Where's the promised Rendezvous With Rama? I want to see the cylindrical sea, dammit.

BTW, are the dishes especially salty there? Or, whether the residents have a higher rate of HBP and stroke?

So does this mean I can start using btrfs, at least for personal workstations? I've got a new box at the office waiting to be setup, with a 120GB Corsair SSD as the main system disk, normal 2TB harddisk as backup/media storage. Will be using Debian. Should I use btrfs?

If Windows Phone market has comparatively _more_ developers/apps/games compared to Android, how is it that you have less competition and can earn more easily? (Or are you talking about Windows Phone vs iPhone?)

Waiting for their tagline to change to "Safe, Trusted, and We Apologize For Spyware"

This has been the Sony mantra since forever. Proprietary, proprietary, proprietary.... That's also why we are seeing zero involvement of Sony in the open source field.

Agreed. If there is a need for Firefox, it will still be alive somehow. I've never really used Firefox after all these years. Have been using Opera since nothing can replace it. Started using Chrome too for the past couple of years and have grown to like it, but still can't replace Opera as the main browser. Firefox? Meh.

Wow, talk about strawman :)

Where's my cheap energy? You promised to fix that too!

How many times has Google been launching "a social network" (or "social integration")? First there's Orkut (failed), and then FriendFeed and its Blogger integration, and then Google Buzz (major fail!), now this Google Me. Just buy out Facebook (or Zynga, or both) and be done with it.

I too hate variable scoping in Javascript, even PHP is slightly better in that variables are local inside functions. There are other small annoyances too. But the biggest is: Javascript has been given monopoly on the client side for too long. I wonder how much better can the Web be if there were more competition on the client-side browser language.

Did so a long time ago. Opera still crashes and freezes a lot.

Also I wonder, Firefox etc also has Flash/plugins. Why don't these other browsers crash a lot too like Opera then?

$ grep kill ~/.bash_history | grep opera | tail -5

killall -9 opera

killall -USR2 opera

killall -9 opera

killall -9 -9 -9 opera

killall -9 opera

$ grep kill ~/.bash_history | grep opera | wc -l

175

I've used Opera for years since the 5.x days and have always loved it, but the past year it's generally becoming less stable and more annoying. It always seems to eat 100% cpu after some time, or crash at other times. Some builds are really terrible, stability- and performance-wise. Meanwhile Firefox is getting faster and faster and more stable and I'm finding myself opening Firefox more and more often.

However (unfortunately?), nothing comes close in handling lots of open tabs like Opera.

Stop writing Perl as PERL please, it hurts my eye.