Because FLAC is very poorly supported among both portable media devices and media center devices? Further, the difference in actual perceptible quality between a high quality mp3/ogg/wma/whatever encoding and a FLAC encoding is between negligible and non-existent, negating pretty much any benefit of FLAC. Media archival is one area where FLAC is an obvious choice for, but bit-for-bit storage is generally something only a subset of music enthusiasts care about, and so unless constantly transcoding FLAC into a format that your chosen non-PC device supports is your idea of a good time, then it's just not worth the effort...
I agree. No one talks about the sound quality anymore (eg importance of the quality of the loudspeakers, new models of the amplifiers... even headphones are out of the focus), but only about informatical aspects: bandwith, gigabytes,... It's assumed that sound quality is good enough.
1) No package manager. No one can tell to which program one dll belongs. Thats the reason why Windows directory grows and grows, until reinstall. Vendors are responsible for existence of uninstall information. That should be task of operating system.
2) Registry is tragedy, comparing to shell environment and config files in Unix. Existence of 441 pages long "Windows XP Registry Guide" book is proof of big conceptional problem.
3) Instead of new icons, it would be more useful if some script language would be more popularized. How many Windows "experts" you know, who are able to write a decent script ("for" loop, or something similar)? Do MS delivers a Perl anymore, as they did with Resource Pack for Win2K?
We could possibly confess to our dogs about problem at work, ask our dog for advice on raising children, or comply about spouse. Probably much better response, than talking to flower.
>Windows is supposed to run slower with each new version, so you will have to buy current hardware to run it,
So is KDE!
> at new-technology prices, so that the cost of the Windows OS, as a proportion of the total price of the delivered computer, will stay below a level they figured is likely to trigger a consumer revolt.
That sounds like a conspiracy theory. But, KDE conspirates with no one and still it needs more and more resources. That a way (traditional) user interface develop.
Another way of development is browser-based user interface; in a way return of mainframe "Send Screen" button, where server processing is more important than communication. Light client and so on.
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Because FLAC is very poorly supported among both portable media devices and media center devices? Further, the difference in actual perceptible quality between a high quality mp3/ogg/wma/whatever encoding and a FLAC encoding is between negligible and non-existent, negating pretty much any benefit of FLAC. Media archival is one area where FLAC is an obvious choice for, but bit-for-bit storage is generally something only a subset of music enthusiasts care about, and so unless constantly transcoding FLAC into a format that your chosen non-PC device supports is your idea of a good time, then it's just not worth the effort...
I agree. No one talks about the sound quality anymore (eg importance of the quality of the loudspeakers, new models of the amplifiers... even headphones are out of the focus), but only about informatical aspects: bandwith, gigabytes,... It's assumed that sound quality is good enough.
If it kills his music, who cares?
Info I need most is not covered:
- handling the archives larger than 2GB and files in archive larger than 2GB
- crossplatform compatibility
Few percent or seconds up or down does not matter to me at all.
A question of DC vs AC for electricity distribution was the subject of conflict between Edison an Tesla in 19th century. You can read more on that:
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<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
1) No package manager. No one can tell to which program one dll belongs. Thats the reason why Windows directory grows and grows, until reinstall. Vendors are responsible for existence of uninstall information. That should be task of operating system.
2) Registry is tragedy, comparing to shell environment and config files in Unix. Existence of 441 pages long "Windows XP Registry Guide" book is proof of big conceptional problem.
3) Instead of new icons, it would be more useful if some script language would be more popularized. How many Windows "experts" you know, who are able to write a decent script ("for" loop, or something similar)? Do MS delivers a Perl anymore, as they did with Resource Pack for Win2K?
We could possibly confess to our dogs about problem at work, ask our dog for advice on raising children, or comply about spouse. Probably much better response, than talking to flower.
>Windows is supposed to run slower with each new version, so you will have to buy current hardware to run it,
So is KDE!
> at new-technology prices, so that the cost of the Windows OS, as a proportion of the total price of the delivered computer, will stay below a level they figured is likely to trigger a consumer revolt.
That sounds like a conspiracy theory. But, KDE conspirates with no one and still it needs more and more resources. That a way (traditional) user interface develop.
Another way of development is browser-based user interface; in a way return of mainframe "Send Screen" button, where server processing is more important than communication. Light client and so on.
>There's nothing accidental about it.
You are right, but in other sense