So what are they using now that is better than NX?

How would the users know it's that site that is broken, and not the browser?

As nice as it is with cheap stuff, I cannot come up with a good argument why internet sales should be except from tax while in-store sales still pay. Internet stores can compete just fine on actual efficiency improvements over physical stores.

Also, the radiation higher up than LEO is a bitch.

Calm down already, it's a 14-year-old. Give him a chance to try it at least.

Couldn't this be done with Meta-Refresh?

The propulsion is not solar powered. On GOCE of the other hand, it is. It is only 270 km (170 mi) up where the atmosphere is relatively thick and it will stay up for 20 months.

It isn't for pandering to movie watchers. It is because a 21 inch screen in 16:9 format has a smaller area than a 21 inch 4:3 screen, and is thus cheaper to make.

Many of these are the IE rendering engine wrapped in a new user interface. They appeared in the days when IE development was dead and provided useful things like tabs and popup blocking, while staying compatible with the IE6-only websites that used to be everywhere.

Maxthon for one is very popular in China because it supports ActiveX which many Chinese banking websites rely on (bleh), and it is much nicer to use than IE6. I am not sure how it compares to IE8 though.

It means there will be competition between the browsers, so you can choose the fastest one. Mplayer and VLC use far less CPU for the same video file, so if Firefox uses libraries form other open source products we can expect much faster playback.

Most of all, I am looking forward to having video played by the browser itself, rather than a plugin. That way keyboard shortcuts and other UI features will not not stop working when watching a video.

China loses because Google is the best search engine, especially for scholarly papers, books and such. Sure they have Baidu, but it is basically the AOL of China; very popular with those who don't know better. University students, engineers, and smart people in general prefer Google, especially when searching in English. I suspect Google leaving China will lead to more people bypassing the filters to get to Google.

Also, Google has been a symbolically important, and may influence other western companies.

I see absolutely no reason to believe Google would do that.

Swedish mapping website Hitta.se has a feature similar to Street View, but with higher resolution and they do not even blur faces.

Why is the Slashdot house view that kids should always be doing exactly what kids 50 years ago were doing? Since when is stuffing a large number of kids in a cramped space for hours with little to do considered important for their development? Anyway, this is high school students. What's so wrong about them using laptops and the internet?