Mod parent up!

The car drops you off in front of work and drives itself to the parking, rather than making you walk from the parking to the work entrance

More than half a minute including BIOS boot, which according to the article is 15 seconds.

The earthquake epicenter was about 125 km from the plant.
Taking into account that there are more than 50 reactors in Japan, it would be quite probable for the impact to be much worse.

I have the opposite experience: It feels slow for me.

I tried Opera just yesterday after the launch the beta. And reaction time for scrolling the window feels slow, at least considerably slower than FF.

When I scroll the slashdot page up/down in Firefox it feels instantaneous. In Opera I first see the scrollbar move then there is a half-a-second delay before the rest of the page moves.

Does anyone else notice similar behavior?

@ being swapped with " is the difference between en_US and en_GB

Only on /. this can be modded insightful :)

Some people may share files that say:

Purchased by 'Steve Jobs sjobs@apple.com' :)

What about whole Shockwave?

The flash player is a much simplified subset of the whole shockwave, so for pages that require application/x-director there is still nothing for Linux, not even 32bit...

Most of the population doesn't know what its about. The only thing they know is that US things were good at some point, so this is a good enough motivation for any new laws. This is the kind of world we live in...