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Submission + - Choose your own CD price

Submitted by PadRacerExtreme on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @08:07AM

PadRacerExtreme writes: Radiohead has announced it will let its fans decide how much to pay for its next CD according to a NY Times article. The minimum price is 1 British penny and there is no maximum price. From the article

This is what happens when you sell twenty dollar CDs with one good track and sue your customers for [file-sharing]. This is what happens when you believe you're ENTITLED to your business. This is what happens when music is a second-class citizen only interested in the bottom line.
So, will it work? or will everyone just pay a penny? Or is a penny still to expensive?

Submission + - Laptop Battery Could Supply 30 YEARS Of Power (gearfuse.com)

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Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @08:06AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Most laptop batteries these days will give you between 3-6 hours of time before the power runs dry. The US AirForce Research Laboratory has been fooling around with betavoltaic power cells, which harness the power of nuclear decay to transmit power that could last decades."

MacBooks Experiencing Bluetooth Problems 120

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @07:59AM from the don't-sleep-too-good-either dept.

flowolf writes in with news that Apple seems to be having difficulty getting to grips with a Bluetooth problem on MacBooks. Bluetooth goes unavailable intermittently from what users are assuming is a hardware problem, and while it's out the machines won't stay in sleep mode. Complaints started last spring on the Apple forum, which is still quite active. Many people have had to send their MacBooks for repair more than once without a satisfactory resolution.

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