The "no-contract-contract", sold from within a sealed box.

citation please?

You should vote for Kotos. That way no one can blame you.

I do hope that artists of the future choose to distribute their music via means they can control and directly benefit from, rather than broker everything through these greedy dinosaurs.
The Oatmeal illustrated it perfectly... theoatmeal.com/comics/music_industry

How about simply 13 months with 28 days each, plus an extra day every year?

I'm glad at least comments are enabled. Most other sites disable them for sponsored articles.

Further, I imagine that the bandwidth and hosting costs of /. are quite high, so they need to get a return somehow.
I mean, with so many people here probably using AdBlock etc, or disabling ads because they're registered users who can, they have to get their ads-to-eyeballs ratio back up to somewhere that it's actually worth it to advertize here (this ensuring that our geeky community can continue to have someplace to live!)

A server farm can host a 'cloud', certainly, they aren't necessary the same thing.
Servers are hardware. A 'cloud' represents a logical infrastructure, independent of the hardware it's currently sitting on.
With such an abstraction, you can more easily and reliably do things like disaster recovery, load balancing, storage migration, fail-over.. etc.. Gives the infrastructure the agility to deal with change, whether it's planned or not.

Clouds don't have to be public... it's perfectly reasonable to have an internal private cloud, and that can communicate with a public-facing public cloud (where the .com gets hosted, customer portal, etc)

Experience does. Build something, or contribute to an Open Source project.

... Japan is enlisting US-made robots to help

... to the Singularity. This is great news =)

it sure looks like it.
curved edges, front and back cameras, that weird vent in the bottom corner. Some of the icons in the OS look different (contacts is blue) and the resolution looks a bit more dense, as much as you can tell on camera anyway.

mod parent up!

... is that almost all of these big software companies step on each others toes in the pursuit of profits and market share, and probably all infringe on each patents at some level or other.
If the weight of these patents were different (as in, if the patent system wasn't out of touch with modern applications of software and technology), they wouldn't have so much leverage over each other, and maybe we could get back to innovating instead of litigating.

I just got a new iPhone 4 via advance-replacement repair. I'm in Canada, EST, and the alarm has been going off an hour early since Friday. Beats an hour too late I guess...