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... this is clearly not my field of knowledge :) but how could making it non-removable double the battery life? were the pre-removable-batteries really THAT bad? And in phones or iPods or wherever else, too?

The amount of, for lack of a better word, infrastructure required to make a battery removable takes up a huge amount of room. Look at the iPhone battery, the iPad battery (the hole is where the 3G modem goes, there's no wasted space), and the new retina MacBook Pro.

Making the battery removable would've made the case thicker and the battery smaller. Furthermore, specifically in the MBP, they can make the battery non-rectangular (which is essentially impossible if it's removable) and take better advantage of the nooks and crannies of free space available. That's where I got my doubling figure from; I get 3.5-4hr on my replaceable-battery MBP if I'm not feeling frisky. But under the same sorts of workloads a newer model non-removable battery MBP gets a no-exaggeration 7 hours. It's clearly a drawback for people who need 12 hours of battery and were previously able to stock 3 batteries, but very few people actually need that kind of battery life (though a lot of people around here felt like they might).

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You might want to consider this as a guideline for dealing with that problem.

The problem itself, by the way, is fairly universal - very few job offers are out there which don't have these long lists. Thing is, HR of some of companies posting such will actually mechanically check your resume against all things they've listed, and don't even bother with the interview. Other companies have people who understand that it's still BS, despite everyone playing this game, and will invite people to interview even when they don't claim all skills listed as "required" in their resume, but which have something else going for them. You'll never know which are which (unless you have inside info), so the best bet is to ignore the requirement lists altogether and just send your resume out to them all - even when it doesn't match exactly, but you think you'd be able to handle the job nonetheless. Some will reply.

And once you're on the interview, it's only up to you to convince that you can do things well - which tends to be easier, as these kinds of interviews are usually with tech guys who understand the system don't care as much about buzzwords.

Um, you were saying?

Gmail loses attachments

Gmail loses all mail

Censorship by Google

Again, a lot of mistakes that Google does get swept under the rug, because they're Google. Meanwhile, any mistake that Microsoft does gets put in the spotlight.

Apparently, nothing

...see this: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2006/04/reduci ng-firefox-memory-usage/. Seems to work for me. I've not had to restart Firefox nearly as much.

Hmm... Is this good enough http://liewcf.com/wp/archives/2005/01/pchome-touch -1-skype-usb-phone/? Ok, so you still have to have your computer on (and live in Tawian), but what the hey.

I've seen comments to the effect that you can "force" an older extension to work in a newer Firefox/Thunderbird by unzipping the XPI and modifying a text string in one of the files (install.rdf) to match the new version number, then zip it back up and install it. Here's some instructions for modifying a Firefox extension, should be the same with a Thunderbird extension:
http://liewcf.com/wp/archives/2004/11/diy-upgrade- incompatible-firefox-extensions/