[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:10:03 -0700
Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 9/18/2012 2:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > 
> > My car stereo takes a USB stick. I specifically picked that model
> > for that reason. CDs in the car suck.
> 
> Mine does bluetooth, so I don't even have to take my phone out of my
> pocket to listen to music.

My dad's car has bluetooth connected up to his phone. Every time he
starts his car and turns the radio on, about half a minute later the
radio cuts completely out and there's an entirely useless voice saying
"Device Connected" (or something like that, I forget the exact words).
Then it switches his radio back on.

I can always tell when he's calling me with it, too, because I can't
make out a single word he says (and then he compensates by talking
louder which just makes it worse).

Meh, it's like there's no such thing as good design anymore.

Actually, music over bluetooth? Wouldn't even an FM transmitter be
better quality? (Well, unless you have one of those newer antennas
that can't be retracted.) Bluetooth has *really* bad bandwidth.

> CDs are terrible and DVDs are worse.
> Most of the kids movies we have at home don't even play any more,
> even though the underside for most isn't terribly scratched.

That's why circumventing copy-protection is fucking awesome: Grab "DVD
Decryptor", insert disc, press a button, insert blank disc, press a
button, and you have something you can actually let the kids have,
*and* it's region-free and has all the PUO bullshit removed. (Well, and
then there's DVD Shrink if you need to get a DVD9 down to a DVD5 - and
the quality is actually surprisingly good.)

Fuck the DMCA.