Klonk Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:13:00 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] Our friend Organism]:
Organism, Again, I go by "gcr", not "Organism".
So what have you been working on for the list? Hmmmm? Your posts are always so full of great Yello content. Well, if you scroll back a ways, you will see that I torrented several rare vinyl-extractions as flacs, by which many on the list did indeed gain. My entire flac collection is still available to anyone who wants me to seed them.
Even further back, I hosted the yello.technologypimps.com ftp server. Due to the number of users that accessed that system, I would say that it was a happiness up until the day of it's unforseen and unavoidable demise. But who's keeping track? Is there suddenly a qualification each of us on the list must obtain in order to have our presence be valued?
There were no complaints about the .mov format back then. You also weren't schilling for your iReligion in that post. As I said, it's not so much the use of QuickSlime itself that I found grating, but your push for planned obsolescence with your announcement that future posts were going to be compacted with a less-accessible format.
wanted everyone to know was that QT7 was available and it allows much higher quality videos. I thought everyone would be pleased. ... but your facts are not straignt. For instance, of the three version of the Jingle Bells vid, links to which that you posted, the LARGEST BY FAR [19MB] was your beloved QT7, and is also the one that had some very serious artifacts in the first several seconds of the file.
SO perhaps you might want to do just a tad more learning before you get back to preaching.
The Mac, Windows,, Linux, thing: All that is is just harmless trash talk. ... which is why you will notice that I have not risen to your bait. Wait a few moons and twinkle your little toes down to your local iChapel and purchase a brand shiny new Mac X86-arch and install Winders 3.11 - I truly don't care. Just don't expect us all to get tight shorts every time you squeal about the latest SlaveWare.
And again, so that there is clarity and disparity, I say again that your posts are appreciated at least by me. Really. As I pointed out before, your actions will show your motives. If you seek to share, you'll use a common codec. If you seek to convert with bait, then you'll use your holy artifacts. --gcr