I did my 4+ yrs getting a CS diploma, and GED: what did those non-CS courses teach me wrt to my current job:

English: I can write SW spec documents and comment big blocks of my code with sufficient grasp of grammar that doesn't make me seem like a idiot (and even gives me extra points in credibility)

History: The ability to look back at past events helps you formulate a coding strategy for the future, and avoid mistakes

Art: CS derives from Math, and Math has been considered an art-form for thousands of years (hmmm, there's that History again)

Philosophy: You sometimes code in teams, and understanding that these other team-members are human beings, and understanding your team strengths/weaknesses/quirks, makes you work smarter, not harder.

So sure, you can skip all that, and hyper-specialize in CS, but that won't buy you as much as you think in the long-run.

I urge you to reconsider, impatient youth! ;-)

Ahoy! There be lotsa oil here, maties! ARRRRRRRRR! Air's a bit musty though, meeh could be worse!

Even if ATT were to add more towers in its ideal world, it still would not be enough. You're talking about a problem that scales linearly (adding more towers). In the case of iPhone adoption (through basic word-of-mouth and ads), I think it scales linearly, but faster (super-linearly), or even geometrically. So, throwing more towers into the mix won't necessarily help, because ATT will eventually hit the wall again or max capacity.

Even then, putting up towers brings up the NIMBY factor from home owners that don't want one put in.

Personally, I think this is one case where I would not mind some kind of tiered pricing scheme; it gives users more choice, but at the same time, makes them VERY aware of the bandwidth they are using, and the iPhone "battery-like" or gauge-like widget would make that really easy to do. When the widget turns red, stop using, or pay to play...but this is not QoS at all in the net-neutrality sense either..more like a good compromise.

Anyway, just my 0.02$...talk amongst yourselves.

C.