they may be losing more than $300 per sale
Originally from Waxy.org Links
Month: December 2005
Trade CDs for an iPod
Millennium Music is offering to turn your old CDs into a brand new iPod. All you do is ship them your CDs and they’ll estimate the value and send you back an iPod. The CD to iPod conversion looks like this:
45 CDs = 512 MB iPod Shuffle
65 CDs = 1 GB iPod Shuffle
85 CDs = 2 GB iPod Nano
110 CDs = 4 GB Nano
130 CDs = 30 GB iPod
175 CDs = 60 GB iPod
Originally from Lifehacker
IBM retires OS/2
IBM officially retired OS/2 Warp from their product line last week which closes the book on what was the most advanced operating system when it was released in the early 1990’s. I was a long-time OS/2 user and its object-oriented desktop was incredibly powerful and still has many supporters today. In fact, over 13,000 OS/2 diehards have signed a petition asking IBM to release the OS as open source but they have not responded to that request. IBM has recommended that current OS/2 users switch to Linux. You have to wonder what would have happened had IBM made the GUI “prettier”.
(via Internet News)
Originally posted by jk from jkOnTheRun
World’s Largest Prime Number Found and Verified.
It’s huge! 9,152,052 digits long. Discovered on Dec. 16 and verified on Dec. 24 to be the 43rd Mersenne Prime.
Originally from My Digg News
Is France Trying to Legalize File Sharing?
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
In a very narrow vote (30 – 28), French Parliament members voted 30 to 28 late Wednesday night to accept an amendment proposing permitting free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use.
Attached to a broader copyright law proposal, the amendment–roughly translated–reads: “Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of works […]
Originally posted by Michael Santo from Alice Hill’s Real Tech News – Independent Tech