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Does Nokia outsource to any other contries?

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I believe that if this continues to happen, the US as a whole will suffer. Other un-scroupulous countries will steal our IP, knowledge, etc and eventually become close to our equal. Our goverenment needs to step in a lay down some fines on companies that outsource too much. It's not just IT, but lots of jobs. If this continues, the US engineers of today will no longer have a high status, we will simply become commodity workers. We do need to contine raising awareness by voting.

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Wow, that a nice yoyo. I have had good experience with the Yomega's before. It always seemed a lot smoother than a Duncan. I preferred using a bufferfly model at virst to get down the tricks, but the classic model is the way to eventually go. I could do lots of tricks at one time, but I could never do the dual tricks that required using a second yoyo with your left hand. BTW, a nice Yomega will set you back less than $20.

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My Sony 5-disc CD changer has shuffle and I bought it in 1992. Still works, and I've used shuffle for years. Sony wasn't the only audio maker to have this feature. I thought everyone used shuffle at one time or another.

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Yeah, the freeware version probably would only let you get fat and ugly chicks. You gotta pay $$$ for the pro version for the decent chicks.

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No matter how well the software is written, the real question is: Will it help me get a chick in the pub? Getting drunk and eventually getting home is the easy part.

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According to this previous slashdot article, we are watching less TV anyway. Especially now that the summer is getting close, TV viewing will drop even more. I guess soon enough somebody will start a National turn off the Internet Surfing week. I could turn off the TV a lot easier than staying off the web.

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I'll take it any day.. What's my loss? My computer's always on, so I guess I'm burning some electricity and lost CPU cycles. But it's probably cheaper than the lottery and I'm sure it's got about the same odds. At least you are donating something towards research. In the end, the contest host always wins, but it's a way for the USA to advance our tech research.

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Right, but didn't a Canadian ISP already strike down attempts to determine the users based on thier IP addresses? Hopefully that will filter into the US.

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Nowadays home LANs are pretty common. Try to enforce it on individuals and all hell will break loose. I expect them to go after the large companies first, and when they strike it down, the home users won't worry about having to fight it.

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I can't stand when someone has a cell phone conversation and speaks too loud. It's as if these people are trying to let everyone else know that they are "cool" and talk so loud that you can pretty much follow thier conversation, even though you are only hearing one side. I think it's funny too the people that pimp through the mall with the high-tech headset attatched. Usually these are the people that appear not to have a dime to thier name, but somehow still have the most expensive phone on the market. I wish people on cell phones would be more courteous, and only take calls where acceptable, and then only speak as loud as they need too.

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I thought a lot of companies did the torture tests where they drop the unit, vibrate it, spash water, repeatedly hit the buttons, etc... I wonder if they did 35-40 days worth of real-life testing. They are an experienced company and they probably did. If not, it was a huge oversight.

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If you have the Linksys WRT54G, you can use a hacked firmware to get all 14 channels. Check out http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/viewforum.p hp?f=6 for the forums on how people are doing it. I'm not sure if you can hack the wireless lan card do access the same channels or not. They sell the WRT54G domestically and internationally. The chipsets can handle all the channels, but the firmware limits the US version to 1 - 11.

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As with all new technologies, I usually try to wait for the tech to mature a little. Sometimes it's hard to resist getting some of the cool bleeding-edge products, but I like to wait until they are cheaper and more robust. I'm ready to go SATA, but I'd like to get harddrives an doptical drives with the native SATA instead of having to get an adapter.

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They can't compete with the cheap hardware. Sure their HW and SW is top notch, but it's just as easy and cheap to through a small linux cluster together to get the high performance needed. (ala Virginia Tech Mac cluster). Sad to say, but I think that the innovative ideas will be squashed by the cheap alternatives. This goes for many companies other than just Sun though.

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Ths Gimp in a walking demonstration. The visuals are killing me...

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I'm all for getting a grass strain that will also work in my yard. I'd perfer a short grass that didn't need much mowing and also have weed prevention. That seems like it would be a hot seller, but then again Scotts also sells seed, fertilizers, weed products, etc. I have a feeling that they wouldn't want it to be availiable to the common man. If they did, they'd probably charge an arm and a leg for it.

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I agree, like most products, if you don't want it, don't buy it. There are uses for this type of technology, luckily there are some alternatives.

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Using printf or echo adds overhead and slows the page down. Check out this comment:

In short, when writing themes, HTML should be written as HTML and PHP should be written as PHP. One of the great strengths of PHP is that it allows the coder to break out of PHP and code HTML on a dime with no performance setback by simply specifying closing and opening PHP tags where you want to start PHP code again. In fact, it is faster for your server to process a PHP/HTML mix this way.

Instead of coding HTML where it should be, most theme creators resort to using 'echo' statements to tell PHP to output everything in quotes, and worse yet, include the output in double-quotes, necessitating "escaped" double quotes for any quotes used in the HTML code.

This is not necessary and is in fact, a sloppy way to define a theme whose output is *mostly* HTML. If you look at the modified Extralite theme example at the bottom of this post, you will not see one 'echo' statement in the code. Whenever I need to start coding HTML for the theme, I simply pop-out of PHP with a closing '?>' tag; when I need to insert some PHP code (even if it's in the middle of an HTML block), I go back to PHP with an opening php tag.

Source: http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2 &file=viewtopic&t=18177

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Now after publishing his email address, he will get lot's of SPAM. I'm sure he'll aprecciate the email though....

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Am I the only one who mis-read this title after answering the beer poll? lol. Even though I know it's Samuel Adams, that's the first thing that popped into my head. Beer on the brain for Friday I guess....

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I thought that there were too many commercials as well. I was watching it while I recorded it on my ReplayTV so I was subject to the commercial pain.

However, when I re-watched it later, I am constently reminded of how vauluable the ReplayTV commercial skip feature is. Well worth the price of a DVR just for the commercial skip feature.

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You can boost the signal strength of the Linksys WRT54G with this "undocumented feature". Basically it's a back door will let you up the transmission strength to the maximum output. Find details at this thread: WRT54G Increased transmission strength. People's comments there indicate pretty good results.

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Froogle is pretty good, but how about sites that point out sales and rebate items like Retail Retreat? Froogle can't always pick out those items. Oh the shame....

I am running a site on Postnuke now. Check out Retail Retreat. (Right now my theme kinda sucks, but I will have a new one up shortly). It's not very hard to setup and you can really configure things through the GUI. I have messed with PHPNuke as well, and it seems to have a lot more user community written modules and blocks. Postnuke has many useful ones, but not as many. One good thing with Postnuke is that they have a very good support through thier forums. I asked a question there yesterday and got a response literally in minutes.

One nice thing about Postnuke is that you can make many configurations online. A lot of PHPnuke files require a .cfg file that you have to manually edit and re-upload to the host provider.

I haven't used the gallery modules on my production sites, but I have used them on a test server. The menalto gallery module works will under both CMSs.

Another plus of the Postnuke CMS is that the main forums module is modified from phbb2 and called PNphpBB. It allows seamless integration with Postnuke and will even take on the theme colors.

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