This is why I don't use Firefox. Its a tweaker/developer toy (which is fine), but its not a web browser to browse the web. Its what I call perpetually broken software because every time you start it up, it says "I'm broken. Please download updates".

Thinking back to browser history, I thought of my first tabbed browser. I started using it in 2001 or 2002. It was called galeon, here is an embarrassing screenshot: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/shots/fonts.png That is from 2003, the same year I switched to Macs and Safari web browser. That screenshot looks like MSWord6 from 1994 or so, back when toolbars and buttons took preference over your documents. Also when there was only 600-800 vertical rows of pixels on most displays. FF currently uses 10-15 more vertical pixels for its tabs and whatnot at the top when compared to Safari or Chrome. In the netbook era, this seems a bit wasteful.

The good news is that FF 8 is due out next week!

Considering "Jane" used to be "John" http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html . Sexier pic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jane-fae

Someone erroneously posted below that homosexuality is a preference. Its not. I had a friend who was a male married to a female with 2 kids and he was homosexual. AFAIK they had no plans for divorce. I work with a m2f transgender, and I've known many male and female homosexuals and bisexuals. Honestly, I can't understand it fully, but I just look at it as gender being a bimodal distribution that has overlap between the modes. Personally, I think it takes balls to go m2f and in no way be fooling anybody.

I think my macbook's backlit keyboard is pretty cool. Sometimes, like right now I'm in a dimly lit room and I don't feel like turning on a light. I've had many friends say that they wish their laptop's keyboard was backlight.

Each to their own.

ubuntu is to debian as firefox is to gecko

Convenience would be the only attractor. The security issues are a non-issue because the banks will be responsible just like with credit cards, not the card carrier. At this time, I think that my wallet is more convenient because I have to have it with me. Drivers license, insurance cards, etc. I don't have to have my phone with me, and I would rather not be forced to carry both a wallet and a cell phone in order to go about my day to day business. Put all of my IDs on the phone, and I'm OK with it. Actually, the latter would be better. Have some kind of self destruct on the phone and a way to retrieve all of my info in case of malfunction or loss, and I would be happy.

Imagine being able to buy the entire place a round of drinks with just the lift of a finger. Oh the power!

I haven't had to worry about spelling since I was in grade school. Since then spell checkers have done my spelling for me. I can't be the only one. I can't think of an occasion where I would be using written text without using a computer. If this were true, then I would also assume that the writing would have to be in longhand, and trust me, my handwriting is much worse than my spelling.

From the same website (and basic physics). Kinetic energy = .5mv^2

m is fixed for the same car

The energy involved is the square of the speed. For my car this would be:

20mph = .5 * 1727 * '(20*1.6)**2'
884224 J

25mph .5 * 1727 * '(25*1.6)**2'
1381600 J

70mph .5 * 1727 * '(70*1.6)**2'
10831744 J

75 mph .5 * 1727 * '(75*1.6)**2'
12434400 J

Difference in energy between 20 and 25:
497376 J

Difference in energy between 70 and 75:
1602656 J

So the energy difference of 5mph between 70 and 75 vs 20 and 25 is over 3x.

The nVidia Linux drivers came from DOE's Office of Science. I know the guy that funded the project. Now that GPGPUs are very common in science, and the nVidia drivers are already there, continuing to develop the drivers for Linux is in nVidia's best interest.

What distribution of Linux are you talking about? All this talk about drivers and stuff makes me think you are talking about Windows or something. The Linux I use has flawless support for OpenGL, Bluetooth, wifi, etc right out of the box. No HOWTOs or any of that needed. Same goes with all of my Apple products. I don't even know what or where drivers are for these things. Why should I?

It seems more like a community college class or something. I've never heard of a CS department that teaches "Linux". The CS, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology departments that I've dealt with in the past had a lab of computers that had some kind of OS on them and the students were told to get their programming project done using them.

Wanna teach them Linux? I would suggest giving them Android phones. All that silly CLI, KDE, and Gnome stuff is so 90s. They will learn Linux real good by swiping around and installing and uninstalling apps from the app store.

If necessary, it will be forked. Between OpenSFS and WhamCloud there will always be a home for lustre. WhamCloud already has contraclts with Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab. Oak Ridge already has the largest Lustre filesystem to date. And there is also DDN which supplies the hardware for most of the larger Lustre sites which has a local copy of Lustre that they distribute as well. Luistre is more than fine, its just a little lost finding a home at this time.

To be pedantic, Floyd's "album art" stuff was only from 1973-1979 with DSOTM through The Wall. The earlier works were disjoint, very psychedelic songs up to 20 minutes in length. After the Wall the albums were more failed/loose attempts at complete album works. I have all of their albums, bootlegs, and I've seen them in concert. Oh, and when I saw them, they didn't play 2 songs back to back from a single album. I was actually disappointed in the concert. I much prefer their older material, but they did open with Astronome Domine and they did sling out a One of these Days...

And this thing still left over from the 90s: http://www.webtv.com/pc/ Still looks like it belongs in the 90s with the big, ugly keyboard and the CRT 4:3 TV.

Even a non-microsoft apologist like myself can give MS credit where credit is due. They have persistance as if no one else on the planet has even heard of it. They can continuously throw engineers at horrible products until they become usable or even comperable if not even superior to other products (DirectX comes to mind).

I too welcome competition. Especially from Microsoft, because they have such a known brand. Its an uphill battle for them though, because they cannot seem to make things simple enough for embedded devices like TVs.

They never even define "popular". I would assume popular means the number of friends you have or some other metric. There are people on FB that have a good number of friends that are really obnoxious (at least to me) to have as friends on FB.

A friend of mine on FB who has over 4,000 friends is a nationally known guitar player/singer in a band.

I never understood why there is a hardware button that was SOOOO easy to hit by accident over something that could much easier and better been done with software.

Can all hardware vendors get away from the CAPLOCKS key?