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  1. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

    I don’t do MP3 unless I have to, and I usually don’t have to; there are much better formats (AIFF. FLAC. OGG. Even AAC. AAC is native to iTunes). And even MP3 can be good (nowhere near 20% losses) if the sample rate and bit rate are good enough. I usually go with 44.1 kHz/16 or 24 bit, 256 kbps (AAC) or 320 kbps (MP3) or whatever I can get (AIFF, FLAC or OGG). 320 is CD-quality. There is no difference, by actual test, between 320 kbps AIFF or OGG or FLAC and a CD, and very little difference with 256 or 320 kbps AAC. And I don’t pay twice for the same product. I especially would never pay for a digital product if I already had a physical disk, disc, or tape. And any digital version WILL be available on ALL my devices, Mac, Windows, Linux, whatever. It’s not going off my network; if I paid for it, you will, too. I’m merely not paying twice. Or three times. Or more.

  2. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

    The first thing I did when I got a (very expensive) CD was convert my audio tape and LP collections to CD. Once I had software that would break the copy protection on certain CDs, I made copies of audio CDs and put the originals away. With the arrival of iTunes and high capacity (500 MB to one glorious gigabyte, who would ever need more storage space than that?), I dumped all digitalized audio to a hard drive. Note that iTunes was a primary way of breaking copy protection; Stevie Jobs hated copy protection with the fury of 10,000 suns, so he pulled a fast one: users could NOT just copy CDs, but could assemble ‘playlists’… and could burn the playlists to CDs up to 7 times. And there wouldn’t be any copy protection on the burned CDs. Audio from the burned CDs could be re-imported into iTunes, with no copy protection and no limits on what could be done. And audio from the Apple Music Store had copy protection… until users created a playlist and burned that playlist to CD.

    When this strip first ran, all my music was in digital formats, on a hard drive, with copies on CD. And, so long as I didn’t put it out where the RIAA could see it, they had no clue that I had it, and there was NOTHING that they could do about it. And as every single track had been bought and paid for, I was legal; the RIAA wanted to charge for audio tape, charge for the same album on LP, charge again for CD, charge again for DAT, and charge one more time for ‘digital downloads.’ They got to make one sale to me, and after that, the album was on a hard drive attached to my home server and available to everyone on my home network… but not to anyone else.

    And if the RIAA didn’t like it (and they didn’t) , well, how sad, too bad, bite me.

  3. 4 days ago on Tank McNamara

    It has stuff to do the bumping. And is usually with several other bits of floating stuff which also have stuff to do the bumping, lots of stuff to do the bumping. And will soon be joined by Enterprise and Doris Miller, both of which will also have a lot of stuff to do the bumping.

    And, besides, the original Jerry wasn’t as bad as some say. He bumped into fewer things than a certain Air Force reservist. And he never vomited into a foreign prime minister’s lap, unlike the reservist’s father.

  4. 4 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Danger, Baby Sitter Girl, danger! Weird kid at six o’clock low! Action stations! I say again, action stations!

  5. 4 days ago on Brewster Rockit

    I was in IT. We generated the lists. We also generated the answers. Certain people never did figure out what PEBKAC, ID-10T, PICNIC, and IBM errors were. One particular VP generated PICNIC errors just by sitting at his desk.

  6. 6 days ago on Luann Againn

    And once again, no Sunday strip. This is getting to be a habit.

  7. 9 days ago on Bloom County

    BellSouth bought AT&T and changed its name to AT&T to protect the guilty. BS also bought Cingular, which had been the original AT&T’s wireless, and had been split off.

  8. 11 days ago on Lio

    girly, you should have made sure that you had all your ingredients ready before you started. Bad witch.

  9. 11 days ago on Lio

    Hmm… yes, they do. Look up ‘radula’; GoComics won’t let me post the URL. Snails have tongues with teeth. Some snails have tongues with venomous teeth. (Note that cats have spiny thingies on their tongues which aren’t as efficient as radulas except in big cats. You don’t want a lion or a tiger to lick you; you really don’t.)

  10. 12 days ago on The Boondocks

    hit him again, Riley! he deserves it!