Didn't you see The Astronaut Farmer? The government won't just let you build your own rocket...

Seriously though, NASA has placed restrictions in the past and it just recently became more open.

Look at the human genome project, private sector is doing better.

Plus the private sector will always invest if there is potential profit, THAT is the beauty of capitalism. :-)

That depends on what you consider performance. Yes there is some overhead, mostly memory but memory is cheap. I'd rather use more memory and have a faster and more stable browser. Then again, if Firefox fixed their memory management problems it would probably be faster and more stable.

Not sure how having the Chrome tabs and pages use different UI code makes it easier to crash. A website shouldn't ever modify the OS UI parts. The separate memory space feature isn't a killall solution but it does make it less susceptible to some exploits. Session cookies aren't shared between tabs.

So when you write for Windows you are really just writing plugins? What makes it an application?

So wait, you're complaining that your costs are high and you have to compete with cheaper, inferior products? What is Apple supposed to do? Figure out how to lower your cost, or raise prices and market more. Convince people that your app is worth paying a few more dollars for. You don't even have a solution, all I hear is whining...

Yes the translation of addresses isn't a big deal but page swapping off the hard drive is the slow down. I also run x64 Vista and recently upgraded to 8GB of RAM (it's so damn cheap nowadays!). I turned off virtual memory and haven't had any problems. I've always heard that Windows pre-caches data based on how much memory you have so I figured disabling virtual memory would prevent any hard faults and 8GB should be plenty for what I do.

BT isn't the problem, it's the internet providers offering more than they can handle. If I am capped at 5Mb/s then I should be able to use that regardless of my protocol and so should everyone else. Internet providers, upgrade your infrastructure and stop over selling!