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Jennifer LeClair at TechNewsWorld writes about record labels pushing Apple to raise the price of ITMS downloads. What's most fascinating about the piece are the fact that it uses a a seven-month-old Steve Jobs quote and a call from Apple'sEnvisioneering Group Director Richard Doherty for record labels to "open their balance sheets to show where they are losing money on this."
Oh yeah, like that'll happen.
The money quote here is: "The record labels agreed to Apple's one-price-fits-all model three years ago. However, when Apple's license expires, the…
in stinct n. 1. An inner pattern of behavior that is not learned and results in complex animal responses such as building of nests and nursing of young. 2. A powerful motivation or impulse. 3. A natural capability or aptitude.
It sometimes takes a brother to illuminate the obvious; Jim Teacher writes in:
Wouldn't the opposite of convention be instinct? In that it's not taught.Instinct can't be eclipsed.
Thanks, brother. Instinct is the word I was looking for.
I've been presented with many awesome and thoughtful e-mails concerning the last couple of blog…
A not completely tongue-in-cheek explanation of the late lunch.
Introducing random behavior stabilizes systems. In other words, the only way to establish an orderly system is to introduce something unpredictable. My role at Stereophile has now been justified empirically.
I'm linking to these because they are extremely cool and because John Atkinson is halfway through Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Trilogy.
One of the things I love about technology is the way it allows us all to study in detail stuff like this—artifacts that we would have rarely been able to have glimpsed in the good old days
Now I can get a computer case that makes my computer run quiet as a tomb—and makes it look like a Krell or ML33!
It's priced like one, too. But this might be the answer for folks who want a media server that doesn't blow.