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  1. What Monopoly on Money For Nothing and the Codecs For Free · · Score: -1, Troll

    As Apple keeps growing it's hard to call Microsoft a Monopoly.

    Also, restricting the codex will increase both security and stability. I've had to rebuild after installing some open source codex a few years ago.

  2. Don't know about you on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    Don't know about you, but I would reather have our freedom them a better light or cell phone coverage.

  3. Re:Sage TV on Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am using the demo version with a Hauppauge WINTV-PVR 250. The Remove that came with the card runs just fine. I don't even have a monitor hooked up to the computer running Sage.

  4. Re:Hacke contribute to the security of the communi on Adrian Lamo Surrenders · · Score: 1

    I get tired of this stupid argument. I know security holes in most businesses (i.e. cut the phone line and throw a bring throw the windows). I can then steal any credit card information they have on site. But somehow some people think its different when you do basically the same thing to a computer. No, breaking and entry is breaking and entry, no matter how you justify it.

  5. Re:I'll tell you why they shouldn't do this on Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    I am 36 years old. I have been hearing about our jobs moving off shore for my ENTIRE life. That is how America works. We create it (or in early) while there is a lot of money to be made and then as the industry gets older it moves off out for cheaper laber. If we did not move on we would stagnate (Read how China went from the worlds power to what it is now).

  6. Self inflicted. on Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't companies do this. Programmers make themselfs a commodity in the 90's jumping from job to job as soon as someone offered them more money. But this will not last when they have trouble understanding the screens because the programmer can not understand the instructions and write the program completely wrong.

  7. Audible.com on Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find I like there DRM. Sure they do books not music, but you 3 devices to play the book on, all three can be computers or one computer, two devices or one computer, one device and a CD Burner. But you can only replace one device every six months (Keeps people from taking advantage of the system). However I had a system crash and so all my devices could not be accessed. I gave them a call and within 5 minutes they reset everything (did not even ask why) and I was able to download all my books and get them working again. If someone did the same thing with Music I would be happy.

  8. Re:Easy choice... on Public vs. Private Sector? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, a state job is more secure and it is not easy to get fired, but speeking for the department I work in, we take pride in our work. We can not be made to work over but we do when needed (without overtime or comp) because of PRIDE in our work. You can run into the same problems in any department private or public. Always judge the MANAGEMENT over the position more than anything else. They can make hard jobs injoyable or make easy jobs killers.

  9. A little Math on PressPlay and MusicNet vs. Artists · · Score: 1

    This does not sound like a lot until you do that math. If as it should be you pay $10 for unlimited streaming than say 12 songs an hour = $.0276, 8 hours a day at work = $.2208 and 22 days a month = 4.8576, that is about half the money going to that artist, and for those that will run the service more, the complany could lose money paying the artist. All I did was run the math as I would use it and 12 songs a hour is low.