I think you should really only buy these things if you have a use for them. Buying them for the sake of being cool, which so many people do, is just ridiculous.
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I think you should really only buy these things if you have a use for them. Buying them for the sake of being cool, which so many people do, is just ridiculous.
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no WMA isn't superior and it'sa definitely NOT a replica of a CD. WMA is roughly equal to MP3 - neither are high def. WMA has compression too, unless you use WMA Lossless. AAC trumps them both but the best of course is AIFF (CD). At the end of the day, digital is digital, the differences, if the right settings are chosen on audio creation, are minimal. WMA does have the ability for surround sound which is a bonus. But from a consumer point of view it's rubbish because it's so small in market share.
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Do you consider that good or bad?
The iPad definitely has an appeal. It does all of the thing a low cost laptop does and it plays casual games. And although I'm not an expert on it, it is approaching the concept of the "toaster" computer. The appliance that you don't really need to know anything geeky to operate. The only critique I've heard about it is that it does not run Java, instead it runs HTML5. This could be limiting on some web sites today. Who knows about tomorrow.
The reason I won't buy one is because I carry a MacBookPro with me on trips and that does everything I want including playing AAA games via Windows on Bootcamp. Due to Windows/Apple development history, all games are optimized for Windows and a small percentage of them are ported to the Mac. And the Mac ports tend to be crappy with other issues.
When Apple allowed Windows to boot on it's hardware, it made huge advances in market share so maybe game developers in the future might spend more time creating native Mac games, and I don't mean Cider (technical term).
That sounds like a personal problem
. Most of my music I buy on CD and move it to iTunes. No problem. Really though DRM is the wave of here and now and will only get worse as time goes by. This is why I try to avoid Steam, a Valve online gaming server, when I can.
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That sounds like a personal problem
Is DRM something iTunes likes? I've never encountered it. I use almost exclusively Winamp and WMP
DRM is on the out. It was only introduced because music companies insisted on it before they would sign up to the iTunes store. A lot of the major labels have already ditched it. Give it a few years and it'll be history. The future of music is free!
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DRM= Digital Rights Management. This applies to any digital based property. In the video gaming department it's becoming a big problem. Ubisoft is now requiring the playing their games even in solo mode requires an active internet connection.
Maybe in Europe, maybe things are improving regarding music, but with video gaming I disagree.
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you disagree with DRM or with illegal distribution?
Minor Axis
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I disagree that DRM is on the way out. If anything it is accelerating in the games department.
It's only on the way out in the music industry. I'd agree that with gaming, they're increasing the security all the time.
Luckily the game industry can only move as fast as the hackers who have already cracked it
The game industry also makes staggeringly huge profits these days, I have little sympathy.
Yes, only steal from corporations boys and girls.
The internet is gloriously democratic. And the people are speaking: generally people do not want to pay for music and software.
People are being successful online these days by making money in other ways.
People, generally speaking, don't want to pay for anything.
But in the real world they realise what they are doing is wrong. On the internet, it's fine as long as you hide behind some warped ethics.
warped ethics? Don't know if I agree with that.
The internet is bringing a massive change to our culture and how we receive it. Now more and more people are doing things on their own, making their own software, making their own music, and releasing it online under Creative Commons licenses. No longer will our culture be dictated to us by corporations based on how much profit they can make from it.
Time to embrace the future
So you're happy that culture is dictated by corporations for profit? Think of all the great culture they've kept from us because they don't think they'll make money from it.
the internet has changed the economic model for our culture. It's being paid for, those embracing the future are making money by doing so, it's just the new economy won't support the large corporations. Their time has come.
and by the way, what on earth has communism got to do with it???
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