...There predecessors are in their 80s and 90s now or dead. If a 70 year old isn't smarter than a dead person, then I don't understand science!

The smartest person I know works with me at an IT company. She's the only female tech... in town. She's also a student at the University of British Columbia taking science. She's going to make a lot more money than a typical IT person and only intends to have IT as a fall back career. Definitely smarter than the average man.

That's about the mass of yo momma!!

I had an obligation to this comment - sorry. :(

They're preparing them for a technological future with MACS!!

Sorry - this was obligatory. :(

A computer engineer I worked with was going through the border and was apparently not allowed to have burned CDs of software on him. He just so happened to have a very stable version of XP he didn't want to get rid of. Solution: Stick it in the CD drive, put the battery somewhere and they won't take the time to check the drive.

And I will still lack the rhythm to play this awesomeness.

Because of 'dem terrorizers!

It is similar to quantum computing. Quantum computing can be insanely fast, but it is often makes inaccurate calculations.

It's mainly about quantity, not quality. A possibly use for it is computation knowledge engines, like WolframAlpha. It would be inexpensive for computation servers, but only really useful if it was at least 98% accurate.

Similar sort of thing here in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. I sit on the board that run the Smart Communities Society which administers a fiber network called NTNet. We're going to be increasing our fibre network as soon as a bridge is built across a river to connect fiber from the south.

It is really only effective for businesses who resell our network. Cable users gain infrastructure, I guess because our internet service provider makes money off what they (over)charge for bandwidth.

Makes sense because many scientists are from foreign countries were religion is perhaps more sacred, like India, for example.

Although an atheist I appreciate some religion. Science can learn from it. I went to a CBC Massey lecture and listened to a great anthropologist, Wade Davis speak, and this was very well explained. If anyone else is interested in science, language, religion, anthropology and how they all come together they should read "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis.

"Water flows uphill towards money." -Unknown

Although I believe in captialism, this is just wrong. Intel has the money that they can afford to delsalinate water. Many of their employees are based in India and China, and this is incredibly unfair that they have to make their own employees and those who can't afford water, suffer. If they were efficient, they could probably incorporate a desalination plant and keep a server farm there cooled by water from a salt ocean and then desalinate it.

Capitalism has taken a lot of water in the largest aquifer in Peru. The Bush family actually own a large section of land on their aquifer and may consider selling it if oil doesn't work out. (Source: Blue Gold, documentary).

There is going to be more people with degrees per square mile where there are many artsy people, San Fransisco for example. Arts grads get paid less and therefore will probably be more confined, perhaps to coffee shops. ;)

Computer engineering and programmers get very good pay and large offices, like at Google. They are going to more spread out, like in Silicon Valley.

I work for a small northern Canada tech company with people with engineering, math, commerce and science degrees, in a small office of about 10 people. Around the office in my city (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada) has a lot of high school graduate diamond mine workers, oil workers, and engineering companies working for all of our industries and many arts grads without jobs (no surprise). I think measuring people with degrees per square mile is a good idea because our industry workers without degrees are barely in town and few are often living here for long. I think that it makes for innacurate findings.

BTW, sorry for any rambling, bad spelling or grammar, little sleep, apartment burnt down, etc.