[X-Unix] What's in an MP3's resource fork..? [Was: Re: [X4U] ._annoying_files on SMB shares - can I remove them..?]

[Alex]

On Thursday, Apr 22, 2004, at 05:06 Canada/Eastern, Stroller wrote:

> [...] I do feel that I irk you every time I bitch about resource forks.

I'm sorry you feel this way. I'm afraid all I can do is say you don't. 
In my books, bitching (if that's what you're doing) is good. I find few 
things are more stimulating (or more educative) than being forced to 
re-examine and support one's assumptions. That doesn't irk me -- 
filling up tax returns does.

> I do not intend to [...] imply that resource forks are in any way 
> "bad" [...]

Why not? Perhaps they are. The point is that -- IMHO -- you haven't 
offered any arguments to that effect, except that they're not 
understood by other OSs. Which is perfectly valid, but not the point.

> [...] as a personal preference, I don't like or understand them.

That's a different matter. De gustibus... I don't like or understand 
Schoenberg or Alban Berg, but that doesn't mean they're no good.

> [...] I am learning Chinese.

My condolences.

> [...] It's more like I whine, "I don't like having to speak Chinese, 
> and sometimes miss living in my home country, where everyone speaks 
> English". I'm sorry that my complaints bother you.

You shouldn't be sorry and they don't bother me. As an immigrant who 
makes his life in a different culture and in a second language, I 
understand quite well. But it's not something amenable to argument -- 
it's pure emotion.

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