In any dvd rips I make for my personal archival use, I ensure that all audio tracks and all subtitles are included in the final MKV file, complete with language tags. I don't see why anybody else can't do the same.

Why does the codec care about dtmf detection? All the codec does is compress and decompress audio. It doesn't care what audio you give it, it does its job and compresses it, then later reproduces it as closely as possible. It's the responsibility of a different piece of software entirely to determine the meaning of some special sounds in the stream.

When will these OLPC XO-1.75 be ready for general consumers to buy? I have decided that this 2W laptop with 20 hours of battery shall be my next purchase, but when will Amazon or any other store carry them?

It probably won't affect anything, because magnets don't create radio waves.

Correction: blue cat

But nobody makes CDs anymore, which is why Sony has to shut its manufacturing plant down!
Alternatively, you could use a digitally downloaded copy.
Or an ISO virtual drive.
Or a CD crack.

If the software you're developing only works in IE, someone somewhere made a bad decision. Also, how does my Aunt Bertha know you? ;)

Because high school students, the main target of calculator hacking, will be using the cheaper algebra-oriented TI-8[34], instead of the more expensive calculus-oriented TI-89.

The problem with DMZ Plus is that connections through it still fill up the UVerse NAT table, which has a maximum size of 1024. Random people portscanning you will be passed through DMZ Plus, placed in the NAT table, and potentially boot off normal connections. This is why I take the effort to double-port-forward everything I use through my Netgear.
If anyone else offered more than half of the upload that UVerse provides, I'd switch. I'd pay several hundred dollars to replace my UVerse router with a UVerse modem. Verizon said they don't dare come to Milwaukee because AT&T has the entire county bought, so FIOS won't be available ever.
But yet, America's Internet Service market has lots of competition, somewhere. I wish I lived in that magical place.

Also PS3 controllers, which communicate over the USB charging cable to establish the pairing and then magically work forever.

Both editions of VirtualBox are free. The Open Source Edition doesn't come with USB or RDP support.

XP Mode is not at all suitable for video games. It is implemented as an application-level Remote Desktop into the XP virtual machine, and Remote Desktop does not have any support for graphical acceleration.

So all we have to do is reduce the risk of death! We can live forever!

It means you can pair a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard to it.

It's not even saving much power. It runs at about 5W, while my new Gumstix runs at 0.5W and comes with OpenGL and an FPU. I honestly have no idea why they left out something so standard these days.