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Product DescriptionSony Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 Sound Forge Audio Studio software is everything you need to edit and master professional-quality audio on your home computer. Record live instruments and vocals, edit and restore audio, apply studio-quality effects, and convert files with lightning speed. You can even create your own karaoke tracks with the Vocal Eraser tool. Best of all, Sound Forge Audio Studio software is easy to use. With a few basic commands such as cut, copy, and paste, you can produce high-fidelity audio on your PC.
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If I had to work anywhere in China, the last place I’d consider a job at would be Foxconn. Over the years, there have been a few stories of what the demands on their employees are like, and it really came to the forefront three years ago when the company was accused of running a sweatshop. It was indeed found that employees would regularly work 80 hours overtime a month, when the legal limit was 36.

Well, the image around the company has gotten even sketchier this week with an employee suicide that’s apparently directly-linked to pressure from the company. Sun Danyong, 25, was responsible for handling the shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes. One went missing, and even now it’s unknown (at least to the public) about its whereabouts. That didn’t stop Foxconn from using less-than-ideal measures to find it.

After the prototype was found to be missing, Sun was quickly interrogated. Although it hasn’t been verified to be true, he told friends that he was beat as well. To push the envelope just a little too far, Foxconn employees even broke into and ransacked his apartment in search of the device. Long story short, the pressure was apparently too much, and Sun unfortunately decided suicide was the only option.

I won’t let personal feelings get in the way of this news post, but something clearly has to be done to improve the work ethics of these companies. Although it wasn’t even verified that he was the one responsible for the missing unit, they took extreme action. This handling of things along with other incredible employee demands… it’s just twisted. As for Apple, they expressed sadness of the incident. Now we’ll just have to wait until the investigation clears to (hopefully) get the full story.

Sun’s classmates (he had just graduated from university and joined Foxconn in 2008), said that before his suicide, he had talked to them about the interrogation techniques Foxconn’s security guys had used – including “laying hands” on him, though he did not specify how. Security officers that worked with Gu argued that it was unlikely – the security office is one large room staffed by 60 to 70 people. While Sun had been taken behind a screen that obscured the rest of the room’s view, witnesses would have been able to hear if he had been beaten.

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People love to hate a lot of things, and in the browser world, it’s Internet Explorer 6. The hatred isn’t unfounded though, and even non-techy Internet surfers understand just how much it’s lacking. I found this out in a big way late last week when my brother, who in no way is a software geek, complained to me after designing his website, saying that “Internet Explorer needs to die”.

His comment really caught me off guard, because coincidentally, social networking tracking site Mashable posted a story with almost an identical title, “IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On”. If you’re a web developer, you already know all of the reasons, from incompatibility with web standards, to incompatibility with web standards, to, and most important, incompatibility with web standards.

It’s true. Try to view a PNG with a white background or no background in IE6. Most often, what’s supposed to be transparent is pure black. Or the lack of support for CSS 2, an absolute standard code-type that lays as the backbone for many site’s themes and layouts (including ours). Then there’s the fact that upcoming web technologies are only going to make things worse, such as HTML 5, since IE6 in no way will fare well with what it brings to the table. Bottom line? Make sure your family and friends drop IE6 and use a more modern browser (even IE8!).

Other companies have cited IE6 as holding them back as well. 37Signals, the maker of some of the most popular web-based business apps around (i.e. Basecamp) very publicly cut support for IE6 because according to them, “continued support of IE 6 means that we can’t optimize our interfaces or provide an enhanced customer experience in our apps.”

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