And what about Albedo?... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo The point of being white is because of the reflected energy vs. absorbed. Only the absorbed component needs to be emitted.

The same way as a Linux laptop.

24bit is irrelevant if you use a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. If you use raw PCM (WAV, AIF...) or lossless FLAC you may feel the difference in a very good sound system.
I have an entry level audiophile system and I can assure that a lot of the records hold a shitty sound the will not benefit with 24bits/192KHz.
Moreover, in my town there are almost no hi-fi sellers because everybody listens music in portable devices with dubious quality.
The way records are being made has changed since the beginning of the dominance of MP3. One of the consequences is that producers focus in strong bass and light high because in a compressed MP3 those are the most hitted freqs...
In a low end system if you reduce the sample rate to 32KHz (from 44KHz) you will not feel the difference and they talk of 24bits... This is pure BS.
In the 80's even with analog systems sound quality was almost the same as today.

And the bug has more then a year...

It's a phone and this folks can point your position everywhere in the face of the earth but are unable to properly send a bloody sms!?! (Nokia is doing it well for more then a decade). This is "I live in my BMW because I can't pay the rent" stuff.

Lately, movies seem like an excuse to show special effects with no regard for plot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9ljTW3GEQ

I have high hopes on them. The best of luck!

Parabolic antennas have high gain but a very small beamwidth, hence you need to be pointed precisely in the direction of the transmitter. With an array, the beamwidth is wider.
see beamwidth: http://www.kyes.com/antenna/navy/basics/antennas.htm

If it works well under Firefox it will be good. Office is the one thing I miss on linux... Open Office creates a mess in a workplace were everyone uses MS office.

At least for me... I first read something about him, in my freshman year in college, in the book Caos, by James Gleick http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140092501/jamesgleick. To this day I remember him with the utmost consideration. I hope he had a happy life. I'll never forget his work... He was one of the great scientists of our time.

:) I'm not in China, I'm in Portugal and I'm a democrat, using US standards. I don't expect you to understand what I've write, simple consider that some people may know China better than you. What I can tell you is that I have western friends over there and, when they come here, we discuss a lot this subject. Large story short, I stand for what I've said. There is discussion inside the party, but you cannot question its existence or the single party system. The large majority of the dissidents are democrats (in the broad sense of the word) that want a multi-party system and universal free elections, hence they are in trouble.

They prize stability over free speech. As a meter of fact they can criticise the communist party and its actions, the problem is when somebody questions the single party system and its mechanic.
Also, they are very nationalistic. They see western counties using the human rights "trick" as a way to leverage a political and economic position.
What a hell! If we cared so much about civil liberties and democracy we would not buy so much stuff from them.

By the pollution distribution I see desert areas with high concentration of this particles. Their origin may be related to small dust particles in the air.