Why are they cheapskates? Because they don't want to pay for what is freely available? Why would anyone pay for something when a Free alternative that is as good or better is available?
"Firefox is an IE-replacer, that's what it's really good at. It fits in the same slot, so to speak. "
Its really good at, freeing up your taskbar real estate, monitoring RSS feeds, blocking popups, making your computer safer from spyware, and freeing you to take back the web(ablock,greasemonkey). THAT'S why people use Firefox. Beyond being a web browser that displays HTML and has back,forward, and print buttons it hardly fits "in the same slot". If Firefox is an easier drop-in then Opera for users then Opera needs to reconisder why it can't do the same.
We all have our biases(obviously) but your post seems more about daming with faint praise as opposed to truly trying to explaing why Firefox/*zilla is at 10% why Opera is holding steady at less than 1%. On many tech sites Firefox has displaced IE as the browser in majority. Why isn't the same said for Opera?
I remember that. This is different IMHO. Back then it was all about "Intel is going track everything you do on the net!". People freaked out about that. This is about moving DRM restriction from software to hardware and will only affect people trying to "break" DRM on songs and movies they buy. This is only going to affect people who buy from napster.com etc. People who don't use those services won't see any difference and the same goes for people who do. So while I may be wrong I think this feature will go unoticed except by those who download DRM software and then are trying to break it. Even then it may be no different unless its harder. If vendors are going to rely on this and this only, hope they have forceably updatable micro code in that chipset otherwise they are in for trouble.
Oh and in the nonDRM world easynews continues to only cost $9 for 10GB.
Not backing Intel on this but that's possible right now. At this very moment the only thing that's keeps people's drives from getting wiped is the fact that virus writers don't feel like being that destructive.
They all think about it and know its possible but out of fear for what that would do to the world and how many years they would go to jail for, top virus writers simply don't do that. Look at all of the oppurtunities they've had over the last five years to wipe machines.
Mass Destrutction viruses are old school and it seems today its all about stealing Credit card info and address book entries. DRM or tricking the system into trusting code won't make it any easier. Windows already does that all on it own.
Its and Outlook Express replacement. Sorry for the shouting but Thunnderbird offers absolutely nothing for Outlook users. Saying Outlook users should try Thunderbird is like saying MS Word users should use notepad, they both kind of do the same thing but they are in completely different leagues and vastly differ in capability. Evolution is an Outlook replacement, Thunderbird is not.
I highly suggest OE users switch to thunderbird today, but for Outlook users Thunderbird is not a drop-in replacement and should not be suggested as such.
Why should anything good be said when his name comes up? By all accounts tangible and intangible he's the worst president we have ever had. His policies are disasterous to our domestic finances, our health, the health of foreigners(obviously), and the long term prospects of America. Even my friends who are lifelong Republicans think he has done an shitty job. There are not about to vote Democrat(Ever) but they can't honesty say he hasn't been a major fuckup. Hell he took half of his first 4 years off on vaction and works a "strict" 35 hour work week. How else could things have turned out when you put blinders on and will only listen to news that is spoon-fed and filtered for you? Has he ever done an open forum with the public that wasn't hand selected? Again, why wouldn't there be anti-Bush comments here and everywhere else politics come up?
Re:Google turns Neocon with new Executive Hirings
on
Google CEO Talks Business
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Well one hire isn't exactly a "trend".
About him, he is about as far right as it gets so automatically I of course hate him, but let's see where google is 5 years from now before you call what they are doing evil.
Not to excuse them for hiring someone "like him" but I'd be more suprised if they hird someone way left of center to be their "new Global Communications and Strategy VP". Its a right leaning time afterall and if anyone can grease the wheels for Google domination in both the us and aboard its a humanoid like him.
"Besides, why would you want to listen to the utter crap which is today's ClearChannel dominated FM radio landscape? Do you not have enough advertisements and reptition in your life?"
NPR, Rush Limpbutt, etc etc. Plently of people would like to be able to tune into news and talk radio on an Ipod. The idea that he's unique in wanting this feature is laughable. I'd venture that 90% of Ipod users music is that same stuff playing on your local FM station. What you think that Ipod owners are somehow unique and don't listen to Top 40? Look at the top 10 list at the Itunes store week after week. So apparently your competely off in your theory about what Ipod users want to listen to.
If the Ipod had a FM tuner, Ipod users would be calling any device which lacked a tuner crap. But it doesn't have a tuner and never will so those who have invested hundreds of dollars into an Ipod will continue to defend it as being "perfect" and not lacking in any feature.
"Signed, a US citizen who's proud of our troops but not our military."
Wrong! You can't support the troops without supporting every single action of the Commander in Chief. If you don't support everthing the Military does in every county it invades then your a Terrorist Traitor! It's a fact, I heard it on Fox news.
I don't even own a console anymore but I bought into the PS3 hype briefly. I watched that killzone video and thought "wow maybe they really are going to surpass the PC for once". Then like the author I remembered that they are just tech demos or maybe better described as "scene renditions" and you shouldn't expect anything like that the day the console arrives.
I know they need to wow users to get them excited but I almost wish they weren't even allowed to do "demos" until the hardware was actually done and you could see actual gameplay. Remembering the tech demos from right before the PS2 came out and then comparing it to how shitty GTA SA looks on a PS2 just makes me mad. Face it they lie. The problem is people like to be lied to.
"It's not hard. All you have to do is drag your music folder onto iTunes and it'll merge. Try `open -a iTunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/ ` in a cron job. It'd be even easier with spotlight's mdfind. So, I guess the answer to your question is "not that hard." "
No Offense but that's about the most Un-Apple way I can think of doing it. Face it, Itunes not being able to monitor folders is retarded and is a glaring omission on their part. Much like their crappy mp3 encoder and how they don't make things like exporting only your ratings easy. Why if your PC gets hosed or you want to move you library is it such a process? Why can't you simply export ONLY your ratings and have Itunes reimport them at a later date? For a company that prides itself on catering to the lowest common denominator they certainly haven't made some sorely desired tasks easy to perform in Itunes.
Its not all about being a power user either who is trying to force Itunes into doing things it wasn't designed for. Itunes is still a good player overall but it still needs work and it makes things harder then it need to.
With the latest version you can select to have specific pages load in Internet Explorer EVERY single time.
I will say contrary to your experience, of the many people I've converted they have all stuck with Firefox. And although I'm very aware that their are plently of IE only sites out there, it's extremely rare for me to have to use IE anymore. I think the only time I've used it within the past 3 months was to do freeipuds.com "just to be safe" since people had reported problems. 5 minutes explaining how to use Firefox and what to do if a site doesn't work has saved me hours of tech support.
I guess if someone spends 8hrs a day using some Intranet that's IE only or has to use special IE only auction tools you gotta do what you gotta do, but for most other people the idea that you "have to use IE" to survive on the net is outdated. Well except for that fucking windows update, sigh.
And that's the trial price? What a rippoff. Anything over $19 a year is a scam. $19 a year will easily cover 52 weeks of downloads for the average user.
So let me guess $60-$75 a year once its final? Great add another yet another monthly bill to the pile.
See I say screw that. If your going to bother with paying for a sub just buy a cheap tivo and pay them. That or save your pennies and by MCE which has Free sub.
I understand these people want to make money but anything more than $19 a year per user is a ripoff and an added expense on what is freely available elsewhere. Doing a survey for 5 minutes every few months from zapit is a much better proposition then this and if mythtv moves to only supporting this pay service they are screwing over users and negating the whole point of Free software.
Imagine you bought a Honda last week. Now road conditions have changed to where the its completely unsafe to travel the roads without a special Add-on. The dealer knew right when they sold you the car that they were selling you a car with safety problems. They knew that in all likely hood these problems were just going to get worse but they did NOTHING about it. So now its a week after you bought the car and its not useable the day you drive it off the lot without this special add-on. The dealer announces they will sell you an addon to make your car safe again. This is exactly what anyone who just bought a system with Windows XP today has to go through. Is that ethical?
You can't blame MS for the viruses themselves, you can blame them for their total lack of regard for the millions of users who use their products and are about to be roped into paying to fix problems MS should have accounted for.
Your right, how does your OS know what it a virus and what is a word processor? But they could have run with least privelage, notify you when your browser has been hijacked, notiy you when programs are added to your startup, etc etc etc. There are a millions of thing MS could have done to limit the damage that viruses and spyware do to your system. Yet they did shit and now are going to offer expensive bandaids? That's bullshit.
I see nothing wrong with it
on
Safari vs. KHTML
·
· Score: 1, Offtopic
There is no clause about having to spoon feed your patches back into the project you took your code from.
And in fairness to Apple I don't see as nearly as many articles from them saying how "well they work with OSS" vs articles complaining that they don't work well with OSS from OSS users.
That said I do wish Apple zealots would stop raving about how well Apple does play with OSS. They IMHO are the root cause of all of the bad will. If they would just shut the hell up then we could look at Apple as what they are, a passive OSS user. Instead everyone yelling about how they don't play nice. Yes Apple doesn't help out with OSS as much as we'd all like, surprise. Let's move on and spend our time talking about the companies that do help.
WTF is wrong with you Ipod people? Your bitching about Yahoo for not selling popular tunes in NonDRM mp3 format? Are you people fucking stupid? Yahoo who cannot under any circumstance sell MP3 files from top 40 artists without DRM is supposed to support the Ipod? How?
Apple will NOT allow anyone else to license their DRM. So wtf is Yahoo supposed to do? Oh right I'll go along with you idiots. They are supposed to somehow magically support the Ipod via plain old mp3. *cough*
I can't believe the number of pro-Ipod mods there are here who keep modding this garbage up. btw No offense to the normal Ipod users out there who aren't caught up in the "ipod is the greatest gift to mankind" craze. Much offense to those who have completely lost the ability to be logical.
I know at this point its hard to get tickets but if you can beg borrow or steal some I highly recommend it. Its just a really fun and entertaining show. I was a bit worried that it would just be a copy of the movie that only nerds who loved the movie would like, but man did they do a great job of adding new material to it. I think the movie seems boring now compared to it, but in a good way.
"I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable."
I frankly don't know a ton about it since it fucked up my firefox install but others are giving the example of user X who has mod status browses www.popularforum.com/modforum/userspasswords and now google has a cache of that page that anyone can access. I don't know if that's true but this is exactly why companies don't knowingly open their proxies to the outside world. Here you have the Entire World granted access to almost any page a user running Google's software goes to.
If those claims are true then Google has a duty to pull this from the market immediately which they may very well do.
LOL you have a lot of nerve. The Dems may be spineless, disorganized and leaderless but insane? How can you possibly be aware of how the Republicans in particular have been acting for the last 10 years and espeically in the last 4 years and still call the Dems insane compared to them? Pot meet kettle.
Not exactly what I expect from Google. Although I'm sure its working fine for others I have a plain jane install that gives me no grief. It did work on IE btw, but it totally screwed up Firefox. Uninstalling did NOT fix the problem.
I have to say that is the only fair approach. Considering every broadband commercial I see these days mentions the ability to "download music and movies" its only right to give them a warning first time. Mention just how bad the penalties are then the RIAA et all could go forward with suits knowing that they were being fair. Anyone who still downloads movies after being caught and warned about it doesn't have much of an excuse.
But no of course they won't do that. They'll just toss you away and throw away the key. I wonder what percentage of people in jail will be there due to copyright issues by 2010? 10%? 15%? What was that story about the Prez's Ipod being filled with illegal music again?
I'll take your word for it as far as your particular site goes, but as far as the rest of the Internet is concerned Firefox use is way higher than.5%. More like try moving that decimal point to the right a notch. I bet even Microsoft.com shows way higher than.5% Firefox usage.
128bit aac is what apple considers "CD quality", many users disagree. AAC at higher bitrates much like mp3 sounds fine. IMHO space is cheap and compatibility is important. Stick with mp3/256 if you planning on keeping your music longterm.
Personally I have actually bought songs from itunes and think it sound ok in most cases, but I think people who don't realize that they are sacrificing on quality when buying from Itunes are being foolish. In 15 years those AAC files(like you won't lose access to time over time) may very well start to sound like crap on modern audio equipment. Then again maybe the software will be so good that it will be able to make up for the high compression.
Anyway you get my point, just because most people think that Itune's low bitrate, high compression AAC sounds "O.K" it doesn't mean that a lot of people don't think that it comes up short. Not to even mention the audio quality problems that both Itunes and the Ipods themselves have had.
Slashdot Mirror
" Because most people are cheapskates."
Why are they cheapskates? Because they don't want to pay for what is freely available? Why would anyone pay for something when a Free alternative that is as good or better is available?
"Firefox is an IE-replacer, that's what it's really good at. It fits in the same slot, so to speak. "
Its really good at, freeing up your taskbar real estate, monitoring RSS feeds, blocking popups, making your computer safer from spyware, and freeing you to take back the web(ablock,greasemonkey). THAT'S why people use Firefox. Beyond being a web browser that displays HTML and has back,forward, and print buttons it hardly fits "in the same slot". If Firefox is an easier drop-in then Opera for users then Opera needs to reconisder why it can't do the same.
We all have our biases(obviously) but your post seems more about daming with faint praise as opposed to truly trying to explaing why Firefox/*zilla is at 10% why Opera is holding steady at less than 1%. On many tech sites Firefox has displaced IE as the browser in majority. Why isn't the same said for Opera?
I remember that. This is different IMHO. Back then it was all about "Intel is going track everything you do on the net!". People freaked out about that. This is about moving DRM restriction from software to hardware and will only affect people trying to "break" DRM on songs and movies they buy. This is only going to affect people who buy from napster.com etc. People who don't use those services won't see any difference and the same goes for people who do.
So while I may be wrong I think this feature will go unoticed except by those who download DRM software and then are trying to break it. Even then it may be no different unless its harder. If vendors are going to rely on this and this only, hope they have forceably updatable micro code in that chipset otherwise they are in for trouble.
Oh and in the nonDRM world easynews continues to only cost $9 for 10GB.
Not backing Intel on this but that's possible right now. At this very moment the only thing that's keeps people's drives from getting wiped is the fact that virus writers don't feel like being that destructive.
They all think about it and know its possible but out of fear for what that would do to the world and how many years they would go to jail for, top virus writers simply don't do that. Look at all of the oppurtunities they've had over the last five years to wipe machines.
Mass Destrutction viruses are old school and it seems today its all about stealing Credit card info and address book entries. DRM or tricking the system into trusting code won't make it any easier. Windows already does that all on it own.
Its and Outlook Express replacement. Sorry for the shouting but Thunnderbird offers absolutely nothing for Outlook users. Saying Outlook users should try Thunderbird is like saying MS Word users should use notepad, they both kind of do the same thing but they are in completely different leagues and vastly differ in capability. Evolution is an Outlook replacement, Thunderbird is not.
I highly suggest OE users switch to thunderbird today, but for Outlook users Thunderbird is not a drop-in replacement and should not be suggested as such.
Why should anything good be said when his name comes up?
By all accounts tangible and intangible he's the worst president we have ever had. His policies are disasterous to our domestic finances, our health, the health of foreigners(obviously), and the long term prospects of America. Even my friends who are lifelong Republicans think he has done an shitty job. There are not about to vote Democrat(Ever) but they can't honesty say he hasn't been a major fuckup. Hell he took half of his first 4 years off on vaction and works a "strict" 35 hour work week. How else could things have turned out when you put blinders on and will only listen to news that is spoon-fed and filtered for you? Has he ever done an open forum with the public that wasn't hand selected?
Again, why wouldn't there be anti-Bush comments here and everywhere else politics come up?
Well one hire isn't exactly a "trend".
About him, he is about as far right as it gets so automatically I of course hate him, but let's see where google is 5 years from now before you call what they are doing evil.
Not to excuse them for hiring someone "like him" but I'd be more suprised if they hird someone way left of center to be their "new Global Communications and Strategy VP". Its a right leaning time afterall and if anyone can grease the wheels for Google domination in both the us and aboard its a humanoid like him.
"Besides, why would you want to listen to the utter crap which is today's ClearChannel dominated FM radio landscape? Do you not have enough advertisements and reptition in your life?"
NPR, Rush Limpbutt, etc etc. Plently of people would like to be able to tune into news and talk radio on an Ipod. The idea that he's unique in wanting this feature is laughable. I'd venture that 90% of Ipod users music is that same stuff playing on your local FM station. What you think that Ipod owners are somehow unique and don't listen to Top 40? Look at the top 10 list at the Itunes store week after week. So apparently your competely off in your theory about what Ipod users want to listen to.
If the Ipod had a FM tuner, Ipod users would be calling any device which lacked a tuner crap. But it doesn't have a tuner and never will so those who have invested hundreds of dollars into an Ipod will continue to defend it as being "perfect" and not lacking in any feature.
60GB Ipod Photo Owner
"That being said, there are third party add-ons which allow you to do exactly what you want: listen to FM on an iPod."
No there aren't.
"Signed, a US citizen who's proud of our troops but not our military."
Wrong! You can't support the troops without supporting every single action of the Commander in Chief. If you don't support everthing the Military does in every county it invades then your a Terrorist Traitor! It's a fact, I heard it on Fox news.
I don't even own a console anymore but I bought into the PS3 hype briefly. I watched that killzone video and thought "wow maybe they really are going to surpass the PC for once". Then like the author I remembered that they are just tech demos or maybe better described as "scene renditions" and you shouldn't expect anything like that the day the console arrives.
I know they need to wow users to get them excited but I almost wish they weren't even allowed to do "demos" until the hardware was actually done and you could see actual gameplay. Remembering the tech demos from right before the PS2 came out and then comparing it to how shitty GTA SA looks on a PS2 just makes me mad. Face it they lie. The problem is people like to be lied to.
"The problem with windows is that it's too "secure","
BAWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry that just sounds so fucking funny.
"It's not hard. All you have to do is drag your music folder onto iTunes and it'll merge. Try `open -a iTunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/ ` in a cron job. It'd be even easier with spotlight's mdfind. So, I guess the answer to your question is "not that hard." "
No Offense but that's about the most Un-Apple way I can think of doing it. Face it, Itunes not being able to monitor folders is retarded and is a glaring omission on their part. Much like their crappy mp3 encoder and how they don't make things like exporting only your ratings easy. Why if your PC gets hosed or you want to move you library is it such a process? Why can't you simply export ONLY your ratings and have Itunes reimport them at a later date? For a company that prides itself on catering to the lowest common denominator they certainly haven't made some sorely desired tasks easy to perform in Itunes.
Its not all about being a power user either who is trying to force Itunes into doing things it wasn't designed for. Itunes is still a good player overall but it still needs work and it makes things harder then it need to.
With the latest version you can select to have specific pages load in Internet Explorer EVERY single time.
I will say contrary to your experience, of the many people I've converted they have all stuck with Firefox. And although I'm very aware that their are plently of IE only sites out there, it's extremely rare for me to have to use IE anymore. I think the only time I've used it within the past 3 months was to do freeipuds.com "just to be safe" since people had reported problems. 5 minutes explaining how to use Firefox and what to do if a site doesn't work has saved me hours of tech support.
I guess if someone spends 8hrs a day using some Intranet that's IE only or has to use special IE only auction tools you gotta do what you gotta do, but for most other people the idea that you "have to use IE" to survive on the net is outdated. Well except for that fucking windows update, sigh.
And that's the trial price? What a rippoff. Anything over $19 a year is a scam. $19 a year will easily cover 52 weeks of downloads for the average user.
So let me guess $60-$75 a year once its final? Great add another yet another monthly bill to the pile.
See I say screw that. If your going to bother with paying for a sub just buy a cheap tivo and pay them. That or save your pennies and by MCE which has Free sub.
I understand these people want to make money but anything more than $19 a year per user is a ripoff and an added expense on what is freely available elsewhere. Doing a survey for 5 minutes every few months from zapit is a much better proposition then this and if mythtv moves to only supporting this pay service they are screwing over users and negating the whole point of Free software.
Imagine you bought a Honda last week. Now road conditions have changed to where the its completely unsafe to travel the roads without a special Add-on. The dealer knew right when they sold you the car that they were selling you a car with safety problems. They knew that in all likely hood these problems were just going to get worse but they did NOTHING about it. So now its a week after you bought the car and its not useable the day you drive it off the lot without this special add-on. The dealer announces they will sell you an addon to make your car safe again. This is exactly what anyone who just bought a system with Windows XP today has to go through. Is that ethical?
You can't blame MS for the viruses themselves, you can blame them for their total lack of regard for the millions of users who use their products and are about to be roped into paying to fix problems MS should have accounted for.
Your right, how does your OS know what it a virus and what is a word processor? But they could have run with least privelage, notify you when your browser has been hijacked, notiy you when programs are added to your startup, etc etc etc. There are a millions of thing MS could have done to limit the damage that viruses and spyware do to your system. Yet they did shit and now are going to offer expensive bandaids? That's bullshit.
There is no clause about having to spoon feed your patches back into the project you took your code from.
And in fairness to Apple I don't see as nearly as many articles from them saying how "well they work with OSS" vs articles complaining that they don't work well with OSS from OSS users.
That said I do wish Apple zealots would stop raving about how well Apple does play with OSS. They IMHO are the root cause of all of the bad will. If they would just shut the hell up then we could look at Apple as what they are, a passive OSS user. Instead everyone yelling about how they don't play nice. Yes Apple doesn't help out with OSS as much as we'd all like, surprise. Let's move on and spend our time talking about the companies that do help.
WTF is wrong with you Ipod people? Your bitching about Yahoo for not selling popular tunes in NonDRM mp3 format? Are you people fucking stupid? Yahoo who cannot under any circumstance sell MP3 files from top 40 artists without DRM is supposed to support the Ipod? How?
Apple will NOT allow anyone else to license their DRM. So wtf is Yahoo supposed to do? Oh right I'll go along with you idiots. They are supposed to somehow magically support the Ipod via plain old mp3. *cough*
I can't believe the number of pro-Ipod mods there are here who keep modding this garbage up. btw No offense to the normal Ipod users out there who aren't caught up in the "ipod is the greatest gift to mankind" craze. Much offense to those who have completely lost the ability to be logical.
I know at this point its hard to get tickets but if you can beg borrow or steal some I highly recommend it. Its just a really fun and entertaining show. I was a bit worried that it would just be a copy of the movie that only nerds who loved the movie would like, but man did they do a great job of adding new material to it. I think the movie seems boring now compared to it, but in a good way.
Did you Read The Fine Article?
"I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable."
I frankly don't know a ton about it since it fucked up my firefox install but others are giving the example of user X who has mod status browses www.popularforum.com/modforum/userspasswords and now google has a cache of that page that anyone can access. I don't know if that's true but this is exactly why companies don't knowingly open their proxies to the outside world. Here you have the Entire World granted access to almost any page a user running Google's software goes to.
If those claims are true then Google has a duty to pull this from the market immediately which they may very well do.
"and the Democrats are ... just insane."
LOL you have a lot of nerve. The Dems may be spineless, disorganized and leaderless but insane? How can you possibly be aware of how the Republicans in particular have been acting for the last 10 years and espeically in the last 4 years and still call the Dems insane compared to them? Pot meet kettle.
How is that possibly "Insightful"?
"That is far greater change than anything humans could possibly contribute to"
Says who? You? That's the most illogical jump I've seen someone take in years. What did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night or something?
Right now I'm posting from IE and trying to figure out what it screwed up.
. jpg bookmarks, the address bar, and my personal toolbar links are gone.
Firefox wouldn't launch after install. After rebooting I see this http://img115.echo.cx/img115/6282/firefoxhosed5wg
Not exactly what I expect from Google. Although I'm sure its working fine for others I have a plain jane install that gives me no grief. It did work on IE btw, but it totally screwed up Firefox. Uninstalling did NOT fix the problem.
I have to say that is the only fair approach. Considering every broadband commercial I see these days mentions the ability to "download music and movies" its only right to give them a warning first time. Mention just how bad the penalties are then the RIAA et all could go forward with suits knowing that they were being fair. Anyone who still downloads movies after being caught and warned about it doesn't have much of an excuse.
But no of course they won't do that. They'll just toss you away and throw away the key. I wonder what percentage of people in jail will be there due to copyright issues by 2010? 10%? 15%? What was that story about the Prez's Ipod being filled with illegal music again?
I'll take your word for it as far as your particular site goes, but as far as the rest of the Internet is concerned Firefox use is way higher than .5%. More like try moving that decimal point to the right a notch. I bet even Microsoft.com shows way higher than .5% Firefox usage.
a rticle=6 263
FWIW
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?
128bit aac is what apple considers "CD quality", many users disagree. AAC at higher bitrates much like mp3 sounds fine. IMHO space is cheap and compatibility is important. Stick with mp3/256 if you planning on keeping your music longterm.
Personally I have actually bought songs from itunes and think it sound ok in most cases, but I think people who don't realize that they are sacrificing on quality when buying from Itunes are being foolish. In 15 years those AAC files(like you won't lose access to time over time) may very well start to sound like crap on modern audio equipment. Then again maybe the software will be so good that it will be able to make up for the high compression.
Anyway you get my point, just because most people think that Itune's low bitrate, high compression AAC sounds "O.K" it doesn't mean that a lot of people don't think that it comes up short. Not to even mention the audio quality problems that both Itunes and the Ipods themselves have had.