Sounds like Metallica and Dre realise their careers are on a downturn.
Napster is a good scapegoat. They're someone to blame, someone to get money out of and an easy way to gain publicity.
"because gateway, dell, compaq and the like use the cheapest parts they can get their mits on, they gotta compete in a competitive market. build yourself a decent system without using those $10 bestbuy modems and soundcards & youll have a decent system."
Did that. Now my PC costs as much as an off-the-shelf Macintosh.
"this common mistake comes from the fact that win9x acutally has software available for it. of course macos never crashes! its never doing anything!"
What USEFUL software does the PC have that the Mac doesn't?
"thanks for proving to us once again that people who use macs only do so because they dont know any better"
FYI, my desktop PC dual boots Win98 and Win2000. My laptop dual boots linux and Win98. I also have a SparcStation running Solaris 8.
Most of the people I know who use Macs are bright and creative people. MacOS is still the platform of choice in the professional audio profession.
In my experience, Macintosh hardware is, in general, of a higher quality than most intel systems. Since I switched to Intel, I've had to replace a piece of hardware about every 3 or 4 months. MacOS is also more stable than Win9x.
Sure. I have a perfect example.
Suppose I have purchased a DVD and I want to transfer the audio to a CD-R so I can listen to it in my car. Should I be forced to pay again for material I already own. Suppose the material doesn't exist on CD.
Ogg Vorbis looks promising. I have downloaded beta version of the ogg codec and have found it comparable or superior to mp3 at the same file sizes.
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html
Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (AAC and TwinVQ), and PAC.
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Sounds like Metallica and Dre realise their careers are on a downturn. Napster is a good scapegoat. They're someone to blame, someone to get money out of and an easy way to gain publicity.
"because gateway, dell, compaq and the like use the cheapest parts they can get their mits on, they gotta compete in a competitive market. build yourself a decent system without using those $10 bestbuy modems and soundcards & youll have a decent system." Did that. Now my PC costs as much as an off-the-shelf Macintosh. "this common mistake comes from the fact that win9x acutally has software available for it. of course macos never crashes! its never doing anything!" What USEFUL software does the PC have that the Mac doesn't? "thanks for proving to us once again that people who use macs only do so because they dont know any better" FYI, my desktop PC dual boots Win98 and Win2000. My laptop dual boots linux and Win98. I also have a SparcStation running Solaris 8.
Most of the people I know who use Macs are bright and creative people. MacOS is still the platform of choice in the professional audio profession. In my experience, Macintosh hardware is, in general, of a higher quality than most intel systems. Since I switched to Intel, I've had to replace a piece of hardware about every 3 or 4 months. MacOS is also more stable than Win9x.
Sure. I have a perfect example. Suppose I have purchased a DVD and I want to transfer the audio to a CD-R so I can listen to it in my car. Should I be forced to pay again for material I already own. Suppose the material doesn't exist on CD.
Here's a link about firewire copy protection posted on intel's site: http://developer.intel.com/technology/1394/
Ogg Vorbis looks promising. I have downloaded beta version of the ogg codec and have found it comparable or superior to mp3 at the same file sizes. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (AAC and TwinVQ), and PAC.