Sounds like the brother of one of my neighbors.

The debate of evolutionism vs. creationism will probably never end due, in a large part, to the human adversity to change. Humans have a tendency to hold on to what is familiar or what they think they can grasp and understand. Humans are a bit change adverse. The very religious and the fundamentalists will never disavow the bible, torah, koran, etc. As others have noted, new evidence will change nothing. In the end, those that produce the new evidence will be lambasted by the creationists. This is an argument that will probably never disappear, as much as we wish it would.

I know this is a little off topic but I liked the bit on rentership and bootstrapping. While the article really had nothing directly to do with IE development costs, it did highlight some of the benefits of cloud computing. Prior to cloud computing, it took lots of money to build out infrastructure to support an application or system in development. Cloud computing makes enterprise-sized infrastructure available to the bootstrapper. It has leveled the playing field!

I am too. There was a lot of radiation released by Fukushima. Don't tell everyone to panic but don't lie and, in effect, tell everyone they are going to be okay either. It is a known fact that gamma radiation destroys DNA. I think one can link some cancers to gamma ray exposure.

Please mod the parent up! The true issue at heart is device ownership. If you purchase the device, you should be able to do modify it as you see fit! After all, as the thread parent notes, you are welcome to customize a car. In fact, why should browsers even be closed source? Don't they have to be standards compliant in order to function on the internet? A car is open source - you can easily get the repair manuals for it. In this case, a web browser is the "car" on the information "highway." What possible advantages does locking down a browser offer? I can see making proprietary plugins (to a point) that ride on top of a browser but to force people into using one or the other has no utility other than to alienate him or her.

I would recommend checking out Sogo. This would provide a good groupware solution. In their upcoming version, 2.0, it will have some goodies like Exchange Server emulation so it will integrate well with those using Outlook. For collaboration, you can check out Alfresco. As for a common identity management solution therein lies the trick. If you are brave, you can check out using Samba4 and configure all of your clients to authenticate against their version of Active Directory. The Samba wiki has some good instructions on that. I know that there is an open source software package that helps integrate Linux with Active Directory but I cannot remember its name. It does get packaged with Ubuntu, however. Hope this helps some .....

going from $84 pre-sale, a $100 IPO, and then dipping to $99.19 for a single day is by no stretch of the imagination "plummeting" - I can see the numbers on the table in the link I posted too ;) So he was most certainly wrong. I was able to by pre-IPO but was doing a hippy stint at the time, and some of my friends made big bank a very short time after IPO - I have a very clear memory of non-"plummeting" occurring.

you recall incorrectly. It had a pre-IPO sale price of 84, which then went to 100 the day of IPO, and was a very clean and steady climb from there.

In most states it is considered a felony to engage in any kind of private investigation without being licensed. Is this the same for the U.K? If an MPAA agent tried to do that to me, I would go after the MPAA and demand to see their license to conduct private investigations and persue this to the fullest extent of the law. Guarranteed they aren't licensed to do such work and their employee would be operating outside the scope of his responsibilities. Therefore the employee posing as the agent is subject to arrest and being charged with a felony. A separate civil pursuit of the MPAA would be the next step.