...this post lends weight to the theory that too much "socialization" leads to the loss of brain cells.
Potential flamebait aside, let me point out that not every geek(ess) lives in a large metropolitan area. There's not a Starbucks on the corner in every town in North America. There's not often a refuge for the angry, silent type outside of our Cheap Hotel-style sleeping cubes. The thing I'm attempting to address in a roundabout way is that not everyone can shed their inhibitions like a porn star sheds her clothing. That doesn't make us losers. It makes us different from you.
When I read this, the first thing I thought was that a whole NEW generation can now be familiarized with good ol' Travis Bickle, and that famous line can be altered from wiping the scum from the streets to wiping the spam from the servers.
Or maybe I've just been up too late watching Raging Bull.
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Isn't this Jon Katz the same fellow who used to be a cartoon on Comedy Central, playing therapist to all kinds of famous comedian types? Where better to next take that homespun brand of counsel than to the much-maligned and loosely-grouped "Geek Community"?
Read the original article. The original dilemma was that the user wanted to capture the sound from an already existing RealMedia file, convert it to MP3, then send it to his Rio.
Other people have made comments much the same about RealMedia files and their horrible quality; no one disagrees with that. However, some people encode things in RA to begin with, and the end-user who wants to make NPR audio segments or something portable (e.g., in MP3 format) is left with no outlet. The problem is not how bad RA sounds; it's in how poorly it translates to other formats.
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...this post lends weight to the theory that too much "socialization" leads to the loss of brain cells.
Potential flamebait aside, let me point out that not every geek(ess) lives in a large metropolitan area. There's not a Starbucks on the corner in every town in North America. There's not often a refuge for the angry, silent type outside of our Cheap Hotel-style sleeping cubes. The thing I'm attempting to address in a roundabout way is that not everyone can shed their inhibitions like a porn star sheds her clothing. That doesn't make us losers. It makes us different from you.
And God forbid THAT should happen, right?
Damned keyboard moves around on me. Anyway.
When I read this, the first thing I thought was that a whole NEW generation can now be familiarized with good ol' Travis Bickle, and that famous line can be altered from wiping the scum from the streets to wiping the spam from the servers.
Or maybe I've just been up too late watching Raging Bull.
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Isn't this Jon Katz the same fellow who used to be a cartoon on Comedy Central, playing therapist to all kinds of famous comedian types? Where better to next take that homespun brand of counsel than to the much-maligned and loosely-grouped "Geek Community"?
tongue in cheek,
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Read the original article. The original dilemma was that the user wanted to capture the sound from an already existing RealMedia file, convert it to MP3, then send it to his Rio.
Other people have made comments much the same about RealMedia files and their horrible quality; no one disagrees with that. However, some people encode things in RA to begin with, and the end-user who wants to make NPR audio segments or something portable (e.g., in MP3 format) is left with no outlet. The problem is not how bad RA sounds; it's in how poorly it translates to other formats.
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