But you only get a BA in CS from HU.

That's right, I forgot about Columbia.

Cornell, Princeton, and U Penn are all quite strong in science and engineering

Boy, I really botched the grammar on my post above.

-1 dipshit to me.

Ditto. My brothers and I took a class for kids at the local community college. We learned quite a bit -- the one class I clearly remember was when they were teaching us arrays. I think the computer we programmed on was a PDP11/70 running RSTS/E. Hell, I even remember the communal username (113,3) and password (Mercer).

Wow. That was a long time ago.

One of the problems I see is the use of standardized test and the only/overwhelmingly most important metric to "success" of a school. When that happens school becomes a year-long test prep class instead of an environment for learning. Solving problems using the cook-book method. Do the steps without understanding them.

10.8 feet square is the same as a square with sides measuring 10.8 feet.

10.8 square feet is an area that can hold the equivalent of 10.8 squares whose sides are 1 foot.

You, Mr. AC, are a pedant.

There are poor kids in Beverly.

You forgot about having to deal with organized labor. Seriously. Imagine organizing China's industrial machine? That would raise wages, raise costs, create a middle class, and fuck China up.

Manufacturers are required to provide support for Class I & II devices at least until the shelf life of the product passes.

Source: wife works in Regulatory Affairs pertaining to medical devices.

Do you know what tone deafness is?

From Wikipedia:

The ability of relative pitch, as with other musical abilities, is inherent in healthy functional humans. The hearing impairment appears to be genetically influenced, though it can also result from brain damage. While someone who is unable to reproduce pitches because of a lack of musical training would not be considered tone deaf in a medical sense, the term might still be used to describe them casually. Someone who cannot reproduce pitches accurately, because of lack of training or tone deafness, is said to be unable to "carry a tune." Tone deafness affects ability to hear pitch changes produced by a musical instrument.

However, tone deaf people seem to be only disabled when it comes to music, and they can fully interpret the prosody or intonation of human speech.

MS Project isn't software. It's a religion.

Wow. Blast from the past. Nice catch.