Yeah, I used MP3's happily on my old MP3, got the nano didn't have a problem. Got the Sandisk and realized that iTunes was ripping everything in M4a. So I had to go back and convert what was done and alter iTunes ripping choice to MP3 so I could use everything on both. All's good now.
One thing I should have said about the Sandisk that threw me for a little loop at first, until I realized, was that for some weird reason in drag and drop mode the MUSIC folder on the device is hidden, so you need to set show hidden files. Could have just been me, but that seemed silly.
The Sandisk has the option of DRM or just using it as a drag and drop drive with no DRM. We use the later and just drag and drop. I didn't even install the Sandisk software until I decided to update the firmware and I've never used the software since then, still drag and drop. It's a simple toggle in the software of the device under USB Options. All I use is MP3 format (192kbps) on the Sandisk, but I know that WMA works and from experience I know that M4a doesn't (iTunes ripping for the nano). I understand that it should work with WMA and the WMA DRM, but never used those. Any other formats are beyond my knowledge or experience.
Sound wise they're both the same to me, I'm no audiophile and I don't think I need to be for this, it's an MP3 player that goes in my pocket. As an everyday user the software on the device is pretty much the same, I'm not going to quibble over the little things. A nice thing on the Sandisk is that a quick press of the power button takes you back to the first screen from where ever you are. The screen is bigger on the Sandisk compared to the nano we have (I don't know if they changed with the last revision). Also the Sandisk has the FM tuner which makes a huge difference down the gym when watch the TV's, the nano doesn't. The sizes are equivalent to me, I don't care about a few millimeters here or there and the Sandisk has an overall better solid feel as it's slightly heavier. However, the controls on the Sandisk are not as good as the nano, the nano definitely wins out there (except for the blue light), but I pick an album and put the thing in my pocket, so tactile control feel is not that important to me. Both require USB charging, unless you pay the cash for the external chargers. The biggest plus to the Sandisk is no software required. As long as I have the cable, in the mode I have it (no-DRM) it acts just like a USB drive with the computer.
All this is just my opinion, based on my preferences for using the two players. Other people will think differently, obviously. Oh, and I've not had any problems with lock-up on either.
do they measure them to make sure that they are all in the nanometer range? What ever happened to the micromaterials, are they running around unchecked? Did we just skip those guys? What if nanoparticles sick together, do they become microparticles or are they just a bunch of nanoparticles stuck together?
Opening up the floodgates here, but I can't think of any game that didn't become a shadow of it's former self, when you consider the former self to be the initial planning stage.
Methinks you missed my sarcasm noted to telling my 'dark' friends. But let me spell this out for you, you seem to need further elaboration. The point being made was that not all 'dark people' will be affected by the lack of free medication as just a few, a small few (this is more sarcasm btw), don't live in third world countries. The use of 'dark people' was an poorly used discriminator, both from the politically correct and global perspective. As you point out yourself through use, 'third world population' would probably have been a more appropriate choice. Are those people from third world Asian countries, such as Nepal, to be considered 'dark'? I mean I suppose the Nepalese would be considered 'dark' if they stood next to a Caucasian, but if they stood next to my 'dark' British ass they would look pretty pale.
"Dark people"? I would hope that you could come up with a better discriminator than the color of their skin! I shall make sure that I tell my 'dark' friends in seattle that they're going to suffer and die due to the universities greed.
...a non-coding standpoint. As a business we have a huge amount of data in the archives, in our case only from 91. One of our biggest issues is if we need to access that data we need the current platforms and application software to be backwards compatible. If the systems were not backwards compatible we would have to dedicate a/several computer/s and then up-load the old software to access the data. I suppose that we could use emulators. Bottom line is that it would be a huge pain for IT. In addition, it would be nice if anyone of the Project Managers can access the data from the server directly without worrying how to view it.
Who the hell said that A should come before B anyway? and why should Z be at the end? I say give Z some love, put it before J, which is a stupid letter anyway.
Australian air guitar t-shirt? I for one predict this to be the greatest breakthrough in modern music science. Australians, drunk, playing air guitar that makes noise...oh the stereotyping fun that one can have with that.
You take the.NET and work it as a 'job'. Enjoy the extra cash have more disposable income and invest it. it could make the difference in 5-10 years retirement. Don't do more than you have to.
Take the PEARL job, but don't negotiate more cash, take the risk and negotiate a small ownership share, potentially deferred to after 12 months of meeting the companies expectations. If the company booms then you're in the door and can work up more ownership, if it breaks the small share shouldn't hurt you. Of course this is assuming that you have skills to sell and the kahonas to ask for this type of thing.
Of course never dismiss the other offer until you've signed the contract of the one you want.
I use Linux personally, but at work we are all Windows. Quite simply I can't use certain pieces of software, such as Sigmastat or Sigmaplot or our LIMS without windows. I don't want to use a VM, cause then I have 2 OS to deal with. IF M$ is attempting to work with SUSE to create another platform to sell M$ products to and that means that the M$ functionality is put in place by M$, even if it's hidden some how (I'm not an IT, thus do not know the correct terms) then I would be eager to switch to SUSE. I get my Linux operating system, my interoperability with my works windows servers, outlook and whatever else they have us use and I get to use my software, the stuff that I've used since graduate school.
So lets just assume that M$ is looking for another market to sell M$ product to and hope that it brings M$ functionality to Linux. Now I know that a bunch of people will now scream OXYMORON "M$ functionality", but for me M$ does have a working function, it's just not on the OS I like. I say, allow me to use the OS that I want and use any software that I want. I just wish MAC would allow me to put some of their software on Linux or Windows, cause they also have some cool stuff.
I absolutely agree with you, but unfortunately, using my case for an example, we're in a position where we would need to grow by 25-30% to generate the extra revenue to justify a CIO
I very much agree with ninenine. I'm not IT I'm a major shareholder (which is why I can drink a cup of coffee and read/. mid-morning with no one firing me), on the board and a Principal (interestingly I'm a scientist by training, not marketing or finance). We hire IT people to take care of the IT component, which includes security. They submit a budget, we hack the budget, they complain, but often as not they figure out how to do it. Security came up once and we invited the IT department to tell us the state of affairs. Initially, one IT guy gave a presentation to the address security concerns and what the company needed to do, all that came across in the presentation was unjustified spending. Realizing that we didn't get a satisfactory answer, a couple of months later we asked again and explained why we didn't move forward on the 1st guys proposal. A different IT guy gave a presentation on the same subject and in 5 mins had the money he needed to deal with his concerns. The big difference was that the first guy came in, pulled out the IT ego, techno-baffled us and left us wondering why the hell we should spend the money on something that made no sense to us. The second guy came in and presented a holistic business concept of IT security, used nice simple IT terminology that made sense to us and didn't waste our time showing us how smart he was (we like to think that we hire smart people). We then moved on with running the top end of the business and let IT do their job.
Forget the $495, I'll tell you for free. You want a better chance at the funding, make the upward ladder understand the detrimental effect to the company and their profit if the the security is not in place. That means that you need to find the person in your group who can deliver the message in a nice brief way, using nice simple language that management understands, make sure you have urgency statements in the presentation, but don't be sensationalist, and the selling point is an assessment of the cost impact. The cost of developing security, verses loss of [fill in the blank]. And expect to get the funding in stages, in fact if you present a staged funding plan, it'll probably go down a lot better. Always remember, you don't hold the purse strings and those that do dislike being patronized or being made to look stupid (even though they may be).
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Give them all the same amount of cash to campaign with, give them 6 weeks only to campaign. I'm tired of watching the millions disappear into trash ads 12 months before the vote.
Perhaps it should have read "A Fortune magazine editor traveled to Japan on a company junket had a bunch of fun and then realized he needed to deliver a trip report to his superiors. The 'gadgets from the future' report was quickly developed on the flight home from the Sky Mall catalog and includes this years technologies of an ultra-portable Sony VAIO UX90P, ZPN/Kenwood MIURO iPod dock, Mikimoto Beans iTheatre personal iPod theater, Sharp Vodafone 905SH mobile phone with 2.6" screen for watching videos, Nintendo Wii controller, Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray digital camcorder and a new range of motivational posters. Luckily, his bosses had been too busy playing golf on the company dollar to notice that everything had already been announced or realized, they also found the motivational posters very enlightening and bought several for their employees breakrooms."
You get in a car, you turn on the engine, you drive the car.
You sit down at your desk, you turn on the computer, you check your email.
As much as people don't need to know how an internal combustion engine works, they don't need to know how a computer works. You put the wrong gas in the car, you don't change gears correctly, you drive over potholes, you don't service the car regularly then you mess up the car. Same thing for the computer. People will care about learning more about computer when they stop dropping in price and become a significant burden on their expenses and when they become a 'life-line'.
At the moment the sort of computer a home user has is almost disposable. Linux (and I am a Linux user) will become publically acceptable when the developers realize that most people don't need all the bells a whistles. They need a basic package that does what they need it to do, write letters and surf the net. This is out there, but I would guess popularity will increase when you load it and that is all it has...don't confuse the sheep, just heard them in the direction they want to go. There needs to be a distro that has a nice interface, asks no questions on install and has minimal programs beyond everyday joe/jane publics desires. M$ and Macs have the right idea for the general public.
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Hmmm, and here I was thinking how easy it was to imagine 'USA' in the place of 'Egypt'
One thing I should have said about the Sandisk that threw me for a little loop at first, until I realized, was that for some weird reason in drag and drop mode the MUSIC folder on the device is hidden, so you need to set show hidden files. Could have just been me, but that seemed silly.
Sound wise they're both the same to me, I'm no audiophile and I don't think I need to be for this, it's an MP3 player that goes in my pocket. As an everyday user the software on the device is pretty much the same, I'm not going to quibble over the little things. A nice thing on the Sandisk is that a quick press of the power button takes you back to the first screen from where ever you are. The screen is bigger on the Sandisk compared to the nano we have (I don't know if they changed with the last revision). Also the Sandisk has the FM tuner which makes a huge difference down the gym when watch the TV's, the nano doesn't. The sizes are equivalent to me, I don't care about a few millimeters here or there and the Sandisk has an overall better solid feel as it's slightly heavier. However, the controls on the Sandisk are not as good as the nano, the nano definitely wins out there (except for the blue light), but I pick an album and put the thing in my pocket, so tactile control feel is not that important to me. Both require USB charging, unless you pay the cash for the external chargers. The biggest plus to the Sandisk is no software required. As long as I have the cable, in the mode I have it (no-DRM) it acts just like a USB drive with the computer.
All this is just my opinion, based on my preferences for using the two players. Other people will think differently, obviously. Oh, and I've not had any problems with lock-up on either.
Actually the wife and I have the Sandisk e270 and an 4gig iPOD nano. We both argue over the Sandisk, the nano is the consolation prize.
Why not day^M verses day^E for us.
do they measure them to make sure that they are all in the nanometer range? What ever happened to the micromaterials, are they running around unchecked? Did we just skip those guys? What if nanoparticles sick together, do they become microparticles or are they just a bunch of nanoparticles stuck together?
Opening up the floodgates here, but I can't think of any game that didn't become a shadow of it's former self, when you consider the former self to be the initial planning stage.
Methinks you missed my sarcasm noted to telling my 'dark' friends. But let me spell this out for you, you seem to need further elaboration. The point being made was that not all 'dark people' will be affected by the lack of free medication as just a few, a small few (this is more sarcasm btw), don't live in third world countries. The use of 'dark people' was an poorly used discriminator, both from the politically correct and global perspective. As you point out yourself through use, 'third world population' would probably have been a more appropriate choice. Are those people from third world Asian countries, such as Nepal, to be considered 'dark'? I mean I suppose the Nepalese would be considered 'dark' if they stood next to a Caucasian, but if they stood next to my 'dark' British ass they would look pretty pale.
"Dark people"? I would hope that you could come up with a better discriminator than the color of their skin! I shall make sure that I tell my 'dark' friends in seattle that they're going to suffer and die due to the universities greed.
...a non-coding standpoint. As a business we have a huge amount of data in the archives, in our case only from 91. One of our biggest issues is if we need to access that data we need the current platforms and application software to be backwards compatible. If the systems were not backwards compatible we would have to dedicate a/several computer/s and then up-load the old software to access the data. I suppose that we could use emulators. Bottom line is that it would be a huge pain for IT. In addition, it would be nice if anyone of the Project Managers can access the data from the server directly without worrying how to view it.
Who the hell said that A should come before B anyway? and why should Z be at the end? I say give Z some love, put it before J, which is a stupid letter anyway.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/112824 3&from=rss
They forgot to comment on how shiny it is. You know that shiny sells.
Australian air guitar t-shirt? I for one predict this to be the greatest breakthrough in modern music science. Australians, drunk, playing air guitar that makes noise...oh the stereotyping fun that one can have with that.
...at least the last time I zapped myself with 1200 watts of RF the was a definite smell of bacon coming from my finger...
Take the PEARL job, but don't negotiate more cash, take the risk and negotiate a small ownership share, potentially deferred to after 12 months of meeting the companies expectations. If the company booms then you're in the door and can work up more ownership, if it breaks the small share shouldn't hurt you. Of course this is assuming that you have skills to sell and the kahonas to ask for this type of thing.
Of course never dismiss the other offer until you've signed the contract of the one you want.
So lets just assume that M$ is looking for another market to sell M$ product to and hope that it brings M$ functionality to Linux. Now I know that a bunch of people will now scream OXYMORON "M$ functionality", but for me M$ does have a working function, it's just not on the OS I like. I say, allow me to use the OS that I want and use any software that I want. I just wish MAC would allow me to put some of their software on Linux or Windows, cause they also have some cool stuff.
I absolutely agree with you, but unfortunately, using my case for an example, we're in a position where we would need to grow by 25-30% to generate the extra revenue to justify a CIO
Forget the $495, I'll tell you for free. You want a better chance at the funding, make the upward ladder understand the detrimental effect to the company and their profit if the the security is not in place. That means that you need to find the person in your group who can deliver the message in a nice brief way, using nice simple language that management understands, make sure you have urgency statements in the presentation, but don't be sensationalist, and the selling point is an assessment of the cost impact. The cost of developing security, verses loss of [fill in the blank]. And expect to get the funding in stages, in fact if you present a staged funding plan, it'll probably go down a lot better. Always remember, you don't hold the purse strings and those that do dislike being patronized or being made to look stupid (even though they may be).
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The penguins are coming!!! Run for your lives!!!
Give them all the same amount of cash to campaign with, give them 6 weeks only to campaign. I'm tired of watching the millions disappear into trash ads 12 months before the vote.
Perhaps it should have read "A Fortune magazine editor traveled to Japan on a company junket had a bunch of fun and then realized he needed to deliver a trip report to his superiors. The 'gadgets from the future' report was quickly developed on the flight home from the Sky Mall catalog and includes this years technologies of an ultra-portable Sony VAIO UX90P, ZPN/Kenwood MIURO iPod dock, Mikimoto Beans iTheatre personal iPod theater, Sharp Vodafone 905SH mobile phone with 2.6" screen for watching videos, Nintendo Wii controller, Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray digital camcorder and a new range of motivational posters. Luckily, his bosses had been too busy playing golf on the company dollar to notice that everything had already been announced or realized, they also found the motivational posters very enlightening and bought several for their employees breakrooms."
You sit down at your desk, you turn on the computer, you check your email.
As much as people don't need to know how an internal combustion engine works, they don't need to know how a computer works. You put the wrong gas in the car, you don't change gears correctly, you drive over potholes, you don't service the car regularly then you mess up the car. Same thing for the computer. People will care about learning more about computer when they stop dropping in price and become a significant burden on their expenses and when they become a 'life-line'.
At the moment the sort of computer a home user has is almost disposable. Linux (and I am a Linux user) will become publically acceptable when the developers realize that most people don't need all the bells a whistles. They need a basic package that does what they need it to do, write letters and surf the net. This is out there, but I would guess popularity will increase when you load it and that is all it has...don't confuse the sheep, just heard them in the direction they want to go. There needs to be a distro that has a nice interface, asks no questions on install and has minimal programs beyond everyday joe/jane publics desires. M$ and Macs have the right idea for the general public.
Bet you Blofeld would know and probably find this a cheaper solution to taking over the world