>Having resources when you need it. Lets say you have some seasonal tasks that needs extra horse power (Quarterly Reports, Christmas Rush, Back To School, Exam Time...) so you can request short term extra power to keep up

oh yeah?
What about when all the other folks have exactly the same idea?
Cloud provider sez: "Err, sorry buddy, no space in the cloud right now... but we might find a little bit you can have for, um, 3 times the price... ah, no, that's just gone to your competitor for 4x but I'm sure we can get it for you at 5x"

You're excused. To someone brought up on 'cmd' PS is probably indistinguishable from magic.
Oh, and congrats, Mickeysoft, on finally figuring how to do wrap-around text selection. Welcome to the 20th century.

Contact won't happen until we stop eating sentient animals. Imagine what would happen if a space-faring race that looked like giant prawns turned up ... om nom nom!

Stupid JS Tricks - like popping to the top of the page when returning from a link instead of returning to where you were. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And stupid.
Current site works fine with JS off - keep it that way.

Cave paintings [...] may have been an early form of advertising of your goods and services

Hardly - the caves that were decorated are all deep, deep underground and very hard to get to. I think the art was a plea to the gods to send more animals because, between them, the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons had wiped them out, especially the mega-fauna.

When you follow a link and then come back why aren't you at the same place on the page? This has been broken for a while.

>I have no faith that they will still be around in ten years

Well they were twats 20 years ago when they made licensing Postscript so expensive that HP developed PCL ... so they will probably still be twatting around in 10 years time.

Ignore everything posted by Yvonne - how hard is that? The "Slashdot Staff" will soon get the message when there are NO replies to their adverticles [sic].

The fact is that all you posters WANT to be outraged. It's like a sexual thrill (at least that's what Andrew Denton said on the (Oz) ABC show "Shock Horror Aunty").

- Software Architect: arsehole who gets in the programmers' and developers' way

BTW as a sidenote I actually really like Ubuntu Unity. At first disliked it, but have gotten quite accustomed to it

And how did you cope with Unity stealing the ALT key? Just 3 minutes of battling with that bullshit was enough for me.

The moment he is back in the authorities' hands Obama will declare him a terrorist and then it's game over - he will be outside the purview of the courts thanks to the "special arrangements" in place since 911.

have a ~30% greater need for computing resources for the period between mid-november and early january

This is the myth I want to see busted. You see, every company in retail wants that extra 30% at Xmas. Now are you saying that the service provider is going to have all that extra infrastructure just sitting around all year waiting for your and all your competitors' peak requirements? Or is the guy who pays most going to be adequately serviced while the rest of you pound sand? (hint: no, yes)

... to move a page per click I'll get excited. Windows still rules in that regard (I threw up in my mouth a bit saying that) - RSI sucks.

Only psychopaths need apply.