no, no they're not. a 2x4 is 1.5" x 3.5".

yup, different. much more like THIS iphone app. ;D http://www.pcworld.com/article/188595/

simply put, they are classically liberal.

sounds like you did an astonishingly bad job picking a school and major.

you might be happy with it, but it's pretty well established that there's a pretty f'in good chance you'd lose. then you would have caused yourself a ridiculous amount of time and money for no good reason (being that it's been well established what the safe bounds of interview questions are).

with your attitude, if your company lets you continue to interview, they're opening themselves to a LOT of liability.

i used to feel the same way as you do, until i became a manager and had to take all the legal training regarding what you can and can't ask, with real life examples of when the company has gotten in trouble for w/ hiring. it's absolutely amazing how easy it is to get into trouble legally.

those are some horrendous questions to ask. say you're interviewing a great programmer, and you ask those questions. they answered that their favorite movie was brokeback mountain, and on fridays they hang out in west hollywood and suck d*ck at a glory hole. the next guy you interview for the same position ends up even more qualified, and you then end up hiring them. you may not care that they're gayer than big gay al, but the og great programmer doesn't know that, and may sue your dumb ass.

that's obviously meant to be an extreme example, but even more realistic scenarios will get you into trouble (i.e. a guy says he likes to go out with his boyfriend, or a woman says she likes to spend it with her kids, someone says they go to temple, etc).

there are some questions you can't ask, but asking some technically allowed questions will get the same answers as if you asked a illegal question, which can cause you massive headaches down the road. so stick to the questions pertaining to the job itself.

far from being of poor quality, apple could not compete with the quality, speed, and price of the clones.

maybe that's because the average commute speeds in LA are so low (5-11 mph average in the sepulveda pass). :P

For example, the access to my country's equivalent to the ivy league schools doesn't depend on your family's wealth, which means that if you are dumb as a door knob and you happen to be the son of a billionaire then you still have to work your ass off in order to be admitted to one of those schools. It also means that if you are terribly smart and talented then you may enrol in those schools, no matter how poor you are. It's raw talent that matters, now raw cash.

and of course if you're terribly smart and talented, you can pretty much enroll in any school in the u.s. as well, and especially at the best- harvard, for example, requires NO contribution from students whose families make less than $60k, and families up to $180k are expected to contribute up to 10% of their income. it is NOT cash that prevents those who are "terribly smart and talented" from going to schools- maybe it prevents the average student, but that's a different topic... :p

no no, it was also "crap" in the sense that it was pretty dog slow. it's pretty good these days though.