Is it me, or is the thought of the recording industry having control over mp3 a little scary? The implementation of a "watermark" system would mean that the mp3 player (winamp and the like) would have to write in special code to check for the watermark and reject anything that lacked it. This gives the record companies immense control over the format, in my not-so-humble opinion. Watermarking is not good. It does degrade quality. It also will stop me, as an everyday consumer, from making MP3s from my CD collection for my own personal use. CD's get scratched and generally mutilated. MP3s are an easy way of maintaining a backup. 'nuff said.
Prepare yourself... you're about to get flamed... I will, however, not take that route. To answer your question, quite simply, no. Linux is a multi-user, unix-like system that is distributed for free. It is more stable than windows, runs faster than windows, and smells better than windows. I'm sure you'll hear a lot more.
And I have one too! Lots of people probably will think it stinks. I spent two years at a Big Ten school before dropping out and becoming a "working geek". Since then, my experience has brought me much more than my so-called education. While in college, I was employed by the IS department and worked as a graphic artist/network administrator (really wierd position) for the campus cable station. These two experiences alone, not the fact that I took a handful of worthless CS and telecom courses, landed me my first job in the "real world". On my resume, education is listed last. I think that if you are fortunate, as I have been, to land some good working experience, then college may not be the way. But if you aren't as lucky, college is definitely an avenue to break into the world.
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Is it me, or is the thought of the recording industry having control over mp3 a little scary? The implementation of a "watermark" system would mean that the mp3 player (winamp and the like) would have to write in special code to check for the watermark and reject anything that lacked it. This gives the record companies immense control over the format, in my not-so-humble opinion. Watermarking is not good. It does degrade quality. It also will stop me, as an everyday consumer, from making MP3s from my CD collection for my own personal use. CD's get scratched and generally mutilated. MP3s are an easy way of maintaining a backup. 'nuff said.
Prepare yourself... you're about to get flamed... I will, however, not take that route. To answer your question, quite simply, no. Linux is a multi-user, unix-like system that is distributed for free. It is more stable than windows, runs faster than windows, and smells better than windows. I'm sure you'll hear a lot more.
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And I have one too! Lots of people probably will think it stinks. I spent two years at a Big Ten school before dropping out and becoming a "working geek". Since then, my experience has brought me much more than my so-called education. While in college, I was employed by the IS department and worked as a graphic artist/network administrator (really wierd position) for the campus cable station. These two experiences alone, not the fact that I took a handful of worthless CS and telecom courses, landed me my first job in the "real world". On my resume, education is listed last. I think that if you are fortunate, as I have been, to land some good working experience, then college may not be the way. But if you aren't as lucky, college is definitely an avenue to break into the world.
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Hear Hear! And besides... his bitch in and of itself perpetuated the very thing he was bitching about. His post had nothing about the music itself.
Did I mention stupid people shouldn't breed?
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