Dr. Shechner did not take into account the stereotypical rules for campy action movies in his analysis. That's a major flaw that invalidates his whole analysis. George Lucas on the other hand, is well acquainted with the rules and all his action movies follow them to a T.

Since Indy is the star of the action movie, he cannot die, unless it's a plot device where later in the movie he gets reanimated.

So even if Indy only had his signature Fedora and Leather Jacket and no fridge, he would have survived the blast with just a few scratches. QED

Not true in practice for a non-hacker.

I personally know of two people with masters degrees in CS granted from a respected State University that know squat about programming, let alone the process of engineering.

I'd be better off hiring a high school drop out to help me program.

In my experience, people who didn't get an undergraduate degree in Computer Science/Engineering, and don't have an underlying interest in software, but got Masters Degrees in Computer Science, have all turned out to be the most incompetent Software Engineers I've ever worked with, because
a) they have no underlying knowledge of how programs actually work
b) they think they are experts just because they have a "MS in CS"

+1 Some details to back you up, ae1294: Temperature in summer days/nights range from: 20 C to -90 C

Let's see a Mercedes work in that type of environment (even at earth normal atmospheric pressures)

Also there's been NO MAINTENANCE done on the rover for 8 years.

Yes, we should be proud, very proud.

Everybody, the president included, is trying to make this out as a simple problem that has a cut and dry solution.

The solution is really quite complex, and both ideas are correct and both are wrong.

The crux of it is, IMHO, that to have a strong economy, there needs to be a COMPLETE MIX of jobs, both skilled and unskilled. Some people just don't have the genetic predisposition to write software, and excel at more physical tasks and vice versa.

The future of the US economy depends on a job market that allows as many Americans that wish to work, be employed at a liveable wage. How can we reach that goal? Well, that's where everybody knows the answer and in reality nobody really does. :-O

Yeah... well BC Hydro gets it power from sources that aren't just dams. So what's in a name?

Sort of like my Dad: Would never admit that he was wrong when he was 100% proven wrong, that's one part of his personality I hate with a passion.

That's the type of person we *really* want to be running this country.

Stubborn, unwilling to change position when proven wrong and willing to take the country down with him to prove that he "stayed true to his original, incorrect views."

We already had one instance of this with the continuation of the Iraq war even when the original reasons for entry had been proven false... that stubborness cost thousands of human lives...

I actually slogged through reading the whole Original Article and it seems like the editors at CIO don't know the difference between USER incompetence and incompetence in the IT department. Most of the "USER" issues were issues with the IT group, others were systematic failures... I particularly like the one where "IT" comes in and saves the day when "IT" diff's a developers' files and finds he's a bad developer, whereas the whole software Engineering department couldn't figure it out... yeah, right.

Just because somebody "wrote it" online, doesn't mean it's true. Most probably, CNET just published a quote from "some guy" without verifying the facts first.

Umm, you seem to have a weird definition of "nobody".

The BEST SELLING tablets: the iPad and iPad2 both have 9.7" 4:3 screens. Rumored to be exactly the same model as the HP Touchpad...

Stop spreading incorrect information.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

I guess the people in the US will have to come to grips that the belief of a few zealots that the Earth is 6000 years old since that's what it says in the bible, that the idea will eventually become the "TRUTH". Goodbye scientific thought and facts... I welcome the new world view... that Paul Revere rode around shooting guns and warning the British, and that being able to see another country from the state you live in gives you experience in foreign affairs.