Yes. Exactly 03D is easier. I see problems with 3D models - You can only read txt based files with JS - and I am not sure if this works on all browsers. When You run everything (file reading, rendering, back face sculling, front face sculling etc) from JS then it will be slow. 03D and 3DMLW to it in the plugin. Which is faster.

O3D still uses a plug-in. 03D is easier do develop. Its similar to 3DMLW. I haven't seen a specification for WebGL yet (Khronos Group hasn't published any). I know so much that there aren't any readers for 3D models which makes the development of games very hard. Also there isn't any logic built into it. You have to program everything. No shaders, no phyiscs etc.

Try coping text from PDF's. It's sometimes impossible.

Firefox is also using Cairo :P

They are developing a version which is based on cairo.

Usually ordinary people don't argue with doctors that this or that medicine is better but when it comes to computers/electronic devices than this person is usually a "pro" or thinks that he or she knows better than the Tech person.

I agree with You. Linux needed Canonical - someone who brings Linux to the masses. On that Linux can grow because more and more developers consider Linux as a viable OS and they are more willing to develop under it. Before Ubuntu there where tens of Linux distros who fought for the dominance. Now the developers can rely on just on version and don't have to consider all the pain taking problems with diversity.

When did You last used Linux? People don't know that Linux has a better support for hardware than Vista or Win7. On ubuntu I could use my old scanner out of the box (even 2 years ago) but on Vista I had to search the net. I admit that Linux has some problems with some certain hardware but that is the problem of the hardware manufacturers not Linux because they don't let the developers to port their drivers to other OSes than windows.

Flash has semi 3D - I would call it 2.5D. There are also such players like - 3DMLW, 3DVia, Unity3D, VastPark, Wirefusion etc. Isn't really a new thing.

A small/indie game producer can make a decent game with $100K. If the BIG game producer would use 10 times more ($1M) their games should come out 5-10 times better why they use 200 times more money for that task?

VRML is dead language but there is also a newer one - 3DMLW. Its open source and there seems to be active development on a newer version.

I suggest to You to view the IT Crowd series :)

An ordinary person can't calculate more than 1-10 moves ahead but that doesn't win the game. Humans feel whats the best in the current position and try avoid bad moves from the past games. But AI-s ordinary don't have past memory and that's why minimizing computation isn't good.

Also mine thought. Can't mod the reply :(

But the government could give out the criminals who the West asks from them. They don't cooperate with other nations. The EU has deadlines for new member states to get some things in order (corruption, law and even the macro economics) why can't a huge country like Russia to do the same. I think also that this is a problem of willingness not the nature and the size of the task.