"Will Apple phase out these ports in favour of a single, widely-accepted, but novel standard?"

Help me out, what the hell does that mean? If a standard is widely-accepted, how can it be novel?

I don't see Obama claiming 545,000 open IT jobs anywhere but the CW article. Where did Computerworld come up with that? They attribute it to "the White House" and "the Obama administration", but don't name names.

Every time I fire it up I cringe, it just looks terrible to me. It's mostly how it displays tabs and the url on the same level, just throws me off

...that don't exist on Chrome. I like Chrome, but there are some things Firefox does better, and I'm glad Chrome has some competition to keep it honest. IE is still a hopeless mess, and I suppose Safari is multiplatform these days, but I don't see it getting much traction on Windows. thank god for Firefox.

South Park was so right.

I wish they'd stop trying to force the "phone experience" on to my damn desktop...not to mention my frickin servers.

As of last summer, Apple had about 40 percent of the smartphone market. 40% of the market is not a niche, unless you define it as "Anything I personally don't buy".

I'm not saying Thelma & Louise is good, just that it's tough to make a sequel to a movie that ends with the protagonists flying off a cliff in a '65 T-Bird.

'Fess up, you cheered at that part, didn't you?

Sorry, had to be said. And I do have a bad feeling about this. I mean, if ever a movie cried out to not be sequalized, it's Blade Runner. And Casablanca. And Bonnie and Clyde. And Thelma and Louise....

And they kill thousands of innocent non-combatants every year, and have been banned by most civilized nations--not including the US of A, sadly. So if your point is that land mines demonstrate what a horrible idea autonomous killer robots is, I agree.

I'm not sure they should dump everything else, but limiting Playstation compatibility to only Sony mobile products is ridiculous. Apple doesn't even try to get away with that much these days, Sony's just shooting themselves in the foot.

Looks like summer around here.

Heh, I clicked your link, then wasted some time there, which led me to this: http://xkcd.com/301/

I haven't been paying close attention, but I believe IE's use has dropped pretty hard. I wouldn't say Chrome has just been sniping Firefox.

Regardless, FF is still the most configurable browser I know of. I like Chrome, but FF has plug-ins that give it superpowers Chrome still can't match. And THAT is Firefox's raison d'etre.

Dammit, where'd my mod points go?

Well played, Mr. Malignant!