For my birthday, I decided to buy a MP3 player. After much consideration (I considered Neuros' strange dual player combination, as well as the Rio Karma), I finally decided on an iPod. The fact that part of my digital music collection is in AAC format was the biggest draw. While I did have fifty of so files in Ogg Vorbis format, they were all from CDs I bought earlier this year, so I just re-ripped them (the only Ogg file I have left is Fenster's version of the Free Software Song, which seems somewhat poignant).
Since I only ordered it a couple of days, it will not arrive in time for my birthday (which starts in a couple of minutes). It has shipped, so I spend most of my spare minutes refreshing its FedEx tracking page. Since the last time I shipped something important (two suitcases containing almost all of my clothes) with FedEx, it got disappeared somewhere between Harrisburg and Boston (technically, only the suitcase containing my winter wardrobe got lost; the other with its clothes for warmer weather arrived on time), I am a bit antsy looking at the location information:
At 8:28 on January 11, 2005, This is Martey Dodoo wrote:
Today is My Birthday I was initially hesitant to reveal my birthday, as I feared that one of my various online accounts' sole security question was "What is your birthday?" After some thought, I could not think of any, which suggests that even if it were an issue, any s...
At 3:50 on May 15, 2005, This is Martey Dodoo wrote:
Ogg on iPod?
At 6:44 on September 4, 2005, bobbie wrote:
Ogg vorbis is for communists losers. Why would anyone want to support the lazy other %90 of the world population with quality free open source software that benefits all humankind as true equals? I say we keep those dumb poor people enslaved to advanced ideas like privatization, dictatorships, death squads, wage slavery, military drafts, mortgages etc. Because they deserve it for being so ignorant and lazy. Yeah so what if they make all of our products and make the whole world actually go around. They wouldn't be anything without us telling them what to do with our television, news, magazine, and microchip brain programming. The silly barbarians. It's crazy that they think they have some kind of choice. Coke or Pepsi. Ha ha ha. I say we continue to keep them addicted to a fake supply and demand market, spray chemtrails everywhere and keep pumping industrial wasteproducts like fluoride in their water so their IQ's get even lower, stay hyperactive with their kids on prozac, and die young from the effects of processed foods. They deserve it. All we have to do is tell them our paid experts say it's good for them. They are so gullible and they love giving their power away! I'm so glad Abraham Lincoln started slavery on such a grand, yet more subtle level as he did. Now I can make pure profits off the blood, sweat, and tears of all you sheep. And you don't even have to be a minority anymore! All this terror safety fluff that we have been spreading over the years is really cashing in to a cashless, prison planet. Perfect for intelligent people like ourselves to live the good life. Keep sleeping and working hard for nothing, and remember..... War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery.
At 6:52 on September 4, 2005, Martey wrote:
If the world is really as bad as you say it is, I fail to see how widespread adoption of Ogg Vorbis will significantly change things.