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Radiohead allows fans to decide on price 2

Submitted by
radicalskeptic
radicalskeptic writes "Radiohead, a band known to be unhappy with other music download services, has decided to release their next album, "In Rainbows", in two formats: a £40 boxed set and a digital download. What's the catch? Customers who purchase the digital download are able to name their own price for the album. This is the first Radiohead release since their contract with EMI expired. As "The Majors" continue to lose relevance, can we expect more of this type of experimentation and flexibility from independent artists?"
Education

Journal: Going back to school for entry-level tech jobs? 1

Journal by demondawn
My boyfriend has a B.A. in Communications Media from a middle-of-the-road midwestern university. Now he's going back to the same university to get a Computer Science degree...so that he can apply for entry level BSD sysadmin jobs (preferably in Canada, if he can find them.) My question, as I'm not really a tech-sector person myself, is whether or not those of you in the profession think such a course of action is worth it? Considering he's working full-time (in a media job), he only has time to
Data Storage

Client-server file sync choices

Submitted by alister
alister writes "I'm looking for options to manage client-server file sync in a 300 person Windows environment. The solution has to be able to sync data from anywhere to anywhere, but also be controllable centrally and use LDAP authentication. It should also allow collaboration by people who don't have accounts on the LDAP system. FolderShare is really for personal use, and iFolder isn't really complete, and looks like it might be dead. Ideally, it'll work with Windows Server (not my choice — we use what we've been given), but the server OS choice isn't carved in stone."
It's funny. Laugh.

College students playing bloodhound? How odd...

Submitted by
Panaqqa
Panaqqa writes "The Globe and Mail has run a story about college students having a far better than expected sense of smell.



By studying blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail, scientists say they've found evidence of a human smelling ability that experts thought was impossible.


If they are as good at smelling out FUD, then perhaps there IS some hope for the future."

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