Cockatoos are some of the most adorable, sweet, cuddly...flip the switch...mean, aggressive, dangerous animals I have ever worked with.

I bet Intel is not amused by this. They have a huge presence in Chandler, AZ, and employ a multinational workforce.

All your base are belong to us.

I am glad to see someone finally write this. I worked for one of the major labels for nearly a decade, largely on the business side. Frankly, I am fed up with hearing how "evil" the records companies were, and how exploited the artists were under the old system. When it comes right down to it, we invested in people. The vast majority of those investments never paid off. We made a lot of guesses about which bands and artists would be "commercially" marketable. As a front employee, I spent tremendous amounts of time and effort evaluating up and coming artists, made the pitches to my bosses that we should invest in specific acts because they had talent and marketability. We spent money trying to help them create an image, and try to give them an edge to compete in the marketplace. Occasionally, it would pay off. Personally, I never saw what I was doing with quite the cynicism, and malice people usually ascribed to record label "fat cats." Our company executives, were like any company executives. They were reliant on all the hard work of their front line employees. To me, the interesting part left out of all this is the fact that you could make a living in the music business. You could be skilled as a producer, engineer, session musician, manager, etc and make a living at it. Most of that money is just gone because artists do not get the venture capital to find their business anymore. Interestingly, I make my living at one of the big tech companies now. (and I really like my job and make a good living).

She put a bullet Through his hat But he's had closer Shaves than that With Burma-Shave

It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny.

Apparently, you never lived in Los Angeles.

Will watching porn on the Kindle Fire update my Amazon suggested deals with sex toys, farm implements, and old romance novels with Fabio on the covers?

It might not be so bad if they can get satellite TV, and Internet. Sure the latency would be bad, but they could just cache a bunch of content in Martian orbit. It could be an awesome off site deduplication store. I could sell it to the Feds. They are paranoid about Business Continuity.

If I worked at Intel in the group developing a product, I would keep my mouth shut, even if I was an intern. There are possibly a large group of smart dedicated people trying to make this happen.

I am less concerned about the lack of UMD. There are good consumer friendly reasons to lose the slow, fragile optical format. What concern me is the failure of Sony to make a better PSP experience. The ergonomics of device are horrible. They still failed to include dual analog controllers. How good is the internal speakers. Is battery life improved? Does bluetooth support DUN? Isn't the wireless still 802.11b? No multi-touch screen for an on screen keyboard? UMD-less is the least oftheir problems.

Yes, that's the only way to do it, by motorcycle...and nice hotels.