I just did all the things you mentioned and I couldn't get my CPU usage to go over 8% on my 3.0 GHz core2duo box. For your problems, I blame: cosmic rays.

I likes me some tab opening-closing animations.

I'm using Centos 5.3 in a university lab. The outdated nature of this Linux has been pretty frustrating - it's almost impossible to install anything new. I couldn't put Google Chrome on here, for example, or a recent version of The Gimp.

I just put Firefox 4 on here and it's damn sexy. It performs great, it was easy to install on the Linux box, the graphics are much nicer than FF 3, it gives RAM back to the system when I close tabs. There's less chrome so I get more browsing space on my monitor, without sacrificing any functionality at all. Bravo, Firefox team.

The problem is that it doesn't solve a problem that anybody really seems to have - there's little demand for higher performance apps in the browser.

I think the coolest potential for this idea is to recompile existing well-written native applications (e.g. photo editors, IDEs) so that they run from the browser with exactly the same appearance as their native counterparts. This would bring the idea of a thin client laptop computer that runs a web browser only closer to reality.

Are Tablets Just Too Expensive?

Is the rent just too damn high?

The only real problem is not Windows, it is getting the computers into the mainstream stores to be sold alongsides the Macbooks

What makes you assume Apple won't switch to ARM sometime in the next couple years? They dumped PPC for X86 due to the more favorable power/performance ratio. It's only natural to assume that when high-powered ARM processors appear, Apple will switch to that architecture without a moment's hesitation.

New features of upcoming sites can be co-opted before they threaten the big players, as you might have seen with Facebook taking on some Twitter-like notions, such as the feed.

And pretty much stealing Foursquare's entire concept and copying it as Facebook Places.

In particular, [Chrome] is still lacking a lot of options that i think ought to be available like having a drop-down list of all open tabs

That's available as one of my favorite extensions: here.

If I could ask for any Chrome feature, I'd like to see multiple rows of tabs. That used to be my favorite Firefox extension (Tab Mix Plus) but I'm willing to give it up in favor of Chrome's performance.

Is anyone getting flashbacks of that Westwood College advertisement where the two losers are "working" at a video game production house, and explain to their boss that they need to "tighten up the graphics on Level 3?"

Here ya go!

For one the market share for iPhones is still much much larger then all the Android based phones out there. It is second only to RIM Blackberries.

That's actually not true, Nokia's apple share has always been much higher than Apple's. Apple's profit margins are rather substantial, though, compared to their percentage of the market.

Interesting rumour. I'm slightly interested to know what your basis for this assertion is

Half a dozen of my friends figured this out the hard way. Their doctors all traced it back to drug interactions between antibiotics in the -cycline family (minocycline, tetracycline, etc.) and their low-dose oral contraceptive pills. But since anecdotes aren't proof, I spent about five minutes Googling:

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Reference 3 (about 3/4 down the page)
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Many sources I found note that it is difficult to conduct formal research in this area because women don't want to take antibiotics as part of a study and risk getting pregnant. It is difficult to prove what happens, but my friends have traced it back and told me what their doctors said. I hope sexually active readers hear this and protect themselves.

Just think about it: who bears most of the risk in case of pregnancy? Women.

That's the commonly held belief. However, in modern society, men are held accountable for their actions, and many women are perfectly willing to do nefarious things to keep a man around. Read: missing pills, poking holes in condoms, fishing used condoms out of trash, etc. Also, be aware that female birth control pills fail for the entire month if the woman takes any kind of antibiotic that month.

FEMALE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS FAIL FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH IF THE WOMAN TAKES ANY KIND OF ANTIBIOTIC THAT MONTH.

Repeated for emphasis. I can't count on two hands the amount of friends of mine that have accidentally impregnated a woman who took an antibiotic and didn't know about this side effect. And when accidental pregnancies occur, the man must defer to the woman's beliefs on whether abortion is wrong.

It might be unjust, but in most societies, men can walk away and abandon women they've gotten pregnant easily without serious social stigma or financial repercussions.

This is a modern society of hair-trigger lawsuits. Most women won't put up with that. Also, most men actually have at least minimal moral standards for themselves and won't abandon their child and its mother to fend for themselves.

We need more male contraceptive methods. Hell, we need as many contraceptive methods as we can get. If it were up to me, everyone would be required to use at least three methods before having sex. Unintended pregnancies destroy lives, so let's be smart about this.

In short, it would take a lot more than this one paper to overturn the consensus that has resulted from one hundred years of scientific research. I mean, if someone published an experiment tomorrow saying that Einstein was wrong, what would your reaction be? To reject Einstein? Or to think that the experimenter might have screwed up?

- Albert Einstein