What ? Yes it certainly stores songs, songs which you can copy onto on to it from Linux, Mac's, Windows or anything else which supports USB Mass Storage.
If you want to download stuff from the Internet then you can do that on the computer of your choice.
Personally I don't download much music because I have converted my record collection to OGGS.
In actual fact the iRiver devices can be formatted and used as a USB drive so you can just drag and drop you music from the hardrive to the player.
This works fine for me on Linux.
I've noticed that now my wonderful employers can afford to buy stuff again they are doing exactly what they did when they could afford to buy stuff last time ( immediatley before they realised they were totally inefficient, burning money and with far too much "wastage in the middle management tier".
Yes they are once again spending an awful lot of money on, occasionally, very nice enterprise systems which they don't bother training anyone how to use ( or even finding out what it can or more often can't do beyond the shiny advertising which presumably causes them to buy this stuff )
Consequently all the main IT infrastructure in my company ( ironically enough a company which claims to advise or outsource IT know how for other less fortunate companies - victims ) are either very nice but only used up to around 5% of their potential usefullness or totally useless and forced on everyone to use for everything.
That turned into a rant. Sorry.
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i'll bet you were foaming at the mouth when you wrote that weren't you.
I have found that the best way of refusing more work is to do 4 things:
1) The best method is just speak to your boss who should be aware of what you are already doing and get him to refuse anything you don't want to do.
2) Failing that do your best to force the person requesting the work to describe exactly what they want doing down to the smallest detail. This should cause them to do a lot of work and make sure they understand exactly what they are asking for. Often they will decide it's not quite so urgent as soon as it looks like they might have to do something themselves.
3) Give a timescale for the work but be sure to give a figure at least 2 or 3 times longer than you really think it will take.
4) Show the requester your timetable of work and ask them to speak to everyone else in the queue before them if they want the work done faster or urgently, you will need an agreement from all of them that it is OK to fasttrack this persons project.
To summarise simply make it as hard as possible for anyone to get anything out of you and make them jump through as many hoops and navigate as much red tape as you can invent before you tie yourself down to a definate yes or no.
This isn't just bloody minded vindictiveness because your work is your responsibility and you will always need to make sure everything you are doing is justified and be able to back up your decisions with evidence so all you need to do is make sure people provide you with good written reasons why there project should take priority over someone elses and have written agreements from the owners of all the other projects.
Great, so now Technical Support / Helpdesk staff will have to learn the individual way everyone's PC is deciding to work when talking people through how to do things !
"Now: Where from we'll make our money?
We work for them for free. They get all the software benefits, for free."
That's just nonsense, there is no way Open Source software would force people to work for nothing.
You don't expect a Lawyer to work for you for free yet access to the Law is free for everyone.
Open Source is actually a great thing for developers, they have free access to the source code and can modify existing applications to suit there clients as they see fit. They will not have to pay for "developers licences", they will not have to spend money calling the Support lines of large faceless corporations to naviagte through the badly documented intricacies or hangups of a particular package.
Without all these overheads they will be able to charge lower prices to end customers and increase their profits.
The only situation which I can see that would involve Open Source putting us all out of a job is if at some point everything anybody ever needs from a computer has already been released as Open Source and needs no modification at all. I think is fairly similar to the dilemma faced by house builders - once they have built houses for everyone they will all be out of a job. Strangely this not an issue which gets much coverage in the media.
This is also ignoring the fact that there is nothing to say you can't charge people for Open Source packages in the first place.
Those questions are too loaded to be used in an interview ? Have you ever heard of Jeremey Paxman ?
If you want to get proper answers from people like Mr McBride you have to ask these kind of questions.
"Does the thought entertain you, that your superior who has power over you from Monday to Friday, from 9 to 5, can for a price extend his power over you, his enjoyment at the price of your integrity, and his opportunity at the price of your hope, even when you at home think you have finally escaped?"
If you don't mind me asking, do you live in a prison ? All this talk of people delighting in exerting their power over you, even to the extent of paying money to make your online persona submit to their desires seems a little unlikley otherwise.
It's blantly obvious that your life in the real world is going to define your life in the alternate world of MUDS and MMPORGS, just because you are acting through a computer doesn't magically change you into a different person.
By the sounds of it what you'd really like to do is live in a complete fantasy world of your own devising without reference to any reality.
If people want to improve their real lives by getting money from games then there doesn't seem to be any problem with that so far as I can see.
But there not really making any cash, there share price may have gone up and people may make money from that but the actual business isn't making any more money from it.
When my friends and I were teenagers and used to find ourselves wandering the streets at 3AM in the morning ( usually ending up at all night petrol stations ) we devised what we like to think of as street theatre.
Usually the area of town we hung around in was as quiet as a grave and you'd hardly ever see anyone else at that time in the morning. When there was a fair sized crowd of us ( 8+ ) we would all position ourselves on various sides of the street near a set of traffic lights.
As a car approached somone would press the lights to get the car to stop and everyone would by then be walking up to and over the traffic lights like we were all unknown to each other and just happened to all turn up at this particular set of traffic lights at the same time and carry on off in different directions.
I always found it very amusing and luckily so the Police when we had mistaken them for a normal car and carried out this trick on two different traffic lights on the same set of road. We stopped them at both lights but the driver was seen to clap his hands in slow applause at the second.
"I have no doubt that India and other countries besides the USA have quality workers. That said, I believe you still get what you pay for. If IBM or any other company thinks it can get the same quality of work for a fraction of the cost, they will be in for a rude awakening. How good of a job would you do if your company slashed your salary?"
Although IBM are paying much less American dollars to hire Indian workers the Indians do not have to earn so maintain a good standard of living. Therefore comapartivley speaking the Indian workers are able to enjoy a similar standard of living to their American counterparts ( so far is possible in a country like India ).
That being the case IBM can expect to get a similar quality of work out of Indian workers as it expects from Americans - Indians are no less educated or intelligent than Americans, the reason they are paid less has nothing to do with their ability and everything to do with the economic situation in pre-valent in their country.
The new security measures seem more to be just going through the motions of looking like they increase security rather than actuall doing anything.
For example at a number of European Airports ( and I think maybe at San Fransico & Los Angeles as well ) once you have had your dangerous nail files etc removed at check in you arrive in the Departure Lounge. In the departure lounge you can buy meals with metal cutlery, knives, forks etc. Any terrorist worth their salt would easily be able to sharpen these weapons to a deadly edge within half an hour spend in the toilet.
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What ? Yes it certainly stores songs, songs which you can copy onto on to it from Linux, Mac's, Windows or anything else which supports USB Mass Storage.
If you want to download stuff from the Internet then you can do that on the computer of your choice.
Personally I don't download much music because I have converted my record collection to OGGS.
The iRivers will also function as a USB Mass Storage device in Linux - I use mine this way and it's great.
In actual fact the iRiver devices can be formatted and used as a USB drive so you can just drag and drop you music from the hardrive to the player. This works fine for me on Linux.
Darl ? Is that you ?
There are more non Americans than this surely. Or perhaps this is target they are aiming before the end of GW's reign.
I've noticed that now my wonderful employers can afford to buy stuff again they are doing exactly what they did when they could afford to buy stuff last time ( immediatley before they realised they were totally inefficient, burning money and with far too much "wastage in the middle management tier".
Yes they are once again spending an awful lot of money on, occasionally, very nice enterprise systems which they don't bother training anyone how to use ( or even finding out what it can or more often can't do beyond the shiny advertising which presumably causes them to buy this stuff )
Consequently all the main IT infrastructure in my company ( ironically enough a company which claims to advise or outsource IT know how for other less fortunate companies - victims ) are either very nice but only used up to around 5% of their potential usefullness or totally useless and forced on everyone to use for everything.
That turned into a rant. Sorry.
i'll bet you were foaming at the mouth when you wrote that weren't you.
... but I don't live in the US !
That's great but do you have enough money to take them to court and win this case ?
Equally just because it has happened to you doesn't mean it is common and will happen to everyone !
Basically all the advice given so far is bang on.
I have found that the best way of refusing more work is to do 4 things:
1) The best method is just speak to your boss who should be aware of what you are already doing and get him to refuse anything you don't want to do.
2) Failing that do your best to force the person requesting the work to describe exactly what they want doing down to the smallest detail. This should cause them to do a lot of work and make sure they understand exactly what they are asking for. Often they will decide it's not quite so urgent as soon as it looks like they might have to do something themselves.
3) Give a timescale for the work but be sure to give a figure at least 2 or 3 times longer than you really think it will take.
4) Show the requester your timetable of work and ask them to speak to everyone else in the queue before them if they want the work done faster or urgently, you will need an agreement from all of them that it is OK to fasttrack this persons project.
To summarise simply make it as hard as possible for anyone to get anything out of you and make them jump through as many hoops and navigate as much red tape as you can invent before you tie yourself down to a definate yes or no.
This isn't just bloody minded vindictiveness because your work is your responsibility and you will always need to make sure everything you are doing is justified and be able to back up your decisions with evidence so all you need to do is make sure people provide you with good written reasons why there project should take priority over someone elses and have written agreements from the owners of all the other projects.
Great, so now Technical Support / Helpdesk staff will have to learn the individual way everyone's PC is deciding to work when talking people through how to do things !
That's just nonsense, there is no way Open Source software would force people to work for nothing.
You don't expect a Lawyer to work for you for free yet access to the Law is free for everyone.
Open Source is actually a great thing for developers, they have free access to the source code and can modify existing applications to suit there clients as they see fit. They will not have to pay for "developers licences", they will not have to spend money calling the Support lines of large faceless corporations to naviagte through the badly documented intricacies or hangups of a particular package.
Without all these overheads they will be able to charge lower prices to end customers and increase their profits.
The only situation which I can see that would involve Open Source putting us all out of a job is if at some point everything anybody ever needs from a computer has already been released as Open Source and needs no modification at all. I think is fairly similar to the dilemma faced by house builders - once they have built houses for everyone they will all be out of a job. Strangely this not an issue which gets much coverage in the media.
This is also ignoring the fact that there is nothing to say you can't charge people for Open Source packages in the first place.
Those questions are too loaded to be used in an interview ? Have you ever heard of Jeremey Paxman ? If you want to get proper answers from people like Mr McBride you have to ask these kind of questions.
Yeah but that's not going to happen, why on earth should people start a riot because the power has gone out - it's not going do much good is it !
If you don't mind me asking, do you live in a prison ? All this talk of people delighting in exerting their power over you, even to the extent of paying money to make your online persona submit to their desires seems a little unlikley otherwise.
It's blantly obvious that your life in the real world is going to define your life in the alternate world of MUDS and MMPORGS, just because you are acting through a computer doesn't magically change you into a different person.
By the sounds of it what you'd really like to do is live in a complete fantasy world of your own devising without reference to any reality.
If people want to improve their real lives by getting money from games then there doesn't seem to be any problem with that so far as I can see.
until he's the enemy again
But there not really making any cash, there share price may have gone up and people may make money from that but the actual business isn't making any more money from it.
I doubt there would be any of them left to see it by now
And when your husband get's his CD on CD Baby which he would like people to buy is it OK if I share it with everyone for free instead ?
This was probably very sad but nonetheless.
When my friends and I were teenagers and used to find ourselves wandering the streets at 3AM in the morning ( usually ending up at all night petrol stations ) we devised what we like to think of as street theatre.
Usually the area of town we hung around in was as quiet as a grave and you'd hardly ever see anyone else at that time in the morning. When there was a fair sized crowd of us ( 8+ ) we would all position ourselves on various sides of the street near a set of traffic lights.
As a car approached somone would press the lights to get the car to stop and everyone would by then be walking up to and over the traffic lights like we were all unknown to each other and just happened to all turn up at this particular set of traffic lights at the same time and carry on off in different directions.
I always found it very amusing and luckily so the Police when we had mistaken them for a normal car and carried out this trick on two different traffic lights on the same set of road. We stopped them at both lights but the driver was seen to clap his hands in slow applause at the second.
Ho ho ho. Do you really believe that ?
"...because we deloped global capitalism"
I think it's obvious that the British and Europeans invented Global Capitalism long before America came about.
Indeed I suspect that cheap cotton from what is now called America was the cause of many problems in the UK home cotton industry.
"I have no doubt that India and other countries besides the USA have quality workers. That said, I believe you still get what you pay for. If IBM or any other company thinks it can get the same quality of work for a fraction of the cost, they will be in for a rude awakening. How good of a job would you do if your company slashed your salary?" Although IBM are paying much less American dollars to hire Indian workers the Indians do not have to earn so maintain a good standard of living. Therefore comapartivley speaking the Indian workers are able to enjoy a similar standard of living to their American counterparts ( so far is possible in a country like India ). That being the case IBM can expect to get a similar quality of work out of Indian workers as it expects from Americans - Indians are no less educated or intelligent than Americans, the reason they are paid less has nothing to do with their ability and everything to do with the economic situation in pre-valent in their country.
The new security measures seem more to be just going through the motions of looking like they increase security rather than actuall doing anything. For example at a number of European Airports ( and I think maybe at San Fransico & Los Angeles as well ) once you have had your dangerous nail files etc removed at check in you arrive in the Departure Lounge. In the departure lounge you can buy meals with metal cutlery, knives, forks etc. Any terrorist worth their salt would easily be able to sharpen these weapons to a deadly edge within half an hour spend in the toilet.