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As a person who had to teach myself, had to deal with a broken higher education system in my country (Vietnam) and is currently attending a university in the U.S, I agree with you. There are more than just what is taught in the course, for example the professors, the atmosphere, the connections with other students, and courses that you don't even know that you need -- they can only be found when one attends college. IMHO colleges do a better job with teaching general concepts such as physics, philosophy, art; and online materials do better job teaching specific subjects (especially in Computer Science) -- one can go very deep on a subject matter that they finds interesting. Good thing is online materials and colleges are not mutually exclusive: One can have both. I still learn from online materials everyday.

That said, I always think that I'm extremely lucky to be able to attend and afford college in the U.S. For people those do not have money (students in third world countries), sure online materials cannot deliver the experiences of MIT, but they are still way better than listening to crap they have to listen to everyday (in most colleges).

Bill's statement might not hold water for colleges in the US but it's already true in many parts of the world.

You should consider creating a samba share. If you don't have a server a NAS appliance or a el heapo old PC would handle the job very well.

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy songs,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the music store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
 
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
 
And they were singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."

There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it's immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare. It really is Apple's way or the highway...

There is no alternative girl. Although as of lately, she dumped me and fucked my ass, she is the only one. It really is my ex-girlfriend, or the highway.

Yeah, well, that's just like... your opinion, man. You have every right to live in the fucking past.

Kid, you're growing up waaaaaaaaaaaay too fast.

It survived after being slashdotted... I got Apache installed on it.

Gonna be O.K,
Dah dah duh duh,
Just reboot!
The kernel babe,
Duh duh duh duh
Just reboot!
Re-re-re-re-boot...

Yeah. OS X is not locked down until you try to write a wifi (airport?) driver for it.

They really need to ship JooJoo with this song of JoJo.

I was young
And in love
I gave you everything
But it wasn't enough
And now you wanna communicate (You know it's just too little too late)
Go find someone else
In letting you go
I'm loving myself
You got a problem
But don't come asking me for help
'Cause you know...

It's just too little too late
a little too wrong...

What's even more unsettling is waking up with a naked girl on my bed, and having no recollection of ever doing anything with her. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.

I'm not a nig fan of url shortening services, but sometimes it makes sense.

Sometimes I just want to send a link to my friends with my dumb phone. The problem is that I don't want to type the whole stupid url and I don't want my friends to ask me if it's an Oh or a Zero. In that case, SocuteURL rocks!

If this structure is anything like the other high temp superconductor, it is a ceramic, which can hardly be used as a cable conductor.

Way back in the 1980s there were many solutions proposed to this: such as encasing it in a more ductile material, or having elbow bits to go around corners similar to what plumbers have been doing for a very long time with brittle ceramics. The major problems keeping these things out of power transmission have been temperature and the problem where superconductivity halts if you try to put more than a small amount of current per unit of area through it (think it was something to do with magnetic field strength but it's been a while). The second may need some creative work with geometry (flat wide "cables" or something) or maybe just making things thicker, but there's plenty of ways around the brittleness problem.
You just won't necessarily be able to hang the things off poles like a typical steel cored aluminium transmission cable.