You obviously have no experience in processor design.
You are obviously wrong.
Rather, I asked them during the part, of the interview, in which I am expected to ask questions about the team and the company. "Do you have coding standards?" "What is the bug rate?" "How are bugs handled?"
To which the answers were "Oh, we have a bunch of imports who speak horrible English" and "We don't have documentation on our simulator"? Did they have any evidence that you weren't already working for ATI?
On the Mac, right now it appears that there's several options: Neo Office (a Mac specific flavor of OO, it appears),
Still in beta, not usable for anyone who doesn't know what they're doing.
Appleworks
Replaced for the most part with either iWork or MS Office.
Not to mention the lyriad of choices you get if you want to go back in the Macs history (I didn't jump ship till OSX, but there's lots of options available for older versions of Macs, which will still run fine on the shiny new G5's)
They may run OK, but they're almost definitely missing a pile of nice OSX features only available to native apps.
Most corporate offices will balk at such statements as Pages imported our Word test files with only minimal changes in page layout
No Outlook competitor, no Excel competitor. They're not going after MS Office (at least, not yet)
What are you talking about? Any Mac with a PCI slot has upgradeable sound. Echo makes several nice PCMCIA cards with a variety of options, including 24bit/96kHz input and output. Plus, the best quality will come from a FireWire breakout box anyway, which all recent Macs support!
Yes, unless you count the original Napster, Kazaa, and the other file-sharing programs that dwarf it.
Those don't make any money.
YOU can also ignore the data, and realize that the only reason AAC is popular is because the ITMS doesn't offer MP3's (encrypted or un-encrypted) for sale as an option.
OK, and?
You can also ignore the data points that no audio CD players play AAC, no car systems play AAC, no players besides Apple and HP play AAC, and that if the iPod didn't also play MP3's, it would be the same sort of colossal failure that Sony ATRAC-only playing players have been.
Superior in a Sony Betamax way. It's technically better, but most do not recognize it (it is not "the standard"). AAC is to MP3 as Beta is to VHS. There's a wide variety of digital music player devices from many vendors. The vast majority play MP3. Few play AAC.
The iPod is far-and-away the best selling music player, and the iTMS is the most successful online music store. You can ignore the data but that doesn't make them go away. The market is perfectly happy with AAC.
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what's with the | in wiseass?
so basically, you are making inferences and claiming that they are facts.
You obviously have no experience in processor design.
You are obviously wrong.
Rather, I asked them during the part, of the interview, in which I am expected to ask questions about the team and the company. "Do you have coding standards?" "What is the bug rate?" "How are bugs handled?"
To which the answers were "Oh, we have a bunch of imports who speak horrible English" and "We don't have documentation on our simulator"? Did they have any evidence that you weren't already working for ATI?
And they told all this to an interviewee? RIGHT
the correlation you speak of has no basis in reality. what you describe is closer to a description of pipelining than anything else.
you must be finnish!
The end result is that I carry around the same piece of hardware as a 19 year old sorority girl.
Assuming that you're a dude, that's a very interesting statement.
doesn't gcc include a fortran compiler? (g77?)
a robot MONKEY? george has been watching too much powerpuff girls...
On the Mac, right now it appears that there's several options: Neo Office (a Mac specific flavor of OO, it appears),
Still in beta, not usable for anyone who doesn't know what they're doing.
Appleworks
Replaced for the most part with either iWork or MS Office.
Not to mention the lyriad of choices you get if you want to go back in the Macs history (I didn't jump ship till OSX, but there's lots of options available for older versions of Macs, which will still run fine on the shiny new G5's)
They may run OK, but they're almost definitely missing a pile of nice OSX features only available to native apps.
Most corporate offices will balk at such statements as Pages imported our Word test files with only minimal changes in page layout
No Outlook competitor, no Excel competitor. They're not going after MS Office (at least, not yet)
What are you talking about? Any Mac with a PCI slot has upgradeable sound. Echo makes several nice PCMCIA cards with a variety of options, including 24bit/96kHz input and output. Plus, the best quality will come from a FireWire breakout box anyway, which all recent Macs support!
My new one has TOTAL SECURITY PROTECTION printed on the mag stripe. I'm sure that must mean something.
Or more likely (as most companies do), keep it for themselves.
Remember that every time the price drops more people buy the thing.
I think it would be very cool (although difficult) to have that happen, especially if it affected anyone listening to the station in-game.
Oh come on, there's more to IT than personal computers.
Portable Music?
I remember when Apple produced an external CD-ROM drive that was also usable as a standalone CD player. Not too popular, IIRC.
Wasn't there supposed to be a manufacturer making cardboard cell-phones with circuit boards printerd by a special inkjet? Whatever happened to them?
Yes, and the use of the 'k' in "Radio Free Amerika" uses that feel to market itself to rebellious teenagers.
NATO countries used to point antennas into the Eastern Bloc to broadcast non-state media. This was known as Radio Free Europe.
All cars are sold in the US domestically are required to have been built in the US.
WHAT?! That is ludicrous. Back it up.
OK, but you're still wrong.
Wrong, civil disobedience, as the term was originall used, requires breaking a law and going to jail, very publically.
this is no different from hiring someone for a paid testimonial.
except that the reviewers are not necessarily going to present a positive review. why is this important?
Yes, unless you count the original Napster, Kazaa, and the other file-sharing programs that dwarf it.
Those don't make any money.
YOU can also ignore the data, and realize that the only reason AAC is popular is because the ITMS doesn't offer MP3's (encrypted or un-encrypted) for sale as an option.
OK, and?
You can also ignore the data points that no audio CD players play AAC, no car systems play AAC, no players besides Apple and HP play AAC, and that if the iPod didn't also play MP3's, it would be the same sort of colossal failure that Sony ATRAC-only playing players have been.
How is that a reason to dump a superior format?
Superior in a Sony Betamax way. It's technically better, but most do not recognize it (it is not "the standard"). AAC is to MP3 as Beta is to VHS. There's a wide variety of digital music player devices from many vendors. The vast majority play MP3. Few play AAC.
The iPod is far-and-away the best selling music player, and the iTMS is the most successful online music store. You can ignore the data but that doesn't make them go away. The market is perfectly happy with AAC.
why should they? AAC and WMV are plenty popular, probably more so than OGG.