Administrators care only about getting more students through the door and the tuition dollars rolling in therefrom.

If you want to quickly solve this problem, have US News add percentage of faculty in full-time tenured position as a weighting factor to school rankings. Overnight you'll see tens of thousands of adjuncts being offered tenure.

While a simple faculty/student ratio is used there is actually a huge pressure to have the highest number of faculty, and therefore pressure to drive down cost. Quantity is weighted more highly than quality.

Supply and demand. If you make travel by road artificially cheap (which it is - at least 1/3 of road budgets come from general taxation) then people will drive more rather than looking for public transit alternatives. The result is those alternatives are never created and those who would otherwise rely on them, for example the disabled who are unable to drive, lose out big time.

1280x720 resolution on a 4.7" screen is plenty.

My Moto X and Nexus 4 are both clear. of course they're both half the price of Amazon's offering.

I wonder if this price is more about maintaining AT&T exclusivity than being a real reflection of the phone cost. Still, I think the contract requirement while being tied to a single network is going to be a deal breaker.

Good thing people hosted their stuff on the cloud...

Hosting stuff on the cloud wasn't the problem. It's really no different from hosting anywhere else. The problem was a lack of off-site backups.

Something as simple as s3cmd and cron would have protected them. Or if really necessary they could have backed up servers to an independent s3 account.

This is a simple case of someone keeping all their eggs in a single basket, breaking the fundamental rule of backups needing to be independent of their source.

Amazon does highlight if the item was purchased through amazon though, so there is a way to pick reviews from those you can be fairly certain paid cash for the product.

Just this once, being Scottish doesn't make you right.

Here's an explanation. I notice you said everyone else is doing it wrong, but neglected to explain why your car lets you ride the clutch without wearing parts.

If permission is granted there is no infringement. So it's incorrect to say the only response is to send a cease and desist. It would seem that they may be able send a letter saying "we grant you permission to use the ikea name and colors in exchange for a clear disclaimer on each page that you are unaffiliated." They could even state that permission is revokable at any time, in case they want some degree of protection should the site do something Ikea later dislikes.

They have to go after everybody or lose the mark.

Or simply grant permission?

no amount of regulatory burden on the law abiding will stop that.

How many mass shootings has the UK experienced since they banned ownership of handguns?

Apple doesn't care as much about profit after the fact because they got 45% off of you as soon as you bought their phone.

Even if you turn off every function on your phone--including the phone--and kept it in airplane mode the whole time like some sort of absurdly expensive iPod, Apple already made a profit.

So there's no need for Apple to take a 30% cut on ever transaction you made, because they already made a profit. The only reason they do so is they want to make more money. yes somehow you think that, when it comes down to user data, they don't want to make money from selling it to partners?

Come on, I think it's pretty obvious that the OP meant he could lift his feet clear of the pedals and the car kept accelerating, not that he was ignoring what the car was doing.

That's still astronomical. There was a time, about twenty years ago when UK GSM providers simply charged you the local rate for service when roaming plus a 15% markup. Local calls were cheap when roaming. Other calls more expensive, but affordable. In the meantime, the cost of calls has plummeted in just about every nation, yet the cost of roaming has soared.

Your daughter would be best going to either Glasgow,Aberdeen,Edinburgh or Dundee universities as those will have the best coverage being the biggest places.

Only on /. would we find people who recommend making a choice of college based on network coverage for your cell phone.

This. It seems like the US carriers pretty much hated 3G and invested more heavily in 4G when it became available.

In the UK, 3G coverage is strong and widespread (assuming your daughter will be studying in one of the cities). If you're daughter is in fact planning to attend one of the more rural colleges, choice of carrier may be more of a concern.