I'm also happy our state tied for first, but you can't take a number like "only 44% passed" and know that it means much of anything. After my high school career, I was ready to commit seppuku when I receive my first Astrophysics grade in college. A 63% seemed like the worst thing I had ever done, clearly indicating I was unfit for my chosen profession. Until I found out that 63% was the highest grade in the class.

Tests don't measure anything other than how good you are at passing that particular test. A well-crafted test will spread students out allowing educators to understand where the better students still have room to grow, and where the weaker students are lacking. If everyone passes a test with flying colors, it doesn't mean everyone knows all they need. I merely means the test is useless.

Doesn't that spoil the patent though? I mean if 25 years from now we discover the unobtanium needed to make your antigrav copter patent work, well too late, no anti-grav copter patent for you, because it was patented 25 years ago and has entered the public domain since.

>They spend money on quality materials where others do not. But it doesn't justify a 100% premium over their competitors.

Actually, that is pretty much the *only* thing that *does* justify such margins. In just about every other manufacturing industry, there's the cheap crap you can buy at a discount, and the high-quality, well-made stuff that has a much greater than >100% price premium. Toasters, Dining Room Tables, Cars... You name it, and paying for quality has always been profitable.

The only question that remains is whether you think Apple is providing the quality. Given your statement above, it is.

Um no. The Christmas star was seen in the East, not the North. The North star has nothing to do with Christ. It never has.

If your professor goes from teaching 100 people to 100,000 people without much increase in workload, then either your professor sucked when teaching 100, or you are missing the point of attending his class entirely.

It's not just a matter of reading the notes and listening to the lecture. The professor needs to respond to problems the students are having, adjust pacing based upon performance, and be able to handle individual questions from students. That's why good professors hate classes that large (100). It's a lot of work.

What is this "Google Chef" situation that this story seems to pull up everywhere it is posted. Everything I read about the actual Google chef seems to indicate he was a great guy who did amazing things during the formation of the Google. What's the "situation"?

Why exactly do two people need 6 Xboxes on-line "at any given time"?

Oh, oops. I is p0wned.

Wait, when did they arrest someone for having too much disk space?

You pay taxes on the $80,000, not the full $280,000, assuming you kept the receipts for the original $200,000 spent so you can take it as a deduction.

You don't believe lottery winnings are taxed? Why would you think that? It's income, no?

Dude, a couple of hacker built a UAV that silently taps into cell phone conversations...

"If government was doing this..."

What on Earth makes you think that the army doesn't have this capability if a couple of guys at DefCon put it together in a few months?