If a lot of concepts change, wouldn't it be better if the interface elements looked different from what the person was used to? If the icons are the same as say Windows XP, I think people would intuitively expect them to work in the same way. But if they don't people would get more frustrated. Having that, learning a new system a whole level deeper would of course take more time and effort...

Yeah, no shit. This is what I found in the logs some day:
dovecot: Time just moved backwards (1173189603 -> 1173189602)! This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.

So is this.

If you are Skype you are too cheap to implement offline messages and are too busy outsourcing the development of your next-generation spam-delivering crapware.

Oh but there is. It's beneficial for ISPs to make everybody need the most expensive plan. Want to view the news, fine. Want to check email? Sorry, that's only on the most expensive plan. You don't use it a lot but you pay top dolla'!

The default search engine on their browser is bing, amirite? :)

...GNU Hurd joined Oracle? WTF is that supposed to mean?

Would you think of the KIDS puh-leeze!

Liar!

the physical mouse also acts as a palm/hand-rest. Just moving your hand on the table would be less comfortable I think...

Don't you have to prove that you're the first one to ever do what you're patenting?

Does it support UTF-8 out-of-the-box yet?

If a bittorrent client uses up an entire core, you're doing something wrong.

I guess there should be an option on /. to mod down stories.

Why wouldn't you?