My customers did by their choice to buy ice cream from me.
Bad analogy. Microsoft are the only sandwich stand, and they're giving the soda and ice cream away _free_, thus destroying the market for these goods. Their market value is effectively $0, and your competitors can't compete with that.
No, no, no, you don't get it.
They are a monopoly on desktop OSs. There is no problem with that in itself. What they have been convicted of is of leveraging that monopoly to gain an unfair advantage in other markets. Namely, the media player market.
Convicted in the USA and now the EU of being a monopoly in one market, and leveraging that monopoly to work _against a free market_ in other markets.
Bad for me, and bad for you my friend.
I for one think we should do everything the Bad Guys(tm) say. Lest we should be 'hurt'.
But maybe the real problem nice-but-dim Aznar was the way he shameful lied to his people about the perpetrators of the bombings in order to get his party back into power. He even got ministers in other countries to brief their local press that it was ETA - 30 minutes after the incident when they were still pulling the bodies out -when no-one could have even know who had done it.
Even after ETA denied it, and Al-Qaeda accepted responsibility...he still said it was ETA. Would you want this man running your country?
Come on, over 90% of Spaniards were opposed to the war, one of the reasons being that they would be more of a priority target if they supported military action (explicitly stated by Osama bin Laden).
Seems like they were right.
Is there a reason that a better ogg-mp3-ogg transcoder couldn't be created?
Yes. Both formats' encoding methods 'lossy'. As the description implies this means that in order to compress the data they discard, or lose, some of the data, in our case sound.
The real problem is that ogg and mp3 lose different parts of the data. When you encode a wav file to ogg, you lose some part of the data. Re-encode it to mp3 and you lose another, different portion of the data. Hence the degradation in sound quality upon using multiple lossy compressions.
Given that there number of consumer devices which support ogg is low, and that conversion to mp3 from ogg further degrades the sound quality, is there any good reason to keep your files in that format?
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Telephone - Either Bell (British) or Meuci (Italian)
Automobile - Karl Benz (German)
High rise building - Quite tall, no?
Sigh. Noah was a fictional character, well known in Middle Eastern folk tales of the time, probably dating back to the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Yup, had one of those as well.
The Psion 3 went to market in 1991. That's 13 years ago. I feel old.
My customers did by their choice to buy ice cream from me.
Bad analogy. Microsoft are the only sandwich stand, and they're giving the soda and ice cream away _free_, thus destroying the market for these goods. Their market value is effectively $0, and your competitors can't compete with that.No, no, no, you don't get it.
They are a monopoly on desktop OSs. There is no problem with that in itself. What they have been convicted of is of leveraging that monopoly to gain an unfair advantage in other markets. Namely, the media player market.
What next, Slashdot comes to you from the letters 'S' and 'L'?
Convicted in the USA and now the EU of being a monopoly in one market, and leveraging that monopoly to work _against a free market_ in other markets. Bad for me, and bad for you my friend.
Ummm, your batteries don't have to go dead whilst you're on vacation.
Use your PDA for storing contacts, not the PC?
But maybe the real problem nice-but-dim Aznar was the way he shameful lied to his people about the perpetrators of the bombings in order to get his party back into power. He even got ministers in other countries to brief their local press that it was ETA - 30 minutes after the incident when they were still pulling the bodies out -when no-one could have even know who had done it.
Even after ETA denied it, and Al-Qaeda accepted responsibility...he still said it was ETA. Would you want this man running your country?
Really? Are you sure? My Archos player (or any other in their range AFAIK) doesn't support it. Nor any mainstream CD/DVD player.
Come on, over 90% of Spaniards were opposed to the war, one of the reasons being that they would be more of a priority target if they supported military action (explicitly stated by Osama bin Laden). Seems like they were right.
Yes. Both formats' encoding methods 'lossy'. As the description implies this means that in order to compress the data they discard, or lose, some of the data, in our case sound.
The real problem is that ogg and mp3 lose different parts of the data. When you encode a wav file to ogg, you lose some part of the data. Re-encode it to mp3 and you lose another, different portion of the data. Hence the degradation in sound quality upon using multiple lossy compressions.
Just a question, not a troll.
Yeah, yeah - and in Soviet Russia iPods mount you...
You really don't want to do that. Encoding from one lossy format to another will really degrade the quality.
Now, what was it Mussolini said about Fascism being about the merging of the State and Corporation?
Welcome to the future.
Try Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' for quite simply the best film adaptation of Macbeth.
Umm, instead of reading a play, why not go and watch it instead? Makes more sense to me.
Hey, and seeing as you're in London, why not head down the Globe theatre...?
Most used, maybe. Definately not 'most popular'!
And to prove it, you have a wonderfully syntactically challenged President.
Misunderestimated
The inhabitants of Greece are Grecians.
Your Resume/C.V. doesn't have to include every part of your employment history.
well, this is quite proper and normal syntax:
s/(.*?\s+)\(.*?\)/$1/g
Looks like an explosion in the ascii factory to me!