Yes, it's true that adding convenience features will ALWAYS introduce the possibility for exploitation.
However, my relatively simple Samsung PCS phone with WAP support has the SAME ability to dial phone numbers from e-mails. Yet, it is not exploitable because it simply does this:
I am the Director of IS for the fastest growing audiophile software retailer in the US, and am thus in a unique position to observe the strange culture of Audiophilia from the inside.
There are a lot of generalizations made both in the article and in previous postings here.
Let me promote hypocrisy and generalize further by classifying Audiophiles into one of three categories:
- Music lovers who want their sound to be extremely accurate, or want it to sound "as good as live"
- Extremely wealthy people who crave the new, the expensive, the tweakish and the braggable
- Men going through a midlife crisis
ALL audiophile women ( 1% of the culture) with whom I have interacted have fit into the first category.
No matter which category an audiophile fits into, the one common characteristic is their persistence. Someone likened this to a drug addiction and it ain't far from the truth.
For example, people in the first (and most respectable, IMO) category are often relatively poor compared to other audiophiles. Yet they will send in orders to us with instructions to "keep trying their credit card 'til it goes through" or "hold this order until the 30th when I get my paycheck."
We sit around the office and debate their priorities. As in drug dealing, there is even a morality issue; On the streets, "the first one is always free." Here in the audiophile industry, we have "Free shipping on your first order."
Before a full-blooded audiophile flames me, please note that I am with you guys; I have heard LPs and I think they beat CDs hands-down; I have heard tube gear and I think it sounds better than solid state. But I CAN'T hear the difference between two different AC power cords, and I don't think you can, either.;)
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Yes, it's true that adding convenience features will ALWAYS introduce the possibility for exploitation.
However, my relatively simple Samsung PCS phone with WAP support has the SAME ability to dial phone numbers from e-mails. Yet, it is not exploitable because it simply does this:
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I am the Director of IS for the fastest growing audiophile software retailer in the US, and am thus in a unique position to observe the strange culture of Audiophilia from the inside. There are a lot of generalizations made both in the article and in previous postings here. Let me promote hypocrisy and generalize further by classifying Audiophiles into one of three categories: - Music lovers who want their sound to be extremely accurate, or want it to sound "as good as live" - Extremely wealthy people who crave the new, the expensive, the tweakish and the braggable - Men going through a midlife crisis ALL audiophile women ( 1% of the culture) with whom I have interacted have fit into the first category. No matter which category an audiophile fits into, the one common characteristic is their persistence. Someone likened this to a drug addiction and it ain't far from the truth. For example, people in the first (and most respectable, IMO) category are often relatively poor compared to other audiophiles. Yet they will send in orders to us with instructions to "keep trying their credit card 'til it goes through" or "hold this order until the 30th when I get my paycheck." We sit around the office and debate their priorities. As in drug dealing, there is even a morality issue; On the streets, "the first one is always free." Here in the audiophile industry, we have "Free shipping on your first order." Before a full-blooded audiophile flames me, please note that I am with you guys; I have heard LPs and I think they beat CDs hands-down; I have heard tube gear and I think it sounds better than solid state. But I CAN'T hear the difference between two different AC power cords, and I don't think you can, either. ;)