But that's a freedom most of the population couldn't care less about. Let's say I was making a fuss, because I couldn't get the InDesign data for all the books I own, and those books were evil, because they were taking away the freedom to design them in a more legible and typographically sound way. You couldn't care less, but honestly I sometimes don't even consider reading something that is designed just too badly, since I am a typography/design geek. But you might not give a flying f*ck about these things. Sometimes things you consider extremely important are just totally irrelevant to others.

And the worst: They stole all the source code and pirated BSD!!!!

The rest of the world will ignore Yahoo.

Really? Last time I checked the first country to cry and declare war in WWI was Austria. WWII well, we fucked up big time the, but looking a bit closer you'll find that Hitler was Austrian, too. So essentially *Austrians* are very good at starting World Wars

Actually there was another captain involved: John Barrowman of "Captain Jack Harkness" (Torchwood, Docto Who) fame being the host made my day

The wright brothers copied the successful earlier attempt to fly by the Lilienthal brothers, their only innovation was putting an engine in the thing, which was somewhat innovative.

Then what about Japan? Yen is stronger, wages are higher yet fibre optic Internet access at 100 Mbps can be had for less money about anywhere in the country.

Well if going thermonuclear is about who's surviving longest, Steve has apparently lost ;-)

WebGL. I see Google Maps and their newer 3D approaches to totally become one of the places where people will be happy in the future to have a 64-bit capable browser if they want to load a complete 3D high-resolution map of, say, Rome.

Well probably something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=_dErAZL1Hr8

You've got an 8GB system and complaining about FF 3.6 memory leakage?

I'm not sure whether you are aware of it, but there's this cool way of replacing your application with a newer version (new: less than two years old). For free! It's called updating. I'm aware it's a radical concept, but try it out, it's pretty cool.

I've done tests over and over: Google Chrome is the very worst memory hog of the whole bunch. It always uses _at least_ around 1GB of RAM on OS X. That's ridiculous. Its WebKit brother Safari has a much smaller memory footprint, Firefox on OS X even more so (well it does have some performance issues and integration of OS X specific features sucks, but you can't have it all I guess).

So Allegiant SuperCard which was HyperCard on steroids, and there was even a Windows runtime environment. It was still available long after HyperCards demise, actually Google in its wisdom tells me right now there’s a Lion Version: http://www.supercard.us/ strange that they haven’t taken over the software world in storm

Because he had his second coming in 1997 already when he rejoined Apple as iCEO.