I'll just say this. At the very least the college degree demonstrates that the job applicant is willing to commit to something for a 2 year time-frame, even if that something may not be entirely pleasant or 100% interesting to them (all college courses rarely are). Why would I hire someone who couldn't even stick it out in college for two years - how likely is that person to leave my team in 6 months, just like they did with college, after I spend all the time and money training them?

You can use coins in the restaurant. The severs aren't generally on stage, nor expect the tip to be stuck into their underwear or be tossed at them from a distance :) The usual 15-20% tip applies there, so a buck if fine for a $6 sandwich.

It's either a tongue-in-cheek/slander attempt or something only true for small towns. Certainly has never been allowed nor encouraged in larger cities.

I'm pretty sure I saw a 3D printed rifle already. With that you can get anything else useful that you want. 'Nuff said.

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade to the SIII ;)

I like my black mini-Zune. Things it can do that iPod can't? It has radio, I can sync music to it via WiFi, without having to unplug it from my entertainment center, I can play music from it on my Xbox, wirelessly, oh, and I can control volume and songs with my gloves on, or through the cloth of my pocket. It is an amazing piece of hardware, which was killed by elitist simpletons not willing to get past their Twitter-feed bias and actually try something everybody else doesn't want.

As a Canadian, I can tell you that Canadian strippers hate Americans and their dollar bills. Minimum Canadian tip is $5 - tossing coins on stage will get you thrown out :)

Oh for crying out loud, it does not compete with tablets, they're not even in the same ballpark. It runs a full-blown desktop OS, and has a hardware keyboard, which makes it an ultrabook competitor, if anything. A convertible ultrabook competitor. What are you going to compare next, PSP and Xbox 360, cars and scooters, cats and dogs?

When was the last time you have heard of the red ring of death, and what is wrong with Zune hardware?

And have keyboards stuck to them.

That's what took them so long to confirm the discovery - they were checking to make sure it wasn't a contamination from the rover.

Finally it makes sense what US is doing on Mars! Same thing they're doing everywhere else - getting their hands on the oil supplies under any pretense possible.

I don't think it will happen. Microsoft likes to try their own weight in growing markets. Sometimes they fail (Zune) sometimes they win (Xbox). They only acquire established products (Skype), which BlackBerry is unfortunately no more.

Oh please, like it's not obvious what fanclub the underhanded comment in the parent came from.

Not sure, I don't have the same problem with Canadian BestBuy, for example. We'll see what happens when Target finally converts all the Zellers stores they bought up in Canada.