Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like anodized aluminum, not brushed.

You've always been able to bend it, just not to the point of wrapping it around a pencil. They ran normal fibre underground about 1.5 years ago in my old neighborhood. They ran it to my new house from the telephone pole and it have a loop at our house which is over 1ft in diameter. Again, possible without this tech.

Or we could look at their reported profit margin (14.63%) and multiply by the cost of the product giving us: ~$88 profit per phone.

This is obviously a rough estimate but I would guess it's in the range of 88-120 per phone realistically.

Fire color can depend on what is burning. Lithium chloride is a carmine (reddish purple) colored flame according to Wikipedia so the temp is probably accurate.

I'm fairly sure the Gecko pictured is a leopard gecko, one of the kinds that actually DON'T have sticky feet.

This is about as factual at the flying spaghetti monster.

Junk science.

Banning laptops is pointless. It is solely the student's responsibility to pay attention. If you're distracted by flashy colors, god only know how you survive a commute with billboards along the way.

Yes, I take my laptop to class, but only one, my CS class. No it's not required there, and yes I typically browse the Internet and talk on AIM. But guess what? It's also my highest grade. I can sit and listen and absorb information while he drones on and on. I tried a few classes without the laptop and it turns out that "distraction" keeps me awake and alert to hear anything that might be slightly useful.

I have a Dell 700m so it's a small footprint and I turn the screen brightness down to A) save battery life, and B) not distract anyone.

Oh, and I absolutely agree that I'm paying tuition, and I'm not paying to get some tenured asshole to mess around with me or bored me to death. I'll be whatever I need to do to get the grades in the class. It's the teachers responsibility to present the information they claim to be so passionate about in a passionate and engaging way. If it's not passionate and engaging, you're damn right I'll do what I want. No, I don't have to go to the school, but I'm sure as hell at least finishing the semester I've already paid for. Sadly, I think that tenure is the problem here. "It's "their" classroom." They should have the option to be fired if they suck when they get tenure just as I have the option to not go the school. We'll see how much it matters to have your own classroom when zero dollars are flowing in from students.

It all comes down to my responsibility to get the grades. If I can do it with a laptop, leave me alone. I did the work to get into the college I now go to, let me continue to do it my way.

Oh, and it's not a community college, its the second oldest college in America.

count me in

put me in

Lets give it a shot