What about simply installing Linux? Boot from CD and no need for bootcamp or anything like that.

Add Sophos enterprise to that list.

Media companies want Google to pay, not us (consumers). Because you can charge Google $X (where X has 7 digits) whereas to get consumer money, you have to produce a useful product.

Call Brooklyn College and ask about CIS 46.1 - Distributed System Administration. ;) (not basics, but you do get to do cool stuff with FreeBSD).
Then there is CIS 2.50 - UNIX Shell Programming, CIS 2.55 - Perl Programming and CIS 46 - Workstation Programming (write your own shell as a midterm).
These are all undergrad classes though. Don't think that most of them have graduate equivalents. :(

Walk up to any manned booth and say the following words: "May I have a map, please?"

As for schedule, every 8-10 minutes during the day.

You're welcome. :)

Even those don't count (as they are never accurate anyway). ;) (I've taken my fair share of buses and commute via trains from south Brooklyn to south Manhattan 5 days a week.)

To be fair though, trains do run pretty close to ever 8-10 minutes during daytime and slow down to 20-30 minutes at night. That's the train's schedule afaik and they are pretty good at keeping it.

4 years ago, Facebook only allowed uni e-mail addresses to register. It was MySpace, but cooler, it was the thing college kids did. NOW, it's a MySpace clone.

Your link talks about how gamestop and ebgames (and the like) benefit from it, since they get to buy games for 20 USD and sell them back at 40USD where a new game costs 60USD. This is the same scheme that college bookstores use. The article doesn't mention anything about people selling directly to people.

I meant 24/7 type monitoring ... ie: some system bites the dust, etc.

I have to ask, who will be monitoring and supporting this architecture?

I don't think that there is sorting going on in MapReduce (from what I've read). Could be that I missed something ...