Chris Brentano

Whoops, here's that link:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03/23/download-squad-interview-tim-westergren-of-pandora/

@Lee, you're talking about two different issues. This is in regards to the substantial radio royalty increases which only applies to stations in the USA. Webcasters will be required to pay higher per-song royalties, which will be *retroactive* to January 2006, and the royalty fee will *increase* each year until 2010. This will put a great number of stations out of business because they won't be able to afford the fees. This doesn't represent 'big business' at all, it's the small independent broadcasters that will go out of business. Big companies like Yahoo and Rhapsody make enough revenues to be able to pay the increased fees, although they will likely include a lot more advertising to try and help offset the cost.

In comparison, terrestrial (FM/AM) radio stations *don't* pay per-song royalties, instead paying a once-yearly fee which is typically far, far less expensive than the per-song royalty fees. They get off easier than their Internet counterparts.

There's a great interview (link) that Victor Agreda Jr. did with Tim Westergren of Pandora on this that I think helps explain the situation really well.

@Tony, the final determination of these rates were already handed down and become law on July 15th. You can find more info at SaveNetRadio.org.

Are those battery times minimums, or maximums?

I mean, they say that my MacBook will have *up to* 6 hours of battery life, but under 'normal' usage I get 2 or maybe 2.5 hours out of it.

It sounds great, but I'm skeptical of *all* quoted battery lifetimes, because they're never true.

I'm willing to bet $5 that I know what Grant had for lunch.

Automatix is an important tool to highlight for folks interested in switching to Ubuntu from Windows XP, because it helps make the transition much easier.

Hey Ritesh,

I used S5 - it's a XHTML/CSS/JavaScript slide show format which is public domain. All the slide content is contained in one XHTML file, and then you can adjust the fonts and colors in the CSS. You can check it out at http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

Enjoy! :)

- Chris

Aptana and Coda appeal to different sets of users. Coda isn't just an IDE for coding, it's got the built-in Terminal and the Books functionality (which is super handy, I'm surprised nobody else has done something similar). Plus, it makes it really easy to keep your site files organized locally and publish changes either wholesale, updated files only, or you can (like I usually did with Transmit + TextWrangler) edit files remotely one at a time.

I tried Aptana once a few months back and thought it was a nice app, but it has a way to go in the usability department (needs to shed a few more of those Eclipse pounds).

"... and let you continue living your carefree, digital pack rat lifestyle."

Four words:
rofl

Okay, sorry, it's MythTV + Pluto. My bad.

Even still, this *is* the demo video made by the LinuxMCE project folks. ;p

It's not "Linux MCE" it's MythTV. Sorry to be all uppity about this, but let's call it by its real name! Gah, it's driving me insane listening to his nasally voice continue to call it "Linux MCE".

Anyway, MythTV is teh rox0r.