"The consumer has spoken to us," said Randy Lennox, CEO of Universal Music Canada. "(The music) has been fairly high-priced and therefore, they have been feeling fairly guilt-free about procuring music for free."
According to the story they will also be selling downloaded songs for $0.99 and downloaded albums for $9.99.
They have also changed the payment to the artists so that downloaded songs are in the same category as albums, giving the artists a 25% higher take.
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Could it be said that this is the worlds first non-automated DDOS attack?:)
Linux's lack of indemnification is an exception to standard industry practice.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) indemnifies Windows users. Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) indemnifies Solaris users. IBM itself indemnifies users of other software products including AIX, z/OS, DB2, and even WebSphere, which includes an open-source technology called Apache.
Indemnification usually means that a) if your system crashes, the vendor might compensate you for your downtime; and b) in this case, IBM would held liable if the code you're using infringes on someone's intellectual property.
Emphasis is mine. How do I get M$ to pay be for all the downtime when my system has crashed?
And in another article, What SCO Wants, SCO Gets is about how SCO and its buddies have played games like before.
SCO may not be very good at making a profit by selling software. (Last year the company lost $24.9 million on sales of $64.2 million.) But it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies. And it has a tight circle of friends.
The closing sentence to the article was another jab at the Linux community: "These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention."
I wonder how many people at Forbes have investments in SCO or The Canopy Group?
...I question the motion benefits. The pen stays on the page, but you have to make lots of tiny and relatively precise loops and curves. Meanwhile print is mostly straight lines and circles (and therefore usually much more readable), and I don't see why it's so bad to raise the pen slightly between letters.
I agree, but I wonder if older pens with nibs, from quill pens to fountain pens, are faster to use with cursive. Do these pens make blots more easily when they are touching and leaving the paper more than when moving across it? Somebody who does calligraphy have an answer?
I don't have answers - my cursive is truly awful unless I really slow down below the speed I can print legibly.
I searched several whois services for my own.org domain. The servers which gave an update date of 5/15 had the right data. A couple which gave the most recent update of 5/19 said it was for sale. Several sites didn't give a last update time, and the results varied.
Robert Forward expanded "Flight of the Dragonfly" into a novel "Rocheworld," followed by "Return to Rocheworld," "Ocean Under the Ice," "Marooned on Eden," and "Rescued From Eden." All excellent reads.
Here are some excerpts from pages 8 and 9. Empasis is mine.
We are already familiar with the first four tags, which correspond
to the four parts of the systemInfo argument.
The regKeys tag is new. It is
supported by the COM component, although it is not currently used by Windows Update.
As can easily be seen the regKeys tag causes a list of registry subkeys of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE, i.e. a list of the vendors of all software
packages installed on the user's computer, to be included in the result.
The server-side filtering could also be abused
to determine which software is installed. Imagine that Microsoft would like to know
whether you use Mozilla 1.0. It would then simply create a product category for Mozilla
1.0, e.g. mo10, add a rule for determining whether Mozilla 1.0 is installed, e.g. Mozilla 1.0
is installed if HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla 1.0 exists, and
return this product category when Windows Update sends a Provider-level request to the
Microsoft server. If you were using Mozilla, Windows Update would then by evaluating
this rule determine that the product category mo10 applies to your computer, ask the
Microsoft server to list the products by sending a Product-level request for mo10, and
reveal in this way that you use Mozilla 1.0.
New product categories could also be used for more benign reasons. They make it
technically very easy to open Windows Update to other software vendors. As Microsoft is
trying to shift to making money with services instead of software, it might try to use the
fact that most people who have Windows also have Windows Update as a lever and
become the world's premier update service.
The ability of the GetSystemSpec() function of the COM component to list the software
vendors of all installed software packages ( regKeys tag) is currently unused by
Windows Update, but it might become a privacy issue in the future. Microsoft might be
planning to open the Windows Update service to other software vendors, which could be
the moment in which Windows Update starts using this feature of GetSystemSpec().
Tough guys and wimps carry different forms of the gene
Why such loaded words? According to the research cited, subjects felt different amounts of pain from the same stimulus. If I feel pain that I'd rate at 6 on a scale of 0 to 10, and after the same stimulus someone else rated their pain a 3, all that says is I am feeling more pain than the other person. It does not say anything about how well I can withstand pain.
It extremely common for people to believe that the same amount of tissue damage causes the same amount of pain for anyone. However, pain researchers knew long before this study that this belief is a fallacy. [Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall, Columbia University Press, 2000.]
Perception of pain is a complex event, modified by genetics, culture, experience, anxiety level, perceived purpose of the pain, expected duration, etc. This study is looking at a single variable, and the only thing really interesting is that it suggests that some of the inherited variability is tied to a alleles of a specific gene.
Stay physically active, and even though the high school has killer donuts and fried burritos, don't eat too many. Don't start smoking, or you will waste an amazing amount of money before you stop. And don't have sex until you really understand that the things Daddy did before he stopped drinking WEREN'T YOUR FAULT!
Even though the greasers will accept you, don't hang out with them. In 1975 or so find a game called Dungeons and Dragons, by TSR games. You'll love it, and the smart kids will really like you.
Learn more math - your 8th grade math teacher will give you books and help, take advantage of it. Play with the analytic geometry you found in the encyclopedia you just found, it is a blast.
Make an effort even for dumb classes, and apply for scholarships. Don't skip PE or refuse to dress down. Major in math unless you can find a Computer Science program in the late 70's. You will really have fun with both math and computers. You will also love teaching, and are very good at it.
Don't expect to find your soulmate until you are in your early 40s. He's not even born yet.
Just over 2 years ago I met an attractive guy geek at a New Years Eve party. I wasn't looking for a relationship, just enjoying the conversation, but when he referenced something on slashdot I was delighted. There were some other geeks at the party, but nobody but the sexy guy and me read Slashdot regularly.
That took the two of us into a discussion of databases, and things took off from there. By Valentines Day he had admitted he was in love with me, and we married on Halloween that same year. Still happily married, too!
Maybe if guy geeks talked about articles on Slashdot they'd attract more girl geeks.:-)
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Could it be said that this is the worlds first non-automated DDOS attack? :)
Emphasis is mine. How do I get M$ to pay be for all the downtime when my system has crashed?
And in another article, What SCO Wants, SCO Gets is about how SCO and its buddies have played games like before.
The closing sentence to the article was another jab at the Linux community: "These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention."
I wonder how many people at Forbes have investments in SCO or The Canopy Group?
I agree, but I wonder if older pens with nibs, from quill pens to fountain pens, are faster to use with cursive. Do these pens make blots more easily when they are touching and leaving the paper more than when moving across it? Somebody who does calligraphy have an answer? I don't have answers - my cursive is truly awful unless I really slow down below the speed I can print legibly.
I searched several whois services for my own .org domain. The servers which gave an update date of 5/15 had the right data. A couple which gave the most recent update of 5/19 said it was for sale. Several sites didn't give a last update time, and the results varied.
Robert Forward expanded "Flight of the Dragonfly" into a novel "Rocheworld," followed by "Return to Rocheworld," "Ocean Under the Ice," "Marooned on Eden," and "Rescued From Eden." All excellent reads.
Why such loaded words? According to the research cited, subjects felt different amounts of pain from the same stimulus. If I feel pain that I'd rate at 6 on a scale of 0 to 10, and after the same stimulus someone else rated their pain a 3, all that says is I am feeling more pain than the other person. It does not say anything about how well I can withstand pain.
It extremely common for people to believe that the same amount of tissue damage causes the same amount of pain for anyone. However, pain researchers knew long before this study that this belief is a fallacy. [Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall, Columbia University Press, 2000.]
Perception of pain is a complex event, modified by genetics, culture, experience, anxiety level, perceived purpose of the pain, expected duration, etc. This study is looking at a single variable, and the only thing really interesting is that it suggests that some of the inherited variability is tied to a alleles of a specific gene.
Denise
Stay physically active, and even though the high school has killer donuts and fried burritos, don't eat too many. Don't start smoking, or you will waste an amazing amount of money before you stop. And don't have sex until you really understand that the things Daddy did before he stopped drinking WEREN'T YOUR FAULT!
Even though the greasers will accept you, don't hang out with them. In 1975 or so find a game called Dungeons and Dragons, by TSR games. You'll love it, and the smart kids will really like you.
Learn more math - your 8th grade math teacher will give you books and help, take advantage of it. Play with the analytic geometry you found in the encyclopedia you just found, it is a blast.
Make an effort even for dumb classes, and apply for scholarships. Don't skip PE or refuse to dress down. Major in math unless you can find a Computer Science program in the late 70's. You will really have fun with both math and computers. You will also love teaching, and are very good at it.
Don't expect to find your soulmate until you are in your early 40s. He's not even born yet.
True story from a girl geek...
:-)
Just over 2 years ago I met an attractive guy geek at a New Years Eve party. I wasn't looking for a relationship, just enjoying the conversation, but when he referenced something on slashdot I was delighted. There were some other geeks at the party, but nobody but the sexy guy and me read Slashdot regularly.
That took the two of us into a discussion of databases, and things took off from there. By Valentines Day he had admitted he was in love with me, and we married on Halloween that same year. Still happily married, too!
Maybe if guy geeks talked about articles on Slashdot they'd attract more girl geeks.