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Vivendi Takes Over Radionomy, Winamp Relaunch Now Possible (windowsreport.com) 117

Posted by samzenpus from the back-from-the-ashes dept.
SmartAboutThings writes: Winamp could once again be brought back to life after Vivendi Group took over the majority stake in Radionomy, the previous owner of the app who purchased it from AOL in early 2014. AOL originally planned to discontinue both Winamp and Shoutcast, but instead the company decided to sell the software to Belgian online radio service, Radionomy. The new owners initially promised that they'll keep Winamp alive, but no updates have been released since the takeover, which made most people think that Winamp era has ended for good. Vivendi Group, which owns or is involved in famous companies such as Dailymotion, Ubisoft, and Deezer, could help relaunch Winamp, although the press release announcing the acquisition offers no suggestion in this regard. The company, however, does mention Winamp and Shoutcast as two of the most important assets that will join its portfolio following the takeover.

Comment Re:Background (Score 1, Informative) 313

I'm desperately fucking sick of hearing how the minimum wage is supposed to be for kids, etc.

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” -FDR 1933 statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

“Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000.00 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you — using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” -FDR 1938 Fireside Chat explaining support for minimum wage and Fair Labor Standards Act.

The '33 statement on NIRA is actually pretty good. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist....

Comment Re:More likely to be used by drones than post offi (Score 1) 393

by pregister (#51060045) Attached to: Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words

But OMG, it is so much easier for everyone to learn the new three words system in all the different languages than for me to learn a handful of numbers.

Yes, you understand. It isn't about you remembering your own address. Certainly easier to remember 3 words someone tells you than it is to remember lat/lon.
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Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period 49

Posted by samzenpus from the back-in-the-day dept.
schwit1 writes: Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs taken in the United States from 1935 to 1945. The photos come from all over the U.S., and can be accessed with this easy-to-use interactive map. They also used the original captions allowing the viewer to get an honest feel for the time period.

Submission + - Antarctica Has Lost Enough Ice to Cause Measurable Shift in Gravity 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Contrary to what we all learned in high school physics, gravity is not constant. It actually shows slight variations on different parts of the Earth's surface, and the variations correlate with the density of the material on that surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been measuring gravity for four years, mapping these variations and recording the changes those variations have undergone. Its data indicates "a significant decrease [in gravity] in the region of Antarctica where land ice is melting fastest". Further analysis is, of course, planned so that the whole of Antarctica can be taken into account and "the clearest picture yet of the pace of global warming" can be determined on that continent.

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