This article is from April 7, 2009 and is old news. It's already been covered on Slashdot and other tech news sites a long time ago.

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Having more 'training' documentation, perhaps some YouTube videos for this would help.

What sorts of training do you envision are needed? Office suites seem to be pretty simple and straightforward affairs.

If it gets approved, viola!

Only applicable to patents related to classical music.

Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY

Where is the place that is now what slashdot was?

That would be LWN.

Except that when you use Microsoft products you have to upgrade your hardware twice as often.

No you don't. Unlike Linux distros and Apple, Microsoft supports their operating systems for a long, long time. I bought a new laptop with XP earlier in the decade and used it for eight years until the hardware died. People using Windows 7 now will be able to keep using it on the same hardware five or ten years from now provided they take care of the hardware.

And if you use Mac you also pay twice as much for the same hardware.

This argument has also been disproved many times before. The price of a Mac compared to a comparable PC is not that much more. It's certainly not twice the price.

You have, of course, ignored the fact that I was responding to the assertion that Dido is not famous, not that everyone is heard of her.

You are joking, right? You quote the guy saying "a singer you've never heard of" before you respond. Anyone can look at your post and see that what you claim is not true. It's clear as day that you are responding to the fact that he (jokingly) asserted that not everyone may have heard of her. No one asserted anything about fame. Even then, fame is relative. How many people know who Richard Stallman is?

I've heard of Dido only once about 10 years ago because a coworker liked her music. I haven't listened to any of her songs that I'm aware of.

But just to play devil's advocate and provide some perspective for you...

21 million copies sold of her debut album

There are 6.8 billion people in the world and she sold only 21 million albums. Only 0.3 percent of the population has bought her stuff. She doesn't seem to be that popular.

MTV Music awards

MTV caters to a very narrow subset of musical genres and artists. There's far more in the musical landscape than what they represent.

BRIT awards

I have no idea what that is.

Grammy nominated

That doesn't mean much. The Grammys are the opposite of the MTV music awards as there are Grammys for all types of music, even polka. And nominated doesn't mean they won. Many artists have been nominated.

#98 best selling of the 21st century

#98 world wide counting all countries music sales across all genres?

duet with Eminem

Isn't Eminem a rapper/hip-hop artist? There are a lot of people who don't listen to that. For example, I listen to jazz and classical. I'd be hard pressed to name more than a couple of artists outside of those two genres. For example, I couldn't name any other rappers except for Ice-T (because he's in Law and Order) and Timbaland (because he was on slashdot having been caught as a plagiarist).

music featured in a big movie

I've never seen a movie where they display the name of the song and artist currently playing. If you didn't know of the song beforehand, you won't magically know the artist just because it was playing in a movie.

song the opening theme of a US TV show

There are thousands of US TV shows. Not everyone watches the same ones.

haircut named after her

Is that a measure of success? I can't think of any haircuts with names other than a crew cut.

sold-out world tours

This is only of note to people who have heard of her and want to buy her product. The same can be said of many artists that most of us have never heard of. Lana Lane has had several sold-out world tours. I doubt most people have heard of her.

The entire point of this project is to provide this service to people who actually enjoy it, so your comment is redundant.

Or to provide royalty free music to people who wish to use it in a production. Therefore, it's not redundant.

I don't think you've heard what a skilled orchestrator can do with a synthesizer or sampler such as Hollywood Strings or Vienna Symphonic Library.

I recommend you listen to some of the demo songs from each one. I recommend Allegro Agitato.

DAAS!

Dictionary As A Service!

It already exists.

Where I live, you can get a ticket for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. Cars and bikes must use the roads and bicyclists must follow the same rules as cars (for example you can't run red lights and stop signs).

Wave failed for me because I couldn't get an invite and then promptly forgot about it. There's nothing like hyping something and then making sure it's not available to kill off a product.