[LAU] [a link by Arts & Letters Daily let it become on-topic again] [OT] Kernel 2.6.39.1

[Robin Gareus]

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 at charityfinders.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> 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