I'm 192cm (pretty tall), but you don't have to pay extra –show up extra early to check in and ask to be put right at the front of the cabin. There aren't any seats in front of you, and there's loads of leg room. The disadvantage is, mothers with small babies often get put there as well, so you may have to put up with the smell of poo.

I'd rather think that CS degrees hone a mind that can already think logically and methodically.

I'm a teaching assistant as well as being a student, and I mark coursework for younger students. I see this a lot, and my professors all agree –there are a few people who can be taught, if they're reasonably smart and willing to work hard. I'm not denying that there are. But these people are in the minority.

That paper I referenced above refers to it as "the camel has two humps". With most subjects, you get a bell-curve emphasising that most students tend to get a C. With some subjects like CS and Maths, it's more like a double hump –a load of high achievers, a load of people who have no hope, and a few people in the middle. The really hard work is shoving the people in the middle up towards the higher hump; many of them can get there if they try hard enough. The top students can work it out by themselves; no amount of support is going to turn the bottom students into scientists. I hate to think that it's like this, but it's what I've observed pretty consistently.

This is something Apple took the piss out of a couple years back, why would they start doing it with their own products?

To paraphrase SJ when he was introducing Mac OS 10.whateveritwas: "We have a Basic Edition that retails at $99. Moving up from that, you can purchase the Home Edition, also for $99, or the Business Edition for $99. And if you want the luxury of having all the features that we've built into Mac OS X, you can go all out and purchase the Ultimate Edition –at just $99".

They're not going to feature lock. This would just be daft.

Totally disagree. High school will not be a benefit to the vast majority of people. Either you were born thinking like a computer scientist, or you will never 'get it' at uni; there are very few people who are in between, who can learn how to think in that manner.

Third year CS student here, I had never even thought about majoring in CS until about two weeks before applying to university –I was planning on doing Physics. I had never done anything remotely CS related at school. I'm one of the top students in my class.

Here's a paper http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf. The gist of it is that school is a waste of time for the top students because they already know how to think; university is a waste of time for the bottom students because they'll never get it; and there is a minority who can actually be pushed to learn something, those students who are somewhere in the middle.

What? Something that you know, but don't know that you know it? How does that work?