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  1. yeah the patent system's broken.... on Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    but i admire the hell out of them for making the system work in their advantage

    really makes me want to go out and patent some nifty software idea just to see if it would go through

  2. Amazon used marketplace makes me happy on Mighty Amazon · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, I bought a used book on Realbasic (O'Reilly) for around 4 bucks(!) Bezos is a genius, and Amazon is my favorite store (online or off)

  3. not 50 bucks on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1
    While I'm no fan of the collegeboard monopoly;

    the fees for the SAT I: Reasoning test are $26, not $50.

  4. The game is part of Amazon's Friday sale: $9.99 AR on Unreal II Demo Released · · Score: 1

    It's $9.99 after a $20 rebate, shipped free from amazon-> Unreal 2: The Awakening

  5. the kind of hype money can't buy on Apple To Make "Music To Your Ears" Announcement · · Score: 1

    great marketing on their part. although universal probably likes it more then apple.

  6. forget yahoo on Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met... · · Score: 1

    the real competition to google is going to be from the overture/alltheweb monster.

  7. rockin, good work guys. on OpenOffice.org SDK Released · · Score: 1

    open office group
    how i love you. keep fighting
    the good software fight.

  8. Attend one of these things on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 1

    You can register to attend one of these events (if you're a student)here. I registered for the one in Philly.

  9. Re:Why are Slashdotters so whiny? on Ender's Game Influences US Army Training · · Score: 1

    The reason I haven't been using the registratoin feature before because it had been so poorly designed. There was no easy way to retrieve your lost password if I remember. I checked back, and it looks alot easier now, I just registered.

  10. Greenspan recognizes the problem on Information Patents in the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    Saw this on google news today. An article from the BBC where Greenspan says he recognizes the shift "towards intangibles and ideas and away from concrete products."

    The first step to a solution is for someone in power to at least realize that something is changing. Good job Alan!

  11. Re:$27.97 (free shipping) at Amazon on Programming Web Services with Perl · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to hide my affiliate link...

    If it's inappropriate, then someone (from amazon or slashdot) just needs to tell me so.

  12. $27.97 (free shipping) at Amazon on Programming Web Services with Perl · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's 10 bucks cheaper at Amazon, compared to BN.

    Here -> Programming Web Services with Perl

    You can save 10% if you "share the love"

  13. buy it cheaper at amazon on PHP MySQL Website Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's $34.99 at amazon with free shipping. ($39.99 at bn)

    There's also a $5 off $35 coupon floating around...

  14. Re:Is CD cover art illeagle? on Open Content Music Database Launched · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can get a 300x300 pixel jpg cover art image, at amazon with their webservices

    example image

  15. Incredibly well designed project on Open Content Music Database Launched · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I stumbled upon this site earlier today completely by accident. I was trying to find an alternative to the gracenote database for use on my website, since Amazon's XML doesn't provide track listing. I did a search for "free database cd dvd" Found an article on The Register about a year old that mentioned MusicBrainz. Did a search, and baMM! discovered a great project.

    I had brought up to my friends several times, how it would be great to start something similiar. The metaratings are a great idea, providing the database openly to the public is great, and i'm falling in love with their tagging utility.

    And it's all non-profit! (and will likely get better each and every day now that it has all this slashdot traffic)

    I am this close to posting the 28 meg mysql database on my school account, but I think the coe admins would kill me!!

  16. Re:All they have to do on Amazon Bots Cause Grief For Associate Web Sites · · Score: 1

    i read that at first as "To make this *patentable*...