That's right, not to mention everything they have on that thing does basically the same thing. They're just measuring the composition of everything they can find.
If the gas chromatograph breaks, they use the liquid one, if that breaks they shoot an x-ray at it, then a neutron beam, a frickin' laser, etc. It's a pretty fancy robot.

It could probably figure it out eventually. I don't know if it could beat us though. But I imagine we would tell it everything we knew about superconductors vs temperature for various molecules, then it would learn what's important to make the superconducting temperature go up, then learn how to make the superconducting temperature go up, then figure out what molecules could exist, then run simulations to see what would happen in the real world. Alot of computing.

And you should atleast have some idea of what you're going through the trouble of throwing a sensor into. Though this may be good for something like safety or for absorbing something and not something else.

I wouldn't even call that cheating, I'm a student in engineering (US) and knowing the final answer in a homework problem is no substitute for the page(s) of work that it takes to get there. Infact, many problems will tell you the final equation. It gives you something to shoot for, and figure out why.

What happened to doing things because they're cool. Sure it doesn't make sense now, but imagination is a powerful thing, and what about building the world's tallest building? There's no point to have a 150 story building, but we learned alot in doing so and we have something cool to look at. Who cares if it's pie-in-the-sky, great engineering projects would always seem silly. What do you think the people thought when Stonehenge was first being planned?

There haven't been 24 games released in the past 3 months worth playing for 7 hours. Let alone 7 hours a day.

If Kno (the company) has its way, students will be carrying around a Kno (the device) rather than a stack of textbooks

Speaking as a student I want to know why all these companies keep thinking we want e-readers and e-books instead of textbooks. I don't want my textbook to go dead 9 hours into studying, or not be able to have 3-4 books open to 3-4 different sections each. I would however, like one for pleasure reading, but not a $500/5.5 lb machine. What exactly is this for?

One thing that I find unbelievable is how many people out there have complained about abusive practices on the part of banks issuing college loans and the lack of government intervention and yet nobody seems to be saying a word about the universities themselves. Universities are among the most inefficiently run entities out there who like the government and raising taxes the solution to their problems is always raising tuition. It's obscene what universities charge for tuition and yet nobody complains. There's nobody fighting to force colleges to keep spending under control and bring down the cost of education. It's no wonder so many people end up buried under student debt.

A rather funny thing happened at my university recently. Some fraternity was pulling a prank where 2 people jumped out of an unmarked white van to 'abduct' some initiate. Now seeing this happen someone on the street called the cops and thus the university sent out texts to everyone on the e-alert list. A few hours later it was discovered to be a prank, so the university sent out another text to tell everyone not to worry. The next day the university blasted these kids and told everyone the cost of the two texts: $7,360. I get about 4-5 texts a week from them. I have no idea how they spent $7,360 on (at most) 40,000 texts.

"Anonymous" is doing this for fun. Nothing more, there's no ulterior motive. They got bored. They don't really care.

Why does everyone always want everything to be fair? Who decides what's fair? How could anyone judge "fairness" objectively?

No joke, first semester of calc I had no idea what they were talking about when they explained derivatives. Went in stoned and it literally changed my view on math. Now all those wierd abstract ideas and theroems fit right in together. It made me see calc in a new light, honestly switched my thinking about equations from 2D to 3D. Now that's how I explain calc to all my friends who don't get it (Still in college), and they say, "Oh! That does make sense, but how the hell did you come up with it?"

This happened because the government forced banks to give mortgages/loans to people who should have never even considered buying anything that expensive. Millions of loans go out, hundreds of thousands should never of happened, tens of thousands default and the banks out $400k. Free Market did not cause this, Government regulations did.