have no freak'n clue what an MP3 is. For whatever reason, I cannot grasp the concept. Months ago, I reached my technological knowledge limit. I am no longer a first adapter. I hear about MP3's, read about them, my cell phone, I think, plays them, the truck "stereo" probably can play them and I'm sure something else I own can do something with them. My wife, has explained to me what they are - but it simply does not compute. She also keeps telling me to insert something into my phone for downloading photos so I can "develop" them at CVS or Walgreens, but nothing else seems to be able to fit into what is an already too small device. Is that an MP3 or a "memory device." I don't know. No help to me is the Wikipedia definition of what an MP3 is: "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. This makes absolutely no sense to me. And, I never see a photo of an actual MP3, just thousands of those little stupid MP3 players. I'm confused, but I don't care. Now related to what I'm saying - follow me here - is the latest update on the Sirius/XM merger. According to Reuters, the investment folks at Goldman Sachs are saying "That the (two) companies declining cash flow is insufficient to justify valuations even giving credit for merger synergies - with core demand for satellite radio falling amongst the younger demographics, versus rapid increases for MP3 players and other new technologies ... we see long-term risk to the outlook." Well I'm not sure what that means either, again, I don't care. It's useless corporate I have a useless MBA with mega student loans double speak. As a OTR trucker, terrestrial radio is useless to me. We all know what it was like before XM & Sirius - bad reception, constantly changing stations, stupid commercials, lousy DJ's and no adequate news or weather. I need satellite radio whether it is Sirius or XM or a combined company. And, please don't even ask me what an IPod is, for goodness sakes. The stupid MP3 "bear" player photo credit is http://www.tranism.com/weblog/archives/2006/02/bear_does_mp3.html
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Call me stupid, but I (MP3's and XM/Sirius Merger)
have no freak'n clue what an MP3 is. For whatever reason, I cannot grasp the concept. Months ago, I reached my technological knowledge limit. I am no longer a first adapter. I hear about MP3's, read about them, my cell phone, I think, plays them, the truck "stereo" probably can play them and I'm sure something else I own can do something with them. My wife, has explained to me what they are - but it simply does not compute. She also keeps telling me to insert something into my phone for downloading photos so I can "develop" them at CVS or Walgreens, but nothing else seems to be able to fit into what is an already too small device. Is that an MP3 or a "memory device." I don't know. No help to me is the Wikipedia definition of what an MP3 is: "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. This makes absolutely no sense to me. And, I never see a photo of an actual MP3, just thousands of those little stupid MP3 players. I'm confused, but I don't care. Now related to what I'm saying - follow me here - is the latest update on the Sirius/XM merger. According to Reuters, the investment folks at Goldman Sachs are saying "That the (two) companies declining cash flow is insufficient to justify valuations even giving credit for merger synergies - with core demand for satellite radio falling amongst the younger demographics, versus rapid increases for MP3 players and other new technologies ... we see long-term risk to the outlook." Well I'm not sure what that means either, again, I don't care. It's useless corporate I have a useless MBA with mega student loans double speak. As a OTR trucker, terrestrial radio is useless to me. We all know what it was like before XM & Sirius - bad reception, constantly changing stations, stupid commercials, lousy DJ's and no adequate news or weather. I need satellite radio whether it is Sirius or XM or a combined company. And, please don't even ask me what an IPod is, for goodness sakes. The stupid MP3 "bear" player photo credit is http://www.tranism.com/weblog/archives/2006/02/bear_does_mp3.html
