...I don't get it.

"Giants of the Internet" don't pay taxes in France.

Ergo we tax ISPs (French companies, who already pay at least VAT, I'm sure) and give that money to the French RIAA!?

Even better, a blow up doll!!

As a Chrome user on Windows having to *install* the plugin... I am dissappoint(ed)

I agree with word of mouth etc. but it's airtime that gets you the best visibility. And radio or music tv aren't but the tip of the iceberg!

Don't underestimate the power of getting your music into ads, serials and movies.

All these need well connected producers...

Finally I can hear good quality music with just the one earbud.

No, wait...

And good riddance to R&D at Maranello....

So it's right to steal a Ferrari?

Would be useful if he gave some comparison with Sulawesi...

Synapses: plenty of space, excellent access time, wonderful embedded relational database with ontology links.

Slight data loss after about 50 years of storage, that can become critical after 70-80.

Main drawback: lack of a standard high speed connection

I agree...

I too got tired of ending up in black-lists so I just relay all outgoing email to my provider's SMTP.

Piece of cake

Uff... make it a "to go" please, there's no seating place right now. Thanks

I need to be a little more agnostic and work with more than one format (many users still expect .doc and .xls from sites).

And besides, I would rather OOo or PHP provide me with a good API than delve into the XML "by hand"

Mmm... no... not this time... :-(

Am I the only one who is waiting for some kind of DOM to create docs via PHP? Possibly with updated fresh modules?

Italian Type L:

- Symmetrical (alternating current has no polarity!)
- Compact (you can have two wall sockets in the same space as one Shuko or BS)
- Earthed (the "euro-plug" is cool, but is missing the middle bit)
- Small (little kids can't electrocute themselves)
- Linear (the prongs are parallel to the flex, so extension-cords are mighty simple)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type_L

I wonder what happens about so called "internet noise", that continuous flow of traffic (typically bots trying to hack your devices) that yanks up your total traffic throughput although you're not doing anything particular.

Or, for that reason, what about all those pesky updating programs (adobe, java, apple, windows update...)?

I think the best way would be some sort of "best effort" approach. If you need to download something big, great, you'll get all the bandwidth you need... for a short time, though.

If your hooking up to bittorrent (et al.), then your bandwidth will be throttled downwards, depending on what you pay.