I have 100Mbps service with Charter and find that many (most?) sites cannot or do not deliver content at that speed. Some clearly do (like Steam), so I know I am getting 100Mbps service, but for the most part this speed doesn't "feel" much faster than the 40Mbps I had before.

Incorrect. I had the very first portable MD recorder and it had digital optical in/out. It was a feature on almost all portable units, and actually became less common in recent years when NetMD hit the scene.

OS X 10.5.8 is not the latest. And G4s were not available in 2001. fail

Interesting.. an iMac from 2001 would have a G3 processor. G3 support was dropped in Mac OS X 10.5. Mac OS X 10.6 is the latest. So how the hell does his G3 Mac run OS X 10.6?

Not having to ensure compatibility with really old operating systems enables the developers to spend more time adding features and capabilities, for one.

Assuming your documents are stored on a Windows server, one option is to enable NTFS auditing. This requires no changes on the client side.