Windows 7 Will Not Include Email, Photo and Movie Programs

[theJesus]

I think you can live without the few hundred MB of hard drive space they take up.

Not when you want to put together an extra machine for something out of spare parts, but you're only spare hdd you've got around is old as fuck. Don't say "buy a new one", because that defeats the entire purpose of building out of spare parts, which is to not spend money. Any drives I have that are of a sufficiently large capacity (~50gb+) to be worth using in my main system or gf's system for extra backup or storage or something, I do so with. That leaves only drives that I want to put next to nothing on, but still want the same OS as my main system for ease of use/compatibility.

But situations like that are a horribly small percentage of the market and anybody doing that is fully capable of nliteing windows or just using linux or something, so it's a pretty moot point but I felt like being a smartass and finding a reason for why that extra space might be important.

edit: sorry for double-post, I just thought the thread was moving fast enough and I was typing long enough that somebody else would've posted by the time I hit submit; otherwise I would've just edited into the previous post

 

[Wile E]

WMA is fail because it's proprietary, just like AAC and ALAC. And I don't think anything really rips directly to any format other than WAV, it just rips and converts seamlessly. MP3-vbr-v0 is just fine and supported by basically everything. FLAC is the best lossless codec. EAC is one of, if not the best rippers out there because you can configure pretty much every single thing that you didn't even know made a difference in order to tailor to your specific drive so you get perfect rips every time. And Lame is the best MP3 encoder (i'm not sure exactly what WMP uses to encode MP3's, but it might actually be Lame). I'm too lazy to explain why I've made the claims I have, since there's plenty of support readily (and easily) available via google.

EAC correction factors are completely overkill and needless. You'll never tell the difference between an EAC corrected rip and an uncorrected rip, unless there are read errors on the uncorrected rip caused by a conflict of some sort (I have only seen that happen once, ever)