RE: [tlug] [C&C] AAC is lossy, FLAC is lossless

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Glover
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:01 AM
>
> That is the joke. :)
> 
> I write from whence I know, however. I grew up in rural 
> Virginia, and have known many a Joe Bob User in my life.
> 
> Actually, my dad bought a Cadillac second-hand in roughly 
> 1990, which had an eight-track player sitting proudly in the 
> middle of the wood-grain dash. Luckily, my dad still had a 
> few eight-track tapes left from his collection, so we used to 
> jam to Eric Clapton and Dwayne Allman and the Grateful Dead 
> in that Caddy.
> 

To be honest, 8-tracks had better sound quality when they
were new than the cassette tapes that replaced them.  They
were designed to withstand wear better also.  Luckily when
CD's came out, they actually had better quality than what
they replaced. ^_^