I believe this result is not about blue-collar vs white collar, nor more education vs less education. I believe this is about a person's ability to understand and use circumstances that are not specifically related to the exact task at hand. In the case of a software developer or a hardware engineer, those with the best coding skills or engineering skills may not be fully understanding of the true needs of the product owner, product user, or project manager (which are often poorly presented, and require interpretation). I think that those who have a more encompassing education also generally have more exposure to the rest of the world, which can impact the project at hand. Therefore they are more likely to recognize and react to things that affect the project than those who are more purely focused on the details of the work at hand. This has value in the real world, and I think this may be why those types of people are generally more highly paid.

The most useful and far reaching thing you could teach in such a limited time are skills surrounding how to structure online information searches, how to clearly ask the right questions when speaking or writing, who to ask various types of questions, and how to understand the validity of the answers (marketing, technical, or just FUD).

The students would then be able to make use of these skills to find more appropriate and direct information about whatever interests them now, and into the future.

That's a lot of money alright, and it's the primary reason I don't play any game that requires a monthly fee just to play it. I don't care how good it is, no video game is worth more than a one-time cost for the game, and one-time costs for any expansions, additional content, etc.

Now, try this same math with your Cable TV, or cel phone bills. 4 years and 8 months is the period of the article, that's 56 months. If you're paying $100/month for cable TV, that's $5,600; more than this guy paid to play this game.

I just love the author's statements about the"new" touch gestures:
         

This one sounds exactly like what I used to do on an old rear-projection SMART Board system, and as such is certainly not unique to Windows 7.
         

And this two-finger scrolling gesture also functioned on that old system (which worked on Windows 98). It was a vertical scrolling gesture, not horizontal, but that's a very minor difference.

And this requires a whole different approach to 'touch' technology ;)

That's great if your coding something small and used on only one system (like a console game), but if your product needs to work on a very wire range of variable systems, and your development team consists of more people than can sit in a single room, or is spread out over more than one physical building, this method simply does not work and some structured process becomes necessary.

Time to buy lots of popcorn and tinfoil. You're in for it now Hathaway; hope you're house is insured.
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There. Now you've had your nod to 'Real Genius'. ;)

While this certainly has the potential to let TV programmers know that we do actually loose interest when a commercial is aired, and some programs that seem to get canceled are actually watched, there are far too many potential abuses for this technology. I don't want to suddenly become part of a reality tv show that is aired in some other country, and that I have no idea I am a part of.

I want to see more games like "The 7th Guest" and "The 11th hour". Now those were games that stayed in my head (in a good way) long after I played them.

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So I had a look at the banner mentioned, and I find it odd that it states "Please upgrade to one of these modern browsers" followed by only IE8, FF3.5, and Google Chrome. Why not mention (or even hint at) the fact that other "modern browsers" also exist. You know, browsers like Opera or Safari (the OS default for MAC users), or any others. Simply re-wording the banner to something like "Please upgrade to a modern browser such as the following" would be much more polite.

And here we go again. Yet another show I actually enjoyed watching (on a different day and time) is canceled prematurely. I am so sick of TV these days. 10 minutes of show for 20 minutes of commercials, one episode then two weeks of something else, then another episode. Only 10 or so episodes in a 52 week year. Crappy time slots. All these things are contributing to the downfall of TV.

I only ever sat there for 10 minutes because that's all it took for the diarrhea to activate after eating that addictive crap. Sitting any longer and the chairs would be a different color.