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...customers, for being such filthy music pirates. And around we go. Steve Jobs even swore that he would de-DRM every track on iTunes if only the labels would let him. (Jobs did broker a deal with one label, EMI, to sell DRM-free music, with higher audio quality. But it'll cost ya: DRM-free tracks will go for $1.29 vs. the standard 99¢.) Amazon is saying it's prepared to go skinny-dipping in the digital music pool: the company will sell all-nude, plain-vanilla MP3 files stripped...
...clear: most of us really are criminals. Almost everybody owns a little stolen music. But a little piracy can be a good thing. Sure, O.K., I ripped the audio of the Shins' Phantom Limb off a YouTube video. But on the strength of that minor copyright atrocity, I legally bought two complete Shins albums and shelled out for a Shins concert. The legit market feeds off the black market. Music execs just need to figure out how to live with that. (And count themselves lucky. When it comes to movies, consumers actually do act like hardened criminals. The real pirate...
...refreshingly motivated and entirely student-funded project that will fill an embarrassing gap in the quality of student accommodation. The administration should allow this system to be installed in dorms across campus and refrain from paternalistic regulation. Some say that installing such a regulatory system to curbe the audio-visual appetite of students is desirable because television is a roadblock to social, extracurricular, and academic endeavors that make Harvard such a vibrant place. But in not offering cable or satellite television, Harvard is the exception to the rule—many schools still have thriving campuses even if students have...
...bags are conspicuously absent. Unlike an astronaut-training simulator or other virtual reality systems which allow multiple degrees of stomach-turning motion - forward and backward, up and down, side to side, pitch, roll and yaw - this simulator only allows for pitch. But in clever combination with a powerful Buttkicker audio system, which lets riders feel sound, strong vibrations, timed seat compressions and video cues, the rider is tricked into feeling acceleration, G-forces and weightlessness...
Harvard can e-mail alerts to students and has a voicemail alert system that can send audio messages to a large number of campus phones, but only those with voice-mail capabilities...