The Toshiba Gigabeat S (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabeat) I have compares favorably with the iPOD on all three. Actually thare are several MP3 players that comfortably beat the iPOD on all three.
iPOD's main selling point (other than the cool factor) are the intuitiveness of the controls (which to an extent depends more on personal choices) and the iTunes integration. (Personally, the horrible sync with windows media player in contrast with the iPODs integration, is the only plausible reason that I may prefer an iPOD to my current player)
"In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet."
MS Access was only released in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Access), so how did Carlos Armando Amado develop a process that allowed the products to be compatible before that time?
Sony owns the most important label in this tiff with itunes. Sony dominated the personal audio market for a lond time and it is no secret that they have no love lost for the ipod. Withdrawing support from itunes helps sony chip away at the entire ipod-ituness experiene. Once itunes becomes just another service, sony will find it more easy to get a major presence in the digital music business. After all what is good for the customer and/or the industry need not be what's good for sony
* What about health insurance? Doesn't India have nationalized healthcare?*
Health care in India is mainly private, but is extremely cheap compared to the US. Sophisticated treatments and drugs are available at a fraction of US prices. Health insurance does not have anywhere near the penetration that it has here, which is not all that bad considering that patients do not have to subsidise someone else's expensive chronic illness. (not to mention the cost of the insurace companies paperwork). A cold way of putting it would be to say that dying people die, instead of bleeding the system of money to be kept alive.
Another plus is that there are fewer lawsuits, and the damages awarded do not really affect the cost of health care.
The health care industry in India is yet to mature fully, and has several drawbacks and certainly needs improvements.
Overall though, it serves the middle class (to which most IT workers, from tech support to project managers, belong) pretty well.
I think most geeks became attracted to SF more for the intriguing, plausible questions it raised, than for its escapism. A C Clarke, etc came up with ideas that were so plausible, that they led to breaktrhoughs (satellites, laws of robotics). These authors often used the medium of, or wrote stories that overlapped with Fantasy, but they tried to base their ideas on cutting edge science (Some, like Asimov, also wrote books on science without the Fiction part).
Sadly most of todays Sci Fi no longer tries to raise ideas. Most Geeks still associate SF from the past with the brain dead mass produced garbage of today. Because of this today's Sci-fi has become a badge of geekdom. It is a pity that Buffy and charmed are considered to be in the same genre as the works of the Masters of the Past.
Fantasy and SciFi appeals to every kid. I hope that geeks will recognize today's sci-fi, targeted for adults, as a marketing ploy, and leave sci-fi were it belongs -- as a fond memory before childhood's end.
"Its not that a game console is something like a desktop pc, running the whole day just to be quickly accessable...."...Obviously you have not met my room-mates.
*Typically at 4:40 AM -- Guys keep the fr^&(gging volume don own I'm trying to get some $%^(ing sleep*
In school I fould that the Distance learning classes had a pretty good system in place for both local as well as long distance meetings
All the classes had Large screens for display, microphones at various places in the ceiling, which produced surprising clear audio from all campuses, PC'c. A wireless network allowed everone in class to access the presentation material on their laptops.
A projector would display any handwritten notes on one part of the screen (as Picture in picture) The professor would be displayed in another and the other classrooms would in a different part. Any notes or presentations from other campuses could also be displayed from time to time
The classrooms were pretty effective as meeting places for clubs.
I am looking forward to ideas and insights from those who worked/works as a Lab Tech in such classrooms
I consider ratings by just one or two critics to be too small a sample, and ratings by all and sundry to be too prone to noise
Since rottentomatoes ratings are based on a sample critic's choices, it gets rid of a lot of the noise that often skews IMDB ratings (for straight to video movies that were too terrible for theater releases often get a good IMDB rating, since most people who dislike the movie did not bother voting). Also I like the the lists are made (arranges by various categories -- year, genre,etc)
Sure a Windows PC's security sucks.... But with Microsoft turning to Power PC chips for its XBOX and with Apple in talks with Intel, is this just a sign that sign that the Wintel alliance is fraying
Shame on Symantec for wrongly frightening us. I really do not see what harm can occur through a cellphone. Just for that I will remove Symatec from my Blackberry's address list!!
This is mainly because the ariticle
says that it gets its numbers from those whom the Social Security
Administration terms "other than legal immigrants." (The article is
archived at the Times website, but Slate synopsis with the quote can be seen here)
This makes the numbers essentially meaningless since this
could whole host of people including H1-Bs
(who are working legally, but are NOT legal immigrants).
Besides it does not make sense to compare the money a H1-B
worker brings in to the money an illegal immigrant brings in for several
reasons. (Like many other consultants, the majority of the money, for many H1Bs, goes to middle vendors; H1s also
often spend less time in one city, resulting in high relocation costs and household setup costs, which benefits the local economy directly,
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Dozens of Blogs also carry times select articles, although you may want to aviod them as posting the article in full (like the site below does) violates copyright
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The Toshiba Gigabeat S (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabeat) I have compares favorably with the iPOD on all three. Actually thare are several MP3 players that comfortably beat the iPOD on all three.
iPOD's main selling point (other than the cool factor) are the intuitiveness of the controls (which to an extent depends more on personal choices) and the iTunes integration. (Personally, the horrible sync with windows media player in contrast with the iPODs integration, is the only plausible reason that I may prefer an iPOD to my current player)
"In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet." MS Access was only released in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Access), so how did Carlos Armando Amado develop a process that allowed the products to be compatible before that time?
Sony owns the most important label in this tiff with itunes. Sony dominated the personal audio market for a lond time and it is no secret that they have no love lost for the ipod. Withdrawing support from itunes helps sony chip away at the entire ipod-ituness experiene. Once itunes becomes just another service, sony will find it more easy to get a major presence in the digital music business. After all what is good for the customer and/or the industry need not be what's good for sony
*idea bulb tuns on...*
1. Dig up old Slashdot evolution-related article/s.
2. Filter and post any of the 1 Gazillion +5 rated comments
3. ???
4. INSTANT KARMA PTS!!!
* What about health insurance? Doesn't India have nationalized healthcare?*
Health care in India is mainly private, but is extremely cheap compared to the US. Sophisticated treatments and drugs are available at a fraction of US prices. Health insurance does not have anywhere near the penetration that it has here, which is not all that bad considering that patients do not have to subsidise someone else's expensive chronic illness. (not to mention the cost of the insurace companies paperwork). A cold way of putting it would be to say that dying people die, instead of bleeding the system of money to be kept alive.
Another plus is that there are fewer lawsuits, and the damages awarded do not really affect the cost of health care.
The health care industry in India is yet to mature fully, and has several drawbacks and certainly needs improvements.
Overall though, it serves the middle class (to which most IT workers, from tech support to project managers, belong) pretty well.
Apparently the homepage is still up http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php /.
Could someone make a mirror before it gets
I think most geeks became attracted to SF more for the intriguing, plausible questions it raised, than for its escapism. A C Clarke, etc came up with ideas that were so plausible, that they led to breaktrhoughs (satellites, laws of robotics). These authors often used the medium of, or wrote stories that overlapped with Fantasy, but they tried to base their ideas on cutting edge science (Some, like Asimov, also wrote books on science without the Fiction part).
Sadly most of todays Sci Fi no longer tries to raise ideas. Most Geeks still associate SF from the past with the brain dead mass produced garbage of today. Because of this today's Sci-fi has become a badge of geekdom. It is a pity that Buffy and charmed are considered to be in the same genre as the works of the Masters of the Past.
Fantasy and SciFi appeals to every kid. I hope that geeks will recognize today's sci-fi, targeted for adults, as a marketing ploy, and leave sci-fi were it belongs -- as a fond memory before childhood's end.
"Its not that a game console is something like a desktop pc, running the whole day just to be quickly accessable...." ...Obviously you have not met my room-mates.
*Typically at 4:40 AM -- Guys keep the fr^&(gging volume don own I'm trying to get some $%^(ing sleep*
i.e. I'll be too cheap to give him $900/gallon for gas for a REAL car. Let him drive a golfcart instead
In school I fould that the Distance learning classes had a pretty good system in place for both local as well as long distance meetings
All the classes had Large screens for display, microphones at various places in the ceiling, which produced surprising clear audio from all campuses, PC'c. A wireless network allowed everone in class to access the presentation material on their laptops.
A projector would display any handwritten notes on one part of the screen (as Picture in picture) The professor would be displayed in another and the other classrooms would in a different part. Any notes or presentations from other campuses could also be displayed from time to time
The classrooms were pretty effective as meeting places for clubs.
I am looking forward to ideas and insights from those who worked/works as a Lab Tech in such classrooms
I consider ratings by just one or two critics to be too small a sample, and ratings by all and sundry to be too prone to noise Since rottentomatoes ratings are based on a sample critic's choices, it gets rid of a lot of the noise that often skews IMDB ratings (for straight to video movies that were too terrible for theater releases often get a good IMDB rating, since most people who dislike the movie did not bother voting). Also I like the the lists are made (arranges by various categories -- year, genre,etc)
Sure a Windows PC's security sucks. ... But with Microsoft turning to Power PC chips for its XBOX and with Apple in talks with Intel, is this just a sign that sign that the Wintel alliance is fraying
Shame on Symantec for wrongly frightening us. I really do not see what harm can occur through a cellphone. Just for that I will remove Symatec from my Blackberry's address list!!
I was a little uneasy with the original NYT article "Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions
This is mainly because the ariticle says that it gets its numbers from those whom the Social Security Administration terms "other than legal immigrants." (The article is archived at the Times website, but Slate synopsis with the quote can be seen here)
This makes the numbers essentially meaningless since this could whole host of people including H1-Bs (who are working legally, but are NOT legal immigrants).
Besides it does not make sense to compare the money a H1-B worker brings in to the money an illegal immigrant brings in for several reasons. (Like many other consultants, the majority of the money, for many H1Bs, goes to middle vendors; H1s also often spend less time in one city, resulting in high relocation costs and household setup costs, which benefits the local economy directly,