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Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain
dcblogs writes "Thanks to Wall Street's implosion, the chairman of Stanford University's Computer Science Department says he is seeing more interest from students in computer science. Ditto at Boston College. Computer science enrollments crashed after the dot-com bust as students turned to hedge fund majors. And are computer science grads getting jobs? The professor at one university program that graduates about 45 students a year with CS degrees, wrote in a comment: 'Last year 87% of our seniors were employed before graduation. The median starting salary was $58,500. A majority of CIS students had multiple job offers. From where I sit, there is a huge demand for entry level IT professionals in IS and in CS.'"
The problem is, there aren't a ton of jobs for CS grads. Proprietary software is failing, and most companies now have a good senior sysadmin, and computer repair is clogged up with high school students. Not to mention that a lot of "code monkey" jobs can easily be shipped to where labor is cheap. So, where exactly do these people think they will be employed when most, if not all proprietary software companies have failed?
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Cut the military budget in half. Arrogant white trash who like their country being the 'world police' will get over it eventually.
We should cut the military budget. This will make it easier for red states to resist Chairman Obama's socialist mandates. He can't really have a socialist state without a big army to keep pieces of it from breaking away, can he?
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Sure there are. Why, you could be an exploiter, or a sycophant, or -- well, that's it, really.
An ignorant and asinine response.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
The notion of 'Allah' is as distanced from that of 'life' in much the same way that both my and your comments are from being on topic regarding the discussion at hand.
If, on the other hand, economics is the new religion, then maybe CS is the cure? Just like Islam, economics is a death cult after all, at least as long you subscribe to the half-wit understanding of Capital as dead, materialized labor.
Bad analogy day, I know. I ate something I shouldn't have today.
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.