The 30%. It could well be that 29.9% earn over $1 million, and I wouldn't struggle to believe that, but saying "30%" implies that 70% don't earn more than $150k, and that's where I find it hard to believe given the cost of going to Harvard, and indeed the type of home and schooling environment that allows kids to excel academically to get into Harvard.

However that median is brought down by young kids who don't have children who go to university.

The typical wage earners in a family that send their kids to university will be arround the 45-55 mark (having had the kids around 25-35)

http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-Incomes-by-Age-Brackets.php

backs my figure up, and earning twice what the average earn (pre-tax) doesn't make you rich, it's just a divide and conquer that the truely rich like to put out there.

$150k a year for your household means you can afford a hosue about $400-450k, something like http://www.trulia.com/property/3029951135-8514-S-124th-St-Seattle-WA-98178, sure a nice house, but not rich by a long shot.

I'm in the bottom 91%, but I certainly don't think a household on $150k a year is "exceptionally affulent". The median is about $70k.

wow, my first modem I used for the internet was 15 times faster, and that was 20 years ago.

I'm amazed it's that low.

Both the technology and price is already there. The devkit cost just $300, which is already extremely low for a highend non-mass-market tech gadget. The mass-market version is targeting the same price while getting some additional features. Given how the price for small displays is developing there is no reason to assume that the thing won't be $150 or less in a few years.

It won't give you a headache like the 3DS, as the 3D is done via a display strapped to your head instead of lenticular lenses, shutter glasses, so the image that hits your eyes is always the proper one and there is no cross talk. The current devkit will however give you motion sickness as there is both latency between your head movement and the display updates as well as a lack of positional tracking, meaning there will be a small offset between where the image is and where it should be.

However people who have tried the latest prototype of what Oculus is currently developing behind closed doors have commented that they have basically solved those issues and can generate a motion sickness free experience even for people for which motion sickness was a big problem with the released devkits.

The airlines I fly allow you to check for free. Doesn't help. I'd be delighted if they charged for overhead space, or just make a charge for any "hand luggage" with wheels. If you're too lazy to carry your essentials, you should be forced to check them.

A typical AA battery stores about 3WH of power, or 10kJ
That's 10kW for a second
It's 10MW for a millisecond
It's 10GW for a nanosecond

P.S. You'd need 15,000 of the things (with the right capacitor) to travel through time (1.21GW provided along a 50cm lightning rod at 88mph - so 1.21GW * 120ms = 145MJ)

Of course they will, but if the revenues are your lease charge at $xx per month, and the costs are the new batteries, they have an incentive to make the battery replacement cheap.

If they sold you the car then you pay for a new battery every year, they don't have that incentive.

Sadly more and more people refuse to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.

Vince Cable?

Unless you are working on the nsa's main database. Then you should run these commands several times, just To be sure the backup is complete. Then take a sledge hammer to the original files, for securit. And restore from the backup, to guarantee the backup worked.

Book a flight to Moscow first though

Is this a joke? This sounds exactly like what Borne Again Christians, including George W. Bush believe in.