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Comment: Re:Jury Deliberation went something like this: (Score 1) 151

Juror 1: "If we say this patent is valid, they'll take our internet away!" Jurors: "Hell no!" Juror 1: "I guess we should shoot the breeze for a couple hours so they will think we thought hard about this."

Replace "internet" with "Facebook"

Replace "Facebook" with "Farmville"

Comment: Re:G'bye .NET, So long C-pound, Sayonara Silverlig (Score 1) 516

by IceFreak2000 (#37374318) Attached to: Gut-Check Time For Windows 8, Microsoft

What Microsoft is going to announce is that they're retiring Silverlight and that .NET is going to be .NOT. Sorry to all you folks who invested your time and brain capital in those technologies--you f'd up, you trusted Microsoft not to screw you.

Obvious troll is obvious...

Comment: Re:Battery drain (Score 1) 64

by IceFreak2000 (#36809682) Attached to: BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map

Yeah, it's definately a battery drain as it uses GPS at regular intervals to work out where you are; however, I'm going to keep running it as long as I can as there's an outside chance that this data might be able to convince certain operators (*cough* Vodafone *cough*) that their coverage in my area is not as wonderful as they claim it is.

Comment: Re:Not sure about the point (Score 1) 406

by IceFreak2000 (#36093946) Attached to: Google Launching Music Service Without Labels
I recently discovered the joys of Subsonic; I have the Android client installed on my phone, and the iSub client on my iPod and the Subsonic server running on an old system at home. I now have a single repository for all of my music that I can access pretty much 100% of the time - if I know I'll be listening to, say, some Penguin Cafe Orchestra during the day I can select the album in the Android client and download it straight to the phone over my local WiFi before leaving home in about five seconds flat - I can even set the client to force the server to resample the files to a maximum bitrate if I'm connected via 3G. All of this means I can access whichever album/track I want to listen to out of my 500Gb (and growing) collection and store it in one place.

Comment: Re:Tech Evangelist Upton Sinclair (Score 1) 609

by IceFreak2000 (#35136532) Attached to: An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now!

(Upton Sinclair, if you've never heard of him, was the coinventor of the Timex Sinclair -- he's not as well remembered as Wozniak, Jobs, or Gates, but he's far more quotable.)

Clever trick for a man who died in 1968...

The quote is definitely from Upton Sinclair (the American author), but you're conflating him with Clive Sinclair

Comment: Re:I haven't paid for one yet. (Score 1) 323

by IceFreak2000 (#35066342) Attached to: Google Hiring Android Devs To Close the 'Apps Gap'

I've also lost download history, and really don't trust the Market to remember me through every OTA upgrade, custom ROM, and system wipe. Sorry, color me cynical, but it can't remember the free stuff.

The Market does definitely remember any purchases you make; I made the transition from an HTC Magic to an HTC Legend last year, and have flashed both devices with several ROMs in the process.

Whatever I've purchased is always listed on the My Apps tab.

Cloud

Gmail who? Amazon launches new Cloud email service->

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hostedftp writes "Google and Microsoft have been going toe to toe for the Cloud market that it might have left an opening for Amazon to enter the email service market with the launch of their new Cloud Simple Email Service. A enterprise that has been dominated by Google and Microsoft, Amazon is offering the new email service to their ever expanding Cloud portfolio."
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The Almighty Buck

Michael Dell Sees Upside of Austerity - Digits - W->

Submitted by Suki I
Suki I writes "Many participants in Davos are fretting about anemic Western economies and the potential for inflation elsewhere in the world. Michael Dell isn’t one of them.

The Dell Inc. CEO told The Wall Street Journal that the era of austerity could actually be good for his company in some ways. Mr. Dell reckons it will prod governments, corporations and other institutions to look for ways to boost productivity, and technology is the obvious answer."

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