so..........forced beyond my will to buy winxp........

I bought a zen micro. I work in a place where it is boring beyond imagination (I'm trapped by the money and bennies ), so the obvious answer was an mp3 player. I had to buy winxp for napster-to-go to run and download to the player.

To state my opinion, I'm not a microsoft hater. My personal opinion is they specify everything in the EULA, if you don't like it, don't f'n use it.

Just curious, who else has had to go through this horrible experience of buying something you know damn well you won't use it much, but to save money in the long run had to buy something you will never get your money out of?

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about... sorry.

Maybe it is because I just don't have your job... mine allows me to bring my *nix laptop to work. Or maybe I have a large enough CD collection (legal mp3s ripped from my own disks) that I am content without needing to download any.

Beats me... but I just don't get buying something I would never see a return on my investment in.

I guess most of all I don't understand this:If you will never get your money out of something, how could it save you money in the long run? By definition, if it saved you money in the long run, you would be getting your money out of it?

Well, actually, with napster-to-go I will save money in the long run. What I was bitching about is the fact that napster requires winxp to run, but I don't use windows......I'm a slackware man

I know where you're coming from ___j,

but when I get round to buying a proper mp3 player, it's gonna be one with Ogg support as well, because although I have to have XP on my system for my partner (a teacher who only has MS stuff at her school, so WILL NOT learn linux), it's me that'll have to get the music onto the device, and it's my preference to get audio CD's and rip them, but I refuse to buy anything that's "drm'd" at the moment (not that you can't get round that anyway!).

In fact, I've just had to get a Pocket_PC based smartphone/pda device (linux based ones are rare as rocking horse shit in the UK), but I'm part of the way through getting it to connect via linux. I've managed to get it, so that I can rip my cd's and copy them to the SD card in the device, I just haven't managed to get synce and multisync to talk to Outlook for my contacts and the like!

Worst case scenario is that it'll just get used as a phone and mp3 player.

napster can go and stick it up their collective arse AFAIC !

regards

John

Hands up everyone who has actually READ microsoft's EULA and know what they've gotten into...

Yeah, I've read it... what's the point?

There were a few things I did not like but they don't offer you an opportunity to negotiate the contract... so if you are going to accept... you're stuck accepting it all.

Those bennies will trap you every time.

Surely Codeweavers are hard at work to get the most popular mp3 software working with CrossOver Office... They have iTunes working.

Damn, I thought this was going to be Pron spam, lol.

Im sorry....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!! (LMAO)

The subject to this message is classic..!!!!!!

f-ing great!

Color me amused.