The press release specifically mentions Google Drive.

I have a Blackberry Playbook with exactly the same screen resolution and it is perfectly usable. The simple fact is that on a 7 inch screen anything over about 1000 by 600, for most people over 30, is just marketing boasting. Of course Slashdot is infested with people who have golden eyes, like the "audiophile" golden ears, but really 1000 by 600 on a 7 inch screen is at least as good perceptually as 1280 by 768 on a 10 inch.

The problem for HP, as for RIM, is that being technically right does not help to sell what for many people is a fashion item.

In the manufacture of Diesel engine pistons, which are cast, a soluble ring of high melting point salts has long been used to form the internal oil gallery. And I am sure that this technique did not originate with pistons. The problem is that the patent office now allows inventions to be "something A which already exists + something B which already exists", without any actual inventive step.

As an example, I am a little sorry for Trevor Bayliss who never really made any money out of his wind up radio, but given hand cranked magneto telephones had been around for many years, the idea of a hand cranked magneto radio set really should not be patentable. It is just another communications device with a hand charger.

So the far-Right, conservative, Mafia-riddled Catholic South of Italy is more successful than the Communist-leaning North?

I remember another Ducati owner commenting to me once that "I prefer my bikes to be made by Communists, they want things to work in this world but Catholics don't care if you end up in the next one."

I encourage spiders. They keep the flies under control without pesticides. The most right wing person I ever encountered was terrified even of quite small spiders. It was just as well his wife wouldn't let him keep guns, he'd have tried to take a money spider out with a 12-bore.

And SF is one of the most prosperous places on Earth. (The New England states are more prosperous but they have also had a lot longer to develop.) It seems that being run like a circus and being full of lazy people works. That, or your generalisations weren't worth the bother of writing down because they are just lazy Conservative stigmatising of anything new.

It cost as much as gathering together a sheaf of prior usage examples, preferably original documents or photocopies of dead tree press, details of registration of any companies using the mark, a few letters from organisations already legitimately using the mark, sticking them in a big envelope along with a letter saying which application you are objecting to and why, and sending it to the right place. The last time I did this, it was free. You don't even need a lawyer: IT people can usually figure out forms pretty well.

Yes, why are they not simply filing an objection? That's what you do. Someone applies, you object. You do not write to the EU Council of Ministers, you write to the European Trademarks and Patents Office.

Just like you do in the US. It isn't hard. Someone tries to file a trademark using your established name, you send them a batch of stuff, application gets rejected.

You do know 'nubile' means marriageable? You must work for the Department of Redundancy Department.

I was given some civet coffee. It is better than the cheap stuff. It just isn't 40 times better.

You are missing the whole point of the derivation from mare. The word 'ship' does not necessarily imply sea going - cf airship and spaceship - but the marine bit most certainly does.

Being a complete pedant, I have to observe that the Royal Air Force does not have "air marines". That is because (a) it has the RAF Regiment and (b) the founders of the RAF were literate and so knew that "marine" derives from the Latin mare - the sea. They at one point considered naming ranks after Latin terms associated with flight, but then decided to stick with the words "flight","air" and "wing". Space marines are a category error. Assuming that in the future it is found necessary to have a body on a military space ship under separate command so that in the event of mutiny they can fight the mutineers - one of the original uses of the Marines and why their quarters on a sailing ship are between other ranks quarters and the officers - they would, very obviously, be space soldiers. Heinlein's "Starship troopers" isn't bad, though they weren't strictly cavalry.

Yes I am grumpy and pedantic today, but this whole storm in a teacup is the result of lazy thinking by a number of authors.

Someone who worked in the New Yorker office remembered a stand up row between the editor and James Thurber about the placement of a comma. Because English is not a strictly constructed language, short, of, complete, comma, illiteracy, like, this, there is no wrong or right; only what is aesthetically pleasing to the writer.

Anyway, nobody should ever be criticised for seeking to improve their prose style.

Developed world economies are as Keynesian as mainland China is Marxist.

English is my native language and I have a humanities degree from Cambridge. That doesn't mean I know anything, it does mean my literary style has been criticised twice a week over nine academic terms. Although your English has a very slightly Teutonic ring to it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it and, to my mind, the post from PPalmgren is completely out of order.

Comma use in English is greatly disputed; even in lists we have the Oxford comma (one, two, three, and four) versus the Cambridge comma (one, two, three and four). We have the adherents of comma minimalism and the adherents of strict comma use in any short pause, leading to the story of the writer who visited her editor to discover that all the commas had been marked for exclusion in her latest piece, and spent the next hour going through the document putting stet against every single one. She knew there were too many but it was now a matter of principle.

In English (i.e. England and Wales) legalese commas are avoided, because of the fear that a flaw in the paper or a fly mark will be read as a comma and affect the meaning of something. My father, a retired lawyer, often gets through an entire page of a letter without a single comma.