This is why we need to continue supporting the Koch Brothers' War on Nature!

Is it me, or shouldn't we be thinking about a performance improvement plan to get those UV emissions up by the next solar cycle?

For one, building my Hackintosh was fun. I've done loads of hardware bashing since I bought my first PC about 17 years ago. When I made the switch to Macs a couple of years ago, I gave up the ability to hot-rod like I could with Windows-based boxes. I know more about OS X and Macs now, thanks to the process. Secondly, having a Mac-based netbook is great for traveling as I can share my iTunes libraries, season pass shows, etc between my iMac and my Hackintosh. I've built an Ubuntu-box from an old PC laying around, and while I enjoyed learning hot to configure a new OS, I don't see much more than Ubuntu offers over OS X (given that I was constantly updating the OS as well as apps and dealing with version incompatibilities).

Almost all of the OS/Hardware pairings you reference are necessary because of proprietary hardware solutions (see the references toward the top above to Amiga). Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.

Actually, the blower from a vacuum cleaner at a car wash would be more than enough to power a 100mm dia. (4" in the US, which is a standard tube size here for pneumatic tube systems) point-to-point line, and you could move the carrier several hundred meters with a payload up up to a half kilo. You could use ABS sewage line. The problem is how you would create bends and offsets. The smallest radius for a standard size carrier in a 100mm dia. tube is 60cm. Sealing the system is really not much of an issue. And if you use a piece of 70mm pipe, you'd need to wrap the outside with the fuzzy velcro strips at equadistant points to make your seal in order to allow the pressure/vacuum to propel the carrier. I used to sell the big systems to hospitals for a living.

Flash does not belong on Information Delivery websites.

No, but Adobe Flex does. Or at least can be a UI solution, depending on the mission.

I've got an iPod Touch, which I love, and it has a YouTube feature built in. Anyone know what they're using to present the video besides Flash, as I have access to every video on the site?