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  1. Re:A truly global economy on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    no, don't you see, after about 15 years or so, with fluid work force, it will be the same price no matter where you go. that is free trade.

  2. Re:A truly global economy on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    no, what would make things better is a WTO mandate of universal workers rights laws in all member nations that meet or exceed US or european laws.

    such labor laws would only apply to international companies.

    that means it would be no cheaper to hire a worker in katmandu than in seattle.

    this would eliminate the abuses that international corporations have been committing. so if you ship products outside your home country, you are an international corporation and must abide by the international trade laws.

  3. Re:A truly global economy-A SUV in every driveway. on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    um, yeah, but minimum wage employees make about 10 times as much as high tech workers in india but they have to live in the ghetto and be so damn deep in debt that the only thing they will leave their kids is an IOU written on paper bought with a credit card.

  4. Re:A truly global economy on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, if india would accept workers from other countries, that would be an option. the fact is that these outsourcing countries where jobs are going are not allowing foreign workers to work there. how is that free trade?

  5. Re:A truly global economy on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    um, no, a true global economy would mean that workers can move to where the jobs are and that there is a world wide rate of pay that differs little from one location to the next.

    what we have is CEOs taking advantage of underpaid high tech workers in countries that have no labor laws.

  6. Re:We are high. on The FragBook · · Score: 1

    ah, the decadence of being an american :-)

  7. Re:Duplicating work? on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 1

    what?

    iMovie is super easy to you.

    have you ever even used the software before?

    the point of iMovie is to offer a simple to use software tool for people who want to spif up their home videos.

  8. Re:can I get a nice quality of 1 hour video on a C on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 1

    good quality is subjective

    what are your settings in DIVX?

    have you looked at 3ivx settings? they are dlightly different.

    I am also going from 12 GBs of DV to 1 GB of M4V, not from 3 gigs of Mpeg2.

  9. Re:Duplicating work? on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 1

    the problem with xvid is that it does not integrate easily into Quicktime like 3ivx does so making movies in iMovie is difficult.

  10. can I get a nice quality of 1 hour video on a CD? on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 3, Interesting

    right now I have good quality with 3vix but it is 1 gig.

    if this can get me to 700 MBs at the same quality (about 85 in the 3vix) that would rock!!!

  11. Re:Isn't anyone concerned about this quote? on Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC Tags · · Score: 1

    walmat is evil incarnate.
    they destroy local economies, they drive slave lobor and child labor, and their merchandise SUCKS.

  12. Re:I need more info! on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    there is an e-mail link at the bottom of the page. tell him that.

  13. Re:I need more info! on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    the Tsunami caused by thera's explosion wiped out the minoans.
    so, could it be that the island of Cyprus is the lost city of atlantis?

    or,

    could the ancient flooding of the Mediterranean basin back in the day have been the cause of Atlantis's destruction? (if so, that means atlantis is rewriting history)

    OR, perhaps atlantis was build on such unstable portion of land that the seismic activity washed it into the ocean??

    personally I think the last one is the most likely.

  14. Edgar Cassy was right!!! on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    DUDE, that guy rocked!

  15. Re:Of hand, I'd prefer ... on Instant Live Concert Recordings · · Score: 1

    that would sort of defeat the point would it not?

    if you are not using a standard port how the hell are you gonna get it onto your computer or interface with some other device?

  16. funny how I always got modded down on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    when ever a pro-nano tech article hit the FP, I would always get modded down for saying how bad nanotech is and how we will all be dead 20 years after it is made popular.

    I guess I was just bringing down the high of the nono dorks.

  17. Re:Of hand, I'd prefer ... on Instant Live Concert Recordings · · Score: 1

    it is a concert. people buy that stuff because they want something to remember they were there.

    I think it sucks though that you cannot use your own USB drive.

    if you buy one at every concert, you will have a lot of Flash Drives.

  18. Re:Good. on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 1

    location of spammer is very important. if he is in the US, the FBI will bust him.

  19. Re:Crap crap crap on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    update the computer with the music on them..... do you have the songs on 10 different computers?

    besides, there is always time.

  20. Re:Free download not available outside of the US?? on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    I believe they said that iTunes will be available for the iTMS service this summer.

    blame your stupid EU or canadian Copy right office.

    it is not like Apple WANTS to keep people outside the US from buying music from ITMS, it is that your stupid laws are in the way right now and Apple has to file the right forms and crap.

  21. Re:Is this FLAC? No. on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    that would not be lossless then, would it!!!

  22. Re:Crap crap crap on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    umm, so basically your problem is that you don't want all your computers to be at the same version? why?

  23. Re:Tivo on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    yeah, playing to 99% of the world is just plain weird alright.

  24. Re:about that lossless/lossy choice on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    or use Apple lossless format and have the ability to store all your music in lossless format that is readable by iTunes and the ipod and then if you like, make them AAC for the iPod or for temp use!!!

    wow, it seems that monkey and flac suck when you think about the iTunes integration. but if you don't want a workflow solution that is nicely streamlined, that is fine by me.

  25. Re:Also new on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    sweet!!!

    talk about value added for campuses, journals, audio books and periodicals are included in the site license? that is some major content there!!

    good bye napster!!