I have a theory that says young people have a better grasp of cost-benefit analysis.

False hope, making people feel better about reality since 6000 BC.

Sorry for the cheap shot, but in a way it is true. Education is useless without skill, ambition and desire, too many people confuse education with knowledge and ability. I've known very successful high school drop-outs. I've known MBA's working part-time jobs. By asking *us* what she can do with her degree, she's admitted she has no clue. What the hell? You put the time and money into getting a degree and you have no idea what you would do with it? You have one life. Time if of the essence, why would you invest that much time if you didn't have a clue what to do with it when you were done? (Can you tell I have a child in college?)

The answer has always been and always will be, what can you, you bright and shiny special and unique snowflake, do that is mostly better than most other people? That's the question. Answer that question and you have your answer. If the answer is not economically viable, learn to say "Do you want fries with that?" If you are really lucky, you get to like what you do for a living. Even then, you'll hate it a lot of the time.

That applies to EVERYONE, myself included. OK, career forum over, get back to work.

start a private math school for the children of the parents who while not rich enough to splurge a private college still do not want that the only options left for their children will be "blue collar" which in practice means:
- criminal
- prison guard
- hamburger flipper

I think what you're describing usually correlates with experience rather than degree. I avoid hiring people who don't have at least one 4-year stint at a job for that reason. You need about that much time to really 'get' maintainability.

Unfortunately, most "professionals" these days have never heard of "plain text" and insist on producing documents in proprietary, not-easily-diffable formats.

There's also "Western" in the "NATO, not Soviet" sense that the GP could be thinking of (even if Tolstoy predates that concept).

Lastly, CFL bulbs need to be in clam shell packaging as it protects the product fairly well...

I've bought 12-packs of CFLs that came in a cardboard box; that worked just fine.

Right. That's what happened to newspapers. Newspaper production used to require a huge labor force. Look at all those people. 67 linotypes! A room full of proofreaders to catch typesetting errors. Hundreds of people moving paper around, making printing plates, loading them onto presses, running the presses, handling the printed newspapers. Compared to the army needed to print the papers, the reporting staff was tiny, a small expense. The reporting and editing staff, the composing room, and the printing plant were all in the same building. Any separation would slow things down, and the competition would "scoop" them.

Now compare a modern large newspaper plant. There are people around, but not many. There's essentially no direct labor. All paper and plate handling is mechanized. The files to be printed are created elsewhere and come in over a data connection. The printed newspapers leave in big trucks. Many different papers are printed in the same plant. The plant is far from the reporting and editorial staff, and is run by a separate corporation from the "newspaper".

So, to newspaper management, reporters are now the big labor cost, the first thing to cut.

Google Map is not only usable from Android devices. It is usable from any desktop out there

And Apple can not deliver a desktop map because....

I understand what you mean about scope of use, but in the end it doesn't matter what the scope is, if enough care is put into the mapping solution. Even if they don't deliver a desktop version of the mapping service.