The numbers could be high, but in my opinion Chrome is the superior browser, thus has faster adoption. It's what I install on all computers I can. I rarely install Firefox unless it's on a Linux box. It's lightweight, extensible and the lowest barrier to entry (unless you count IE which has no barrier as it's pre-installed). Honestly, browse to google.com/chrome, you install it with just a few clicks. For the technically illiterate, that's a huge step forward. It may not seem like much to download and install Firefox, but it's markedly harder than Chrome. Plus Firefox only had grassroots behind it at the beginning (Chrome has a huge corporation behind it). Firefox was also plagued by memory leaks and general "heaviness" at its beginning and still, to some degree, has those problems today.

I'm not sure where you shop, but produce is one area I DO see things like $0.98 / lb. In fact I just bought bananas last night for $0.46 / lb. Cucumbers were $0.62 / each. I would find it much more strange, at least where I shop, to find produce priced using the $x.x9 strategy.

Not that I completely disagree, but I have to say I actually have run across people who intentionally gone out of their way to have Flash installed. Guess who? Linux users. In the last 60 days, I've moved 7 people over to Ubuntu, SuSE and other varying distros, as their home, primary use PC (which has been overwhelmingly successful thus far, BTW, minimal support and headaches).

One of the things I always forget, as I disdain Flash, is to launch Firefox and ensure Flash has been installed. But as these people are using their PCs as home machines for FaceBook (aka Farmville) Flash is a necessary and deliberate installation. One thing I have not thought of: I do typically install Chromium (I personally dislike Firefox) as a browser option and allow the user to choose which to use, I'm not sure if Chromium auto-installs Flash or not...

This isn't a drilling rig, so I believe the capping point is moot, it's a refinery rig. It handles refinement of crude from a drilling platform, along a pipeline, IIRC. Shit happens, this company is being blamed for having a 'history of bad saftety practices', when in fact they only have had a few violations since 2005. Bad reporting. The violations are very routine stuff, someone fell cleaning the outside of the rig, ding, violation. It's just an inopportune time for it to happen.

... profit?