One million points and some robot parts for having summed up the whole public-smoking debacle in a nice to comprehend paragraph.
That's exactly why I support banning of smoking everywhere in the entire world with the exception of a smoker's own house and possibly car as long as no passengers are in it.
You can shoot your heroin all you want, as long as your needle isn't accidentally reaching my arm. Second hand heroin!
Congratulations on being born from a family tree of geniuses.
What the author of the post means is that for every mom and pop out there except yours, they will find a device such as this to be their main choice of "computerinternetthing".
The fact that your grandpa can use Excel to make a spreadsheet is pointless to the fact that old people of any generation have a hard time dealing with the top technology of the same time. So this device is the WebTV that Microsoft knew was a good idea ten years ago, but in a working condition.
Damn straight! Grado headphones are the second best headphones I have ever heard.
A few years ago I bought (impulsively I might add) what I think is the best sounding headphones: Stax headphones, or rather, earspeakers as they say. http://www.stax.co.jp/Export/SRS2050II.html Not exactly this one, as the one I had has been discontinued, but pretty much the same. At 1000$ for the set (earphones and mandatory amplifier), it's a bit insanely expensive. But the sound that came out of that was sublime, as true experience to be lived.
Agfain nintendo is finding a truly innovative idea in order to stay dominant.
They found a niche with the Wii for the casual gamers, now they'll find another niche with people on the move (but with limited budgets) for casual on the go gaming purchases.
I've been using my laptop for a few years at university classes, and always found that the Formula object in Openoffice Writer is perfect for my needs.
The downside is you have a learn the names for your most popular symbols or operators in your equations, but learning it is quick and once you know it, it's possible to type in formulas about as fast as the teacher writes them on the whiteboard.
Perhaps your courses require so MUCH equations that this will not be a practical solution, but for the few mathematics classes i've had, it was fine. I could keep up, and they look gorgeous.
That's what my bank does (desjardins). They never send an email to me for any reason whatsoever.
They do, however, contact me via regular postal mail, or they rather send me an internal message from within their online banking system. Therefore, I have to logon to my bank in order to receive messages from that bank.
Anything preventing me from logging on will have to be resolved the old fashion way, phone or in person.
Banks should just all together, and at once, tell all of their customers "We will never email you. Ever. For any reason." and instead rely on regular mail or internal mail to contact the user.
I've always wondered why I am so reluctant to enter a Staples store. You've just told me why: the intimidating pillars at the entrance, the metal grids in the windows, I almost feel like entering a prison! Now an apple store, in contrast, is friendly, inviting, open.
Same goes for "trying products". At every store I went to, Costco, Futureshop, Bestbuy, all computers are always locked down to the screen saver or the logon screen. How am I supposed to buy a COMPUTER if I cannot use it? That'd be like buying a car without driving it. Makes no sense. Just walk into any Apple store and you can sit down with any computer you wish, and browse away to you heart's content. This is brilliant.
No wonder Apple is making billions. They hire people with brains.
With their iPhone plans, Rogers now has an automatic upper limit to data charges on an account, which I beleive is set at 100$. So if you bust your, say, 30$ a month data plan, you can not bring it above 100$ no matter what you actually used.
Not sure if that applies to roaming, which I've just posted my story about below...
I'm a Canadian client of Rogers, and while we were on vacation in Mexico a few months ago, we decided to use the Palm Treo we brought for some basic web surfing and email checking (swine flu panic, get some information for airports and whatnot).
So I call their handy and free 611 customer service, and ask for roaming charges. "What phone do you have?" she asks. "Palm Treo 650." She then tells me the charges for data are "Three cents per kilobyte." - "Sure?" - "Yes."
It sounded cheap, but not too cheap to be impossible. To be sure, I went to an internet cafe at the corner, and checked Rogers website. Impossible to know for sure, but I could find two information: 3 cents per MEGAbyte, applied to ordinary phones, and 3 cents per KILObyte applied to smartphones, especially the iPhone.
So we used it, thinking it would be 3/KB, but reasonably because, afterall, it's only a Treo and there's not much you can do on the web with it.
Upon my return, I got a bill for 80$ in data roaming charges. I fought it, had the issue escalated, I even DARED them to "Go listen to the recorded conversation" that they keep on file for "training and enhancement purposes". They finally caved in and removed all the charges from my bill, except 10$, which was satisfactory.
It's really bad when you are considered guilty until you can prove innocence.
Rogers do that kind of stuff frequently. I just upgraded to an iPhone and had to call them because each and every rebate/discount I previously had, and each bargain/rebate I managed to negociate on my new contract, they all disappeared mysteriously from the new invoice. Of coures it's a mistake. Of course the system had a hiccup and my order was not processed fully. Riiight.
But all in all, because I'm quite vocal about my consumer rights and will gladly voice them to the companies I deal with, I end up with a pretty interesting contract, and the services are good, so I'm, afterall, a happy customer.
Some time ago, we had our corporate website & domain hosted with Bell, it came as a package with our very first DSL.
After a year, we received a fax from some obscure "consulting" company I've never heard of, requesting our immediate payment to them for the renewal of our domain. At the time, I knew about these scams, so I investigated.
As it turns out, after several complicated phone calls, the consulting company had simply been sub-contracted, by the company sub-contracting hosting from Bell, to renew their client's domain.
So yeah, people fall for this crap because the companies doing it are crappy themselves. I mean seriously, they sent me a bill with no reference to my actual client #, my actual supplier's name, nothing? They're lucky I just didn't throw the fax away (and then lost my domain...)
If we apply what is typically explained in Microsoft's licensing terms, the legality of owning a license is ONLY demonstrable by showing the receipt for it.
You need to prove you own 10 licences for some software? Go fetch the invoice for those 10 licenses, and that's your legal proof. The actual files installed onto computers mean jack shit for the court.
Ah yeah, the great Volkwagen radio (I guess). I happen to have one of those (1997) and the radio has cost me almost the price of a new (cheap) radio just to recover the code.
I assume the people who decided to do this thought it was a brilliant idea at the time, only to realize later that if there's a way to recover a code, then the real thiefs will still steal the radios. Heck, if the radio is hard to dismount, they'll just steal the car, grab a few parts and ditch it later.
So really, what's the use?
Thankfully, with the advent of portable music players, in-car radios are going to become more of an general purpose amplifier than anything exoting. I carry the music in my phone/pda/whatnot, and the car basically provides a connecting jack. When all cars have the same connecting jack, there's no real use to steal one's radio.
Granted I don't run a site as large as you ask, but in my case, the solution to spam was simply to start off with a good system (debian, spamassassin, and subscribe to some filter list).
Then each user's spam is moved into a folder within that user's mailbox. I instruct my users that spam messages are put there by the server for 7 days. If they want to find a false-positive, it'll be there.
After 7 days, my mail server eats those emails and feeds them though the Bayesian filter learning tool of spam assassin. At the same time, the learner scans the user's general inbox for HAM.
This system, after being deployed, took about 2 weeks to learn our mail. After that, it went to practically zero false positive and zero false negative. I'm not even the MTA, so I can't run any blacklists, but still this simple user-generated decisions of spam has proven to be extremely flexible and efficient.
As soon as one of my user starts to receive a new type of spam, it will be quickly learned and apply for the company.
So finally, I rid myself of the task of checking the spam boxes, by handing it over to my users.
This is a comment I posted on a similar story, but also applies to this one.
That's not the only issue with SP3. One of my monitors is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen that I use upright), thanks to the ATI driver's rotate function.
After rebooting following SP3 install, all my monitors went completely berzerk. They fell back to 4 bits colors (I didn't even know there WAS a 4 bit mode), with some weird effects. Also, rotation was not possible.
It took me about an hour to find a way to bring back monitors to decent resolution and colors. I still couldn't get rotation to work, no matter how hard I tried (Combination of card, drivers, update from ATI, etc)
Then finally I google a bit and found a few forums with user complaints of the same type of problem. So I uninstalled SP3, rebooted, and voilà, everything back to normal.
Needless to say, I promply logged back into WSUS and removed SP3 from the approved for installed list.
That's not the only issue with SP3. One of my monitors is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen that I use upright), thanks to the ATI driver's rotate function.
After rebooting following SP3 install, all my monitors went completely berzerk. They fell back to 4 bits colors (I didn't even know there WAS a 4 bit mode), with some weird effects. Also, rotation was not possible.
It took me about an hour to find a way to bring back monitors to decent resolution and colors. I still couldn't get rotation to work, no matter how hard I tried (Combination of card, drivers, update from ATI, etc)
Then finally I google a bit and found a few forums with user complaints of the same type of problem. So I uninstalled SP3, rebooted, and voilà, everything back to normal.
Needless to say, I promply logged back into WSUS and removed SP3 from the approved for installed list.
First, them saying that they're "modifying" current hardware and software to be able to shoot down a satellite is like saying the US army isn't quite capable of shooting down a satellite. Of course they can, and they've been capable for years. This is only proving their homeworks is actually a viable solution, while keeping the public's eye away from military demonstrations. "Yeah we're cleaning up our space, that's right."
Second, it serves no useful purpose to the orbital space whatsoever. The satellite is coming down, as a whole, right now. If no actions are done (saving 60$M in the process), the block of metals and circuits will just crash down somewhere vaguely predictable. Now, instead of one big vaguely predictable chunk of technology falling down, we're going to have hundreds if not thousands of smaller chunks that are going to be absolutely impossible to predict their trajectory. Mir was sent purposely into the ocean (missing the fun target), but it was still targeted there. Now this satellite is going to go wherever it pleases, regardless of our actions.
The only reason this is being done is because they want to protect their satellite from enemy's eyes, and test a defense system in the process. Nothing more. Like I said, the satellite is going down, they,re not "cleaning" anything by destroying it.
As others have pointed out in previous slashdot commentaries, there's even the risk that the explosion might send pieces of debris upwards in the atmosphere, and it may even reach an altitude that will not allow it to fall back down for a very long time. This would have the added bonus of actually putting NEW junk to clog up the orbital space that was previously doing without those new parts.
I think the methodologyy of this test is completely wrong.
So they have proven that the image recognition part of the brain, along with the eyes, nerves and such, can not see more images in stress situation than in normal situations. Of course. It's still the same eye!
What most people experience, like I did myself a few years ago in an accident, is that the brain PROCESSES the available information faster and makes quicker decisions. This makes sense, because that's the role of adrenaline.
The test should have measured how fast someone could resolve an equation, or identify the directionality of the fall, or of something that has hit them, etc. In effect, they had to measure how our body has evolved over a few million years into helping us save our ass when our life is in danger.
There's absolutely no evolutionary advantage to reading flip-cards faster when one falls. Calculating a way to place your arms to break the fall, or grab onto something in the way, those are decisions that would be at an advantage to save your life, thus, adrenaline requests that our brain make those decisions faster.
So yes, in a sense, time slows down because you can make more decisions during the time of the event.
It's not useless, it's your method that is useless! Just do like many people do instead of burning cds/dvds for the living room, get a TV out card and connect the TV setup to your PC.
Added bonus, you get to also view every other streaming available, including NBC shows on their site, youtube and whatnot. *AND*, it saves some plastic trees:)
Humans will always be a very big threat to any security system. It's hard enough keeping employees from installing BonziBuddy at work, what's to prevent them from inadvertently sending an email via the wrong network? Bringing a laptop on vacation was quite stupid, but the admins not ENCRYPTING the hard drives are just as dumb.
Simply put, consumers hate cds, myself included, for a variety of insanely obvious reasons: 1) If I buy one disc, I have to carry it into my car, then into my portable cd player, then it gets lost under the seats or behind the desk. It's cumbersome. 2) If i'm in my office and want to listen to a CD i forgot at home, i'm screwed. 3) Ripping cds is not obvious to everyone, as is moving files around from pc to device to whatnot. On top of that, add all the ridiculous digital rights management making this task even harder, and the general people are lost.
The online distribution model will win because it's simple, and it does what the public wants. You put some dollars here, you click some buttons there, and voila, the music is with you to listen in your office, your car, portable.
I have a stash of hundreds of cds at home, gathering dust somewhere. Why do I even need those physical layers of plastic and aluminium? So I can carry 20 lbs of material with me so I can chose what I want to listen to? MEH.
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One million points and some robot parts for having summed up the whole public-smoking debacle in a nice to comprehend paragraph.
That's exactly why I support banning of smoking everywhere in the entire world with the exception of a smoker's own house and possibly car as long as no passengers are in it.
You can shoot your heroin all you want, as long as your needle isn't accidentally reaching my arm. Second hand heroin!
Congratulations on being born from a family tree of geniuses.
What the author of the post means is that for every mom and pop out there except yours, they will find a device such as this to be their main choice of "computerinternetthing".
The fact that your grandpa can use Excel to make a spreadsheet is pointless to the fact that old people of any generation have a hard time dealing with the top technology of the same time. So this device is the WebTV that Microsoft knew was a good idea ten years ago, but in a working condition.
Damn straight! Grado headphones are the second best headphones I have ever heard.
A few years ago I bought (impulsively I might add) what I think is the best sounding headphones: Stax headphones, or rather, earspeakers as they say. http://www.stax.co.jp/Export/SRS2050II.html Not exactly this one, as the one I had has been discontinued, but pretty much the same. At 1000$ for the set (earphones and mandatory amplifier), it's a bit insanely expensive. But the sound that came out of that was sublime, as true experience to be lived.
You see, the road system is not something you can just dump cars on. It's not a big hard drive. It's a series of interconnected data cables.
Agfain nintendo is finding a truly innovative idea in order to stay dominant.
They found a niche with the Wii for the casual gamers, now they'll find another niche with people on the move (but with limited budgets) for casual on the go gaming purchases.
Go nintendo!
Also, First.
I've been using my laptop for a few years at university classes, and always found that the Formula object in Openoffice Writer is perfect for my needs.
The downside is you have a learn the names for your most popular symbols or operators in your equations, but learning it is quick and once you know it, it's possible to type in formulas about as fast as the teacher writes them on the whiteboard.
Perhaps your courses require so MUCH equations that this will not be a practical solution, but for the few mathematics classes i've had, it was fine. I could keep up, and they look gorgeous.
That's what my bank does (desjardins). They never send an email to me for any reason whatsoever.
They do, however, contact me via regular postal mail, or they rather send me an internal message from within their online banking system. Therefore, I have to logon to my bank in order to receive messages from that bank.
Anything preventing me from logging on will have to be resolved the old fashion way, phone or in person.
Banks should just all together, and at once, tell all of their customers "We will never email you. Ever. For any reason." and instead rely on regular mail or internal mail to contact the user.
This only makes sense.
That's a port worth a billion mod points.
I've always wondered why I am so reluctant to enter a Staples store. You've just told me why: the intimidating pillars at the entrance, the metal grids in the windows, I almost feel like entering a prison! Now an apple store, in contrast, is friendly, inviting, open.
Same goes for "trying products". At every store I went to, Costco, Futureshop, Bestbuy, all computers are always locked down to the screen saver or the logon screen. How am I supposed to buy a COMPUTER if I cannot use it? That'd be like buying a car without driving it. Makes no sense. Just walk into any Apple store and you can sit down with any computer you wish, and browse away to you heart's content. This is brilliant.
No wonder Apple is making billions. They hire people with brains.
With their iPhone plans, Rogers now has an automatic upper limit to data charges on an account, which I beleive is set at 100$. So if you bust your, say, 30$ a month data plan, you can not bring it above 100$ no matter what you actually used.
Not sure if that applies to roaming, which I've just posted my story about below...
I'm a Canadian client of Rogers, and while we were on vacation in Mexico a few months ago, we decided to use the Palm Treo we brought for some basic web surfing and email checking (swine flu panic, get some information for airports and whatnot).
So I call their handy and free 611 customer service, and ask for roaming charges. "What phone do you have?" she asks. "Palm Treo 650." She then tells me the charges for data are "Three cents per kilobyte." - "Sure?" - "Yes."
It sounded cheap, but not too cheap to be impossible. To be sure, I went to an internet cafe at the corner, and checked Rogers website. Impossible to know for sure, but I could find two information: 3 cents per MEGAbyte, applied to ordinary phones, and 3 cents per KILObyte applied to smartphones, especially the iPhone.
So we used it, thinking it would be 3/KB, but reasonably because, afterall, it's only a Treo and there's not much you can do on the web with it.
Upon my return, I got a bill for 80$ in data roaming charges. I fought it, had the issue escalated, I even DARED them to "Go listen to the recorded conversation" that they keep on file for "training and enhancement purposes". They finally caved in and removed all the charges from my bill, except 10$, which was satisfactory.
It's really bad when you are considered guilty until you can prove innocence.
Rogers do that kind of stuff frequently. I just upgraded to an iPhone and had to call them because each and every rebate/discount I previously had, and each bargain/rebate I managed to negociate on my new contract, they all disappeared mysteriously from the new invoice. Of coures it's a mistake. Of course the system had a hiccup and my order was not processed fully. Riiight.
But all in all, because I'm quite vocal about my consumer rights and will gladly voice them to the companies I deal with, I end up with a pretty interesting contract, and the services are good, so I'm, afterall, a happy customer.
Some time ago, we had our corporate website & domain hosted with Bell, it came as a package with our very first DSL.
After a year, we received a fax from some obscure "consulting" company I've never heard of, requesting our immediate payment to them for the renewal of our domain. At the time, I knew about these scams, so I investigated.
As it turns out, after several complicated phone calls, the consulting company had simply been sub-contracted, by the company sub-contracting hosting from Bell, to renew their client's domain.
So yeah, people fall for this crap because the companies doing it are crappy themselves. I mean seriously, they sent me a bill with no reference to my actual client #, my actual supplier's name, nothing? They're lucky I just didn't throw the fax away (and then lost my domain...)
If we apply what is typically explained in Microsoft's licensing terms, the legality of owning a license is ONLY demonstrable by showing the receipt for it.
You need to prove you own 10 licences for some software? Go fetch the invoice for those 10 licenses, and that's your legal proof. The actual files installed onto computers mean jack shit for the court.
Ah yeah, the great Volkwagen radio (I guess). I happen to have one of those (1997) and the radio has cost me almost the price of a new (cheap) radio just to recover the code.
I assume the people who decided to do this thought it was a brilliant idea at the time, only to realize later that if there's a way to recover a code, then the real thiefs will still steal the radios. Heck, if the radio is hard to dismount, they'll just steal the car, grab a few parts and ditch it later.
So really, what's the use?
Thankfully, with the advent of portable music players, in-car radios are going to become more of an general purpose amplifier than anything exoting. I carry the music in my phone/pda/whatnot, and the car basically provides a connecting jack. When all cars have the same connecting jack, there's no real use to steal one's radio.
Granted I don't run a site as large as you ask, but in my case, the solution to spam was simply to start off with a good system (debian, spamassassin, and subscribe to some filter list).
Then each user's spam is moved into a folder within that user's mailbox. I instruct my users that spam messages are put there by the server for 7 days. If they want to find a false-positive, it'll be there.
After 7 days, my mail server eats those emails and feeds them though the Bayesian filter learning tool of spam assassin. At the same time, the learner scans the user's general inbox for HAM.
This system, after being deployed, took about 2 weeks to learn our mail. After that, it went to practically zero false positive and zero false negative. I'm not even the MTA, so I can't run any blacklists, but still this simple user-generated decisions of spam has proven to be extremely flexible and efficient.
As soon as one of my user starts to receive a new type of spam, it will be quickly learned and apply for the company.
So finally, I rid myself of the task of checking the spam boxes, by handing it over to my users.
This is a comment I posted on a similar story, but also applies to this one.
That's not the only issue with SP3. One of my monitors is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen that I use upright), thanks to the ATI driver's rotate function.
After rebooting following SP3 install, all my monitors went completely berzerk. They fell back to 4 bits colors (I didn't even know there WAS a 4 bit mode), with some weird effects. Also, rotation was not possible.
It took me about an hour to find a way to bring back monitors to decent resolution and colors. I still couldn't get rotation to work, no matter how hard I tried (Combination of card, drivers, update from ATI, etc)
Then finally I google a bit and found a few forums with user complaints of the same type of problem. So I uninstalled SP3, rebooted, and voilà, everything back to normal.
Needless to say, I promply logged back into WSUS and removed SP3 from the approved for installed list.
That's not the only issue with SP3. One of my monitors is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen that I use upright), thanks to the ATI driver's rotate function.
After rebooting following SP3 install, all my monitors went completely berzerk. They fell back to 4 bits colors (I didn't even know there WAS a 4 bit mode), with some weird effects. Also, rotation was not possible.
It took me about an hour to find a way to bring back monitors to decent resolution and colors. I still couldn't get rotation to work, no matter how hard I tried (Combination of card, drivers, update from ATI, etc)
Then finally I google a bit and found a few forums with user complaints of the same type of problem. So I uninstalled SP3, rebooted, and voilà, everything back to normal.
Needless to say, I promply logged back into WSUS and removed SP3 from the approved for installed list.
This kind of thing doesn't happen to me.
Sorry but this is a bit ridiculous.
First, them saying that they're "modifying" current hardware and software to be able to shoot down a satellite is like saying the US army isn't quite capable of shooting down a satellite. Of course they can, and they've been capable for years. This is only proving their homeworks is actually a viable solution, while keeping the public's eye away from military demonstrations. "Yeah we're cleaning up our space, that's right."
Second, it serves no useful purpose to the orbital space whatsoever. The satellite is coming down, as a whole, right now. If no actions are done (saving 60$M in the process), the block of metals and circuits will just crash down somewhere vaguely predictable. Now, instead of one big vaguely predictable chunk of technology falling down, we're going to have hundreds if not thousands of smaller chunks that are going to be absolutely impossible to predict their trajectory. Mir was sent purposely into the ocean (missing the fun target), but it was still targeted there. Now this satellite is going to go wherever it pleases, regardless of our actions.
The only reason this is being done is because they want to protect their satellite from enemy's eyes, and test a defense system in the process. Nothing more. Like I said, the satellite is going down, they,re not "cleaning" anything by destroying it.
As others have pointed out in previous slashdot commentaries, there's even the risk that the explosion might send pieces of debris upwards in the atmosphere, and it may even reach an altitude that will not allow it to fall back down for a very long time. This would have the added bonus of actually putting NEW junk to clog up the orbital space that was previously doing without those new parts.
I think the methodologyy of this test is completely wrong.
So they have proven that the image recognition part of the brain, along with the eyes, nerves and such, can not see more images in stress situation than in normal situations. Of course. It's still the same eye!
What most people experience, like I did myself a few years ago in an accident, is that the brain PROCESSES the available information faster and makes quicker decisions. This makes sense, because that's the role of adrenaline.
The test should have measured how fast someone could resolve an equation, or identify the directionality of the fall, or of something that has hit them, etc. In effect, they had to measure how our body has evolved over a few million years into helping us save our ass when our life is in danger.
There's absolutely no evolutionary advantage to reading flip-cards faster when one falls. Calculating a way to place your arms to break the fall, or grab onto something in the way, those are decisions that would be at an advantage to save your life, thus, adrenaline requests that our brain make those decisions faster.
So yes, in a sense, time slows down because you can make more decisions during the time of the event.
Conclusion: bad science.
It's not useless, it's your method that is useless! Just do like many people do instead of burning cds/dvds for the living room, get a TV out card and connect the TV setup to your PC.
:)
Added bonus, you get to also view every other streaming available, including NBC shows on their site, youtube and whatnot. *AND*, it saves some plastic trees
This, sir, is the most insightful comment I have ever read on Slashdot regarding music/tv piracy on the internet.
Thank you for sharing.
WiFi isn't a free ride. If you need it for serious business, you buy serious equipment installed and configured by serious individuals.
I'm dead serious.
Next week: Mail servers: it can lead to headaches.
Humans will always be a very big threat to any security system. It's hard enough keeping employees from installing BonziBuddy at work, what's to prevent them from inadvertently sending an email via the wrong network? Bringing a laptop on vacation was quite stupid, but the admins not ENCRYPTING the hard drives are just as dumb.
I think a similar claim could have been said about the lawsuits against tobacco companies some time ago...
Simply put, consumers hate cds, myself included, for a variety of insanely obvious reasons:
1) If I buy one disc, I have to carry it into my car, then into my portable cd player, then it gets lost under the seats or behind the desk. It's cumbersome.
2) If i'm in my office and want to listen to a CD i forgot at home, i'm screwed.
3) Ripping cds is not obvious to everyone, as is moving files around from pc to device to whatnot. On top of that, add all the ridiculous digital rights management making this task even harder, and the general people are lost.
The online distribution model will win because it's simple, and it does what the public wants. You put some dollars here, you click some buttons there, and voila, the music is with you to listen in your office, your car, portable.
I have a stash of hundreds of cds at home, gathering dust somewhere. Why do I even need those physical layers of plastic and aluminium? So I can carry 20 lbs of material with me so I can chose what I want to listen to? MEH.
CDs are dead(ish).