I'd like to thank you as well. I ended up hunting down your comments in this discussion. Very informative. I've been running Fedora 10 64 bit since its release with PA. I have had problems yes, but I can see how PA will solve some of the problems I've had in the past with Linux audio.

That would be a form of socialism. If there is no incentive to make more by increasing your value, there is little incentive for innovation. So maybe a CEO can't buff a floor. How many people could you find that can buff a floor? How many people could you find that could run a company? The law of supply and demand rears its head again. Of course you don't define how "a wage that a person can live off of" is calculated. Does that mean if the person keeps taking out loans on new toys his pay goes up :-)

I worked for HCL for a period of time and I can tell you that *most* (not all) of my peers that were located in India seem to have been taught not to think, but only to follow the script. This falls in line perfectly with your regular expression example. Most of them weren't interested in working on the process to make it more efficient - probably because this would decrease billable hours as you say. I guarantee that the the outsourcing results in lost profits in the long run, but because HCL could supply the support (inferior) cheaper, I think it looks better on the balance sheet and to stock holders because IT support is not the core business and is therefore considered overhead. Reducing the percentage of your budget on overhead looks great to analysts and they will never know how much profit was lost because of the switch because that info stays internal. So on the outside, the company looks lean and mean - give the public what it wants.

Yep, my wife's computer got (probably) the same one a few months ago. It setup a local proxy server using the same name as a system process and cached pages in gzipped files. I scanned the box with 5 different AV programs (3 of them online) and nothing picked it up. Had to use systernals tools to find all the places it touched to remove it manually. Submitted it to 4 different vendors for analysis. Got 1 reply from Symantec. They said it was virus X (can't remember the name). I go to their site and look up virus X and see their defs have covered this virus since 2003.
Uh huh. At least they responded.

Sure it will. Right click on a pasted screen shot. Click format picture -> compress. Select "All Pictures in Document", select "Web/Screen" then click Ok. If you are forced to use Outlook, use Word as your editor (an option in Outlook) and you can do the same thing for emails with graphics. Shrinks the size of the email by quite a bit.