maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>>> Until last month, I never used anyting faster than a pentium 266 and
>>> happily used that puter since 1997. But that MB died, so I picked
>>> up this puter with 400mhz P II. Oddly enough, I thought my old
>>> P266 was faster. Now, with this new CPU and another 128m of ram, I
>>> am faster than anything previously used. All I need now is a cpu
>>> cooler that fits and I'll be happy. I think only the gamers need
>>> anything faster than this, and I dont do games. I also run Win98
>>> and have no interest in XP. I recently tried to help a friend with
>>> XP when they kept crashing, and I really learned to appreciate
>>> using w98.

>> You wanna try a decent digital camera and you'll appreciate XP.

>> In spades with ipods.

> I have a decent digital camera. My card reader puts the
> pictures on my harddrive using Win98. I dont understand
> why XP would make this any better. You kind of lost me here !!!!

The advantage with XP is where the camera has a USB connection.
You can just plug the camera in and the camera shows up as a drive
with XP, nothing to install, no farting around at all, its all auto.

> My 1998 version of ACDSEE 2.4 still views them perfectly too. (I never
> saw a need to upgrade it..... More bloat just makes it harder to use.)

In fact that sort of thing is much EASIER to use, nothing to install at all.

> I'm too old to want an Ipod <lol>.
> What DO you call that noise the kids listen
> to on those things, anyhow? It's NOT music.....

You can put any music you like on an ipod.

> My kind of music is all on vinyl and requires
> a "hard to find" needle (also known as a stylus).

Figures. A decent electronic music system leaves that
for dead even if you dont need the portability of an ipod.

And even you should have noticed that turntables and styluses
dont actually work that well in the car or out of the house etc.

> Now I dated myself :)

Its more your mentality that you have flaunted.

> Off the topic, but the other day I had a kid helping me and he had to
> change my radio station from the oldies to some of this "noise" they
> listen to these days. The station seemed to play this one song about
> every 45 minutes. (must be the #1 hit of the week). During the whole
> song they kept inducing this 60cycle hum as an effect. It was done
> intentionally. Someone must have kept switching on a microphone with
> a bad cord. Now thats really high tech..... I used to work with a
> sound crew for concerts and we always hated when we had a bad cable.
> Now they use it as part of the song. Like wow, the "dropped ground"
> effect is really cool !!!! Whatever happened to REAL music?

Nothing to stop you putting the sort of music you prefer from your
radio station on an ipod etc so you can listen to what you want to
listen to instead of what the radio station chooses to broadcast.