If I've learned anything from anime, it's that space battles will consist of giant armadas of robots piloted by people who all get slaughtered until a random girl in a giant robot suit with infinite capabilities eventually achieves the self esteem she needs to take the fight straight to the bad guys and wipe them out, escaping at the last possible second.

I'm a junior attending a pretty decent private school right now for Computer Science. Excluding my CS classes, every professor has banned any electronics equipment (i.e. laptops, cell phones) use during the class period, and I completely agree with them.

Even when you use a laptop correctly for taking notes, your clicking is disruptive to other students. Beyond that, the vast majority of students just screw around on facebook or other sites. Some are exceptions to the norms, but I would easily wager that 95% of all students who use laptops in college courses would do better with just paper and pencils.

From what I can gather, the only students crying about the bans are a bunch of whiny high-schoolers who don't take college seriously anyway.

When I worked on the AWACS as a computer technician, we checked out all of our tools from a tool shop. Every toolbox has an inventory of all the tools inside it. Each area of the tool box has a foam cutout fit perfectly inside with shapes cutout of the tools that goes in the spots. Every single independent piece has it's own location. Every toolbox has the same layout and every tool is etched with a serial number that's tracked in a database and on paper.

When you checkout a toolbox, the tool shop inventories the tools, looking in every spot and touching every tool with their fingers while they count the total tools found per area. It's really easy to see if a tool is missing because of the cutouts and the count is a double check of the inventory checklist.

Then the technician takes the toolbox and re-performs the inventory, checking every level of the toolbox, counting the tools, and when all the tools are accounted for then the tool shop scans the box with the airmen's ID number. The airmen is now personally responsible for every tool, which is why they double check in case the shop screwed up.

When they check it back in, the same thing occurs backwards. If a tool is missing and they can't find it on them, they immediately report it to their shop. Every airplane they went to is "unofficially grounded" and they have one hour to find the tool. If it's not found, then every plane is officially grounded that they went to and it's reported to the squadron commander. Needless to say a lot more brass begins to get involved at that point which puts a lot more pressure on the shops and the airmen. It wasn't common every few months to see 30 airmen walking in a line down the flightline looking for a single screwdriver. A friend lost a flashlight when it fell down a hatch and ended up buried in insulation along the belly of the jet. That stupid flashlight took 15 airmen 2 hours to find.

This doesn't just occur for toolboxes, but every tool used for aircraft maintenance.

The USAF has very high standards of Q.A., their subcontractors however are the idiots in this scenario.

At 8:42 pm EST today on Iron Citadel (an East Coast server) I'm sitting at 1 hour 15 mins que to get into my server.

I hope they fix this or make switching servers free.

Have you considered that Apply might just want to make money off everyone else and is using this as an opportunity to do so?

Apple is a corporation, not an ideology, as such they desire profits, even if it means they can legally steal them from others.

Doctors charge what insurance companies pay.

The moment I required email addresses was the moment I got focused by some stupid Russian botters and spammed with new accounts.

Perhaps the students should pick the school based on, what, I don't know, the quality of the program that they will major in?

What your describing is an idiotic program that results in the creation of poor students. If someone is actually willing to pay for this program, it's their own fault. Your right that just because someone has a degree, that doesn't make them qualified. When I step out of school however, my finely tuned resume will have 4 years in the Air Force as a 2E2 (electronics / computer technician), a 4.0 GPA at a great private school where my max class size in CS has been 17, multiple contributions to open source projects, solid coding skills, research assistant experience, my own apps, and 12 years of working at diverse jobs, many of which were computer fields, all with 0 debt.

Guess what, I shifted my life and made the sacrifices to get where I am. These people going through school don't have to bury themselves in debt over crappy classes. It's their own fault if they screw themselves over.

This just in, it takes a lot of energy to maintain those speeds. When we invent a new power source that can easily sustain those demands then speed will drastically increase to practical levels once again.

Until then, we're stuck with fossil fuel.

If it's a trick, we'll soon be seeing news stories about the 30 fishing boats I rammed with my robot.

Given that it learns, it also picks up stupid information from the masses that taught it.

I just played twenty rounds against this software on advanced and beat it with 8 me, 8 ties, 4 it.

I think it might slowly learn based on a huge amount of rounds, but being a human I got pretty bored with this computer very quickly.

caannnaaAADDAAA!!!! *shakes fist*

*Do Not*

However, a lot of patients are now being rewarded that do show that deep of specifications.

They are more likely to try and patent, "a device that opens a garage door remotely" than, "a radio transmitter than uses *** frequency to connect to a remote receiving unit, which then signals a motor box to open a garage door."

These vague and stupid software patents are giving companies blank checks to cash in against anyone who even comes close to their already invented idea.

There is a limited amount of possible software inventions in our world, just as there are a limited amount of practical designs for wheels. When companies own the practical ideas, nobody else can use them without paying for them, even if the first company didn't actually do jack about it or with it.

All software patients should be dissolved, for the sake of our country and innovation. If we don't keep the momentum going here, we'll be left behind by other countries.

Well, I typically buy it for cheap, but I guess I won't be purchasing any more Trend Micro software.