And it was Phoenix before that.

Having been through those early name changes, one of my favorite early extensions was "Firesomething" ... it changed the name of Firefox on every launch.

Do lay it all on the hardware side. We'll continue to see speed gains in interpreter output too. Java, for example, was dog slow when it started; it's speed has improved significantly since then, and not solely due to processor improvements.

Or was this just an opportunity to troll?

At least then the interface might work properly.

Which, of course, is not at all true if one is pursuing a career in academia...

Did I say anything about streaming? I purchase digital copies that I can store (and backup) locally.

(To some extent, I agree with you, although personal cloud-based storage can be "local" enough.)

Absolutely.

In my case, I stopped buying physical disks several years ago with the expectation a common digital standard would emerge and I could just start buying things digitally.

I'm still waiting for the common standard (read: DRM-freee) plus cloud storage, but the handful of movies I've purchased ("just had to have") in the recent past have all been digital, even if DRM-encumbered.

Wait ... you're saying their new OS will allow you to write code once for both desktops AND laptops if both run Windows? No way! That would be so cool .....

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Why don't we start with something as simple as the time it takes to wake from sleep? I can cook a meal and do the dishes in the amount of time it takes my Windows 7 desktop to wake up. Compare that with the almost instant on of my four-year-old MacBook and my iDevice. It's frustrating as hell.

Once that's figured out, how 'bout boot time and shutdown time?

Yes, Windows 7 is better at this than its predecessors, but it's still got a ways to go.

To be worthwhile, I assert religion does too.

It's the process of facing it, not succumbing to it that's important.

GP didn't make a qualitative categorization of the rightness or wrongness of either position. You did that.