Companies have to act to protect their trademarks or they may lose them, it is known as genericization. Ironically, Google has this problem with people using the term "Googling"

http://inventors.about.com/b/2006/01/29/when-a-brand-name-becomes-generic-genericized-trademarks.htm

"The word Kleenex is now commonly used to describe any soft facial tissue. However, Kleenex is the trademarked name of the soft facial tissue manufactured and sold by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation."

This is already covered in law (in the UK anyway, but I think elsewhere as well) under "Passing Off".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off

It is now clear that it is perfectly legal for me to use a competitors name as a search term as long as I don't (for example) make my website look like my competitors.

I'm no Apple fanboy but I have (and occasionally still do) used it (v4) on Windows and it works at least well as any other browser. Certainly better than IE. Probably more conforming in the UI dept than Chrome. And most installers carry a pile of garbage unless you deselect it.

Safari? Bad? In what way? It can render the Acid 3 test (100%). Firefox gets (92%) at present but does have a truck load of plugins. After that it comes down to what you like.

Most useful site I've found for comparing a wide range of processors is this one.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

Works for me. I sometimes want to check how a new processor compares to my existing one, if it isn't ten times quicker I wait a while.

There is lots of bandwidth around, the problem is getting it to people. Until the last mile problem is tackled in a more robust manner, teh backbone could have infinite speed and I'd hardly be able to tell the difference. (Northern Scotland Office 0.5Mbit/sec Home 4Mbit/sec)

Who will use it? I'm sure that there will be somebody who develops the next big thing with it and hypes it to the stratosphere. I'm constantly amazed by what catches on on the web (Twitter? FourSquare? Go figure) Needless to say I never invest in web companies.

http://xkcd.com/378/ So problem solved.

then everybody would get eaten by ducks?

Code should be release, but this should not be confused with replicating scientific results. ] If you want to replicate research, you need to write your own code according to the methods described in the research. your answer then needs to match the original to test the code.