Except for workplaces in which everyone hired is automatically made a member of the union.

Yes. It takes a small phillips screwdriver and 20 seconds of your time. What's your point?

Why continue development for an app that runs on a single platform when one can use an app that can run on any LAMP setup on the planet?

Are we talking about "gee whiz, golly gee, captain!" rainbow-uniform Wesley, or "to hell with regulations, to hell with the prime directive and to hell with starfleet!" badass cosmic starwalker Wesley?

If the latter, then yes. Yes we do.

Just like how their current compact, low-power laptop costs less than their regular conventional laptop?

The sooner the world abandons spinning platters in things designed to move around, the better. I'll take the capacity and cost tradeoffs in exchange for ruggedness anyday.

If Apple comes out with either a tablet or a netbook, I would be extremely surprised if it cost less than $1000.

Of course he's paranoid. Everyone's trying to spy on him.

No, there will be several Nerd Bars. First, you'll have the Home Basic Nerd Bar, for people who need help plugging in USB cables. For help installing software, you'll have to go to the Home Premium Nerd Bar, unless the software involves Office in which case you'll need the services of the Enterprise Nerd Bar, unless you want to install software _and_ USB cables, in which case you'll need the people at the Ultimate Nerd Bar.

I don't know if Sandisk sells products widely in Italy, but the Sansa Fuze with 1.01.15A firmware or later supports ogg and flac just fine. Most players shipped now do it out of the box, but some old hardware need a firmware update which is easy to do. Also, music transfer is done by plain old USB mass storage. If you're just using it for audio, it's extremely open-source-OS friendly.

Video on the other hand is a nightmare. It uses some absurdly specific and proprietary format that only their own Windows-only converter can create. If you like headache-free portable video, avoid the Fuze at all costs.

Yes, I've heard the QT sucks for full screen thing myself many times. I just tell that it's a free player that won't "present movie" and if you get the pro version it will do that and much more.
Or I put them in front row (on the new macs) :D

yeah, first thing in my head about this story was, I haven't been able to download "just" quicktime in a looooong time. wich makes me mad for computers that the users *shouldn't* have access to music software like itumes.
*sigh*