My university has 4GB/day cap on the internet. hypothetically speaking, if we had this 1gigabits connection, it can become useless in 32 seconds.

is the diamond antibiotic ointment.

In case of Korea, the Internet penetration rate and the speed is one of the highest and fastest in the world. so it has little to do with the speed of the internet. And of all the internet cafes i've been to, they are not top notch as cafe owners don't want to spend too much on the equipment and the latest games that might drag down the speed. (exception to WOW) Plus, most people can buy gaming grade PC for under $1000 which is affordable for any household in Korea. Considering that Korean economy is at 12th according to cia.gov, i think there are plenty of markets out there. You and i do agree on the social aspect of going to net cafes. Some experts in Korea forcasts that blizzard will sell 10M copies within 2 years after the SC2 launch.

Here in Korea, there are at least a dozen internet cafes every corner(seriously). In this land of 50 million people, there are over 20k internet cafes. That is like number of christian churches here as well. (25% of pop are Christians) People here go to internet cafes for gaming and it is same as LAN parties in the States. Except you pay $1.5/hr which is not that bad and even kids can afford it out of their pocket. In the case of Korea, people don't LAN party. They just party out at the internet cafe. And internet cafes got T1 connection so internet is no problem. (duh!) I guess US customers needs much more convincing argument that those listed here on slashdot. I wonder if battle net makes any big money off of advertisement they sell. I would suggest Blizzard to sell LAN party add on for something like $9.99. And require players to be verified some way. That way they don't lose marginal number of people who wish to play multiplayer offline. (which exactly doesn't make sense in Korea - Are you a hermit?)

beowulf cluster of these and i won't drive off that bridge onto the river again!! enough w/ suicidal GPSes, plz!!

Anyone know what Starcraft means? Galactic warfare? Space-land-for-battle? It kinda reminds me of Chevy Starcraft, too...

I spent about $300 to build a whole new system, not $300 for a cpu. I bought about dozen computers in the past year for work. I found those $300 sufficient to build adequate system for regular web browsing/office work with Vista running on those computers.
I think it is more important to compare combination of 3 different parts or the system as a whole. Just by adding large amount of Ram boosts performance. In some cases having SSD as a HDD helps.
In reality, i find that you can easily spend a lot of money to buy "outlier" parts just you want best of what you can get to help work done a bit faster. Few grand in difference doesn't seem like foolish investment when it comes to professional video editing and graphical design. Time really is money for many jobs. Few minutes add up and become hours over a week. That will alter work output by chunks.

exactly! when it time for Starcraft3, we will have 150000 zerglings attacking you simultaneously!!

No, i didn't still your movie. I am just 'renting' it! like you want!!

Good thing that they are not forming phising union and do strike all the effing time

Of course everyone knows that it will be the year of the linux. so, everybody is busy programming linux, no?

In South Korea, Billboards look at only old people. But in Soviet Korea, billboard is a 55000 young men watched by a single old guy.

I do believe that there are certains things that we can do and things we need right away than having new computers, faster internet, big screens, etc. I am more inclined to think that tech companies somehow lobbied the government out of this to get them purchase all those lcd projecters, new computers. That might actually be better than bailing out failing banks. But still, we could use some money to hire people who actually meet the qualification to teach. i hear from Newsweek mag, that some schools don't even have lab materials and some schools have English teacher who is clueless about science teaching chemistry. I think hiring people comes first than spending on the material that we are okey without one.

Yes, indeed. As a college student, i rather have 1 more professor per X amount of student, instead of having big flat screen TV or projection each classroom or even campus wide computer upgrades every so often. (exception to research labs of course) Same thing goes for K12 schools. Hire more teachers, educators, lecturers, and put them together to make better textbooks, create more effective curriculum, tutor students after school, etc. Computers are still a big distraction and i spend far more time reading the textbook and writing things on my paper notebook than i do on my computer(exception to my CS major classes). Despite being a CS major, i still use a laptop from 4 yrs ago(ibook g4). New computers won't make everything better. I rather have hours of free tutoring from experts than somewhat faster internet.

not likely so
By the way it looks like human civilization will have dark age for another half of a millennia until this thing gets fixed.