There's a difference between multitasking amongst 5 apps and multitasking amongst 5 tasks. Some of my daily work requires at least 4 different windows open (I'm glad I have multiple displays) for one task, and I'd be far less productive without the ability to quickly switch amongst apps (Alt-Tab FTW!).

Sort of. I imagine that using proper de-duplication schemes, the vast majority of the show (including all the audio of the TV show, though ads wouldn't be included [ads could each be stored once and inserted at the proper time, which would also bring a whole lot of data for ad skipping]) can be recorded once, and only parts that are different in different markets (e.g. the logo in the corner) would take up extra space. Nationwide markets (such as anyone on a single satellite provider in most cases) would be incredibly cheap to store for. Local channels would be more expensive, though.

There was a company that used to do that. IIRC, they got sued for copyright infringement. On the other hand, if you uploaded it, they could do fingerprinting to make sure it's the same video and then toss the duplicate.

More time and lots of international cooperation. Yes, it's doable, but it does make the prospect that much harder.

To be fair, many of those cheques will be lumped together, as users have likely purchased more than just one or two books. However, the point remains that they will send you a cheque if you ask for one through their phone service or website.

Yes, but the first time was a test docking. This is the first supply mission.

Just because you're using something for sport doesn't suddenly make it not a weapon.

IIRC, ATI/AMD GPUs tend to perform better on benchmarks (due to higher raw processing power), but fall short on actual graphics performance (due to different architectures) when compared to Nvidia ones. That's why a lot of people wound up with Nvidia graphics cards for gaming and AMD ones for bitcoin mining (back when that was big).

It's pretty simple to protect against that on most implementations. Since you mentioned it, let's take Windows as an example.

To protect against rainbow tables on Windows, all we need to do is generate a 16-byte salt at the time of creation of the password and prepend it to the password pre-hashing. Then we store the salt in plaintext right next to the hashed password. Suddenly, a rainbow table is useless unless you happen to have a pre-generated rainbow table for that particular salt (note that you'd have to generate 2^127 times as many rainbow tables for a 50% chance of having a table with that salt).

Not that this protects against any other attacks, but it certainly does mitigate the rainbow table threat.

Not Android, but Nokia's 770, N800, and N810 tablets had a pretty strong following for a while.

I highly doubt it since they're already in the beta stage, so major version changes are a no-no at this point. You can however get the latest kernel in the Kernel ppa.

How is that relevant? Being a member of a state senate is hugely different from being a US senator or president.

I agree, but only if OP understands both the positives and negatives of using Linux on a daily basis. Unless you're a gamer, anything you absolutely need Windows for can be done in a virtual machine or under WINE (and many games also run pretty well under WINE). I personally use Linux at home for everything, starting in high school all the way through the completion of my university degree, and I've needed WINE for precisely two things: LTSpice (really, nothing else I've been able to find is anywhere near as good) and a few games.

Let's have simultaneous worldwide releases. Sounds fantastic to me. But while we're at it, I'd like on-par feature sets in every country. Phone manufacturers are worse about this than game consoles, but the consoles are bad as well. Seriously, why just because I live in the US should I not be able to order a Cricket game? (Similarly, why just because they're not in one of 14 blessed countries should my grandparents' Wii not be able to get online?)

Some hospitals use it in certain rooms that are shielded from wifi. I believe MRI rooms are one of these, but I'm not sure.