krankshaft format solution found? last one

[mike coleman]

i meant if I am repsonsible for introducing a "virus!!"
you guys know I don't know how to work that either
hehehe
also, I have "cliqued" on the grocery store SO many times I wish I
could show video-you guys would crack up. But I did exagerrate (in
that I count my blessings and tone it down)) and now I just give tham
a VERY hard time and no longer scare the customers. and they all
"love" me as their "problem customer" except for one lady employee who
is very prim and proper-(take her time to recover) (she hated that the
managers were afraid to approach me when she called them. All about
getting a free drink refill)
anyway, I think my intital reasons to even post today was to joke
about the "keywords" making me recall that I (think I ) got a random
dose of Japan, which I do think I did and I may appeal to you later to
assure me this is impossible.
I now step out and leave computer discussion where it belongs
And yes, I do not envy the US work ethic and general wages at this time

On 4/6/11, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> The employees at the local grocery store, where I make Charlie
> Estavez/Sheen look like nothing, on a  daily basis, seem  to get a
> morbid kick out of my otherwise frightening antics-
> that said, if I am responosble for ANY tension or bad blood, I am
> willing to be the victim of the virtual version of the game the
> janitor on "Scrubs" invented . "jiggly ball" I think it was
>
>
> On 4/6/11, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Jamun wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:19:10 -0400, Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> obMoreFullDisclosure: I am running FreeBSD 9-CURRENT on an Apple Xserve
>>>> G5.
>>> Please don't shop me to Steve Jobs. :-)
>>>
>>> You use his name in vein "mortal one". He is Jesus Jobs:)
>>
>> Funny thing is, I had to put FreeBSD on there because after Apple ditched
>> PowerPC it became impossible legitimately to buy a supported version of
>> Mac
>> OS X for the department that owned the hardware.  So, I guess Saint Steve
>> has missed out on a few bob there and the lab doesn't have to buy new
>> hardware just yet.
>>
>>
>>> We have an Apple shop in Munich. Its full of pseudo geeks, with an
>>> iPhone
>>> in
>>> one hand and a Starbucks coffee cup in the other. The staff all have
>>> name
>>> tags around there necks in the shape of a iPhone with the likes of "Hi
>>> my
>>> name is Paul" embossed into them. WTF I say.
>>
>> You're obviously not into retail therapy.  Luckily for Apple, lots of
>> people
>> are... :-)
>>
>>
>>> Apple ARE locking down file formats for iPhone/iPad/iPod etc. Its got
>>> nothing what so ever to do with a software patent infringement for mkv
>>> etc.
>>> Its because Jobs wants users to tap ONLY into his own content delivery
>>> system with micro payments for apps or video from itunes downloads.
>>
>> Sure, Apple are locking down content delivery, but it would do this, I'd
>> imagine, whether or not the underlying formats were MKV, Vorbis, FLAC, or
>> whatever.  It's not as if the formats Apple uses (H.264, MP4, MP3,
>> QuickTime) aren't widely used elsewhere, if not actual ISO/ANSI standards
>> themselves.  (And I still maintain, why would it make sense for them to
>> paint a target on their back if they didn't have to?)
>>
>> I figured out years ago that Apple aren't a charity, and will tend to do
>> things to maximise their profits, whether I like it or not.  The fact
>> that
>> they've created a delivery system that makes it pretty damned easy to
>> impulse buy digital content helps them in that aspect enormously, I
>> imagine.
>>  And this sort of thing creates its own momentum.  Once something becomes
>> popular, it kind of snowballs and gains a lot of traction just because
>> it's
>> popular and lots of people use it.  That's why we're stuck with most
>> people
>> using de facto FAT filesystems on their portable drives, even though
>> we've
>> had loads of better open source alternatives for ages.
>>
>>
>>> Its no good saying that other electronics companies also build there
>>> devices
>>> in China, powered by slaves, so its OK for Apple to do the same. The
>>> very
>>> successful electronics company I work for in Germany doesnt. It makes
>>> all
>>> its hardware in Germany. Then again its a limited company and not a
>>> public
>>> limited company. In which case the people who own it, who already have
>>> billions, have chosen to make a few less billion and keep Germans
>>> employed.
>>
>> I never said it is okay for Apple to exploit poor Chinese labour
>> conditions;
>> I just said you'd be kidding yourself if you thought they are the only
>> ones.
>>  I believe most huge corporations are bad in this respect, and it's a
>> disgrace. It's good that the company you work for believes in a living
>> wage,
>> and I applaud them.  We need more companies like that.
>>
>> I saw a programme on Ben & Jerry's recently that said that after they
>> lost
>> control of the company to a buyout by Unilever, they were basically no
>> longer allowed to have social responsibility as a core mission of the
>> company.  It didn't float with the shareholders. :-(  (They are allowed
>> to
>> carry on token philanthropy.)
>>
>>
>>> I used to work for Agere systems. It was once a great American company,
>>> formed from Bell Labs. They had chip FAB and manufacturing plants in the
>>> US.
>>> Both where closed them down and manufacturing shipped to the far east.
>>> This
>>> was simply to make more money for shareholders. So out went the American
>>> jobs and the bankers and CEO got richer. Then the company become almost
>>> virtual and was sold with all its IP to Infineon, which then sold it to
>>> LSI,
>>> which then sold it to Intel. After each sale more people lost there
>>> jobs.
>>> The first irony is, that it was always Americans who lost there jobs and
>>> the
>>> European and Indian development centers recruited more. If you take the
>>> iPhone for example, 99% of that is done outside the US. I worked on the
>>> iPhone writing software for the protocol stack. The second irony, is
>>> that
>>> the 1% done in California, was also by slaves, who got 9 days a year
>>> holiday
>>> (if lucky, as no one dares to take a holiday), and worked 6/7 days a
>>> week;
>>> I
>>> would say 70-90 hours a week. The company I work for now, pays top
>>> dollar,
>>> people work 35-40 hours a week and get 30 days holiday a year, on top on
>>> public holidays.
>>
>>
>> You're preaching to the fucking choir, mate.  IMHO, work/life balance in
>> the
>> USA is fairly nonexistent, or, where extant, rapidly going downhill.
>> It's
>> crazy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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