I was with you on the outboard DAC.

Getting rid of the analog port obsoletes all analog headphones released, ever. Drag.

But - allowing an outboard wired DAC is a Good Thing.

Right now, several popular phone models have DAC and analog output stages that are excellent but the presentation is completely marred by replay gain and digital volume control, among other processing.

If Apple puts a big fat "ZERO SUM" option somewhere in iOS that forces software out to be forwarded to the jack unimpeded, I would be completely on board. Death to the analog port.

Two words. Fox News.

Also much easier to legislate when the problem wouldn't be at current levels if not for the DTV transition. Loud commercials are so incredibly obnoxious now due to digital audio compression, not because marketers just figured out loud gets attention.

From earlier in the conversation: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-April/007700.html

"(The following message is wholly my own, and doesn't represent anything from Oracle. While I'm an Oracle employee, I have no special privileged information or insight beyond what is already common knowledge.)"

This could be a random guy stirring the pot. What do we have to actually think management might ditch opensolaris?

Glenn? Is that you?

Modded troll! In defense of myself..

These guys flew for 78 minutes without speaking to ground controllers. The lives of the pilots themselves could have been in jeopardy as well as the lives of the passengers. I giggled when the thought first crossed my mind, but considering the pilots' shifting explanations, it is the reasoning to beat. What kind of passion would have caused that level of incompetence at your job? Detailing the aspects of how scheduling software works? I doubt it. Having sex? Absolutely.

Or having another kind of raid. These guys were having sex with each other.

If by fine distinction you mean completely in angst of all possible views of statistics, then yes we're less likely to use nuclear bombs against others.

Microsoft is a convicted monopoly. Installing a browser plugin for the #2 browser used.. here's to the appropriate government agencies cluing in.

a great new ISP feature. "You can use any filesharing or P2P protocols you want, no packet shaping." Maybe they even impose sensible caps. Hell, I'd sign on.