oh i think sarah corner is now making a phone call to.. huh what th@#$ ... [connection timed out]

Tell your bos the following.

Let is all your programmers be one day free at work, they may not work on current tasks.
They can program whatever they want, let them do it once a month.
Only ask of them to give a small presentation of what they did.

This has been done in other programming companies too.
The effect was that people started to work on like old issues which they never got time for, or new things some related but others not related to the product.
In a year they had enough new gadgets to create a new product line and the had enough 'funny' code to improve their product gadget factor.

Conclusion creativity doesnt come with working hours, but rather by reflection, by doing strange things, or taking a set back.
The best ideas arise often when you sleep, your not a typing monkey.. your human people need to pay attention to live like humans to get products for humans.
How do you think Apple does it, by using coding monkeys ?

gopher.. where can you still find that, man thats pretty old, move forward

I'm surprised is it still called Beta, i never have problems with firefox 4
It seams a lot faster also, although some old plugins didnt work (well i had to much of them anyway).
I like the new design and speed.

I wonder will it become possible to upgrade a portable FF 3 to 4 ?

Microsoft to steal this ?, they where earlier on cloud software, earlier with virtualization, and i advised them to use a online store with windows 98.
For years you have been able to buy 3th party software through their channels; but they never named it app store acka app shop.
The reason for this is there are many others who develop for Microsoft in fact everyone is free to create whatever they want; from porn games to autocad.
But those developers are never bound to Microosft alone they are free to run their own sites. (but you see Microsoft helping many startup companies).

Before you think the ipad is new... i dont see why.
maybe i'm a power user and demand a bit more from a touch screen netbook then a ipad can deliver (i'm running vmware here on a touchscreen netbook....)
While i still am able to convert my own CD's to MP3 and use them on every device i have.. it is wonderfull magic.. its just different.
I'm less about the outside looks rather about inside performance; the kind of guy that does pay a bit more to get cowon audio /video devices.
And no I dont even call it luxery or trendy, no it's simple quality, and freedom to exchange my music.

Like there are script kiddies using ipad and hackers who re-design their netbooks; and dont even want to be cool because of a cheap gadget..hilarious isnt it :)