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When Pepsi and Apple announced their plan for the joint campaign last October, as the iTunes software first became available to Windows users, it seemed a particularly bold and risky venture: Pepsi is placing 100 million of the free songs under its bottle caps, and yet Apple had only sold a small fraction of that number to its devoted Mac user base. At that time, the software’s profitability when it reached a larger and more competitive market was very much uncertain. As of early this year, while it’s still difficult to tell, the numbers...
...you’re in a class where you don’t vknow anyone and want to ask somebody for help, this is a way to find out the names of people in that class,” said thefacebook.com user Roberto C. Acosta...
...uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code (hers) under a different license-for example, the MYSQL database is released under both the GPL and a commercial license...
Just as important as the expansion of services is its improved centralization, which will hopefully lead to better coordination. The new process seems more user-friendly; students need to remember just one number (5-0400) to reach a single dispatcher who will answer queries, page vans and direct students to their nearest transportation option. In the past, late night calls were greeted with a recorded message, and students were often referred from one transport department to another—none of which were in regular communication with each other...
...user pays” principle for public transportation—a fashionable pretext for fare increases—is an inherently regressive system that makes the poorest more responsible for paying for their transportation. T riders should be rewarded with lower, subsidized fares for lightening traffic and pollution...