The reason that would be important to me is because Apple does not have a Linux iTune client so I would have no way to get music onto an iPod from Linux.
gtkpod is a GPL'd program that does just that. Works quite well with my 4th generation ipod and linux.
I recently traded in my Karma for an iPod (yay for the Best Buy extended warranty), so I have some experience using both the iPod and the Karma under linux. Remember, the Karma is not "officially" supported under linux either! Rio Music Manager Lite is okay for usage, and the author updates it often, but honestly, I've found gtkpod much much better (stability-wise, feature-wise) for transferring to and from the ipod.
First off, it's fairly impossible to avoid coming in contact with non-vegan stuff in most people's lives.. A good 99.9% of the vegans I know realize this, and strive to to the best they can, to minimize the most amount of suffering as they possibly can. Perfection is pretty impossible to achieve in anything. Would a Catholic not consider themselves religious anymore if, for instance, they had to miss church on Sunday because they were hurling their guts up do to illness? Would they give up completely because of something like that?
Anyhow, back to the off-topic-ness at hand.. B12 - it can be from a source most vegans feel comfortable with, for instance, nutritional yeast.
Wrong wrong wrong.
I'm quite sure the b12 in my nutritional yeast and the b12 in my soymilk are not "itself, an animal product."
B12 itself is not inherently manufacturered by either plants or animals - they come from bacteria.
Animal foods (meat, etc) get b12 from the bacteria in the food those animals eat or from the bacteria in those animals' intestines. Similarly, the fortification of soymilk or nutritional yeast (or a bunch of other vegan products) originally comes from bacteria of some sort.. But to argue that bacteria is a sentient being (which would make your original statement valid) seems.. off.
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>>And no they didn't turn their noses up on work that was 'beneath' them
I apologize if I came off that way, it wasn't my intention... I feel sorry for everyone who still doesn't have a job, its a crappy feeling. I get equally insulted when people say if you dont have a job its because you don't have any skill.
Best of luck to your friends at MIT..
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I would have to disagree with you on that one, and have to say your comment was fairly pompous.
Having just graduated with a CS degree last May, I found it *incredibly* tough to get my first "real" job. Sure, I had internships and such during college, but when it came down to "proving" that I had 3+ years experience (which is what all too many tech jobs require off the bat), people weren't buying that working 20 hours a week part time programming during the schoolyear combined with fulltime jobs during the summers equaled 3 years. Coding in C or C++ for the majority of your school CS projects over the course of 4 academic years doesn't quite "qualify" as 3 or 4 years of experience, either.
Campus recruitment last year was way down, too. Hell, even some of the people who were offered jobs at large companies, like my best friend, had their start dates pushed back anywhere from a few months to a whole *year*.
I went to a strong academic institution, one of the top engineering schools in the country, graduated with a 3.43 and a BS in Computer Science, had a knack for coding, and was enthusiastic about starting a new life. Took me several months to land the job I'm at now, where I'm doing less-than-ideal web development stuff, getting paid significantly less than I or my family expected.
I'm happy to finally be working, but for those of us fresh out of college with significant college loan debt (I'm talking, $50k+, its pretty overwhelming).. the whole economic downturn is quite depressing.
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The reason that would be important to me is because Apple does not have a Linux iTune client so I would have no way to get music onto an iPod from Linux.
gtkpod is a GPL'd program that does just that. Works quite well with my 4th generation ipod and linux.
I recently traded in my Karma for an iPod (yay for the Best Buy extended warranty), so I have some experience using both the iPod and the Karma under linux. Remember, the Karma is not "officially" supported under linux either! Rio Music Manager Lite is okay for usage, and the author updates it often, but honestly, I've found gtkpod much much better (stability-wise, feature-wise) for transferring to and from the ipod.
First off, it's fairly impossible to avoid coming in contact with non-vegan stuff in most people's lives.. A good 99.9% of the vegans I know realize this, and strive to to the best they can, to minimize the most amount of suffering as they possibly can. Perfection is pretty impossible to achieve in anything. Would a Catholic not consider themselves religious anymore if, for instance, they had to miss church on Sunday because they were hurling their guts up do to illness? Would they give up completely because of something like that? Anyhow, back to the off-topic-ness at hand.. B12 - it can be from a source most vegans feel comfortable with, for instance, nutritional yeast.
Wrong wrong wrong. I'm quite sure the b12 in my nutritional yeast and the b12 in my soymilk are not "itself, an animal product." B12 itself is not inherently manufacturered by either plants or animals - they come from bacteria. Animal foods (meat, etc) get b12 from the bacteria in the food those animals eat or from the bacteria in those animals' intestines. Similarly, the fortification of soymilk or nutritional yeast (or a bunch of other vegan products) originally comes from bacteria of some sort.. But to argue that bacteria is a sentient being (which would make your original statement valid) seems.. off.
>>And no they didn't turn their noses up on work that was 'beneath' them I apologize if I came off that way, it wasn't my intention... I feel sorry for everyone who still doesn't have a job, its a crappy feeling. I get equally insulted when people say if you dont have a job its because you don't have any skill. Best of luck to your friends at MIT..
I would have to disagree with you on that one, and have to say your comment was fairly pompous.
Having just graduated with a CS degree last May, I found it *incredibly* tough to get my first "real" job. Sure, I had internships and such during college, but when it came down to "proving" that I had 3+ years experience (which is what all too many tech jobs require off the bat), people weren't buying that working 20 hours a week part time programming during the schoolyear combined with fulltime jobs during the summers equaled 3 years. Coding in C or C++ for the majority of your school CS projects over the course of 4 academic years doesn't quite "qualify" as 3 or 4 years of experience, either.
Campus recruitment last year was way down, too. Hell, even some of the people who were offered jobs at large companies, like my best friend, had their start dates pushed back anywhere from a few months to a whole *year*.
I went to a strong academic institution, one of the top engineering schools in the country, graduated with a 3.43 and a BS in Computer Science, had a knack for coding, and was enthusiastic about starting a new life. Took me several months to land the job I'm at now, where I'm doing less-than-ideal web development stuff, getting paid significantly less than I or my family expected.
I'm happy to finally be working, but for those of us fresh out of college with significant college loan debt (I'm talking, $50k+, its pretty overwhelming).. the whole economic downturn is quite depressing.