this doesn't work well over my Mom's earthlink dialup. Not long ago I downloaded a tool for Mac OS X that had a selection of cafe ambience recordings. While i

this doesn't work well over my Mom's earthlink dialup. Not long ago I downloaded a tool for Mac OS X that had a selection of cafe ambience recordings. While it did make working at home - alone - modestly more tolerable, it was not long before I stopped using it then returned to the cafes. It's not just the sound but the actual presence of other people that matters to me. Consider the position of Kuro5hin's trane, a huge fan of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3-D printing and other newfangled technologies. Trane asserts that terrorism would be a thing of the past if we were to only set the terrorists up with VR goggles, so they could cut the heads off of simulated victims. Trane so far, doesn't buy my argument that the terrorists would not find true satisfaction that way.