My choice is to avoid the blood and the pain. Norelco is my friend. Can't speak for the ladies and their legs, different problem.

I have little patience with a system that is so obviously broken. Software patents can't be granted. Process patents can't be granted. Patent law must catch up to reality. Until then, we can all argue about precedents and manuals of procedure and anything we want, but it's a complete waste of time.

Eventually enough Congresscritters will wake up to the fact that this is bad and broken (probably at the point where the Chinese et al are kicking our stupid legal-ass butts all over the map) and wipe the whole thing out. Unless, of course, they're paid off by the companies that have invested $billions in accumulating patent war chests -- who are the only ones who benefit from patents, anyway (you can name on the fingers of one hand the "individual inventors" whom the system actually protected).

It's exactly the dumb terminal scenario again. Now that we've successfully translated every CICS application to the web, who needs anything but the modern equivalent of the 3270? Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Now THAT'S funny.

What we've mostly been busy doing for the last 10 years is reinventing CICS. The same old business applications that generated bazillions in revenue and worked well under CICS have now been (painfully) rewritten to work on hopelessly buggy Web browsers across the public net.

Congratulations, but... whoo hoo.

Or the reflexive criticism of the screamer of "groupthink", of which the parent is an example.
Or the reflexive criticism of the criticizer of the screamer of "groupthink", of which this comment is an example.
Or...
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You apparently do not know that an MIT education is affordable by practically everyone, because of their extremely aggressive scholarship program. This casts doubt on your assertion that you were admitted.

Be that as it may, you'd be fine at any of the three institutions mentioned, although because of your bio inclination I'd say MIT has an edge.

I made the same decision, gave up on the comments for the same reason, was about to make exactly your point.. and then I encountered your comment. Very strange sensation.

While there's no doubting her accomplishments, I will say that my enjoyment of 6.170 was in spite of her.

Not surprised.

I had no use for her in 1978. She actively assisted in flunking a good friend of mine out of the PhD program. She turned down a thesis idea I had, called it "totally the wrong direction" -- and three years later a guy got a PhD and an award with the same idea at Waterloo.

Maybe she mellowed with age, but given your comment, I guess not.

Hey! I remember that! (shit, I'm old)

Wrong. Government DID stimulate the economy out of the Depression, and Roosevelt essentially prevented a revolution (Hoover, though, did nothing useful). It's true, though, that Roosevelt's pre-war stimulus plans were too small. It took WWII and pretty much unrestrained government spending to get us fully back on track.

I went to MIT, and it sounds like your "living group" was too busy "drinking." No such stats in my class.

I suggest that you carefully peruse the web and see if you can locate a reliable purveyor of a sense of humor.

If my code's still running in 2100, our society has got way bigger problems than me not figuring leap years correctly.

Neo,

How do I figure out whether my main switch is "double throw" or not? My main switch (on a 200A panel) just looks like a heavy-duty light switch that says "On" and "Off". House was built circa 1981, if that helps.

Thx,
Boz