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Originally posted by Pompous SmugFag Have you seen the people who listen to jazz? Rofl. They're heads are soooo far up their asses. They get so into it! Have you ever been around when they start groovin out and nodding there heads and snaping their fingers and tapping there feet?? looooooool

HHGHAHAHAHAHHA SO TRUE LOL

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Originally posted by mysticalninja Anyway I guess the moral of the story for me is, no matter how much you listen to some music and try to get used to it, it won't make you like it, because I grew up constantly listening to metal, and I still can't really get in to it. Maybe it's just me though?

Interesting anecdote. For a couple of years in high school, I was hugely into heavy metal. As far as memory serves, I actually really did like the music at the time. Some of it is still good, although for the most part, that phase ended with graduation.

So was I just listening for the badass image, even though I can clearly remember none of the "cool kids" thinking that it was even remotely badass? Did I somehow, magically, manage to fool myself into actually liking it, and the spell wore off after a few years?

Or maybe, just maybe, it actually appealed to me musically at the time, and I just got sick of it afterwards.

Metalheads are definitely a fringe group. I can't seem to remember ever feeling like I was more sophisticated, though - actually, I remember being pretty embarrassed about it most of the time. But that was what I liked.

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Originally posted by G-Con Incidentally I read somewhere that it was Betamax that was the better product but the consumers chose VHS.

That's a common myth, and precisely the reason I mentioned it. People like to believe that the most popular people/products somehow cheated their way to the top, even when it isn't true. There are all sorts of funny (false) reasons stated for the Betamax market disaster, the porn myth being another one.

Betamax, pushed by Sony, failed because it was a closed proprietary format, encumbered by all sorts of IP protections, while VHS was basically wide open. Sony has made this mistake countless times, more recently with Video8, MiniDisc/ATRAC, and their proprietary "memory sticks" used in cameras. They're making the same mistake again with Blu-Ray. Microsoft has also made the same mistakes, for example trying to push the DRM-crippled WMA over the open MP3. Vastly superior graphic formats like JPEG2000 (and to a lesser extent, PNG), have never overtaken the classic JPEG because they're patent-encumbered.

Betamax was an OK product, not really much better or worse than VHS. It had some advantages, but also several disadvantages (i.e. shorter recording times). What really killed it, though, was the vendor lock-in and strict licensing that Sony tried to impose.

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2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
2048-06-66 - Spastic & Whocares ¶ Although I'm Actually Flattered
9999-45-81 - Tweaker Gimp ☼ I Probably Won't Even Go To This But I Have To Make Sure I Fill Up All The Available Space Here