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Rent To Own

Rent To Own 02/05/2005 10:16 PM

Is music something you own or something you rent? While the music subscription approach has grown in recent years, far more music fans have opted to buy songs by the track, a business model popularized by Apple Computer Inc. iTunes Music Store and its hugely successful iPod portable player.

But the release late last year of new copy-protection software from Microsoft may begin to change that. The software frees subscribers to move their rented tracks from their computers to certain portable music players. The system works by essentially putting a timer on the tracks loaded on the player. Every time the user connects the player to the PC and the music service, the player automatically checks whether the user's subscription is still in effect. Songs stop playing if the subscription has lapsed. If the user doesn't regularly sync up the player with the service, the songs go dead as well.

RealNetworks, MusicNow and MusicNet, which distributes its service through brands like America Online and Cdigix, all have plans to launch portable subscription services this year or early 2006 at the latest. Napster LLC and F.Y.E., another MusicNet distributor, began offering portable subscriptions late last year through the Windows Media Player software, code named Janus.

Napster plans to turn up the heat on Apple with a $30 million advertising campaign debuting during Sunday's Super Bowl to promote a re-launch of its portable subscription service, dubbed Napster To Go. Napster's service is $14.95 a month - about $5 more than a non-portable subscription. F.Y.E's service is also $14.95.
Read More at this AP Story.

Rent-a-researcher from IBM

Rent-a-researcher from IBM 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
Boston Globe Dec 15 2003 7:46AM ET

Want to rent a movie? Help yourself

Want to rent a movie? Help yourself 09/02/2004 05:24 PM
Sympatico Sep 2 2004 9:21PM GMT

Infected PCs for Rent

Infected PCs for Rent 04/30/2004 08:22 PM

I wailed and rent my son

I wailed and rent my son 04/18/2005 11:06 PM
RentMySon is a subsidiary of ChildNet Services, with its corporate headquarters in San Diego, CA. In addition, we also maintain 4 regional offices across the United States.
RentMySon provides safe and trustworthy child-rental services in multiple metropolitan areas.

"What Movie to rent"

"What Movie to rent" 02/10/2004 03:20 AM

Rent-a-dog in Japan. You know, I'd do
that

Rent-a-dog in Japan. You know, I'd do
that 06/30/2004 08:57 PM
Rental puppies lead a bizarre life

straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,258832,00.html
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Tablet PCs Now Available to Rent From
Rentacomputer.com

Tablet PCs Now Available to Rent From
Rentacomputer.com 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
If you are considering buying Tablet PCs for your company, try renting one first from Rentacomputer.com. Evaluate the usefulness of Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition. New models from HP Compaq are now available! [PRWEB Feb 18, 2005]

Search Optimization (Low-Rent)

Search Optimization (Low-Rent) 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
In Vancouver, as in most cities, the poles that hold up the traffic lights and streetlights and, well, anything, are plastered with posters advertising soon-to-be-famous rock bands and tarot readers and, well, anything. Search Engine Optimization, too...

eBay snaps up Rent.com

eBay snaps up Rent.com 12/19/2004 02:53 PM
eBay agrees to buy Rent.com for $415m (£214m), gaining access to more of the online property market.

eBay to buy Rent.com for $415 million

eBay to buy Rent.com for $415 million 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

I'd rather rent a serf (or a peon)

I'd rather rent a serf (or a peon) 07/28/2004 12:49 PM
There are peasants who come from a simpler time and are willing to entertain you at your next corporate event.

It's a living: Blogging can pay the rent

It's a living: Blogging can pay the rent 07/12/2004 09:14 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 12 2004 1:21PM GMT

Zombie Networks for Rent

Zombie Networks for Rent 07/07/2004 04:31 PM

Home PCs rented out in sabotage racket: This is just hideous. Now they have "zombie brokers" that will rent you a zombie network they've created.

Vast networks of home computers are being rented out without their owners' knowledge to spammers, fraudsters and digital saboteurs, security experts say.

The terminals have been infected by a computer virus, turning them into "zombies" — slaves to the commands of a malicious and unseen controller.

For more information on what they're doing with these machines, see this post.

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Wanted: Womb for Rent

Wanted: Womb for Rent 04/19/2004 09:39 AM
Interested in supporting a good cause? "Help me find mothers for the Raelian children of the future. Mothers who can nurture these superhumans, and protect them while they're young and fragile." (04-17)

Other News: Maine Rent-a-Mac

Other News: Maine Rent-a-Mac 06/14/2004 09:51 AM
If Maine can't buy Mac laptops for high schools, how about renting some?

Halliburton to rent IBM supercomputing

Halliburton to rent IBM supercomputing 06/10/2004 08:33 PM
Subsidiary signs on for high-powered oil reserves-finding service.

VOIP Components for Rent

VOIP Components for Rent 05/18/2004 06:20 PM
A company that leases VOIP-enabling hardware and software adds the cross-carrier element, mediating between different IP protocols and adding routing, call detail records, security

Rent-A-Center's Hot Seat

Rent-A-Center's Hot Seat 02/10/2004 10:45 AM
With the economy on the rise, is the rent-to-own furniture retailer about to cool?

Japan's rent-a-puppy business

Japan's rent-a-puppy business 06/30/2004 09:39 AM
Sid sez: "Babies can't be far behind ... in Tokyo you now can rent the cute little dogs that are all the rage. About $15 will get you an hour of canine bonding, and for a heftier fee you can take one home for the night. All puppy necessities included. These same dogs usually sell for about $3,000-$5,000."

In Tokyo alone, the number of shops registered to rent out pets grew to 115 as of March, up from 17 just three years earlier.

Each person who rents a dog by the hour is given a leash, some tissues and a plastic bag - in case the pooch has to answer the call of nature. They also get strict instructions not to let the dogs run free, to keep them in the shade on hot summer days and refrain from giving them snacks.

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Music Sites Ask, 'Why Buy If You Can
Rent?'

Music Sites Ask, 'Why Buy If You Can
Rent?' 09/26/2004 09:00 PM
Virgin is the first major music retailer to enter the download market in introducing a music store to sell music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet.

Comfy Chairs, Flamethrowers for Rent

Comfy Chairs, Flamethrowers for Rent 04/18/2004 03:03 PM
Forget arcades and Web cafes: video-game lounges offer a new kind of digital thrill, by the hour.

eBay snaps up Rent.com for $415m

eBay snaps up Rent.com for $415m 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Certainly an argument for buying up domains in bulk I suppose, the recent eBay purchase of Rent.com is one of the more juicy acquisitions to be sure. The BBC has given details that leads me to believe that this is a deal that would have made Donald Trump proud. A transaction of $385m in stocks and $30m in cash is definitely enough to get my blood pumping, how about yours?…

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Low-wage workers have to choose between
car and rent

Low-wage workers have to choose between
car and rent 04/12/2005 08:54 PM

Today's New York Times carries an article "Falling Fortunes of Wage Earners" noting that "Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in 2004 and produced strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after adjusting for inflation - the first such drop in nearly a decade."  This is a theme in Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed, which I recently finished listening to while driving back from Virginia.  Ehrenreich did her research in the boom economy of 1998 and 1999 when labor was in short supply yet wages barely rose for the unskilled.  Ehrenreich took service jobs in Key West, Portland, Maine, and Minneapolis to see if she could make ends meet after one month.

Ehrenreich notes that the official poverty line was defined in 1964 as a multiple of the cost of food (see http://www. census.gov/hhes/income/defs/poverty.html) and has barely been revised since then.  The marketplace, however, has changed.  Real estate and rents have become much more expensive and food has stayed relatively cheap.  Thus it is easy to envision a family whose income is 3X the cost of eating at McDonald's but who can't afford rent.  Ehrenreich finds that almost no unskilled worker would be able to afford rent plus a car at the same time.  If they can't team up with a spouse and they need the car to get to work they are forced to live in the car.

Ehrenreich's conclusion is that this can't last.  The workers will rebel and demand their right to at least an efficiency apartment plus some means of transportation to a job.  She predicts a Proletarian Revolution.  Six years have elapsed since Nickel and Dimed was written and yet the Walmartians and hotel and restaurant slaves seem as docile as ever.

What did Ehrenreich overlook?  Immigration!  There are plenty of people from poor countries who think that working 60-70 hours per week for $7.50/hour is acceptable, especially if there are opportunities for their children to do better.  As long as the immigrants are streaming into the U.S. it seems unlikely that wages for the unskilled will rise.

One might ask "Why do we have such a welcoming immigration policy?"  Countries that value quality of life restrict immigration.  To get into New Zealand, for example, you need to demonstrate some combination of youth, education, and wealth.  The New Zealanders don't see a need to clog their neighborhoods with development and their highways with traffic unless the newcomers are bringing something interesting.  The U.S., by contrast, is happy to grant visas and green cards to people who don't speak English and who in some cases are dedicated to the destruction of the U.S. government (the September 11th terrorists, for example, most of whom had official U.S. INS blessing).  The U.S. government puts GDP growth as its #1 priority because GDP growth enables the government to collect more in taxes and the extra tax revenue enables the government to expand.  If the population growth that is required to generate the GDP growth means that young people have to work two jobs in order to rent an apartment that's not Uncle Sam's problem.  High housing costs and the lack of guaranteed health care are both desired spurs to keep potential taxpayers getting up and going into work every day.

The best predictions available today show the U.S. population rising from its present 295 million to 500 million within our lifetimes.  With wages for low-skill workers set according to wages in India and China the living styles of many unskilled workers in America will have to be more like those in India and China.  Ehrenreich's idea that a worker is entitled to an efficiency apartment does not apply in India or China.  I visited Agra, home to the Taj Majal, a few years ago.  Statistics showed that 2 million people lived there, subsantially smaller than the population of Boston and its closest suburbs, yet there were essentially no buildings taller than one story.  If a family of 8 people ran a little shop by the road they would roll down the shop door at night and sleep there as well.  A friend recently returned from living in Shanghai and reported the same system there.

We could argue about the merits of globalization and U.S. immigration policy but these factors are unlikely to change.  Better to think about how best to deal with the implications.  Low-wage workers in America won't be able to afford housing constructed with currently prevailing methods.  In Third World countries this has traditionally resulted in shantytowns springing up (cf. Mexico City).  Perhaps with innovations in prefab housing we could provide shelter in the exurbs at a cost affordable to unskilled workers.  If not and if we have to accept the idea that a low-wage worker with a car will never be able to afford an apartment maybe the solution is an inexpensive car that is comfortable for sleeping.  If the Chinese can make a cheap car they should be able to make a cheap small RV.  If the Chinese can make a sleeping van for $10,000 (new) a low-wage worker could have transportation and minimal shelter at the same time.

Karl Marx thought that the Industrial Revolution would end scarcity, i.e., that everyone in the U.S. would be living in a McMansion and driving an S.U.V.  That was one of his main reasons for concluding that Communism would be the natural end-result of economic development.  Marx did not count on a world population explosion, however, and the simultaneous stagnation in construction technology resulting in tremendous pressure on housing costs.

Sun to rent CPU time on server farm

Sun to rent CPU time on server farm 09/22/2004 11:47 AM
Computer Shopper Sep 22 2004 2:41PM GMT

Low-rent sites attract surfers

Low-rent sites attract surfers 09/07/2004 09:44 PM
Computer Times Sep 8 2004 1:33AM GMT

donald's virtual rent party

donald's virtual rent party 06/03/2004 03:47 AM
good people deserve help. let's take care of donald.

Amazon Looks for Partner to Rent DVDs

Amazon Looks for Partner to Rent DVDs 04/15/2005 12:36 PM
Industry sources are saying that Amazon is looking to enter the online DVD rental market – although the retailer would rather partner with an already existing service than launch its own. According to Reuters, Amazon has already approached Netflix and Blockbuster.

Briefly: Halliburton to rent IBM
supercomputing

Briefly: Halliburton to rent IBM
supercomputing 06/10/2004 08:44 PM
roundup Plus: Lindows invites comparisons...i2 Technologies to pay $10 million fine...Lycoris licenses Bitstream fonts...AOL settles copyright claim.

N.Y. Tenant Gets Rent Rebate for Bedbugs
(AP)

N.Y. Tenant Gets Rent Rebate for Bedbugs
(AP) 06/17/2004 09:05 PM
AP - A Housing Court judge has given thousands of dollars in rent abatement to a Manhattan tenant who suffered through an apartment infestation that gave real meaning to the caution, "Don't let the bedbugs bite."

Evict tenants who dont pay rent -PC

Evict tenants who dont pay rent -PC 04/19/2004 04:27 PM
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Apr 19 2004 7:48PM GMT

Rent-a-bag website lets less well-off
stay in fashion

Rent-a-bag website lets less well-off
stay in fashion 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Wed Jul 28, 09:12 am GMT

Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and
placed on Google Maps

Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and
placed on Google Maps 04/09/2005 07:37 AM
Cory Doctorow: This hack on Craigslist and GoogleMaps is amazing: the service places all the houses/apartments for rent/sale on Craigslist as waypoints on a Google Map, color-coded by price, with links to the Craigslist ads. Wow. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

A Rent-Free Place, if You Can Find a
Spot to Park

A Rent-Free Place, if You Can Find a
Spot to Park 05/08/2004 12:40 AM
Jimmy Hines has been living curbside in his camper for six months, and he swears he will never have a landlord again.

Amazon Might Partner With Netflix Or
Blockbuster To Rent DVDs In The US

Amazon Might Partner With Netflix Or
Blockbuster To Rent DVDs In The US 04/14/2005 10:36 PM
Last year, Netflix surprised a lot of people by announcing that they believed Amazo n was about to enter the DVD rental market. It's not often that one company's entrance into a market is announced by a potential competitor. While Amazon eventually did launch a DVD rental service, it was only in the UK. Perhaps Amazon's brief experience in that market has convinced Jeff Bezos that the company would be better off not going it alone in the US. Amazon execs have reportedly been chatting with both Netflix and Blockbuster about a partnership to offer DVD rentals in the US. Depending on the terms offered (a big if, of course), Netflix would probably be smart to jump on this opportunity. It keeps Amazon from competing directly, and gives them access not only to Amazon's marketing reach, but also could allow them to better tie into Amazon's customer database and recommendation information -- which could strengthen Netflix's own recommendation offering.

Galaxies rent asunder in huge cosmic
collision

Galaxies rent asunder in huge cosmic
collision 09/24/2004 11:45 AM
There goes the no-claims bonus

Congo UN Mission Pays Rent, Escapes
Eviction (Reuters)

Congo UN Mission Pays Rent, Escapes
Eviction (Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - The Democratic Republic of Congo's U.N. Mission was recently threatened with eviction after running up $90,000 in back rent but has now paid the bill in full, Congo's ambassador said on Thursday.

Reduce Risk: Rent A Plasma Flat Screen
Display

Reduce Risk: Rent A Plasma Flat Screen
Display 03/14/2005 06:14 PM
Rentacomputer.com, a pioneer in computer and network rentals, has expanded its rental product line to include the top flat screen plasma displays from BenQ, Hitachi, JVC, NEC, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony, Sharp, ViewSonic, and Zenith. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Building hijackers in S Africa take over
empty bldgs and charge rent

Building hijackers in S Africa take over
empty bldgs and charge rent 04/06/2005 09:02 PM
Cory Doctorow: A South African news-site reports on "building hijackers" who stick up an empty building's rent-a-cops, then take over and fill the building with innocent tenants, collecting rent until the real cops show up to evict them.

They demand an up-front deposit, so make R300 000 in just the first month The syndicate, which is highly organised, monitors all the empty buildings around the inner city. It then sends in bus-loads of armed gangs into vacant buildings, threaten guards with firearms, then starts renting rooms out at between R500 and R600 a month.

They collect rent for six to eight months knowing that the legal system is slow and, by the time the owners obtain eviction orders, they have enjoyed the benefits of the rents. They then simply walk away, leaving the tenants on the streets.

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