Is this a sign of things to come for Google? Are they truly, as being threatened, going to become the next Microsoft? This lawsuit just seems silly, and it's not even an American Company?
Not to say anything about Americans, I am american, well I was raised here, I consider myself American, and we like to sue people.
As you put it would be retarded to go to Duke based on the "rank" of UC Berkeley as an engineering school, most of these rankings have very little bearing on actual schools ability. I go to Cooper Union for electrical engineering which I full well believe is a far better engineering school than UC Berkeley or MIT. We're not ranked against most colleges because we don't have a phD program, but as for education, especially in electrical engineering we are byfar the best or near the best in the country though few have heard of us. Be that as it may, I dont think your decision to go to schools purely based on Rankings is very grounded. Cooper is no tuition so as compared to you saving 80k from going to duke I'm saving 80k by not going to Berkely and going to Cooper instead. I dont think Berkely actually takes "proper" care of its cash as most colleges spend a lot on things that have little to do with education.
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Is this a sign of things to come for Google? Are they truly, as being threatened, going to become the next Microsoft? This lawsuit just seems silly, and it's not even an American Company? Not to say anything about Americans, I am american, well I was raised here, I consider myself American, and we like to sue people.
As you put it would be retarded to go to Duke based on the "rank" of UC Berkeley as an engineering school, most of these rankings have very little bearing on actual schools ability. I go to Cooper Union for electrical engineering which I full well believe is a far better engineering school than UC Berkeley or MIT. We're not ranked against most colleges because we don't have a phD program, but as for education, especially in electrical engineering we are byfar the best or near the best in the country though few have heard of us. Be that as it may, I dont think your decision to go to schools purely based on Rankings is very grounded. Cooper is no tuition so as compared to you saving 80k from going to duke I'm saving 80k by not going to Berkely and going to Cooper instead. I dont think Berkely actually takes "proper" care of its cash as most colleges spend a lot on things that have little to do with education.