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An elephant is sitting with its ass on my face. I eagerly welcome a change from that.

Turner?

Don't know if opposing change is hardwired as much as is resisting even a momentary removal of comfort.

Does that get filed under "representative sampling"?

Gina Martin tells me to agree! Talk about convergence. ..

DSO season opened last night. We've subscribed to the whole season and are going tonight. Good to be getting back into that groove, the concert-attending thing. It's fun!

Apple lossless is AAC format, I think? Not universally accepted on all Windows players, but file conversion is easy enough, or has been. And they play in iTunes, obviously. Regular files, mp3, I would hope, but am not sure. Would like to know for sure. I just want something I can burn on a PC, to have hard copies of.

Forced updates, i.e. - job-enforced - mandate you to adapt. I just got Office 2013 at work today, had heard massive weepings about how "I can't FIND anything anymore", especially in Outlook, but....if you've worked with Microsoft apps before, you should know that there's a hood to get under, right? So I was able to customize it back to as much as it was before as possible. One the one hand, it's a drag that the net result of this is that I had to go through all of this to keep doing everything I was already doing, only to have it "look" a little different. I like the way it looked before, but I was used to that. I'll get used to this. Upside, the new Office does seem to offer greater functionality for true power users (one of which I am not), and it will no doubt work smoother with 10 (if/when we ever get there, right now on 7, and nooooo complaints there for me about that). What strikes me, though, is that so many people get wigged out by change, their first and often only reaction is to cry about it. Well, hell, learn how the shit works, Google it, Click the ?, hell, ask a teammate who's NOT crying, right? There are no mysteries to this stuff, at least not at the basic end-user level. Know your software, own your outcome, right?

It does, and that's part of the motivator for me to start the Chombo Silva thread. There was a guy who "got" the jazz vocabulary, but spoke it with an strong, intrinsic clave "accent", pretty awesome to me, that thing is, upsets me in ways I don't understand. But Chombo grew up in Cuba, right? The Fort Apache Band collectively had a totally different life, so...evolution.

upagin

Obliquely autobiographical, perhaps?

Ok, I don't buy/have yet to buy from iTunes or Apple Music, but will if there's no other option (as seems to be the case here). I'm assuming the files will be offered in non-proprietary formats, correct? And will there be lossless available for those who want them?

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Available only through Apple outlets? Hmmmmm....

These are some tasty grapes and oh so good.

Solowise, sure, why not, but I think he does not bring the necessary weight to the part-playing. Imagine Woody or Freddie, or even a chops-up Lee playing those parts. Put some FRISKY on it!

I like to think of a perfect piano as something one gets to, not something that is just always there. The one thing I have no real appetite for is a more perfect mediocrity.

Counter-intuitive...for us, anyway. Sometimes I see software - proprietary business software, mind you, where the "Accept/Yes/Etc" button is on the right. I spent years getting programmed to react to "Yes" being the first, i.e. left, choice..."Yes or No", not "No or Yes" Also seeing more and more naming conventions switching to straightup First Last instead of Last, First. Either people are going ITunes/File Artist Name crazy or else alphabetization by last name, like handwriting, is becoming a lost art. Or maybe it's that everything has gotten so micro-monetized that ultimately commas cost more in terms of data space/capacity. Am I kidding? Maybe? Evolution continues...my personal opinions notwithstanding, it continues. All I can do is watch and pay attention.

I'm gonna blame Groove Music. Some shit they put on there makes itself the default player and then you gotta get under the hood a little bit to un-default it. Usually it's as simple as going into WMP and choosing file type associations and then defaults. Or was that simple, no idea what's there now. And I would think/hope that in iTunes there is a user setting for requesting confirmation of some or all actions, especially delete. I mean, is anybody really THAT confident?

Welllllllllll....if you successfully engage with software at all, you're going to have to eventually think like the developers and coders. Windows, Linux, Apple, whoever. If you don't, you will not get anything done. Until we get some kind of Vulcan Mind-Meld operating system where you can think it and have it happen with nothing in between, there will be that. Having said that, I really don't like the way that apple software "thinks", I actually like to work a little harder than that as far as being engaged in a process, and don't want to get disengaged to the point to where I think there's no machine involved, that I really am creating my own reality all by myself. Of course, anybody on any platform can end up like that, but for me personally, what I've seen of Apple seems that they would make it easier for me personally to drift off into that. So I avoid. Do I trust myself not to get lazy? About as far as I can throw me with one hand tied behind my back. Mileages will vary, obviously.

I've spent the last 2-3 months working essentially phone-only (Android, of course), kind of a forced-necessity type thing, just to get the feel of that. It's good medicine, but it tastes bad! One thing I think we all need to realize is that the only way that any of this telecommunications stuff goes backwards is if electricity of any kind becomes wholly extinct. Until then, "evolve or die" might be a bit strong in the short term, but in terms of the long game...that's about the size of it.

7 is fine by me, haven't gotten into 10 yet. My wife has an iPhone, and I'll be damned if I can work it. I know it's "just" learned behavior and muscle memory, but real-time communications is not the arena in which I want to put on training wheels, if you know what I mean. Having said that, I might have an in for a free iPad, which I might get, just because...figure it's better to know and not need it than to need it and not know. Kinda like learning, really learning Spanish. That is something I definitely want to do in the nearer future, and for those same reasons. Don't want to be unable to communicate due to , right? But I'm a lot more cheered about learning Spanish than I am learning Apple. But that's just me.

I'm pretty anti-Apple myself, just because, but I do think that people who don't like to "get under the hood" so to speak are usually better served by Apple products. Otherwise, if you're gonna work on a Windows platform, learn how your shit works and then make it work.

So...what software will you be using to organize and play your music? It will have a name besides "the PC".