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Comment It's a pickle (Score 1) 488

by bgfay (#30807926) Attached to: NY Times To Charge For Online Content

Back when Times Select existed, I thought about joining. I like the NY Times because it really is a well-written news source. I don't like getting news from TV or print newspapers. I listen to NPR when I can, but I prefer to be able to scan through the NYT especially on the iPhone app.

I'm waiting to see what this pay model will be. I really wish Google would buy the NYT and put in a good ad-based revenue system, but that seems unlikely. If the pay model is fair and cheap, then I might do it. If it's not, then I'll search for better sources. I have NPR.org (and I pay for that by maintaining a membership with my local NPR station--because it's a fair system). But I'll be looking for other sources.

I'll scan through the rest of the comments for other free sources (or sources to which I can donate what I think they are worth) for good journalism.

I really thought the NYT was onto something when they released their content for free. I thought they had a plan. It seems like they didn't have much of a plan at all. Oh well.
Space

DIRECT Post-Shuttle Plan Pitched To Obama Team 189

Posted by Soulskill from the mavericks-with-hope dept.
FleaPlus writes "Popular Mechanics reports that a 'renegade' group including NASA engineers has met with President-Elect Obama's space transition team to present information on the DIRECT architecture for launching NASA missions after the Space Shuttle is retired. According to the group, DIRECT's Jupiter launch system will be safer, less expensive, better-performing, and be ready sooner than the Ares launch system NASA is currently developing, while still providing jobs for much of the existing shuttle workforce. Meanwhile, it's expected that current NASA head and adamant Ares supporter Michael Griffin will be replaced by a new NASA administrator."
Google

Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta 326

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the what-is-too-fast-if-it's-pre-beta dept.
Nick Fletcher writes "Just a few short months after the initial release, Google has released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0. It sports a few new features including form auto-completion, full-page zoom, 'profiles,' and Greasemonkey support. It seems the only notable feature would be profiles, which allows users to separate out their homepage, history, and bookmarks on a per user or category basis. It seems Google is still playing catch-up but they're definitely moving at a pace unknown to some of their competition. The full list of new features is available in the release notes."
Music

Submission + - Wil Wheaton Reviews Linux Music Players

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An anonymous reader writes: In his weekly "Geek in Review" Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame takes a look at music on Linux:

While Linux is still not entirely ready for people like my parents, it's really matured over the years, and in many cases it "just works" [...] In fact, Linux has grown up so much and so well, today I can devote an entire column to some of the cooler media players available to Linux users.
The result?

Amarok is much more than just another music player or iTunes clone; in fact, it blows iTunes away. It is Kryptonite to iTunes Superman. It's the Death Star to iTunes' Alderaan. It's — well, I guess I should tell you why it's so great, huh?
Television

Submission + - Vacuum tube turns 100

Submitted by
wenko
wenko writes: "The device that heralded the beginning of the 20th century electronics industry first saw the light of day in late 1906, just over a century ago. This was the triode electron tube, or audion, as its inventor called it."
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us 5

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
OS X

Submission + - Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?

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An anonymous reader writes: RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?, a comparison of recent sales and profits and the future outlook for Macs and PCs. From the article: "Apple doesn't have to take a majority share of the desktop market to win, it only needs to take the most valuable segments of the market. Once that happens, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts."

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