They also completely failed to mention sheer size.
British mains plugs are fucking enormous. That might be fine for AC blowers and electric kettles, which are big anyway and draw a fair bit of current; but it is annoying and ridiculous for the ever growing crop of little tiny switchmode adapters that power the gizmos and gadgets of modern life.
Actually, it's quite nice, because AC/DC "bricks" fit nicely in the space of a normal outlet without blocking adjacent sockets.
And therein lies Linus's greatest strength: He's a fantastic manager.
His programming skills are largely irrelevant, because he's adept at identifying the good ones (most of whom also happen to respect him greatly).
He's also got a knack for choosing his fights and priorities carefully. The SCM/Bitkeeper debacle is a great example of this -- the initial debate was pretty ugly, but ultimately spawned a revolution in source code management by dumping Bitkeeper, which in turn revolutionized the Linux development and release process. Even if you don't use Git, all of the major systems in use today were greatly influenced by its development.
All in all, he's like the Steve Jobs of the open source world. His technical aptitude is now largely irrelevant, although his vision and managing abilities are top-notch.
Hear Hear! If Google and Mozilla agree on a standardized format (or even simply integrating their two services), I'll be a very happy camper.
Also worth noting is that Xmarks works in Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari. As someone who moves between browsers frequently (for work, web development, etc.) this is invaluable. The only "major" browser unsupported by Xmarks is the mac port of Chrome, simply because extensions support hasn't been merged into mac Chrome's source tree yet.
This might be anecdotal, but I used to work for a big pharma company. We (or at least all of the people I encountered there) were terrified of the FDA.
The FDA were reputed to be extremely thorough, and generally uncorruptable (the FDA is a sprawling bureaucracy, which though inefficient, seems to prevent any widespread corruption).
The media might not have picked up on it, but the American pharma industry is hurting pretty badly right now, as many of the expected "blockbuster drugs" from the past few years didn't make it through the FDA's thorough approval process, while many of the existing big-profit drugs are about to lose their patents (which, in the US only takes about 7-12 years from the date of first sale).
In America, you can create Mickey Mouse, and profit from your invention for a period of time double that of the average human lifespan. However, if you cure cancer, you've only got about a decade to reap the profits.
I'm not going to apologize for all of the pharmaceutical industry's actions. However, it's very important to view behavior in the context of the regulatory environment in which they must exist.
Um. This does happen around the time of every major OS release, especially with Apple and Microsoft.
Apple in particular has a somewhat poor track record for 10.x.0 releases, with the notable exception of 10.6.0. Application compatibility issues aside, Snow Leopard is the first major OS release I've heard of *ever* not to have at least occasional problems during an in-place upgrade. Even Windows service packs are known to break things from time to time.
My anecdotal experience with Karmic Koala has been "so far so good." No complaints here -- nice try trolls!
The ketchikan bridge was indeed a stupid idea, and is a great example of why we have several stages of checks and balances in our government (also a poster child for why massive omnibus bills are stupid). In any event, the bridge would have faced opposition from many other angles -- for one, the locals almost unanimously thought it was a bad idea.
The *second* bridge to nowhere wasn't nearly as stupid. It would have opened up a large tract of undeveloped land in Anchorage, which has seen significant population growth and overcrowding in recent years, and houses almost half of the state's population. (Yes, it would have contributed to sprawl, and it would be theoretically possible to replace the low-density housing typical to Anchorage with medium or high-density blocks, although this has not stopped similar projects from going up in other cities across the US. However, urban planning in the US hasn't favored dense urban development for the past 80 years, and has only recently done so in small pockets)
Apart from that, Alaska's got a lot of oil. Not a bad idea to invest up there. It's the one state that I'm perfectly OK with receiving a disproportionate amount of federal funding relative to its population.
During a botched takeoff, the first thing a pilot does is to begin dumping fuel as fast as he safely can. Jet fuel is similar to kerosene, which evaporates quickly in the atmosphere, usually before hitting the ground.
Most aircraft cannot survive a landing with fully-loaded fuel tanks (unless the plane itself is carrying an unusually light passenger/cargo load).
Also, the flight patterns around Newark, JFK, Teterboro, and LaGuardia would all avoid lower manhattan, even in the event of a severe failure or navigational obstacle. Odds are, they'd end up in the meadowlands, the hudson river, or a residential area. Briefly browsing takeoff-related aviation accidents around NYC seems to confirm this.
The odds of a fully-laden jumbo jet hitting a building in lower Manhattan by accident are close to nil.
Indeed, if you've seen New Jersey's roads, it's no surprise that we receive barely any federal funding for them (and it's not for a lack of trying -- by most accounts, NJDOT does a decent job with the funds it is given)
The blame for this gets shifted around each election cycle, but has persisted through several Democratic and Republican administrations. Plans to raise tolls by 800%, or install new tollbooths are not political sensationalism, but simply a reflection of decades of deferred maintenance, low funding, poor planning, and population growth.
Unsurprisingly, the state is nearly bankrupt, and its younger residents are leaving in droves.
In fact, pictures/videos/documents seem like a great way to increase transparency, which I think we can all agree is a very good thing. In this case, there's an abundance of photos and video showing the original repair made last month that should help diagnose the exact causes of the failure -- it would appear that the repairs were installed correctly, but designed improperly.
I could imagine that the engineers and project managers take quite a bit of photos/video for their own use anyway. Might as well take the time to do it properly, and make the results available to the public. It's not like California has any shortage of unemployed artists and photographers who are willing to work for cheap.
That's only if you count Alaska, which is disingenuous at best, given that it's huge, and almost completely unoccupied. Continental Europe occupies 3.9 million square miles, while the 48 contiguous US states occupy 2.9 million square miles. However, the population density of Europe is indeed approximately double that of the "lower 48" (181 people/mi^2 in Europe vs. 94.5 people/mi^2 in the US)
If we're only talking about the coastal regions, you'll find that the US East coast is almost continuously urban from Boston all the way down to Richmond. Europe has nothing that can compare to that sort of density.
The west coast is a bit more sparse, although California follows population patterns very similar to what you'd see in a typical European country.
In between D.C. and Baltimore we even have three parallel highways - I-95 and 295 and US-1. One might be closed but the other two will still be usable.
That's stretching it, even on a good day when all 3 are open!
(If you drive through/around DC even occasionally, you'll know that I'm not speaking in hyperbole. Also, there's been a whole ton of construction lately on all 3, which is making the beltway even more treacherous than it usually is...not helped by the fact that the people who drive on it seem to drive either 40 or 80 mph, with no regard to which lane they're doing it in. I swear that road was designed to maximize the number of accidents that occur on it)
It's not ridiculous at all. The Quicktime Player is an absolutely miniscule application that does nothing but call on its backend libraries, and displays the results.
At the very least, the QT frontend application is a reminder to the user that QuickTime is indeed installed on their machines. A lot less "sneaky" than installing a major library/framework without notifying the user (or not providing a useful app to go with said framework).
Are you going to complain about Apple bundling documentation with Quicktime, because you don't read the help files? I suppose that would be "software you don't want" as well. It's impossible for Apple to cater to each and every user. They could separate the library from the player, although I imagine that this would only create even more confusion. Quicktime is a dependency of iTunes (and most other Apple-centric media applications). Get over it.
I think you will find that Linux upgrades easier because user configuration is held in flat text files which are far easier to parse by an installation script than the Windows Registry is.
Negative, sir. Have you ever written the code necessary to parse a flat config file? It's possible to do it well, but is a major duplication of effort, and I've seen *plenty* of apps that get it wrong (not to mention undue user confusion due to syntactical differences between different apps' configuration files).
On the other hand, reading/writing to the Windows registry involves a few simple API calls, and also (theoretically) makes certain security provisions easier to handle.
Don't forget that the various Linux desktop environments have evolved "registries" of their own. It's hardly a Microsoft-specific concept these days.
Adobe announced the vulnerability, and released a new Flash version (literally) the day after the Snow Leopard CDs were pressed.
Old versions of Flash were removed, as they were incompatible with the new version of OS X...a version check probably should have happened, although this isn't a particularly major issue, given that Software Update pulls down the new version of Flash as soon as the installation is complete.
These things happen. Apple handled the issue just fine.
Wouldn't the psychological effects of knowing that you're taking part in a (mostly meaningless) test negate any actual behavioral data collected?
If I was given the opportunity to walk on Mars, I'd consent to outright torture for 6 months.
If I was placed in isolation, and told that at the end, I'd have gobs of paperwork and medical exams to complete, my psychological perspective would be rather different. I'd get very bored very quickly.
On the flipside, if I became severely ill in space, I'd (rightfully) panic, while I'd be more comfortable in an isolated trial, knowing that the full facilities of Moscow's health system were at my disposal, a few blocks away.
Also don't forget the physiological effects of zero-gravity and increased radiation in space that you wouldn't experience on earth.
Also, the Arizona light rail projects seem to reek of Pork-barrel spending. I can't personally attest to the areas in which the rail lines were built, although the areas of Phoenix that I have seen don't have anywhere remotely near the density necessary to justify a trolley line. It's got a tiny urban center with a whole lot of sprawl surrounding it.
Phoenix also has virtually no other public transportation in use -- only 3% use it on their commute. Any new investment is going to be of extremely little use, until the rest of the system catches up.
You can't just throw tracks in the street, and expect a miracle. Portland already had a fairly extensive public transit network prior to the construction of the streetcar in other areas of the city, and a culture that supported public transportation. Cities much smaller than Phoenix (ie. Boston) can easily justify extensive heavy-rail-based transportation networks thanks to the densely-packed city plan. I can think of a dozen small cities that would be more suited to a trolley line than Phoenix... Richmond, VA comes to mind as an ideal candidate.
Gasoline doesn't release all of its energy at once. It is extremely flammable, and burns very rapidly, although it will still take several minutes to burn completely. If a bus catches on fire, odds are that you'll have (barely) enough time to get out safely.
Capacitors discharge very quickly. Here's a "small" one.
A more appropriate analogy would be a bus with dynamite strapped under the seats. (Unless, of course, these capacitors somehow have an inherently slow discharge rate)
This paradoxically works out in favor of the trolley lines, given that they tend to attract economic development to them. Bus routes don't do the same, given that they (as you mentioned) tend to be ephemeral. The permanence of a trolley line also greatly helps with rider usability, as users don't have to keep up with route changes.
Streetcars also don't tend to have "stations" as much as they have an area designated for them to stop where the curb happens to be flat and level. (Many bus stops are also now being built in this fashion)
Portland, OR claims that its streetcar line has spurred billions of dollars of investment in the area surrounding it in a very short period of time.
Seriously, does anybody really think that government is made up of the country's smartest people?
If government jobs are as cushy and high-paying as the conservatives would have you believe, then yes. If government jobs are really more desirable, the pool of talent that the government has to choose from will be quite large, and will hypothetically include the best and the brightest.
To counter another argument that's sure to come up, it's not particularly difficult to fire government employees either, as long as there's a concrete reason behind it.M
Make up your mind. Are government employees overpaid, or are they incompetent?
Oh, come on. Microsoft released a patch to their software that extended support to an additional browser.
If you don't like it, don't install the.NET framework. There might have been an accidental security flaw (that they openly acknowledged), but it's hardly malware.
Sorry, but we've heard "this is the iPod killer" too often and it's the exact same song and dance as this new round of "this is the iPhone killer."
I feel your pain, and am not expecting any miracles.
HOWEVER, Verizon currently has (by far) the best network in the US, and has perpetually lacked any decent phones in its lineup. I like my eNV2, although it's honestly nothing special. From all indications, Android phones are pretty nice, which means that Verizon will at the very least sell quite a few to people (such as myself) who live in areas where AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint simply don't provide an acceptable level of coverage.
That said, Verizon's customer support appears to be run by a consortium of Vogons and Klingons, while the iPhone and Pre still have a better OS than Android. I've honestly never witnessed a company that seems to passionately despise its customers as much as Verizon Wireless does.
Screw "foreign" students. Public universities in the US are separated by state. New Jersey bankrolls Delaware and Virginia's public universities.
Like many others, I wasn't thrilled by the options provided by NJ's public university system, and as a result decided to attend college in Virginia. According to the school's official figures, approximately 30% of my tuition fees directly subsidized the cost of tuition for native Virginians.
I believe that out-of-state tuitions were originally higher to compensate for any funding received from the state, although the state now provides so little (and also enforces tuition price controls on in-state students) that the school has no choice but to raise prices somewhere...
(Somewhat disgustingly, I received a great education, and my tuition was still only about half the cost of a comparable private university)
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They also completely failed to mention sheer size.
British mains plugs are fucking enormous. That might be fine for AC blowers and electric kettles, which are big anyway and draw a fair bit of current; but it is annoying and ridiculous for the ever growing crop of little tiny switchmode adapters that power the gizmos and gadgets of modern life.
Actually, it's quite nice, because AC/DC "bricks" fit nicely in the space of a normal outlet without blocking adjacent sockets.
And therein lies Linus's greatest strength: He's a fantastic manager.
His programming skills are largely irrelevant, because he's adept at identifying the good ones (most of whom also happen to respect him greatly).
He's also got a knack for choosing his fights and priorities carefully. The SCM/Bitkeeper debacle is a great example of this -- the initial debate was pretty ugly, but ultimately spawned a revolution in source code management by dumping Bitkeeper, which in turn revolutionized the Linux development and release process. Even if you don't use Git, all of the major systems in use today were greatly influenced by its development.
All in all, he's like the Steve Jobs of the open source world. His technical aptitude is now largely irrelevant, although his vision and managing abilities are top-notch.
Hear Hear! If Google and Mozilla agree on a standardized format (or even simply integrating their two services), I'll be a very happy camper.
Also worth noting is that Xmarks works in Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari. As someone who moves between browsers frequently (for work, web development, etc.) this is invaluable. The only "major" browser unsupported by Xmarks is the mac port of Chrome, simply because extensions support hasn't been merged into mac Chrome's source tree yet.
This might be anecdotal, but I used to work for a big pharma company. We (or at least all of the people I encountered there) were terrified of the FDA.
The FDA were reputed to be extremely thorough, and generally uncorruptable (the FDA is a sprawling bureaucracy, which though inefficient, seems to prevent any widespread corruption).
The media might not have picked up on it, but the American pharma industry is hurting pretty badly right now, as many of the expected "blockbuster drugs" from the past few years didn't make it through the FDA's thorough approval process, while many of the existing big-profit drugs are about to lose their patents (which, in the US only takes about 7-12 years from the date of first sale).
In America, you can create Mickey Mouse, and profit from your invention for a period of time double that of the average human lifespan. However, if you cure cancer, you've only got about a decade to reap the profits.
I'm not going to apologize for all of the pharmaceutical industry's actions. However, it's very important to view behavior in the context of the regulatory environment in which they must exist.
Um. This does happen around the time of every major OS release, especially with Apple and Microsoft.
Apple in particular has a somewhat poor track record for 10.x.0 releases, with the notable exception of 10.6.0. Application compatibility issues aside, Snow Leopard is the first major OS release I've heard of *ever* not to have at least occasional problems during an in-place upgrade. Even Windows service packs are known to break things from time to time.
My anecdotal experience with Karmic Koala has been "so far so good." No complaints here -- nice try trolls!
Sigh.
The ketchikan bridge was indeed a stupid idea, and is a great example of why we have several stages of checks and balances in our government (also a poster child for why massive omnibus bills are stupid). In any event, the bridge would have faced opposition from many other angles -- for one, the locals almost unanimously thought it was a bad idea.
The *second* bridge to nowhere wasn't nearly as stupid. It would have opened up a large tract of undeveloped land in Anchorage, which has seen significant population growth and overcrowding in recent years, and houses almost half of the state's population. (Yes, it would have contributed to sprawl, and it would be theoretically possible to replace the low-density housing typical to Anchorage with medium or high-density blocks, although this has not stopped similar projects from going up in other cities across the US. However, urban planning in the US hasn't favored dense urban development for the past 80 years, and has only recently done so in small pockets)
Apart from that, Alaska's got a lot of oil. Not a bad idea to invest up there. It's the one state that I'm perfectly OK with receiving a disproportionate amount of federal funding relative to its population.
During a botched takeoff, the first thing a pilot does is to begin dumping fuel as fast as he safely can. Jet fuel is similar to kerosene, which evaporates quickly in the atmosphere, usually before hitting the ground.
Most aircraft cannot survive a landing with fully-loaded fuel tanks (unless the plane itself is carrying an unusually light passenger/cargo load).
Also, the flight patterns around Newark, JFK, Teterboro, and LaGuardia would all avoid lower manhattan, even in the event of a severe failure or navigational obstacle. Odds are, they'd end up in the meadowlands, the hudson river, or a residential area. Briefly browsing takeoff-related aviation accidents around NYC seems to confirm this.
The odds of a fully-laden jumbo jet hitting a building in lower Manhattan by accident are close to nil.
Indeed, if you've seen New Jersey's roads, it's no surprise that we receive barely any federal funding for them (and it's not for a lack of trying -- by most accounts, NJDOT does a decent job with the funds it is given)
The blame for this gets shifted around each election cycle, but has persisted through several Democratic and Republican administrations. Plans to raise tolls by 800%, or install new tollbooths are not political sensationalism, but simply a reflection of decades of deferred maintenance, low funding, poor planning, and population growth.
Unsurprisingly, the state is nearly bankrupt, and its younger residents are leaving in droves.
I sincerely doubt it's hundreds of millions.
In fact, pictures/videos/documents seem like a great way to increase transparency, which I think we can all agree is a very good thing. In this case, there's an abundance of photos and video showing the original repair made last month that should help diagnose the exact causes of the failure -- it would appear that the repairs were installed correctly, but designed improperly.
I could imagine that the engineers and project managers take quite a bit of photos/video for their own use anyway. Might as well take the time to do it properly, and make the results available to the public. It's not like California has any shortage of unemployed artists and photographers who are willing to work for cheap.
That's only if you count Alaska, which is disingenuous at best, given that it's huge, and almost completely unoccupied. Continental Europe occupies 3.9 million square miles, while the 48 contiguous US states occupy 2.9 million square miles. However, the population density of Europe is indeed approximately double that of the "lower 48" (181 people/mi^2 in Europe vs. 94.5 people/mi^2 in the US)
If we're only talking about the coastal regions, you'll find that the US East coast is almost continuously urban from Boston all the way down to Richmond. Europe has nothing that can compare to that sort of density.
The west coast is a bit more sparse, although California follows population patterns very similar to what you'd see in a typical European country.
Carl Sagan, is that you?
In between D.C. and Baltimore we even have three parallel highways - I-95 and 295 and US-1. One might be closed but the other two will still be usable.
That's stretching it, even on a good day when all 3 are open!
(If you drive through/around DC even occasionally, you'll know that I'm not speaking in hyperbole. Also, there's been a whole ton of construction lately on all 3, which is making the beltway even more treacherous than it usually is...not helped by the fact that the people who drive on it seem to drive either 40 or 80 mph, with no regard to which lane they're doing it in. I swear that road was designed to maximize the number of accidents that occur on it)
Ernest Rutherford once said The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't
Oddly enough, quantum mechanics draws pretty much the exact same conclusion.
*Ducks*
What if they were Buddhist and believed in reincarnation?
"Status: Possibly a cat"
Well, in that case, you most certainly cannot has cheeseburger.
It's not ridiculous at all. The Quicktime Player is an absolutely miniscule application that does nothing but call on its backend libraries, and displays the results.
At the very least, the QT frontend application is a reminder to the user that QuickTime is indeed installed on their machines. A lot less "sneaky" than installing a major library/framework without notifying the user (or not providing a useful app to go with said framework).
Are you going to complain about Apple bundling documentation with Quicktime, because you don't read the help files? I suppose that would be "software you don't want" as well. It's impossible for Apple to cater to each and every user. They could separate the library from the player, although I imagine that this would only create even more confusion. Quicktime is a dependency of iTunes (and most other Apple-centric media applications). Get over it.
I think you will find that Linux upgrades easier because user configuration is held in flat text files which are far easier to parse by an installation script than the Windows Registry is.
Negative, sir. Have you ever written the code necessary to parse a flat config file? It's possible to do it well, but is a major duplication of effort, and I've seen *plenty* of apps that get it wrong (not to mention undue user confusion due to syntactical differences between different apps' configuration files).
On the other hand, reading/writing to the Windows registry involves a few simple API calls, and also (theoretically) makes certain security provisions easier to handle.
Don't forget that the various Linux desktop environments have evolved "registries" of their own. It's hardly a Microsoft-specific concept these days.
Adobe announced the vulnerability, and released a new Flash version (literally) the day after the Snow Leopard CDs were pressed.
Old versions of Flash were removed, as they were incompatible with the new version of OS X...a version check probably should have happened, although this isn't a particularly major issue, given that Software Update pulls down the new version of Flash as soon as the installation is complete.
These things happen. Apple handled the issue just fine.
Wouldn't the psychological effects of knowing that you're taking part in a (mostly meaningless) test negate any actual behavioral data collected?
If I was given the opportunity to walk on Mars, I'd consent to outright torture for 6 months.
If I was placed in isolation, and told that at the end, I'd have gobs of paperwork and medical exams to complete, my psychological perspective would be rather different. I'd get very bored very quickly.
On the flipside, if I became severely ill in space, I'd (rightfully) panic, while I'd be more comfortable in an isolated trial, knowing that the full facilities of Moscow's health system were at my disposal, a few blocks away.
Also don't forget the physiological effects of zero-gravity and increased radiation in space that you wouldn't experience on earth.
I think we're muddling issues here.
Also, the Arizona light rail projects seem to reek of Pork-barrel spending. I can't personally attest to the areas in which the rail lines were built, although the areas of Phoenix that I have seen don't have anywhere remotely near the density necessary to justify a trolley line. It's got a tiny urban center with a whole lot of sprawl surrounding it.
Phoenix also has virtually no other public transportation in use -- only 3% use it on their commute. Any new investment is going to be of extremely little use, until the rest of the system catches up.
You can't just throw tracks in the street, and expect a miracle. Portland already had a fairly extensive public transit network prior to the construction of the streetcar in other areas of the city, and a culture that supported public transportation. Cities much smaller than Phoenix (ie. Boston) can easily justify extensive heavy-rail-based transportation networks thanks to the densely-packed city plan. I can think of a dozen small cities that would be more suited to a trolley line than Phoenix... Richmond, VA comes to mind as an ideal candidate.
Gasoline doesn't release all of its energy at once. It is extremely flammable, and burns very rapidly, although it will still take several minutes to burn completely. If a bus catches on fire, odds are that you'll have (barely) enough time to get out safely.
Capacitors discharge very quickly. Here's a "small" one.
A more appropriate analogy would be a bus with dynamite strapped under the seats. (Unless, of course, these capacitors somehow have an inherently slow discharge rate)
This paradoxically works out in favor of the trolley lines, given that they tend to attract economic development to them. Bus routes don't do the same, given that they (as you mentioned) tend to be ephemeral. The permanence of a trolley line also greatly helps with rider usability, as users don't have to keep up with route changes.
Streetcars also don't tend to have "stations" as much as they have an area designated for them to stop where the curb happens to be flat and level. (Many bus stops are also now being built in this fashion)
Portland, OR claims that its streetcar line has spurred billions of dollars of investment in the area surrounding it in a very short period of time.
Seriously, does anybody really think that government is made up of the country's smartest people?
If government jobs are as cushy and high-paying as the conservatives would have you believe, then yes. If government jobs are really more desirable, the pool of talent that the government has to choose from will be quite large, and will hypothetically include the best and the brightest.
To counter another argument that's sure to come up, it's not particularly difficult to fire government employees either, as long as there's a concrete reason behind it.M
Make up your mind. Are government employees overpaid, or are they incompetent?
Oh, come on. Microsoft released a patch to their software that extended support to an additional browser.
If you don't like it, don't install the .NET framework. There might have been an accidental security flaw (that they openly acknowledged), but it's hardly malware.
Sorry, but we've heard "this is the iPod killer" too often and it's the exact same song and dance as this new round of "this is the iPhone killer."
I feel your pain, and am not expecting any miracles.
HOWEVER, Verizon currently has (by far) the best network in the US, and has perpetually lacked any decent phones in its lineup. I like my eNV2, although it's honestly nothing special. From all indications, Android phones are pretty nice, which means that Verizon will at the very least sell quite a few to people (such as myself) who live in areas where AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint simply don't provide an acceptable level of coverage.
That said, Verizon's customer support appears to be run by a consortium of Vogons and Klingons, while the iPhone and Pre still have a better OS than Android. I've honestly never witnessed a company that seems to passionately despise its customers as much as Verizon Wireless does.
Screw "foreign" students. Public universities in the US are separated by state. New Jersey bankrolls Delaware and Virginia's public universities.
Like many others, I wasn't thrilled by the options provided by NJ's public university system, and as a result decided to attend college in Virginia. According to the school's official figures, approximately 30% of my tuition fees directly subsidized the cost of tuition for native Virginians.
I believe that out-of-state tuitions were originally higher to compensate for any funding received from the state, although the state now provides so little (and also enforces tuition price controls on in-state students) that the school has no choice but to raise prices somewhere...
(Somewhat disgustingly, I received a great education, and my tuition was still only about half the cost of a comparable private university)