On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 18:57 -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote:
  [ Excerpted from
http://www.jsresources.org/faq_misc.html#no_daemons ]
     "In Florian's and my opinion, mixing daemons like artsd, esd,
 JACK, rplay, NAS, yiff, ... are hacks
       that work around a shortcoming of the device drivers. We feel
 that mixing should be done
       either by the soundcard hardware or in software by the device driver."
 They clearly don't understand the full implications of what JACK is :) 
I sent them a polite email.
--p