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iTunes Music Store: Facelift for a Corrupt Industry
With iTunes I don't feel guilty when i download music -- Apple and the record labels handle the screw job for me.
from a downhillbattle
Neils Bohr and The Barometer
"Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." Neils Bohr answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building"
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easyDorm: A bed from £5 a night
5$ a night that’s my kind of hotel!!
Looking for a cheap room?. easyDorm will concentrate on providing accommodation only, and will not offer a restaurant or other services. Bedding and toiletries will be available for purchase for those customers who don't bring their own. Rooms will consist of pre-fabricated fibreglass units (nothing to break, no dirt accumulation), and come with a shower unit, a lavatory and floor mattresses inspired by Japanese tatami style bedding. An extra charge applies for those who choose not to clean their own room. The first easyDorm will open in London 2004.
We already have easyJet, easyCar,easyMoney and easyCinema. What next?
easyGroup is already planning easyPizza, easyBus and easyCruise
I'm glad I'm not "living" in the US
U.S. is the
only country in the industrialized world without a minimum paid-leave law.
While Europeans get four or five weeks paid leave by law, and even the Chinese get three weeks,
The Americans get average about eight days after a year with one company and 10 days after three years.
Thirteen percent of American companies offer no paid vacation at all
| Country. | Days By Law. | Average. |
| Australia | 20 | 25 |
| Austria | 25 | 30 |
| Belgium | 20 | 24 |
| Brazil | 24-30 | |
| Canada | 10 | |
| China | 15 | 15 |
| Denmark | 25 | 30 |
| Finland | 25 | five to six wks |
| France | 25 | |
| Germany | 24 | 30 |
| Greece | 20 | 23 |
| Ireland | 20 | 28 |
| Italy | 20 | 30 |
| Japan | 10 | 17.5 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 25 |
| Norway | 21 | 30 |
| Portugal | 22 | 25 |
| Spain | 25 | 30 |
| Sweden | 25 | five to seven wks |
| Switzerland | 20 | five to six wks |
| United Kingdom | 20 | 25 |
| U.S. | 0 | 10.2 |
Mini-ITX: Incredibly Tiny, eXceptionally cool
Charlie Stross : mini-ITX
motherboards and cases are
The Way To Go. Tiny, cheap, fanless PCs with trailing-edge processors -- only 1GHz -- are nevertheless a really amazingly cool idea, especially when you start thinking in terms of turning them into personal video recorders or in-car GPS navigation systems. Marketing hype has obsessed most punters with clock speed, so that the owner of a 2.4GHz processor sneers at their neighbour with the 2.1GHz clock -- but if both machines have the same bus frequency, memory, and disk architecture, all the extra CPU speed means is that the faster machine will spend more time in cache stalls. "Slower" computers (we're still talking faster than a Cray XMP here) that don't sound like an air conditioning system, that can run off a trickle of current and live in a case the size of a paperback book, and that are tailored to a specific task, are really useful.