To be fair one of those devices comes with a 2x plus markup over the manufacturing price.

no longer under warranty?!!!

I am not sure what is your glitch or why it is not fast for you.
I can say that Microsoft has really beaten the pants off Chrome with the release of IE9 as far as speed is concerned.

Its much faster for me than Chrome and now it has Ad blocking / tracking blocking, per site flash blocking, plays well with high DPI monitors among many other nice features.
I only wish they had made the 64-bit version faster too (but I can wait for the next release).

Several institutions in Mumbai have not changed their name this includes Bombay Stock Exchange, Bombay High Court, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay etc.

BTW, Half of my Indian friends still call it Bombay.

It just means an environment which is low in nutrients.

The lake just happens to have high oxygen levels because of high pressure from the layers of ice - that doesn't make it oligotrophic.

Doesn't Chrome support Firefox-compatible plugins?
I would have sworn it did.

I am not sure what country you are in. I am in the US.
Gmail is the top result for me. Hotmail is placed 3rd following Yahoo mail.

Most clients already include web seeding as defined by
http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html

Windows 7 supposedly scales upto 256 cores.
See http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/

I used Media Center to stream to my TV for quite some time before the novelty wore off.
MCE is great because you can stream any media (some with additional addins).

My TV watching hours have gone down to zero.
Nowadays I just use XBMC whenever I need the 10-foot experience.