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<slash:hit_parade>31,30,26,18,4,3,1</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>not-just-monopoly-money</slash:department>
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<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T18:11:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>WeebMac writes "IGN has a new career-themed section and one of their first stories is about the earning potential available to those who make their careers in the gaming industry. From TFA, 'Beginning programmers, whether you're working on tools, gameplay, networking, audio, AI, or animation, you can expect to start off with a salary in the area of $60K with the potential for more in the way of sales-based royalties or bonuses or stock options depending on the particular company you've been hired by."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1317"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>money</dc:subject>
<read>0</read>
<title>IGN Talks Games Industry Salaries</title>
<slash:section>games</slash:section>
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<slash:hit_parade>3,3,3,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>faster-is-better</slash:department>
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<description>Unimonomous writes "CoolTechZone.com analyzes the future of wireless connectivity with WiMax standard. "WiMax is an upgrade from Wi-Fi and offers brilliant advantages over its predecessor. The obvious one being extended range (up to 15 miles), which means that establishing a few towers would pretty much make the entire city connected. Now this probably won't matter to those of us with 24/7 connectivity, but people living in rural and undeveloped areas would surely benefit from it."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1316"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T17:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>wireless</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<title>The Future of Wireless Connectivity</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1315</link>
<slash:hit_parade>9,8,4,4,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>all-in-the-name-of-science</slash:department>
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<description>phaedo00 writes "The guys over at Ars Technica have put together another one of their infamous reviews. This time they tackle the video iPod and give it a proper review, complete with vivisection and a discussion of the guts." From the article: "It wouldn't be an Ars iPod review without a dissection (or in this case, a vivisection since the patient survived) and discussion. Talking about what changes were made on the exterior of the device is fine and well, but the real interesting stuff--to me anyways--is found within. As the old adage says, 'it's what's on the inside that counts.' With that, I'm dismantling this iPod in the name of science. All went well: I was able to put to back together and it's working fine." An interesting counter-point to previous coverage.&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1315"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T16:46:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>media</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>apple</slash:section>
<title>Ars Technica Vivisects A Video iPod</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1314</link>
<slash:hit_parade>34,33,20,7,2,1,1</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>pull-no-punches</slash:department>
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<description>praps writes "When Sweden's Data board gave the film and games industry organisation Antipiratbyr&amp;#229;n an exemption from data protection laws last week it seemed that file sharers were on the ropes. Then the music industry joined in with some punches of its own, saying it too will hunt those who share songs online. Suddenly, file sharers have the support of their ISPs, who are refusing to cooperate with the big industries - and it's game on." From the article: "Only the file sharer's ISP can link the IP address to the person. If the ISP receives a request for such information from the police, they cannot refuse it, but a few calls from TT revealed that requests from APB would be ignored." We've previously reported on Swedish anti-downloading laws before.&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1314"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T16:07:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>doj</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
<title>Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1313</link>
<slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>can't-get-a-second-in-to-scan</slash:department>
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<dc:date>2005-10-20T15:25:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>linumax writes "The Association of American Publishers, an organization of book publishers including Pearson Plc's Penguin unit and McGraw-Hill sued Google over its plan to create a digital Web library of printed books. The Association of American Publishers sued Wednesday after talks broke down with Google over copyright issues raised by the Google Print Library Project. Publishers say Google will infringe copyrights unless it gets advance permission for the scanning. The suit is the second by the publishing industry against Google's library plans and underscores the worries sparked by Google's expansion beyond Web search." From the article: "Google, which is working with five of the world's great libraries (Stanford, Harvard and Michigan university libraries, the New York Public Library and the Bodleian library in Oxford) to digitise their collections, stopped scanning copyrighted books in August after protests from publishers. However, it intends to resume its work next month."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1313"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>google</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Second Google Suit Over Print Library Project</title>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
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<slash:hit_parade>31,28,24,11,5,1,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>i-like-toys</slash:department>
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<description>Da Massive writes "The official release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been pushed to the download servers, as of Thursday the 10th." From the article: "OpenDocument is an XML file format for saving office documents such as spreadsheets, memos, charts, and presentations. It was approved as an OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) standard at the beginning of this year. OpenDocument, set as a default in OpenOffice, is cited by proponents as a way of fighting vendor lock-in associated with proprietary formats. Already, it is the required office format for internal archives of the US State of Massachusetts." You can download, or read past coverage including a preview or a comparison with MS Office.&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1312"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T14:42:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
<title>OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1311</link>
<slash:hit_parade>19,16,11,5,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>the-future-of-tar-interweb</slash:department>
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<description>andyo wrote to mention an article on the O' Reilly network entitled Why They're Talking About Internet Governance. The piece goes into the history of how things came to be in the first place, as regards the distribution of internet domain space. From the article: "Having established commercial beachheads on the Internet, corporations wanted to own the whole terrain. Through the World Intellectual Property Organization ... they were designing a new regime for handling domain names. It was nicely suited to large corporations ... Within weeks of the successful conclusion of the Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop, a lash-up of Internet leaders, Network Solutions, and other back room forces popped a proposal of their own on a surprised and unprepared Internet community. The proposal ... ultimately led to ICANN. Most stakeholders were left out of the decision--even many large corporations were angry--but the Commerce Department approved the proposal, happy to wash its hands of the issue. "&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1311"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T14:04:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>internet</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>politics</slash:section>
<title>Why Talk About Internet Governance?</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1310</link>
<slash:hit_parade>6,5,3,2,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>i-only-have-one-apple-computer</slash:department>
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<description>Art Vanderlay writes "Readers should not be surprised by overcoverage of Apple Computers since the tech writers and columnists for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fortune are all Mac users. According to John Dvorak of PC Mag, no one seems to point out the connection between the skewed coverage and the existence of this peculiar conflict of interest based on the national writers' use of Macs. He feels the newsroom editors are generally so out of touch that they can't see this bias and are also Mac users." From the article: "This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer. With no Microsoft-centric frame of reference, Microsoft cannot look good. The company essentially brought this on itself with various PR and marketing policies that discouraged knowledgeable coverage. I'll save those complaints for a future gripe session."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1310"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T13:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>apple</slash:section>
<title>Are Media Writers Biased Towards Apple?</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1309</link>
<slash:hit_parade>17,17,15,12,2,2,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>rimshot</slash:department>
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<description>VitaminB52 writes "Microsoft is only winning about one out of four deals where IT shops are trying to move off of proprietary Unix. To turn that trend around, there are four specific Linux strongholds where Microsoft is focusing its attention." From the article: "After discussing server clustering, Web hosting, and server appliances, Ballmer was cut off by the interviewees before he could identify the fourth. But my guess is that, given the way Ballmer emphasized Software as a Service (SaaS) as a core theme for all the work that's taking place at Microsoft right now, the fourth stronghold of Linux that Microsoft wants is the SaaS stronghold where Linux is the operating system behind a Java-based application server technology ... Ballmer knows he's got a long roe to hoe. 'The day I come in front of the Gartner audience and say we have a better Unix than Linux, that'll be a good day.'"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1309"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T12:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
<title>Microsoft to Storm Linux Strongholds</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1308</link>
<slash:hit_parade>49,46,40,23,8,2,1</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>read-all-about-it</slash:department>
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<description>An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has just released a new build for Windows Vista and it looks like Microsoft has made quite a few graphical changes. "This is possibly the only application with more anticipation surrounding it than Internet Explorer 7, if not Vista itself. We wonder if Microsoft would bundle Windows Media Player 11 with Vista exclusively or would it be available for download separately for Windows XP as well. It most certainly will end up looking a lot better (graphically) than most music players out there, iTunes included. Although it appears to look pretty straightforward, the interface has changed drastically, which makes it far more attractive than Windows Media Player 10 as well as competing applications."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1308"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T12:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>windows</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
<title>Windows Vista Build 5231 Review</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1307</link>
<slash:hit_parade>26,23,16,10,3,1,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>alien-joy-ride</slash:department>
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<description>IZ Reloaded writes "The Mars Global Surveyor during one of its latest scans of the area where the Mars Polar Lander was originally spotted, discovers that the spacecraft is no longer there! Space.com reports, "We conclude that our interpretation of these features was in error. This is not the location of the Mars Polar Lander. Because the landing uncertainty ellipse is so much larger than our images, and we do not have another candidate to which to target...we cannot continue to hunt for the lander," the MSSS site explains."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1307"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T09:33:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>mars</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
<title>Mars Polar Lander Lost Again</title>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1306</link>
<slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>cough-up-the-cash</slash:department>
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<description>DIY News writes "Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is not an important issue in the developing world. According to MS, while you can give people free software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1306"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-20T06:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
<title>Microsoft Thinks Africa Doesn't Need Free Software</title>
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