Try installing Tomato or DDWRT and tweak the maximum number of simultaneous connections value. Raising that will dramatically improve your performance with BT. This will use up significantly more RAM on the router, though, so try to use a model that has beefy hardware (for a consumer-grade home router). I highly recommend the WRT54-GL, which has double the RAM of the standard WRT54G models. The "L" means it supports Linux. =)

Doesn't help the OP any, though.

Your decision to sell the Raspberry Pi to any interested parties, not just educational institutions, seems to indicate a broad-minded approach to education, favoring transparency and open standards. What percentage of your costs do you expect to cover by selling directly to individual, hacker-type enthusiasts, versus wholesale distribution to educational institutions for inclusion in curricula?

I'm no audiophile, though I do take the time (and space) to rip everything I buy to FLAC. What's the intended application of encoding around 96kbps? Most audio streams online passed that mark many years ago. All in all, this seems like a question best answered years ago. Can anyone point me to what I'm missing here?

More or less the thing for social networking in places like Brazil and India.

Of course. I think what Parent was saying is that better than this philosophy you identify is to implement an ethos of doing the job well. As this case illustrates, that would have been a better approach to take than focusing on "keeping investors' wallets open." Funnily enough, doing the job well is often a better approach, no matter what your jaded perspective on American commercialism may be (which actually feeds into the corrupt mentality of faking goods to get money).

I think you're being facetious, but it's worth pointing out that money spent on jets and other machines of war is wasted whether they're used or not. As plebian as it may seem to quote 1984 in a discussion like this, I think the point is worth the didacticism:

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Building machines of war, even if they are not used, is profoundly detrimental to the progression of culture in a harmonious and sustainable way. And, as Eisenhower tried to warn, they will be used if they are created, albeit against enemies most likely to be defeated (in this case, probably not China).

In my experience, mobile Firefox is beautiful in its replete feature set, but I find it deplorably slow—much like how Firefox 3.x was on the desktop. I haven't played around much with add-ons for fear of even longer browser startup times on my phone. NoScript is a wonderful project, but I'd like to see a lot more speed improvement on mobile Firefox before I go signing up.

The 128mb of RAM is insufficient, hands down, completely, utterly, insufficient. They should have 1 gig on it. I'd pay $50 to have that.

Yeah, but then you (or someone else, to give you the benefit of the doubt) would be saying, "$50? You could pare the RAM down to 128MB and make it a $25 PC!" I think this hits a sweet spot.

Important papers like receipts? Surely you jest! I find this packrat mentality rather silly, but to each their own. If I cared enough to save something, I'm pretty sure I'd bother to digitize it, though. (Again, if your system works for you, stick to it.)

Jokes aside, hard data on the specific anatomical and therefore neurological differences between male and female brains---if there are any!— are welcome. I'd think this discussion could be extended ad infinitum, with theoretical variations for differences of culture or "personality." Props to Allen for footing the bill on this one.

It's a reference to the type of tea [wikipedia.org], as an alternative to Java—tea vs. coffee, get it?

Not only should we congratulate the IE team on this fantastic and wholly good-natured tradition, but the Firefox guys never fail to exhibit a genuinely grateful yet professional tone. Any developer working on IE must recognize the huge shot to the arm that Firefox gave the browser market, and given IE's great strides lately, the gap in usability and security is finally getting narrower between the two browsers. I'd imagine that working on IE would involve a lot of friendly competition, and I'm happy to see that in an industry that's typically rife with cutthroat politics.

Now, when will the Firefox team start sending cakes to the Chrome developers? ;)

An especially wise decision, considering the third-person plural conjugation is actually more acceptable to most speakers of American English. Think about it: you wouldn't say "it sucks" when referring to the fraud committed by Bank of America—you'd say they suck, because they are humans and they suck.

www.bankofamericasuck.com!