Would agree with the 1 Desktop Support to 100 Users figure for windows as well. Plus an optional employee in training to handle holidays, upcoming promotions to SA etc On experience would say that ratio should hold even in a company with only 100 or so non-tech related users. Never been in a company with 5000 desktops. At 1 to 50 you'd be expecting them to do a lot more than just help users, fix machines and write procedures.

I'd say no. Given the likely chance that they will open source only the gui code and not the protocol library, the program might as well be closed source. A program like Pidgin that wanted to include skype support would have to include a pre-compiled 'blackbox' file to actually communicate with anything, and since the source for this was not available, it could no longer be distributed as open source.

Even the second biggest one (12mb) is only 24kbps / 8000Hz and sounds like crap. And there's 8mb and 4mb versions below that! Surely a single 64kbps 220000Hz stream would of done? :s The large version is here - 96kpbs / 32000Hz.... http://cluebytwelve.net/anticipation/Stross-Krugman%202009-08-06hi.mp3

I would imagine the same principle might apply to those who in crowds who rush inbetween people or push past others.

While similar i'm not sure it fits 'the mob as a fluid' theory though:

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/01/physics-of-crowds.html

Itself somewhat dismissed (at least in passing) for disregarding irrationality here:

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13174313

In all probability it may be that a cross of all factors is at work. Perhaps some people see it as queuing while others always look for the alternative way through.

...and this is the worst askslashdot ever.

that is all.

Their defense is solid - there is no difference between them and something like google image search...

But I can't help thinking that such a vital tenant of the internet is at risk from them having named themselves The Pirate Bay.

'Pirate' being a word the recording industry has tirelessly popularised as a banner under which to demonize copyright infringers.

It'd be like finding microsoft not guilty of anti-competitive behaviour had they been called monopolysoft.