FY11 $69.94B
FY12 $73.72B +5% Y/Y

1Q13 $16.01B -8% Y/Y
2Q13 $21.46B +3% Y/Y
3Q13 $20.49B +18% Y/Y
4Q13 TBA

4Q12 was $18.06B, so even if revenue is flat Y/Y for 4Q, Microsoft would still show 3% Y/Y annual revenue growth.

Remain calm! All is well!

Pacific Pinball Museum
Pinball Hall of Fame
Silver Ball Museum Arcade
Pinballz Arcade
Seattle Pinball Museum

Plus there are annual shows all over the country.

Listening to a DJ reflect the time-of-day is an interesting listening experience, whether or not you're in the same time zone. It adds variety to their program, reflects in the tone of their breaks, and impacts their choice of music. As to segues, in the hands of a talented programmer, these are art. These aren't chit-chat, these are the moments when the end of one song blends into the start of the next. They comment on the songs and they knit the sets of songs together into new, interesting wholes. As for spontaneity, it is alive and well on non-commercial radio all over the world; even on commercial radio, there is spontaneity in the presentation, if not the actual selection of music. The differentiation of streaming music services from radio isn't a suggestion that the former are without value, but that their value is very different than that of radio.

Streaming services like Pandora and Rdio aren't radio, they're jukeboxes. Even a canned playlist from another user is missing the human element of an announcer who shares his or her knowledge of the music and bands, as well as adding thought and experience into the segues and sets.There's no spontaneity in these services, no tie to the time of day or local events, no cultural gathering point. Other than music, they exhibit few of the characteristics that make good radio a great listening experience.

Dell or HP would be happy to sell you a Win7 machine:

• http://dell.to/Qouedq
• http://bit.ly/124B3ox

Except that the countersuit would be based on the claim that there was no use of the copyrighted work, hence no contract, hence no requirement for binding arbitration.

Because they're not selling equipment at a loss. They're not even selling equipment - they're selling a bundle of equipment and a service contract. And the price of equipment + contract > the cost of equipment + service. And early termination fees protect their investment.

Streaming services like Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody are poor analogs to broadcast radio, as the listener chooses exactly what they want to hear from a vast library of music. Given the ease with which these services can be streamed through home music systems, as well as the growing connectivity of mobile devices, these services become more of a replacement for a personal collection of music than the advertising service of broadcast radio. Even services like Pandora, which don't give you specific choice, provide individualized programs that are a great deal closer to a library replacement than is/was the single-program of broadcast.

California law prohibits adding a surcharge for credit cards, but allows a discount for cash: California Civil Code Section 1748.1. So while consumers in California may not be affected by the change in national law, they're already subject to the possibility of a higher price when using a credit card - and unlike states that will now allow surcharging, California receipts do not break out the difference in price as a separate charge.

Even a glimmer of responsibility for fair and balanced use of public airwaves (as in a fairness doctrine) has long since been extinguished. And c|net, being a web-based outlet, isn't using public airwaves.

Cnet is free from government abridgment in this affair; their corporate overlords are not subject to the first amendment's constitutional proscription.

Eric Brown isn't a research assistant, he's a research scientist. More formally, he's a Research Staff Member, which is IBM's title for its research scientists. He hasn't been a research assistant since grad school.

... won't be finding viewers, it will be hanging onto their cable allocations.