and awesomey.

http://www.lwks.com/

During World War 2 Germany was counterfeiting British currency (pounds, but not sure what the paper is called (notes?)) to destabilize what little power the British economy had left. IIRC they were still in circulation through the 50s. Germany also started printing US dollars towards the end of the war but I think by that point it was too late for anything to really come of it.

(i vaguely remember something about this in highschool world history class, but I could very well be pulling this out of my ass faik)

does this make South Carolina the bottom 2%?

VLC doesn't compress output when you increase gain and setting the volume in VLC above 100% is increasing gain. Increasing gain introduces clipping. Clipping starts hitting an amplifiers peak wattage (vs rated) and peak wattage will damage speakers. Paraphrasing the developer, it's embiggening the waveform which can easily destroy hardware.

Turn up some music in VLC above 100% and you'll start getting crackling and awful digital distortion. That clipping pushed out through any speakers (let alone tiny laptop speakers) will start damaging sooner or later.

Garageband is (at least up to 2010ish - not sure if recent? versions have robbed anything) a surprisingly powerful music program. Logic (& other daws) add a lot of editing specific features that really enable you to get extremely anal with your work, but all of the underlying 'record/punch/trim/level/etcetc' concepts are there and do what you expect them to do. Garageband does notation along with midi / wave substitution and add in the JamPacks (all included free with MainStage on app store iirc) to replace stock GM sounds and everything the topic poster wants is there.

A better analogy would be telling a Photoshop user to try GetPaint.net / Paint.NET. Not the same as Photoshop, but all of the essentials and editing concepts are nearly identical. You can easily accomplish whatever it is your trying to do.

$.02 As much as I love and try to solely OSS, there are no options for this specific case. Ardour and Rosegarden are nice enough, but in much the same way Gimp isn't Photoshop, neither are those suitable alternatives. (primarily, asio-ish low latency audio/hardware isn't reliable ime, and there are no real options for upgraded GM soundbanks short of creating them yourself (which will end up consuming easily 88x more time and energy than the music being written in the first place))

I'd consider the argument that 'may teach' mumbo-jumbo is exactly the same as 'do teach' mumbo-jumbo. The threshold of accepting mumbo-jumbo has already been crossed. The implementation is secondary at that point.

Earlier this week I purchased a california king bedroom set (mattress/frame/bedinabagset/headboard/nighttables), new dressers, a 39" lcd tv, some moderately nice jewelry including a very nice watch (kid dropped mine) and an ipad mini for my wife's upcoming birthday, solely using BTC (~1.7btc) through Overstock.com.

[ upgrading the bedroom ;) ]

Outside of actual cash, every valuable asset you own also needs to be converted to cash before you can use it. You can't buy groceries with a paid off car. You can't pay for parking with equity in your house. You can't pay for a car with jewelry. You can't go see a movie in a theater with organic vegetables you grew yourself.

All of those things have $cashvalue$, but you have to convert to cash first. It's no different than BTC.

Nobody (for most quantities of everybody) upgrades computers. Some of us may replace a component occasionally, but the bulk of us [people in general] replace everything all at once. I don't remember ever having an employer that upgraded systems piecemeal, just the entire systems. In my college years (late 90s, height of the .com boom and the era of the nerdnik computer show) everyone bought prebuilt local mom and pop shop systems. A few of us may have sprung for fancy Plextor burners, but again, we were rare.

Also, I lean towards the mindset that every time you replace a motherboard you're starting a fresh system even if you're reusing other older components. I had an Antec 900 case that housed an Intel 945 something, a C2D, a C2Q, an FX and at least as many GPU revisions (nv8600, nv9800, ati4890, ati6950, nv760),

Was ATX even a thing 13 years ago?

[just nitpickery, i wanted to cancel out your anecdote with mine]

We still ban books? JFC, that's embarrassing. Aliens are laughing at us.

This is the Christmas equivalent of April 1 Slashdot. Was wondering if the site would make an appearance again this year.

(with capacative screen)

Microcenter already sells a $39 Azpen A700 with the exact same specs. What am I missing?

[sentence 1: didn't mean to sound like a Nazi atrocity denier, I meant it in the vein of bad people who spoil things for the rest of us.. etc]

about Nazi-ism (not just facism, but the particular Nazi flavor) that it draws so many people in? All we are ever taught about it is all the horrible, reprehensible stuff they did (it could be just the people perverting things as always ie the way things are headed in the US) in WW2, but was/is there anything worthwhile or morally uplifting about being Nazi that we've never been aware of?

Being a Nazi fanboi for shock value or for the perception of freedom to hate I can get.. some people are just wired that way. But what about all the 'legitimate' people who thought it was a good idea?

There are lots of systems of government that have good (moral, social, ethical, etc) ideas. Most of the time the people in charge are the ones who fuck things up.

CM almost always targets the Nexus device first (since the Nexus line started) which then trickles to everything else. This is not the case this go round*, so the comment was probably a heads up to N5 owners wanting CM.

(*probably because current CM is still JB, Nexus 5 is KK, so releasing for the 5 would require back porting JB, which is a lot of wasted effort)