I can see it now:
Posted by JConnor on April 21, 2011, @08:45PM
Another Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet
John writes
"This new AI, playfully named Skynet, was created to help students in Africa reach for the sky and learn to play checkers. Support this effort by downloading the fun new application."

Now, I only pulled a B in Physics, but couldn't you fix the current surge with an inductor? I won't pretend to be an expert on circuits, but would that not fix the problem?

True...I wonder, then, how do portable CD players work? Anyone know?

I agree with you there, Sobrique. Not sure if you're American, but I am, and one of the fundamental issues I take with my culture is how violence, drugs, and language are all taken in stride, but woe be to whoever (whomever?) shows sexuality in a video game. Remember the uproar over Mass Effect's alleged "hardcore" sex scenes? The media jumped all over it just based on these rumors, while in reality there is just a bit of ass shown in the game. Never mind the hundreds of people you have the option of killing. Don't like the people in the Feros colony? Kill them all as soon as you get the chance!
In The Great Gatsby, there's one scene where the woman (I've forgotten her name) gets hit by a car, and the book details one of her naked breasts halfway torn off and flapping in the wind. This is considered an art form. In games, ANY mention of sexuality is immediately torn to shreds by the media.
I play games for the story, and hence I consider my games a form of entertainment [like movies, books, etc], not simply a toy. I guess my point is, moral issues should carry the same weight in any entertainment medium.

I've rambled on for far too long.

Yes, this is definitely a concern with any optical drive.
Think about it. When you spin up a gyroscope, it will resist changes in it's orientation. Now, as far as I can tell, a spinning disc in a drive will act like said gyroscope. When you tilt it over, the disc will resist and pop out of the disc-gnomes' hands.
My opinion is, Microsoft SHOULD have put in the little bumpers TFA talked about regardless of the cost, but since the manual clearly states the console should not be turned around while playing a disc, the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the users.

If you live by some people that own horses, chances are they have a large pile of manure. When my family had horses we would stack it up in these big long piles, so that the stuff on the further end would be all nice and composted and the stuff on the closer end was fresh. Think of it like a priority queue prioritized by age.
Ask whomever owns the pile if you could take a few buckets. I'm sure they'd be OK with it.

Not to take a dump all over your argument or anything, but if you could afford to buy a house and a new car when you graduated, why not spend the money on an ivy league (or similar) education?
I'm sure you had a great time at college, but many companies will offer a graduate of a big name college a job over other similarly qualified applicants. For example, as a sophomore I have an internship at a software company in Bozeman, and got offered another at the NAVSEA Warfare Center in Newport.
Since I switched majors, I'll get to go to S. America one summer and study geological formations as part of a required field course. I could also do a couple weeks in the SHOALS Marine Lab, or maybe go out on a ship and do some research.
My point is, there are a ton of great opportunities at expensive schools, and if you can afford them (i.e. get mad scholarships) I see no reason not to take advantage.

Yes, I'm sure you're very proud of your coding, but programming just isn't on the same level as ECE. The whole process is much more involved. Most people don't realize how different hardware design is from software design. Granted, Verilog may be used for much of the project, but even that is much more complicated than Java. This is coming from a former ECE major, so trust me, I'm not just spouting some bullshit trying to sound smart.

Oddly enough, I watched those guys making the Tetris game while I was doing my ALU lab.

Why would you say that? The reason our troops are so effective is because they can think on their feet. If a platoon commander is killed in action, the next guy down the chain of command will immediately step up and he knows what the mission is and how to get it done. It seems to me like you're thinking of the old time battles where the two opposing factions would line up on either side of a line and keep shooting at each other until one side was all dead.

Although, I guess I am assuming you live in the U.S. I'd be interested to know how your military works, if you're from another country.