Eric Nicoli, EMI CEO: "They have been an important retail partner of ours, and we are delighted they will be offering consumers EMI's new premium DRM-free downloads in their new digital music store..."
Hmm, what does the word "premium" mean in there? More expensive? Just some subset of their catalog?
I don't know if you were going for funny, but as you got insightful... it might seem logical, but it is not how the patent system works. An idea in on field that is well know can be patented when applied to another field. For
instance, if there was some well known technique used in tape drives and you thought of a way to use it in disc drives, you could patent that.
Yes, mod parent up - portraying this as a bunch of anonymous investors deciding what Google should do is inaccurate. Page, Brin, and the CEO have super-voting shares worth 10 times normal shares - they are in 100% control of Google.
Are you trying to get us in trouble?! It's a damn good thing I'm a subscriber, I managed to block slashdot in our squid cache and drop it in a dns blackhole just before this story went live.
You must be one of the good sysadmins. The bad sysadmins have just been yanking the cables out of the back of the routers.
T4: The return of the return of the machines.
T5: The return of the return of the return of the machines.
T6: The return of the return of the return of the return of the machines.
They hint at some other problem which they can't go into because of 'federal student privacy restrictions'. I guess you'd expect them to say something like that though.
Feels strange journalists suing for invasion of privacy - let's see: one bunch of people who invade people's privacy for money suing another bunch of people who invaded that first bunch of people's privacy for money for money.
(disclaimer: I used to work for hp back in the last century, although they never really asked me to be on the board or anything)
I get the same feeling here: I'll post something, and then someone else will post just below me, and it'll be stuck there right next to my post FOREVER.
Hmm, the summary says we'll have home servers "rendering Apple's.Mac accourendering Apple's.Mac accounts and Google's productivity
software uselessnts and Google's productivity software
useless".
But TFA's only mention of Google or.Mac says:
The technorati among you may protest: Why do we need home
servers when everything is migrating online? Google has a full suite
of productivity software available that works through a Web browser,
and services like.Mac function as an online virtual server for home
and small business users without bringing IT problems home. Combine
that with a general trend toward higher bandwidth, and the distinction
between your network and the Internet becomes almost
academic. Nevertheless, the end result is the same: a
server massive, networked, securely backed up and
well-managed storage that is accessible from anywhere.
I don't know. That's only 30 cents a friend. I don't think the economic value of my myspace friends would be quite that high, but I'm only trying to sell a few tunes... he's trying to become President of the United States of America.
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The researchers believe that the chunk of "grassy knoll" they found among the fragments might also be significant.
Hmm, what does the word "premium" mean in there? More expensive? Just some subset of their catalog?
I will stop now before I make a simple grammatical error myself.
(yes, I know you're looking, hmm, hmm, must be one here somewhere)
I don't know if you were going for funny, but as you got insightful... it might seem logical, but it is not how the patent system works. An idea in on field that is well know can be patented when applied to another field. For instance, if there was some well known technique used in tape drives and you thought of a way to use it in disc drives, you could patent that.
I'm sorry, I could not read the summary. I have worked in R&D... I got as far as "VP of sales has promised" and had a panic attack.
I blame slashdot for my inabilty to reply to provide a witty retort to your comment.
I blame slashdot for my inabilty to provide for my family.
Blind people, you insensitive clod!
Yes, mod parent up - portraying this as a bunch of anonymous investors deciding what Google should do is inaccurate. Page, Brin, and the CEO have super-voting shares worth 10 times normal shares - they are in 100% control of Google.
They should have a patch hour, it would be every day - just like a happy hour, but without the half price drinks. Um, or the happiness.
T4: The return of the return of the machines.
T5: The return of the return of the return of the machines.
T6: The return of the return of the return of the return of the machines.
I could work in Hollywood.
Yes, I agree.
I can yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater... if I'm petitioning the Government (maybe on the subject of what it should do with GWB)?
Well the university's response is here: http://www.millersville.edu/announcements/snyder.p hp
They hint at some other problem which they can't go into because of 'federal student privacy restrictions'. I guess you'd expect them to say something like that though.
Yes, you're all right. I wasn't making some big statement - that's why I used the word 'feels'.
Feels strange journalists suing for invasion of privacy - let's see: one bunch of people who invade people's privacy for money suing another bunch of people who invaded that first bunch of people's privacy for money for money.
(disclaimer: I used to work for hp back in the last century, although they never really asked me to be on the board or anything)
Yeah, that's better.
I get the same feeling here: I'll post something, and then someone else will post just below me, and it'll be stuck there right next to my post FOREVER.
Freaks me out.
Hmm, the summary says we'll have home servers "rendering Apple's .Mac accourendering Apple's .Mac accounts and Google's productivity
software uselessnts and Google's productivity software
useless".
But TFA's only mention of Google or .Mac says:
which is not the same thing at all.
by writing completely bug free code?
What are these breakpoints of which you speak, anyway?
I don't know. That's only 30 cents a friend. I don't think the economic value of my myspace friends would be quite that high, but I'm only trying to sell a few tunes... he's trying to become President of the United States of America.
film it to fund the mission?
Gagging is ancient history. It's people duct taping my typing fingers I worry about.
Would you fail if... you threw up at the first mention of the word "Google-y"? Ah, that's me out...