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I saw a thing on the history channel about the development of the jet engine. It took 20 years before jet engine technology was really usable. (The nazis developed the first jet engine.. and it wasn't until the 60s when jet engines started being really used)

Actually, the first jet engine was invented by Henri Marie Coanda back in 1910. Nazi Germany deployed the first operational jet fighter (being willing to put up with its teething troubles to get another 'superweapon'), but the British were just as close with the Gloster Meteor; they just waited until they'd gotten it to be more reliable before deploying it.

And 'being really used' is a bad choice of words. The major military powers jumped on jet power like a ton of bricks, because it gave a performance advantage over propellor-driven planes. The problem was that the early jets were amazing fuel hogs. Look at the B-36, for example, designed to a 1941 specification that supposed the loss of England as a base, requiring that it be able to bomb Germany from the US. It wound up with four jet engines to increase its dash speed and reduce its vulnerability, and six propellors for cruise, because there was no way to get the required range with just jet engines; their fuel consumption was too high. It took the advance of technology to produce more fuel-efficient jet engines to make their use in commercial aircraft economically viable.

Mpg123, Xmms and the other linux players are all I could ever need to play mp3's in Linux, but just for fun, Wine was good enough to run Winamp in Linux years ago... Here is a screenshot to demonstrate it! Taken on Feb. 23, 2000.

Yeah, it's a shameless plug, but there are some people interested in using Winamp's plugins in Linux. Well, that's the way to do it... Using Wine in Linux, Winamp uses even less cpu time than in Win 9x... Some of the plugins run just fine (see the screenshot for an example)

Mpg123, Xmms and the other linux players are all I could ever need to play mp3's in Linux, but just for fun, Wine was good enough to run Winamp in Linux years ago... Here is a screenshot to demonstrate it! Taken on Feb. 23, 2000.

Yeah, it's a shameless plug, but there are some people interested in using Winamp's plugins in Linux. Well, that's the way to do it... Using Wine in Linux, Winamp uses even less cpu time than in Win 9x... Some of the plugins run just fine (see the screenshot for an example)