more its an indication that one can learn what is necessary to accomplish a goal, interact with others (unlikely a sociopath), exhibit determination and patience, and learn somewhat independently.

A college degree signifies that you possess a basic group of skills that are found useful in most business. A specific degree indicates you can probably take a decent whack at accomplishing something in your field, and are prepared with the basic knowledge to learn how its really done out in the actual world.

It decreases the RISK to a company that they have made a bad hire, which is why its used as a criteria. Like it or not, by and large it works.

Come to Louisiana... its REFUNDABLE 50% here!

Amazing thing is I find it useful without those things.

I use it for :

an e-reader
game playing
surf the web
operate my home theater and many other home automation stuff
invoice clients when out and about (I send em a PDF invoice via email as a recpt for payment)
email
and a few other things.

I have to breakout the laptop when programming, a need to download a utility or driver update for a client, or I want to compose a long document I could do better with typing on a physical keyboard... and few other things.

I LOVE the long battery life

Tell that to Mr Snipes.

Whaaaaaaaaat?

HAHA Stone Mountain. Have you checked that out thoroughly? What a joke. Maybe not though, but they sure have developed a shady reputation, and construction is at a standstill.

Wow then you may be doing something wrong... planned replacements is where I spend my money (the bulk of it) and it provides less of a business interruption to replace things in a planned fashion than in a reactive fashion.

Yeah, I am a conservative, but I am not such a fan of her... rather embarrassed by her. The Republicans need to voice solutions and not just picking apart what we have now or the plans of the opposition. Then the people can get behind them.

Sure, your ticket is printed on this lead thing stored in the chamber of this .357... you have to suck the barrel to get it out.

Shit... they arent now! And our current government is the result.