http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_42/b3854093_mz063.htm
It has a subscription option, and you can download content, but the problem is that the subscribed content is "streaming" and not automatically downloaded to the client computer. I'll be following this story as this patent would invalidate my Miro player.
I wish just one of these frivilous "process patents," which the high courts have ruled acceptable because they modify the physical components of a computer (ie. hard drive), would go to the Supreme Court, as the recent comments from its members signal they think the patents are ridiculous as well and would probably invalidate them.
Thats Stallman actually
Umm - that doesn't even make sense.
An airconditioner cannot effectively 'cool' per se, it merely move heat around from inside a room to outside the room. Whereas of it's pretty easy to convert electrical energy to heat. Accordingly, the efficiency rating of cooling an area below the outside temperature is *always* worse (A *lot* worse IIRC but I don't have the numbers at my fingertips) than heating the same area above the outside temperature. Talk to someone that works in air conditioning.
Pug
The short and sweet solution is to buy it on a credit card, print out the EULA, highlight the pertinent part, mail it to your CC company, and then have them charge back the OEM cost of Windows. You'll have to prove you contacted customer service, but that's typically not hard, and just notify them you're going to do a chargeback for the cost of the OEM windows install. I doubt they'll balk much about it; there's not much they can do once the laptop has delivered.
With your bare hands?!?