That won't help. The reason for the charge due to the imbalance is (presumably) to offset the cost is infrastructure. Lets make up numbers here. If Level 3 is sending 1000 units and receiving 1100, they need infrastructure to carry 1100. Comcast receives 1000 and sends 100 and also needs infrastructure for 1100. Now if Netflix needlessly makes client pcs send as much as they receive, both Comcast and Level 3 will now transmit and receive 1000, and need infrastructure to carry 2000 units.

So instead of Comcast charging Level 3 for the extra 1000 units of infrastructure Level 3 is causing them to need, both Level 3 AND Comcast would need to have capacity for 2000. That is an increase in capacity between the two of them of 1800 (again, entirely arbitrary numbers), instead of just Comcast adding 1000. 1800 > 1000, so in the end, it would cost the customers 80% to make the imbalance into a "zero" difference. Either one side "loses" or BOTH lose, but it cannot ever be that neither do, and end the end, that "loss" is paid for by the customer.

DSL isn't able to compete, either. At my apartment, I can get either ATT DSL at 3 (possibly 6 depending on signal strength) megs down and 512k up or, for about 2x the price of the 3 meg services I can get 22 mbit down, 2 mbit up service from the cable company. I've had DSL a few different times before at various places and they always seem to connect you at the maximum limits of your service, so if the line is just barely short enough to do 3 mbit under ideal conditions on a magically perfect day, they'll connect that to charge you as much as possible even tho you NEVER see more than half of that. Cable usually seems to pretty much always run at advertised speeds.

So, $15-20 a month for 1.5-3 mbit down or $35 a month for 22 mbit? Yeah, there's technically competition, but not really as you'd either be VERY cash-strapped to get dsl, not care about speed at all or just plain dumb.

Mostly due to the country being full of fat, lazy, ignorant sheep who don't care what goes on so long as they can watch their 'merkin idol while eating a tub of lard. Consequently greedy jackasses get elected because they had the most commercials during primetime reality shows, and take hand-outs from all the big-business to pass laws and regulations that prevent competition and benefit no one other than big business.

On that note, I really REALLY need to get around to buying a copy of Rosetta Stone for Swedish before things get absolutely intolerably bad here.

I've never seen regional ISPs INSIDE large metro areas. In rural areas I've lots and LOTS of regional ISPs offering various wireless internet plans.

So that's why the sky is blue and water falls from it? Because there's an ocean up there? Genesis sure knows how to convince me it's not completely made up shit, that's for sure! I guess NASA has been launching submarines on their rockets this whole time and SCUBA divers? Neat!

How is this even a problem? I have not read of a SINGLE incident of a LEGAL owner of a minigun using it to kill people. Not to mention it is a FACT that someone who's willing to kill doesn't really give a crap if having the gun they are about to use is legal or not.

Gotta download child porn asap? Really?...

Chances are that those numbers are extremely skewed based on Amazon shoppers being far more likely to purchase Amazon's offering. I applaud Amazon for making both available, however. It's most likely people ALREADY having decided to get a Kindle, clicking on a link to compare them before they purchase, to make sure they will be satisfied with their purchase before buying.

So you think they think of themselves as terrorists and their goal is terror? I hardly think they sit around hatching up new plans to "make us afraid"...

Very carefully? Also, this will make for a hell of a "surprise", especially if she's allergic to bees!

Precisely. I could put a solid brick of steel in a box and label it fragile. Sure, you take said brick and slam it into something else solid at a million miles an hour, I'm pretty sure you'll "break" it. It's freight shipping. Assume your package will be dropped from a height of 6ft, possibly repeatedly, and package your goods to compensate. There's a reason why whenever I order something off NewEgg, it comes in its original package (which is designed for shipping, as is) which is then stuffed inside another box with 12+ inches of packing peanuts on all sides, and the outer box is packed to the brim with peanuts so settling and shifting isn't possible.

Possibly not overlords in the "ruling over you" sense, but what would happen if a few mice got out, which never aged or died from cancer? Sure, mice get preyed upon, but if even a few of these mice made it to the wild, you'd see billions and billions of them in a few years. Mouse Armageddon, I think so!

It takes an almost imperceptible amount of water flow to achieve maximum convection. All you need to do is ensure there isn't a "pocket" of warm/cold air/water/other fluid next to the object and that's it. Try it sometime with some frozen steaks or something. Put one under the tap, turn it on halfway with cold water and time how long it takes to thaw, then do it again with the water on a tiny trickle. Sure, full on it will be faster, but only marginally, and at the cost of using 100x or more water.

People end up with gaps in their resume when they don't know the difference between "there" and "their"...

Really? I watched that video and I would NEVER want to have to try to give a presentation on that piece of crap. Seriously, you connected a screen and have to turn around and put your back to the audience to see the slides? You've got to be kidding. Then you have to tap a ridiculously small square on the completely blank screen to go back a slide? Guess you could just use the arrow keys to do that...oh, wait...

Oh, maybe you could just plug one of the cheap and nifty Logitech presentation-oriented mice into the usb slot...oh, never mind, can't do that...

Hell, you can buy a laptop perfectly powerful enough to run Powerpoint 2003, 2007 or 2010, a logitech presentation style mouse, a vga cable and a freaking projector suitable for a small to medium sized conference room (sure, it'll need to be darkened, as the cheapie projectors aren't very bright at all) and still have enough money left over for a nice steak dinner compared to the price of a stupid iPad.

Your "in practice" video pretty much absolutely reinforces the post you are replying to about needing to use a laptop to give a presentation, since the iPad is utterly worthless for doing so, as demonstrated in that video.