People did predict the economic Collapse. Ron Paul predicted it all along, as many others did. Those who "failed to predict" it are simply those economists and politicians who stood to gain financially from the whole thing. The issue isn't that it is impossible to predict what is to happen, but rather, that those who are in positions to control and predict are those who stand to gain in the bubbles that end in economic turbulent times [read the Fed, Wall Street, Washington].

Agreed. On the mac it igs even better because they have the ribbon AND the menus, since you can't really get rid of menus on a mac. The user has more choice here, and if he chooses he can his the ribbon altogether.

You can use wine to run ie6 pretty effectively. I've noticed that firefox in linux doesn't seem to render things the same as it does on windows though. Is there a reason for this? I'm specifically talking about when flash is involved. Is this just a flash bug in linux?