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by thasmin 14y ago
The difference is that your example is in a free market and music royalty rates are controlled by Congress.
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by thasmin 14y ago
Maybe they righted the ship and now everyone sees their sustainable profit is below what they thought it would be.
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by thasmin 15y ago
The comments I see are about technical solutions. I think Apple's happy that there's finally a reason for people without humongous music collections to pay $200 for 64MB of flash memory.
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by thasmin 15y ago
There are a bunch of minor differences between software and music that make software more viable as a business when using the same definition of property. Software companies often sell services that are wholly based on software, but it's th
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by thasmin 15y ago
There are many legitimate reasons why this is a problem. I'll briefly list a few but there are many more. One is that the government workers who listen to your phone calls can use that information against you, for example if they are a busi
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by thasmin 15y ago
This metric seems to be just as flawed as total bitcoins transferred. Why should a bitcoin that hasn't been spend in a while be worth more than one that was spent yesterday? If someone sells something for bitcoins and then buys something el
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by thasmin 15y ago
I'd be interested in what this guy can do with a $100 price point.
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by thasmin 15y ago
They provide IMAP and POP to let you download your email.
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by thasmin 15y ago
No, but 8 is the version in development right now. 6 and 7 are being tested.
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by thasmin 15y ago
This was certainly the right decision. Mozilla and Google have much different goals, and it would have been silly for Mozilla to commit the necessary resources to this idea when the benefits to Mozilla and the customer are not guaranteed. I
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by thasmin 15y ago
Accepting credit cards is done almost everywhere, but I wouldn't say that it's so assumed that not advertising that you don't take them is "tricking" customers. He offers a 100% interest free no collateral loan as an alternative.
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by thasmin 15y ago
Yes, you're right. This discovery won't change anything in that regard. I was thinking about 1984-like scenarios that are very unlikely.
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by thasmin 15y ago
If this procedure gets popular enough to change humanity, I'm sure it will. Right now, it's being performed by only one doctor in India and he's not accepting help.
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by thasmin 15y ago
A 100% effective, low maintenance, reversible birth control method could have an incredible effect on the future of the species. I'm guessing the benefits of fewer unwanted children will be incredible. The possible downsides include a dange
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by thasmin 15y ago
There is potential for TermKit to send files to your client's Vim, which opens a lot of possibilities. For example, it would be easy to have files from two different servers open. It would also reduce the number of places you need your conf
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by thasmin 16y ago
Can someone give an example of what this would be used for?
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by thasmin 16y ago
He may have this luxury because he's ridiculously wealthy and controls his job, but most people have to worry about tomorrow. They're really different goals. I'm going to do things today that will improve the rest of my life. I wouldn't go
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by thasmin 16y ago
Most of the federal government has been schedule to shut down "two weeks from now" for a while.
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by thasmin 16y ago
Android is an exciting use case for Mirah. The other JVM languages run into the runtime library and performance problems mentioned towards the beginning of the article.
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by thasmin 16y ago
Maybe this was the excuse for Mahalo to fire the 10% of its workers that were the least productive. The bottom 10% may have even been hurting the company.
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by thasmin 16y ago
Android development is done only by Google. When they're ready, they release a new version along with its source code.
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by thasmin 16y ago
AOL shut down Gnutella and WASTE. Certainly the right business move because of they were both lawsuits waiting to happen, but I'd imagine that it disappointed Nullsoft nonetheless.
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by thasmin 16y ago
Yet another spin on the Microsoft brand carousel. Someone over there seems to think that if they give their product a certain name then people will start buying it. Zune seemed like a good brand. The products were of high quality and had go
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by thasmin 16y ago
It's funny that they have double platinum sponsors.
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Drive-by-wireless: the future of cars(arstechnica.com)
1 points by thasmin 16y ago|0 comments
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by thasmin 16y ago
Visual Studio is a great IDE for writing .NET code and is very good at C and C++ on Windows. When I started with PHP on Linux after 7 years of C++ and C# in VS, I quickly realized there was nothing comparable to VS and decided to scale the
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by thasmin 16y ago
Rocket surgeon. Great mixed metaphor. :-)
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by thasmin 16y ago
ApartmentRatings.com is pretty useless even from a renter's perspective. 35% approval is a great rating on that site.
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by thasmin 16y ago
I'm anti-union for a lot of good reasons. They cost money, the leadership is often corrupt, they will sacrifice a part for what they believe is the good of the whole, and they promote seniority over merit. I don't want to be part of another
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by thasmin 16y ago
There isn't one standard way to convert a latitude / longitude coordinate into a x/y coordinate for a map. Google Maps was the first to use the Spherical Mercator projection. The EPSG (?) number used to reference the Spherical Mercator was

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