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Paul Dailing: How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger

money quote:

imagine a group of people watching a building burn down and bickering
amongst themselves about whether it's a conflagration or an inferno.
It's like that, but with consulting fees.

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Coding Horror: Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback

Great writeup on how to get low CPU Hi-Def playback for a media center PC, though you need a supported video card.

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Arstechnica takes a look at the numbers of Piracy

According to Ars, the 750,000 lost jobs dates back to 1986 (you read that right), and is the upper end of an estimation between "130,000 - 750,000 jobs lost."

The $200 - $250 billion lost to Piracy comes from a 1993 issue of Forbes magazine that barely mentions it and cites no sources.

Seriously, it's articles like these that make Ars Technica the site I have read the longest. This article is definitely worth a read.

Download XBMC in Different Flavors

I guess there are now official builds in Windows, Mac, and Linux

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