tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post1949760954596333332..comments2024-03-27T15:59:11.066+00:00Comments on Prometheus in Aspic: Hooptedoodle #250 - Steve Jobs Says NoMSFoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-19764586123695089652017-02-10T18:54:09.225+00:002017-02-10T18:54:09.225+00:00Do you think they needed the 30 years, or could th...Do you think they needed the 30 years, or could they have organised it more efficiently? I thought Europes Tragedy started off OK, but there's a cast of bloody thousands - I had to start writing notes, same as when I read Tolstoy - I'll go back to it. I've lost the notes anyway.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-14151483904909182442017-02-10T18:51:50.797+00:002017-02-10T18:51:50.797+00:00Tricky - if things get busy, you'd have to emp...Tricky - if things get busy, you'd have to employ someone to listen to it - you could have rooms full of guys with earbuds, listening to your books. This could be expensive. MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-65258580345105433972017-02-10T18:27:51.008+00:002017-02-10T18:27:51.008+00:00Have Europes Tragedy - hard work only got about a ...Have Europes Tragedy - hard work only got about a quarter of the way through . Reading C.V.Wedgwood a first edition from a junk shop very cheap, bit better will try and finish it . The trouble with the Thirty Years War is it took a long time to fight ,TonyThe Good Soldier Svjekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749564052124659180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-24885327810440950472017-02-10T17:21:13.376+00:002017-02-10T17:21:13.376+00:00Putting aside who I'm throwing my hard earned ...Putting aside who I'm throwing my hard earned at, the average audio book is 10 / 12 hours long. At £7.99 where else would a senior citizen like myself get that kind of rock and roll entertainment. Ruffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17927065508275538061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-58249571198681090142017-02-10T16:56:53.391+00:002017-02-10T16:56:53.391+00:00Apple are particularly bad for trying to do away w...Apple are particularly bad for trying to do away with the great unifying, cross-brand standards - the USB connection standard was a terrific breakthrough, but now of course Apple and Sony have variation which will not fit other brands. In a roundabout way it reminds me of a time in the 1980s when I was involved in UK industry-wide collaborations of insurance companies - all to embrace and take advantage of new technologies (such as Viewdata!), to agree common standards which would allow intermediaries to run semi-computerised quotation services. It all worked swimmingly until the odd occasion when one of the participants would realise they could gain a competitive edge (for about 5 minutes) if they actually did NOT collaborate on some point. Very quickly, the entire initiative fell apart, since no-one trusted each other any more.<br /><br />Ah - happy days. Humans and greed - you cannae whack it, as we say in Scotland.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-38600430838743058712017-02-10T15:51:07.333+00:002017-02-10T15:51:07.333+00:00I do loath people who seek to limit what you can d...I do loath people who seek to limit what you can do with material that you have paid good money for.. I'm not a fan of Amazon Kindle content for the same reason (though I now have a Kindle Library manager that strips out the proprietary gubbins)... just a thought but the easiest way to do it may be to burn the audio to a CD and then just re-rip it...Steve-the-Wargamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077311120172727690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-74282392477124548292017-02-10T15:08:07.862+00:002017-02-10T15:08:07.862+00:00Thanks for these Steve - note that the iTunes file...Thanks for these Steve - note that the iTunes files are M4P, not MP4 - MP4 would be a sensible sort of file, to use to convert...<br /><br />M4Ps are strictly verboten in most of the conversion tools I have, but I'm still looking. Apple must have put some heavy legal stuff out there.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-15697321803816838022017-02-10T13:59:13.040+00:002017-02-10T13:59:13.040+00:00You could try it in Windows Audio... alternativel...You could try it in Windows Audio... alternatively I've used this one in the past when ripping sound tracks from YouTube video's... https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/convert-mp4-to-mp3<br /><br />Re. novels - this has good reviews:<br /><br />https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warwolf-Peasant-Chronicle-Thirty-Years/dp/1594160260<br /><br />..and this<br /><br />https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Simpleton-Jacob-Christoffel-Grimmelshausen/dp/0826414826<br /><br />...few more here:<br /><br />http://theminiaturespage.com/plus/msg.mv?id=163651Steve-the-Wargamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077311120172727690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-14476813823544009972017-02-10T13:55:55.205+00:002017-02-10T13:55:55.205+00:00Well done, you (as they say on Facebook). Does it ...Well done, you (as they say on Facebook). Does it offer reasonable value? I hasten to add that i don't really care - as long as Amazon are making money...MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-69196696547973876862017-02-10T13:53:41.012+00:002017-02-10T13:53:41.012+00:00Doesn't work on my version of iTunes - there i...Doesn't work on my version of iTunes - there is a menu option "convert to MP3" which had me quite excited for an instant, before the pop-up told me it couldn't convert protected files. I've looked at some apps - Wondershare was one - they make me nervous because they never discuss prices, and they don't tell you that the trial version only handles files up to 50Kb - well, maybe they do, but the description is translated from Chinese, and I can't understand most of it.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-73688395171904194102017-02-10T13:50:50.134+00:002017-02-10T13:50:50.134+00:00That is the great catch, isn't it - I once joi...That is the great catch, isn't it - I once joined the History Book Club, and got a couple of terrific bargains in the first couple of months, then spend the rest of the year forgetting to cancel the default choice, or picking the best of a bunch of terrible choices from the list offered. I still come across books in my collection, and I think, "why the blazes did I ever buy that?", but then I remember...MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-59895953237115297902017-02-10T13:46:39.642+00:002017-02-10T13:46:39.642+00:00Ray - I've really got into talking books when ...Ray - I've really got into talking books when driving. If i listen to them in the house then mostly I start snoozing, as you say, but when I'm driving I need a small level of distraction - if I only have the driving to think about, my mind starts to wander, pretty soon I am agonising about some comment some guy made to me at a meeting in 1984, and I miss the exit for Sunderland (or whatever). Talking books have worked really well - I've thoroughly enjoyed assorted adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World, Around the World in 80 Days, Short Stories of Jack London and a load of other stuff. Keeps me just a little distracted, and the driving keeps me awake (at least that's the theory) so it works. The Librivox version of the Schiller history could be marketed as a cure for insomnia.<br /><br />Chris - title noted - I got a lot of value out of Harry Potter and the League of Augsburg too.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-10208355938688194382017-02-10T13:43:51.187+00:002017-02-10T13:43:51.187+00:00Hey, you bastard, I use Audible. Hey, you bastard, I use Audible. Ruffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17927065508275538061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-74537393755008061652017-02-10T13:39:45.158+00:002017-02-10T13:39:45.158+00:00Bad people. No question. Customer experience my gr...Bad people. No question. Customer experience my groin.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-29167869266299751402017-02-10T13:08:57.822+00:002017-02-10T13:08:57.822+00:00'Noddy and the rape of Magdeburg' is a goo...'Noddy and the rape of Magdeburg' is a good one.Chris Gricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08578412472163593374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-19401122411434538632017-02-10T12:58:13.263+00:002017-02-10T12:58:13.263+00:00I like your approach - "start simple, and wor...I like your approach - "start simple, and work up" - as it is what I tend to do... in my case though I start even simpler - I look for novels and films set in the period.. As to converting your files, loads of apps about to do it, but I think you can actually do it in iTunes - just "save as"??Steve-the-Wargamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077311120172727690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-10904857599677741582017-02-10T12:46:14.140+00:002017-02-10T12:46:14.140+00:00I have steadfastly refused to have anything to do ...I have steadfastly refused to have anything to do with Apple since we got our first Mac (or was it a Gravenstein orr Honey Crisp) at work and after typing up a needed document and hitting print I received an error saying (something like) "can't print this" and a button marked "OK?" I searched vain for a button saying "No, not OK" but my only options were to be co-opted into agreeing that it was ok and that I was happy to go to my meeting without the report, or pull the plug. Of course decades later I also gave up on Microsoft. <br /><br />Anyway, the point is, my wife having twisted my arm into an audible subscription last year, you can actually quit the subscription and stop taking a half price book every month. 14 fiction audiobooks later I'm still planning to do that, maybe next month....Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-88651952820430691332017-02-10T10:43:08.920+00:002017-02-10T10:43:08.920+00:00I used to listen to audio books while I painted, b...I used to listen to audio books while I painted, but like you said, your mind wanders and you have to backtrack to a bit you remember and start again. I did try and listen just sitting relaxing, I'd then wake up 3 hours later wondering "what the hell happened there!"<br />Trouble is the 30 Years War is so bloody confusing, I've tried to read books, not half as complicated as your books and I still couldn't fatham out what was going on. The 30 years War and the War of the Roses are the most difficult periods to read the history off. <br />I'd say pick something easier to read, what about back issues of Roy and the Rovers or Noddy??Ray Rousellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352596392520905197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-89228196009476188322017-02-10T09:51:58.447+00:002017-02-10T09:51:58.447+00:00Tony, I recall when I had a huge and much valued a...Tony, I recall when I had a huge and much valued album collection on an I Pod, and the lot was wiped clean by an update, I was not a happy bunny I can tell you! Understand your frustration.'Lee.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02728400013024811279noreply@blogger.com