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  1. Poor Universal on Universal Refuses To Renew On iTunes · · Score: 4, Informative

    So now no more iTunes sales for:

            * Baby Boy Da Prince
            * Bee Gees
            * Drake Bell
            * Black Child
            * Brandon
            * Big Tuck
            * Big Tymers
            * Blak Jak
            * Bloodhound Gang
            * Mutya Buena
            * Vanessa Carlton
            * Jamie Cullum
            * Domination
            * Down AKA Kilo
            * Dispatch
            * Drake Bell
            * Godsmack
            * Gotan Project
            * Chris Gotti
            * Pat Green
            * Harry O.
            * Heavy D.
            * Infinite Mass
            * Ja Rule
            * Elton John
            * Jack Johnson
            * JoJo
            * Juvenile
            * Jordan Flynn
            * Kaiser Chiefs
            * Brie Larson
            * Murphy Lee
            * Lindsay Lohan
            * Lloyd
            * Damian Marley
            * Stephen Marley
            * Mika
            * Mushroomhead
            * Mystic
            * Natalie
            * Pharoahe Monch
            * Prince
            * Rakim
            * Rammstein
            * Scissor Sisters
            * Strive Roots
            * Sunland

    The rest are here.

    I'm not a fan of iTunes and have never bought anything off them, but Universals reasons for ditching them can only be nefarious. Okay so Prince isn't going to care, and Elton probably won't either. But if anyone knows the other artists it might pay to tell them what their label has done and that now might be a good time to think about their future with Universal.

  2. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    I think you might be confusing Cuba with the Middle East.

  3. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    You're right of course, but go have a look at the US/Mexican border on Google Earth some time. There's a hell of a lot more cars backed up on one side than the other. Maybe one side just has really slow border control...

  4. Re:The list can change on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Really? What's GW's total now? Is anyone keeping count of this murderous beast's non-combatant body count?

  5. Re:So? on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    How about the fact that no matter who might be watching you, Mr Elf, you are still able to write what you just did.

  6. Re:User Error on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thank you, I found that very informative.

    But it's heat sink. It acts as a sink for heat from the GPU. It should under no circumstances sync the heat.

  7. Re:I've been saying for years on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    ... the mines of the next century will be our garbage mountains.

    You're probably right, unfortunately in both senses of the word.

  8. Re:I hope they test it! on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    You really need to get out more :)

  9. Re:People don't care about sound quality on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    You're right about that. Of late my jukebox has been none other than Youtube.

    Want to listen to We will rock you? CTRL-T "y we will rock you" done.

  10. Re:Favorably reflective mirror? on Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward · · Score: 1

    But what will the lunar-tics make of it?

    A hat, I suspect.

  11. Re:The inventor was never a kid? on Fiber Optic Table Illuminates Your Dining · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and to any more Americans out there:

    'fanny' does not mean what you think it means.

  12. Re:And as a paid subscriber to Pandora.com on Internet Radio Will Go Silent on June 26th · · Score: 1

    I'm a paid subscriber to DI.fm, and shortly after reading this article hopped over there with a view to making sure they were participating. Happily, they are.

    ...

    DI.fm will keep the payed channels running due to contracts.


    So which is it, guys?

  13. Re:The music industry is ass backwards. on Internet Radio Will Go Silent on June 26th · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As for me, well Youtube is pretty much my jukebox now.

  14. Re:When? on When Does Technolust Become An Addiction? · · Score: 1

    You're kidding. I assume when you say "for women", you mean "for perverted masturbators who've never made love properly", right?

  15. Re:Meanwhile... on Microsoft Sues Immersion Over Rumble Deal · · Score: 1

    They should just give up and call their next console, which by then might be able to be considered generation 7, the Nintendo Piss.

  16. Re:Blue ray MPEG2 ?? on Blockbuster Chooses Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Just in case you didn't already know, a number of players sold here (NZ) can already play MPEG4, DivX and XviD.

  17. Re:By a woman? on Female Astronaut Sets Space Record · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in this whole body in space degrading over time issue. Can you please point me to some literature on the topic?

    thanks

  18. Re:Food for thought on Blockbuster Chooses Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Yes because we all know that filthy perverts decide what technology advances are successful.

    Grow up.

  19. Re:Just remember Knuth's warning... on Linux Programmer's Toolbox · · Score: 1

    I'd like to propose a third rule of optimization:
    (For OpenOffice.org developers only) Do it now. Please, for the love of God, do it now!!!

  20. Re:IDE for Linux, yup on Linux Programmer's Toolbox · · Score: 1

    Curse you, I just typed :q to close this thread in firefox!

    True story.

  21. Re:Huh? Wha? Did I miss something? on What Microsoft Could Learn from OSS and Linux · · Score: 1

    Sadly this is very true. I am an (almost) exclusive OOo user, and the slow-as-an-arthritic-dog look and feel just doesn't go away. Even under WINE, MS Office loads a hell of a lot quicker than native OOo. That immediately dismisses any claims that Windows pre-loads half of MS Office to make it seem faster.

    Any claims that MS Office is unnecessarily bloated and slow compared to its OSS counterparts can now be laid to rest.

  22. Bigger question on Microsoft, Sony Clash Over Vista Turbo Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    The bigger question here is:

    When is the Linux kernel going to make use of Turbo Memory? It would be funny if, after MS touting this tech for so long, we can say "but you need Linux before it will work properly".

  23. Re:Memory Hog on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    At least it would be, if it were true.

    Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Try to load another large applcation and Firefox is pushed out to swap. Alt-Tab back to Firefox and you're in Heavy Swap Land (population: you).

    There's most definitely memory leaks there. Even the memory leak detecting extension popped up for me so often that I had to uninstall it.

  24. Re:Memory Hog on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    That is most definitely NOT the case. Even on Linux, having a few tabs open for a few days causes memory usage >500MB. And that's not misreporting since the whole system starts swapping and being terribly unresponsive by about this point. Restart firefox and the problem goes away again for a few days.

  25. Re:brokeback editor on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 1

    so.. does that mean you swing both ways?