FYI, Ocean Marketing is now Ocean Stratagy - same guy, same service - he's even directly insulting magazine editors now!

Dozens.

Gaaaah! Yes, but your counter-critism is even more flawed.
Do you think that $100/$300m is a goodwill gift? No!
The key points are:
a) Mozilla are not a search company.
b) Google make the vast proportion of their profit from search.
c) This contract brings in very significant additional revenue to Google.
d) It keeps that very significant market share away from it's competitor(s).

So no matter how much people think Google want a browser war, they'd over the moon if Firefox gained 100% market share - because their search revenue is what this is all about.

The bottom line is that apart from the engineering advancements in browser technology (which is a key enabling factor to grow revenue in the other Google products) as long as firefox+chrome has a greater market share than chrome or firefox alone, Google really don't care if the userbase split is 50:50 or 1:100.

Remember MS didn't, and don't make IE because it's a nice idea - they quickly realised that the OS and the Apps (99% of there revenue at the time) were not important in a Web 1.0 world, and so they needed to control that space urgently and entirely, which at one point was very successful. They then moved into locking business into web-enabled technologies (e.g. Sharepoint) to hinder large migrations to Apple (or HP/Dell on linux) plus web solutions.
IMO, MS is basically held up by it's marketing and stong sales channels at the moment - if these sales channels all started shipping with Linux (+Office etc.) it could all come down like a big house of cards. That's a big 'if' - but that's also a very big fall.

Thin client. Keep the data far away from users, and secure.

Nope - everyone running Win7/64 bit watch out - because if you can trigger it with Safari, you can trigger it with other mechisms, and rather than crash, get total access to the kernel - e.g. be able to write raw sectors, access other hardware and basically bypass all security.

The point is that if dropped into a advert pushed out into lots of ad syndicates, it could bypass all antivirus, DEP and other security to infect millions of machines in minutes. Once running in the kernel, it can unhook antivirus, and basically make a rebuild necessary to get the machine back - no amount of hitting 'update' will help.

Wrong - it's a MS bug in windows, it's just that they triggered it through Safari. A bit like saving saving a file in safari causing the machine to explode - not really Safari's fault.

What's Prior Art ? Didn't you hear it's first to file now?
So it's either be eaten by Apple, or IBM (who probably patented every concievable angle)

Apple can't - if they delete an app from the store, it's still on your phone, with you data.

MS can remtoe wipe your apps, just like the 'where did my copy of the book 1984 go?' Amazon event.

errrrrrrrr, that's a pretty unusal use - only data that's 'public' on a USB stick.

Truecrypt is easy soloution, and is small enough to fit on the stick - problem solved.

Behaviour. The genome is are the 'building blocks' of the creature, and like building blocks, they don't tell you in isolation how warm the building is, if the building is noisy or quiet, or if the building lives happily with sabre-tooth tigers....

It's a totally new kind of nature vs nurture experiment, and a step beyond 'Dolly'.
Dolly and her twin both grew up with other sheep, went 'baa' and ate grass - but will this mammoth behave like a elephant if kept with elephants? What if it's not influenced by other animals including humans ?

Ligers are a good example of how a creature's DNA influences it's behaviour more than 'learned' social aspects.
Liger keepers say they are 'confused' and never 'fit in' with Tigers (even when mating is an option) or Lions (as part of a normal pride)

Because speeds don't scale like you think they do. If you have lots of little pipes going into a fat one, you can manage contingency and plan easily. If the little pipes are 10x the size, it's harder - especially as the actual point where service is impacted (around 80%) can go from 'ok for next 6 months' to 'upgrade now' due to a single customer changing usage profile.

It's like the difference between driving trucks, and driving cars - yeah, they are 3 times the length, but they cause 10x the traffic slowdown.

Service providers work of graphs that measure peaks (and 95%s), and if a single customer can move the peak from 85% full to 100% full, then it's hard to plan a good service - the only way is to have more contingency, which means more equipment/fibre/lambdas.

"I haven't had them reach more than 6 inches above my knees."

Well, that might be fine for you, but I'm still outta luck. :-)

Totally love the Current Cost devices - HackADay had an article on how to interface a ~£10 device (from e-bay) with Google Powermeter.
- which works perfectly!
(I've moved to rrdtool, as I want 6-second resolution, and GPM only does 10-minute, but I'm still tweaking)

They are the easiest thing in the world to integrate, cat /dev/ttyUSB0 and you get a little XML showing temp and the power of the 3 sensor inputs every 6 seconds !

Current Cost support is fantastic too - got a reply to two techie questions in less than 24 hours.

E-On give these to Their UK customers - but there is a big backorder delay for free ones.

I had a load of 'only friends, except.....' and it reset them to 'only friends' !!!

*without asking* and only briefly saving 'resetting settings' ! :-(