You keep pointing to Safari's and Chrome's support of Canvas as a unique factor that points to greater adoption for Canvas.

Both browsers also support SVG quite well (as well as Firefox - at least up to 3.0); I'm not sure why you're trying to draw that distinction.

Chrome does a really fantastic job with SVG JavaScript DOM manipulation; it's crazy fast. Safari 4 does as well.

Firefox is okay, but slowish and the latest 3.5 build breaks some things with SVG transforms that worked fine in 3.0

I'm not sure that you can categorize it as not being "fast enough". The progress in WebKit based browsers is really quite remarkable. I've been writing an SVG application for the last year or so that relies on the ability to manipulate a dynamically generated network map with JavaScript (move it around, scale, etc., found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/flower-nfa/) Chrome and Safari do a great job. Firefox did in 3.0, but is badly broken in 3.5.

Also, check out Google's SVGWeb project. It looks like it might be promising if MS decides to never build support for SVG.

I have a dual dual-core Xeon system built on a Tyan Tempest (i5000VF) motherboard with 8GB of RAM that runs XenServer 5. Right now I have it running 2 Windows 2008 domain controllers, an XP instance, an OpenSolaris instance, and several Linux VMs.

From NewEgg, that RAM cost me about $160 total. The 5 500GB drives (at the time I bought them) were $150 a piece. The processors were $150/each and the motherboard was $340. I picked up a 3Ware 9550SX PCI-Express RAID controller from E-bay for about $200.

It is server-class hardware, but can be built in stages (e.g., start with one processor, 4GB of RAM and 1 drive). I'd recommend not skimping; you'll appreciate the stability in the long term. I've been using this setup for about 2 years and am just now looking at starting again with new hardware (I'd like to build a shared-storage setup with OpenSolaris and ZFS).

You should give it a try again. I've been using XenServer for the last couple of years on dual socket, dual core, old-ish Xeon 5030s (my personal server, I purchased them for about $150 a piece). I run Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows 7, Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSolaris and have not had a single crash associated with XenServer. The PV drivers for Windows makes performance a non-issue. All of the *NIX platforms have PV kernels available.

I think your information is quite outdated. For me, it just works.

Incidentally, I chose XenServer over VMWare because it worked with my RAID controller (a 3ware device that ESXi does not - and will never, according to VMware - support).

It'll be interesting to see how human trials go. The last time I saw cytokines referenced, it was in relation to this drug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412

Looked great in animal studies; not so great for the humans involved.

And even if I wanted to move to a mountain top to avoid the "perks" of society, if that mountain top was within the borders of the USA I would still have to pay for the wasteful programs that our federal government throws around.

That is the epitome of the difficulty with increased socialization at a federal level. Folks who do not want and will not use the provided services still have to foot the bill.

"if you think otherwise, youre just a self centered, spoiled individual. just go to a mountain top, and live there, where you will not have to spend a dime for nobody else's interests, but also be away from the perks society brings."

No. I'm an American.

We aren't all self-centered and spoiled, but we do value our ability to make our own decisions and many of us resent any efforts by others to impose their will upon us.

No.

Government is EVERYONE'S corporation. It is a corporation in which my interests may differ from the will of the majority. It is a corporation that can PUT ME IN PRISON for choosing not to participate.

I can choose to walk away from a private corporation; I can't easily escape my government.

Bask in your ignorance.

A government program that forces its benefits and, more importantly, its costs on all people, regardless of the wants and needs of each individual (social security, public education, etc.) must represent the needs of individuals with sometimes radically divergent agendas. I have not yet seen a "participation mandatory" government program (in the US or elsewhere) that is able to represent those differing needs in anything but a mediocre manner.

In general, if private enterprise can provide a resource, private enterprise should. This empowers the individual to make his or her own decisions.

If the government simply wants to compete and will not force the costs of running broadband out to every remote area in the US on me, then I have no problem with it. If the opposite is true, then this plan is a travesty of freedom.