Higher quality PSUs will provide stable voltage and current with much less ripple than low-end PSUs. Furthermore, you get goods like overcurrent protection, modular cabling and, if you choose wisely, low noise. In my opinion, a high quality PSU is a critical component and helps you get a longer life from your components. For example, a Seasonic G-550 80+ Gold can be found for $90 and it should keep almost any user happy. I'm not saying you should get it for the Gold rating, but for the overall quality...

I treat people with brain cancer for a living in a university hospital. As someone once said, 10 barbers won't make your haircut 10x faster. In the end, if his disease is bad, there is simply not much to be done today in order to obtain a cure. When I say "bad disease", I don't mean stage or grade or histology. I mean the specific population of cells with the specific DNA alterations that he has in his head. His best chance is probably in a clinical trial. Believing that we somehow, somewhere, have a cure for his disease and getting access to it is just an act of publicity is unfortunately naive.

a) Games have variable frame rate, so people want 60 fps average in order to never get more than say 25 fps min.
b) Games are competitive. If I play at 20fps, I get information (for example enemy position) every 50ms. If I play at 60 fps, I get information every 16.6ms. Even if I don't use 100% of the information, this is likely to be an advantage. At a pro level, these things count.

How about a decent interface for a desktop Linux-based OS instead of a horrible interface for netbooks, laptops, 24", tablets and TVs? How about they get that right for a start...

Omg, I wanted to rate you +32 Mega-insightful, but this is not technically possible because you are already at +5. Ubuntu gets worse with every iteration...

You silly newb. HDMI uses 24fps for compatibility reasons and the initial decision was probably based on an quality-cost tradeoff back in the days when actual film was used and the NTSC/PAL specifications were defined. Using 60fps would mean that the tape would last half the time, for example. There is the famous "notion" that eyes cannot see over 24fps, but in fact eyes are very sensitive to some kinds of motion, colors and contrast and less sensitive to others, so you cannot generalise that 24fps is "enough" for all kinds of motion, image and people (ye, people are different too). Furthermore, even if the above were not true, in fact you need an average of at least 50-60 fps in most games to ensure that the MINIMUM will not go below 30fps, which is not only visible but also implies a between-frame reaction time of 30ms (plus ping, plus input lag, plus keyoard lag etc). In hardcore-land this mean PWNAGE for you and your silly rig.

Facebook will soon be irrelevant. People will migrate to other services, probably Google+. We've seen it happen before: myspace, hi5 etc. I give it 2 more years before it fades away.

I would just like to add the fact that doctors don't just think about the diagnosis, they also obtain data from patients. Not only by clinical
examination (try pushing Watson around when a patient is dying from e.g. pneumothorax in the street) but most importantly from the interview,
which I assume is not Watson's or any machine's strong point. And before you say anything about Elisa or whatever, do not underestimate
the subtlety and difficulty of verbal and non-verbal communication with patients in distress, with the demented, intoxicated, delirious, neurotic, comatose
etc.

In real life, Watson will be just a step higher than huge databases like UpToDate or AccessMedicine providing more intelligent feedback to
actual doctors. I don't think Watson will be able to feed himself clinical (as opposed to laboratory) data for the moment.

Also, don't forget that under current law you cannot sue an AI. A doctor has to sign somewhere at some point...

I was a Slackware user from the very low single digit versions until I decided I really wanted 64bit then never got back.
The 1337 version number is a clear sign. I am tempted to give it a go.

Well, seeing a Mandelbrot algorithm running on an interpreted language on top of an interpreted language and
struggling on my super powerful quad core makes me suffer. I had coded the Mandelbrot fractal in assembly
and it ran faster on a 80386...

Now get out of my lawn...

Would you care to name some major games using tesselation? The only one that I know of is HAWX2 and I don't even think it qualifies
as a breakthrough game.

Tesselation was touted as a feature back in the ATI 8500 era (2001!), for those of use who have longer memories. It did not catch up.

By the time tesselation becomes a mainstream feature, I will have upgraded I think.

Well, it seems it will be AM3r2 (AM+?). In keeping with tradition, bulldozer may be backwards compatible with AM3
as many people suggest in various forums (like AM2/AM2+). There is no evidence that it won't be compatible and
at this stage this is good news...