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I think you have a nice point but you are still being modded down. I modded you up though.

Once you get Ipod Linux running on it, things can be different. :}

Hey, flown on a US airline any time recently? Their airline catalogs are FULL of Hammer Schlemmer iPod nonsense- iPod boomboxes, iPod massage chairs, more stylish iPod boomboxes...

Because cell phones that are mp3 players tend to suck at both? The ipod plays music and does a beautiful job at it compared to any cell phone that I've owned (mostly motorola stuff).

But I'm against digital convergence when it means that the end result is something that does all of the tasks terribly...and that's what is there on the market.

The ipod plays music and does a beautiful job at it compared to any cell phone that I've owned (mostly motorola stuff).

Oh yes-- when compared to cell phones.

However, the problem with .mp3 players such as the iPod is that audio quality is usually *appaling* when compared to more mature personal audio systems such as MiniDisc or CD. Where CD and MD sound very warm and full, music from .mp3 players sounds canned, cold.

Thom, definitely.

But that's the payoff of compression. You lose some of the depth of music when compressing it to mp3. You do have options with some mp3 players though (I tend to keep my music uncompressed in my samsung yp-z5).

But you can't carry around 10 hours of music on a cd player or MiniDisc I guess that's another payoff.

But you can't carry around 10 hours of music on a cd player or MiniDisc

One 1GB HiMD disc can contain up to 30+ hours of music (in low-quality ATRAC3). However, better to use 132kpbs ATRAC3, which will give you about 16 hours of music on one HiMD disc. Not bad.

http://www.minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html#_q93

Edited 2006-09-08 21:05

Replying again...

But it's not just the sound that make cell phones suck. The interfaces are usually terrible, hard to navigate and leave much to be desired. That and the space is limited to what you can get on MiniSD or MicroSD (MicroSD for my phones).

"Where CD and MD sound very warm and full, music from .mp3 players sounds canned, cold."

Funny, that was the exact argument against CD's back in the day....

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We're getting kind of tired of this nonsense. OSNews is about more than just operating systems. Get used to it.

You'd think that there being an OS on that object in the toilet would be enough but there is just no pleasing some people.

Get used to it? I'd think that OSNews should get used to what we, the viewership, want.

Get used to it? I'd think that OSNews should get used to what we, the viewership, want.

Because you pay them so well?

Exactly, nobody that visits this site is forced to:

a) Subscribe to the feeds
b) Click on any links
c) Read any articles

I'm starting to wish the readers were a bit more like Slashdot some days. At least at Slashdot they don't read the articles, here they read them even if they know they don't want to, then have a royal moan about it as though someone held a gun to their head and forced them.

I ca'n't speak for OSNews here, but if you have a problem with what they choose for news, maybe you should e-mail them about it, maybe include a list of suggestions. If they don't agree with you, oh well.

Because we pay them indrectly through advertising. (They have to have viewers to have revenue bux)

I thought the article was entertaining. I ignored the headline for a while when looking at my RSS feeds, simply because of the word iPod in it (a product I don't own or really care about) but I finally decided to follow the link and I don't think my day is any worse for my trouble.

Relax a little.

I concur. There is always a little place for humor on any site, and its something your demographic would probably find funny (like this thing), why note include it?

Guys, it's a Friday afternoon. Stargate's on tonight. Loosen up a bit

"We're getting kind of tired of this nonsense."

Your readers are getting tired of your nonsense. Perhaps better recognize this to not loose them. Or are you writing only for your own (don't you have a blog already?)?


To all of those who had the "then just don't read it" argument. Your kinda right, but there is no "Shit" .. eh I mean "Fun" sticker on this news, is it?

Pity, has society gotten so stupid you have to label everything?

No, sure not, but sometimes you have to read the crap to identify it as crap, at least the first few sentences.

This article as it stands itself wouldn't be that disturbing, if not recently more and more bullshit would be posted on this site, from every clueless blogposter out there..

Well considering I heard about this about a month ago, its not really even news anymore. The article dates back to August 15th... I can understand new product releases/recalls and useful information - but this is simply kind of ridiculous IMO..

"OSNews is about more than just operating systems."

The name itself could lead one to think otherwise.

The name itself could lead one to think otherwise.

I haven't seen a lot of articles on slashes and dots lately on Slashdot; neither have I seen any digging at Digg. I didn't see any articles on making elixers on LXer either, lately. And ArsTechnica is a total rip-off, there's nothing about asses there.