O/T (Re: best audio/sound converter )

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:01:48 +0200
"Gérard BIGOT" <gerard.bigot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Christopher Columbus thought he reached india,
> when in fact he discovered america.

Actually he didn't discover America as such - he discovered the "West
Indies" ( more confusion of terms there )

IIRC America was named after one Amerigo Vespucci - by that time most
people had forgotten all about Columbus, and history had to dig him up
again :-)

Of course, actually the Vikings reached North America a long time before
Columbus, and the true "discoverers" of North America were (probably)
Native Americans who migrated across the Bering Strait from what is now
Siberia possibly during a period of low ocean levels..... ( Pleistocene Ice
Age) , although some argue that there was an existing American population
which was gradually pushed southwards as far as Tierra del Fuego by the
"invaders" ....

This of course is *highly* relevant to the question of sound conversion in
Ubuntu, since Al Gore is American,and we all know he invented the
Internet, (you know, the system of tubes and all that), which is the only
reason sound encoding or any other Ubuntu software can be so successful.
*grin*

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