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Submission + - Music Industry Brain Damage - The 1

Submitted by mrneutron2003 on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @05:44AM

mrneutron2003 writes: Just when you thought stupid ideas had become an endangered species, the RIAA presses forward and shows us how naive we were. The RIAA has officially backed a move by the recording industry to reintroduce the CD single. Populated with two songs and a "ringtone", this brilliantly clueless idea is to be marketed as a "ringle", complete with an even more clueless retail price of $6-7 per CD. Apart from the fact the industry hasn't agreed on how the ringtone is to be redeemed (Sony BMG, the initial proponent of the idea...is this any suprise....is the exception here), the pricing puts it way out of the league of legitimate digital music downloads. http://www.fastsilicon.com/off-the-wall/music-industry-brain-damage-the-ringle.html?Itemid=60

Submission + - New water-cooled hard drives coming (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by CoolHandLuke on Friday August 03, 2007 @03:26PM

CoolHandLuke writes: NEC and Hitachi are teaming up on a liquid cooling system for hard drives. The goal is to cut down on noise levels while providing more efficient cooling. 'Hitachi and NEC are developing the water-cooled hard drive systems for desktop computers mainly to reduce noise levels to 25 decibels, 5 decibels quieter than a whisper. To do this, NEC and Hitachi actually wrap the hard drive in "noise absorbing material and vibration insulation." According to Hitachi and NEC, the cooling cold plate they're planning to use is the most efficient plate ever used for heat conduction, which means they'll be able to cool the hard drives quicker and more efficiently.'

Comment Re:It's all about the interface (Score 1) 334

by armak on Thursday November 16, 2006 @10:09AM (#16868744) Attached to: Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones

I've had a RAZR from Cingular for a little over a year and my phone recognizes multiple phone numbers with different icons/categories for individuals, I can use pictures for contacts, I can add email addresses to the contact and I can set different rings for individual contacts blah blah blah. Sounds to me like your interface may have been crippled by your provider or different software. I've seen other RAZRs from Verizon and Altell that have a different interface without some of the options I have with my phone, some of them even have different keypads.

But I do have to agree its not really a great interface.

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