The speed limit is the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at

Absolutely not. I-88 outside of chicago (part of my commute) has a speed limit of 55, and the only two times I've ever seen people traveling under 70 was in rain or if there was a cop in the median. Every city I've lived in has the same effect.

Speed limits are a number of things, but they're certainly not "the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at"

I don't think we're that far apart. Certainly the idea that a university should ban everything is stupid. I was just saying that people who dedicate their lives to teaching appreciate students that pay attention and succeed. Saying: "why should the teachers care if the students or pass" disregards why those people enter education compared to other careers

I might as well have just stopped reading your post there, they might lock you in to studying with them for 4 years but you are allowed to move off campus you know.

Many universities don't allow you to move out of the dorms (the cynic in me says it's for the $$, but who knows). I went to a tiny school in a really rural location and even if we wanted to move out, there were more students in the town than actual people in the town (1400 students, 800 residents), so it would've never worked to have people spread around.

Then why are you bitching about it on Slashdot? Chances are, none of us are the administration you're railing against. It *is* their network and their rules. If you don't like the food, the internet, the dorms then your options are to complain to them or leave. If it's not providing the things you want to have, then you've probably made a bad choice when you were applying to schools. (assuming they didn't mislead you on what they were providing)

  My university didn't allow cable TV in the dorms (they didn't even have the hookups), and I didn't run around trying to find a few miles of coax to string a cable to my room. They also have an amazing cafeteria, and I love eating food, so it made a lot of sense to go there :)

Besides, why should the tutors care? - If people waste the lessons updating Facebook instead of getting smart, they'll simply fail and thus have wasted their tuition. I hope Facebook was worth it, but the tutors shouldn't care less if the students are that stupid.

Because most teachers go into teaching to get students to learn? Because a lot of institutions tie student performance into their evaluations? Because students that aren't paying attention are more likely to distract their neighbors? etc etc...

bluetooth mouse support

I don't wear underwear when I fly anymore

Yes, Shared Nothing does work but it puts a limit on how many cores you can ultimately use. You won't get speedups from processors with more and more cores.

Nope. You got that exactly backwards. As the number of parallel tasks increases, synchronizing shared resources (and other communication in general) starts to dominate the decrease in efficiency. Look at erlang and its ability to run (and keep fed) 10's of thousands of threads simultaneously.

Your example of partitioning a loop into N tasks is exactly mappable to a shared-nothing architechture (assuming there is nothing that needs to be shared between separate iterations of the loop)

I am *constantly* bringing electronics with me when I go to brazil for different people in my family. That electronics import duty is ridiculous.

searching around, it's possible the guy two levels up swapped department of energy with department of education (which ron paul certainly opposes)

ended the War in Iraq with more or less of a defeat rather than a victory

From the sounds of the rest of your post, you don't support us being at war with other countries. If so, what is the third option that you wanted Obama to take? I pretty much only see "stay in there, commit more time/resources/lives and try to make things better" or "cut our losses, get out, support them where we can and where we're needed/wanted". What could've been done to make the "more or less of a defeat" into a victory while simultaneously leaving?

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding Ron Paul's position (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong...), but wouldn't his opposition to the DOE (not a power granted to the executive by the constitution, etc..) also shoot down him supporting however many independent agencies, each supporting a subset of the powers the DOE used to have?

*shrug* I've never done OSX coding (beyond posix-ish porting of some code from linux), so I have no idea of how things are implemented under the hood. I think quicksilver's open source (?) though, so that might be somewhere to look?

And then there's OS X's inability to send keystrokes to any application other than the one in front. What a huge UI fumble. Got the ability to remotely control an app by sending it keystrokes? Too bad. Won't work under OSX unless the app is already active, in which case, you're not remote controlling it, because the app attempting the control has lost the focus.

I have a couple applications on OSX that can accept keystrokes without being the active application (specifically, notational velocity, quicksilver and VLC (though it's limited to just eating the play/pause-next/previous keys)