No, but what about those that could afford and desired an upgrade, but chose not to because Vista got such bad press? They might be considering Windows 7...

How much of this research transfers over to the animal kingdom?

QoS allows the router to drop packets coming in for a particular ip/port (your client) if they exceed a certain rate (normal and/or burst). TCP will automatically renegotiate the transfer speed to accommodate the loss of packets. In this way users hogging bandwidth can be contained. The real powers of QoS are in prioritizing outgoing packets in the queue, allowing protocols that require low latency (VoIP) to go out before those that have no latency requirements (torrent), but the outgoing queue can also be shaped so each user gets a fair share of outgoing traffic.

Yeah; that and capitalism.

Being that VoIP means "Voice over Internet Protocol", I would say that all the apps listed qualify, but the poll requires that you use it 'regularly' to count it. I have half a dozen VoIP utilities installed and use none of them, so they are not counted.

Or you could run Debian Testing. If that is still not cutting edge for you, move to unstable.

You mean something like a web interface placed on an intranet? I can't think of a situation where there is no getting around a single application.

Well, considering that Ubuntu seems to think that the terminal is an 'Accessory', rather than a system tool... I can't believe you're arguing that a using visual aids with tutorials is bad. Lets all go back to HTML 1.0 why don't we, at least all that boring text out there will load way faster!

Screenshots would help a lot with this also. Is there anything like Wildform Flash Presenter available for Linux?

XP and below were quite painful for me to install. I do find the Vista and Win7 installs to be much more straightforward. The most tedious part is dealing with the serials and activation, which is one thing I thankfully will never have to worry about with linux...

Oh, but the irony of using a company's products to bring them down is so sweet!

Who told you that? My experience is that Debian's strength is in its versatility, rather than a focus on servers. Thats why it is seen in using for anything from the firmware-based Linksys NSLU2 to being the base of some of the most popular desktop distros of the past few years, suck as Knoppix and Ubuntu.

I agree with you and rarely go to the theaters or even know a movie is out until it's available on dvdrip... I mean DVD.

I always cheer loudly when these commercials are played at the movie theatres. I think it provides some comic relief and lets everybody know that not everybody believes the bullshit.

This is new to you? Reviewers have been receiving PC hardware, Game Consoles, Games, and software for years now.