The fact the there are multiple tweening libraries available isn't bloat, but using all of them is. Guess who's fault that is? If developers would just stop including the whole com.adobe package, this wouldn't be a problem. You really don't need everything in mx just to get the mx.data.crypto objects and functions.

Well, that's probably an issue that lawyers would like to try. Just imagine the SCO case all over again! The more simple issue is that you can't sue when someone else uses your GPL virus to modify code on their computer, and they don't distribute it. The closed source guys might sue the user, since modifying might be against the license. But remember, the GPL puts little restrictions on using the code, but lots of restrictions on re-releasing it.

What kinda high tech idiot watches LDs for analog video? You aren't going to get the real analog feel unless you are watching on CED. Laser discs just lack the tonal color, man. Besides, Laser Discs used PCM "digital" audio! That's not real analog, now is it!

I'm not a computer engineer, or EE, or signals person, but even I can tell you why that would fail. Sounds like the problem is not that people program general purpose chips, but that someone hired general purpose programmers to write DSP code. DSP is a beast, it's its own subset of programming that requires knowledge of physics (waves and nyquist) that some programmers don't know. Or maybe the problem really was that your programmers don't know what a bloody interrupt is, and shouldn't even be writing embedded programs.

I'm just a software geek who, after a MIPS course, decided that doing neat artsy tricks with smaller and smaller processors was fun. The Arduino works fine for that, even doing minor audio processing. Why? Because $30 for a board and $1 for extra Atmel chips was a cheaper option than a ton of breadboards, some dedicated usb to serial programmers, and a PIC or ARM dev board. Why? Because at the time the Arduino came out, the programmer for a PIC cost $30 or more unless you already had another programmer and could build your own. There was no cheap way into the field unless you knew someone already in the field. Forget digging through a digikey catalog, no one completely new to embedded programming is going to be able to make sense out of the hundred of different JTAG programming cables, and the brand name ones are still insanely expensive compared to a $30 Arduino or close and a usb cable. Only jobs I've gotten to use these skills on are art projects, where something small needs to be hidden out of sight while still being able to control some larger object. Arduino + Java is easier for the artists to read and understand what's going on, and since the board and a wall wart can be hidden in places that a even a mini ITX motherboard couldn't, and is quieter, it makes it an easy sell. Yeah, you do crazy things that the chip wasn't designed for, so what? Sure, the Java programming language sucks, but if you need to you can get around that if you know C. And you can learn AVR C by reading the datasheets and knowing enough C++; I did anyways.

The photographer retains copyright of the photograph, but also has to abide by the subjects rights to privacy, right of promotion, and other state specific rights. If the photograph is of something newsworthy, the photographers copyright and the newsworthyness trumps right of privacy. So the real question is, why does a photographer get copyright and the ability to use an image of a historical event, but an audio recorder doesn't?

Maybe the King family are the only ones with a recording. That's the only reason I can come up with.

The guy who runs the local photography store is there; I heard he's been going every year for a while. He might personally buy a new top-shelf Nikon or Canon, but it's nothing that gets carried at the store as far as I know. Helps me, though, since I can ask him what's there and get a better opinion on what fancy new tech is coming out.

Not the OP, so I can't say. But in the American school I went to, the consensus from the other students was that 'geeks and dweebs are worthless'. If you weren't a jock, cheerleader, or in the theater or choir, you weren't. The teachers were less cruel than the students and the general faculty, but the parents of the other students often were as bad as the students. The guidance department, staff that helped students find colleges and tried to work on esteem issues, were overworked. I think I talked to them once in 4 years, told them 'yeah, I know what colleges I want to apply to' and got a form from them.

And no, highschool and colleges aren't supposed to give scholastic credits for sports participation, other than the required generic 'gym class' if they even had that, or elective physical classes in college. The major team sports that compete in the NCAA are not supposed to get credit for courses, or be allowed to avoid required papers or tests. But if you find me a university where that is completely true, you've found nirvana; some professors will give the team a break, and reschedule something based on the players in the class. Or throw the grading curve really high to avoid failing the star player. But you are right about the cliche, that's why it exists. I couldn't explain how sports became the primary focus of tax-payer-funded schools. Schools funded by only those attending (and alumni and such) tend to be much less focused on sports, in my experience. Rather frightening.

cause saying that 'some people need to not feel ostracized because of their intellect' is completely the same as saying 'and everyone else is worthless'. I see it now, you opened my eyes to how the OP is subversively ruining this country.

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why do you even let what other people do in their own free time bother you?

Wouldn't normally be even a few percent, but with gift exchanges I have gotten more books in the past month than I can read in a month. Makes it hard to not have at least one around that hasn't been read yet.