Clearing throat... AMEN!

I've been using Firefox since Firebird. I've promoted it to I don't know how many users.

Now however I can't recommend it to anyone. It's been one long downward spiral since 3.6.

It has gotten so bad my son loaded Chrome on his notebook out of pure frustration with Firefox.

Sad, really sad...

Please Mozilla, quit breaking extensions and FIX the performance issues. You have to have the data, I've sent enough crash reports to yourself and Microsloth to fill a 1GB drive!

Mr. Malda,

I've been visiting /. for twelve or thirteen years. I was first introduced by a coworker and true geek. I've never reached beyond the level of a wannabegeek, but I've enjoyed /. immensely and learned much from it.

I truly appreciate what you and your partners started so many years ago. I truly hope that your departure is of your own choosing, and amicable.

I sincerely hope that you've been adequately compensated for what you've given the community over the years. I also sincerely hope you find peace, happiness, and compensation in your future.

For myself I want to thank you for having made me look far more intelligent and capable than I really am. Things I have learned of on /. have made me look good on more than one occasion.

Both from me, and many others I know, I simply want to say THANK YOU for /.

J.D.

Mr. Malda,

I've been visiting /. for twelve or thirteen years. I was first introduced by a coworker and true geek. I've never reached beyond the level of a wannabegeek, but I've enjoyed /. immensely and learned much from it.

I truly appreciate what you and your partners started so many years ago. I truly hope that your departure is of your own choosing, and amicable.

I sincerely hope that you've been adequately compensated for what you've given the community over the years. I also sincerely hope you find peace, happiness, and compensation in your future.

For myself I want to thank you for having made me look far more intelligent and capable than I really am. Things I have learned of on /. have made me look good on more than one occasion.

Both from me, and many others I know, I simply want to say THANK YOU for /.

J.D.

Agreed. I live in Eastern Canada where they use a lot of salt on the roads this time of year. Even with undercoating, you'll rarely see a car which outlasts it's engine. Usually a car's body rots to pieces before it's mechanically unsuitable for continued use.

There are many cars from as recent as 2000 or 2001 that are full of rust holes from people who don't bother to undercoat.

But don't also forget to buy a bluetooth headset too, because I can't see a mic on that iPad...?

He's doing it perfectly if he wants to continue in obscurity.

I'm not in marketing, but even I have learned in my career that the overused adage "there's no such thing as bad publicity" is almost always true.

To be topical, look at the Apple announcement today. The product they announced was basically a larger version of something they have been selling for 3 years, and yet through absurd "shilling" they have already managed to convince a large segment of the population it's a heretofore unknown tablet created by a supernatural power and discovered by Moses in the desert.

What you say might be true for China, but Indian economy is mainly driven by internal consumption. It is not an export driven economy.(India is a net importer).

So US/EU stopping trade with India wouldn't be catastrophic for the Indian economy.

You can always hang your own router off of the ethernet port of the FiOS router.....just saying.

While I don't subscribe to this particular creationist belief, I would likewise assert that the 'geek' community could do well with a little less fascism about what sort of thoughts and ideas are tolerable.

Don't be a fascist. Try and keep an open mind, and when you disagree, simply be polite about it. Barring people access because they don't agree with you is the least civilized path a person can advocate.

I'm an American, and you cannot conceive of how much I agree with your position!

Best of luck!

(Expose and excise Corporatism. Businesses are NOT a component of "The People", at least as the US founding Fathers meant.)

Hah! You've only been getting $7K? You need contacts in the "Black" world, $5K hammers make this $50K software!

"I've managed people in the past, and it struck me that Management should really be a support role. My most valuable contribution as a manager was making sure my people understood what was expected and getting them the information and resources they needed to do their best work. This involved a lot of spreadsheets and scheduling, which had nothing to do with the job I was promoted from (mechanic). The second most valuable contribution was protecting my people from the whimsy and downright predation of higher management, who felt that their purpose in life was to crack whips and make sure everyone below them knew they were being watched."

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You must have been living my past life!

Congratulations on your view point and the protection of your staff. It's more rare than you probably realize. (Oh, and it won't do you any good in the future either...)

Wow! Where are you from?

I'm 47 and can either starve, take a minimum wage job (if I can get one), or go back to complete the only BS degree within reach (2 years, I have an Associates) in a likely worthless discipline.

If I choose to go back I get to wipe out my savings, as my wife works and we have assets. $30K minimum for the remaining 68 credit hours, plus my lost wages (say another $30K/yr).

The degree, if I can navigate the "new and improved" education system, has little direct marketability. If I'm lucky the B.S. ******* University on my CV will at least get me an interview, and if I'm lucky more than a minimum wage job.

At any rate, the return will likely not be positive before my daughter enters college.

Want to live here?