The auction ended Jul 08, 201213:59:58 PDT, so even if you dreamed of getting this collection, it's too late.

I went to one of those private for-profit schools for my degree. I transferred in rougly 1/3 of the degree (64 credits out of the 182 required) and I completed the remaining 120 credits in 15 months. They couldn't tell me to go slower because I had a 4.0. I figure this saved me about $15k from the price of that piece of paper. Yes I know that's all I really got from it, but that's all I expected to get. It got me a promotion at work that required a degree. Stupid requirement, but I approached it as an investment and know that it will pay off.

Oh and no, I haven't been sued for going through so fast.

Which takes us back to why Zuckerberg is a bad role model. Neither does he.

Retailers don't need urging, they follow the dollars. If enough people truly do stop buying these, instead of just righteously proclaiming that on the internet, then they will disappear from shelves. As long as people keep buying them, though, retailers will keep selling them.

Oh I certainly love tinkering, I even did a fair bit this last weekend replacing the battery in my car (and in a '99 Monte Carlo, that's an ordeal). However, like I said, there's a difference between being interested in something or liking it as a hobby vs. desiring it as a career. Gaming is, in general, a hobby.

I love having a car to drive around, but I don't want to be an auto mechanic. (race car driver though... hmm....)

It's also based on the assumption that people who install and run these apps is a representitive distribution of the population. Cue debate on intelligence of people who let apps have full network communication permissions.

The problem with picking a stat like pay/work ratio is that it doesn't take in to consideration things like time preparing for work, traveling to work, traveling back and winding down. You're not going to get that pay rate for 8 hours straight. The $130/2hrs is the highest single point, saying that most are in the area of $100/8hrs (still high paid for unskilled labor) and some go as low as $60/8hrs (getting comparable to McDonald's US wages).

Of course, in return for a well paid unskilled labor job, you do have the requirements of keeping your body in a certain physical condition, as well as a job that is physically demanding (standing for 8 hours) and mentally draining (interacting with thousands of people). That's why it pays well.

I personally believe that ad is a great self-example. "If you buy our stuff you'll never have to see this ad again!"

With all due respect, as someone else who's had a formal networking education, there's a massive difference between setting up a subnet and performing full blown packet capture/analysis.

As much as I hate memes, FTFY. Want to play some single player while waiting for a flight, or in a hotel, or if Comcrap goes down again? Sorry, sucks to be you. On a satellite connection? bwa ha ha I hope you're not playing hardcore mode. The real reason for this is because by keeping as tough a stance on cheating/duping, they can keep prices higher in the RMAH, and earn more money. They're betting that the income from that (15% and up) will offset the lost sales from people who are angry about the online-required aspect. Sadly I think they're right.

It depends on the loan type. Some loans have government-paid interest while in school. Other loans have the normal interest rate while in school and it just accumulates. The worst type of loans (the ones I had to end up getting) actually had a higher interest rate while you were in school than they do during the repayment period. This was actually a good motivator, though, and was part of the reason I attended summer quarter as well as taking an overload of courses. Faster graduation -> less interest -> slightly easier to repay.

It doesn't make my head hurt, I just have a simple question that causes me to believe differently.

If you left our current location 12.7 billion years ago, and were travelling at the speed of light in the exact direction that these photos came from, and then stopped so you could be easily observed, would you currently be where the protocluster is, or will it have moved?

My (missed) point was that there are insufficient connections to make a trip worthwhile. 900 miles by car is currently over 3,000 by rail due to the fact that you have to go literally almost halfway around the circumference of the contiguous USA before it actually turns towards your destination. High speed rail? Hell I'd settle for slow speed rail if it meant that I could get there at a reasonable time. I'd be happy with even a 15 hour travel time, but over 100 hours? You'd spend over 80% of a 10 day vacation just on the train. That might be fun if your fun is in the travel, but if you actually care about the destination, it sucks.

I once looked in to a rail trip from Minnesota to Colorado. As a reference, this trip by car takes 24 hours of driving, and about 40 gallons of fuel (so even if it were $10/gallon, it would cost $400). The rail option would first go to Oregon, then to California, then to Colorado. Entire trip time would be 103 hours, and the cost is $450. While rail works in Europe, it doesn't in the USA (and since the TSA isn't in Europe, that's a key thing to note).