I don't see why you couldn't do the same things with the Nomad. What's differant is that Apple supported additional features out of the starting gate while Creative doesn't appear to. Also, Apple has great software support for the iPod. iTunes is a very nice piece of software, and frankly Creative Play Center is crap IMO. The interface is clunky and overcomplicated. As far as Ogg goes I don't think we'll see it on any of the Nomads right now. Then again, it's not on the iPod either.
Most users will never try to compile the KDE source tree either. Of course doing your own compiles moves you up from just a regular user in the eyes of many companies. If you are doing compiles then you are a "workstation" class user and of course you need a 2.8Ghz processor;)
I back up my games. If you want to search through the Neverwinter Nights forums you'll find that many people wish they did the same. The cd's apparently started displaying hair line fractures in some peoples high speed cdroms.
The biggest issue to me is not the ability to copy, but the ability to play at all. I'll again use Neverwinter Nights as an example. The game was released useing securerom copy protection. Unfortunatly for many of my friends, and apparently many of Biowares customers, the "Play" disc that contained the copy protection couldn't be read by a great many drives. So, while there was a no cd patch, and iso's floating around about a week before retail, people that bout legit copies of the game couldn't play it. According to Bioware it was Infogrames that decided what copy protection to use as they are the publisher. Unfortunatly for Bioware it reflects badly on them the most. Infogrames on the other hand doesn't seem to care since the new Unreal release has also been released with this awful copy protection scheme, once again hurting paying customers more than anyone.
Unfortunatly if part of the reason you are blocking ads is bandwidth conservation then banner blinds doesn't do you nearly as much good as not loading them in the first place. This is one of those things like not loading images at all, or only loading images from the originating web server etc. Of course those have thier own issues. For example many sites use dedicated servers for image serving like images.slashdot.org. Then again, if you are trying to conserve bandwidth you probably could care less if the pages standard graphics load either.
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Anyone that buys an X-Box just for golden eye probably already owns the other two or is going to shell out the money for the other two when a "killer game" comes out for those consoles. Especially if you consider that someone makeing a console purchase based on a "killer game" approach will probably have to have a game cube for zelda or a ps2 for Final Fantasy etc.
Uhm, while the convenience issue is a good way to sucker people in, more people need to be aware that no law enforcment agent can require a search without probably cause and/or a search warrant.
The football team won't be entering any classes on Coke, they'll just be required to wear coca cola memorabelia around campus and the logo will end up on the sleeves of the jersey's right under the Nike or Reebok logo. A slightly differant way of selling your students to corporations.
Yeah, it would help if I used the proper spelling of hole wouldn't it;) Oh well, if I actually checked my spelling/grammar more carefully I wouldn't fit in around here;)
The heat in the iBook isn't all that bad in comparison to some of the other laptops I've used, my VAIO PCG-505TR actually get's a good bit warmer and that's a whopping 300mhz pentium MMX. Of course I plan on replacing it shortly with a Ti Book and a cooling pad so that I don't set my pants on fire;)
It's actually already on the lowest settings, and really I guess I was just trying to be funny more than anything;) The extra heat from the front left corner does occasionally get excessive, but nothing to worry about the majority of the time....
Yeah, but every once in a while...
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I say to myself. "Self, I wish this damn iBook wasn't burning a whole through my pant leg."
I do have to say that the iBooks are VERY nice though. Good performance at a great price. My wife loves hers, the only complaint either of us have with it is that it does heat up under the hard drive, and a small fan couldn't possibly hurt to push the air around and out the large vents on the left side where most of the heat builds up.
expand the market by makeing a much cheaper solution that is useable by just about anyone. It's not unthinkable that they are trying to come up with a product that will be geared towards the ever growing number or DJ's and musicians. There would probably be a greater number of musicians if the tools were cheaper and easier to use. I'm just takeing this from the quote that you used, expanding music further and geard towards music professionals kinda gave me that impression.
I think it's a moot point, there is no reason for these portals to pony up the money anyway. They barely make money as it is, why would they further reduce the chance at profitability by paying ISPs for access to their customers. If the users want access bad enough they will bitch at the ISP's to allow access rather than denying it, and if not, then those people probably don't want/need the services of the portals anyway.
Now, if these Indian ISP's were going to charge locally owned and operated sites it would be a differant story. Local operations may feel that they only way for an online business to be profitable is to have access to the local population, and they would probably be right. Of course you still have to deal with users, and there's a good chance the users would throw a fit. Especially if they have access to these resources now.
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All of these features are available on Windows. For example. I have a dual boot box with an NVidia GeForce 3 in it. I like to run with 3 desktops. This is standard fair under linux. Under windows you can either run litestep and emulate what you have under linux, or in my case, I just use the new features included with my detonator drivers for my video card which provides multiple desktop support. Now, the mouse actions are provided by a windows power toy/tool downloadable from microsoft. There was also some shareware tools to do the same thing. So, this is hardly a Linux only feature. This same thing is probably possible on OS X, but I don't know how as the only OS X box in the house is my wife's iBook.
Actually I think you misunderstood me. A company can't even request to look at foriegn options if there are any qualified individuals applying for the job before the time limit expires.
So your examples don't meet the law. At no time should a hiring manager or hr rep consider both us citizens and H-1B's at the same time. US companies can also be heavily fined for passing up a US citizen that is qualified for the job for a forigner. Also, if the US citizen and the forigner don't meet the requirments and the forigner is hired anyway, the company can be liable for fines at a later date if thier hiring practices are questioned. For a real world example of this Sun Microsystems is currently being investigated for this very thing due to an ex-employee filing a labor complaint about them. You can find it on the acip website. acip.com, unfortunatly you have to be a member to read the whole article and I don't know of anywhere else that it is published.
Now, I'm not saying that the hiring of forigners isn't affecting the economy in the US or in thier home countries, because on a small level it does. It is hard to justify allowing the continued hiring of forigners when the unemployment rate in the field is actually rising, not decreasing. Of course the unemployment numbers could be exagerated, especially with how many unqualified individuals had good jobs before the tech bubble burst.
I think it's good to have qualified individuals from other countries come to the US, it benefits everyone, but at the same time I would hate to think that a citizen is being passed over for a job that they are qualified for and that job being given to someone that isn't planning on staying in the US or isn't eligible to stay in the US. If citizens are being passed over for jobs that they are qualified for then there is a problem and something needs to be done about it. Economic issues not withstanding.
You are actually missing one huge point. US companies are required to offer all jobs to U.S. Citizens and then they have to prove that they can't find any citizens to fill the position before they are allowed to hire someone on an H-1B. So, with 3-5% unemployment in the field and the continued hiring of foriegn nationals on H-1B's there is concern that our companies are not obeying those rules.
I'd like to point everyone over to a news.com article that was posted about H-1B's. This article is a good summary, but to really understand it you should actually read the regulations that are in place. The INS website is a good place to start.
This would be relavant if it was a cellular telephone and not a cordless telephone. This particular phone is meant for home or office use. Now, I haven't been to New York in a long time, but the last time I was there I remember anyone working in the various stations as having two way radios not telephones, and those that did have telephones were in booths using hard lines.
Oh please don't let the internet become a computerized version of the tv.... I realize that's where a lot of companies want it to go, but TV is so bad I can barely stand to watch any of it.
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I don't see why you couldn't do the same things with the Nomad. What's differant is that Apple supported additional features out of the starting gate while Creative doesn't appear to. Also, Apple has great software support for the iPod. iTunes is a very nice piece of software, and frankly Creative Play Center is crap IMO. The interface is clunky and overcomplicated. As far as Ogg goes I don't think we'll see it on any of the Nomads right now. Then again, it's not on the iPod either.
Go read the specifications, it's not listed. Only mp3 and wma are listed.
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Most users will never try to compile the KDE source tree either. Of course doing your own compiles moves you up from just a regular user in the eyes of many companies. If you are doing compiles then you are a "workstation" class user and of course you need a 2.8Ghz processor ;)
I back up my games. If you want to search through the Neverwinter Nights forums you'll find that many people wish they did the same. The cd's apparently started displaying hair line fractures in some peoples high speed cdroms.
The biggest issue to me is not the ability to copy, but the ability to play at all. I'll again use Neverwinter Nights as an example. The game was released useing securerom copy protection. Unfortunatly for many of my friends, and apparently many of Biowares customers, the "Play" disc that contained the copy protection couldn't be read by a great many drives. So, while there was a no cd patch, and iso's floating around about a week before retail, people that bout legit copies of the game couldn't play it. According to Bioware it was Infogrames that decided what copy protection to use as they are the publisher. Unfortunatly for Bioware it reflects badly on them the most. Infogrames on the other hand doesn't seem to care since the new Unreal release has also been released with this awful copy protection scheme, once again hurting paying customers more than anyone.
Unfortunatly if part of the reason you are blocking ads is bandwidth conservation then banner blinds doesn't do you nearly as much good as not loading them in the first place. This is one of those things like not loading images at all, or only loading images from the originating web server etc. Of course those have thier own issues. For example many sites use dedicated servers for image serving like images.slashdot.org. Then again, if you are trying to conserve bandwidth you probably could care less if the pages standard graphics load either.
Anyone that buys an X-Box just for golden eye probably already owns the other two or is going to shell out the money for the other two when a "killer game" comes out for those consoles. Especially if you consider that someone makeing a console purchase based on a "killer game" approach will probably have to have a game cube for zelda or a ps2 for Final Fantasy etc.
It's in dual band devices such as this one from linksys http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=2 2&prid=452
Maybe a better question is, Why not?
Like so many things it's probably just because they can.
To assume that everyone that uses rar archives pirates a copy of winrar is almost as bad as assuming that everyone that backs up a cd is a "pirate".
http://www.unrarlib.org/license.html
There are alternatives for just about everything.
Same for zip.
Uhm, while the convenience issue is a good way to sucker people in, more people need to be aware that no law enforcment agent can require a search without probably cause and/or a search warrant.
The football team won't be entering any classes on Coke, they'll just be required to wear coca cola memorabelia around campus and the logo will end up on the sleeves of the jersey's right under the Nike or Reebok logo. A slightly differant way of selling your students to corporations.
Yeah, it would help if I used the proper spelling of hole wouldn't it ;) Oh well, if I actually checked my spelling/grammar more carefully I wouldn't fit in around here ;)
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The heat in the iBook isn't all that bad in comparison to some of the other laptops I've used, my VAIO PCG-505TR actually get's a good bit warmer and that's a whopping 300mhz pentium MMX. Of course I plan on replacing it shortly with a Ti Book and a cooling pad so that I don't set my pants on fire
Interesting, even doing 3d or compiling I've never heard a fan come on, and I was under the impression it didn't have one, oh well. ;)
It's actually already on the lowest settings, and really I guess I was just trying to be funny more than anything ;) The extra heat from the front left corner does occasionally get excessive, but nothing to worry about the majority of the time....
I say to myself. "Self, I wish this damn iBook wasn't burning a whole through my pant leg."
I do have to say that the iBooks are VERY nice though. Good performance at a great price. My wife loves hers, the only complaint either of us have with it is that it does heat up under the hard drive, and a small fan couldn't possibly hurt to push the air around and out the large vents on the left side where most of the heat builds up.
expand the market by makeing a much cheaper solution that is useable by just about anyone. It's not unthinkable that they are trying to come up with a product that will be geared towards the ever growing number or DJ's and musicians. There would probably be a greater number of musicians if the tools were cheaper and easier to use. I'm just takeing this from the quote that you used, expanding music further and geard towards music professionals kinda gave me that impression.
I think it's a moot point, there is no reason for these portals to pony up the money anyway. They barely make money as it is, why would they further reduce the chance at profitability by paying ISPs for access to their customers. If the users want access bad enough they will bitch at the ISP's to allow access rather than denying it, and if not, then those people probably don't want/need the services of the portals anyway.
Now, if these Indian ISP's were going to charge locally owned and operated sites it would be a differant story. Local operations may feel that they only way for an online business to be profitable is to have access to the local population, and they would probably be right. Of course you still have to deal with users, and there's a good chance the users would throw a fit. Especially if they have access to these resources now.
All of these features are available on Windows. For example. I have a dual boot box with an NVidia GeForce 3 in it. I like to run with 3 desktops. This is standard fair under linux. Under windows you can either run litestep and emulate what you have under linux, or in my case, I just use the new features included with my detonator drivers for my video card which provides multiple desktop support. Now, the mouse actions are provided by a windows power toy/tool downloadable from microsoft. There was also some shareware tools to do the same thing. So, this is hardly a Linux only feature. This same thing is probably possible on OS X, but I don't know how as the only OS X box in the house is my wife's iBook.
You should really try slashdot.com some time.
Actually I think you misunderstood me. A company can't even request to look at foriegn options if there are any qualified individuals applying for the job before the time limit expires.
So your examples don't meet the law. At no time should a hiring manager or hr rep consider both us citizens and H-1B's at the same time. US companies can also be heavily fined for passing up a US citizen that is qualified for the job for a forigner. Also, if the US citizen and the forigner don't meet the requirments and the forigner is hired anyway, the company can be liable for fines at a later date if thier hiring practices are questioned. For a real world example of this Sun Microsystems is currently being investigated for this very thing due to an ex-employee filing a labor complaint about them. You can find it on the acip website. acip.com, unfortunatly you have to be a member to read the whole article and I don't know of anywhere else that it is published.
Now, I'm not saying that the hiring of forigners isn't affecting the economy in the US or in thier home countries, because on a small level it does. It is hard to justify allowing the continued hiring of forigners when the unemployment rate in the field is actually rising, not decreasing. Of course the unemployment numbers could be exagerated, especially with how many unqualified individuals had good jobs before the tech bubble burst.
I think it's good to have qualified individuals from other countries come to the US, it benefits everyone, but at the same time I would hate to think that a citizen is being passed over for a job that they are qualified for and that job being given to someone that isn't planning on staying in the US or isn't eligible to stay in the US. If citizens are being passed over for jobs that they are qualified for then there is a problem and something needs to be done about it. Economic issues not withstanding.
You are actually missing one huge point. US companies are required to offer all jobs to U.S. Citizens and then they have to prove that they can't find any citizens to fill the position before they are allowed to hire someone on an H-1B. So, with 3-5% unemployment in the field and the continued hiring of foriegn nationals on H-1B's there is concern that our companies are not obeying those rules.
I'd like to point everyone over to a news.com article that was posted about H-1B's. This article is a good summary, but to really understand it you should actually read the regulations that are in place. The INS website is a good place to start.
This would be relavant if it was a cellular telephone and not a cordless telephone. This particular phone is meant for home or office use. Now, I haven't been to New York in a long time, but the last time I was there I remember anyone working in the various stations as having two way radios not telephones, and those that did have telephones were in booths using hard lines.
Try Unisys not Apple.
Oh please don't let the internet become a computerized version of the tv.... I realize that's where a lot of companies want it to go, but TV is so bad I can barely stand to watch any of it.