Yes, I'm also a happy Clementine user. Hopefully some day the Amarok developers will realize they screwed up, and go back. I guess we can say the same of KDE and gnome devs...

And how long do you think it'll be before Iran makes a deal with China?

Considering a spherical horse in simple harmonic motion...

I was in the same situation. After trying out almost every desktop environment/WM, I settled on XCFE. It's missing a few features (e.g. some mouse options, which I get back by running gnome-settings-daemon in the background), but it works, it's lightweight, it's reasonably configurable, and it doesn't try to teach me what I should like. In any case, I really hated all the other options I tried (especially KDE4), so I'm sticking with XFCE for now.

I would recommend against using this for bargaining. Someone else suggested asking for a raise *without* mentioning the new job and I think it's OK. But actually saying "give he a raise or I'll go to company X" is likely to be seen as a form of blackmail, especially if your company's currently in a rush to finish a product. Also, I've heard of people using that strategy actually getting a raise... before being laid off as soon as the company was out of its rush.

Even better would be for the owners of less efficient vehicles to pay mode... which is exactly what a tax on gas achieves. It just makes sense. If what you want to reduce is total fuel consumption, then you tax fuel. In that case, tax may actually be the wrong term. The idea would be for the gas price to reflect the total cost of burning it, including the hidden environmental cost. Besides, I'm not actually sure that increasing the taxes on gas would really increase the final price by much (except maybe in the states). The current high prices are mostly dictated by the supply-demand balance. If you increase taxes, you decrease the demand, which brings the price down.

I'm not an astrophysicist, but I can't really see how cases 1 and 3 could result in a stable orbit. It seems to me like both of those would result in a collision with one of the stars sooner rather than later. The only stable orbit I can see is for the planet to be much further from the stars than the distance between the stars. I assume that would also mean too cold unless the stars are very bright, in which case most of the light would be in the ultraviolet range, which has its own set of problems.

No, it's "open codec designed for voip is slightly better for *music* than closed codec designed for music". In other words, this test showed Opus (slightly) beating HE-AAC at what HE-AAC does best. Testing on a voip scenario would have been pointless because of the huge delay HE-AAC has.

If we were talking about a 96 kb/s test, I'd agree with you. But at 64 kb/s, HE-AAC sounds much better than AAC-LC. The guys who organized this test picked the best AAC implementation they could find at the rate the test was run at.

What makes you say that? If you find a real issue, please raise it -- either on the mailing list: codec@ietf.org, or to me privately (jmvalin@jmvalin.ca). Skype is on the good side on this one. The technology they have contributed is very useful and they're open about resolving any licensing issue.