The total package (tuition, plus room, board and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5 percent increase over last year.
But, when you get out, you'll have a degree from Harvard. You'll have opportunities that folks from a state school will never get just because you have a Harvard degree.
Back in my Fortune 500 days, all the 20 year olds in the "fast track" management programs were from Ivy League schools. Meaning, they were the ones being groomed for CEO. They spent 2 years working in all the departments around the company - a few months here...a few months there and then they're in management at the age of 24 - 25. Directors by the time they were 30. VPs by the time they were 40.
In the meantime, us state school peons were lucky to get into management by the time were 45.
Let's face it, more than likely you wouldn't have gotten your first job, let alone the ones after that - if you had any, if you didn't have the degree.
When I started, most of the time, all you needed was some sort of 4 year degree. Now, you need at least a BSCS for a code monkey job.
Is a BSCS really necessary for most business applications? I don't think so, but tell that to the hiring managers. Personally, I think they're just requiring it to weed people out.
I once worked for a guy who wouldn't hire this particularly brilliant programmer. I met some very sharp people in my life but this programmer topped all of them. He had only a high school diploma - everything else he learned on his own and he learned FAST. Said manager wouldn't even look at him because "for this kind of work, I think one should have a four year degree."
Managers have a lot of hang ups about who they hire and they always rationalize for why they need certain qualifications.
The problem I find with web developers is that they are too busy chasing the "Ohh shiny" of the month.
I've seen the same thing with "regular" developers. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the same thing that the original poster pointed out in code. I saw one guy who did his front end in Java, text parsing in Perl, some back end stuff in C++, I even think there was some other things mixed in for this one application - all under the excuse of "the best tool for the job". It was a buggy flaky piece of shit. And the kicker was the coder rewrote a 'C' program that was working perfectly and just needed some modifications. 'C' was "old fashioned" and "not suited" for the application according to him.
"I see the clouds of a civil war on the horizon between users and the platform vendors as users want more discrete control over their history, privacy and data, and the platform vendors who drive advertising and data mining businesses."
The ability of Facebook to generate revenues requires the exploitation of their users data and their privacy - if they want to keep it "free" for the users. Otherwise they'll have to charge a subscription.
Advertising on pages for revenue? Enough to pay the bills let alone drive the sky high stock prices?
Ask the management of Digg and Slashdot about that.
Wait. There's that much oil there? I thought the environmentalists said we needed to find other power sources because we were going to run out of oil soon.
Oh boy.
Considering the exponentially increasing demand for oil, this was a drop in the bucket.
We can drill until we're blue in the face and we'll never find enough oil to keep prices where they are at now.
There are over 7 billion people in the World who want to live like us Americans. We, all 300 million of us, use roughly 25% of the World's oil.
So, tell me how those numbers can work?
Personally, even if there was enough oil to keep up I wouldn't want it - I'm tired of having to deal with smog 3 months out of the year.
Clean energy to keep my eyes from burning and coughing up flem during the Summers. I want to enjoy summer again!
Shrimp and seafood will become a rather distant memory for the states.
Back in my day, we could have boiled shrimp, shrimp soufflé, shrimp pie, shrimp gumbo, shrimp omelette's,......, shrimp bisque, and I guess that's all there was - until now. Now, we have no shrimp in the Gulf.
Then, all of our shrimp will come from Viet Nam. And wait till you see what they're doing to farm those little buggers!
Just curious - are you staying with Facebook for business reasons (some use it for advertising, a LinkedIN type of thing) or do you have friends scattered all over the place? Obviously something is keeping you from closing out your account.
Reading the TFA, the author kept making references to scaling using the "cloud" without mentioning any particular vendor. I'm thinking Microsoft's Sharepoint was alluded to, but as for as FlightCaster - what are they using? How would they use Sharepoint for that? Or is there a Hardware as Service company they're using?
But, see the GP's user number? He's probably got so much fucking karma that he could post "Linux sucks" and "FOSS is for commie fags" until 2020 before he goes negative. So, I don't think the karma hit will bother him too much.
But it's good point out out mod ignorance, anyway.
I don't think the dollar will collapse because of our status as a reserve currency; which has that reputation because of our military strength.
Contrary to the posts above, our military might has other ramifications outside of defense.
On a similar note; when Britain ceased being a, if not THE World Power in their time, because of the reduced military spending the average British citizen's standard of living went up. (I think I read that in the Economist and I'm too lazy to find the cite.)p/>I for one hope to see the day when we, the USA, are not the World Power.
Children + new technology = loss of childhood dreams
That's an interesting point.
Consider this, when you see an image of a character, you're seeing what someone else's imagination came up with on how it looks. For example, how many of you see a movie adaptation of a book only to have them cast an actor that looks nothing like you imagined it?
With picture books or multimedia or whatever, the authors are replacing the child's imagination with their own. The child may have something better or something they like more or...I don't know.
I think the picture books or any multimedia system is replacing a child's imagination - it's not active.
That's why books to movies usually suck: our imaginations are usually better than what Hollywood can come up with - Starship Troopers for one.
I'm not creative enough on how to explain it further.
If in another five years, GM is trading a lot higher than it did during Chapter 11, you should be ready to explain to your father in law why you advised against a great deal on depressed stock.
Won't have to: it's not trading because all the equity holder's at the time were wiped out.
The current owners of GM are the former debt holders, the union, and the US taxpayer.
After today investors will have little if any faith left in the US stocks, assuming they had any to begin with.
During the GM bankruptcy, I saw their common stock was still being traded on the pink sheets. That's when I realized that many traders have shit for brains.
When a company goes bankrupt, their equity gets wiped out. In other words, the traders were trading worthless pieces of paper. My father in law almost bought some thinking it was a great deal. I clued him into the idiocy.
And in this case, I don't there's really anything to be done. It was a mistake that was corrected and if anyone was hurt, it was Wall Street traders and the only thing I have for them is this nano-tech violin.
If you had your mutual fund or individual stocks, it really didn't affect you.
Slashdot Mirror
... handle reporting for our advertisers, ...
There's the real issue.
But what, pray tell, are the advertisers looking for? And what is it that HTML5 can't do that Flash can?
I mean, they interrupt the show with the ads so it's not like you can get around it easily, so what's the big deal?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
In Soviet Russia, Chrome OS' you!
I for one welcome our netbook chrome OS robotic overlords.
I forgot the rest.
Harvard is about thirty thousand dollars for an undergraduate degree
try about $200,000+
The total package (tuition, plus room, board and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5 percent increase over last year.
But, when you get out, you'll have a degree from Harvard. You'll have opportunities that folks from a state school will never get just because you have a Harvard degree.
Back in my Fortune 500 days, all the 20 year olds in the "fast track" management programs were from Ivy League schools. Meaning, they were the ones being groomed for CEO. They spent 2 years working in all the departments around the company - a few months here...a few months there and then they're in management at the age of 24 - 25. Directors by the time they were 30. VPs by the time they were 40.
In the meantime, us state school peons were lucky to get into management by the time were 45.
When I started, most of the time, all you needed was some sort of 4 year degree. Now, you need at least a BSCS for a code monkey job.
Is a BSCS really necessary for most business applications? I don't think so, but tell that to the hiring managers. Personally, I think they're just requiring it to weed people out.
I once worked for a guy who wouldn't hire this particularly brilliant programmer. I met some very sharp people in my life but this programmer topped all of them. He had only a high school diploma - everything else he learned on his own and he learned FAST. Said manager wouldn't even look at him because "for this kind of work, I think one should have a four year degree."
Managers have a lot of hang ups about who they hire and they always rationalize for why they need certain qualifications.
And I'm sure the ancient artists went through the exact same thing.
The things change the more they stay the same - I guess.
The problem I find with web developers is that they are too busy chasing the "Ohh shiny" of the month.
I've seen the same thing with "regular" developers. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the same thing that the original poster pointed out in code. I saw one guy who did his front end in Java, text parsing in Perl, some back end stuff in C++, I even think there was some other things mixed in for this one application - all under the excuse of "the best tool for the job". It was a buggy flaky piece of shit. And the kicker was the coder rewrote a 'C' program that was working perfectly and just needed some modifications. 'C' was "old fashioned" and "not suited" for the application according to him.
"I see the clouds of a civil war on the horizon between users and the platform vendors as users want more discrete control over their history, privacy and data, and the platform vendors who drive advertising and data mining businesses."
The ability of Facebook to generate revenues requires the exploitation of their users data and their privacy - if they want to keep it "free" for the users. Otherwise they'll have to charge a subscription.
Advertising on pages for revenue? Enough to pay the bills let alone drive the sky high stock prices?
Ask the management of Digg and Slashdot about that.
You either got nailed (rightly or wrongly) for embezzlement or some other breach of fiduciary law or taxes.
I'm leaning towards taxes.
Expect $20 a gallon gasoline in the not too distant future.
Wait. There's that much oil there? I thought the environmentalists said we needed to find other power sources because we were going to run out of oil soon.
Oh boy.
Considering the exponentially increasing demand for oil, this was a drop in the bucket.
We can drill until we're blue in the face and we'll never find enough oil to keep prices where they are at now.
There are over 7 billion people in the World who want to live like us Americans. We, all 300 million of us, use roughly 25% of the World's oil.
So, tell me how those numbers can work?
Personally, even if there was enough oil to keep up I wouldn't want it - I'm tired of having to deal with smog 3 months out of the year.
Clean energy to keep my eyes from burning and coughing up flem during the Summers. I want to enjoy summer again!
Shrimp and seafood will become a rather distant memory for the states.
Back in my day, we could have boiled shrimp, shrimp soufflé, shrimp pie, shrimp gumbo, shrimp omelette's, ......, shrimp bisque, and I guess that's all there was - until now. Now, we have no shrimp in the Gulf.
Then, all of our shrimp will come from Viet Nam. And wait till you see what they're doing to farm those little buggers!
Hey, N. Korea! I need a job! I can come up with shit like that all day! I'll even get on my knees to kiss the Supreme Ruler's ass!
Just curious - are you staying with Facebook for business reasons (some use it for advertising, a LinkedIN type of thing) or do you have friends scattered all over the place? Obviously something is keeping you from closing out your account.
Reading the TFA, the author kept making references to scaling using the "cloud" without mentioning any particular vendor. I'm thinking Microsoft's Sharepoint was alluded to, but as for as FlightCaster - what are they using? How would they use Sharepoint for that? Or is there a Hardware as Service company they're using?
If someone in the EU had great sales people, I think they could turn this around (Mandriva has a history of financial troubles).
I mean, how many of you think of Mandriva as a company to offer FOSS enterprise support and service? Neither did I. Huge marketing FAIL.
Turn the bookmark toolbar on.
More screen real estate. With the small screened netbooks being all the rage, that menu bar does make a difference.
With the popularity of Netbooks, I see FF losing market share to Google because of the performance differences.
Why the hell is this moderated Troll?.
An ignorant person with mod points.
But, see the GP's user number? He's probably got so much fucking karma that he could post "Linux sucks" and "FOSS is for commie fags" until 2020 before he goes negative. So, I don't think the karma hit will bother him too much.
But it's good point out out mod ignorance, anyway.
Contrary to the posts above, our military might has other ramifications outside of defense.
On a similar note; when Britain ceased being a, if not THE World Power in their time, because of the reduced military spending the average British citizen's standard of living went up. (I think I read that in the Economist and I'm too lazy to find the cite.)p/>I for one hope to see the day when we, the USA, are not the World Power.
Children + new technology = loss of childhood dreams
That's an interesting point.
Consider this, when you see an image of a character, you're seeing what someone else's imagination came up with on how it looks. For example, how many of you see a movie adaptation of a book only to have them cast an actor that looks nothing like you imagined it?
With picture books or multimedia or whatever, the authors are replacing the child's imagination with their own. The child may have something better or something they like more or...I don't know.
I think the picture books or any multimedia system is replacing a child's imagination - it's not active.
That's why books to movies usually suck: our imaginations are usually better than what Hollywood can come up with - Starship Troopers for one.
I'm not creative enough on how to explain it further.
If in another five years, GM is trading a lot higher than it did during Chapter 11, you should be ready to explain to your father in law why you advised against a great deal on depressed stock.
Won't have to: it's not trading because all the equity holder's at the time were wiped out.
The current owners of GM are the former debt holders, the union, and the US taxpayer.
I win!
After today investors will have little if any faith left in the US stocks, assuming they had any to begin with.
During the GM bankruptcy, I saw their common stock was still being traded on the pink sheets. That's when I realized that many traders have shit for brains.
When a company goes bankrupt, their equity gets wiped out. In other words, the traders were trading worthless pieces of paper. My father in law almost bought some thinking it was a great deal. I clued him into the idiocy.
Perhaps they want to go back to a paper based system where people have to place orders in person? Will this affect supply and demand?
*Organ music playing* *Announcer comes on*
Tune in next week when the Senator says, "You people on Wall Street are ruining the economy and cheating people!"
Wall Street Trader screams back : "No Sir! YOU POLITICIANS ARE RUINING THE ECONOMY!"
Wall Street sits there.
Nothing gets done.
And in this case, I don't there's really anything to be done. It was a mistake that was corrected and if anyone was hurt, it was Wall Street traders and the only thing I have for them is this nano-tech violin.
If you had your mutual fund or individual stocks, it really didn't affect you.