No, your donations will be lost in alcoholism, drug addiction, or con jobs.

Wow, those links are WAY better than goatse!

"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted..."

I think we all just assume that they came with no directions, since the first step to setting up your new computer is throwing anything that even slightly resembles directions or a "user guide" in the trash.

1) What you said, and nobody will match Microsoft's incentives. 2) Even if there is no threat/incentive from any browser, most large computer companies will choose to bundle IE, just for the sake of having a similar package to deal with from a tech support standpoint. I really feel like very few companies will not be packaging IE with Windows 7. Those that do not will be primarily the super low-end PCs, electing to go with something less memory intensive, and the high-end PCs targeted at the gaming and programing users, who would prefer a different browser. Even on the high-end, it will likely just end up packaged with both. (The only thing PC manufacturers would prefer to that would be packaging it with a 30-day trial of IE.) The great news here though is that this news should mean that it will be relatively easy to uninstall IE on a Windows 7 machine.

As internet traffic continues to increase, ISPs will remember the purpose of USENET. By hosting files locally, USENET cuts down on internet traffic over long distances. I would be willing to bet that at least a few ISPs start toying with the idea of hosting popular bittorrent traffic locally and then preventing that traffic from going outside their local network. This will obviously not happen in the current US marketplace, but perhaps some other countries will start doing it, and our corporations will see the profits that it makes for those involved.

Honestly the perfect place to start this geographically would have been Australia, but from all the Australian ISP horror stories I have read on Slashdot, I'm guessing that's not going to happen.

You can also get any company's public filing through EDGAR, which is put in a standardized format, in plain old HTML.

EA's 2009 10-K

To me, the 21 million loss on Take-Two looks like small change to a company like EA. The bigger story that jumps off the income statement is one that most companies are dealing with these days, loss of goodwill. EA took a 368 million loss on goodwill impairment. What that means, for those who do not understand goodwill, is that their 2006 acquisition of JAMDAT, which they turned into is now worth 368 million less to them than it is worth on their balance sheet. That basically means they are not making the money on their cellphone business that they expected to be making.

We will have new, super mosquitoes, who's bite is deadly to humans.