Which further proves that the grammy awards are useless and meaningless.

Of course, any awards group that would award "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" to the Foo Fighters over friggin Dream Theater is already a laughable joke..

This was a Grammy Trustees Award, not a Grammy Award. The Trustees Award goes out to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording.

What career in music?
What contributions to the field of recording did he make?

He made a huge contribution to commercial distribution of digital files.. That's it.. Not Grammy worthy.

Did I miss the Steve Jobs Christmas album or something?

He didn't have anything to do with making music. He helped create the first wildly successful internet based digital media sales/distribution system.. But replace the music files with porn movies and the premise is the same.. He was selling access to files in a repository.. It had nothing to do with making music.

This is just another group trying to rape his image for publicity.

It doesn't compare to FlightGear. FG is built with a focus on simulating the physics of flight.. It's seen some really nice improvements in the eye candy department as of late as well.

Plus, with FlightGear, it's free, as in freedom, and as in beer, as in "here's the source code and all the artwork!"..

There isn't a market place to buy new locations because the ENTIRE PLANET is available for free in FG. Not to mention hundreds of planes, from gliders to cargo/passenger jets, WWI bi-planes to WWII fighters and bombers, to F-15's, etc.

Local weather phenomenon, real-time real-world weather conditions from live METAR data on the internet, multiplayer support allowing you to fly with people all over the world, all free.

All for free... Any other flightsim is pretty much DOA as far as I'm concerned.

Sandisk pretty much has my money on music players these days..

Between the Sansa Clip+ and now the Clip Zip, they have the perfect mix of simplicity, compatibility, storage expansion options, and sound quality that sets the standard for all other players.

Dirt cheap, microsdhc slot, arguably the best sound quality in the market, and supports MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and suck WMA..

And rockboxable if you want to..

I've pretty much abandoned everything else in favor of these guys..

http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clip-zip-mp3-player

Go find a cemetery that is 100+ years old and look at the number of graves of infants and children under 15, then compare that to a modern cemetery.. Conditions, diseases, and injuries that would have meant death 150 years ago are treatable today. This yields an ever higher percentage of the population which are "defective" and would never have survived outside the influence of technology (I admit I probably fall into this group). This group now, more and more, makes it to puberty and then passes those defects on.

But, back on topic, these people are just bat-shit crazy hypochondriacs.

I find it comical that this post was made by someone with the following as their signature, "If humanity is to survive, we must pledge to eliminate all carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by 2030"

Panic much? I hope that sig is a joke..

My trees would all cry if they knew of your insidious plot to suffocate them.

Music purchased from their music store doesn't apply against your storage limit. They will store any amount of purchased music for no extra charge.

Unless they changed their rules since the last time I bought music there..

Now, I no longer buy music from Ubuntu One Music Store due to the multitude of problems I've had with the service.. I've made 4 purchases, 2 had billing issues along the lines of double billing me, or billing me and never transferring the music to my storage space.. And a 3rd transferred an entire album of corrupted files. Even after deleting and retransferring them from 7digital they were corrupted in exactly the same way.. After the 3rd strike, I washed my hands.

Now, their customer service always made it right for me, but still, a 75% failure rate is pretty abysmal.

I'm as atheist as you can get and I'm very much monogamous.

It's not some superstition that drives me to be only with my wife. To me it's a matter of commitment. When I accepted my wife, and she accepted me, I committed myself, mind and body, to her. I live my life, for her, and she lives hers for me. I don't believe I can truly feel or be committed to her if I lust after and engage other women.

She is the focus of all my energy. I work every day to improve her life as much as my own. When I contemplate an action, her benefit outweighs my own. I strive to make sure that in all things she can always know, without question, that she can trust me.

I will never bring home an STD or a child born of another woman. I can trust that when we do our thing, I won't be catching anything we didn't already have. What she does for me, and gives me, is for me alone. Just as what I do for her, and give to her, is for her alone.

I wouldn't change it for anything, and I truly feel sorry for people who don't share this level of commitment within their relationship.

I have 4 18GB 10krpm Seagate Cheetah U160 SCSI drives I bought in 2000, and which have been run 24x7 virtually ever since (other than brief down times for maintenance, etc)..

That's roughly 87000 hours of run time on all 4 of them, with no failures. I retired them this past March along with the RAID controller they've been married to all this time. I retired them not due to failure (though the bearings in one sounded like the end was drawing near), but because I needed more storage in the server.

I ripped my collection to FLAC, and when I listen on a computer that's what I play.

When loading it onto a DAP, I transcode everything to OGG Vorbis at -q2 (~96Kbps) using SoundConverter http://soundconverter.berlios.de/

Works great, and I routinely transcode 10's of GB to our DAP's and phones.

It's useless on my work laptop running FF4.

The sound is so choppy it's essentially noise, and it causes my FF4 memory footprint to triple. This is on a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 1GB of RAM..

Just another example of our wonderful ability to come up with ways to waste immense amounts of computational power. It's completely ludicrous to write a decoder in such a high level interpreted language.. I was playing mp3's on p200's, and whoever did this managed to waste so much time executing bloat that a 1.6GHz cpu can't plow through it in real time. This thing would probably take 2 weeks to play the 1st minute of a song on a p200.

Yep, we can write an mp3 decoder in javascript. But, should that really be our goal?

Then please stop breathing. The EPA has determined that the gases you exhaust with each breath are a pollutant that warrants federal regulation..You are screwing up my climate.

How far are you willing to sacrifice the freedom of you and your children on the alter of environmental worship?

Excellent point, and one I had not considered.

I have a Samsung P3 which plays ogg vorbis and flac natively.. I'm pretty sure Samsung has some seriously deep pockets..