Ha wow, well I blame trying to think in inches for that one ;-)

I don't understand your point - the metric system doesn't stop you from making something 1/4 the length of something else...

Of course when you're comparing measurements I find metric much easier. I've always wondered how Americans can remember whether 37/93rds of an inch is larger or smaller than 14/57ths of an inch, but for me comparing 623 millimetres to 1.01cm (1010 millimetres) not only makes the comparison easy, but I get an intuitive feel that one is a little over a third larger than the other.

But then I guess the difference here isn't metric vs imperial, it's more that imperial seems to prefer fractions, whereas metric favours a decimal number. You never write 1/2cm, always 0.5cm or 500mm.

Plus, by almost entirely funding their competitor (and making them reliant on that funding), it will be very easy to make them go away if they should ever become a problem.

I couldn't agree more. I tried Chrome, and it's not for me. Nothing against it (well the fact that it only scrolls up and down at 1fps under Linux makes it kind of unusable) but the classic Firefox UI let me quickly see and access everything that is important to me. Now that stupid status bar and all the other Chrome imitations in Firefox drove me to try out Chrome and Opera, but unfortunately neither of them suit (Chrome for the too-lean UI, and Opera because it's not open source - yes that's important enough to be a dealbreaker for me.)

So the reason why I'm so frustrated at Mozilla for screwing up Firefox is because there *aren't* any other browsers that are as good as Firefox used to be. If it was a simple matter of just switching browsers (as it seems to be for many) there wouldn't be a problem, but for those of us who can't find a better alternative we're kind of stuck with new-Firefox.

Has anyone organised some kind of petition to present to Mozilla to try to persuade them to put things back the way they were?

I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in Australia you generally don't buy a phone. You buy a plan from a telco, and the plan comes with a free phone. So a stolen phone means the owner will sign up for a new plan and get a new phone, which you, the telco, have to pay for. So as a telco, if you can keep someone on the same plan with the same phone for as long as possible, you save money.

Hence reducing theft means Aussie telcos can spend less on buying phones from Apple or whoever.

Passively cooled, mini-system, emulation. Pick two.

Unless you're an IT shop I suspect many employees never fully learn how to use the OS anyway - ask anyone who works in tech support. And of course if you're in an industry where it's more important to limit what your employees can do (e.g. no downloaded apps, no USB flash drives, etc.) then running Linux is a much easier way to achieve it.