@h4nn4h: Get one of those tiny FM broadcast hookups that plugs into the ipod via either the headphone jack or the data port. You can set it to a station that is unused in the area and tune in through the radio.

@Adam Pash: What you say sounds plausible, but I haven't tried most of them (a banana?) to have much input.

@the_amazing_doug: So that's what is in that huge article footer. Thanks to Flashblock I hadn't seen it, just a placeholder. Now that I've seen it I want those two minutes of my life back.

@tacotime: IE8 did better than Safari at this year's pwn2own, so it's not just Microsoft that has problems. I think all three - Firefox, Safari, and IE - on Windows went down on the first day.

@crashedjava: I think you can uninstall it in Windows 7, at least superficially. The rendering engine will still be there because some applications want access to it, but it should get rid of the actual IE app with its UI and everything.

@TheOtherHalf: It wasn't supposed to be about "liberty and justice for all", it's about people pragmatism versus principles, and you did state in your first comment that people choosing principles in this case are being stupid.

@Helixthe2nd: The original comment is basically "sticking to something on principle is wrong if it happens to work better right now, and if you do that you're a stupid person", which is why I lumped him in with other people that take a pragmatism-over-principles approach.

@soldstatic: I'll agree with that, I don't think IE's dead and I don't think it should die, because competition is good. Microsoft might end up killing it through failure to adapt, but at least it sounds like the company is trying again.

@soldstatic: I think it was aimed primarily at bringing Windows features to the browser, a way to tie things together and make IE and Windows inseparable. It had some comparison to Java (not Javascript) but it wasn't quite the same idea.

@Helixthe2nd: Just because you're stubborn about principles doesn't make you wrong, either. I insulted no one and I didn't add those to "seem more intelligent", they were other examples of sticking to principles, which the original commenter derided.

@jupiterthunder: The "matter of principle" vote here may be from people with experience in IE4, 5, and 6. Microsoft has already shown the world once what it does when it has the vast majority of the browser market, and it's not unlikely that it would do the same again.

@TheOtherHalf:

@soldstatic: I think IE's use on corporate machines is largely due to previous successes with earlier versions. IE4 was actually an excellent browser at the time and gave it a good reputation. That reputation helped Microsoft push IE-specific things like ActiveX controls for corporate use, which resulted in…

@lashtal: I give them credit for trying with 9, but history is a black mark against them.

@krank23: Once upon a time IE was pretty good about standards, at least compared to the competition. I remember IE4 being snappier and much easier to design for than Netscape because of crappy CSS conformance from the latter.

I used to be a huge fan of Internet Explorer, back when it was at version 4 and Netscape Navigator was just starting its fast descent into horribleness. That said, I don't think I could ever go back to using IE.

@sebastian_rooks: @PurpleFries: @andrewjp33:

Just imagine a paperless future. A future where there will be no more binders, and thus no more binder clips.

@spcagigas: The clients1.google.com connection is for the little "suggestions as you type" feature that pops up. It's been doing that for a long time, but it's easy to miss if you're on a fast connection. As far as I know all it's doing is pulling in the search terms, not full searches.

@jaden: Qwerty*, and the only thing I really did was type a lot. I used to chat a lot on IRC in busy channels, so I got faster just through repetition and attempting to keep up with the pace of the conversations.