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There, preprocessed that for you. Now pls. start reading!

Check out the Altec Lansing inMotion series or Creative d200 for new amplification technology. While this is no hi-end stereo, it sounds better than some 30 years old hi-fi even as mp3 over bluetooth.

one more thing to try is to change your card into 24bit/96-192kHz (depending on what your receiver supports) For instance it is possible with M-Audio USB card.
The result was eyes(ears)opening even for usual mp3 files.

No wonder for they use the rare-earth superstrong magnets in there. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rare-earth_magnet#Common_applications

Here an example of a constructive lobbing (google translation) that certainly had influence on the process http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kremlin.ru%2Fnews%2F11115&act=url
I must admit Medvedev has a talent of staying on topic and making insightful comments from a country governance perspective. The discussion gives a nice insight into the problems law makers have in contemporary Russia.

They have reached a level where they should start experimenting. The 9.10 does work just fine for me on the desktop since its release. If I am honest to myself - it has everything I need for now. Just out of enthusiasm upgrading would be a natural thing to do. But because I have once compiled the Amarok 1.x for 9.10 I am too lazy to upgrade and recompile.
My wife uses 10.10 on her laptop and when she at the desktop she does not notice the difference with 9.10. Not to say that there is no difference, but 9.10 was already good enough.
So if Ubuntu does not get noticeably (like "Wow!") better incrementally, they should start experimenting.

Take Amarok, then.

ask a credible question in the first place?

Can it actually be big enough not to care about PCI at all, because with 70 mln accounts they could economically implement their own fraud detection system.

You say you have unlimited budget - just buy Novell back from Attachmate. There will certainly be one or two knowledgeable guy who could run your network for you.
For giving you such an amazing advice for free, may I suggest you keep Novell suing SCO out of their pants?

When everybody and their dog are on Facebook, those who are not, have certainly something to hide. :-)
Like the house where bin Laden was reportedly hiding - had no phone and internet connection - evil!

Fujitsu ScanSnap500 is the device that does the batch scans. This is actually the only thing I still use Windows for.

Bitcoin has just reached the parity with USD yesterday, if what reported is correct.

Having an app signed is a good thing for business devices. It takes away the burden of verifying every single one developer of that 99cent flashlight app yourself. On the other hand I totally get the GPL3 motivation. So may be there is a meaningful way that resolves both challenges - the one of a user and of a tinkerer.