This is my thing. If I was going to subscribe to a movie theater, I'd get to go as many times as I wanted. I wouldn't be locked into seeing the good shows only once. It would probably end up with more 'day pass' customers since you'd likely bring new friends with you on the subsequent visits.

Regardless on whether it's a good ideas for the theater though, it's the only way I'd ever even consider 'subscribing' to a theater. Make it like a bus-pass (unlimited rides) or forget about it.

I did the same thing, but TWO degrees, (my wife and mine, both on one income.) Now I was going to a State University and not some fancy place that gets a lot of press, but still I've never understood why my experience was so much different from all the stories that you hear, (and headlines like this.)

I see your, 'fixed width web content' rant, and raise you a 'running browser full-screen' rant. There's no useful purpose (as you've so elegantly pointed out) to running your browser the entire width of your monitor. In fact, the entire point of a wide screen monitor is so you can get more done (ie, more done at once.) So, have your browser as a nice window on the side, that's in a size and shape that's useful for the content, and use the rest of your widescreen monitor for something else. Save 'full-screen' for those times when the content dictates that you use full-screen.

I find it interesting that 'zooming' was one of your proffered solutions, but scrolling isn't. You realize that even if you did zoom, you'd still have to scroll?

Ad block isn't illegal in any way (unless you played up a copyright angle where it was modifying the contents of the webpage...) so I wouldn't see litigation and legislation in the future. However, as Ad-Block gets more prevalent the price if internet ads will continue to decline. After a while it simply won't be feasible to support your content delivery simply by running ads along side it.

I expect paywalls and subscription sites to increase as the result of Ad-Block usage increasing.

(Then again, commercial skip on DVR's seems to be the same thing and that definitely is going the 'litigation/legislation' route.)

We used to buy Magnetix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetix

They were great fun...simple...self assembling, but you could do some fun things. It seemed like a great toy for kids. After we had gathered a sizable collection, we heard about the warning of swallowing the magnets. Coincidentally we also started noticing the magnets falling out of their plastic housings.

So, we heavily increased the supervision as the kids were playing with them. Made sure to keep everything glued in tight and or disposed of. Basically I guess that means I'm a responsible parent.

In the end though, we stopped buying them and switch to a toy that was less hazardous. That means the warning effectively became a ban ...for my house...

I think that's how it should work with pretty much everything.

If tipping doesn't go away the same time waiters do, we have a SERIOUSLY messed up society. I hope that was just a really lame joke.

Tipping is institutionalized bribing to convince a person to treat you better. The robots will be programmed to treat everyone the same, and you will NEVER meet the repairman.

Also, it seems super lame to slide that card in and out of everything all the time. Especially when he pulled it out of his phone just to pay the bill. That was by far the weakest point of his little fantasy.

The report say that it cost between $216 and $601 for a newborn circumcision. I couldn't find the number $313 cost 'savings' anywhere in the report itself. It seems it comes from article that talked about it.

I scanned the report, and it talked about a lot of different health problems, but it didn't seem to quantify them monetarily.

I'm a leftie and wear my watch on my left hand. I do everything else with my left hand, why not wear a watch there. People always told me the reason I should switch was so I could check the time while I was writing.

Maybe right-handed people are magical and they can continue to write while they are looking at their watch, but for me I always had to stop writing if I wanted to look somewhere else so it's never been a big deal.

I have a friend that wrote off Joss Whedon and all his 'stuff' because of what happened in Serenity. (Even Dr. Horrible.) While he understands the dramatic tension aspect of it, and agree's that it worked completely, he said, "NOTHING was worth that."

Pretty funny.

The article doesn't say how fees are handle at German Universities. Do you 'subscribe' and pay by the month or something?

At American Universities, you have two sets of fees, (both paid in advance):
        Tuition is by the class or 'credit hours.' If you want the class, you have to pay the fee. If you want to 'test out' of the class, you still pay just as much, but you only have to take one test to prove you know the material.
        Fees are there just for being a student during that time (per semester). These go to various perks and stuff you get for being a student. I've been trying to think of examples, but I can't come up with any. I know that a lot of people are always complaining about the 'athletics fee' since they don't derive any benefit out of that.

In this example, he would have had to pay for all of his tuition for the classes he took, but he would have only had to pay the 'Fees' for the 3 months he was actually a student. I can't imagine the University saying, "pay for 2 more semesters because you're too smart." They might claim the right to use your name and story as advertising.

I'm not sure he was saying that we shouldn't be fair, I think what he was saying is that it's NOT fair for someone who obviously sucks at his job to still get paid for it.

If they are unable to make money writing new music, maybe they should get a different job? I'm a programmer. If I wrote one program for my company and then never could get anything else to compile, they wouldn't think it was "fair" to keep paying me anyway.

So, I think he agrees. Let's be fair. Let's let EVERYONE be paid for what they do, and not allow some people be paid for what they've done.

I started an iPhone app project so I acquired a MacBook to do it on. I have to admit I'm not liking the MAC UI at all. I totally dislike the way my programs don't close when I tell them to, they just hide. I don't like the shared menu-bar thing. (Never have.) And moving windows around, seeing multiple apps at once, switching back and forth between two applications, none of that was any good at all.

(I also didn't like option/apple clicking, the 'missing mouse button', the keyboard layout and the central settings area. Basically, while I was expecting to fall in love with it because I finally got to use the 'Legendary MAC OS' there was very little about it that clicked. It's possible part of the reason I didn't like it was because I'm not typically a laptop user and that might have contributed to the annoyance factor.

Let me admit upfront, I've never explored the world of password cracking. However part of the article doesn't make sense to me. He mentions password based on rules. However he listed the rules and it seemed really strange.

pwdlink from pwlink with the rule "insert d in 3rd position"
pwd4link from pwdlink with the rule "insert 4 in 4th position"
pwd4linked from pwd4link with the rule "append ed"
pw4linked from pwd4linked with the rule "remove 3rd char"
pw4linkedin from pw4linked with the rule "append in"
mpw4linkedin from pw4linkedin with the rule "prepend m"
mw4linkedin from mpw4linkedin with the rule "remove second character"
smw4linkedin from mw4linkedin with the rule "prepend s"
sw4linkedin from smw4linkedin with the rule "remove second character"
lsw4linkedin from sw4linkedin with the rule "prepend l".

Does that mean he made a rule that added a 'd' to EVERY word in his dictionary to try that as a password? Or was his rule "any time you see a 'pw' it might stand for 'password' and therefore adding a 'd' makes sense."?

My point is, these 'rules' don't seem like generic rules at all, rather they sound like an 'after the fact' description of how to change 'pwlink' into 'lws4linkedin'.

Can anyone explain what I'm missing, or did he just add that for 'article filler?'

Yeah, same here. I've told the teachers that my kids don't participate in fund-raisers that are simply turning them into door to door salesmen. I return the packet and offer a direct donation instead.

There are fund-raisers that I'd probably let my kid participate in (bake sales?, car wash, (where the kids actually wash the car), etc) but they've never tried those, so I really don't know.

I have a Pixel Qi screen in my Adam tablet, (Notion Ink). If I wanted to leave the screen off most the time, I'd have to pick a high-contrast theme for ICS, which I haven't really run into 'themes' at all. It works well for e-Reader apps if there is a lot of light, (outdoors on a sunny day) but everything else requires that I have the backlight on. The viewing angles are also not up to par.

However, this screen is a couple years old now, so maybe Pixel Qi have come up with some new magic.

(You do notice the battery savings with the screen turned off though.)