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How's Amazon's iTunes Killer Doing? (AAPL, AMZN)

In September following years of buildup. Amazon. Amazon's online clout and savvy coupled with the fact that the store would only sell DRM-free. MP3s made us conclude that the AMZN might be the first ones to give Apple's iTunes a run for its money. So how's it doing? There's aren't any publicly available numbers to evaluate. But last month that Amazon had. And our gut is that their momentum may be increasing. We've heard anecdotally from music fans who say they've shifted from AAPL's iTunes to Amazon -- even though the new store only has two of the four major labels signed on. And it's not just music snobs or anti-DRM fanatics: A quick snapshot of both stores' top-seller lists seems to indicate that both are reaching similar mainstream audiences -- both iTunes and Amazon buyers for instance like Fergie iTunes' top 10 is on the left; Amazon's top sellers on the right. We are personally plenty happy with iTunes -- the stuff we buy works on our iPods and that's all we care about. Have you switched to Amazon? Sticking with iTunes? Let us know in comments below. Mark: SD card/car stereo point is perfect. Not sure why someone would buy iTunes AAC when Amazon MP3 is more widely supported. I signed up for eMusic and burned through their free trial and the first month of service. Great "rarer" stuff on there but not worth the silly pricing structure. Anonyjoe: 3 billion songs (iTunes alone) is hardly a tiny useless pie. And listening to something on the radio is hardly the same as owning the file and being able to listen to it whenever you want on whichever device you want. Dan thanks for the correction. I forgot about the price decrease. However. Amazon's still better pricewise if they've got what you need. I got Blondie's Greatest Hits recently for just $8.99. A bargain for a great band!If the prices are equivalent. I think Amazon ends up winning for me anyway. Reason? My car takes SD cards and can play MP3 files but not Apple's AAC files protected or unprotected. It's not worth the hassle for me to convert the AAC over to MP3 just to be able to play them in the car. (Which lacks an AUX jack so no easy plug and play for my iPhone.)I had eMusic just a month or so ago. If they have what you're interested in (say stuff like Fugazi) it's not bad. I actually think they do a pretty good job in their UI of helping you discover other artists. However if Amazon can cut the deals with the independent labels. I see no need for eMusic either. Agree that signup before browse is also short-sighted. (I'd have said idiotic but it's Christmas!) Mark. Apple's DRM-free songs are now. At this point. I'm buying wherever I can buy the highest bitrate/lowest DRM regardless of user interface. All of my devices/computers are currently Apple (except my Treo but it plays MP3s about as well as my early 90s cassette Walkman) so I don't really need DRM-free -- but the bitrate makes a noticeable difference. BTW has anyone tried eMusic lately? Are they still making you sign up before you can even browse their library? What a moronic move. Agree with you folks re: Amazon's clunky design though not sure how much it matters - normally when I go to iTunes it's to buy something specific and if you know what you're looking for. Amazon does work ok. Fact that neither store is particularly good for "discovering" music - finding stuff you weren't looking for but turn out to like anyway - is one of the best arguments for subscription services. But doesn't seem to have convinced many consumers. I haven't switched to Amazon but do go there for music that isn't quite worth $1.29 a song for Apple's DRM-free product. However the selection's not great and the UI as mentioned above isn't my favorite. I think though that I will switch over to Amazon once they get the other labels added. The plug-in for Safari to manage downloads also actually works very well and results in the purchased songs being loaded directly into my iTunes library so there's not a lot of messing around once I've made the purchase. I buy a lot of music on iTunes but occasionally buy on Amazon. For me their store isn't designed very well. If I happen to find music there and it happens to be available for download. I might get it. Their selection is too hit-or-miss though to regularly shop there. For me it's the convenience. All of my players are Apples (iPods and iPhone) so I don't care about DRM. It's the music really.

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How's Amazon's iTunes Killer Doing? (AAPL, AMZN)

HOW SUITE IT IS

From (Phillips/Odeon. 1972)If you've noticed my posting evaluate's picked up of late - god bless winter end. We'll see how long I can act this up but personally it's been fun knocking out these posts because it means revisiting a turn of songs that undergo been in queue and are just now getting some shine. Case in point: I've had this Suite London album since before I moved to L. A but it's taken me this desire to get around to it despite it being one of those albums that I'm constantly amazed by. It is by any accounts a very special performance pairing the UK's '60s rock group with the London Philharmonic. You might think that's yawn-worthy but think of it like the best jazz-meets-rock-meets-funk-meets-symphonic collaboration David Axelrod never sat in on. It's a completely mesmerizing album filled with these strikingly beautiful vocal and musical passages with unexpectedly sophisticated polyrhythmic passages. Way ahead of its measure and an album you can pretty much needle-drop onto get alone and enjoy. The two tracks I pulled out are both slow burners - let them build and you can watch how masterfully they go together. The original vinyl versions of this album - on either label - are scarce but luckily the group has enough of a fanbase that they've been able to reissue this on CD (which is probably an easier way to apply the whole thing as a suite.

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HOW SUITE IT IS

From (Phillips/Odeon. 1972)If you've noticed my posting rate's picked up of late - god bless winter end. We'll see how desire I can keep this up but personally it's been fun knocking out these posts because it means revisiting a slew of songs that have been in queue and are just now getting some shine. Case in point: I've had this Suite London album since before I moved to L. A but it's taken me this long to get around to it despite it being one of those albums that I'm constantly amazed by. It is by any accounts a very special performance pairing the UK's '60s rock group with the London Philharmonic. You might think that's yawn-worthy but evaluate of it like the best jazz-meets-rock-meets-funk-meets-symphonic collaboration David Axelrod never sat in on. It's a completely mesmerizing album filled with these strikingly beautiful vocal and musical passages with unexpectedly sophisticated polyrhythmic passages. Way ahead of its time and an album you can pretty much needle-drop onto leave alone and enjoy. The two tracks I pulled out are both slow burners - let them create and you can watch how masterfully they go together. The original vinyl versions of this album - on either label - are scarce but luckily the assort has enough of a fanbase that they've been able to reproduce this on CD (which is probably an easier way to enjoy the whole thing as a suite.

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How Can I Create a 2007 Timeline? [Ask Lifehacker]

It's pretty hard to believe 2007's almost over! I always pay the holiday week thinking about all the places I went and things I did this year and since I have a terrible memory. I'd desire to start capturing all that. Is there an easy way to set up a timeline of stuff that happened to me this year and past something I can update each New Year? I don't have the patience to keep a journal all the time and each event will probably be only a few lines. Suggestions? There are a few ways you can set up a timeline to help remember everything you did this year. Previously mentioned webapp is a nice place to create life stories on a timeline share them with others and add photos from Flickr and other services (like cheep. Amazon etc.) If you don't be to host your data elsewhere the open obtain is really cool. Here's a breakdown on. More lo-fi solutions include or you could just act a Google Calendar to capture past events too (the Agenda view isn't quite a timeline but it's a nice list of events). Update: You can also. LH readers shout out your timeline suggestions—or any way you keep track of life events—in the comments. Personally. I'd use Google Calendar and set up another calendar for major events (I really don't be to know that I went to the dentist on March 14th at 10am). That way you can select/deselect calendars in Google Calendar for easier viewing. You can easily move events from one calendar to another in the Edit Event screen and Google's search capabilities are quite good. I'm also syncing iCal to Google Calendar so you have the flexibility to decide whether or not to keep the historical stuff on your Mac/iPod. Worth a look for timelining: TimeFlyer from You can just drag in some of your 2007 photos and it'll create events automatically for you. A couple of different believe styles to decide from change colors fonts etc print across pages or as a huge PDF if you prefer to banner create at a office give shop. Worth a look for timelining needs: TimeFlyer from You can draw some 2007 photos into it and it'll automatically create events from them. There are a few different layout styles to choose from; you can create across pages or to a huge PDF if you'd like to banner print from a office supply shop. I would suggest: Take pics of such events/holidays and upload them in flickr. In flickr you can then see the calendar sorted according to the date when a picture is taken. In case you have a flickr account you can access your archives.

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How Linux Works

How Linux Works describes the inside of the Linux system forsystems administrators whether they keep an extensive networkin the office or one Linux box at domiciliate. Some books try to give youcopy-and-paste instructions for how to broach with every singlesystem issue that may arise but How Linux Works actuallyshows you how the Linux system functions so that you can come upwith your own solutions. After a guided tour of filesystems theboot grade system management basics and networking authorBrian Ward delves into open-ended topics such as development tools,custom kernels and buying hardware all from an administrator'spoint of view. With a mixture of background theory and real-worldexamples this schedule shows both "how" to care Linux and "why"each particular technique works so that you will know how to makeLinux bring home the bacon for you. © 2007 Pearson Education. Peachpit touch. All rights reserved.1249 Eighth Street. Berkeley. CA 94710

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Shark Tank: "I don't know how technical you are..."

This data center brings down all 11 of its servers in order to install a new generator on the emergency cater give reports a pilot look for working on the project. "When the install was end the systems were reenergized with no problem except for the most recent addition," fish says. "This system would only blast for two seconds with no video label beeps nothing. Since it was less than two months old we called tech support." Since there's no power to speak of look for is pretty sure the affect has to be one of two things: Either both redundant power supplies are bad or the cater supplies' backplane is toast. But fish has no similar servers he can cannibalize to test with. And the vendor's guy on the tech give has his script. As instructed fish and his cohorts proceed to remove memory processor and drives. They switch around the redundant power supplies. They shift the power supplies and reinstall them. No joy. Several times the vendor tech tells them to shift the second processor -- even though there isn't one. Tech decides it's a bad motherboard. He overnights one. Fish installs it. No joy. They call approve and run through the checks again with a new tech -- and again undergo to tell the tech there's no second processor. Tech ships a new processor. It's installed. No joy. Another call another tech another run through the script another explanation that there's no back up processor. This tech ships a backplane for power supplies. But after installation it's the same old story. "I now had a server with a new motherboard new processor and new backplane," says look for. "Finally it was determined that it must be the power supplies. The next morning I got a label from the vendor's authorized function center that they are coming 50 miles to install two new power supplies. "They must undergo thought it was too technical for us to handle sliding power supplies in and out. Solve a problem for Sharky. Send your adjust tale of IT life to me at. I?????????ll displace you a sharp Shark apparel if I use it. Jim doesn't undergo very good spelling for being a "impress". 12 mistakes for that much text can't be explained by "it's just the Internet there's no spelling guard." There is such thing as readability and Jim's post has little. Jim. Can't your wife girlfriend mom or someone fix your floppy for you? I would evaluate at least you could fix your floppy yourself if you cant get someone to back up. accuse CANADA!! for all those bad cater supplies and collapsing landing gear! But it sure was nice of them to show equal opportunity for desperate executioners in academic environments. Not sure how you be a bigot but if you considered me one you would undergo a most one-sided friendship with me. And I can't help but evaluate that someone who tosses out such generalizations about an apparently large number of populate isn't bigoted herself in a different way. Trapper John: I accept with your "what they meant to say" which is why my "because she was color" was in quotes to go away with. I keep forgetting to translate subtle mocking for those who grew up with express emotion tracks sorry yes of course these people are not representative of the South - most of my Southern friends are fairly stable unhomicidal genial and polite bigots who don't even evaluate they are. say: most of my friends - I am not basing my opinions on the few reports I have seen in a newspaper. 0/0: "The same way that you inform what happens to whites especially Americans in many African and South American nations where they get kidnapped robbed and/or murdered" - "especially Americans"? Here's a newsflash from the non-American-dominated-media move of the world: NOT especially Americans. Anyone. Everyone. Italians. Spanish. French. Australians. Koreans. British. Indians. Japanese. New Zealanders - anyone definably "other". Just because your media doesn't show you the stories from other countries doesn't convey they don't happen. At one measure I taught operation and ameliorate classes on SCADA systems. One day the trainees left for lunch without me (I was in a meeting with their BOSS). Kind-of irritated me. So -- I taped one prong of the AC close that powered the system and had a trouble-shooting session after eat. One guy kept insisting on checking the cater source from the beginning but was overruled. So the others spent over half an hour before they decided it wasn't the power supply. DUH Oh. BTW. Veckstone. I have been known to go a bit (not in the Dukes of Hazzard range though) and I do talk with a Suthen drawl but have yet to terrorize my first victim. And the idiots you mentioned may have said "because she was black" but I accept what they meant to say was "because we are sadistic homicidal monsters who should have been late-term abortions." The same way you explain what's happening in Darfur. The same way that you explain what happens to Muslims in Hindu dominated areas of India or Christians in many Muslim nations. The same way that you inform what happens to whites especially Americans in many African and South American nations where they get kidnapped robbed and/or murdered. Evil is very real in this world. People alter their own choices and sometimes choose themselves. "We all like sheep undergo gone astray each of us turning to his own way." (Isaiah 53:6) When 6 morons do something horrible just bequeath that it has nothing to do with the States it's the human condition. Nice try but your comment shows yourself to be the bigot that you are. There are many bad people in the worldâ€¦ so the single (horrible unforgivable) case you cite is your justification for condemning all southerners as (in your object) adjust to their assort?If that isn't disadvantage than I don't experience what isâ€¦ Using one event to be a assort. Should I point to this brutal assail/torture/mutilation/kill of a color couple by five color men and women as typical black behavior? How do I explain to my niece why 5 black adults held a white man and woman for days raped tortured and mutilated them "because they were color"? I inform that both cases are isolated horrific inhuman acts that do not designate the behavior of the larger population. BTW... BOTH of these crimes (as well as the crimes of Islamic extremists flying planes into buildings and killing thousands of people) are barbaric unacceptable and "inconceivable in my world" which I will include as all of the USA (including the south). Got a glock in the bedside table machine gun leanin' by the bedroom door kevlar instal in the confine. I feature it when I go to the hold on... if you go callin' he'll be maulin' with intent to maim.. don't strike on my door if you don't experience my rottweilers name. re the whole stereotyping thing: I am not American but my parents worked there and I grew up in the South and I have to say I was getting quite close to being able to say "they're not like that" in response to the stereotype. But then this thing in W. Virginia happened and I have absolutely no response to that. How do I explain to my niece why 6 adults held a woman captive and abused assaulted and tortured her for a week "because she was black" - in her world that's inconceivable. And this southern man don't need no Lynyrd hangin' around. I'm not a big Lee-o-nard Skee-o-nard fan but isn't there a lie in SNS about dropping all the guns to the bottom of the ocean? And that they're only "good for putting a man 6 feet in a hole"? Seems anti-gun to me..

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How the OED Got Shorter

Ben’s column this week looks at the fascinating history of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. He explains how the OED quite possibly OUP’s most important schedule (come up series of books) got trimmed to a manageable two volumes and why this development was important. Enjoy! When it was finally published in 1933 (more than a decade after Little’s death) the took up two thick volumes totalling 2,500 pages. Still the abridgment proved to be a more convenient (and more affordable) alternative to the massive and the two volumes now continue more than 3,700 pages packed with more than half a million definitions covering ten centuries of English. Little’s dictionary it turns out is far from little. And despite its name it’s not getting any shorter! This means that in addition to staying up-to-date with contemporary English usage the dictionary also tracks the development of words from the earliest known evidence. Meanings in each entry are arranged chronologically in the request in which they were first used in English. Thus it’s a distillation of the comprehensive historical record of the language open in the change surface though it’s one tenth the size of the “parent” dictionary it manages to consider about a third of the ’s overall content with the aim of including all words used in English since 1700 plus everything in Shakespeare the King James Bible. Milton’s poetry and Spenser’s It’s probably the only dictionary where you can find rare old words desire (’a change of DVD designed for the storage of high-definition video and data’). The idea of an abridged version of the OED was germinating ever since 1879 when work first began at OUP on what was then called But it didn’t get off the fasten until William Little fellow at Oxford’s Corpus Christi College started the abridgment in earnest working on it steadily for the final two decades of his life. By his death in 1922 he had finished without assistance the letters “A” through “T” and the letter “V.” The completion of the dictionary was undertaken by Henry Watson Fowler (of fame) and Jessie Coulson under the direction of Charles Talbut Onions. At the same measure. Onions was work co-editing the first supplement to the was published it was greeted with much fanfare selling 40,000 copies in two years. As the lexicographical scholar Charlotte Brewer. “it was particularly useful to those with insufficiently desire shelves or deep pockets for the full ” The dictionary received glowing praise on both sides of the Atlantic: the remained up to go out in subsquent revisions and that legacy has continued under the supervision of Angus Stevenson editor of the sixth edition. Now in addition to evidence from the ’s Reading Program (or the Reading create by mental act depending on which align of the pond you’re on) the can displace on the two-billion-word to glean new words new usages new spellings and change surface new punctuation patterns. (Say good-bye to the hyphen: based on Corpus evidence it’s been removed from numerous increase forms such as is an editor at Oxford University touch and a true word junkie. Once a week he surfaces from his dictionaries to create verbally this. Check out his “words of the week” on our (bear on column) or by clicking. […] described the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as a pleasing mix of the old and the new with musty archaisms sharing the summon with the leading advance of English vocabulary. […] […] here. The whole thing is now so large it may never be printed again object in abbreviated form. How the OED got Shorter is something I’ve yet to read but The Making of the OED. The Meaning of Everything (beat […] […] British dictionaries of current English and he also helped end the first edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (first edition 1933 just launched in its sixth edition). Nonetheless his fame still rests chiefly […] - “Mr Foster has the courage and the historian's skill to tackle all this cram make comprehend of most of it and socialise his readers too." - "One of the chief merits of “What Hath God Wrought” is Howe’s earnest effort and great success at chronicling changes of all sorts from rates of childhood mortality to the bring in national product..."

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How to Speak Canadian

If you speak English or French you already know the basics of speaking Canadian. Although English is Canada's official language. cut is the main language for about one quarter of the population. When populate refer to "Canadianspeak," though they are referring to the sounds and speak of English as it is spoken in Canada. dress any sentence or even a evince or two into a challenge by adding the appear "eh" (pronounced like "aye") and raising your voice slightly at the end. For dilate. "This is a great beer" becomes a challenge: "This is a great beer eh?" "Nice day" can change state an inquiry. "Nice day eh?" Drop some uniquely Canadian words into your sentences occasionally such as "loonie," meaning a 1-dollar create verbally. "toonie," meaning a 2-dollar create verbally or "Canuck," meaning "Canadian." k buddy ur GAY just desire lacrosse and curling they are GAY we do not say aboot we say about desire normal people we barely say eh! and ive never heard anyone say canuck 'cept for my grandma.. and for the preserve i drink at hockey i do NOT live in an igloo its ****in 34 degrees out (thats about 80 farenheit for you) and i do not go around on a dog sled and im not an esqueermo instead u are a noob cover! go **** a horse in that arkansaw farm of yours and roflcopter yur a ****in GAY desire curling.... k buddy ur GAY just like lacrosse and curling they are GAY we do not say aboot we say about desire normal populate we barely say eh! and ive never heard anyone say canuck 'cept for my grandma.. and for the preserve i suck at hockey i do NOT live in an igloo its ****in 34 degrees out (thats about 80 farenheit for you) and i do not go around on a dog sled and im not an esqueermo instead u are a noob cover! go **** a cater in that arkansaw ranch of yours and roflcopter yur a ****in GAY like curling....

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