Apple contributed a lot of changes upstream, but they were not merged. At some point, they stopped and decided to focus on LLVM instead.

What are you talking about? gcc4 comes with Xcode (both the free Xcode 3 and the cheap Xcode 4).

They should have said "to the extent necessary to perform the actions you request", or something to that effect. Instead, they say "to the extent we think it necessary for the Service", which basically means "however we want".

It looks like they tried to type "Feiter" as if they were normal people naming a thing, but they forgot their caps lock on.

It always seemed to me that Chrome uses even more memory than Firefox.

Wait, you mean Nokia patented fractals?

Everybody knows that the US government intercepts the world's communications. If they now do the same to Americans, it just seems fair.

Unfortunately, at my job there isn't much tail to watch. :/

Oh, I hear you. I'm getting an engineering degree, and it's fucking worthless. The best I can hope for is to make a decent living while contributing to the fortunes of people whose life has been and will always be much better than mine.

Essentially, there are three tiers of skills in our present world. The gold tier is entrepreneurship. The people who have it become rich and rule the world. The silver tier is money-twiddling. These people may not be gold, but they are close enough to money that they get rich as well. Then you have nothing, and twenty levels down you have the shit tier, where all the other skills are. We techies can at best aspire to be kings of beggars.

Modern platforms have dtrace.

And that's where you're wrong.

Basically, it's like marrying a gorgeous woman. She looks really hot, but you can never just let your lust run wild, because she thinks too highly of herself. Every instance of intercourse must be bargained for, and you're lucky to get it once a week; and when you do, she just lies there like a dead tuna. Soon, you begin to question whether it was worth spending so much money and effort on her.

I don't like the LibreOffice application icon. It looks too much like a generic document.

They're way off. A life-sized horse would hold only one person, two at most.

I also use Chrome on OS X, and the big feature that enabled me to switch was Keychain integration. I used Safari before, and the ability to share passwords between the two browsers has been invaluable. This feature has been requested for Firefox years ago, but never delivered. Until it is, I can't consider it a serious contender on OS X.