Actually most of the malware that people got around me at work was from Adobe Flash and PDF exploits not from Microsoft stuff.

You forget the other 11 million smartphone users also paying that much

This has not been going on in hollywood for a long time. This is the same as your tv (or dvd/blu-ray movies on your internet connected player) showing characters drinking pepsi and your neighbors tv showing characters drinking coke because of your programming preferences

Academic Journal = Peer Recognition Wikipedia = ???

You don't need the g anymore

which new toshiba has a 12" screen?

Yeah Lenovo should learn from the Thinkpads :)

There is also the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 Netbook

Employees are very happy with XP and cringe at change. So many complaints about the ribbon etc. when upgrading to Office 2007. Businesses will change to appease the management, not the employees.

I'm with you on Powerpoint. I used Micrografx Charisma 4.0 back in the mid 90s and it was better than Powerpoint is today. I wish I could find that to use today.

<video codec="blah"> and let the content providers decide.

Why does somebody not make server side ads? Putting ads on the clientside with JS makes them easy to block and the webmaster has no control. On the server side I can request an ad, if ad takes more than 0.25 seconds, just display the damn page without ads for now.

Has firefox fixed the bug where nobody can install extensions that are enabled by default without user intervention?

Then this is a problem with Firefox, not IE, that it let's plugins be installed without user intervention. At the least it should warn upon next start that "Blah has been installed, do you want to enable it?"

Another option for a techie user "select sha1(realanswer)" I always have sqlyog running connected to a bunch of database servers and I can always do that. Only problem is when I'm not at a computer :) I guess I can do that on my phone but haven't tried.