Exactly. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

Wishful thinking, but probably not the case as Verizon also supplies television service. It appears they also have a partnership of some sort with DirecTV.

Choice didn't make sense in Force Unleashed. You were Darth Vader's frickin apprentice. You really think that the choice to go light-side would have made sense?

I disagree. Force-requires-mana makes sense to me - think of it less as mana and more as Concentration. You have to concentrate hard on reducing incoming damage so of course you're going to have trouble shooting lightning.

I think you misspelled "live long and prosper" :)

While I can fully appreciate requiring a balance of theory and practice (my alma mater had a very nice balance), honestly, those aren't skills that a university-educated student couldn't pick up. If you "know how a computer works more from top to bottom, transistors to code" then you should be able to quickly and easily figure out how to set up a small business network or fix a computer (and if you can't, you probably didn't earn your degree). The reverse is not necessarily true. And as an earlier poster pointed out, you know today's technologies, but in 5-10 years, without some significant study on your part, when the technologies change, you're going to be up a creek.

tl;dr - Don't underestimate the value of theoretical knowledge. It's much easier to go theoretical -> practical than the other way around.

That's probably with a contract. I imagine the no-strings price is far higher. See endnote 2 in this link: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone

To add to the anecdotal evidence, my 2010 Mustang GT gets about 375 miles per tank of gas on 93 (according to the in-dash display, which is pretty shockingly accurate), which works out to about 25mpg; I get about 340 per tank on 87, which is around 22.67mpg.

Whoosh!

At least from the beta, the DRM appears to be that you are required to sign in to Battle.net before playing the game (in either single- or multi-player mode). Because of this, you are unable to play the game without a Battle.net account (to which your CD key is associated - think World of Warcraft). Based on the SC2 beta and on Blizzard's statements to date, I have no reason to believe it will work any other way.

You mean money and benefits that other married couples already get, right? But of course, in the case of heterosexual couples, it's not just about the money - that would be morally wrong. Am I right? Howabout interracial marriages? That's not a norm, so should we ban that, too? Clearly

Except that plenty of same-sex couples would love to adopt and raise children. Adopting children improves our society by providing them with a place to live, love, and grow. But that doesn't benefit us at all, I guess.

Just make sure our lawmakers don't pick up Perl, or all your laws will look like this...

If you had bothered to actually read the question, you'd know that he was talking about "actually sitting there and pushing buttons to create code that then is compiled":

Read the question before you call someone an idiot.

I'd argue that this situation is more a failing of the company that employs the software engineer than of the profession itself. In other words, it's not your fault that your employer doesn't hold you responsible. On a related note, in my view, this sense of personal accountability and responsibility should be held by anyone and everyone, regardless of position (and regardless of how your employer views the issue) - you shouldn't have to be a PE to take pride in your work. That's a matter of ethics and integrity.

All that being said, don't misunderstand my original point - not all coders are software engineers, and therefore not all coders are engineers.

I've seen a certain amount of bloodlust in a pissed-off sysadmin before, but this is the first time I've heard of sysadmins out for BRAAIINNNSS.