I think part of the problem is that most industrialized nations have pushed for high percentage of the population to have a college/university degree, while not considering whether the degrees are needed for the jobs that are going to be available. This means that there is a discrepancy between the supply and demand of workers and jobs and their education levels. People go to college to study something for which there is absolutely no demand, and end up unemployed, having used years of their life for something that didn't do them much good, and wasted a load of their own or tax payers' money.
I presume that most people who have lots of tabs open, like I do, use addons that make finding tabs fast. I use Tab Kit to organize the tabs in trees, and Pentadactyl to give me fast search that is activated by pressing b. I can't imagine using a browser which doesn't have either or both of these features.
Firefox and Ubuntu: making sure that no-one ever again is confused whether or not FOSS might be usable for people who have other things to do than updating their software.
If xterm, less, ls, vi and others would take 3 seconds to start, I would never get anything done. I think it's sad that people think that 3 seconds is fast (unless the program is loading some big data of course).
Silverlight is irrelevant, has always been, will always be. Maybe it won't completely "go away", but anyone who is betting a farm on it is an idiot that deserves what is coming at him (yes, him, women wouldn't be that stupid).
But one thing I'd think is true is that no person that is primarily nice and sociable has ever done anything that has significantly advanced the state of anything worthwile.
Context-switching is slow, yes, but in the first example the cause of evilness is not context-switching, it's that you must program web apps' client side in JS.
There is no difference. That's why people who want to retain their sanity disallow Flash. And it's really fucking close that I don't disable all JS too.