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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Folks,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:42:32 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:


>> I listen to internet radio at about 20K signal, which uses far less
>> bandwidth than the 10.5MB ATI Windows video driver we went to the library
>> to fetch (turns out they also want some large installer which you can only
>> download with Windows).  Banning Windows would be far more effective than
>> banning sound.

> Why do internet radio when the broadcast signals are everywhere and you
> can pick up a radio for a dollar at a garage sale?

   I also listen to internet radio from time to time.


>> My 56K connection is not adequate for listening to 20K internet radio - it
>> keeps cutting out.  Is Bach mindless entertainment?

> Sure can be. If you aren't paying attention to it and just letting it run in
> the background. That's mindless.

   :)

   I think you are missing the point here.

> Again: I suggest that you get an FM radio and listen to a classical music
> station. They are all over the place. Relying on computers to do things
> that are already done very well by existing services is wasteful.

   I would suggest that listening to internet radio is not something
that one does not pay attention to. Be it Bach (not my own cup of tea)
or other specialist music (my own is traditional Celtic music), one would 
not have it running if the whole purpose is to ignore it.

   On the other hand, if there is an internet radio station that caters
to one's own interests (e.g. that are not enough in the mainstream to 
attract the sponsorship of commercial suport) then an internet radio
broadcast can fit the bill quite nicely.  Especially when it is not in
the same country, or even hemisphere, as one's self.

   In my case, that is something that my computer can do, but any number
of FM radios will fail to do.

Regards from the Antipodes,
                             Ron




Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://www.tadpoletunes.com
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