I haven't bought a CD for, I'd say, over 6-7 years because of mp3s. I started out on IRC and just moved on from there. I'm an early adopter like that.
The thing is, there's a certain economic balance that the major record companies have been unwilling to conceed to. Downloading mp3s isn't actually free... it increasingly takes time and effort (and getting past the marginal fear of 'getting caught'.) But I still find it to be worth my while because there is NO WAY I'd consider paying $20 for a piece of plastic with some data on it. And music is only getting cheaper to produce (especially electronic music like I'm into.)
However, I'm totally willing to pay $5 for a CD with all of the uncompressed audio (as well as properly ID3's mp3 versions) - because it's nice to have a physical item - I'm just not willing to pay $20 for it.
I understand the record companys' business strategy just as well as I understand the US's reason for going to war... that is to say I'm totally baffled. Man, I just don't get this stuff anymore.
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Yo brother (or sister), you should look into your MTU setting because I had a horrible time with disconnects (and almost flipped out) because of it. It's a fairly obscure setting, but worth looking into. Maybe it will help you. Yes yes, I know this isn't a technical support forum:)
Yeah, honestly. Wow, a plasma screen TV, oooh a broadband connection. Why is this at all impressive? It's just a bunch of expensive crap put in one room.
doesn't mean it's actually a properly framed idea. The market pressures of usability have pretty much spelled out the answer long ago... different functionality calls for discrete apps in this instance. There's simply not enough synergy between IM and Email being in the same place to make it worthwhile... it's just cluttered. It would have happened long ago and been successful if it were useful because it's not technically very difficult to accomplish. Blah. Some ideas that come out of that place are pretty weak (and others rock.) Oh well.
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The thing is, there's a certain economic balance that the major record companies have been unwilling to conceed to. Downloading mp3s isn't actually free... it increasingly takes time and effort (and getting past the marginal fear of 'getting caught'.) But I still find it to be worth my while because there is NO WAY I'd consider paying $20 for a piece of plastic with some data on it. And music is only getting cheaper to produce (especially electronic music like I'm into.)
However, I'm totally willing to pay $5 for a CD with all of the uncompressed audio (as well as properly ID3's mp3 versions) - because it's nice to have a physical item - I'm just not willing to pay $20 for it.
I understand the record companys' business strategy just as well as I understand the US's reason for going to war... that is to say I'm totally baffled. Man, I just don't get this stuff anymore.
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Yeah, honestly. Wow, a plasma screen TV, oooh a broadband connection. Why is this at all impressive? It's just a bunch of expensive crap put in one room.
doesn't mean it's actually a properly framed idea. The market pressures of usability have pretty much spelled out the answer long ago... different functionality calls for discrete apps in this instance. There's simply not enough synergy between IM and Email being in the same place to make it worthwhile... it's just cluttered. It would have happened long ago and been successful if it were useful because it's not technically very difficult to accomplish. Blah. Some ideas that come out of that place are pretty weak (and others rock.) Oh well.