to the fact that big companies tell us what to do or we better start arming our selves and get ready to insert a real government that will represent us.
Hi Tom.
:-)
You are an asshole.
Take care
Your salary estimate is a little high. Many in China make $200-$300 a month. Here is a chart of average salaries in Chinese yuan. For example, the chart shows that an urban worker makes an average, at the national level, of about 897.56 RMB a month which in USD is $118.69 a month! Cost of living is low so they can afford food, housing, etc. However, they could never afford even to spend $50 USD (378.10 Chinese yuan) on an MS Windows/MS Office combo. That is almost half of their monthly income.
;-)
To put these costs in perspective, the average US household income is about $43,318 / 12 = $3,609.83 a month. Now imagine paying $1,804.91 for MS Windows and MS Office
How is it a double standard if someone doesn't want to support Microsoft while wanting support a company they like, such as Blizzard? If MS were a better company with better practices, supported standards better and didn't abuse their monopoly position, I am sure there would be a lot more supporters on the side of Microsoft.
Me personally, I won't give any of my bandwidth to Microsoft. Let them pay for it. Now if Microsoft wanted to pay me to use my bandwidth, I would consider that option.
My prayers are with the lost and their loved ones. What a shame. There are two gone, but 4 are still with us, though in really bad shape. So... send your prayers, positive vibes, your "mojo", or your voodoo. It doesn't matter now. These people are working hard to help push our knowledge as humans further. So we should stand by them and do what little we can.
Huh? Are you for real? I have owned 3 Linksys-based Cable/DSL routers. The first two I purchased were based on Linux and I found them to work very well. When the two Linux-based Linksys routers I owned started to show their age, I was able to find a nice firmware update that has allowed me, as a paying customer, to enjoy my product for longer and add some more features.
We all know that over-paid execs don't want customers ("consumers" to them) to enjoy products for any longer than need be. With that said, my latest "Linksys" cable/dsl router whivh is now Cisco branded and has a different non-Linux firmware just sucks. I have had issues with systems not getting an IP, wireless not working, slow network speeds on an 8 Mbps connection and all other crap. Switching back to an earlier Linksys model fixes things right up.
With the current Democrat control, MS will obviously send more bribe money their way.
1. It shows an RDP from Vista to XP.
2. There is a version that is working on Vista. However it is command line only right now, the GUI is not done.
3. I am sure a lot of people will be monitoring now. This guy just noticed increased traffic from suspicious organizations AFTER he installed Vista. Did you see all of the Vista code? Do you know what info Vista sends and to whom?
It sounds like you are trying to apologize for MS. This sounds just like the crap MS would do. All these connection attempts weren't there in XP. "Upgrade" to Vista and now all kinds of "terrorist" scans are taking place? What the hell is Haliburton doing scans for? This seem more than a coincidence to me.
However, I think this approach would go down in flames in a matter of months. Why? Well I worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and anything that happens in these large companies is very, very slow. Microsoft or any other company buying exploits would need to verify the exploit before paying out the bounty. So some security researcher finds a potential exploit, sends it to MS or another company. Now the fun game of waiting and waiting and waiting begins. If your lucky, you will eventually be paid. Oh, and part of the submittal of the exploit will certainly include an NDA to not release the exploit. If you get tired of waiting to be paid for your work and release the exploit, get ready to be sued.
Another big thing I see happening with closed source companies is non-payment for exploits. For example, MS pays for some big-ticket exploits, creates a patch and in that closed source patch they include some of the smaller ticket exploits and reject those small ticket exploit submissions as not being verified and then don't pay. What recourse would you then have? Sue Microsoft of some other large software company that can keep a court case going for months costing millions? What person submitting an exploit would have millions to spend on a court battle to be paid the $1,000 for their exploit?
I think the only way to get companies to react to exploits is to:
- Send the exploit to the company.
- Give the company 2-3 weeks to respond.
- If no response in 2-3 weeks, release the exploit
- If company responds, get a firm date of fix release
- If fix is not release in a timely fashion, release exploit
The only thing that motivates these companies is money, loss of money and bad press. If they won't fix their bugs, then force them to buy using one or more of the previous three options.Thanks for the info. I just started with a therapist and I am trying to find a good relaxation/mediation CD. Do you know of any good CD's for meditaiton/relaxation?
Many years ago I had this cassette tape that had you first focus on breathing and then after that you would go through imagery of your body and repeat things like "my arms are heavy and warm", etc. I wish I still had that. It use to get me so farking relaxed.