Who would have thought that gotopless.org would be operated by Rael the alien cult leader?

So far, it's the only thing I know of that he's done that's at least partially sane.

Wow, Esther--who's the drama queen?

By "post-Microsoft", I think the author meant "post-Microsoft nearly complete domination". The author isn't so dumb as to think Microsoft will go under.

"...it seems pretty clear to us that Firefox, and companies like Google, are leading us into a post-Microsoft world."

And companies like Apple, if you bother to look at the statistics in the article you wrote.

"Maybe we're reading too much into this, but perhaps the population is finally getting tired of the shallow, 24-hour, cable news networks where the graphics department seems to be a more cherished resource than it's reporters."

Nope, you're not reading too much into this.

But if that were completely the case, more people would be reading newspapers, given how many ads are stuffed into web pages too.

The difference with most ads in web pages, compared to TV, is they don't insert them over the whole screen every few minutes, so that you can't see anything else onscreen.

My biggest Internet timesuck is all the poorly written web pages that eat my computer's processor time--pages that contain little applets running, waiting for us to click on them when few people do, tons of images, etc. that eat memory, etc. And all the pages that contain tiny type that takes time to squint at, fail to read, go up to the zoom button in the toolbar, etc. I think it's accurate to say that at least half the people creating web pages these days are detached from reality.

dalitjones: sure it matters. Maybe not to you, but that's the part that doesn't matter.

Yum, pig flu for dinner...

Don't blame the clowns for this. It's still the king's fault.

Umm...the RIAA said the reason it's stopped suing downloaders, is not because it found its soul, but because it cost the RIAA more to prosecute, than it was making from the people they sued.

Just money, no soul.

@SSPA

So you actually see Steve Jobs, regularly, in the "Palo Alto Sony Style store buying blu-ray players and Discs. Asking if and when the new Sony Blu-Ray players are coming out."

Do you mean that literally?