As is clear from the subject, this is not a comment on the topic but the /. execution. Please, folks, you really should have the basic facilities and sense to properly normalize the volume on a video like this. I, and I assume others, watch in a carefully volume limited situation, and I had to turn this off early as I couldn't reach out quickly enough to adjust for parts I couldn't hear versus those that were very loud. Yeah, I could I suppose normalize on the client end with a bit of work, but... ...won't someone think of the users

The physiological causes of tinnitus are not the only basis for the condition. It can also be purely neurological. For example, cessation of Benzodiazapenes (typically Xanax or Klonopin - generically Alprazolam) after long-term use is known to often cause tinnitus for ~two years or perhaps more. I have relatively severe tinnitus of this causation. I agree with others' experiential anecdotes - it really can be quite debilitating in a very silent situation.

For quite some years now, Ardour has been the apparent frontrunner in the area you are asking about.

Excellent and thoughtful reply - thank you. I do see your point, especially as you make the specific point about Céline. Taking the difficult jump to really get in to his often first-person, disjointed and abstract narratives, really does allow the reader to understand a character I would find loathsome in the real world.

The way this is set up, it relies at its foundation on a purely subjective concept - what is "quality" literature? I consider myself well read, and empathetic. But my favorite literature, which meets my personal criteria for quality, was written by authors like William S. Burroughs, Mickey Spillane and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Not exactly a collection of empaths or good citizens by standard definitions.

I knew when I clicked on the link from the home page of /. that this could not possibly be good. I expected to use my plentiful mod points to try to diminish the impact of illiterate trolls who take any opportunity to draw attention to themselves at the expense of their scorn of valid opinions.

I had no idea it would be this bad.

I am not an education elitist, at all. I didn't graduate high school. But it is so mind-numbing reading the poorly formed language and logic in nearly every positively-modded post here that I am just simply shocked.

I can't pretend to not have bias in this situation. I am an American living in Germany, and it is really interesting to watch all of this from outside, and see how Europeans view it. Also, I am so far left liberal that I am considered radical in the USA, although simply center-liberal here. My younger sister asked for a basic explanation of what is going on (she is extremely intelligent, but not well-informed - no TV, only mobile phone internet) and I wrote this to her:

"The Democrats and Republicans can't agree on a budget (and the Republicans don't appear to care about the budget, they're keeping it hostage over unrelated issues). The House is controlled by Republicans, and the Senate is controlled by Democrats. It takes both parts of the congress to pass a budget. The deadline for passing a budget passed, so although there is "money in the bank", almost a million people have to go home without pay until these assholes agree on how to spend it."

So, yes, I show my bias.

My point here, though, is simply to ponder: Why does any political discussion, particularly involving the USA, immediately devolve into nearly nonsensical, illiterate commentary that is almost impossible to understand, much less extract value from? 15 mod points is not nearly enough to down-mod all the garbage here, and I see very little to mod up, which is what I usually try to focus on as per Taco's original guidelines.

Actually, when I saw this, I thought:

"O" - Single player
"[O ]" - Multiplayer with remote, internet, co-players.
"[O + O]" - In-person multiplayer, console style.

OpenVPN.

Well, I didn't actually say anything negative about either Pandora or Last. I in fact said Last works better for me. I simply said that I don't consider automatons to be "radio". I agree with you here - I have found many artists that I now love, have paid money for their records and to see them that I would never have heard at all if it weren't for Last, and to a lesser degree, Pandora.

I am simply making a distinction between automated services and actual DJ based stations. There are MANY shows on both stations I have personally been involved with that I don't listen to more than once in a blue moon, because I know the DJ does not share taste with me.

I'm a new DJ at Radio 23 - I have nothing to do with their web presence. I built or modified a lot of the web presence at House of Sound. I also see confusion in what I think is a pretty, but dysfunctional, web site they've got going. I like their human-side approach, though, outside of the website - online training for free for would-be DJs anywhere on the planet and then a platform for broadcasting.

And of course, feel free to listen to other stations instead! That is practically the whole point. Democratization of shit that you put in your ears.

I find the summary nearly trollish. There is no standard bearer in internet radio, and if there were, I don't think Pandora would be it. Yes, lots of people use Pandora. Lots also use Last.fm, and/or listen to the tens of thousands of independent internet radio stations out there - many of which are actually, I believe, much more in the spirit of "radio" than automated algorithmic music-recommendation services like Pandora and Last.

I say these indie stations (House of Sound is one that I co-founded, and I currently DJ at Radio 23 - there are thousands of others) are more in the spirit of radio, because they actually have live DJs, "spinning" (sometimes literally) records, mp3s, YouTubes, even cassettes, on a constant basis. These "stations" are interactive to a degree that music recommendation services are not - they are inflected by the taste of the DJ, many have live-chat or call-in features, and they are in real time.

My conclusion is that neither Pandora nor Last.fm are actually "radio" at all. Pandora recommends music to a listener based on pseudo-scientific analysis of what a person listens to (key, tempo, tone, volume, etc.) and Last uses the Amazon social model (x people who listened to y track also listened to z). I find, personally, Last's social model to be more effective for me than Pandora's algorithmic approach. Neither are radio. Radio, to me, whether based on radio waves or not, is a real person exposing their tastes, quirks, personality and even mistakes.

There is an awesome, long running "Makerspace" in Portland, Oregon, that was formerly a public vocational school. http://watershedpdx.com/ - but it takes individual and collective will and effort for such a thing to happen. They shouldn't just be handed out by the state.

Baloney. Long distance relationships are, for certain, difficult as hell. But they can work, and things as asked by TimBur1e6 are legit ways to feel together. My fiance and I watched movies together (both of us having downloaded the same file, starting it at the same time) while on Skype, and it really did engender a feeling of closeness.

"you're splitting hairs if you only accept statements that are universal." -- THIS.

It's certainly not universal, but for many it is true. I am a far-too-skinny (unhealthily so) person engaged to a person who is quite overweight. Her weight doesn't bother me a bit, nor mine her, but we both have serious difficulties with our own body image. Thing is - we both have what might be called eating disorders - both related to stress or anxiety. If I feel anxiety, I simply CAN'T eat. Not hungry, can't finish even small meals. If she feels anxiety, she is absolutely compelled to eat constantly. We know this is not healthy, and are trying to find ways to healthily reduce our anxiety, such that both of us might eat "normally" (which is another total variant from individual to individual).

I see two common trends to the comments here:

1) Only negative comments, not a single positive comment about this distro.
2) Not a single person appears to have actually used it.

I'd be very interested in an old-school, actually informed comment from someone who has actually installed and used it.

-astro