Both Gnome and KDE are becoming obsolete. They are heavy, slow, overcrowded, non-functional. I am not talking about Gtk+ or Qt, just their corersponding desktop paradigms. There is a reason why iOS, Android, and now Ubuntu do not use Gnome or KDE.

It's mankind. The Earth couldn't care less.

Hahaha! Yes, he was carbon-dated... it's a new kind of ice-cream! ;)

The Cro-Magnon man was dated at ~35,000 BC. Okay, maybe calling "mankind" the puny apes before that age is too much. :)

It also comes with a f* "Mozilla Maintenance Service" which installs without requesting user permisson and which I promptly uninstalled. If this new service is a requirement for FF to run and update then it's good-bye FF for me.

Mankind has learned and used fire for over 100,000 yrs without needing to explain in words to a 10-12 year old something that is best grasped through the senses.

Provided those kids know where their dicks are, which most of the rest of the world thinks that it requires studying and taking tests rather than growing up with a sense of self entitlement.

There is no inconsistency in what you wrote. Students are failing basic science tests yet US science is in the pole position. Others have already provided the most likely explanation. There is an obsession with getting a management position but someone has to be creative in a science/research project.

Flamer has been out in the wild since cca. 2007, with a MS signed certificate, and the first IT security organization that decides to bring it to public attention is a Russian company, and the first removal tool is from a Romanian company. Right, because all of these antivirus companies are so dumb they cannot detect a 20 MB spyware pack on Windows machines for four years.

Flamer is out in the wild since cca. 2007, with a MS signed certificate, and the only IT security organization that decides to bring it to public attention is a Russian company, and the first removal tool is from a Romanian company. Isn't this a bit strange? Isn't it more likely that this NA-designed spyware targetting the Middle East was released with the tacit agreement of Western security companies and it only became known because the Russians, for some reason, decided they would not play the game? Microsoft being unaware for thw last few years that hundreds of computers are infected with a 20 MB spyware pack bearing a security certifice of their own? Come on...

They'll just continue to have right between the eyes. In a market economy they refuse to adapt to what the market wants. I see dinos awaiting for the meteorite to fall.

Yes, and you can Search & Replace "dead tree" with "paper" to make sure that readers view text as originally intended.

Bring your own toy, why not, but it ain't gonna replace the two 22 in monitors sitting on every desktop in every organization claiming to have switched from paper to electronic documents.

There is a... um, little known company, don't know if you ever heard of it, called Research in Motion, that has been making security on their smartphones their main priority SINCE 1999.

The "cloud" is just another type of server. The client/server paradigm has always existed in computing. MS Outlook and Lotus Notes are just sophisticated clients. What you are saying is that very thin clients, like the Web browser, will replace current desktop applications. I doubt the Web browser can provide the complex GUI that some of the specialized applications require, particularly if more than text data entry and retrieval is involved.