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To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
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>"According to US newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the next version of
>Microsoft's Windows operating system - called XP - has been explicitly
>designed to wean people off MP3. WSJ report that users 'ripping' an MP3 file
>from a CD in Microsoft's forthcoming XP operating system will be limited to
>doing so at just 56 kilobits per second - less than half the 128 kbps
>quality of the average MP3. At 56kbps, MP3s sound muffled and distorted.
[etc.]
Makes me wonder -- why the hell get XP in the first place? is there any
good reason? Oh, it looks nice. Sure. :-)
Still, I bet that won't make it to the final version. Microsoft are too
greedy to bite their own tail that way...
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