People are different, most people does not hear frequencies above 12kHz. For them, you?, the content above is meaningless and CD is superior in all aspects. For a few others sounds even above 20kHz is detected (me 20 years ago....) and "unhearable" sounds can be very annoying.

What seems to exist in this area (>12kHz) that most people dismiss (naturally, they can not hear them) is "the room". Filter them away and it feels like listening to the music through a wall

Unfortunately there exists a lot of noise in this area also. Created by bad D/A conversion but mostly because of bad mastering where the music is compressed and it's average volume is increased causing clipping distortion. This noise is for me much worse than the noise coming from an old LP

I have not been able to by any new CDs for a long while because even the old music is now getting destroyed by remastering and to buy a good quality CD is really difficult

I checked documentation and I was wrong. Versioning in .NET is like in other operating systems except that old, compatible, versions of library are kept.

This sounds like .NET as that is the road taken there.

And yes, I agree with you as I did have the same thoughts when I participated in an introduction course of .NET programming.

I agree

My laptop has a 30GB Vertex drive. I bought it a year ago because it was fast and cheaper/performance than velociraptor (which could not be put into the laptop anyway because of power consumption and heat). I run Ubuntu 9.10 64bit on it and using VirtualBox to run the other OS'es I need/want:

• Ubuntu 9.04 32bit
• Maemo SDK image (Ubuntu 8.04)
• Windows XP
• Haiku

Yes I am considering buying an Intel 80Gb SSD but OTOH I could ditch XP as I am not really using it.

PS. I stream music and film from the net or from my server

All statistics are unreliable in one way or another. Do you have something less reliable to offer? Like where you got your information from?

Also remember that the statistics from stats sites are not counting how many users are using certain browser but how much is browsed with each browser. So both you and statcounter could be correct, less people simply browsed more. Two different kinds of market share

When checking statistics (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-weekly-200827-201011) I can not se that people are choosing different browser because of this ballot. Probably it is only causing that everybody is reinstalling whatever browser they have choosen.

I'm sceptical of anything which proposes to simply double the amount of energy extracted...

They claimed 50% increase of efficiency.

...the alternative would be that conventional engines were spewing out half the gas unburned. Which just isn't the case.

The efficiency of combustion engines are ~20% so you could say that more than half is lost (80% actually). An increase with 50% would but it in the 30% range which seems reasonable to me.

Look at HTC who make 50% Windows Mobile and Android. Across both platforms they have their own (pretty good) UI. Now they cannot use their UI on Windows Pone 7. THAT will tip them over to Android in a big way, and the $15 windows tax.

Grouping three different browsers together never made sense to me. There is more differences between IE6 and IE8 than between Firefox and Opera. Grouping All firefox together might make sense but not grouping IE.

Car analogy: Toyota Corolla is the most sold car in the world but there is not much if at all that is reused from the 1966 version in todays car. It is only the name that is the same

So rejoice that web-developers can tell their PHB's that they are now developing for both the w3c-standard AND the de-facto standard.

I have used it a little more than a year so I have no clue of how it was before, try it again you might like it.

Some people say netbeans is a great C++ IDE and Anjuta is starting to get really nice also but it is putting all source in the same place exactly like VisualStudio.