and do you have kids? I was nearly in the identical situation to yours...30 years ago...though luckier to have Northeastern U. programs available and a Masters CS degree program in evening division of Boston U....but that was not enough. The realities of family life include MUCH less "free" time than a bachelor with a job can devote to studies. I racked up 22 credits...most of a MS CS degree but just could not get it done in the time required...even though my employers were reimbursing my tuition.

if not for this version of "health and safety" thinking, lawyers would starve. we got all kinds don't we? NYC is not that special. Can-do attitudes exist in lots of places. When a "Sandy" smacks YOUR home town, you will eventually suffer or make out OK because there will be a few people who know what they are doing and who feel "making things work is my job". Try to be one of those people.

I found I could dump screen capture to Paint, save as black/white then reopen and save as color...and patch a few breaks in the maze wall. and then flood colors into the maze to see where things run...left hand traverse will not always get you out of this "maze". still, like DNA, a lot of interest for one instruction.

Wikipedia perhaps, but a few other sites as well, will give you a list of frequencies used in 4G...its quite a range and I have yet to find the list that tells you which carriers own which bands...and some of the bands are reserved for future use. I googled and got the list because I too live too far out of town to get cable but do have weak and variable 4G signal...weather and season matter and can make the signal go from 4bars of 4G down to 3 bars of Edge...I will report on results here if I ever get around to ripping out the preamp in my used satellite dish and putting the modem [I got the ATT sierra wireless cause thats who had the better tower location for me] once the dish aperture is > a wavelength, you should get some gain.

submitter asks "Though not accepted on the SAT/ACT, will such a powerful device gain a strong following among engineers and professionals?" If /not accepted/ is because it gets wrong answers;) then yes, but if not accepted because it makes it too easy to get answers then, hell yes, it gets a following. There could be other considerations such as price I suppose

Bob, my friend, why do you never think anybody should pay a nickle for anything? We can't all code as well as you!

We now force our enemies to do for operating systems what our [friendly? domestic?] operating system suppliers should have done! Can't wait for my windows 8 North Korean version to go into beta!

I am now looking for my device IDs in that list...a drag. But how oblivious is the typical iPhone customer to just how naked they are? I salute the hackers for giving the fascist bureau of iDevices and their lackies a big black eye.

I think you got it about right. Glaskowsky sizes things up in a similar way: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10282844-23.html

btw, I should have linked the Moblin pages...there is a LOT of activity on their email feed for independent developers. http://moblin.org/

all the press coverage yesterday characterized google's OS ambitions as an attack on MicroSoft or a counter attack in light of Bing. But to me, an open source OS enhanced for web-top uses sounds mighty like an attack on Intel/Moblin. After all, ARM processors are to be supported too from the little I have read of google's plans.

if it had porn elements and its heuristic is to pit game effects and content against each other by competing for user attention, the endstate is rather easy to predict.

You have just reproduced verbatim an argument put forth by Carl Sagan in "Dragons of Eden"...about thirty years ago.