BTW, if you check out the HTTP headers for vg.no, you'll find out you've been rick-rolled.

X-Rick-Would-Never: Give you up

How hard is it for a computer to understand the sentence: "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"? That takes care of 90% of the use case scenarios right there. Next is "Computer, initiate auto-destruct sequence" is the next 8%.

I like that the voice over was done by an actor who played a Bond villain (Robert Davi).

A site like Facebook isn't computing the value of pi or calculating jump coordinates for the Galactica, things that would benefit from a more efficient implementation. I don't know anything about Facebook's site, but many web applications use the application layer to essentially pull data from and send data to databases. Parsing data back and forth typically isn't sped up with C++ or even C that much compared to PHP. All many PHP sites do is draw HTML, and a lot of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries. Hard to imagine C++ having a big impact on that, certainly not 10:1.

I'm an IT worker, and my health routine is pretty atypical: Vegan diet and marathons.

Or you could develop a taste for listening to very loud heavy metal in an enclosed space...

Apple's slowed down things a little, though. The updates aren't quarterly, btw., they're released when they're finished. And the upgrades _were_ yearly, but Tiger took longer (about 1.5 years) and so does Leopard (again about 1.5 years).

Just disactivate it, from the button on right lower corner or from the menus, and nothing is sent of what you listen to.
And if you doubt, use little snitch to verify it.

No; The retarded part of me is saying "RED IS PRETTY!!!" while eating crayons.

By far the best place is indeed avsforum. just one warning, everyone raves about the infocus X1 over there. That being said if you are going for a true home theatre system make sure you keep in mind your requirements like: - image format (4:3, 16:9) - room type (controlled light, living room etc..) - What will you watch the most? (tv, dvd, pc etc..) - What will you use to feed the projector? (tuner card, PC, video switch etc..) - Will you need true HD ? (requires true HD components like HDTV tuner cards etc..) and don't fall into the fallacies of buying a PC projector if that's not what you want (I have seen many people do this). just my 2cp as a proud owner of a Epson Home lite 10 using myhtpc.