That is well and good. But try to play two programs at once that access the sound device at the same time and all the CPU in the world won't help you there. Who would want to play more then one sound at a time? Try playing some music while the desktop plays a notification sound. Or while online in a vitriol world, play a media stream while attending a music event.

What about hardware mixing? The bane of Linux users that found out there sound card can't handle more then one program using the output at the same without going through some insane hoops. There been a few sound servers to address this shortcoming.

Will it work with www.hulu.com?

Good. Unlike other drugs, you can NOT tell that you are impaired. All it takes is one mistake and an innocent child dies.

I was on my way home last night very late, around 11pm and saw a meter streak about 1/4 the way across the sky. Normally I see them flash a white streak across the sky and burn up quickly, but this one stayed non-white burning stage for a long time and rather slow across the sky. I lost sight of it near the horizon and wonder if that one hit the ground. My location was south central west Indiana and looking east.

The same thing was done in the past. Only 6 inch round headlamps was allowed in cars manufactured and sold in America. It was the best back then, but what happen in the following years is that it stop innovation all together in America and Europe started to make better headlamps. Years ago was the law was repealed and non 6 inch headlamps was allowed to be installed on autos. Took years for America to catch up.

Forget to state the fact that this is a one time expense. No monthly charges. You can also get just two antennas and make a passive repeater. Put one high gain outdoor antenna pointed towards the cell tower and place a small antenna indoor connected to the outdoor one directly.

They do sell extenders and repeaters. http://www.wpsantennas.com/residential-commercial-amplifiers-boosters.aspx While the full kits can get expensive, you can save money by getting just want you need antenna wise.

I like to see a website set up that lists sites that do this practice. Hopefully some developer can make a plugin that warn or even block this for firefox and other browsers.

That's due to over 90% of them are regurgitated AP feeds. I was in favor of AP forcing google to filter out there copyrighted AP stories and was hoping AP and google did not streak a deal. But they did. :-( Would have been nice to have a short list of oredgenale reporting stories.

I'm not a bit surprised that Zilch is leading now. It is not due to every geek/techie being a scrooge, it just a lot of smarter folks know that the big charities are rift with corruption and accounting expenses that take up to 90% of the donated money. This is why I always recommend if one is to donate, find a local charity that puts helping folks/animals first and not accounting expenses first.

I just looked at the xkcd home page redone in geocities style. That is one talented web master to create a home page that managed to mimics every detail of what was bad about geocities web pages. Even right down to the x10 ad. :-)

Is this new standard water resistant? It has to be if it ever gets to military devices. I always though the Apple MAC power connector could easy be water resistant just by sealing the edges around where the connector meets the body during assembly. Just think, expanding that could have a universal connector for mobile devices that can survive a dunk in the pool or toilet.

Appropriate charges should have been filed. Its no different then snail mail or saying those words in the face. Whatever charges that cab apply to anyone that talks someone into killing themselves knowing it was going to work should have charges files. Manslaughter or similar I think.