The thing that's always bothered me about the "analyzing information for yourself" bit is that the paper subjects are in well-studied fields, such that any analysis you might do has already been done anyway. A half-competent researcher will then find that analysis, and they are stuck with ONLY literature review as an option, because someone else already wrote down an analysis the way they were going to analyze it!

Actually, looking at the timestamps, it was some sort of timestamp/database issue...the story nominally posted at 9:26 EST, but no posts at all show up until 9:48, at which point there are quite a few. You're right that the West Coast folks were blissfully snoozing.

I love how long this post has gone without replies (25 minutes, unless there's some sort of database lag I don't see). I guess that's a damning indictment of the US telecom industry and their pricing practices...

This was basically what we did in my CS101 and 102 classes: code up a system to store student records and class grades in C++. Students are objects! Put them in a vector! Put them in a list! Make your own list container class! (No, I am not seriously suggesting you use that software, of course...)

I'll second that these are depressing. I didn't particularly like them besides, but they were definitely depressing.

posting to undo mistaken mod (tried for Informative, finger slipped...)

How many points at a time do you get? I've heard that super-quality moderators are getting 15 instead of 5, or maybe that's just everybody...? (This already seems far enough offtopic that it won't hurt to ask.)

All of the carcoleptics I know are only carcoleptic when not driving; being in control of the car seems to prevent it. Fortunate for them...

I'm not sure I agree with this. Nobody learns to drive a car without having been a passenger first, so they're used to NOT controlling the vehicle before they get used to controlling it.