I think it's a good thing. It might even be better if first IE6 and IE7 support was dropped, and IE8 support later, but that might be a lot of work.

I axpect that for the first few years jQuery 1.9 will be the most used version, but you can afcourse load jQuery 2.0 on newer browsers, and only load 1.9 with conditional comments.

I'm wondering how the big CMSs will handle this. Will Wordpress come with 2 versions for a few years?

Agreed. And running updates regularly on a supported distro should keep you mostly in the clear.

Another thing, the software you install manually, like your CMS for blogging, you will want to keep that updated as well. You can follow those projects on twitter or facebook, so you'll keep uptodate with security fixes.
I think this software is the most common attack vector.

I had a Joomla 2.5.0 install that I forgot to update, and just a week ago someone broke into that and added user accounts to it. And it's just software that's half a year old.

While this repair cafe is a single cafe in the country, there's a whole community of second hand shops called Kringloopwinkels. I my town of 116.000 people there are about 9 shops like that. The one I worked at was the biggest, with 2 physical shops and more than 1.000.000 Euro sales. They employ about 85 people, of whom maybe 45 or 50 have a paid job.
It's quite a big business, and even with a recession it's a growing business.

It's already too late, but I keep important files with par2 files. That way, when there's like 5% corruption, I can still fix the file.
I do this with flac files and some datafiles.

Also make sure you keep backups going. I guess this was your warning. Everyone needs one.

If this whole mess turns south, and Google can't use the current Android anymore, couldn't it just switch the codebase to be a derivative of OpenJDK?
Sun/Oracle relaesed OpenJDK under the GPL. That means as long as you use OpenJDK, you can use their copyrighted works. All they would have to do is port the bits from current Android (like the bytecode interpreter and extra classes) to OpenJDK. Then release that as Android 5 or something.

I myself am quite happy with my Blackberry and I'm really curious what they will bring to the table.
I really think they should diversify their hardware, bring some qwerty models, like the Curve, Bold and Torch. But also full touchsreen devices, with small screens to bigger screens. Like 3,2" and 3,7" and 4,3" for example.
I do think they are still interesting for developers. They will have their own platform. But also Qt support, which might bring in a lot of old Nokia developers. They also support Android, allthough apps for BB-Android need to be repackaged.

Here in Holland we don't use Eurocents anymore. Before the Euro, when we used Dutch Guilders (0,45 Euro) we already stopped using cents. The smallest coin then was 5 cents.
When we got the Euro in 2001 we shortly used the Eurocent. But soon it was discarded. Every shop now rounds to 5 Eurocent. Only when you use your debitcard you pay in cents.
At first there were some people complaining about losing cents in the rounding, but now most people can accept it. Of course rounding goes both ways anyway.
I already think 5 Eurocents is too much hassle to bother with. But I guess that one will last for some years to come.

Interestingly, the Nokia N9 Facebook App has 140.000 users.

Just wondering here...
You're not giving any names, but the biggest ADSL provider in the Netherlands is also the biggest fiber provider. So they're collecting money from you anyhow.

Yes, technically Mandrake/Mandriva was always innovative. I especially liked the installer and the DrakX tools. System-config-whatever doesn't even come close, and it's been 10 years.

Financially they were always in terrible shape. First there was the investment or loan they had from I think an Americain investor. They controlled management, and decided to head into the directionm of education. The management didn't want that, they wanted to stay in de Linux distro business. That caused the loan/investment to terminate, and there had to be paid millions back in a short timeframe.
Later on they had raised money through shares. Still they always needed money from the users, with subscriptions through the Club.
There was always the continuous hiring of people, and then the next reorganisation where people had to be let go. It seemed to happen every year.
And always there was the promise of becoming profitable next year. I even read in it this news.
For me the straw broke when they decided to let all their French developers go, and refocus of Brazilian and Russian developers.

I've used Fedora, but the upgrades every half year were a bit terrible (a whole evening of fiddling). I'm now on Debian. That's one distro that I feel will always be around, and gives lots of freedom.