I don't think online newspapers can get it right, because I don't think there's any such thing as an online newspaper done right.

Newspapers (as the name suggests) are an artifact of print. You don't need them online. If there's anything good in the New York Times today, I'll hear about it on Slashdot or Reddit or Digg. Why bother going to the Times's own front page, where all I get are Times articles?

The real, sad story behind that lovable smile...

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OSX is a particularly crappy performer, unless apps are specifically written to take advantage of it.

Windows XP may be slow(ish), but it's a damn sight faster for real time computing than Linux (except, possibly, Linux-with-Alan-Cox's-low-latency-kernel). The price you pay for stability, I suppose.