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         | klaus mollenhauer
             from germany on 2001-11-03 13:54 [#00048262]
        
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 | today i got my  copy of the aphex twin CD drukqs . When i put it in my Home CD player it refuses to play . I even had
 to manually take out the CD . So i wondered what might be
 wrong with this CD and changed over to my iMac dv 400. There
 was something strange going on . CD 2 had 2 volumes on the
 desktop with 15 tracks each . That was strange , but
 playable . The first CD has even 3 volumes .. , but is
 playable too. The weirdest thing is , that there´s written
 on the back of the CD cover NOT PLAYABLE ON COMPUTERS .
 Thats a sad joke . It should say ONLY PLAYABLE ON COMPUTERS
 ... STRANGE.. Anyone noticed the same . please contact me..
 Bye...
 
 
 
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         | Richard D. James
             on 2001-11-03 13:58 [#00048263]
        
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 | Maybe you have a shit cd player or maybe you're putting it in cassette player, cds don't play in cassette players nor
 do they fit, how did you actually fit the cd into the
 cassette slot, riddle me that, Batman.
 
 
 
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         | Ophecks
             on 2001-11-03 15:03 [#00048271]
        
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 | Hehe. Richard is a problem solver. 
 
 
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         | Track 3
             from Warp on 2001-11-03 15:28 [#00048279]
        
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 | lol 
 
 
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         | klaus mollenhauer
             from germany on 2001-11-03 17:59 [#00048290]
        
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 | jesus . even my Technics turntable wasn´t able to play that strange CD..
 It´s indeed ZOMBA´S fault . they distribute WARP in
 germany and they use a shitty restriction code , that´s
 supposed to make it impossible to play CD´s in a PC , in
 order to prevent CD-Burning . But macs don´t respond to
 that restriction . Strange thing , that this restriction
 also prevents CD´s from being played on regular CD players
 like mine . a cheap YAMAHA CD player , that plays most of my
 500 plus CD´S .anyway . COOl sounds on this drukqs thing .
 sometimes a bit annoying straight in my face. while surfing
 .. probably sounds better over a HiFi set..
 klm
 
 
 
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         | Warp Records-hater
             on 2001-11-03 20:02 [#00048310]
        
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 | I already made a thread about the 'not playable on computer' thing before. The first time I put in the CD into the
 computer, it worked without problem. After rebooting it
 didn't work anymore. Was something changed in the registry?
 
 I only listen to CDs from my computer and now this...
 
 
 
 
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         | \/\/øøƒer_Atta¢K__¤¹²³¤
             from Milan on 2001-11-03 23:23 [#00048332]
        
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 | Now, I am listening "Taking Control" on my p.c. and it's perfect... probably you'd clean your laser lens.
 
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         | Loogie
             from UK on 2001-11-04 02:57 [#00048358]
        
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 | I think it depends what country you bought Drukqs in. I have played the UK version of Drukqs on 3 different PCs without
 any probs.
 
 
 
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         | DublOSyx
             from The East on 2001-11-04 04:31 [#00048366]
        
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 | The first day I had the cd I copied it on my computer, and it's not a mac. (Winodws)  I never listen to original cd's,
 only copies.  They stay in good shape then.oh, and the real
 cd's play fine in my 6 year old sony cd player.
 
 
 
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         | Pusher of the Square
             from Mars on 2001-11-04 06:08 [#00048374]
        
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 | Macs are the best, so maybe everyone in the universe should wake up and realize this. Its funny how Mac OS X came out a
 year before the Windows "XP" also known as, the Bill Gates
 rips of Apple Inc. agian Operating System. I hate Microfuck.
 It sucks my skinny bootie. I feel sorry for you poop windows
 users. Producing tracks on a mac is 10000000 times better
 then and generic pc. You are the weakest link, goodbye!
 
 
 
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         | Ophecks
             on 2001-11-04 16:42 [#00048418]
        
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 | What's the difference between a Mac and a PC, I seriously don't know!
 
 
 
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         | Loogie
             from UK on 2001-11-04 17:11 [#00048421]
        
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 | amigas were the best. by far. but everyone went and bought pcs or macs, so the amiga died :(
 
 
 
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         | Ophecks
             on 2001-11-04 18:34 [#00048429]
        
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 | C'mon, I don't even know, enlighten me. 
 
 
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         | Ken Shabby
             from UK on 2001-11-04 18:58 [#00048433]
        
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 | different hardware, different operating system. the mac has the advantage that the hardware is pretty much a standard
 build avoiding the incompatibilites that plague pc users.
 the mac os is user friendly but is often criticised by
 "power users" who like to fuck around with things at a low
 level.
 pcs are very cheap and the software is generally cheaper
 too. there are potentially millions of different hardware
 combinations which is a good and bad thing. the most popular
 os for the pc, windows, has got bigger and bigger and  err
 slower. it attempts to copy the macs user friendliness.
 power users might go for a unix os.
 
 mac owners might drive a new BMW. undoubtably a quality
 sophisticated car but ultimately the uninformed choice.
 
 pc owners might drive a mitsubishi lancer evo. harsh ride
 and quirks aside, the enthusiasts choice.
 
 and then there's those with amigas...
 
 
 
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         | /¬R¯|¯ BO`/
             from \/enice I¯|¯/¬L`/ on 2001-11-04 19:41 [#00048441]
        
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 | The real difference between Mac and PC is in the "instrucions set" that is related in how the CPU behave!
 CPUs performs little operations on groups of 32 or 64 bits;
 tha operations are like ADD, SUB, DIV, GOTO, JUMP ecc...
 (it's called ASSEMBLY and it's a programming language almost
 at the machine-level). PC are CISC (complex instruction set
 computer computing) that means that the set of operations at
 the machine level is quite big (and so they are complex
 operations); so each operation takes more time to be done.
 Mac are RISC (reduced instruction set computing ) that means
 that the set of instruction is very little, so these are
 "easy" operations which take less time than a CISC
 operation! The result is that having a 1GHertz Mac is like
 having a 2GHertz PC! (the number are just put to give you an
 idea, but they're not so far from reality). Now both Intel
 and AMD (CPUs makers for PC) are moving toward RISC. I think
 that by 2010 every computer will be RISC.
 Cheerio
 ArTBoY
 
 
 
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         | Loogie
             from UK on 2001-11-04 20:02 [#00048446]
        
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 | Macs have only recently used RISC processors... so I don't think that's the KEY difference between PCs and Macs.
 
 The emphasis with Macs is a standardised user interface
 throughout the os and all apllications.
 Windows is striving to compete with this.
 
 On a Mac it's difficult to "get under the bonnet".
 On a PC you ought to be maestro mecanico...
 
 
 
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         | Ophecks
             on 2001-11-04 20:03 [#00048447]
        
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 | THANK YOU! I'm genuinely in your debt, I was always wondering that.
 
 
 
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         | klaus mollenhauer
             from germany on 2001-11-04 23:01 [#00048487]
        
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 | Damn the industrie . They are so stupid . Another guy in germany bought the drukqs CD and his CD player couldn´t
 handle that CD too.
 So what kind of a copy restriction is this supposed to be .
 A CD you cannot play , unless you have a MAC . STUPID STUPID
 STUPID . Hope they stay that way . So noone will buy any
 more CD´S . Back to VINYL or mp3´s..
 
 
 
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