The problem I have with paper is the distracting animation when I flip the page. Or when the wind flips the page... or when doing anything, really. Very annoying indeed.

Here in Belgium, i bought a book for 9€, and i saw it in epub format for 16€, with DRM...

One is cheaper and i can give it to my mother, another is expensive and is limited to one e-reader. Which of them do you choose?

I live in belgium and all files in the governement website are in pdf and doc...

Personnaly I like the Esperanto sounding. But it's subjective. You can say Enlish sounds like if the speaker has burned his mouth of Dutch sounds like if he has no teeth... And I don't know how sounds French for a foreign language speaker!

Why do people keep pushing English, it's a terrible language.
Why do people keep pushing French, it's a terrible language.
Why do people keep pushing Spanish, it's a terrible language.
etc...

yes, I'm a french-speaking man and after years of studying english I can't say you exactly what I want in english.
I don't think i'm offtopic, when half the scientific publications will be in chineese only, it will be difficult to stay on the same scientific level than China.

And there s two main factors explaining curent USA predominance: english and dollar. If one of them disapears, the fall will be hard...

I think it's now time to begin to publish in Esperanto.

By now Americans and Brittish are advantaged because all the publications are in English. And all the scientists in the world have to learn this difficult language to stay behind and understand what happens.

But will the chineese always publish their results in English? If they learn English and publish in chineese, they will always be in the first place, but if the scientific community begin to publish in Esperanto now, maybe it's not too late...

But I don't think thiw will happens, and for us non-english speaking people, a new difficult language will replace the current.

Chrome is in beta state (maybe for the next 10 years?). I use firefox 3.1 whiwh is in beta state and seems very speedy also.

If you compare browsers, compare the betas in one side, ant the stables in other side. What you can see is that IE stable release sucks, others ares equivalents. Chrome is'nt stable thus it does'nt exists. Show me the same with the betas and we will see the fastest next-gen browser

But USA is not the world. Another type of internet will appear soon of late, and "THE" government will will not be capable to decide anything about it...