Sorry if I came off harsh. I find the corporate-speak about the beta maddening, condescending and disingenuous - maybe I'm overreacting but it's based on my previous run-ins with corporate machines.

With regard to the new look....

Astoundingly, I have a My Yahoo page that I've had as my browser home page since way back in the 20th century. Now that they switched to the huge text and tons of empty space look, it's ugly and painful to use. Whereas before I could see all the headlines, stock quotes, weather, etc that I cared about, now I need to scroll through three or four screens of huge text. I'm looking for a replacement.

You must not have much experience in the corporate world. It's obvious they have EVERY intention of making beta the new style of Slashdot. I've experienced this style of "communication" and "listening" from every VP/SVP/CxO I've ever encountered and it always ends up the same way.

I find the mobile site completely broken and unusable. Luckily, the Mercury web browser is lets you switch user agent and I'm able to use the classic site on iPad, at least until the swful beta gets promoted to production.

Beta has too much whitespace, it looks Fisher-Pricey to me, the comment/text column is too narrow, the boxes around the comments are distracting. It also doesn't display 100% correctly because I set Firefox to ignore the site-suggested font and use Droid Sans instead. Net effect is some weird characters that are probably a clickable something or other. The classic site looks fine and will look fine 4 years from now. Fix the bugs everyone is talking about and all will be good. The old maxim always applies - just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Please rip up your license and sell any vehicles you own. You should not be driving.

There is no such thing as a blind spot if you adjust your mirrors properly.

Thanks Obama. >:-(

Hahahahahahaha, funny. So, that means that big business leans liberal??? Hahahahahahahaha

You're funny and your political bias is showing, and in this case, it's misdirected and pointless. H1B is all about firing US residents and citizens and ALL about importing cheap labor from countries where a salary of $20,000 per year is a king's ransom.

Ouch, you wasted time and energy answering a troll...

Tenet, dammit TENET!!!!!!

The one and only software solution that ever worked for my work style was Lotus Agenda. I've been waiting for a modern version of it for 20 years.

For now, lab books/notebooks/legal pads work well enough.

Odd, the only contractors I see are shipped from India for a few weeks or months so they can be trained by the soon to be unemployed staff and then are sent back to India by their contract company.

Understood. My point was more about whiners moaning about the "BAN".

I'm not religious about lightbulbs. In my house I use the right bulb for the right purpose. Bathrooms and closets get incandescents, lamps get LED or CFL, kitchen gets halogen, etc etc.

Well, I just bought a reasonable 72 Watt bulb with the output lumens equal to an older style 100 Watt bulb. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I get a lower electric bill without having to use an ugly CFL or super expensive LED.

Remember the ban is on older inefficient incandescent bulbs, not incandescent bulbs in general.

The news organizations and tin foil hat wearing types are focusing on the "ban" part for their own ends.

I have no doubt that a limited number of autonomous vehicles can be on the roads within 10 years. But wholesale replacement of individually owned vehicles by autonomous vehicle fleets in 10 years is fantasy. Maybe 50 or 100 years. Maybe.