Sometimes your "real world" is different to someone else's "real world". Rather than trying to please all of the people all of the time, Apple has cultivated an ecosystem of accessory makers. It seems to work OK. In addition, they can screw retailers down on margins and convince them to make money upselling an iPad sale with accessories.
Every single office worker out there? they know how to run Windows and MS Office.
I'd say the ones around here are "familiar with Windows and MS Office" or "can recognise it". I'd love it if people in my organisation actually did know how to run Windows and MS Office.
Apart from underestimating people's ignorance actual computer skills (which makes it even harder for them to use anything that's not Windows/MS Office), the post is spot on.
In addition, our PCs here cost $1200 per year for a bottom end Dell. That is the "IT Tax".
Following the recent riots and civil unrest reported in... , local authorities have decided to activate the tracking feature of the road congestion GPS system. Just for the duration of the unrest. And in anticipation of future unrest.
Together with the public transport card tracking, we can all look forward to a bright peaceful future ahead.
Nothing in QED states that light must travel at the speed of light, it just does so because the paths where it travels at some other speed interfere with each other destructively.
Are you saying that light travels at the speed of light because it chooses too? "I could go faster, man, but, like, that'd be effort."
But is there anything that plays AAC besides the iPod?
Players Creative Zen Portable Microsoft Zune SanDisk Sansa (some models) Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) with firmware 2.0 or greater Sony Walkman Nintendo DSi Any portable player that fully supports the Rockbox third party firmware Mobile phones For a number of years, many mobile phones from manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, BenQ-Siemens and Philips have supported AAC playback. The first such phone was the Nokia 5510 released in 2002 which also plays MP3s. However, this phone was a commercial failure and such phones with integrated music players did not gain mainstream popularity until 2005 when the trend of having AAC as well as MP3 support continued. Most new smartphones and music-themed phones support playback of these formats. Sony Ericsson phones support various AAC formats in MP4 container. AAC-LC is supported in all phones beginning with K700, phones beginning with W550 have support of HE-AAC. The latest devices such as the P990, K610, W890i and later support HE-AAC v2. Nokia XpressMusic and other new generation Nokia multimedia phones like N- and E-Series: also support AAC format in LC, HE, M4A and HEv2 profiles BlackBerry: RIM's latest series of Smartphones such as the 8100 ("Pearl"), 9500 ("Storm") and 8800 support AAC. Apple's iPhone supports AAC and FairPlay protected AAC files formerly used as the default encoding format in the iTunes store until the removal of DRM restrictions in March 2009. The Motorola Droid Family supports AAC along with several other audio codecs. The HTC Dream (Also known as the T-Mobile G1) is described as supporting certain subset of the full AAC format. As of 2009-04-13 at least several forms of AAC files played while others did not play.[citation needed] WebOS by HP/Palm supports AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and.m4a containers in its native music player as well as several third-party players. However, it does not support Apple's FairPlay DRM files downloaded from iTunes.[43] Windows Phone 7: WP7's Silverlight runtime supports AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 decoding. Other devices Apple's iPad: Supports AAC and FairPlay protected AAC files used as the default encoding format in the iTunes store. Palm OS PDAs: Many Palm OS based PDAs and smartphones can play AAC and HE-AAC with the 3rd party software Pocket Tunes. Version 4.0, released in December 2006, added support for native AAC and HE-AAC files. The AAC codec for TCPMP, a popular video player, was withdrawn after version 0.66 due to patent issues, but can still be downloaded from sites other than corecodec.org. CorePlayer, the commercial follow-on to TCPMP, includes AAC support. Other PalmOS programs supporting AAC include Kinoma Player and AeroPlayer. Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms support AAC either by the native Windows Media Player or by third-party products (TCPMP, CorePlayer)[citation needed] Epson supports AAC playback in the P-2000 and P-4000 Multimedia/Photo Storage Viewers. This support is not available with their older models, however. The Sony Reader portable eBook plays M4A files containing AAC, and displays metadata created by iTunes. Other Sony products, including the A and E series Network Walkmans, support AAC with firmware updates (released May 2006) while the S series supports it out of the box. Nearly every major car stereo manufacturer offers models that will play back.m4a files recorded onto CD in a data format. This includes Pioneer, Sony, Alpine, Kenwood, Clarion, Panasonic, and JVC.[citation needed] The Sonos Digital Media Player supports playback of AAC files. The Barnes & Noble Nook Color electronic-book reader supports playback of AAC encoded files. The Roku SoundBridge network audio player supports playback of AAC encoded files. The Squeezebox network audio player (made by Slim Devices, a Logitech company) supports playback of AAC files. The
And at this point we've devolved into an elaborate fuck-the-man revenge fantasy, with no actual bearing on reality. =(
No way. You have to add the 5 years of kabuki ninja training we will undertake in order to destroy that corrupt force from the top down, including the cop that is just weeks away from retirement.
While it may make you feel like something profound has happened, it's simply stimulating the "profound feeling" bits. The same can be said for alcohol and its effect on how well people can dance. They think they're doing really well, but in reality they haven't improved.
Well, I think I spotted why you don't have any funds
It could work. Just set up a cinema for people who can use their cellphones, sell tickets for $5, but never actually play a movie. Just play trailers for 90 minutes. The phone users will be so engrossed twittering, emailing, FBing, etc, they'll never notice. After 90 minutes, bring the lights up and close the curtains.
This is a concept? This has been around since 1996. Apple's PowerBook 1400 had a removable cover on the lid and a company called Keep It Simple Systems made a solar panel for it.
You can see how successful it was because they're ubiquitous now.
Your premise is essentially that people who invest labor shouldn't get compensation and that is absurd
That's not my premise at all, just an observation that people tend to view "non-profit foundation/association/organisation" as the same as a charity, therefore the people working for them must really really believe in The Cause (whatever it may be), yet in reality a non-profit organisation is just another organisation.
Being a non-proifit does NOT make an organization qualify for government hand-outs
I believe a parallel may be drawn with "whistleblower protection". It is often against the law to for public servants to reveal things about their workplace to outside agencies. An exception to this can be found under various laws generally called "Whistleblower Protection Acts".
If a whistleblower who works for the government deserves protection, does not a whistleblower deserve protection from Big Corp? I'd consider it more grey than black/white.
I always thought it was odd. Everyone from the CEO to the janitor makes money, yet a company can be a "non-profit" and all of a sudden it's like a corporate love-child of Ghandi and Mother Theresa. Maybe it's just a label they give themselves when they realise they aren't very good at stuff - like making money - and some government handouts would be useful for paying the bills.
My employer has about 60 000 people, a corporate standard operating environment and local tech support. Our work PCs get all sorts of weird ?viruses?trojans on them in spite of having corporately approved and installed AV software. I am usually the first to spot new things in my work area because I see strange.exe files appearing on my USB stick when I put it back into my Mac.
Slashdot Mirror
While watching TV?
I'll look up things about the TV program or movie while watching. It's silly, unnecessary but I still do it.
Sometimes your "real world" is different to someone else's "real world". Rather than trying to please all of the people all of the time, Apple has cultivated an ecosystem of accessory makers. It seems to work OK. In addition, they can screw retailers down on margins and convince them to make money upselling an iPad sale with accessories.
Every single office worker out there? they know how to run Windows and MS Office.
I'd say the ones around here are "familiar with Windows and MS Office" or "can recognise it". I'd love it if people in my organisation actually did know how to run Windows and MS Office.
Apart from underestimating people's ignorance actual computer skills (which makes it even harder for them to use anything that's not Windows/MS Office), the post is spot on.
In addition, our PCs here cost $1200 per year for a bottom end Dell. That is the "IT Tax".
It's a moo point, you cow.
In Apple's case, the pirate flag was a metaphor. They're not really pirates. I mean, they're not The Crimson Permanent Assurance or something.
And what have the Romans ever done for us?
Following the recent riots and civil unrest reported in ... , local authorities have decided to activate the tracking feature of the road congestion GPS system. Just for the duration of the unrest. And in anticipation of future unrest.
Together with the public transport card tracking, we can all look forward to a bright peaceful future ahead.
NASA Double-Taps 7 Commercial Firms For Suborbital Flights
Nobody, but nobody, flies sub-orbital around here except us. Capiche?
Newton thought he was chosen by God for the task of understanding Biblical scripture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_religious_views
http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/server/specs.html
85W. And you can get a rack for them. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html
Nothing in QED states that light must travel at the speed of light, it just does so because the paths where it travels at some other speed interfere with each other destructively.
Are you saying that light travels at the speed of light because it chooses too? "I could go faster, man, but, like, that'd be effort."
I am much the same way - I tend to hear very low-level sounds easily that others either can't hear or don't notice.
But can you hear the secret message in Old Man River? Wow, that Paul Robeson is some crazy guy.
But is there anything that plays AAC besides the iPod?
Players .m4a containers in its native music player as well as several third-party players. However, it does not support Apple's FairPlay DRM files downloaded from iTunes.[43] .m4a files recorded onto CD in a data format. This includes Pioneer, Sony, Alpine, Kenwood, Clarion, Panasonic, and JVC.[citation needed]
Creative Zen Portable
Microsoft Zune
SanDisk Sansa (some models)
Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) with firmware 2.0 or greater
Sony Walkman
Nintendo DSi
Any portable player that fully supports the Rockbox third party firmware
Mobile phones
For a number of years, many mobile phones from manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, BenQ-Siemens and Philips have supported AAC playback. The first such phone was the Nokia 5510 released in 2002 which also plays MP3s. However, this phone was a commercial failure and such phones with integrated music players did not gain mainstream popularity until 2005 when the trend of having AAC as well as MP3 support continued. Most new smartphones and music-themed phones support playback of these formats.
Sony Ericsson phones support various AAC formats in MP4 container. AAC-LC is supported in all phones beginning with K700, phones beginning with W550 have support of HE-AAC. The latest devices such as the P990, K610, W890i and later support HE-AAC v2.
Nokia XpressMusic and other new generation Nokia multimedia phones like N- and E-Series: also support AAC format in LC, HE, M4A and HEv2 profiles
BlackBerry: RIM's latest series of Smartphones such as the 8100 ("Pearl"), 9500 ("Storm") and 8800 support AAC.
Apple's iPhone supports AAC and FairPlay protected AAC files formerly used as the default encoding format in the iTunes store until the removal of DRM restrictions in March 2009.
The Motorola Droid Family supports AAC along with several other audio codecs.
The HTC Dream (Also known as the T-Mobile G1) is described as supporting certain subset of the full AAC format. As of 2009-04-13 at least several forms of AAC files played while others did not play.[citation needed]
WebOS by HP/Palm supports AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and
Windows Phone 7: WP7's Silverlight runtime supports AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 decoding.
Other devices
Apple's iPad: Supports AAC and FairPlay protected AAC files used as the default encoding format in the iTunes store.
Palm OS PDAs: Many Palm OS based PDAs and smartphones can play AAC and HE-AAC with the 3rd party software Pocket Tunes. Version 4.0, released in December 2006, added support for native AAC and HE-AAC files. The AAC codec for TCPMP, a popular video player, was withdrawn after version 0.66 due to patent issues, but can still be downloaded from sites other than corecodec.org. CorePlayer, the commercial follow-on to TCPMP, includes AAC support. Other PalmOS programs supporting AAC include Kinoma Player and AeroPlayer.
Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms support AAC either by the native Windows Media Player or by third-party products (TCPMP, CorePlayer)[citation needed]
Epson supports AAC playback in the P-2000 and P-4000 Multimedia/Photo Storage Viewers. This support is not available with their older models, however.
The Sony Reader portable eBook plays M4A files containing AAC, and displays metadata created by iTunes. Other Sony products, including the A and E series Network Walkmans, support AAC with firmware updates (released May 2006) while the S series supports it out of the box.
Nearly every major car stereo manufacturer offers models that will play back
The Sonos Digital Media Player supports playback of AAC files.
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color electronic-book reader supports playback of AAC encoded files.
The Roku SoundBridge network audio player supports playback of AAC encoded files.
The Squeezebox network audio player (made by Slim Devices, a Logitech company) supports playback of AAC files.
The
They are the reason we don't all live in caves banging rocks together.
The rock-bangers created Ogg.
And at this point we've devolved into an elaborate fuck-the-man revenge fantasy, with no actual bearing on reality. =(
No way. You have to add the 5 years of kabuki ninja training we will undertake in order to destroy that corrupt force from the top down, including the cop that is just weeks away from retirement.
That's just it how often do you check your watch? I
Too often. I mainly ride my motorbike to and from work and was pretty happy that my latest one has a digital clock display in the odometer reading.
It won't get me to work quicker, but it's nice to have.
While it may make you feel like something profound has happened, it's simply stimulating the "profound feeling" bits. The same can be said for alcohol and its effect on how well people can dance. They think they're doing really well, but in reality they haven't improved.
Are you suggesting that marijuana users are lobbying for it to be smokable everywhere cigarettes are/were?
They were going to have a public rally, but decided to get some pop tarts instead.
Well, I think I spotted why you don't have any funds
It could work. Just set up a cinema for people who can use their cellphones, sell tickets for $5, but never actually play a movie. Just play trailers for 90 minutes. The phone users will be so engrossed twittering, emailing, FBing, etc, they'll never notice. After 90 minutes, bring the lights up and close the curtains.
This is a concept? This has been around since 1996. Apple's PowerBook 1400 had a removable cover on the lid and a company called Keep It Simple Systems made a solar panel for it.
You can see how successful it was because they're ubiquitous now.
Your premise is essentially that people who invest labor shouldn't get compensation and that is absurd
That's not my premise at all, just an observation that people tend to view "non-profit foundation/association/organisation" as the same as a charity, therefore the people working for them must really really believe in The Cause (whatever it may be), yet in reality a non-profit organisation is just another organisation.
Being a non-proifit does NOT make an organization qualify for government hand-outs
I reckon it'd make it easier to get them, though.
I believe a parallel may be drawn with "whistleblower protection". It is often against the law to for public servants to reveal things about their workplace to outside agencies. An exception to this can be found under various laws generally called "Whistleblower Protection Acts".
If a whistleblower who works for the government deserves protection, does not a whistleblower deserve protection from Big Corp? I'd consider it more grey than black/white.
I always thought it was odd. Everyone from the CEO to the janitor makes money, yet a company can be a "non-profit" and all of a sudden it's like a corporate love-child of Ghandi and Mother Theresa. Maybe it's just a label they give themselves when they realise they aren't very good at stuff - like making money - and some government handouts would be useful for paying the bills.
What he means is that if the dentist wins, who enforces the penalty?
My employer has about 60 000 people, a corporate standard operating environment and local tech support. Our work PCs get all sorts of weird ?viruses?trojans on them in spite of having corporately approved and installed AV software. I am usually the first to spot new things in my work area because I see strange .exe files appearing on my USB stick when I put it back into my Mac.