While I letting Prism go would upset a few people, I think concentrating more on Chromeless is going to be a good choice in the longer run. The project is very promising, more general than Prism, and can use the boost in interest and concern, especially in the documentation section. Going a step further, using Chromeless is going to make more people look at XULRunner, the program which fires both Firefox as well as Thunderbird. Problems uncovered in applications (browsers) built using Chromeless are, hence, likely to make XULRunner itself better. These benefits will trickle down to Firefox as well as Thunderbird.

Hence, I welcome the change whole heartedly.

From the article:

This is interesting how artificially created scarcity is being compared with actual scarcity. I am not an online game player who spends money on them, but seeing how easily poker chips are being sold in the black market by the chap, it seems to me that the poker chips one has is nothing more than a number written in a database field somewhere in the Zynga servers (unlike BitCoins) and there is no more record of them than the database transaction logs. So, as I see it, people pay Zynga to increase the value of a counter for them.

However, real currency differ from virtual currency here. Currency notes from real mints have an ID on them, they are real tangible things which cannot be as easily fooled around with. Hence, I do not think the analogy holds.

Starting with science and then this.

For once, should we not stick with just plain simple friendly neighborhood rocket-scientist?

Most people converting to Chrome might be willing to experiment a little bit more as the survey data of Firefox 4 Test Pilot users indicates.

Also, there is some weak indication in the data that those sticking with IE probably are die-hard and will sink as the OS-ship sinks, no sooner.

For the purpose of definition, I think public voting is as good a path to take than any. Roses by any name would still be roses, you know.

It would be troublesome if there was a public vote to determine the axioms or laws of physics, for example: Is 2+2 = 4? or What is the exponent in the Gravitation law? A: 1.9 B: 2.0 C: 2.1, etc. but I do not see that happening.

If X steals and uses technology which Y used, then Y already knows about the technology X is using, doesn't it?

Does it actually lead to Y's superiority in the technology?

Or is it the case that God accidentally built a stone so heavy that he has to give ad hominem arguments against anyone who asks Him to lift it?

That is the route MegaUpload is taking for some French ISPs who were caught doing it.

We all are Slashdotters here, you insensitive clod.

And as the legend goes, we are the only species in the Universe which invented ear plugs before wheels because of noisy complaining babies.

... and by we you clearly mean the Slashdotters.

You mean Pocket Tanks?

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