He needs to make space for his race of hyper-intelligent cyborgs.

I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Wasn't the 7000 series the last card ATI released the source code for?

I would imagine that it would work very well.

I have a touchscreen HP, and the upgrade to 10.04 completely horked the touchscreen until someone reworks the evtouch driver.

The touchscreen has always been a pain to set up, this is really something that needs working on if they want to go against the ipad.

Blowing into a USB port just isn't the same.

No, actually It is basically a bunch of Pentium 3s with cache coherency removed for a small chunk of on chip RAM, and a message passing interface for inter core communication. It has alot of interesting features, and is more usable than the 80 core chip they came out with a few years ago.

If like is anything like supertroopers, they have been pistol whipped thoroughly.

Well, there is always the option of knocking all of the pieces off the board and throwing a tantrum.

You also need to consider the other part of a physical manifestation of these theoretical engineering procedures, everyone would be able to tell that the rich were keeping such things for themselves. They might be smarter and capable of living longer, but I don't see them being bulletproof.

The masses would fight for something like this, and it won't be like in the middle ages(At least in the States) where the wealthy were capable of easily quelling an uprising; it would be a bloody mess.

I can see it drastically changing things, but eventually it would come down in price. There might be an elite class that is one step ahead of everyone else, but it would even itself out.

I have a degree in Math and CS. The math degree doesn't seem to be helping me get accepted to grad school, or getting a job.

Any idea what fields/companies would have a strong demand for a CS/Math person?

Wow I wasn't expecting to get to the classic retort to libertarians until a bit further down.

Also, you left out roads, we hate roads too.

It is my understanding that China recruits people who prove themselves technically by attacking foreigners or helping their government.

The large number of people who are attacking the rest of the world aren't a part of the Chinese government, the government just looks the other way and pulls out the best to work for them.

So it was probably just some guy or group of guys doing what they thought the government would reward them for.

If Intel wants to beat ARM they would have to take a page from the microsoft playbook and release their low end processors for (near)free.

obviously there are just alot of people who like to do things an infinite number of times.

possible video of the talk:
http://videolectures.net/ccss09_johnson_bnb/
don't have time to watch, gotta go to work.