All the better then.
As I am curious, can a jetpack extension run a background timer independent of any window(as long as the application is running)?
Can a jetpack extension modify chrome elements and behaviours?
If neither of those are true, I don't see what's the point of jetpack, compared to greasemonkey, pardon my ignorance.

Is it just supposed to become a sort of official greasemonkey?

Jetpack is pretty much an attempt at making firefox extensions greasemonkey scripts that hold no actual application power. They were talking of removing normal extension support for that fake sugary stuff. Plus the idea that normal people will be making quick extensions is just ridiculous. Making a normal ff extension is not that hard, it's all quite documented and you can take any simple extension as base template if scared...

Is what this article is about.
This matter has been known for a long time, and there's a reason why so many softwares ignore it:
it hardly matters. That and it's also way more complicated to do it properly.
Gain / Pain is clearly inferior to 1 there.

Web hosts

Bluehost, 1 and 1, dreamhost, and other oversellers: don't use those. unless you're really really cheap. I've tried quite a few and while 90% of customers will be happy, you don't want to be in the 10% that suffer. It'll be painful, they'll either wipe your data, blackmail you to upgrade, or just kill your processes.
Pair networks: their web hosting is on the expensive side, but is of fairly high quality. Be careful though that they do not like cpu-time consuming scripts and will disable those, though they are not in any way as brutal as previous cited hosts. All in all recommended if you want good service

VPS
That is my recommendation for a small to mid website, if you can actually manage a server.
I have so far have a very good experience with both tektonic and knownhost, both of which have provided a pretty good service.
Slicehost has become of more variable quality to me lately, so I would not recommend them.

Oh and I would not recommend at all amazon ec2 unless you have a lot of money and rather large distributed system, at which point you will want to do it yourself anyway.

I checked the prices of ebooks, and as far as I am concerned, I am finding those prices outrageous.
I do respect the right of authors to make some money, but when an ebook is twice as expensive as a cheap paperback version, there's something highly wrong.
All of that makes me think they actually are trying to kill the ebook market, where "they" means publishers. Amazon of course is not clean either, and they obviously have been taking advantage of their public policy to look like saviors, that they are not.

tldr: ebooks are way too expensive. Anything above 3-4$ for an old book or 4-8$ for a novelty is just plain insane. It's not like they require a lot of infrastructure. Oh and of course the author should still get most of the money in that grand scheme. But I doubt it's the case.

Am I the only to think that if a project doesn't get a grip at all it's MAYBE because it is not that useful to people? In my experience, projects do benefit from a community boost, but 90% of the work is still having a useful application that people desire.

Which is exactly why extensions are a good thing. They unload a large burden from application developers to leave petty/specific stuff to other people.

That's nice to hear. I would expect find instances to be unified but that works fine too.

You might want to open eyes and see I'm faaaaaaaar from being the only person that finds opera very lacking on the extensibility. Unless of course you have eyeblinds put on.

It has always bugged me that opera devs. always focus on benchmark numbers when their browser is already acclaimed for being more than fast enough. What about ACTUAL features that users have been begging for, for 5 or 6 versions. Like a decent extension framework.(this is probably something they must have some sort of magical curse to not do, since they're ignoring people since the beginning) Like a lot more control over ui customization.(try getting the menu next to your buttons so as not to waste a full row, and no, fake menus made of buttons do not behave like menus)
Like type as you find?(or did they finally add that one?)

Features wise, opera only seems to like adding stuff pertinent to a select few, and ignore the rest of the world.

It's just a browser that needs to get out of the dark age of control-is-security.

And by the way, let's jump to conclusion, blame the chinese, after all, they love eating dogs who poop a lot, and that has to produce a lot of methane! Also as we all know, since 2000 all of china got big cars, and huge freezers, and use 250L of water per day.
It's also a known fact that since the advent of fuzzy computers, scientists have been able to run models so good they can predict climatic trends on a century basis. Now I even know where to be for my 50th birthday to see snow.(the last snow on earth apparently, because by then it'll be so hot even the poles will look like hell)

I find it very amusing that people keep on trying to push xml & xslt when that will not work properly at all, and make things horribly more complex(anyone who has actually tried putting up an xml+xslt system, whether client or server would know) for a large majority of the users.

There's nothing wrong about distributing data sets with pdf, especially considering that unlike what has been said in that article, most pdfs can be indexed and searched.(unless specifically stripped down/oddly transformed)

As for flash, it obviously depends on the use. Flash as a medium to distribute web animated and interactive content does not really have any competitors that are worth mentioning. The question in that case would be more whether there's a need to do that level of interacting or not. Doing javascript, css and html/xhtml solutions ends up being major trouble and take a massive amount of time. I would personally say that flash with an accessible html back end(or similar) is perfectly fine: if you can make things look and act better for many people without alienating others, why not do it? The whole debate is imho wrongly aimed at the openness of formats, rather than what actually matters: "will it work good for the overwhelming majority?" and "can it reasonably made?"

The question I'm now wondering is where to find this material in raw form... From what I'm seeing it's way more efficient than the usual easy-to-find non-newtonian fluids. Would make some great material to use in various DIY situations.