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Re: [DTXpress] Re: The sound of my dtxpress

2003-11-27 by Theguy Withnoeye

gee, I bet we all get stereotypical sometimes, don't
we?


--- distortion@... wrote:
> vtis0145 wrote:
> 
> >
> > Winamp 2 can play ogg files nicely (i don't know
> about winamp3).  
> >   
> > ogg-endoded files are of better quality than the
> very popular mp3. 
> > And I use ogg because, as they say on their site,
> Ogg Vorbis is 
> > a completely open, patent-free, professional audio
> encoding and 
> > streaming technology with all the benefits of Open
> Source.   
> 
> 
> You believe everything a company says about its
> self? The term 'quality' 
> is a very subjective matter, both are lossy formats
> so who can truly be 
> the judge? From what I see, the main pushers for the
> O.V. format are 
> those people who are always upset by 'corporate
> America' like those that 
> push open source, like yourself... and the tilt of
> the mind slants just 
> one way in most of the 'open source' community.. I
> never said ogg was 
> bad, just said it was not as recognized, therein
> lies the problem.
> 
> > Don't be afraid. Download winamp,
> 
> I'm not afraid... I have Winamp...  Why should I be
> afraid? Have you 
> been seeing black helicopters in my area? Are you
> afraid? My cats seem a 
> little nervous...
> 
> 
> > don't trust microsoft as if they were the only
> systems provider of the 
> > whole world. 
> 
> Oh no.. it begins...
> 
> > I tell you, microsoft has never invented anything.
> The only thing that  
> > microsoft wants is to make impossible to think of
> alternate technologies.
> 
> I bet you have protest signs, all made nice with
> glitter too! What you 
> speak of is the free enterprise system that we all
> know and love, if 
> Bill G. didn't make products that worked, and we all
> bought them, he 
> would not have succeeded. Nothing makes people more
> jealous than 
> success. The hippie culture was all about free and
> sharing too... but 
> look at some of them now in BMWs and Mercedes
> convertibles, they 
> wouldn't use a drop of their chai lattes to put out
> their mother's hair 
> if it were on fire. Just look at Woodstock's
> commercialized comeback...
> 
> 
> > And I don't use windows (i use linux), and I don't
> have a wma encoder.
> 
> Yah, I thought that little penguin guy was cute
> until I realized that if 
> I want to run the most software, and be fully
> compliant with my clients 
> and friends, then I had to use what I use. Anything
> else is just being 
> stubborn.
> 
> 
> >   
> > Please, don't ban something without doing a
> minimum research.
> 
> BAN?? What?? Are the shadow people back? I do the
> research Mr. Linux...  
> I do audio for a living. I was merely making a
> suggestion, you took it 
> as an insult and then went on a tirade about
> Microsoft for some reason.. 
> just like all the other open sorcerers...
> 
> Have a nice open free day.
> gord.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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