Very few people know subnetting inside and out unless they're an old school network admin and have been dealing with it for decades.

Summers off is a myth. Teachers are in classroom prep and training all through June and July. They might squeeze in the normal two weeks of vacation that other Americans will scatter throughout the year, if they're lucky.

I'm assuming the community colleges would also include the local tech colleges. If that burger flipper goes on to become a plumber or an electrician, they'll probably make more than I do with less than half the schooling.

I was referring to one of Apple's slogans from the 2000s, which was "It just works." Which was the case for Apple during its heydey but as you have pointed out, not any more.

They can still develop hot spots, though. Mine tends to get noticeably hot right below the Z and X keys. I do love the G-series, though. Actually, I just like MSI. Things just work, like they took a cue from Apple.

That's the compromise I made with my gaming laptop. It's gonna get hot, so I just have a good cooler underneath it when I'm on the road.

Usually the funding for the initial building is done by a real estate investment trust. So the "builder" in this case doesn't refer to the construction company, but to the folks that funded them. Neighborhoods with a HOA are supposed to come with some perks, too - community landscapers, a club house with a pool, that sort of thing. Someone still has to run those things long after the construction crew is gone.

These days it's hard to find a new construction home that isn't part of a neighborhood that has a HOA.... unless you build yourself on one of the abandoned PVC farms from 2008. Our house was the show room foreclosed on such a property, and thus we got a new house while escaping the clutches of the HOA that never was.

Georgia Tech is part of the USG system, so they're already included in this grouping if I understand TFA correctly.

Correct, all USG schools have a per semester technology fee. Sounds like they actually found a better use for it than new iPads for the mac labs, at least.

I would like to see that too. They're across the street from my office, funny enough. I wonder if I go knock on the door and ask, if anyone would talk to me?

Now if they could just make this service available to alumni, I'd be set. Heck, I'd pay them. My house isn't that far from campus, and their service clearly can't be any worse than AT&T or Charter.

'Twas $75 a year the last time I was a student in 2013. Good to know my money went to something awesome.

They also discontinued their $50 MP3 headphones with 2 GB of storage. (2GB is plenty if you're swapping in a fresh podcast once a week, after all.) These were also Walkman branded. You can still get the $99 4GB version, but the design is different and it's not as simple to use. Those $50 headphones had surprisingly good sound, they were water resistant, and they survived years of harsh treatment. Mine only finally kicked the bucket when they got stepped on. I was heartbroken.

I think there is a layer there at which point it's useful, and one at which it's not. It's fine to anthropomorphize a program when explaining to an end user why it's broken, e.g. "The program doesn't know to check for the start date of a new lease when the old one expires, it just thinks it should activate it regardless." (Actual problem we're having to fix right now.) But of course the developer shouldn't think that the program is confused; it's doing exactly what we asked of it in a nightly stored procedure, and not bothering to check start dates because it wasn't programmed to do that in the first place!

A banana a day is usually enough to keep someone's potassium about right.