Yeah, and the latest build finally adds support for ID3 ratings tags, so you can truly go cross-player with your ratings.

Now I just need to re-rate 16,000 songs for the eleventh time...

So, it won't work on remote X, or VNC, or xpra, etc.

I just stared it under VNC (Fedora 19/KDE). Not sure about the others.

Most importantly, Congress can't simply repeal a provision of a treaty, which is why it's so much better for industry to get their welfare written into a treaty rather than a statute. The next election could threaten their favorite statute (in theory anyhow).

You seem to be asking for a player which will organize files. You don't have to choose one thing which does both.

In my experience, iTunes does just fine for organizing files into a directory structure. Also free (as in beer, not libre), Mediamonkey is pretty flexible.

For playback, have you looked at Subsonic? It's free (as in libre, not beer). Multi-platform client support, and a server architecture which lets you access your library from anywhere without having to carry it around. You just point it at the directory structure that your organizer creates. It will also do streaming transcoding.

The one thing that nothing seems to handle well are compilations - there's the dichotomy between "albums" as they are released vs. organizing based on artist, etc.

Anytime someone brought in a kid suffering from a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination, I would first ask whether the parent was brain dead.

-jcr

I work in the department of medicine. I used to work in biochem as a research assistant. We do trials worldwide in many things.

Your mileage may depend on where you are and when things become available.

You should consult your MD about vaccine schedules and availability.

Our shots are the ones you get at the med center, since we're part of that. Other areas have lower risk factors, due to lower risk factors. Some of us work in labs, some in the hospital, some in research trials in Africa. Herd immunity means you don't skip people, since that provides a pathway.

Define "approved". You're not in the category that others are in. When BC rolled out shots recently anyone associated with major hospitals was given immunizations. Same here.

Again - there are nasal spray versions of all of these. They may not be the first available or you may be in a low risk group so they are not used in your group. Vectors and pathways are critical in making such decisions. People who travel and are exposed to people who travel, who work on or with people who do medical or biochemical (all part of the same large building structure, we all go to each others seminars) research, or are associated with endemic risk factors are always in the prime group.

Such things may or may not be commercially available to you at the location you are at or in the category you are in. Some may be first wave shots or mists used to get sufficient large scale trials operational. It's not my job to do the protocols for that.

Right, like drug resistant TB due to people not finishing their courses of medications, or flu which actually kills a lot of people.

Soap and hot water and hand washing and getting your shots would stop almost all of that.

Incorrect.

Worked on TB vaccines, Malaria vaccines, and many others.

You just want an excuse not to do what you should do.

I get that.

But spreading fear of vaccines when they have alternate preparation methods - e.g. nasal spray - that would do away with the thing you claim to fear is not helping anyone. At all. In fact, it's putting people at risk. People with compromised immunities from various diseases and infections. Babies. Old people.

That's the take home message.

Now, post some other thing where you attempt to attack me personally, if you so desire, but it won't change that.

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone now-a-days is trying very hard to come up with new methodologies and paradigms and web 6.5isms, so they can get their 5 minutes in the lime light?

Hey! You're violating my business process patent! ;-)

3conÂverse
noun \ËkÃn-ËOEvÉ(TM)rs\
Definition of CONVERSE
: something reversed in order, relation, or action: as
a : a theorem formed by interchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of a given theorem
b : a proposition obtained by interchange of the subject and predicate of a given proposition
Origin of CONVERSE
Latin conversus, past participle of convertere
First Known Use: 1570

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/converse

Really good mikes cost a lot of money.

Those mikes are owned by the recording studio. That two grand is half recording, half pressing and packaging. There are half a dozen here in Springfield, friends of mine have used them.

Deutsche Gramophone worked with Yamaha to make a recording system capable of getting a 144db dynamic range.

CDs are limited to a 90 db, making that kind of pointless. LPs are limited to 60 db but oddly I have several LPs with more dynamics than their CD counterpart. But the point is, we're not talking about classical music with a 72 piece orchestra, we're talking about what's on the radio worldwide.

But of course, if one listens only on crap earbuds or a crap car stereo, then who cares, right?

You do realize that we're talking about streamed MP3s, don't you?

I still think streaming is for suckers. You pay for something that can be arbitrarily taken away by the "content owner" at their whim.

Paid streaming? I agree with that. But then, I don't have cable, either, the antenna works fine. If I'm buying music I want it on media; if you don't have the media you don't own anything.

I could eventually find out. But I won't. You just want an excuse not to do what you know you should do.

Goodbye.

I know what pertussis is - we're in a zone where it's a major problem at the epidemic level.

You fail to realize I work in medical research at one of the top medical research universities in the world - as in #4 for global health programs.

We sometimes get things due to our people in my department traveling to Africa and other places, or at the trial stages. Typically we get flu vaccines a few weeks before most hospitals do, for the same reason. Probably half the researchers here are from other countries, although some become American citizens.

It's like today's incorrect media interpretation that "Alzheimer's" is decreasing worldwide. It isn't. The rate of dementia is decreasing in total quantity due to better programs, but dementia is frequently caused by things other than AD.

I don't have time to argue with you over what is happening in some other place. You probably think the HIV vaccine trials failed in Boston, for example, not realizing we have other HIV vaccine trials ongoing including one that's a joint program with the FCHRC a few blocks away.

I never said YOU could get the shot. I said I got the shot. For all I know it may be years before they roll it out to the general public. It was new, so that's quite possible.

I'm American but the British are right (about this). Punctuation punctuates, where you put it shows what you're punctuating. If it's a quotation within a sentence, and the punctuation is the sentences' punctuation, the punctuation goes outside. He didn't understand the word "outside". If the phrase within the sentence is what's punctuated, the punctuation goes inside the quote. "Peter is a jerk," he said. "And what a jerk!"

First, it hasn't yet been "a hundred years or more." As Frederick Lewis Allen says in Only Yesterday (written in 1932)

One thing the Smiths certainly will not do this evening [in 1919]. They will not listen to the radio.

For there is no such thing as radio broadcasting. Here and there a mechanically inclined boy has a wireless set, with which, if he knows the Morse code, he may listen to messages from ships at sea and from land stations equipped with sending apparatus. The radiophone has been so far developed that men flying in an airplane over Manhattan have talked with other men in an office-building below. But the broadcasting of speeches and music-well, it was tried years ago by DeForest, and "nothing came of it." Not until the spring of 1920 will Frank Conrad of the Westinghouse Company of East Pittsburgh, who has been sending out phonograph music and baseball scores from the barn which he has rigged up as a spare-time research station, find that so many amateur wireless operators are listening to them that a Pittsburgh newspaper has had the bright idea of advertising radio equipment "which may be used by those who listen to Dr. Conrad's programs." And not until this advertisement appears will the Westinghouse officials decide to open the first broadcasting station in history in order to stimulate the sale of their supplies.

Secondly, radio is forced to pay a whole lot less than internet, and until fairly recently didn't pay at all. In fact, in the 1950s there was a scandal called "payola" where labels would bribe disk jockeys to play their music. Rather than being paid to be heard, they were paying to be heard.

The only way you can monetize internet radio is to have low enough streaming fees, or high enough advertising costs. You can't stay in business unless you can generate more than your expenditures. The law was crafted to kill internet radio -- but the internet is international. You can always stream from another country.