On 06/08/2011 03:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:58 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Devin Anderson <devin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> I suggest that if you're up for reading a long article, you read all of this: >>>> >>>> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all >>> >>> That was a fantastic article. Thank you for posting it. >> >> you're welcome. the day i read this i felt like i had died and gone to heaven. >> >> however, i should point out that i got the link to this from a web >> site that links to stuff of (almost) this quality every day: >> >> Arts & Letters Daily >> http://www.aldaily.com/ >> >> its an absolute treasure-trove of links to well written, deep, >> intellectual articles and reviews. just enough flow keep to up with, >> to keep coming back to, but not so much as to feel overwhelmed. >> >> and now we're way, way off topic :) > > Yes and much more important than milliseconds are the links, regarding > to the view of the USA about Europe, e.g. > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304906004576369572348921238.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read German Telecom is ripping off people. News at 11. > Fortunately I get the whole wages tax back when doing the annual > adjustment of income tax. 'They', the industrialist and their lackeys, > the politicians, cheat everybody here in Europe. Unfortunately and now > it becomes on-topic again, the RME HDSPe AIO ordered by the same German > dealer, is less expensive when ordering from England, instead of > ordering from Germany. Ok, just half-on-topic. So? Open an import/export shop if you feel up to it. Well, let me try to take this discussion back to linux-audio and F/LOSS. While reading about the author of the Book "Physical Audio Signal Processing" ( http://www.dsprelated.com/dspbooks/pasp/ ) I stumbled over this earlier today: <quote> "When I need to solve a new problem, I search the Web, download new tools, study the documentation as needed, and keep things moving in one sitting (without entering my credit-card number all the time). Such accelerated, cross-disciplinary problem-solving increases overall productivity, and in my opinion this should be a top priority until everyone in the world has a decent standard of living and population growth is slower than economic growth. In other words, Job 1 for all of us should be "creating wealth" in our own way, and free open-source software contributes significantly to this goal for software engineers. </quote> ( http://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/65.php ) Don't rant, do something :) robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
