Comments on: Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:57:49 +0000

i’ve never found anything to complain about, quality-wise, and as far as i can tell, none of them has ever caused any problems for my computer.

then again, i don’t buy a lot of music, so it’s possible that i’ve just been lucky so far. either way, i refuse to worry about it. if i find something i like, i just buy it and play it. if my computer crashes, it’ll slow down my opinion-spouting a bit, but not by much.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:08:38 +0000

I would think that there is a good deal more quality control from indies than from the major labels, because most of them are burning the disks in their own machines that are on a stand-alone machine or having them copied on a small order basis by a dedicated CD copier. They can’t afford to have problems, and need a decent level of skill to do it themselves.

As they get better they will buy a CD printer, to make their efforts more professional because small batch CD printing costs an arm and leg at most shops.

The software is available and semi-reasonably priced.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:41:03 +0000

🙂

the last few years, i’ve mostly gone to free concerts by local or regional indie musicians, and bought their CDs from them. i have no idea if this lessens my chance of having malware attack me, or increases it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:16:25 +0000

“Imaginary”? Either I have a powerful imagination, or Bryan closed the tag for you. 🙂

Ever since audio CDs got rootkits, I’ve stopped inserting media discs of any sort in my computer’s drive. Yeah, I know, they fixed that one. And there will never, ever be another incident like that. Right?

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:09:55 +0000

oops. insert an imaginary /b after wild.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:08:28 +0000

wild-eyed, of course. you had to be told this?

mostly i use the dvd player to listen to music, or watch the occasional travel video, not having a very high opinion of the movies of today.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:48:51 +0000

Considering the quality of movies today, the kittens probably think of those buttons (as I do) as dvd Reject keys. hipparchia, does that mean you are wide-eyed, or wild-eyed?

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:25:21 +0000

we have two eyes; why not use two monitors, and focus one eye on each monitor.
that’s how i do it. i thought everybody did. you mean they don’t?

as for the kittens, they’re still happy with the dvd eject keys.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:28:15 +0000

I’m still searching, but there are a lot of forums to read with people asking, but no one offering solutions.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:45:51 +0000

(Sigh. Correction: “… cycling… HAS an interesting and unpleasant effect…”)

Bryan, you’re right. I use both sets of Ctrl and Alt keys all the time, but when I merely look at the keyboard, I tend to forget about the right-hand set. A kitten could indeed do it; indeed, some kitten probably has.

hipparchia, why not… after all, we have two eyes; why not use two monitors, and focus one eye on each monitor. :p

Bryan, you mean your cats don’t have control panels and settable options? 🙂