Definitely a ominous hum.

Li'l magic sleep gun
you just don't have what I need
that ominous hummmmmm

Base 12 works better than base 10 for doing simple fractions. since 12 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,6 and 10 is divisible by 1,2,5. Every time you measure something in metric that isn't exactly half you end up with decimal point strangeness. Measuring a yard of fabric into 6 pieces is 6, 6 inch pieces. In the metric world you have 6, 16.6666...cm pieces.

Also 1 foot is a very usable length, there is too much of a gap between meter and centimeter, do metric countries even use the decimeter? Would you describe me (6'4") as 19.4 decimeters tall?

I tried Windows 7, it was supposed to work on my machine and it did, assuming that I never wanted to listen to any sounds or connect to the Internet. The drivers do not exist for my WiFi or on board sound. Other than those two faults it ran flawlessly. I'll keep XP until I have to upgrade, I was the same with Win98SE as well.

Nielson ratings for DVR watchings only count within two or three days of air date. So by putting Sarah Conner and Dollhouse on Friday that give all day Saturday and all day Sunday for people who are more likely to use a DVR to watch their shows.

In the beginning a medium amount of people know about Hulu, an even smaller amount of people know about Boxee.
Then a minute long add with Alec Baldwin shows up in the middle of the superbowl telling people that they can watch most of their programs anytime they want too through a website called Hulu.
Now a lot of people now know about Hulu, and think that this is nice but They'd rather watch it on my television. They start looking into other ways to do this and now more people know about Boxee.
Now the content providers notice they are losing viewer share to themselves, and force Hulu to stop Boxee from taking their TV viewer share.

How do people with a pay per MB plan deal with auto-updaters?
I disable any updater that starts with windows some of the worst offenders are
- realPlayer
- Adobe Acrobat
- Java
I stopped using realPlayer (now using RealAlternative) and Adobe (now using Foxit Reader) because each time it was updated there were more autorunning update programs.

If we had the copyright laws we have today when libraries were first being built there is no way book publishers would allow libraries to exist.

(sarcasm)
I mean places where people can go and check out entire books for free instead of having to buy them is definitely a violation of the rights of book publishers.
(/sarcasm)