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Wednesday, May 7, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Apple music store vs. Amazon -- Comment()
I wrote in an essay: "Amazon.com is not perfect. I have had several times bad experiences of the Amazon music rankings. The reviews can be fine, and the cd may have gotten 4 or 5 stars, but still that music does not suit me." Now that Apple offers music through the iTunes program, there is a much better concept for buying music. You get a relevant 30 second sample, which can be used to decide if this music suits me. And you don't have to wait for the cd to arrive. Also, you don't have to pay a monthly subscription fee to the service. Fortunately the Apple music store is not currently open for non-Americans. Last month I was close to breaking the limit on my Visa due to some impulse cd purchases on the net. I fear what Apple can do to my Visa. Buying music in electronic format has also drawbacks. If you lose the contents of your hard disk and don't have backups, there is little you can do. Of course, the same applies to cds as well. One of the cds I recently bought, 'World Without Tears' by Lucinda Williams, refused to play on my Sony cd player and on my iBook. However, I managed to read it on my PowerBook G4, and converted it to the AAC format for my iPod.
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"Matrix" nostalgia: "Four years ago, geeks embraced the SF thriller because it promised them that reality could be hacked. Then came the tech-economy crash." [Salon.com]
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False Open Source Representative Calls for EU Software Patents: "Software patents could be fatal for Open Source software in the U.S. and Europe. Since we do not collect royalties from the distribution of our own software, we have no funds to pay royalties to patent holders. Rather than sue us to collect money, expect patent holders to sue Open Source developers to restrain them from distributing their software or carrying out further development. Companies that produce proprietary software would bring that sort of suit to kill us off as a competitor." [kuro5hin.org]
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A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction: 'In the fine tradition of E2's Books that will induce a mindfuck, I present a list of authors and books that I think are more than worth the time required to read them. My main criteria here are that the books be interesting, gripping, etc. -- not necessarily of great "literary" value.' [kuro5hin.org]
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