krankshaft format solution found

[mike coleman]

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.
>