I think it has more to do with the fact that most people have no idea what "lossily compressed" means. As far they're concerned MP3 = music file. They aren't aware of the existence of FLAC or OGG files, let alone that they have any benefit over mp3s.
the MP3 format and its use are an example of herb simon's "satisficing." people have downloaded MP3s for years and they hear decent quality, good enough to keep them coming back to MP3s. if MP3s are fine with them, and have been fine with them, why bother with a better quality file when they already get what they want out of MP3s? for a majority of people, their MP3s work just fine in windows media player, so not only are they not aware of the benefits of OGG/FLAC formats, they really have a need to care about them.
i occasionally get those banner ads, and noticed once that one of them used a picture of "next door nicki." it said she was located in my city, and she actually does live there, she went to one of the other high schools in my city. however, when i am at college, apparently she changes her name and moves into the town i go to college in.
Threaded replies are just a pain. That's why it took so long to reply to you as a I had to go throught all the replies to make sure someone hadn't already said what I wanted to.
more people should follow your lead. it gets old reading the exact same comments over and over and over, and all of them are moderated up the same even though the first post of that same idea was made hours and hours ago.
the guide to securing Windows XP is actually a link to http://distrowatch.com/ so you can choose one of the many different options they have laid out for you.
someone at my school took to the sidewalks promoting a sale at one of the beer stores, right next to the sidewalk chalk mentioning flu shots in the health office or something. now those are the kinds of sidewalk chalk advertisements i will pay attention to
i love how half of this page is devoted to how this comment is fake/reposted. you people need to take a joke, fucking losers are doing nothing but crying about it. "-1, flamebait" on the way.
I agree! M$ has crappy coders who don't understand basic programming and all their code is spaghetti. Only really dumb script kiddies go to work there.
can this be modded "-1, stupidest post on the internet"
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I think it has more to do with the fact that most people have no idea what "lossily compressed" means. As far they're concerned MP3 = music file. They aren't aware of the existence of FLAC or OGG files, let alone that they have any benefit over mp3s.
the MP3 format and its use are an example of herb simon's "satisficing." people have downloaded MP3s for years and they hear decent quality, good enough to keep them coming back to MP3s. if MP3s are fine with them, and have been fine with them, why bother with a better quality file when they already get what they want out of MP3s? for a majority of people, their MP3s work just fine in windows media player, so not only are they not aware of the benefits of OGG/FLAC formats, they really have a need to care about them.
yes, duh. google is still sleeping.
i occasionally get those banner ads, and noticed once that one of them used a picture of "next door nicki." it said she was located in my city, and she actually does live there, she went to one of the other high schools in my city. however, when i am at college, apparently she changes her name and moves into the town i go to college in.
With external/portable hard drives these days looking much cheaper, I would say that your best bet is to check one of them out.
put $sys$ in your email address, or username for paypal, and you will get right around anything stopping nigerians.
you dont read much on here, do you?
It took forever to calculate 12 + 15
if only you would have known about $sys$ back then
once the on-demand content bringers outsource, is it acceptable that Joheeb hands you a DVD instead of Joe?
Threaded replies are just a pain. That's why it took so long to reply to you as a I had to go throught all the replies to make sure someone hadn't already said what I wanted to.
more people should follow your lead. it gets old reading the exact same comments over and over and over, and all of them are moderated up the same even though the first post of that same idea was made hours and hours ago.
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OT, but i have to say i've loved TE-37s for the longest time, especially in bronze. great choice, and nice car you have there.
I didnt know you have to be homeless to drink Old E? At least when I become homeless, I'll be partially prepared.
It's kind of like farts: anything other than your own smell is distasteful.
mine can be pretty distasteful. i even had a tremendously distasteful one earlier today, bad enough that i left the room for a little bit.
Researchers find that college students enjoy eating and sitting down.
Dr. Angus already figured this out, didn't you see the commercials for it? Burger King was on top of their game with that one.
^^must be the PTSD from trying to secure windows boxes only to have them be bombarded days later
calm down, it was simply a post to get some laughs and make people chuckle.
the guide to securing Windows XP is actually a link to http://distrowatch.com/ so you can choose one of the many different options they have laid out for you.
someone at my school took to the sidewalks promoting a sale at one of the beer stores, right next to the sidewalk chalk mentioning flu shots in the health office or something. now those are the kinds of sidewalk chalk advertisements i will pay attention to
nope, you still missed the point
i love how half of this page is devoted to how this comment is fake/reposted. you people need to take a joke, fucking losers are doing nothing but crying about it. "-1, flamebait" on the way.
i love how this was modded as "insightful"
yeah i have a friend over there too. he emailed me about a very large sum of money i am entitled to the other day. its not a scam either!
can this be modded "-1, stupidest post on the internet"
i wonder if they stopped to hunt at all, then shot 2600 lbs of food and were only allowed to take back 250 lbs or whatever
this works in IE as well (not saying you didnt know that), so selling this feature to old people doesnt require a browser change to firefox.
They are also in trouble with 50 Cent and G-Unit because google introduced it's new gang, GUnit, which is too close to 50 Cent's group.
am i the only person that doesnt care at all about this? its a bunch of cartoons.
mod me down for not liking cartoons, i already know its coming.