We now to see how closely the sequence aligns with the Queen of England's genome.

Presumption much? I RTFA, that section was the reason for the post. TFA also mentions they've already pretty much given up on trying to accommodate power-users which to me is a questionable long-term strategy.

To me widescreen screams for them to bring back a dual-pane view. However, I suspect this is really a move to try and not lose user share to Apple based on UI visual appeal and usability, and they wont because it's too hard, or too hard to make look pretty as well as functional.

I don't get it either - the move to 16:9 ((from 16:10 (from 4:3)), and given said move the lack of design to accommodate it in a sensible way.

Firefox is really starting to annoy me for various reasons, but I still use it because it's the only browser that has a really good horizontal tabs option

To be fair, the ribbon probably improves a low end users general experience, but for those of us at the other end of the spectrum, changes of late mainly seem to be for the worse.

It gets complicated, doesn't it? Did the 'typewriter' make a mistake in the movie Brazil?

Indeed. If you have to register it's not really free is it.

I haven't done crim101.

Are you implying that 70% of people will steal, or is the 30% a subset of the 40%, or is it a hybrid cross-section where say 50% will steal in a 'get away with it' situation?

Sigh. It would 'fix' the potential for getting infected by that particular rootkit on that particular O/S. All those other things are built on floodplains too, it's just that some flood more often than others. Extrapolating future floods based on the past is only going to work until it doesn't.

Don't worry - Notch is still working on minecraft. He'll get there eventually.

You're at least 50 years later than you should be. Norbert Wiener says to say hi.

Your post sounds suspiciously like a slightly sanitised version of the start of Fight Club where the 'narrator' talks about the cost of lawsuits vs the cost of recalls due to failures in vechicles.

Well, I came here to post the same thing. According to the third paragraph, the measurements were made:

"Using a very precise laser"

Then you ask about how they measured the lasers preciseness and how did they build the laser. You keep investigating and pretty soon after that the turtles (unfairly) end up getting blamed for everything.

Earlier last century Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and many others also predicted as much.

Actually at the time of this comment "stupid pants google" only returns 3 results. 2 are from facebook, and the third is the comment I'm replying to now.

Another example:

• google is evil : About 64,700,000 results
• "google is evil" : About 222,000 results

I didn't know Brazil was still considered a third world country, but I guess it's all relative to where you are.

There's a clone of Sam Rockwell there too