Is it only me, but not being able to develop in C++ is a show stopper...
Ok I know there is the NDK, tried that done that... having to read an tutorial of several pages to explain how to attach your debugger is not for me. I would be glad to pay for an IDE with a comfortable debugger in C++ for Android... until that I stay coding on my Mac...

Yes
I coded a flash client that load the flash plugin through the NAPI interface. We use that in our VJing application and everything run in one single thread even when we load and mix several flash files in the same time.

Flash is not multi threaded so it will only slow down one core...

What about debugging C++ code with the NDK?
I found that very painful with the previous version of the NDK. I am sure the guys from VLC tried to run their code since a long time but found it not easy. I got some openGL code running with it but when I started to have problems and needed to debug my app it was too painful...

When I interview developers I show then a shader that draws the Mandelbrot fractal and I ask them what language do you think is this code written and of course what do you think is going to be displayed by this so small code loop, this is leading me to very interesting discussion with the candidate!

I am on eMusic and it has a lot of classical tracks.

The problem is their credit system, very often classical tracks can be very short and sometimes you need 20 or more credits to buy a CD.

To me the real problem of this post is that it's just so difficult to find music to use on your video work.

There should be a way to buy, on a reasonable way, the right to add some music to my holiday videos...

There are a few initiatives out there such as Jamendo but we should be able to license more music to be included in home brewed videos... And guess what the industry could even make some profit from that :-)

For me as a developer fighting software piracy I can at least ask to Rapidshare to remove copyrighted content, and thanks to the web search services I can receive warnings when new version are poping out... Of course it's a lot of work but it's worth doing it.

In europe we have a lot of sat receivers built around Linux. I personally use a Dreambox. There are many variations on the distributions with different add ons and themes for interface. My favorite is the Gemini. The ecosystem is very well and alive and is centered around many forums where people exchange their experience

I wonder if this provider uses something based on the Dreambox.

The providers very often don't support using those Linux receiver because they have more options then the locked down proprietary receiver. By example my setup has a rotor so that I can pick many positions and different providers. Another cool thing is that you can stream on your local network the video and see it with VLC on any computer in your home, something that proprietary boxes never allow...

The problem is that there are several Chinese clones because if the software is GPL the hardware is not open sourced.

Whoaaa, that's a cool idea! Of course at some point it will just disappear, anybody believe that youtube will still be there in 10 years ?