I just bought my iPod nano. It can do with perfection everything a portable music player have to do: play music.
Some time ago I tried a PSP but found it an overkill for people like me that just want to hear a lot of music without recharging the battery and replacing a memory card every few hours.
Also, I wanted something I could just throw in my pocket and walk around. Have you ever tried something similar with a PDA/PSP? Notice that I have a Palm as well but it never leaves my desk/suitcase because it is plain clumsy. I mean, PDAs face a limit in terms of usability...
Sure you can find many all-in-one gadgets out there but virtually all of them cant even be compared to an iPod in terms of aesthetics, usability, and sound quality.
Nice talk... however... what about DMCA? The ideia of 'freedom of expression' may not be feasible at all nowadays, depending on which type of 'expression' your're talking about. In a technological sense, Americans suffer from the same problem.
This is just another public manifestation of the tactics used by MSFT. FUD FUD FUD....
But it is quite intesting to notice the effect this type of argument has on some IT people. The other day one of our clients (a manager of a US company) tried to explain me (and my team) how all open-source licenses are dangerous. It was kinda funny, because he couldnt event tell the difference between acronyms such as GNU, GPL, LGPL, CPL, MPL, etc. Basically, open-source is bad because lawyers told him so, although he was unable to cite any real example. I got really upset.
Yeah, Ballmer's arguments make a lot of sense from his own perspective. MSFT wishes to thank SCO...
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I just bought my iPod nano. It can do with perfection everything a portable music player have to do: play music.
Some time ago I tried a PSP but found it an overkill for people like me that just want to hear a lot of music without recharging the battery and replacing a memory card every few hours.
Also, I wanted something I could just throw in my pocket and walk around. Have you ever tried something similar with a PDA/PSP? Notice that I have a Palm as well but it never leaves my desk/suitcase because it is plain clumsy. I mean, PDAs face a limit in terms of usability...
Sure you can find many all-in-one gadgets out there but virtually all of them cant even be compared to an iPod in terms of aesthetics, usability, and sound quality.
peace.
Nice talk... however... what about DMCA? The ideia of 'freedom of expression' may not be feasible at all nowadays, depending on which type of 'expression' your're talking about. In a technological sense, Americans suffer from the same problem.
Not at all.
:)
Most pages are not indexed. There are far more than 8G pages in the Internet... thats for sure
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This is just another public manifestation of the tactics used by MSFT. FUD FUD FUD....
But it is quite intesting to notice the effect this type of argument has on some IT people. The other day one of our clients (a manager of a US company) tried to explain me (and my team) how all open-source licenses are dangerous. It was kinda funny, because he couldnt event tell the difference between acronyms such as GNU, GPL, LGPL, CPL, MPL, etc. Basically, open-source is bad because lawyers told him so, although he was unable to cite any real example. I got really upset.
Yeah, Ballmer's arguments make a lot of sense from his own perspective. MSFT wishes to thank SCO...
The system is not perfect (no doubt), but a fairly detailed analysis must be done before a final word can be said.
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:-)
Take a look at this tech report done by UNICAMP researchers about electronic ballots:
http://www.tre-sp.gov.br/destaques/rel_final.pd
(in portuguese)
It describes the hardware/software, overall system setup, security constraints, improvements, etc. Worth a read!
just my R$0,02
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