It matters to me, and I couldn't care less about the masses or ease of use.
Whatever the masses do, OGG is one of the most important projects out there to protect my freedom of using a hight quality audio format, if you don't like it, unlike with some other "DRM enabled" formats, you wont be obligated to use it any time soon.
unless the 'masses' begin to prefer ogg and its assorted codecs and whatnots, we will probably never see many portable players for ogg. hardware manufacturers do not give away hardware; they sell it. if the 'masses' prefer a certain format, the hardware will follow. do i care if my neighbor uses windows or wma? no, i do not. would i rather he run linux and a vorbis player? yes, i would. i want hardware that will play the formats i prefer based on quality and *freedom*. the masses may never be concerned with the freedom ogg offers, but i am. i want the masses to prefer ogg so i can buy hardware that will play ogg.
i work in a very microsoft-oriented company, with windows and office everywhere. however, i use staroffice/openoffice for word processing and creating/editing spreadsheets. in my experience, staroffice's filters for ms word and ms excel are excellent. i have yet to be given a complex spreadsheet that i could not open with staroffice, change, and save as an excel file.
A router IS a computer, you fuckwit. Usually a specialized computer with embedded software allowing it route quickly and easily. But routers are also sometimes servers or desktops; the machine I am typing this on is a router/desktop/firewall. br.
tsk tsk. the original poster was simply using common, ordinary terms instead of the more specific terms that you apparently require. perhaps he should have stated, "the volume of noise a specialized computer [read 'router'] could generate absolutely dwarfs what a general-purpose computer [read 'computer'] could do."
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It matters to me, and I couldn't care less about the masses or ease of use.
Whatever the masses do, OGG is one of the most important projects out there to
protect my freedom of using a hight quality audio format, if you don't like it,
unlike with some other "DRM enabled" formats, you wont be obligated to use it
any time soon.
unless the 'masses' begin to prefer ogg and its assorted codecs and whatnots, we will probably never see many portable players for ogg. hardware manufacturers do not give away hardware; they sell it. if the 'masses' prefer a certain format, the hardware will follow. do i care if my neighbor uses windows or wma? no, i do not. would i rather he run linux and a vorbis player? yes, i would. i want hardware that will play the formats i prefer based on quality and *freedom*. the masses may never be concerned with the freedom ogg offers, but i am. i want the masses to prefer ogg so i can buy hardware that will play ogg.
who thinks the new company should be called napsty ?
theolojin
i work in a very microsoft-oriented company, with windows and office everywhere. however, i use staroffice/openoffice for word processing and creating/editing spreadsheets. in my experience, staroffice's filters for ms word and ms excel are excellent. i have yet to be given a complex spreadsheet that i could not open with staroffice, change, and save as an excel file.
A router IS a computer, you fuckwit. Usually a specialized computer with embedded software allowing it route quickly and easily. But routers are also sometimes servers or desktops; the machine I am typing this on is a router/desktop/firewall.
br.
tsk tsk. the original poster was simply using common, ordinary terms instead of the more specific terms that you apparently require. perhaps he should have stated, "the volume of noise a specialized computer [read 'router'] could generate absolutely dwarfs what a general-purpose computer [read 'computer'] could do."
theo
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