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> > Face it--for 99.9% of the population, sound on your computer is
> >simply a nice cutsie feature that really has no purpose other than to
> >impress your friends. Dump it and get on with the real work (that is,
> >unless you're editing video clips, in which case you should probably
> >just stick to using an Amiga and a Video Toaster).
>
> That's funny, I used to feel the same way about color screens!!
>
> --andy
<Grin!> I don't doubt it! But at least there is something to
be said for the aesthetics of color screens--for the most part, computer
sound is simply noise to me (though I do have a .WAV file that plays,
when I exit, Al Bundy saying, "Well this certainly sucks!").
And of course, there are those of us who do our share of desktop
publishing where the color ranges from handy to imperative.
Aside from games, I see little reason for sound on a computer--
unless you're composing music or for educational stuff (teaching kids
to say words, etc.). The gentleman I first made the sound argument
to mentioned another use that I hadn't thought of, yet use all the time--
using a sound file to let you know when the computer has completed a
process. I use it to let me know the computer has completed downloading
a set of files, he uses it to let him know when the computer is done with
a long compile, so he can go on to other things without constantly
checking to see if it is done. A legitimate reason, I think, but something
that *could* be done with a simple system beep too.
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Randy Whittle whittle@usc.edu | Some guy hit my fender the |
USC School of Business (Fight on, 'SC Trojans!)|other day, and I said unto him|
(My opinions are mine, but since I'm | "Be fruitful and multiply." |
right, they should be yours too.) | --but not in those words. |
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