Yeah but ubuntu, it's like the dog shit of linux distros.

I used kubuntu for a bit and then went to mint and ultimately went back to debian after finding out they not longer do the nonsense of not having wifi firmware in the dist (I mean there was always the hidden real iso if you went looking even on the official site).

Linux would be widely adopted if ubuntu just quit ;-)

That's what you get on amazon, unstable pricing so they can see how much they can get.

Though it's within limits. I had them cancel an S&S item because it went into the hidden pricing things because the price went up too much. Now sure if they do all that in the US though.

While sad. THis is not new for most palces.

In the 80s/90s I was only ever asked to reasd specific chapters. Yes I read the entire book,. but I was not asked to.

Maybe it's just a US thing? But I doubt US had better requirements for the last 40 years.

Samsung, there is your problem not windows. Avoid samsung like it was well samsung.

> Why hasn't the free market stepped up?

Becuase people are told what they want and are idiots.

Which is why regulation is needed to show people a better way.

Which you clearly as a troll already know.

If only there was a link with an FAQ that answered that dort of thing.

As long as you are not on a discounted plan though.

I pay annually, I got a discount though signing up via a work link.

I checked the cancel option out and I would have to pay more to opt out (50p but hey!).

Which is exactly what PP is talking about.

They got balanced against noobs to make it fair. Now they cannot have an unfair advangtage and everyone can have fun. "WAH WAH", thuis keeps noob interested, they don't want that, they may get better than them.

> Simply leave. They will cave in.

Seems a win on at least one side.

Not gonna happen though.

(the govenment is just spouting shit in order to try to be re-elected, which also aint gonna happen, stil la win either way I guess).

> b) buy a Mac

They don't want worse. (Mac lost it around 10.7)

-3 Mentioned phone again as if that is your only copy rather than temprary fluff.

(It's a poor argument as per my other replies).

Yes I get it, some people want a lot on their phone. Go right ahead.

Should I ever want to I can re-eocode for the phone (into whatever).

The files on the phone are throw away, it's not a backup.

You are still keeping flac as the master file. I rememebr they days of re-encoding video for the phone (or pda), you would not say the 320*200 re-eoncode was your keeper would you? Just temporary fluff.

I feel no need to ever have more than 30 tracks on my phone. I probably have more but not a lot.

I could always stream from cloud anyway I guess (data is unlimited), I doubt I will.

I would say for mp3, VBR changed that. Back when I moved back from ogg I started to use 256 VBR mp3 and they were fine size wise. Of course not all devices liked VBR back then.

But hey coming from the amiga where is was of a low quality 8 bit sample for the songs (and yess I still wanted computerised music back then), anything was better!

Why would you.

If I use something myself today (or 15 years ago), it is going to be flac, space is no longer a consideration for audio.

Also mp3 got much better at higher bitrate and a quick goole says something called "opus" was t4he successor to ogg and I have only just heard about it today becuase well, flac.