You know, it might be local to slashdot actually. I just tried it on gmail and it seems fine there.

I've been using a mix of chrome and chromium on linux now as my primary browser for the last six months. I'm surprised at how stable it actually is (especially now). When I first started using it, the chromium builds weren't integrated into the UI very well, and were very finicky (especially with plugins). Now though, I've had zero crashes with the latest build (4.0.266.0) that I'm using. Flash works great under Ubuntu 9.04 with chrome, the dom inspector is up and running, networking options are now available (an improvement from the previous chromium build I was using), complex scripts (hebrew, arabic, etc) are working, and UI is operating exactly how you'd expect it to. Oddly enough, the only problem I'm having with it, is if the width of a text input box goes larger than around 600 pixels, I can't select the text outside of that 600px with my mouse (not that it's a problem, I just click elsewhere and use my lovely keyboard to get me where I need to be). Other than that, zero problems. Very happy with it.

Well everything is backwards in Soviet Russia. It was only a matter of time before magnetic North pointed South.

Seems to be just randomly chosen, most likely based up on where they had Gizmodo people traveling to during the holidays. If they wanted a more fair test, they ought to probably hit the top cities based on population and/or density - thus covering the largest sample of people. Seems right now that they're just using convenience sampling though, which has huge flaws behind it.

http://i.imgur.com/vvhxP.png Here's what I'm referring to when I say tile. It allows you to show multiple tabs at once in the main rendering window. Quite nice for large, widescreen monitors.

Something tells me that'd be cold honey very quickly.

...and was quite impressed. Very snappy, a better UI, some very nice tab management capabilities (ability to tile tabs horizontall/vertically, not sure if this was in previous versions or not). However the one thing I was even happier about was their new vega library. If you didn't read over the summary, it's a new graphics library that they're using for 2d animation/rendering which has the capability of being hardware accelerated. If you've tried out the direct2d build of firefox, you'll know how nice this is. Pages animate and scroll so smooth you'd swear it was warm honey running down Kiera Knightly's body.

If we need the rights to him, can we pay the papal people with paypal?

Ion is the name of the nvidia chipset that they use.

They tested it in the article, and it ran for about 3 hours and 20 minutes. Not the best life, especially for a netbook.

I have an X61T right now, and while the underlying structure of the machine is excellent, it's because the frame inside it is metal (at least for the tablet). The plastic shell it has is starting to die fast though.

My point is that even if plastic was free, aluminum wouldn't add hardly anything to the production cost of the device.

But meh manufacturing. I think that's what a lot of these lower end notebooks are missing these days. I feel like everytime I pick one up I have to worry about the hinges cracking. Is there any reason why hardware companies like Asus can't use an aluminum body? When I first heard Apple was switching to it, I was ecstatic - aluminum and glass over plastic? Finally a laptop hat has some heft to it. Seriously though, it can't be a cost issue here, the market price for aluminum is $1.1475/lb today. Why don't more manufacturers use it?

Why is this modded off topic? Luke Crawford, the same guy who wrote this book, runs prgmr.com - a xen based vps host. If anything it shows that the author is competent. Mod parent informative.

Neither that nor the Star Wars Christmas special ever happened. See to it that you remember that.