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by chops 18y ago
This is very exciting. I've always bought MP3s from Amazon exclusively because I knew for sure that all Amazon's files are DRM free. With this move by iTunes, it's likely that I'll be picking up some albums on iTunes now if I can't get th
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by chops 18y ago
All this does is show how antitrust (and the fear of antitrust legislation, which has no objective criteria for prosecution) cripples a company's ability to fully compete. Instead, the (market-wise) leader was forced to prop up it's compet
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by chops 18y ago
This seems very cool. I could see this going a step further to merge it with being an actual cache, keeping much of the frequently used data in memory, while still saving the data so that it's persistent. I'm for sure going to tinker aroun
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by chops 18y ago
I can fully respect someone who simply doesn't wish to support an organization they don't like by not purchasing their items. One, however, is not morally justified in then simply taking the items they are otherwise unwilling to pay for. T
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by chops 18y ago
In the comments to the article, the outright lack of respect for property rights and the constant childlike reference to the "MAFIAA" is absolutely appalling. Though spotify does sound like a neat service.
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by chops 18y ago
After building the app, of course. Without the app, there's no data to back up. Point taken, though.
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by chops 18y ago
Family, friends, and food are just the overture to the real meaning of Thanksgiving: Black Friday! Anyone else preparing for a long and cold (Wisconsin here) night at [Insert favorite Electronics Store]?
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by chops 18y ago
From Wisconsin. I colo my servers out of Chicago. Wisconsin (And indeed most of middle America) has a pretty cheap cost of living which allowed me to bootstrap my own startup. Living an hour from my servers for that once-every-few-months
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by chops 18y ago
I can relate to the benefit of slowly transforming highly used software. Recently, we did a massive upgrade to our forum software (the most used part of our system), changing the look, some of the feel, and some of the functionality in one
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by chops 19y ago
John Carmack - The boy wonder whose insight and dedication changed the face of video games. Ayn Rand - Creator of a philosophy based on rational self interest. Beethoven - His love of his work was so deep that despite nature destroying his