I somehow get the feeling we are missing something here." agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege. " Suppose I have a 768kbps connection. Maybe what google is trying to do is allow things like youtube to stream at 3Mbps, *at no extra cost to customers* but youtube will absorb the costs. I think this could very well be the case.

I wonder what true illusions are like?

Jeez, if there ever was an example of unfair moderation. My post has so many replies, and is still considered "Redundant".

3 or 4 examples don't account for the other thousands of copyright applications and works making a lot of money. Just because they posted it, doesn't mean it's true. It means that's their opinion. Try to remember how the internet works.

I don't know the Australian rationale but I wonder when Americans discuss the need for patents and copyrights. Why do content creators want to abolish patents? America is rich today because of patents and copyrights. If every second guy could rip off a great idea, we'd have nothing left to offer. We cannot compete on prices. The innovation and creativity of Americans is what has made US powerful. Why would you want to create a law that will affect your livelihood in the future? The rest of the world is just waiting for something like this to happen. I don't get it.

By the time enough Chinese and Indian Americans return to their countries, the developed world will be so far ahead that it will be impossible to catch up.

Apart from the fact that it was extremely pathetic to be watching an astronaut in a pub, I would like to say that the future is happening very slowly, much slower than I thought it would. I thought we would at least have robotic servants and flying cars by now, and not running stuff that pollutes the environment and is exhaustible.. Watching video live isn't rocket science. It was available in the 60s along with the moon landing right.

I don't get the obsession with SC. With WOW ok, there's huge potential to waste a lot of time on it. With SC after you finish the game once I don't see a good reason to play it again. With wow there are many ways to play the game, and many things to do in the game even when you're not playing, like the auction house, training, fishing etc. I can easily play wow for 7 hrs continuously, but even 1 hr of starcraft is pushing it for me.

Then we'd have other problems, like perhaps wrong English?

Not if you are within warranty. I purposely run such tests on new machines. I don't want to NOT use my system *for what it is supposed to be designed* cause some corporate fucks couldn't spend a few bucks on proper component engineering or cooling.

No, it shouldn't. The card should be designed such that it is impossible to reach that temperature in the first place. If they can't do that, they shouldn't rate the card to do X when it can only do 0.3X under continuous load. I face this shit problem regularly when I encode video, the CPU goes into overheat and then downclocks to 1/3rd of full speed. I paid for 2100MHz continuously, you dumb fcuk, NOT 2100 for 2 minutes and then 798 for the rest of the time. This crap has to stop.

Don't know if you've considered it but India is great for medical tourism. You can get the same job done there for much less. I know someone who went there for some knee replacement or something (can't remember what it was exactly). The major cost would be the ticket....

Well all the best! Sometimes I wish I could fast forward to couple of generations in the future, where things like eyes, teeth, heart etc should be easy enough replacements and wouldn't affect your life. I was actually curious about your case cause I know a guy who smashed some teeth completely when he fell in his bath tub. But he easily got them restored and it looked like new. If you're going for a cheaper alternative try to find out if it can be undone later, like if you want to plumb for the expensive ones sometime in the future it should be doable