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Comment: Re:How will Apple stay in bussiness? (Score 1) 452

by RedElf on Thursday September 06 2007, @06:55PM (#20500717) Attached to: Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers

It's called interest, just like banks make interest off your money when you place it in their hands. The difference being that banks give you a cut of their profits, Apple just takes more of your money in exchange for the next tech toy.

Photo hidden on the Windows Vista disc. Seriously.->

Submitted by Four-o-66 on Tuesday June 12 2007, @05:14PM

Four-o-66 writes "Apparently someone with way too much time put a picture of himself and two friends in the holographic imprint of the Windows Vista install disc. Now, someone with even more time to burn has found the picture. The MAKE: blog has 2 pictures and a link to the Spanish? site that found it."
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When It Comes To Delinquency, Boys Are Exposed To More Risk, Less Protection->

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday June 12 2007, @05:12PM

Researchers trying to understand why high school-age boys are involved in serious delinquency more often than girls have found that males are exposed to higher levels of risk factors and lower amounts of protective factors.
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Switched On: I'm in ur site, hearing ur t00nz->

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday June 12 2007, @05:12PM

Filed under: Features

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:

Last week's Switched On discussed Lala.com's introduction of free music locker services that sync directly to the iPod (and only the iPod). However, because it believes the sampling capabilities of the original Napster days were key to driving music purchases, Lala is also developing something that is bound to shake up subscription music services such as Napster and Rhapsody -- free and unlimited streaming of user-selected music from major labels.

Once agreements are secured, Lala will essentially be giving away the rough equivalent of Yahoo Music's Unlimited's $5/month PC streaming service.. While Lala's version will have some offline functionality with cached tracks, it doesn''t yet offer tethered or a la carte downloads the way that Yahoo! Music and other PlaysForSure services do.

At its preview launch, Lala will offer access to the complete Warner Music library -- hundreds of thousands of tracks -- and is pursuing agreements with the other major labels, as well as independents. It expects to pay approximately $140 million on licenses in the next few years to spur huge increases in music sales via viral and social network marketing; something that Napster.com's limited free listens were unable to do.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Judge takes Cleaners to the Cleaners->

Submitted by dclozier on Tuesday June 12 2007, @04:21PM

dclozier writes "This morning in the nation's capital, a local judge will go to civil court to claim that he is owed $54 million from a local dry cleaner who he says lost his pants."
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Enderle claims that Microsoft Loves GPL 3.0->

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walterbyrd

on Tuesday June 12 2007, @04:08PM

walterbyrd writes "As usual, Enderle does not support any of his assertions. GPLv3 will prevent interoperability because . . . well, because it just will. We are supposed to believe it because, after all, he is Enderle. In spite of the fact that Enderle does not support his assertions, I suspect there is some basis in what he is saying. Don't get me wrong — I'm certain that Enderle is spinning the living crap out of it. But, I suspect there may be just a tiny bit of truth in there. Am I wrong?"
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Journal: Is Social Networking worthwhile? 3

Journal by jd on Tuesday June 12 2007, @04:00PM

There are plenty of online social networking sites - LinkedIn is the one I'm most familiar with. They seem to be designed around the notion of the Good Old Boys Club, the gentrified country clubs and the stratified societies of the Victorian era, where who you knew mattered more than what you knew.

Combination Treatment For Migraine More Effective Than Single Medications->

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 03 2007, @05:13PM

Combining two different types of treatment for migraine results in better symptom relief than taking either one of the medications, according to a new study.
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To Sleep, Perchance To Dream: New Insight Into Melatonin Production->

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 03 2007, @05:12PM

In the April 1 issue of Genes & Development, a Korean research team led by Dr. Kyong-Tai Kim (Pohang University) describes how melatonin production is coordinated with the body's natural sleep/wake cycles.
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