On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian
<BAlbers@premiereradio.com> wrote:
quoted 6 lines My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one
>
> My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one
> out as well. I'll be travelling for the next year or so and not being able to take my 600 or
> so cds with me, I cannot understate how valuable these two little monsters will be to
> me. And I am neither a teenager or a girl.
>
Perhaps a girlyman, yes?
I think the only thing that bothers me about those little thingers
that hold a bajillion tracks is that the failure mode is so extreme.
1950 -- you scratch your record you hear a little click. You gouge the
crap out of it, and one song doesn't play, the rest still do. You
crack the record, you can still play the songs that aren't cracked.
1983 - you scratch your cd, it starts sounding like Oval. You scratch
it too much, it's unplayable.
2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are
gone - poof. Sure you've got those files at home, but you're in
Botswana and the only music available is bad South African pop* and
guys beating on logs**
As storage capacity has gone up, what you lose when something goes
wrong gets bigger.
* I don't know anything about South African pop music, Irene, but
generally where there's pop music, there's bad pop music.
**guys beating on logs can be super cool:
http://tinyurl.com/5yfyf
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