Phoronix (Free subscription) | yesterday
While OpenGL acceleration and GPU-assisted video playback are often most viewed as the areas that are severely lacking for the open-source Linux graphics drivers in comparison to what the binary-only ATI/NVIDIA drivers offer, another area that has not yet caught up to speed with the binary competition is power management. For years (going back to 2005) AMD has implemented PowerPlay support in their...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently here for books such as Lavie Tidhar & Nir...
Beauty Tip Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gee, Senator Nancy Pelosi , we expected better from you. A 5% Botox tax ? Or as it's being called, 'The Bo-tax.' This is being included in the Senate Health Care bill ? Yeah, ha ha. LOL. Are you serious? Do you really think that Botox , liposuction , and other elective cosmetic procedures should be taxed? You call this health care reform ? Senate Democrats are proposing a 5% excise tax on elective...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stardock isn't a publicly traded company, though it strives to be as open as possible about its business. This is where the annual Stardock Customer Report (PDF link) comes in, an annual assessment of the company's financial situation. Stardock, a publisher of games such as Sins of a Solar Empire , is also behind digital distribution service Impulse, which boss Brad Wardell says is the second only...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
At Booksquare , Kassia Krozser discusses e-books and digital rights management — the most common security measure companies use to control things like e-books and mp3. 'In the traditional book transaction, author and publisher control over the book ends when I hand over my money for the book. All the hopes that content will be used in the manner the publisher and/or author envision are gone when...
Corante (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In case you didn't have enough reading to do this weekend, here are couple of items analyzing the Google Books settlement. First, Fred von Lohmann at EFF just published his third blog entry on the topic. The first piece, very short, points out the key conflict of this settlement : we're trading off increased access to works that might otherwise be difficult to find, but at a potential cost in lost...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave , is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker editors are completely nuts for Wave and its potential. The DRM-free, 102-page personalized PDF of The Complete Guide...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industries Read the government's statement on the bill Read the digital economy bill Stephen Timms, the Treasury secretary, has defended the government's controversial plans to give ministers sweeping powers to combat online piracy as necessary to "future-proof" its proposals...
GAMER Deals (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This month, Amazon is offering an 50 albums for $5 , and over 500 free songs as well... In addition their deal of the day is: John Lennon's Imagine. Available for $2.99 today (reg. $9.99). All Amazon MP3 purchases are play anywhere, DRM-free, so you have complete freedom to copy/move all of your music to your devices without hassle. In addition, all songs/albums are all compatible with iTunes and Windows...
The Register (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mandelson to 'future-proof' P2P restrictions The government is planning to award itself powers to change copyright law almost at will, in expectation that new anti-peer-to-peer laws will drive infringement to other services such as Rapidshare and newsgroups.… What is your recession sales strategy?
Tech stuff for the slacker (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Sounds Good To Me - TrustedReviews - TrustedReviews : "OK. What debate? For the vast majority of people, there's nothing contentious about the subject of digital audio file formats. On the one hand, we have MP3; popularly enshrined as the standard digital audio file format to the extent that it's become practically synonymous with downloaded music. Look at any mention of an iPod or Walkman in...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In the wake of a leak of an international trade agreement on online file-sharing and copyright violation , U.S. House representatives are introducing legislation to curtail the greatest of American freedoms: the illegal download. Let's not kid ourselves, dear readers. P2P's best use cases all revolve around the liberation of data, software, music, movies, and other copyrighted and rather expensive...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Following on from the story earlier today about Lord Mandelson's plans to get an amendment made to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) of 1988 that would allow him - or any future secretary of state for industry - to amend it over copyright enforcement issues , I spoke to Stephen Timms, the financial secretary to the Treasury, who is also involved in the Digital Economy bill, being published...
Corante (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It has been pointed out to me that I may have underestimated the impact of some of Lynn Viehl's hypotheticals in yesterday's Blink . Although the statement she posted is indeed a factual description of her income, the column surrounding it has several big "if"s in the middle that I glossed over on first read. First, she's confused about what qualifies someone for food stamps. Federal poverty...
SlashGear (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
One of Qualcomm’s more low-key demonstrations from today is actually the one thing you can try most readily yourself. Skifta aims to make media shifting more straightforward, using a single client PC or Mac that can then be accessed by any DLNA and UPnP client in your home or remotely. The system works using a simple web-based interface which will work on your desktop or cellphone browser (the...
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dudude | 18/11/2009
Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music. So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media)....
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