Same here, Firefox used to be the default browser I installed any time I got a new machine or setup a new account. I'm now using chrome, it starts quicker, is faster rendering pages, and has all of the plugins I use. On machines that I work on I still recommend FF over IE, but that's mainly due to the security issues.

Well, I just got a new PS3 that I'm using for a media center manager and I had planned to signup for Netflix in the next week, but in the wake of this news I'm going to be holding off to see what the heck they are doing. First the 50% increase in the plans and now a complete divergence of the company. I'm sorry I only give money to a company that I feel I can actually get service from and right now that Isn't Netflix/Qwikster.

My guess would be STIMM, Stacked in-line memory module. :)

This really sounds like an "island" from the movie Waterworld...

You've never been to Houston, Tx have you? Our public transit system down here is the pits, buses are pretty much it and they are never on schedule if they show up at all. We also have a train, but has one small line that runs from a parking area in to downtown. Yes you can take a Taxi, but if you are going to the other side of town, 1 hour + drive, then thats a very expensive ride. So short story, if you don't have your own vehicle in Houston it is very difficult to get around.

I'd be willing to bet the "explosive" they detected coming from the kid was the load that was left in his diaper. When kids explode is really messy!

Sigh... There are to many statements in this that are way to true. I miss the day when the US was a production powerhouse. If you wanted something then you got it at your local store and it was stamped Made in America. Of all the times to not have any mod points....

I can see it now. A large plate of this material hiding an object. A small bb gun then takes the whole thing down.

Here in S. Texas you find the majority of new roads are concrete. Mainly due to they last longer and have you ever seen what 100+ F temps does to an asphalt road? It turns it into a soft mess. It's not uncommon to see weak asphalt roads that have grooves in them due to the high temps and heavy trucks.

I'm a part of a world wide organization that uses Dell machines exclusively. On the whole most of there machines we have very few problems with but there are series of machines that have major issues. Take the Precision 380 and 390 desktop machines. They have corrosion issues due to the motherboards not being coated like in past revs. This has been corrected in the T series machines, but that doesn't stop the fact we have had a ton of these machines die on a regular basis due to this known issue. Also, we have also seen a trend in the PowerEdge 28xx machines that have sticks of memory being reported as bad. I can count 7 servers at one location alone we service that has had at least one stick of memory replaced and several have had two or more replaced. The old PE 26xx and the newer 29xx series haven't had the same issues.

The next think that really pisses me off is Dell's Warranty Parts Direct now called Dell Online Self Dispatch. We pay dell for each tech that works on machines. This last month when we renewed they had upped the price of the program by $20 per tech and they have removed all phone numbers for us to call them. This includes administrative work like renewals and account issues. Now you can chat with a person, which takes forever, or you can put a request for them to call you back. This also stinks, because as soon as I get up from my desk to leave for a customer site they are going to call.

So while I don't totally agree with the quality issues, while they are there, it really irks me that I can no longer call and talk to a person on the phone. There are times when chat just doesn't cut it. If Dell doesn't start taking there customers, home and business, they are going to go the way of so many other companies that thought they could treat there customers like crap and they would take it.