I work on a web based application/service that allows small to medium size companies in our industry to offer the same sort of experience for their customers that a much larger company would offer. As part of this system, we offer the ability for our clients to incorporate third party applications into our product using various single sign on methodologies.

Unfortunately, many of these scenarios require third party cookies to be allowed in order to maintain two different sessions in two different applications (from different sources). We already struggle with this in the browsers that already have 3rd party cookies disallowed by default. If Firefox goes through with this, we anticipate huge numbers of unhappy end users whose experience will be very negative until we are able to educate them on how to allow 3rd party cookies.

I hate ad spam as much as anybody, and use all the blockers and no-[whatever] add-ons, and ghostery, and, and and myself. But I'd sure like a solution that doesn't involve breaking perfectly benign features as well.

The problem with providing all of these great sources of data is that many of the people asking these "questions" also think that the Earth was created in situ less than 10k years ago, and all of your evidence was manufactured by the creator, apparently just to trick people into not believing in said creator. I never have been able to make heads or tails of that logical conundrum myself, but there it is.

More or less correct, but please note that the efforts of the "whining hippies" may have contributed to the erosion of the "demand" side of the economic forces. There's a reason ideologues fight over the content of schoolbooks, you know. Market forces can be used, not just endured.

1. Some of those things you custom scripted around are probably fixed in the new release, and your scripts will just muck things up.
2. Similar applies to settings.
  (I have experienced these myself.)

3. Failure to organize and remember what you've messed with is not the distro's fault.

4. Be smart and keep a separate /home partition. Mine has been through about 5 iterations over two different distros now, and still going strong. I keep two different OS install partitions, and when it's time to install a new OS, I blow away the older one and replace it with the new install. That way I can still fall back on my current setup if need be. And yes, I have done that. Disk is cheap. Use it to your advantage.

5. Try it out in a VM and see if it's worth the trouble before screwing with your system. I installed the Olivia RC that way but am still undecided on whether I'll bother. I'm still running Maya (LTS) as my main, with backports.

6. Anonymous Cowards don't take advice, but maybe somebody else will benefit. (And I'm sure others have even better ways of managing this.)

I have a ntfs partition with directories that I symlink from my home, so I can put stuff there that I want to share back and forth. I don't see a need to have the whole home partition accessible from windows.

However, I only use windows for a couple of games and a handful of other rarely used programs, so my use case may not match yours.

But they wear their stretchy pants!

And it's obvious that C12H22O11 that came from a cane tastes better than C12H22O11 that came from corn.

I don't care what happens, I am NOT tucking in my Hawaiian shirt.

Another way of looking at it is that the self interested industrialist will say or do almost anything to keep the gravy train a-rollin' for as long as can be finagled, and if it kills off the human race in a generation or two, well, that's their problem.

On the other hand, I've heard rumors that energy companies are already preparing diversification strategies. (While the other hand keeps the gravy train going...)

I agree. One extremist group says, "Stop! The bridge is out!". The other extremist group says, "No it's not, full speed ahead!"

I say we compromise, and stop in the middle of the bridge. That way we all win.

Nobody is making money off of terrorism and mass murder (except perhaps "news" outlets and businesses selling unnecessary things to frightened people?) so we can't accept that, but if someone is in business, a few corpses are just the price of getting rich. Welcome to the plutocracy.

(Note to the sarcastically challenged: I agree with the anonymous parent poster's sentiments.)

Good thought, but the plant was built within a short distance of the central business district of West which hasn't moved much since the town was incorporated in 1892. The plant was a bit newer than that.

I can't speak much about a PhD in literature, but my BA in literature seems ok. I'm a software developer and make, um, more than $18k per annum. Tenure track PhD seemed like a tar pit to me even back in 19*grumble grumble* when I graduated.

Exactly, so now instead of testing against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is, we'll have to test against several versions of FF, IE, Chrom[e|ium], safari, Opera, and whatever that thing on the iPad is.

(The fact that several browser projects/makers used "webkit" in some version or other never reduced the need to test against every blooming thing you could.)

Does anyone miss blinks and marquees?