First, the patents on mp3 are not going to effect users of mp3s in the slightest. I mean I dont think that there is currently some sort of halting of any sort of the independant production and distribution of.mp3 files due to patents. So if you have people using the.mp3 files regardless of patents, and distribution and creation lie mainly in the independant realm, well the patents are meaningless.
Anyways, second, sound quality, unless its far superior to.mp3, why would joe-user care? We are talking about a very obscure music format, and it's only one step away in obscurity from the mp3 format. That certainly doesn't help at all. Good intentions and perfect execution are great, but good luck getting your solution integrated if an easy to use, fully integrated, perhaps flawed system already is in place. And thats even saying that the Ogg format is better than mp3 which is questionable at best.
Last, Ogg Vorbis? Pardon? Just answer one question for me, WHY??? Whoever came up w/ the name for the format of this music should have not expended the energy required to do so... If I asked joe user what he thought of, or had he heard of the Ogg Vorbis format, the response I would expect would probably be "Ogg WhoWho?". Face facts, subjective reasoning aside, it's a horribly stupid name for a format that you intend anyone other than nerds to use.
Let me just say that this is said in regards to -business economy- I mean, we all know that when Microsoft says that open source is bad for the economy, they mean it's bad for Microsoft's economy or whomever, regardless of if this is true...
But in any industrialized nation, where there is a primary concern on business economy, you can be sure that what is good for business is -bad- for everyone else.
Even if you could prove that proprietary closed software was good for the economy by looking at charts and graphs which show how well business was doing, you'd still be missing the macro view where everyone below the top tier was suffering as a consequence.
We arent talking about mom-and pop companies, because nobody gives a damn about that... but IBM, Microsoft, Merck Pharma. etc etc, are given consessions that not only deprive consumers of their rights (UCITA, DMCA..) etc, but actually create poverty at the lowest level.
The goal when we say -good for busines- is just that, good for business... its bad for anyone else. And you can look at any industrialized nation and see evidence of it.
I read on another forum somwhere that Belgium has just relaxed laws concerning the recreational use of marijiuana, and that a few cafes are opening that offer similar services as you might find in Amsterdam.
I don't give a rat's ass about recreational marijuana use, good for Belgium... But really? Priorities? "Use an MP3...Go To Jail!" How very hardline of you... But feel free to get zooted if you like...
Non net-centric businesses are clueless about technology and it's effect on popular culture, but you have to admit that government is just down right out of the loop. If big business is the newbie, government is about as qualified as a nightclub men's room attendant.
It like the old class exercise of passing along a bit of information from classmate to classmate; once the message gets to the last recipient it's sure to be mangled. Big business gets the story wrong to begin with, then passes it along to the goverment who has it's own twisted take on the whole matter. Yikes...
So smoke 'em if you got 'em, but that Jimmy Cliff better be on a 100% non biodegradable 17.95 dollar compact disc!
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Ogg Vorbis, I don't care what it means or if it has no meaning whatsoever, I could not be pressed to think of a worse name.
First, the patents on mp3 are not going to effect users of mp3s in the slightest. I mean I dont think that there is currently some sort of halting of any sort of the independant production and distribution of .mp3 files due to patents. So if you have people using the .mp3 files regardless of patents, and distribution and creation lie mainly in the independant realm, well the patents are meaningless.
.mp3, why would joe-user care? We are talking about a very obscure music format, and it's only one step away in obscurity from the mp3 format. That certainly doesn't help at all. Good intentions and perfect execution are great, but good luck getting your solution integrated if an easy to use, fully integrated, perhaps flawed system already is in place. And thats even saying that the Ogg format is better than mp3 which is questionable at best.
Anyways, second, sound quality, unless its far superior to
Last, Ogg Vorbis? Pardon? Just answer one question for me, WHY??? Whoever came up w/ the name for the format of this music should have not expended the energy required to do so... If I asked joe user what he thought of, or had he heard of the Ogg Vorbis format, the response I would expect would probably be "Ogg WhoWho?". Face facts, subjective reasoning aside, it's a horribly stupid name for a format that you intend anyone other than nerds to use.
Let me just say that this is said in regards to -business economy- I mean, we all know that when Microsoft says that open source is bad for the economy, they mean it's bad for Microsoft's economy or whomever, regardless of if this is true...
But in any industrialized nation, where there is a primary concern on business economy, you can be sure that what is good for business is -bad- for everyone else.
Even if you could prove that proprietary closed software was good for the economy by looking at charts and graphs which show how well business was doing, you'd still be missing the macro view where everyone below the top tier was suffering as a consequence.
We arent talking about mom-and pop companies, because nobody gives a damn about that... but IBM, Microsoft, Merck Pharma. etc etc, are given consessions that not only deprive consumers of their rights (UCITA, DMCA..) etc, but actually create poverty at the lowest level.
The goal when we say -good for busines- is just that, good for business... its bad for anyone else. And you can look at any industrialized nation and see evidence of it.
I read on another forum somwhere that Belgium has just relaxed laws concerning the recreational use of marijiuana, and that a few cafes are opening that offer similar services as you might find in Amsterdam. I don't give a rat's ass about recreational marijuana use, good for Belgium... But really? Priorities? "Use an MP3...Go To Jail!" How very hardline of you... But feel free to get zooted if you like... Non net-centric businesses are clueless about technology and it's effect on popular culture, but you have to admit that government is just down right out of the loop. If big business is the newbie, government is about as qualified as a nightclub men's room attendant. It like the old class exercise of passing along a bit of information from classmate to classmate; once the message gets to the last recipient it's sure to be mangled. Big business gets the story wrong to begin with, then passes it along to the goverment who has it's own twisted take on the whole matter. Yikes... So smoke 'em if you got 'em, but that Jimmy Cliff better be on a 100% non biodegradable 17.95 dollar compact disc!