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Actually , stock splits are already taken care of in the chart.

You only really have dividends, which basically means your 1 stock is worth about the same after inflation and dividends as it did 10 years ago.

Then again, considering all the problems in the general economy, that may not be such a bad thing. eg.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGE
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AC
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AKFT

Actually , stock splits are already taken care of in the chart.

You only really have dividends, which basically means your 1 stock is worth about the same after inflation and dividends as it did 10 years ago.

Then again, considering all the problems in the general economy, that may not be such a bad thing. eg.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGE
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AC
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AKFT

Actually , stock splits are already taken care of in the chart.

You only really have dividends, which basically means your 1 stock is worth about the same after inflation and dividends as it did 10 years ago.

Then again, considering all the problems in the general economy, that may not be such a bad thing. eg.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGE
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AC
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AKFT

• https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MSFT

and set it to 10yr, Google even lets you compare it to the Nasdaq and Dow Jones averages (putting your money into a fund that tracked the Nasdaq over the last 10 years would have netted you 100% more money than MSFT stock).

The prices of Photopolymers used in SLA type 3D printers has dropped to below the cost of PLA and ABS used in FDM printers and continues to drop. Photopolymers are dropping to under $10/kg in high volumes, so the costs of the materials are becoming less of an issue.

It's true that there are several open hardware printer projects for FDM type printers that focus mainly on printing with one material at a time such as
RepRap or Open Source Photopolymer DLP 3D Printers such as LemonCurry

3D printers are also printing with more than one material and are already printing multilayer printed circuit boards with only fluids. Much of the development work in 3D printers recently has been from open hardwave projects vs the industry since many of the old patents have now expired.

Definitely not one of the hardest sudokus.

There is a tool to compute the difficulty of a puzzle, and you can also download a massive database of hard sudokus (5 millions+):
http://code.google.com/p/skfr-sudoku-fast-rating/

For reference, this one is rated 10.7:
http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/the-hardest-sudokus-new-thread-t6539-420.html

BTW, there is a database of 31804 puzzles of difficulty 11 and above:
http://gpenet.pagesperso-orange.fr/downloads/hard11.zip
Exactly 7 have a rank of 11.9.

Those of you, like me, who use iGoogle and are mad that Google's dropping it with no good alternative, please voice your complaints on their product forums and raise the volume a bit: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/3SDRsOMBonA/discussion

I'm sorry, but your discussion is largely incoherent and you have little to no idea what you're talking about. You should be down-modded.

Your example says absolutely nothing about violation of causality due to a change in the maximum speed at which information can propagate.

My example says that if one can produce particles that travel faster than the speed of light, then causality paradoxes arise. I said nothing about a "change in the maximum speed at which information can propagate".

You are either describing a situation in which there is improper time coordination, or you are assuming time travelling signals to start with.

That you even discuss "improper time coordination" suggests that you do not properly understand the relativity of simultaneity. My assumption was clear--the existence of tachyons, which are by definition particles that travel faster than light.

If something were to be discovered which could do this it would not necessarily violate causality, it would merely prove that relativity is either incorrect or incomplete

I don't know why you're repeating my conclusion back to me as if it's new. However, you underestimate the severity of the change. Special relativity would have to be wildly incorrect to make room for FTL particles. We're not talking about a minor change or a part of the theory that has some "room", like the small distance limit where quantum "sits".

Instant propagation of information would likely allow a universal clock across all space, and you could coordinate time by that.

Indeed, but this is completely irrelevant.

You would need to adjust for the faster travel time if you are synchronizing your clock based on the speed of light, but it would be trivial to do that anyway.

This makes no sense.

Under relativity it is undefined what would happen if you could travel faster than light, as the theory does not allow this. It is basically not usable in this case, and trying to do so would be foolish (it simply does not cover what you want to do, and you obviously have information that Einstein did not when he came up with it if you are communicating FTL.)

You have no idea what you're talking about. The theory of relativity makes predictions in this case. I have not found a single source (reputable or otherwise) that disagrees with me. The first relevant Google Books entry I found on the subject of course agrees with me--see section 11.1 for a derivation.

If I could send this post beyond the edge of the known universe and back with zero travel time I still cannot read it before it is written, and causality remains very much intact. The only thing that would change is that if you are three light hours away, I could get a message to you three hours before an electromagnetic signal would be capable of. We would be able to converse in real time instead of with the delay, nothing else.

You clearly have no understanding of the actual content of special relativity. You seem to be using a naive Newtonian view of the universe where it just happens that light travels at a maximum speed. This is wrong on many levels--how does one account for the fact that the speed of light is constant in all inertial reference frames, and that no inertial reference frame is privileged?

If you could produce the post I just wrote before I wrote it, you would have a causality violation. No rate of travel allows this, no matter how large it is.

Strictly speaking, you are correct in that no accepted, observed rate of travel allows causality violation. That is not at all your meaning, which is incorrect as noted above.

I am not sure why this is so hard for many people to understand.

Considering the numerous gaping holes in your own understanding, perhaps you should not consider it so difficult to see why grasping relativity is difficult for many people.

I'm also really disappointed to hear they're getting rid of the Sybian search engine. I loved seeing girls ride those, but never knew that Google was indexing them all - there's nearly thirty years of history there.

While the server is down you can find the downloads at Google code page and the Ubuntu PPA

And exactly what does Chrome have to do with replacing iGoogle?

"With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time" src

They don't clarify what "modern apps" we are supposed to switch to other than pointing at the Chrome store, or even what exactly a "modern app" is. Some would say a "modern app" could mean something like GMail or iGoogle... oh I guess that's not it. I guess it was only a matter of time until this ongoing slaughter of google products got to one I cared about, fuck em.

Yes, but I have not tried it.

I am very curious about the rational for why OpenMW switched from D to C++.
The FAQ points to this page for an explanation, which, at 2012-07-03 8:16 PM Pacific Time, I, an outsider to the effort, do not have access to.

I have not idea if VLC natively supports SMB streaming (I didn't even know that was a feature desktop VLC had), but SMB streaming is wroking great for me with cifsmanager.

Google has already changed slide to unlock they used in Android 2.x to the new model in ICS, where you need to drag a thingy out of the circle (in any direction); no shiny text involved. That's what Galaxy Nexus uses. Apparently, that's still not good enough for Apple.

I had no idea Apple was pursuing slide to lock on devices where it isn't present. Would you care to provide proof of that, and perhaps suggest why they're being allowed to do so? Heck, perhaps even suggest what interest Apple have in doing it?

By your logic, since the first thing you encounter in a car is a steering wheel, whoever put it there first could have got a design patent on it as "one of the identifying features" of his product. This is an idiotic argument. Identifying features - if you want for them to actually be identifying - should be sufficiently different and notable. Slide to unlock isn't.

You're being intentionally obtuse, but that's nonetheless exactly right. Whoever put it there first could have taken a patent, and would have been idiotic not to do so if it was different to whatever contraptions were used to steer before the wheel. Although I feel quite deeply that the steering wheel and construction would be better suited as a patent, rather than a design patent, since it has rather more than just visual impact.

A very quick google found a patent for steering-wheel mounted controls for things in your car:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5855144

This hasn't stopped manufacturers from including this feature in their cars, or making their own patents based on it. But of course, an item on the steering wheel isn't actually the first thing you encounter on a car, is it? It's the exterior of the fucking car.

I digress, but my point stands... Slide to unlock isn't particularly more innovative than so many other ways of opening a touchscreen device. It's characteristic of iOS devices, and that's why Apple are going after it.

Which groups of scientists and engineers do you mean? The ones similar to those that design weapons, or promote fluoridation of the water supply, created shoe fitting fluoroscope, or the ones that just outright peddle snake oil such as radium water jars?

https://www.google.com/search?q=iPhone+spontaneously+combusts

This, along with Apple's latest bullshit, is all it took to convince me to buy the Nexus 7 tablet. And I'm now seriously considering the newly upgraded Galaxy Nexus phone (4.0.4) as well.

This, along with Apple's latest bullshit, is all it took to convince me to buy the Nexus 7 tablet. And I'm now seriously considering the newly upgraded Galaxy Nexus phone (4.0.4) as well.

On the subject of fanfiction, I saw a post in another thread (ages ago) that had a really good way of fixing this problem. As the author, release a CC-BY-NC-SA licenced "universe bible" that is specifically built to allow fanfiction. As long as your fans publish whatever they write as a derivative of that document and license it under the CC-BY-NC-SA licence, then they're legally protected. Even if the author goes all Lucas on them.

I'm drafting something like that for my own novels, but I've been snowed under with other writing commitments and my day job that I haven't finished it. A draft is here though:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hIZbgp1qdfXiML-MkQl-pxvCIjSdDqaXiQTIQIYK6tk/edit?pli=1#

You jest, but one of the interesting things about Boot 2 Gecko is that all the apps are just localled cached web apps, which means that they get "updated" seamlessly without having to interact with an app store or package manager. You get all of the updating advantages of a web app like Google Docs or Gmail, in that installation and upgrading is completely invisible to the user. Even the included apps (the launcher, the dialler, photo viewer, web browser, etc.), which would be native on any other platform, are all just web apps loaded from a particular URL - you can access the same URL using Firefox on a desktop PC, or from an Android phone running Firefox Mobile, and those apps will run. It's the cross platform solution that eliminates the need for native code (think Phone Gap).

Mozilla is aiming to produce a platform that will make apps just an extension of the web. And to standardize everything that they need to do, so that other platforms can implement their APIs. Is it possible for everything? Perhaps not. Does it feel like we are throwing away decades of work on native code? Perhaps, but the web stack of HTML and Javascript is the only cross-platform, globally accepted solution we have. Google tried to add native code to Chrome - it's impressive, it works, but nobody's using it. We had Java applets on the web, but those are effectively dead now. There are projects now that can compile from native code to Javascript - see this amazing demo of Sauerbraten in Javascript running with accelerated WebGL. It's not difficult to imagine a world where Javascript is basically the common bytecode, and with bridges to native APIs it becomes possible to access all hardware, do anything, from a web app that is running on any platform, be it iOS, Windows, Android, Linux, etc.

As I wrote in another comment: the current situation with apps is a bit of a throwback - can you imagine if viewing a web site required you to install it through an app store? And for an author, updating their web site required them to push their site to Dell, who would then approve it and push it out to people with Dell computers? But you need a different web site for people with Asus computers, and you have to push your Asus-build site to them for approval and redistribution? It's crazy, if that were the situation with the web it would've never taken off. Making apps more like the web, or expanding the web to consume apps, whichever way you look at it, is a good thing.

A modern roundabout has spiralling lanes, that guide you to the correct exit. Remembering the UK drives on the left, follow a car through a right turn -- the innermost lane when entering the roundabout becomes the outermost lane when the car reaches the correct exit (or next-but-outermost, sometimes, if the outgoing exit has two lanes).

Roundabout aficionados may wish to follow the main road (above) east a little, to see this. I can see eight.

A modern roundabout has spiralling lanes, that guide you to the correct exit. Remembering the UK drives on the left, follow a car through a right turn -- the innermost lane when entering the roundabout becomes the outermost lane when the car reaches the correct exit (or next-but-outermost, sometimes, if the outgoing exit has two lanes).

Roundabout aficionados may wish to follow the main road (above) east a little, to see this. I can see eight.

When you use an US-based company to trust your data too, you are a fool.

More to the point, they don't have any non-US zones, nor do they mention any plans at all to change this. OK, such a rollout is not trivial since it can't just be done by freeing up server space; they probably have to alter their corporate structure as well so as to limit the amount to which the non-US operations arms can be pressured by the US government via the parent. If you've got a legal requirement to keep your data out of the US, GCE is not for you. Amazon have had this addressed for years.

Google has been using this for some time and is used on Android devices - you can see their patent here: http://www.google.com/patents/US7532158

A-GPS is not new (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS), though they seem to want to extend it to other radio sources.

iPhones have been doing this for years as well. I'll let someone else explain how Apple could be doing it if Google has a patent on it...

They gave that a try in a few places - it didn't really work out as you can see in this google maps shot: https://maps.google.com/?ll=42.334109,-71.104866&spn=0.001036,0.001206&z=20

Google has been using this for some time and is used on Android devices - you can see their patent here: http://www.google.com/patents/US7532158

A-GPS is not new (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS), though they seem to want to extend it to other radio sources.

You don't know the difference between an interface and an application, do you? It's links which has the CLI, not Google.

Uh no. Links has a text-mode, windowed, menuing interface. You don't type commands to links; you use key shortcuts. Congratulations on your massive failure. Google, on the other hand, most certainly has a command-line interface. Indeed, it only has three search interfaces of which I am aware; a command-line interface (where the command line is presented via a web form) and gdata-python-client which allows you to interface to more or less all things google via a scriptable python script, and an image search which takes image data as input. So while not every google interface is CLI, the primary and secondary interfaces both are...

http://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop

No configuration required, just need Chrome. Never been easier to remote Desktop (Works even on Linux, it's just an add-on for Chrome)

TRAFFIC "EXPERIMENTS" AND A CURE FOR WAVES & JAMS
1998 William Beaty Electrical Engineer

My first 'experiment': accidentally erasing waves!
Once upon a time, years ago, I was driving through a number of stop/go traffic waves on I-520 at rush hour in Seattle. I decided to try something. On a day when I immediately started hitting the usual "waves" of stopped cars, I decided to drive smoothly. Rather than repeatedly rushing ahead with everyone else, only to come to a halt, I decided to try to move at the average speed of the traffic. I let a huge gap open up ahead of me, and timed things so I was arriving at the next "stop-wave" just as the last red brakelights were turning off ahead of me. It certainly felt weird to have that huge empty space ahead of me, but I knew I was driving no slower than anyone else. Sometimes I hit it just right and never had to touch the brakes at all. Other times I was too fast or slow. There were many "waves" that evening, and this gave me many opportunities to improve my skill as I drove along.

    I kept this up for maybe half an hour while approaching the city. Finally I happened to glance at my rearview mirror. There was an interesting sight.
It was dusk, the headlights were on, and I was going down a long hill to the bridges. I had a view of miles of highway behind me. In the neighboring lane I could see maybe five of the traffic stop-waves. But in the lane behind me, for miles, TOTALLY UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION. I hadn't realized it, but by driving at the average speed of the traffic around me, my car had been "eating" the traffic waves. Everyone ahead of me was caught in the stop/go cycle, while everyone behind me was forced to go at a nice smooth 35MPH or so. My single tiny car had erased miles and miles of stop-and-go traffic. Just one single "lubricant atom" had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the entire miles of "tube."

http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=traffic+site:amasci.com

As long as google doesn't completely fall apart for one week every year, they're pretty much got amazon cornered.

Not so sure about that. Now that Google has made massive changes to their policies, I think at this point Amazon clearly has them beat.

I'm the TL for Google Compute Engine and was the speaker at that talk. The answer is a little more subtle than that. We have two types of mountable disk -- ephemeral disk which stays on the physical machine and never leaves the machine and persistent disk that outlives an instance is written over the network.

For ephemeral disk, we generate the encryption key on the host machine and it only ever stays in memory. We are careful to control the code paths that see the key material.

For the persistent disk, by necessity, we need to manage the key as part of our overall virtual machine management infrastructure. We utilize some strongly audited and auditable systems to wrap the encryption keys and really lock down the users that have access to the unwrapping service. The name of the game here is to restrict the scope as much as possible.

BTW -- the video for the talk isn't up yet but I just shared the slides here: https://plus.google.com/110707185519531431463/posts/EfDCBjuPiPf.

It's interesting them doing at-rest-encryption - now I wonder where the keys are stored and who has access to them?

The Google Compute Engine FAQ sheds some light on these details: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/faq#disks

Can I retrieve ephemeral disk data if I have lost it?

No. All data written to ephemeral disk is encrypted with a key that is unique to the VM instance. By design, once a virtual machine terminates, all data on the ephemeral disk is lost.

Gmail never started randomly adding "suggested" recipients to your emails.

As I said, they implemented a previously Google Labs plugin that "suggested" to add those. The initial wording of that suggestion was much more harsh. It was not "Consider including..." - it was "Also include", IIRC. Here is a link that explains people's fear of this new feature. A quote:

Is there any way to disable the 'Consider including' feature that has just appeared on my gmail??? I do not need Google to suggest people for me to send emails to, and now i am terrified I add someone accidentally. It's absolutely mind-boggling why they would add it and not give their users the ability to disable it.

I also hate the 'consider including' feature. Sometimes companies grow so large that employees resort to adding more and more useless features in order to get recognition by management.

Serious. I got fired because of a mistake I made due to this feature.

There is much more at that link. The feature is ill-conceived. I suspect that it was a brainchild of young Google developers who cannot understand that most people do not send stuff to every contact they can get hold of. This feature cannot be turned off.

There are more complaints here and here - and probably millions more. This feature is truly a GMail killer; misdirected emails are known to cause all kinds of grief, from being red in the face to losing a contract to being fired.

In the end, nobody asks for execution of the developer of this feature. (Almost nobody, that is.) All that the people ask is a way to opt out of this disaster. Google, in its infinite arrogance, refused - and made this "feature" permanent. What choice did the people have, with regard to a free service? Only to pack up and leave.

But if you have such a big problem with the UI, why not just point your own mail program at Google's IMAP interface?

I am not a battered wife. When someone tries to fsck with me I fsck them back.

SSH Persistent Tunnels : It's GPLv3, complete with building instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/ssh-persistent-tunnel/

but for $1.50 you can just save yourself the hassle of setting up the android SDK and install the binary from Google Play, complete with automatic upgrades etc...
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ayal.SPT

The article is about Gmail taking the lead and one reason is that Gmail supports IMAP. IMAP can be used either to keep the mail on the server or download it locally. It is one of the reasons that Hotmail is losing. Hotmail was ok until M$ got a hold of it and it has been on a long slow decline since then. Now if you have a lot of mail stuck in Hotmail it is a bit of work to transfer from Hotmail to Gmail but it can be done.

Fair question - Check GOOGLE for the particulars of your model/brand of EBook Reader -> http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22EBook+Reader+Operating+System%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=_mbwT5i8IuW26wGSlb2HBg

* Perusing some of those, I saw Linux listed as the Operating System for them!

(So YES - thus, it is possible to use custom HOSTS files on those that use Linux as the OS, because it uses a BSD derived IP stack then most likely)...

APK

P.S.=> Others suggested you begin checking the manual or documentation for your particular model for the hosts file location on such systems, so in lieu of that (provided you don't have any tech specs of that nature in hardcopy form there)?

Use the query from GOOGLE above!

(It'll probably assist you in that capacity!)

You'll most likely need tools to migrate the newly created custom hosts files from where you imported it from, a PC is a possible!

(Tools like ADB - Android Debugging Bridge is for ANDROID smartphones)

Unfortunately - That's where my "know-how" here stops for EBook readers (I don't use them myself)...

Thus, your question demands that you search for that type of tool yourself, provided it actually EXISTS for such purposes on EBook Readers - get back to us IF you find the way, as it would be good to know even IF I don't use such devices myself...

Good luck - hosts files help in many ways! apk

My closest friend bought the iPhone 4 just over 18 months ago, even after all my efforts. He kept telling me it was an iPhone and that's all that mattered.

And what would happen on Slashdot if some dude was loudly insisting to his friends that the iPhone was the One True Device? Nevermind what the friend said he wanted, of course. Faaaaanbbbbbbooooiiiii. By any chance do you have one of these in your house?

They've seen my S2 connect to their TV via a common USB cable and streaming 1080p.

You mean a simple video adapter. So does the iPhone.

They've seen me wirelessly send files to their laptop.

iCloud.

They've seen Google Maps on Android.

Also on iPhone. If you're referring the free navigation, that's something done by Google as an incentive to buy an Android advice.

They've seen the photos it takes.

8 megapixels vs....8 megapixels.

It's not easy at all.

LOL. It's great that you like your Android, but if anyone was half as pushy here on Apple products they'd be laughed out of town.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

Really? The Google paranoia is pretty heavy around here and is completely unnecessary. If you're not going to bother to become informed, you should avoid telling the world how uninformed you are.

Apple is in danger of triggering Armageddon. Google has been fairly good natured so far, but if they decide to start a war things can only get worse for the consumer.

I doubt it'll affect consumers much.

Apple's likely to have a bit to worry about if they take on Google though, especially now Google have Moto designs like the E 690in their hands.

https://www.google.com/search?q=motorola-e690&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cOfuT9DDHqSXiQfC0-iADQ&ved=0CFYQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=1040

POP is a bit of a relic. You can use IMAP instead. If you really want your mail downloaded locally, IMAP can do that, too.

What happened to it? Best interface ever -- gone forever :(. That's what I signed up for, not this GMail w/ Ribbon 2.0 thing.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/ -- "Everything your business needs." Yep, even a mail program that has mandatory usability downgrades at no charge!

Gmail is getting better every week.

Too bad I still have a freaking 25MB attachment size limit, which makes that ~10GB allotment fairly insignificant.

I'm not sure if this is a Gmail-specific issue, but I'd like to be able to send more than just PDF documents, ya know?

> I don't see much support for Python in the cheap hosting providers, let alone Java.

There's a little company that supports both Python and Java for free or cheap: https://developers.google.com/appengine

There's nothing good about RIM's financials. Yes, they probably are in "better" shape than Apple (less than 90 days run left) but the possibility for a turn around is much bleaker for RIM. First, there's no anti-trust suit going on against their major competitor who just had their only other competitor drop out of the market and created the environment for a major financial booster shot to keep them running. Second, their "brilliant new OS, solid top-of-the-line hardware" combination isn't slated to come out for another year and will have to go agains not just one but several entrenched camps. Apple's turnaround came with an entirely new product. Third, with the introduction of the NSA backed secure phone, no, they aren't.

Why bring Sony into this discussion, unless you want to point out where RIM will be in another 6-12 months, if they survive that long. Funny things happen when public perception and lost mindshare paint you as a dead company, especially as all indicators point to falling numbers across the board and the reason for that are the ever increasing numbers of other companies.

This is what happens when you let the free market run wild.

Do you want to live in a world where everyone can just run roughshod over anyone they please in their unending search for maximum profit?

How about this paper which shows how the spoofing works (exactly as I stated) and the defense against it.

Fed Ex does not have drones right now. When and if they get autonomous drones they can open themselves up to billions of dollars of lawsuits by using the civilian channels which can be spoofed or they can do their fiduciary duty and use the military channels. Since no one has made the decision as to which course to take, all we can do is speculate. I speculate they will want to protect their company and use the military channels.

No autonomous aircraft would ever be allowed to fly using only one source of location information. What happens if the GPS system goes out for some reason like s solar storm or massive hacking by a belligerent country? Would it be acceptable for all GPS only autonomous aircraft to fall out of the sky? There will always be backup navigation devices and if they do not agree to a certain degree an alarm will go off and the aircraft will be remotely piloted. There is no way an autonomous aircraft will be allowed to have a single point of failure that is this important.

We only care about what is real, which you have told us nothing about.

If you "care what is real" then do your own research. There is this thing called Google that can help you with that.

Hell, they'll pay more even if it's not any better than the competition...Monster Cable stands as testament to that fact.

Speaking of Monster Cable... check out how much they want for 6' of speaker cables.

And how about the crappy, low-sensitivity, poor frequency-response speakers they are pairing with it (of course, with only 12.5 watts per channel to work with it's pretty tough to find a decent pair of bookshelf speakers that will work well)?

Hell, they'll pay more even if it's not any better than the competition...Monster Cable stands as testament to that fact.

Speaking of Monster Cable... check out how much they want for 6' of speaker cables.

And how about the crappy, low-sensitivity, poor frequency-response speakers they are pairing with it (of course, with only 12.5 watts per channel to work with it's pretty tough to find a decent pair of bookshelf speakers that will work well)?