Wrong, you can easily tell the difference in TV/Movies as well. I had my students do a test: display the same movie, side-by-side-by-side, running at 120/60/30 fps (on 120Hz monitors, naturally...the lower fps versions are made by dropping frames/duplicating the ones left, so they all ran at 120Hz, but different fps). They could ALL tell the difference.

Myth busted.

Somewhere there is a study done on air-force pilots that showed they could perceive details at 1/500th of a second. The human eye certainly works at much higher "speeds" than that silly myth of 30 fps suggests.

Spacial distribution, like "channel hopping" to avoid interference? That helps with moving transmitters/receivers, but not within a static local area. In the end, for any given area covered by a transmitter, the frequency availability will be the hard cap on the shared bandwidth for that area. If 10k people in a given coverage area all want to download large files at 100 Gbps, all the trickery in the world won't increase that cap.

Somewhere, someone must have a simple rule-of-thumb for this sucker, like how much frequency spectrum is required for N dedicated 100 Gbps connections. It would be an interesting number to hear.

I am guessing that this only works because a huge amount of radio spectrum bandwidth is allocated per user. There probably is no actual method of scaling this up for general-purpose usage. The last line of the OP seems beyond speculative.

League of Legends (currently the most popular game on the planet) would be a must-have.

On a more general note, what we really need is for game developers to move away from DirectX and over to OpenGL.

OK, now I am just bragging:
8 Weeks paid vacation, plus two weeks paid offtime for xmas/new years, plus an extra paid week off at March break.
And yes, free healthcare (much better free healthcare than the current U.S. version, from what I understand).

It's not really fair comparing my vacation time to other random people; I'm a prof, we get ridiculous vacation time. It's a perk of the job.
In the same way, it's not very meaningful comparing a few random people here on Slashdot.

The poll confused me; Thanksgiving was last month, after all!

Not from the U.S., but Canada uses them too...they are 1c.

The loudest song about moving silently.

I grew up on some fantastic old school SF (Heinlen's "The Rolling Stones" for example), but as for modern stuff no-one has mentioned so far I would heartily recommend the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Artemis is a 12 year-old criminal mastermind with a ninja-bodyguard butler, and he discovers that the earth is hollow and strange beings live in there.

Tamora Pierce writes some good modern fantasy, like her Alana series...mmm, it's actually called "The Song of the Lioness Quartet", four books (and then a couple of extras) with a young female protagonist.

My four kids (one boy, three girls) all loved these, along with the usual Terry Pratchet's/Harry Potter.

The multiple people recommending the Tom Swift series also reminded me of a very old series I loved, the sort of thing you graduate to after Encyclopaedia Brown: Rick Brant Science Adventure stories. Probably hard to find, and definitely 'long in the tooth', but I adored them at his age.

Those old Retief books were fun SF books when I was a kid, and are still funny to re-read as an adult (and get all the sarcastic digs at bureaucracy and diplomats that you missed as a kid).

I like Python. I like C++. I sort-of like C.

If Python were only 4 times slower than C++, it wouldn't be such a big deal. On things where speed really matters, Python seems to be a lot slower than that. Just to give an example off the top of my head, the other day I wrote a brute force decryption routine; the C++ version ran in seconds, the Python version took between 5-10 minutes on every run. Python is hella fun to code in, but it doesn't seem to be a language for heavy lifting. It makes a great scripting language, or a fun language to design and kick ideas around in.

I've heard that pypy can help with the speed issue, though. I'll have to look into that.

Theatres are social? Interesting. I actually find myself going to the theatre alone more often than not, while I almost never wind up watching a movie alone at home. My living room is a way better place to socially enjoy a movie than a theatre.

If it helps visualize where I'm coming from with this, I'm married with 4 children, and I'm the sort of person who strikes up conversations with random people at the grocery store checkout line.

Nah, he isn't a redneck. He is pronouncing it "fah-jay", obviously. I guess that would be the gay way to say faggot ;)

For the funniest take on "Sex and Violence" I have seen, try this old skit by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqq-TYeKgw&list=UUAbZYhWQXjKmgJEWyMniZWg&index=3&feature=plcp
The video quality is poor, but it's worth watching for the punchline.

It has one thing that could be much better than a touch screen: gesture input without greasy fingerprints on my screen.

This is why, although my newest Sony e-reader has a touch screen, I still use the buttons to flip the pages 99% of the time.

I am actually interested in this technology. I've gotten used to browsing the web on touch screen devices, so much so that I find myself annoyed when I'm browsing a website on my PC and can't "pinch-to-zoom" the tiny text on a page.

Yeah, I bet they are designing/calibrating these ones for closer use.