"Don't you know old chap that I was head of Al Qaeda for 10 years. Five year! No, no, I was not head of Al Qaeda at all...I make joke."

And people were wondering what Apple was going to do with their Scrooge McDuck pile of gold.

Dollars to donuts the people bitching the loudest about this check in to FourSquare 72 times a day, tweet 245 times, and update their Facebook status with what they're doing and where at least every hour.

That means that on a single day Verizon sold 13% -- a single phone on a single carrier in a single country. Pretty good if you ask me.

But you only get a BA in CS from HU.

That's right, I forgot about Columbia.

Cornell, Princeton, and U Penn are all quite strong in science and engineering

Boy, I really botched the grammar on my post above.

-1 dipshit to me.

Ditto. My brothers and I took a class for kids at the local community college. We learned quite a bit -- the one class I clearly remember was when they were teaching us arrays. I think the computer we programmed on was a PDP11/70 running RSTS/E. Hell, I even remember the communal username (113,3) and password (Mercer).

Wow. That was a long time ago.

One of the problems I see is the use of standardized test and the only/overwhelmingly most important metric to "success" of a school. When that happens school becomes a year-long test prep class instead of an environment for learning. Solving problems using the cook-book method. Do the steps without understanding them.

10.8 feet square is the same as a square with sides measuring 10.8 feet.

10.8 square feet is an area that can hold the equivalent of 10.8 squares whose sides are 1 foot.

You, Mr. AC, are a pedant.

There are poor kids in Beverly.

You forgot about having to deal with organized labor. Seriously. Imagine organizing China's industrial machine? That would raise wages, raise costs, create a middle class, and fuck China up.